Government has been asked to publicize a precise report of how funds allocated to the constitution making process in the last two national budgets have been utilized.
The Grand Coalition on the Campaign for the People Driven Constitution is particularly concerned that up to now government has not given a report of how the 44.2 million kwacha allocated to the process in the 2014 national budget has been used.
Chairperson Leonard Chiti has told Qfm News that the Coalition further wants to know how the K29 million allocated to the process in the 2015 national budget is being utilized now that almost two months of this year has elapsed.
Father Chiti states that his Coalition is concern about how these public funds are specifically being used because it considers such allocations as a vote by government on what areas it intends to work on in a particular fiscal year.
He says this is why the Coalition wants government to make public how it is using such public funds
Father Chiti the money was eaten by people in allowances and even the allocation in 2015 will be eaten by people who will be masquerading as crusaders for the enactment of a so called people driven constitution. at the end of the day nothing will come out of this process yet again. i don’t blame government or the people of Zambia because we don’t know how to use written documents the constitution inclusive. the truth of the matter is even if we enact a constitution now, the big man syndrome inherent in the African governance system will not go away. by the way i would have loved the constitution to have been enacted like yesterday except we were all dead scared on one MCS. during his tenure we saw how cabinet was him and him was cabinet. MCS was not a democract but a doerer full stop.
Folks constitution matters aside for now please, because without money and serious political will as seen under the PF , the people driven constitution is a dead issue. Only HH ‘s team will deliver it if elected in power.
The serious issue we should be debating is KWACHA’s free fall against the $Dollar.
PF has no clue of how to stop the kwacha falling dismally because its composed of thugs who do Not understand how to deal with endogenous causes such as TRADE DEFICIT and MONETARY POLICIES, but simply turn a blind eye to enrich them selves first at the expense of the poor common man. Thats why they all deserve the label thug.
Now PF is sending another clueless delegation to the US to negotiate another BOND LOAN to use to service the $1.75 billion bond it took out last time…
What I would love to see from the grand coalition is massive and extensive sensitisation of the masses in all corners of Zambia about how a people driven constitution puts food on the table ultimately; about why successive governments have denied us a people driven constitution. These are the more logical blow the government can fill. Just barking (though necessary too) will yield nothing to force government to pass a people driven constitution. It is ignorance of the masses that is killing the nation.
“FATHER CHITI” AND GRAND COALITION ARE SO CYNICAL- ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A PRETEXT AGAINST THE GRZ. THEY CRIED “WOLF” ABOUT THE REFERENDUM, GRZ EXPLAINS SENSE IN WHY THEY WOULD LIKE TO USE AN ALTERNATIVE PATH TO ENACT THE CONSTITUTION, THEY SHIFT GOAL POSTS TO “MONEY”. AND UPND CARDER LIKE “WANZELU” WAS ALWAYS CRYING “WOLF” WITH REGARD TO THE CONSTITUTION BECOZ HE THOT IT WOULD BE A FAILURE DUE TO REFERENDUM ISSUE, NOW THAT HE SEES IT’S A POSSIBILITY VIA NEW ALTERNATIVES THAT WILL QUICKLY DELIVER IT, HE TOO SHIFTS GOAL POSTS & START COMMENTING “FORGET ABOUT IT BLAB BLAB. HH WILL BLAB BLAB BLAB”. YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO DEFINED PATH, VISION-LESS…TOSSED ABOUT BY EVERY WIND LIKE A DRY LEAF
@ Wanzelu
Is That A New Symbol for Flight HH20xx? Any keep commenting such man, at least it helps us know you’re still alive and have nothing to do.
Busy People are working not every time, every day posting political comments in support of one of the political parties’ head-HH, Do HH supporters work or they are waiting to be given jobs by HH when, if at all, he wins?
ZAMBIANS BRACE YOURSELVES FOR MORE SUFFERING UNDER PF
Lungu is following Sata ‘s vision indeed.
And what was Sata ‘s vison?
To kill democracy completely through violence and deny opposition parties permits to exercise their right to assemble and talk to their supporters.
To maximise construction development rhetoric and then use it as a conduit to syphon and share millions amongst them selves.
To Kill the Kwacha by associating with Mugabe and borrow his policies on how Zim ended up being an independent US colony.
Is this the vision Zambians really voted for?
If so then Zambians really deserve to suffer. And more suffering is indeed on the way under PF.
