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Grand Coalition suspends honking due to uncertainty surrounding the health and whereabouts of the president

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FODEP Executive Director McDonald Chipenzi
FODEP Executive Director McDonald Chipenzi

The Grand Coalition on the release of a people driven constitution has suspended the honking exercise demanding for the release of the draft constitution for the second week running due to uncertainty surrounding the health and whereabouts of the president.

Grand Coalition Spokesperson McDonald Chipenzi said the Coalition would not want to take advantage of the absence of the President to press for the constitution especially that government position seems to be in contrast to both local and international media reports on the health status of our President.

Mr. Chipenzi said if the preident is indeed having a nice holiday in Israel then the Coalition will next week reconvene to strategize on how it can force him back home to release the Final Draft Constitution to the Zambian people.

“Grand Coalition would not want to take advantage of the absence of the President to press for the constitution especially that government position seems to be in contrast to both local and international media reports on the health status of our President.

“But if indeed, the President is in Israel enjoying his working Holiday, would not want to take advantage of the absence of the President to press for the constitution especially that government position seems to be in contrast to both local and international media reports on the health status of our President the Coalition will next week reconvene to strategy on how it can force him back home to release the Final Draft Constitution to the Zambian people.

There is no way the President would be away for such a long period of time leaving so many key national processes like the constitution in limbo,” Mr. Chipenzi said.

Mr. Chipenzi also assured the police that the coalition will not succumb to its intimidation saying, “we would like to assure the police that the Coalition will not succumb to its intimidation, harassment and disruption of its programs.

The Police should know that the constitution cuts across the Zambian spectrum and is for all including the police themselves. We demand professionalism and ethical behavior from them.”

26 COMMENTS

    • Not all actors are Zambians, but all Nigerians are actors.
      Not all Zambians are tribalists, but all Tongas are tribalists.
      Not all Zambians are thieves, but all Bembas are thieves.
      Not all Zambians have names like Engine, but all Chipatalians are like that.
      Not all Zambians are bitter, but all UPND tonganyokos are bitter
      Not all Zambians will vote for HH, but all tongas will vote for hunder hive.

    • Truth be told.God will NEVER allow HH to be president unless…? Read these bible verses below:
      “Ephesians 4:31-32, Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you”. Acts 8:23 ,”For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”<>

    • Why stop??? We are told he is on HOLIDAY!! It doesn’t mean DEMAND for the constitution also goes on Holiday!! This is the problem we Zedians have , WE LACK LEADERSHIP!! WE ARE ALSO EASILY DUPED!!

      HONKING SHOULD GO ON!! THIS CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN ON ICE FOR TOO LONG!! Sympathising with this guy who HAS NO IOTA OF SYMPATHY is simply foo.lish!! He has been laughing at this demand for a long time

  1. It is sunny here in Israel bane,and the president has done a good job which will be seen soon as the results of the trip start materialising. Kutumpa uko mulecita ukulanda sana kwati ni edward mumbi…..cioneka bamituma cabe after mwalyamo.

  2. Not all actors are Zambians, but all Nigerians are actors.
    Not all Zambians are tribalists, but all Tongas are tribalists.
    Not all Zambians are thieves, but all Bembas are thieves.
    Not all Zambians have names like Engine, but all Chipatalians are like that.
    Not all Zambians are bitter, but all UPND tonganyokos are bitter…
    Not all Zambians will vote for HH, but all tongas will vote for hunder hive..

    • So you wanted them to honk!!!? Zambians are respectful people, they are not Sata who insult them whenever he feels better.
      Can you feel how peaceful Zambia has been in last 3 weeks without Sata, only things happening is outbreak of night demonstrations of witchcraft lead by Kabimba.

    • PA ZAMBIA ABENGI HAVE NOTHING TO DO. HH NABAFWAILE INCITO YA HONKING INSTEAD YAKUYA MUKULIMA.

