PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has warned that he will not hesitate to dismiss anyone undermining his authority for appointing members from the opposition political parties in his administration.
The President has advised members of the Patriotic Front (PF) who are not willing to work with people from the opposition to leave the Party.
He wondered why members from PF were questioning his decision to appoint people from the opposition political parties when they never did so with the late President Michael Sata.
“Take this lesson from Mr Sata who was working with the people from the opposition and appointing them without any excuse at all, why should I be questioned?” he asked.
Mr Lungu said this at Solwezi Council grounds yesterday during the launch of the rehabilitation of township roads in North Western Province.
He said the standards that he was using were the same as those that the late President Sata used.
“If you want to move out from the party you are free to do so, we will run Government on merit,” he said.
The President said he wanted to work with everyone and those that did not want to do so, should give way for others to work.
The President had received reports that some people were trying to undermine provincial minister for North Western Dawson Kafwaya, who was appointed from the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND).
“This message is also intended for those that want to undermine the provincial minister Dawson Kafwaya, when I picked him I knew he would deliver, I knew he was Kaonde and from UPND but above all he is a Zambian, let him work peacefully.”
“Amos Malupenga is permanent Secretary here, I don’t know what tribe he is, for all I know is that, he is a journalist, you can make recommendations but it’s me who has the final say and I will not hesitate to fire you if you frustrate my provincial administration,” he said.
He advised Mr Kafwaya to work under his pleasure as he was the one who appointed him and the only one who could fire him.
He urged the provincial administration to listen to what the people wanted in the province as they were their masters.
The President said he was in the province to deliver to the promise to work on the roads which were in a bad shape.
Mr Lungu told the residents who had gone to witness the launch that Government had entered into partnership with China to deliver 4000 solar driven milling plants for people to buy mealie meal cheaply.
He said the milling plants would be in the country before the end of this year.
Local Government and Housing deputy minister Danny Chingimbu said among the roads to be rehabilitated in the province include 25 kilometers of roads in Solwezi, 9.27 kilometers in Kasempa and 11.5 Km in Zambezi.
Mr. Lungu this is a campaign strategy which will not work! All you want is to weaken the opposition, but also the problem is ma politics ya Njala mu Zambia!!. On the other hand, UPND wake up and tell all your to stick and live principles of the party,otherwise with such appointments you re heading for a burst!!
It is a bit of concern that the President has no comprehensive information on the backgrounds of staff under his direct supervision. The President to have scant information on a PS is hardly comforting.
Alungu Ku Chawama kuja sana sebenzo nditu. Pobwelako kuja ana tenga sutu case. Mu sutu case muja munali ma jamasoni.
Ka chakolwa
This is Irish Whisky yapping! Please help H.E visionless Lungu, & notify him that it’s not about working with “the opposition” as such, but about what elements are brought into PF. Officious not BANDITS like RB, Dora, Kaingu, Kapita, Faza red card Bwalya & Mutetekas, NO!
PF Bandits can work with other political opponents, i.e ADD, NAREP,FDD etc, & NOT DEAD MMD!
The effects of JAMESON are unfortunately for visionless Lungu, acknowledging that he’s shielding & bringing BANDITS into PF of Sata.
The ECONOMY & KWACHA are ROTTING, all that visionless PF can do is to watch HIPPOS with bandit RB after fleeing Muteteka the crooked criminal.
Jameson the visionless with his cheese eating monkey converts will be history in 14 months! So says,
The Skeleton Key
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Bama Mbala!
LUNGU IS NOW BEHAVING LIKE RB IN HIS TIME.WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR. LUNGU HAS NOTHING TO LOOSE HE WAS JUST PUT THERE AS CARE TAKER,THE PEOPLE WHO WILL CRY ARE THE LIKES OF DAVIES CHAMA, MUMBI PHIRI ETC. PF YOU CAN LEARN A GOOD LESSON FROM MMD OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE THE SHORTEST RULING PART TO EXIST
This is pure visionless infrastructure development without any aorta of long term fiscal infrastructure development plan that is needed for our country to develop. Pure naked politics of the belly and visionless brains of Zambians. How can one justify the start of upgrading roads from the blues? As Zambians, we are not gona eat roads that are substandard to start with. We need a simple plan called budgeting, Fiscal discipline to identify critical development areas and then spread the development bit-by-bit to all corners of Zambia. Politicians must be honest with what Zambia can deliver going by its monies and productivity. credit card development aren’t developments at all. So everyone wake up, smell the rot be frank and measure your water according to your kapemela else porridging Zed.
Ba Misango Yaba Chaimani – what scant information? The guy tells you all he needs is that you are Zambian and can do the job. What else do you want him to know, tribe?
I feel like drinking some jamasoni wisiki to cool of this nonsense!
Against all odds.
ECL has unbelievable auctioned his party to MMD. How are the 100% PFs feeling now?
His has completely silenced the vocal ones. Everyone in PF is now singing all inclusiveness.
So BA PF dont frustrate him or else you gonna be kicked out.
Shut up let ECL work.