I hope after experiencing the harsh suffering under PF for next 17 months, Zambians will wake up and vote for…
@SS guard
If you run your own businesses then you have ample time to spare and add a voice to speak for the busy employed folks struggling to earn coins for bread crumbs off rogue regimes like PF.
If you don’t work for yourself please don’t try it because you will be sacked.
MMMM BA WANZELU.
WHERE, PA KANTEMBA? NOW WE KNOW U JUST MAKE NOISE YET YOU DON’T EVEN PAY TAX. NOISY PEOPLE ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTES NOTHING TO OUR COUNTRY’S ECONOMY. JUST FUELING CONFUSION. GO AND WORK!! ICHONGOFYE!!!
These PF people are just kimasholi. They like changing goal posts. Imagine
USD 1 = K7
No medicines in clinics/hospitals
No new people driven constitution
bloated cabinet
financial irregularities in missions abroad
No employment for many youths
retirees are still languishing waiting for their money
late delivery of farming inputs and non payment of farmers
Dismissing CEOs with proper abuse of authority in broad day light the case of Chitundu at ZESCO
The list is endless
Zambia has gone to the dogs
You UPND Cadres, please get over yourselves about the Kwacha and stop being narrow minded , can you post on this blog any currency that has appreciated against the Dollar in Africa? All emerging currencies are in free fall against the resursent dollar due to good economic data coming out of the USA like job unprecedented job creation in the last 3 months.
Check the currencies of big Economies in African like Nigerian Naira, South African Rand and Kenya Shilling and please stop being alamists of the kwacha. This is a normal trend. All emerging currencies are trending toward weakness against the dollar and Kwacha is no exception
MMD chief Bootlicker, you always talk sense my man. The US Dollar has been performing extremely well against other currencies like the euro, SAR, Naira and they expect the kwacha to do the opposite.
@mmd chief bootlicker. I used to respect this man due to sensible comments he offered here.but today he rebuffs whoever speaks against the free falling kwacha and goes on to pick examples of other countries who have failed to control theirs sure! Why not pick those who have managed to control their currencies and learn from them?should you choose to be poorer just because your friend is poor too?we all want to leave in a better country.anyway,that’s what happens when you are supporting a party which is on constant sliming diet.by the end of this year mmd will just be a ghost symbolizing that there was once a party called mmd.
@MMD ass licker now PF ass licker.
What is it thats making the US economy to rebound like that, that Zambians or indeed Africans can not do to make their currencies remain stable.? Are you saying the fall in African currencies is America ‘s deliberate design to disadvantage Africa? If so then how?
How come the UK pound is ever on top of the world currencies?
Its the “how” part America and UK are doing it that I am interested in .
Your reason for falling Kwacha or indeed the majority of African currencies is what I term the African mentality or dogma being used by rogue politicians and their supporters like you to subjugate Africans to harsh economic conditions while ignoring real factors that need tinkering to better poor Africa ‘s economy and to embezzle tax and borrowed…
Mr Chanda Chilengu
What makes you think that when HH comes in power the Kwacha will stabilize. China has reduced on buying copper this is the problem. When Mwanawasa and Magande were in power, copper was fetching as much as USD8000/MT. Now it is USD4700/MT. How will HH solve this problem. Do yap when you have no clue to dynamics of international trade.
You cannot stabilize the kwacha with inland revenue. It is a marginal factor to stabilize the kwacha. BOZ does not have dollar to release on the market cos little dollar is coming into the country through exports.
Ok I expected Father Chiti to issue a rebuttal to what PF said yesterday about voter turnout for the referendum and the option of changing the electoral parts of the constitution through parliament. Not this goal posting shifting now to money .
Can we finish the constitution issues first and we shall get to the money issue later. Besides that is the Job of the Auditor General. I think the big lady in that office is independent enough to tell us the truth and so far she has been doing a steller job both during MMD era and now under PF era.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU,MONEY LATER CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE SHUD BE OUR FOCUS FOR NOW
As usual MMD Chief Bootlicker makes more sense than wanzelu and sido mark combined. wanzelu is a plain UpDn cadre and all his articles are pathetically slanted in favour of HH. If wanzelu went to school then it must have been a fee paying school. Keep it up MMD Chief Bootlicker. I for one do enjoy your analysis of issues at hand.
Chitundu was fired by his boss yaluma not the president. Secondly, the Grand coalition has run out of ideas. Now they are just backing like mad dogs.