      AND MIND YOU THOSE MINISTERS WHO SEEM TO HAVE STOPPED WORKING BECAUSE OF SATA’S PHYSICAL ABSENCE- WHEN HE COMES BACK MWEBENGI INCITO SHIKAPWA. EMININE PAKACULU ALEMONA IFYO MULEYANGALA FYE. MAYBE YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE THE NAME KING COBRA COMES FROM. THE AXE IS LOOMING.

  3. The grand coalition is losing focus now. What has the constitution got to do with the whereabouts of the president? That is the very reason we need a people driven constitution so that the disappearance of the president like this is not repeated in future.

    • TROUBLE IS THE WHOLE THING IS DRIVEN BY BITTERNESS, HATE AND FRUSTRATION OF HH. SO, ALL THE HONKERS ARE JUST FEEDING HH’s APPETITE FOR PLOT ONE. MAYBE IT’S TIME FUEL PRICES WERE INCREASED IN ZAMBIA, BECAUSE THE IMPRESSION I GET IS THAT GAS IN ZAMBIA IS VERY CHEAP FOR ONE TO JUST START HIS/HER CAR ENGINE AND DRIVE TO THE HONKING VENUE, WE MUST INCREASE IT BY 50% FOR MORE MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF RURAL DWELLERS.

  4. WHY suspend honking due to uncertainty surrounding the health and whereabouts of the president?????

    WE should ALL be honking due to uncertainty surrounding the health and whereabouts of OUR CONSTITUTION!!!!!

    Who cares about Katongo? He is HISTORY!

    The CONSTITUTION IS OUR FUTURE!

    • You hit the nail on the head!!

      WE should ALL be honking due to uncertainty surrounding the health and whereabouts of OUR CONSTITUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. Please Mr. Chipenzi, we Zambians have now been taught how to identify UBUFI. what you are saying is not true.

    Admit that this thing is losing steam because you have allowed a politician HH, to BAMBA ZONKE!!!! This is supposed to be non-partisan.

    Since it was announced that HH would lead the honking, it flopped and from then you have not been able to hold it. HH is the wrong person to champion democracy and the fight for the constitution because he himself was not democratically elected to be President of UPND because of that ‘clause’ that the UPND President has to be Tonga. What if Sakwiba was the better candidate? Father Chiti be in the fore front of this thing or its going to fail. Remove HH.

    • WHAT DID I SAY? ZAMBIANS ARE NOW NOT AS STUP!D AS HH. THEY KNOW WHOSE BITTERNESS APPETITE THEY ARE FEEDING. IT’S HH WHO WAS ON THE GAINING END. MUKOSEKO.

  6. carders for once let’s have some respect, let’s stop all this bitterness, despising others, you can read why they suspended it and now you start speculations, you are the same ones who started the specualtions of the President being sick, instead of reading what’s said you start coming up with own explanations which don’t make sense

  7. “…if the preident is indeed having a nice holiday in Israel then the Coalition will next week reconvene to strategize on how it can force him back home… ”

    YOU ARE JOKERS. THERE’S NO STUP!DITY FROM HH THAT CAN BRING SATA BACK HOME. HE KNOW THAT WHEN HH SOILS UP HIS NAPPIES AMAPWETETE/AMAFI YALATAMPA UKUMUBABA MUMATEBELA AND HE WILL NATURALLY START SCRATCHING HIS @SS WITH HIS BARE HANDS. MAFI EFYO YABA. TAYAKWATA MUCINSHI.

  8. I have just woken up and I feel very upset about this whole saga about a president just disappearing. We need to be told where he is as tax-payers. Somebody really knows something. That’s why there is need for a constitution and a clause saying that: ‘any sitting president whose whereabouts are not known shall have all sources of national finances withdrawn and all his accounts including personal frozen by we the people’.’We the people’ being the citizens he serves. This is not draconian, it’s us people having a right to know everything we finance. We can’t have citizens being taken for granted. Am sending money to Zambia this weekend by western union to try and help the ailing Kwacha and this is what I get in return.

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