Imwe ba Lungu don’t be too big headed. PF members are not against bringing in or working with those in the opposition not at all. What they despise is you working, appointing the corrupt, those with cases for corruption in courts of law, those the Country despise for their corruption. Don’t be too smart ba visionless Lungu, look where you are coming from.
And why should members leave their Party which they grew with their blood, ba Lungu you are not thinking straight don’t let power get too much to yo head
What 100% PF imwe? There is nothing like that except in your head. Even Sata was UNIP/MMD. Stop cheating yourself.
iwe chi observer, sata created his own PF after moving out of mmd but manje PF yankala monga ni ya nyoko ba lungu
You may be development- intended concerning the roads but appointing people from other parties would not woo the voters as the sole beneficiaries are just the appointees in their personal capacities and their families by extension. Good to keep your election pledges . Who knows, North western people may soften their stand this time round.
EDGAR=RB . All the enermies and friends for RB are equally for Edgar.eg mmembe,Mahtani,Nchito etcRupian’s boy Muteteka is out,Dora the lady who insulted Sata together with Muteteka is now in PF ,very soon it will be Liato to be released , everything is going according to Rupiah’s plan. it will be interesting to see the names of candidates to stand as MP next year.I see many being MMD.the wounded beast(mmd) is slowly recovery and taking charge of its lost control.
Liato I doubt. I think Liato has gone in for having buried campaign money that when RB found out has never gone done nicely with him. Am sure RB is blaming the likes of Liato for his loss to Sata in 2011 by these guys hiding money meant for campaign. That is why Liato is in. How else can it be explained that he be jailed and then later released. They could have quashed the case altogether anyway
As one of the most hardcore PF bloggers I’m not happy with useless MMD thieves being in PF I would rather have a reformed former satanist from UPND than a fat lazy corrupt plunderer from MMD but the President ECL has a point let us move on as one inclusiveness is key for us to take the day which we will come 2016!!!
Nomba ni EL2016
So where do you think we shall go? We made this party and we are going nowhere! Party yanga iyi tina panga na Mudala mama!
Kambwili has also been frustrating hard working luanshya MP, Chungu. People outside luanshya think luanshya is his area, hell no, his constituency is undeveloped Roan lagged with potholes.
Local councils need serious reorganization because if they were made to work efficiently, we wouldn’t need the whole President running around doing council roads. And from China, it would have been better if we got into partnership to start making these milling machines locally since we are certainly going to continue eating nshima for a long time to come & avoid going back to China again when these machines breakdown (Chinese things have a tendency of breaking down easily).
Lungu’s language is super and very straight forward, especially when he talks about NO TRIBE IS MORE SUPERIO THAN THE OTHER. We are aware what s happening in the enclaves of various tribes, especially those who have managed to make some tribes forget their own languages, just like the English made Scotland and WALES forgot their languages and started following blindly, only to realise later that they are not actually English. So it follows for those speaking BEMBA, they have not yet come to thir senses that their Languages are exntict. I am talking about most of the tribes in the North of the country and Luapula. It is very disheartening if you think about it. LONG live LUNGU LONG LIVE HH.
what is the President talking about at the moment…….? Shame for the approach and very sad that you do not know where Malupenga comes from……..this is very sad and dangerous for AMOS because your job will be at stake…..oooooh no ba President please , leave the good guy Amos to work.
Zambian Tribe – the president is telling you that he does not care what your tribe is – and you can’t see that!! So sad.
KOLWE WA MUNTU IWE
That picture, ex convict whispering into the ears of H.E. .Whoo!!!
Still on that picture, was it a party function or a government function? If the latter was the case why the PF chitenge material decoration? Could it be that the NW Provincial administration is so backward that it cannot differentiate between party and government functions? Some people, eish!
Very visionless weak leadership indeed…so where do you expect them to go to deflect like those MMD members? He would rather surround himself with corrupt selfish defectors than with the old party faithfuls.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – Sun Tzu
His leadership is steadily becoming more aggressive.
That is what we need. Let that aggression cover all areas – especially so-called investors.
I wish Mr Sata was alive.what El is doing is wrong. That is weakening the opposition
ASK KAMBWILI, AND SEE IF HE IS WILLING TO WORK WITH DORA AND THEN FIRE HIM AS AN EXAMPLE. DORA HAS REFUSED TO ACCEPT KAMBWILI’S CONDITION TO HER IN ORDER FOR HER TO BE ACCEPTED IN THE PARTY BY MR MWAMONA INVESTMENT
It is NEW PF and forget about our Party that we started na ba Mudala.
If Zambians do not wake up very quickly……..this problem of dictatorship will be growing big by the day……….What is wrong with that house with PAN blocks? Everyone who goes there becomes drunk with power!!!
