Opposition APC President Nason Msoni has urged the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) and other law enforcement agencies to investigate claims by PF general Secretary General Wynter Kabimba that some Kenyans were smuggled in to country during the 2011 polls to participate in the nations electoral process.
Speaking in an interview Mr. Msoni said the ECZ, Zambia Police and other law enforcement agencies should take the mater seriously as it borders on electoral malpractice and criminal elements as outsiders are not suppose to interfere in the internal electoral process of the country without accreditation from ECZ.
He noted that the problem with Zambia’s politicians is that they have become too immoral and stop at nothing to secure victory in elections saying; “Mr. Kabimba has said it himself, there is no morality in politics, anything goes as long as you win an election.”
During his party mobilization tour of Eastern Province last week, Mr Kabimba was quoted as saying that he smuggled through Nakonde border some Kenyans who came to conduct parallel voter tabulation (PVT).
Mr. Msoni argued that there should be morality in politics and that it was immoral for the PF Secretary General to smuggle foreign nationals to participate in the country’s electoral process.
“There must be morals in politics, its immoral for anyone to impose foreign nationals whether they are Kenyans, Tanzanians to come and interfere or participate illegally in our electoral process we think that was unfortunate.
In civilized democracy the Justice Minister (PF Secretary General) would be under investigation but as usual in this country nothing counts; everything goes.
We hope that the ECZ will take up this matter seriously even the police can take this matter cause it borders on criminal elements,” Mr. Msoni said.
He added, “any legally invited people are accredited by the ECZ as the only body entrusted to run elections in the country. Outsiders that want to come and participate are invited officially by the ECZ so if there were all these elements who were not accredited it means that they were up to no good and they effectively interfered in our electoral process.”
And Mr. Msoni says the revelations by PF Secretary General gives the opposition firm grounds to contest the 2011 elections.
Mr. Msoni wondered how republican president Michael Sata benefited from the smuggling in of Kenyans into the country to take part in the country’s electoral process.
“There is every reason to contest the 2011 elections that Mr. Sata was not elected as president fairly. Further we need to be told how this same process benefited Mr. Sata personally,” Mr. Msoni said.
Mr. Msoni was commenting on recent revelations by PF Secretary General Wynter Kabimba that he smuggled some Kenyans to participate in the 2011 elections to do parallel voter tabulation (PVT).
zambians we must take kabimba and his pf to court.
It is simply too much accusation on one person, Kabimba. Does he know that he is the most unwanted Zambian after Adamson Mushala?
Learnt to brush aside anything that comes off Kabimba’s mouth. Simply a dull, uncoordinated cheap chap.
@OldRugsOut, the man gona rule if you keep only brushing him aside He ain’t dissapearing not until you kick him off the political pitch.
That is the problem with being a loud mouth. Nenkhama shelafuma when he/she gets excited. He clearly committed an offence by smuggling people across the border. It was a clear violation of the security of the country and breach of immigration regulations. In a normal country, the security wings of the government should have moved in by now. But because he is not in opposition they see is bragging as normal.
MMD was in power; how could Kabimba bring in Kenyans to vote for PF? I don’t see any substance in the article.
I also doubt it. How on earth could the then ruling MMD have allowed an opposition political party to bring in foreign nationals to vote so that the election results are influenced?
That would be a sleeping nation without any security to speak about.
The is substance,he said the Kenyans were used to conduct Voters parallel tabulation,not voting as someone claims in his blogging.what it means is that they hacked the ECZ website and systematically manipulated some data,this is a criminal offense.its now clear why sata can’t fire kabimba.
No one has accused Kabimba. He spoke the words himself in his usual excitement. Moreover, Kabimba is PF so why wouldn’t he bring in people to vote for PF? Would it have made sense for him to smuggle them so that they vote for the MMD?
@JFK the story could somewhat be not true but the key word is ‘SMUGGLED’ which Kabimba is quoted to have used. So am sure you know what the word means…
If you don’t know what ‘conducting PVT’ means, the nest you can do is ask. Conducting PVT is not voting, but tabulating votes using a parallel system. Because these people are smuggled from somewhere, the implication is that they also have a special skill to tilt the vote in a preferred direction.
Nothing can come out of this, remember that useless tribunal. Too immoral for him to say that.
Crazy people always jealous of Hon. Kabimba. mwanya mukalibe kupenga
If it is true that kabimba smuggled in foreigners for the 2011 elections; then the elections should be nulled and void; as for comments as to how it could have been done; I am speaking from what I saw of the Nakonde border post; it is a very porous border and people can enter and exit at will; so if they did come in it is very possible: but my question is if Winter did say that, why now and why cause trouble for his party; guys let s ponder on that:
‘Smuggled into the country’ is in the context of thwarting VJ,RB and MMD rigging spree. The smuggling was necessary given the past of stealing Sata’s votes. Awe mwalibombele ba Kabimba. Parallel vote Tabulation was a major electoral innovation in Zambia’s history. Kenyans did not come to vote, they came to give insight in the usage of PVT.
i am happy that sane pipo can see and defend incorruptible kabimba and defend him.
Why is it that most of the in-put of the blogs is so unhappy and negative? Something seems to be wrong somewhere, with the contributors’ personalities?