Chintundu was UPDn sympatheiser, he was seen. He can’t be trusted, he will be leaking infor and can even do sabotage and destroy u that’s why he had to go
IT IS NOT TIME TO QUESTION HOW THE MONEY WAS USED,THIS IS THE WORK OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL. GRAND COALITION SHOULD BE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ENACTMENT OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION BEFORE 2016 GENERAL ELECTIONS NOT THIS ISSUE FOR NOW SO THAT THEY DONT LOSE TRACK.
YOU PF FOOLS WHY DO SUPPORT WRONG THINGS.TAX PAYERS MONEY SHOULD BE ACCOUNTED FOR.THE MONEY IS NOT FOR PF
The Auditor General will bring the report in 2017 as usual when the people involved have long gone into oblivion. That is the biggest problem with African Leaders: ACCOUNTABILITY is a serious problem. Is it the colour of our skin or the region we find ourselves in?
God help us.
The Grand coalition should now set out to take the Zambian Govt to court for misuse of money in this constitution making process and demand for them to pay back to treasurer every ngwee since they now don’t want to use the recommendations of this expensive venture but want to go back to recommendations that were already in place! Sue them!
You remember the National Constitution Commission set up by Mwanawasa? It sat for 5 years without coming up with anything apart from finding ways to bar one Michael Chilufya from standing. I think this former Catholic Priest Father Chiti should start from there. Efyo ukupena kutampa. No wonder NAREP have quit this so called Grand Coalition
Chiti is an active catholic priest mwe mfumu shabene!
That’s why I say ecl is sharp thinker. While the other boys the likes of HH were busy signing blindly the grand coalition document, one edga refused because he was much ahead of the chaps. If HH won imagine the pressure he could ‘ve unnecessary put himself under. Moreover he was promising to release New constitution within 3months. People HH is not a focused leader but a self centred person.
JL @ 18 When I said that we Zambians dont use our education, one Kambwili Neckless what ever responded by insulting me without even making reference to the points I was trying to make. Zambia solely depends on copper and no single president has been a financial genius in the face of falling copper prices. People just talk but do not even read history. KK lost power not due to his poor governance NO. It was because copper was going at less than $3000 per ton and Zambians could not see this but heaped all blame on KK. FTJ came in and there was nothing he could but just started to blame KK for the mess and Zambian applauded. If Hanks Hanuku was president these people would just keep quiet
Constitution making has become a cash cow and a recurrent expenditure. Let us admit that first before we start BS-ing all over the place. This guy is a beneficiary of at least one of those cycles. Let us improve on the archaic systems we are continuously making political mileage over and also move our atavistic mindsets into at least the 20th Century. Most mindsets are steeped in 18th and 19th Century paradigms it is not funny anymore.
How can you put a blind in front of the way to lead you? lungu is deaf-blind
thanks for giving me time to tell you the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Hehehe….ifintu ni lungu, ukunwa no kuyisundawila… FORGET IT…only the insane dont know this!…just get laid off your stress for now
The Grand Collition, and the Constitution making process makes me wonder now what they are really up to. At first they asked for the Draft and the draft was released. The road map was given.
The issue of the Referendum was very well explained, now they start asking for how the funds for the constitution making process is being used, surely, lets not try to find faults in the Government even when they are not there.
What is of paramount importance is the constitution and not talking too much above everym one else no.
National Coalition should be very realist about the constitution making process. The fact is dat the referendum can not be done looking at time and apathy.
SURVIVOR NINKONDO, OSAUKA NDISE AMBIRI, OLEMERA, AAAA NIBANG’ONO…X2….THEN YOU CAN HAVE SOME SEKS TO GET RID OF YOUR STRESS
We will not have the constitution under PF. If you have seen some comments coming from other people it’s like they dont even know the meaning of constitution.
Grand Coalition is trying by all means to fight so that we can have the constitution but the so called educated people cant even understand the effort you are putting for us to have the new constitution.
We trusted FR Bwalya but the guy has been compromised this time is thinking how to get rich. Ba Fr Chiti team up with ZEC we need the constitution before 2016.
Chishimba Kambwili is a fool no wonder he can never be a President. Do not allow the politicians to be part of this Grand Coalition.
Grand Coalition Please get organised, team up with CCJPs. PF said they can deliver the constitution in 90 days which they have failed
This so called Grand Coalition operates like an Opposition Party. It seems they set themselves up to be deliberately objectionable to every positive move gov’t makes towards Constitutional changes.