99% comments here are from tribal UPND cadres!!am sure your party is under pressure now since Edgar Lungu has entered North Western and Western leaving your Kachema (HH) with only southern!!ECL is a very wise lawyer and he knows that majority voters from there didn’t vote for PF bcoz HH cheated them that PF only cares for bembaland.so ECL is geared to take development there to shane the devil-HH!!NOW PF WILL GET MORE VOTES FROM THERE IN 2016!!SO HH MUST REALLY BE WORRIED BCOZ ECL MEANS BUSINESS!!EDGAR LUNGU WANTS TO DEFEAT HH EVEN BEFORE WE VOTE DUE TO HIS SPLENDID WORKS!!yes those PF members who are not ready to accept ECL decisions are free to leave.who cares?PF IS A MIGHTY PARTY-BIGGER THAN ANYBODY!!SO LET ECL WORK IN PEACE!!AS FOR UPND-JUST BE READY FOR KOLOPA.COM 2016!
eddy
That is a top drawer analysis.
Just because you are a tribal PF cadre does not mean that everyone who comments on a political story belongs to UPND. Would you rather everyone becomes a ECL/PF praise-singer? No, that will NEVER happen! People will criticise ECL, HH, Chipimo, Sondashi, Nawakwi, etc when they don’t agree with them. That is what happens in a democracy.
eddy
you smell Kachaso all the time. ECL is working under desperation. He known how your departed Chief tribalist Satana misused the resources that were coming from N W province to feed his relatives in XXXX provinces.
Nothing should excite you. You may not know what the people of NW province want. ECL is simply begging those people to change their perceptions over the PF which they still consider to be Demonic.
LUNGU babomfye ba muselela kwakaba. All they want is to eat with you.
people like Mumbi Fimofimo where can she go? She is one of the political consumers who will only survive in politics.
Ba mukuwa nsala!, starving dogs who barks at their own shadows in order to make dirt names for herself and others.
Leave My HH alone.
So Pilato was right in his song about those complaining about opposition members being appointed. The difference with Sata is that Sata did not appoint as many opposition members as President Lungu has done.
Yes bwana president tell them to join narep or sondashi’s party.u r the best that has ever happend to zambia
PEOPLE OF NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCE SHOULD NOT BE CHEATED WITH THE LAUNCHING OF PROJECTS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN BUDGETED FOR. PRESIDENT LUNGU IS JUST POLITICKING. MANY PROJECTS HAVE STALLED DUE TO LACK OF MONEY. MINISTERS HAVE CONFESSED THAT THERE IS NO MONEY TO COMPLETE THESE PROJECTS. SINCE THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO MONEY, LAST MONTH COULD NOT BE PAID ON TIME, WHERE WILL THEN THE MONEY COME FROM TO START, LET ALONE TO COMPLETE, THE PROJECTS THAT THE PRESIDENT IS LAUNCHING IN NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCE? CAN THE PRESIDENT TELL THE NATION WHERE THE MONEY WILL COME FROM. IN MY VIEW IT IS A TRAP THAT HE IS SETTING FOR HIMSELF BECAUSE COME NEXT YEAR THE PROJECTS WILL REMAIN BEGGING AND PEOPLE WILL FEEL CHEATED AND TURN AGAINST HIM. WHEN THIS HAPPENS, DO NOT ACCUSE THE PEOPLE THERE TO BE TRIBALISTS.
Ba Lungu anabwela ha ha ha-bringing in Dora, RB and your fellow corrupt chaps & you call that sanity. This is pure madness a Lungu he he hede!!!!. Your true colours are now known and I think most Zambians regret voting for you. PF as a Party is gone with your hangovers a Lungu
A Lungu anabwela ndale zanu zipasa ulesi. Ndinu a chikhome khome chankuyu mkati muli whisky nditu. Kodi muganiza kuti azamuvotelini ndani pakuti inu nthawi zonse nikunyoza mamembala a cipani canu ca PF???
PF cadres!, there you have evidence, you can’t cough or you will be fired and exiled. PF is dead with its founder Michael Sata. To day we have MMD/pf, RB is its defacto leader.
We warned you Bembas.
‘Kunena kwa ndithe ndithe Namuthambwe anazitengela’
Ba Lungu, if you don’t know the people of western and north western, they will just eat your money, and later get 10 votes, those are seasoned UPND , mark my words, you will be shocked indeed.
i am not sure what this is all about, there are more pressing issues than commissioning one thing after the other, until every Zambian begins to want good for themselves, we will continue on this path of destruction, certainly no vision.
Kambwili is fighting Chungu in Luanshya he has failed to accept that his constituency is Roan he wants to run all the constituencies.
Mr kambwili days are numbered those PF members you sre frustrating remember you sowing a seed. You will regret . You are a minister your friend Chungu is just MP you still frustrating him even people working with him you are intimidating them . Awe kwena you are a cameleon. waishile uwafuka abantu bakwafwa nomba naumena amapindo.Remember the saying inshiku tashicela mumo.
Kambwili has fear of working with other people from other party he is afraid of challenge. Let him sale his soul to the devil because Dora siliya aleisa mu PF . Lets us see Kambwili resign .
We are starting other roads when what was started way back by President Sata MHSRIP, have stalled for lack of funds????
-The Vibwi -Chipata road machinery relocated ( no single machine on site)
-The Chadiza -Chipata road machinery packed , no works being carried out.
Eish!!!!
What is happening?????