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We can’t Comment on GBM’s language, we are not sure about the authenticity of the story-UPND

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Charles Kakoma
Charles Kakoma

United party for National Development(UPND) Spokesperson Charles Kakoma has said that the his party cannot comment on the alleged use of vulgar language by its Vice President Geoffrey Mwamba who is popularly know as GBM.

Reacting to wide condemnation of use of vulgar language by Mr Mwamba, Mr Kakoma said that the party is not sure of the authenticity of the story to prove that Mr. Mwamba used vulgar language.

Earlier, Patriotic Front youths in Lusaka dared the UPND leadership to discipline its vice president for administration Geoffrey Mwamba for insulting private citizens.

Provincial youth chairman Kennedy Kamba said that failure to take action against Mr. Mwamba will prove that the UPND has embraced the culture of insults and is afraid to discipline Mr Mwamba.

And Zambian Voice Executive Director Chilufya Tayali says the behaviour being exhibited by United Party for National Development Vice President for administration Geoffrey Mwamba is disappointing.

Mr Talayi said Mr Mwamba’s vulgar utterances against other political leaders should be condemned by all well-meaning Zambians.

Mr Tayali told ZANIS in an interview that the the vulgar language being perpetuated by Mr Mwamba is bad and that it should not be tolerated.

The Zambian Voice Director pointed out that Mr Mwamba popularly known as “GBM” has on occasions harassed media personnel without remorse and urged Zambians to denounce such leaders vying to take political office.

Mr Tayali urged the UPND leadership to distance itself from the vulgarity and reprimand its Vice President for Administration.

But when contacted, opposition UPND leader Geoffrey Mwamba said he was not going to waste time addressing concerns from people like Mr Tayali.

Mr Mwamba urged Mr Tayali to instead waste his energy in advising government to fight poverty which has engulfed the country.

71 COMMENTS

  1. Tayali had a chance to engage GBM in that tape and authenticate but instead he was giggling like a tween girl. His conduct was very unprofessional, worse than the ranting GBM. Ba Fi…la both of them!

    • How do you engage someone with a vulgar language. Its in the public domain now. This kakoma should learn to use internet than listening from the streets. GBM cikalachakwe insulted Tayali and zambians.

    • This is worrying if HH cannot show leadership here it will be very difficult to control GBM once they form government and he starts bulldozing his way through government ministries for contracts.
      Do we really need to authenticate something as straight forward as this? Sometimes we miss Sata for his decisiveness never mind whether they were wrong or right decisions but he scared the hell out of everyone .

    • Kikikikiki,yaba! Ba UPND kuwayawayafye……….is thís the best response you could come up with? Very childish indeed!

    • I cannot believe this…the entire UPND including HH is so scared of this thug!! You chaps this so called GBM or is it GBV is costing your reputation as a Party…it’s time you woke up or else you are sinking with this Grade 7 drop out

    • Has UPND ever owned up to any thing? Why has GBM kept quiet all this time if he is not the one on the tape? We see this from HH day in and day out. HH is so hell bent on going to state house, his head is in the sand. He has never ever condemned violence in his party and am not surprised by this. The guy HH is in a perpetual state of denial, its no wonder he is standing for president for the hundredth time!

    • Can’t waste time on such Trivialities, we also dare pf to take to the police those pfool chaps who stripped naked a lady on youth day for putting on upnd party regalia.

    • Why is Tayani still in the streets?
      He was supposed to be arrested by ACC for soliciting a bribe from GBM.
      To me that was just an impersonator not GBM, otherwise Chilufya Tayani corruption is even done on internet.

    • So unbecoming from a bunch of mannerless and uncouth pf youths who just recently undressed a lady in public at the youth day celebrations, today they want to dare us over that trivial issues? Let them also make sure those pf laggards who undressed that lady are brought to book for indecent assault.