Another HH Dirty Tricks department.
Stakeholders? Whom do they represent? It’s a wonder they are regularly able to put out annoying statements. Everything has to be done by referendum!
The trick here, is to ask about Funds in an effort to insinuate that there is enough for a referendum. They know gov’t is right to suggest Parliamentary route, so now getting busy with mediocre blocking strategies. Citizens are more concerned with where they get THEIR funds and can the funders stop funding please!
Lets be sobre we zambians for once and save the future of our children.Why do i say so?Lets take for instance the case of Bostwana and Namibia they are now doing fine when they were fr from Zambia as at 1975.They have developed because they have put in place strong institutions of Governance and fought corruption.Botswana and Namibia are number one and two as least corrupt countries in Africa.Zambia is not among the first 10. Corruption and Tribalism will soon force Zambians to leave in abject poverty and possibly wars and hope lessnes. Zambia will continue to weak Education,Health and Military system,Unemployment among the youths will increase.I have already decided to send my son abroad and let him stay there because in Zambia he will rot.I feel sorry for this country.
A THOUGHT
Mr Chanda Chilengu
What makes you think that when HH comes in power the Kwacha will stabilize. China has reduced on buying copper this is the problem. When Mwanawasa and Magande were in power, copper was fetching as much as USD8000/MT. Now it is USD4700/MT. How will HH solve this problem. Do yap when you have no clue to dynamics of international trade.
You cannot stabilize the kwacha with inland revenue. It is a marginal factor to stabilize the kwacha. BOZ does not have dollar to release on the market cos little dollar is coming into the country through exports.
Ba Chiti Grand Coalition should also account for the money donors gave you we know you got money from HH and donors
Fr Leonard Chiti, in addition to having taken over the role of UPND spokesperson, has also been hand-picked by Icilema as UPND shadow finance secretary.
Some of you do not even know what is in the constitution but as long as its against PF you jump on the band wagon.
@joseph Mwape
YOU MUST BE VERY DULL. THE PF GOVERNMENT WANTS TO GIVE YOU THE CONSTITUTION USING A PATH THAT WILL ENSURE THAT THE CONSTITUTRION IS SURELY GIVEN. THE SAME NEW CONSTITUTION. BUT YOUR GRAND COALITION WANTS TO USE THE PATH THAT IS CLEARLY GOING TO FAIL. WHAT PF IS TELLING YOU IS THAT IF YOU USE THE REFERENDUM, THE OUTCOME WILL BE REJECTED BECAUSE WE WILL FAIL TO REACH THE BENCHMARK OF AT LEAST 50% OF ALL ELIGIBLE VOTERS. MIND YOU ITS NOT JUST SIMPLE MAJORITY. WHAT THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES IS THAT AT LEAST 50% OF ALL ZAMBIANS WHO HAVE REACHED VOTING AGE MUST TAKE PART OR TURN UP FOR THE REFERENDUM.
Government has put forward a practical and realistic proposal to allow Parliament adopt and enact some of the pertinent draft proposals and subject the contentious issues through a referendum which should be conducted together with the General election next year when everyone is in the mood of voting, otherwise we might end up with a failed referendum due to poor turnouts. Grand constitution must not be used by Political charlatans who are turning the debate into a fanatical charade!
thus, Grand Coalition! Not so grand after all when credible people are backing off!
I think the Grand Coalition has seen sense in the minister’s submission.
And please bear in mind that being realistic may not necessarily mean you like the state of affairs; the minister is very realistic in his submission.
And it is clear the Coalition has seen sense in that; when you see a lion coming you have to acknowledge the reality – closing your eyes may not help.
And acknowledging that the lion is approaching you does not mean you like the lion approaching you, except that that is the reality at hand.
By Mr Kambwili stating the likely challenges we may face should we attempt referendum does not imply he is not interested in the referendum.
In fact one would conclude that it is actually the desire to see its enactment that made the minister do such thorough groundwork.
Still on the falling of the Kwacha/USD, the fall in Crude oil price is not entirelly beneficial. The low oil price can also mean our copper buyers who depend on oil will not be able to buy as much copper as we would like.
If these Churches and NGO’s have such strong political views they might be well advised our democracy is alive and well. All they need to do is form a party and stand for election, then let the electorate decide if they are right on the issues they raise. They should not use this Coalition to publicly influence politics.
If these Churches and NGO’s want to start involving themselves in politics then they should start paying taxes!