DEPUTY SPEAKER of the national assembly Mkhondo Lungu yesterday reserved ruling in the case in which PF cadres on Monday openly fought at the Livingstone city council chamber in the presence of PF Secretary General Edgar Lungu, provincial minister Daniel Munkombwe and area MP Lawrence Evans.
This followed a point of order raised by UPND Mazabuka Central MP Gary Nkombo.
Mr Nkombo sought to find out whether the PF was in order to continue perpetrating violence which had the capacity to keep citizens unease and destabilise the country.
Mr Nkombo said the violence by PF cadres was a breach of the Constitution article 21.
And parliament yesterday heard that 51 percent of rural areas will be electrified under the rural electrification programme by 2016.
Mines and energy deputy minister told the House that Government was currently carrying out feasibility studies in rural areas under the rural electrification master plan.
Mr Musukwa was responding to a question raised by Beach a PF MP Sydney Mushanga who wanted to find out when Government would electrify wards in his area.
Many opposition MPs took the Government to task over the electrification of their areas but Mr Danny Chingimbu maintained that his ministry was waiting for funding from ministry of finance to hasten progress on the electrification programme.
The opposition also took Government to task over the outstanding road works under the link Zambia 8000 project.
This followed a question by Lumezi MP Isaac Banda who wanted to find out when the tarring of the road linking eastern province to muchinga province.
Mafinga MMD MP Catherine Namugala caused a stir from the ruling PF when she accused Government of neglecting to work on that road because it belonged to non Bemba speaking people.
But transport deputy minister mwimba malama expressed disappointment over Ms Namugala’ sentiments saying that it was the MMD that awarded that project without designs so the PF had to carry out the feasibility studies and give designs to the contractor.
Mr malama reiterated Governments commitment to complete the road and connect it from chama to lundazi.
Chongwe PF MP Sylvia Masebo also condemned the violence saying it should be curbed by the Government before it escalates beyond control.
Choma UPND MP Cornelius Mweetwa questioned the delays in swearing in some high court judges and the continued silence by minister of finance Alexander Chikwanda not to address the House on rule 18 of VAT refunds despite the continued debate of the issue outside the House.
namugala, namugala, namugala!!! those statements from a leader are just sad… masebo, masebo masebo and your selective amnesia. please try to stay put in that corner you’ve been confined to… we all know what kind of damage that mouth can do. eddie is in charge now so issue statements that grow not divide or incinuate division in the party.
I like chaos. And it sounds like the parliament is so chaotic, how many points where they debating in 2 hours?
The fact that the speaker reserved a ruling on the matter, shows and confirms that violence is condoned by Sata and the whole PF establishment. How come its only those not in PF or sidelined PF members speaking out about PF violence?
PF ni ba chimbwi chabe.
the dunderheads of Zambia just know how to fight. it is good they are hammering themselves. loved yesterday’s ZWD reporting which said that “Evans cried like an imbecile” cracked my ribs the whole night.
and where is STRONG MAN SATA? should he not be condemning this. oh i remember he is on his next evacuation plan to destination medical unknown.
Violence in the PF or anywhere else in Zambia for that matter is not an issue for Parliament. This is a straight-forward Police case. It’s just a pity that the Zambia Police will not do anything about it until they are told to do so by the ruling party (whichever party is in power at the time).
PF is an organization of thugs with a few good men and women. Otherwise, what can explain the high level of violence even in the presence of party top leadership?
PF violence has not only breached Constitution article 21 but reminds Zambia that PF is a group of people without any regard to the rule of law, reckless, chaotic and untamed in their conduct. Just take a long hard look at Mr Sata their leader. Mr Sata’s health status is not known to the Zambian public. PF government present him as a physically fit hard working person, family members shrouded in secrecy, media presents Sata as a figment to look at as in a zoo, kachepa says Sata has emaciated so much with a skeleton of an Ebola patient. The international community is not sure what to make out of it, a sickly president being flown all over the world pretending attending to conferences. This is what chaotic governance resembles. Breaching Constitution article 21 to PF is meaningless
Just leave them alone ,they were not fighting in parliament.
Is it really necessary for our judges to be wearing a white man’s white wig?
where is Saulosi and his schizophrenic friend Mushota.Was this violence also perpetuated by UPND?
I can imagine wearing that wig in this hot weather while waiting for the President to arrive outside Parliament. The colonial legacy is so strong that not even the legal minds have been able to unshackle themselves from such primitive practices. It is ridiculous that just because something was inherited it cannot be changed because we are still afraid of the British! Listen to Fela Anikulapo Kuti in a song ‘Gentleman’ and you will realize Fela was ahead of his time and sung about how ironic that a guy could be wearing a suit even in hot weather. If our so called learned comrades cannot liberate themselves from these wigs how do you expect them to come up with legal opinions that can move our country forward? Wigs in this century awee puliz…