    • Much as the insults GBM hurled at Tayali were strong, if you
      consider seriously the context especially the behaviour of the people he
      insulted I. e. Tayali himself, emmanuel Mwamba, Frank Bwalya and Sunday
      Chanda , he is obviously justified. Mind you his main focus was not about
      someone allegedly recording him or accusing him of insulting the Satas
      despite it being the trigger, but his point was these are people who support
      the PF government that is raping the masses on a daily basis just because
      of personal gain despite them having the platform to speak for the
      massess. How many people die everyday due to what the PF government is
      deliberately doing? He was actually insulting those guys on behalf of the
      suffering masses and yet they have made it a money making…

    • MALABISHI!!! If indeed UNPD was a party of principles and had any moral values their first reaction would have been to prove the authenticity of the recording and take necessary measures. Authenticity can be proved even through ZICTA or mobile company to which the two people in the conversation subscribe to. They can tell which number belongs to who and who had the phone at the time. HH I think you are doing a dis-service to your party and jopadizing your chances of wining the elections. WHY ARE YOU SO SCARED OF GBM BEFORE YOU EVEN FORM GOVERNMENT? THIS IS WHERE YOUR TRUE LEADERSHIP IS TESTED.

    • you dont reason ba UPND. tamwakakule. By The way Priscilla Isaacs will print Ballot papers wherever she sees fit.

    • GBM IS A TROJAN HORSE IN UPND CAMP. HE IS UPND ON THE OUTSIDE,PF ON THE INSIDE. AND HH AND ENTIRE UPND ARE SO BLIND LIKE A CAMEL IN DESERT DUSTY STORM THAT THEY CANT SEE THIS. GBM IS SLOWLY KILLING UPND AND UPND ARE PRAISING HIM.

    • BA PHIRI, WHAT MATURITY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THIS UPND IS A GROUP OF VERY USELESS CHAPS WHO CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENT BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK, SURELY KAKOMA HOW DO COME OUT LIKE THIS THAT YOU DONT KNOW WHETHER IT WAS YOUR FOOLISH VEEP WHO WAS INSULTING OR NOT WE ARE VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH. I MISS PATRICK CHISANGA WHEN HE WAS YOUR PARTY SPOKES PERSON, THE MAN WAS THE BEST SPOKES PERSON EVERY TIME HE SPOKE IT MADE SENSE AM SURE THAT’S WHY YOUR LEADER HH MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR CHISANGA TO CONTINUE BECAUSE HE WAS SCARED THAT ONE DAY HE WILL BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF UPND. UPND JUST ACCEPT THAT YOU A USELESS MAN AS VEEP. MARK MY WORDS THIS SAME CHAP WILL COST YOU A LOT. COME AUGUST, 11 IT WILL BE A DAY OF RECKONING .

  2. Anyone who has had the great misfortune of being in GBM’s company will know for a fact that the man insults..wansele sana mambala..so let’s not pretend..chances are very high he uttered those words..

    But then again why GBM having all this press, why? I’ve just heard of another traffic accident involving a bus and that is where we need the news ba Lsk Times..overspeeding on the roads is a disease which too many Zambians are suffering from..it needs to be addressed..

    2016 ECL nafuti

  3. This man GBM , it will be interesting to see how far the exacting , relationship with HH , will last should their be victorious after 11 August ,2016 elections . That’s his nature { vulgar }.

  4. I think UPND’s response should have been no-comment and not that they can’t comment because they are not sure of the authenticity of the recording? There is one sure way of confirming the authenticity which is to access GBM himself whom I would like to believe Kakoma has access to.

  5. We are not surprised that the Under-5 Phucks for No Development (UPND) have chosen to embrace GBM’s immaturity and street thug behaviour. We cannot make the mistake of giving you power. you can’t win. Rats! You chickens, in Ginger Bread’s words

  6. Where was Tayali when Kambwili has been spitting insults on Tongas, where has he been when Mumbi hailed insults at HH? mwe mbwa mweh, namutuka kabili. Naiwe GBM uyichindike!

    • Include miles Sampa and Scott for insulting tongas not forgetting hh for insulting lusambo and zambians.
      Upnd now have run out of campaign stories. They have now remained with insults and and engeering accidents in public vehicles. Ba shetanist.

  7. i have been fortunate to know GBM personally,and all this is just a tip of the true GBM,this man is violent,his language is jaw-dropping.Even his own relatives cannot handle his language and violence.I witnessed him sit on his wife and beat her while his workers watched helplessly at his milling plant.

    • Please keep the historical empire-building genius and millitary tactician Shaka out of this. Maybe you have been brainwashed by the history they taught you into demonizing your African heros, but to compare GBM to King Shaka is grossly misled. I agree with you on GBM, but not the Shaka comparison.

    • @Monkey Banana

      I didn’t compare GBM to Shaka, I said GBM has Shaka’s violent blood flowing in his veins. Or don’t you know that GBM’s mother has Zulu royal blood? Stop snacking on those bananas and go read some books. And what’s this about that brute beast being an empire building genius? People ran away from him to escape being butchered, is that empire building?

  8. Friendly advice to UPND. I am your sympathiser. You need to distance yourself from GBMs vulgar language. If you are not sure it is GBM your vice president using vulgar language, charge him as a party and he will exculpate himself. You are protecting the guy and yet the guy has not even denied saying those things. Believe me, such things Will cost us votes. We as UPND should not be allowing such thuggery. Then what’s the difference with the Panga Family

  9. I agree with Kalipenta, indeed the UPND is bigger than GBM. The party should be seen to be stopping such vulgar language, technology or not, you can clearly tell that it was GBM openly insulting. I liked both Dr Kaunda and Mwanawasa as leaders, the reaction from these two on indiscipline was swift.

  10. I really doubt this Kakoma knows what he is talking about, i think his comment is even worse than insults uttered by GBM. He is just proving that him too “ni mambala”, how can he say he is ” not sure of the authenticity of the story to prove that Mr. Mwamba used vulgar language”, honestly does he think Zambian people are fools to buy into such excuses? Oh, no, he could have done better to be silent.

    This is not helping UPND, simply shows there is also no leadership. Full stop.

    Zambians, who can we really trust and vote for come August 2011??

  11. GBM was MMD. Lost in Kabwata. Then PF. Won in Kasama. Now UPND. Insults are bad and I condemn. But tomorrow GBM can still go back to PF and be embraced. That’s the sad culture of Zed politics. I condemn our political culture. No party has principles. All of the political parties are just full of morons!

  12. Short memories on vulgarity for Sata used the same and many cheered! I do not even want to believe GBM would be as vulgar as portrayed anyway I do not know much about GBM’s traits other than what opposing sides argue over him! You are either on the side that loves GBM or the side that hates him thus you choose what you want! As for me GBM is his own fearless politician and the more he is his own person the better for one will know what one is getting at the end of the day not some robot responding to the designers wishes!

  13. Please note that Tayali and PF guys are quick at condemning petty and unfounded stories but can not condemn the shortage of meali-meal, closure of the universities, violence and the killing of innocent citizens by PF cadres. Tayali is a paid up cadre too. Please let’s learn to be patriotic to all our national issues. We can be better Zambians if we all care for about all the real problems facing our mother Zambia. Plundering and misuse of public funds are real issues to talk about. Some pipo can sell their birth right for beef soup like Isau to Jacob in the Bible. Can one buy your future with a Chitenge material or a packet of Shake-shake beer and kill the lives of your own children and all Zambians? SHAME.

  14. ba upnd is this how low you can sink? you want authenticity over a phone conversation, most likely cellular. cell phones are personal so if GBM did not answer his own cell phone, who did?

  15. HH, you are surrounded by thieves, from MMD and FP, who will for sure indulge in corruption if you form government after August 11. Now, if you cannot discipline GBM at this moment, surely, how will you discipline them when they continue with their corruption in your government? If this problem isn’t nipped in the bud, it will get totally out of hand if you form government later this year. Since GBM took over the centre stage, I am beginning to believe that UPND are drifting away from winning the forthcoming elections.

  16. Kakoma chipubafye nga gbm,,,kakoma should have been smarter than this,,,ati authentication shuwa,,,,kakoma uli chipumbu sana

    • Look at who is full of insults….it is obviously PF. It seems they are worried someone is beating them at their own favorite game! kekekeke!

  17. Ba Mr Charles Kakoma kuwayawayafye. You have opened your mouth many times before to comment on rumors. Why don’t you ask GBM to confirm or deny and come back to us with his denial? Like I have always said, HH has the propensity to and WILL shoot himself in the foot at critical times. If UPND were elected How are you going to correct the economy when you will be busy fighting kaponya crisis after kaponya crisis created by GBM and his uncouth uncivilized relatives Guy Scott? Ati politics is about numbers? Not negative numbers ba HH naimwe, kwati tamwasambilila sure!

  18. I am sure that UPND just wish this thing can go away quickly. Unfortunately with the likes of GBM, Guy Scott at the helm of UPND they should expect more and more and more until they lose the vote in August. Surely fellow tongas, are these the Bemba votes that you wanted?

  19. Thats upnd for you zambians!!MY HEART BLEEDS SEEING HOW SOME PEOPLE EVEN THINK OF VOTING UPND INTO POWER!!do you really love mother Zambia guys?can you give your beloved country into the hands of G6 drop outs such as gbm?UPND HAS NEVER ACCEPTED ANY WRONG DOING DONE BY THEIR MEMBERS!!GBM INSULTED BADLY AND DARED CHILUFYA TAYALI TO RECORD AND PUT THE RECORDING ONLINE!!CAN A NORMAL PERSON DEFEND SUCH NONSENSE FROM THEIR VEEP?GBM IN THAT RECORDING DARED EVEN HIS PRESIDENT HH THAT HE IS RICH AND CANNOT BE A SLAVE TO ANY PRESIDENT,NOW HOW WILL BE GBM’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HH IF THEY WON(GOD FORBID)?please voters lets not make a mistake of voting for upnd on 11/08/2016.as wynter kabimba warned,upnd’s regime could be worse than under pf!!THE CHOICE IS YOUR,BUT FOR ME AND ALL MY FAMILY MEMBERS,WE…

  20. GBM and Guy Scott have cost the UPND and HH some precious votes. Remember with 50%+ 1 votes, one vote can make the difference.

  21. Pf hired guns trying very hard to divert attention of the nation from hard pressing issues that is affecting all zambians, people can not see that this an electioneering ploy. Mr. Kakoma as a spokes person of an organisation is right not to make haste comments, without verifying authenticity of the recorded voice. With tayali under the pf payroll, you never know what is true & what is not, these days with the age of technology advancement voices can be easily mimicked on sound machines. As a professional to comment on anything you need to have facts at hand.

  22. How about PF which brought a culture of violence,witch hunt politics and victimization? GBM’s alleged sins are nothing compared to the PF’s devilishness.

    • What a narrow way of thinking.Just because party A did this and that, u justify immorality being perpetuated by yo so called vp. Shame u no wonder it will take time for our country to develop coz of small minds like yours.
      Go back and read your bible. NO PAYING EVIL FOR EVIL INSTEAD URGED TO PAY BY GOOD WORKS. Grow up

  23. The person to blame here is not gbm but tayali who did the recording. Simple and straightforward. If the purported insults came through the radio or TV then gbm was going to be condemned by those who think it’s necessary. The debate he had with tayali was personal. He was not representing the party in that discussion.

    • Any morally upright TV, radio station or individual wouldn’t release that audio to the masses, that’s why even radio and TV stations have censorship boards, if tayali was a morally upright individual he wouldn’t let even his young nephews and niece be exposed to such language, but because he is a kandile and has to survive he needs a ka 2pin for food what do you expect from such an individual.

    • @ felix
      If u listened to the recording yo vp insisted that his insults go public.

      Next before u make a comment, have as much facts as possible

  24. He was actually insulting those guys on behalf of the
    suffering masses and yet they have made it a money making venture
    encauraging our rulers to subject us to more suffering. Every right thinking
    Zambian should understand GBM’S anger. I actually commend GBM for
    admonishing those leaders in PF on behalf the masses. Viva GBM, viva the
    incoming UPND government.

    • You lazy chap, just work hard and you have bread and butter day in day out. Fold your arms and poverty azakunyokola…

  25. GBM is a good man but has a short temper which needs to be controlled. I advise GBM to come down to annoying PF cadres and avoid going going the KK route when he used to say st-u–pi-d i-di-i-ot.

  26. Silly comments from some bloggers, what proof do you have got that truly GBM uttered those insults ? Don’ t you know trick stars like ka Tayali that he can make such fabrications? Are you not yet mature that you do not know and Zambian politics ? Character assassination shall not work this time around because our focus is on cardinal issues that affect the Zambian masses. Do not divert our attention to something else which is unnecessarily important.

  27. Good morning Mr. Kakoma yes I know you can’t comment on this but the fact is that this man has shown us the type of a party and its leadership so as Zambians we say NO to such.

    • You are right @ Kennedy, this GBM is in UPND just to decampaign the party. I feel sorry for upnd because they can’t see this. Once upnd lose again, you will see this man going back to PF, that is why he has refused to surrender this seat.

  28. This is a computer era who knows the authenticity of the said audio recording ? Tayali himself must explain the Motive behind his posting of GBM ‘s audio recording to the public.
    We as Zambians know what we want and will not listen to both sides’s way of fighting each other.From the way you are addressing issue ba Tayali this is a clear indication that you want favors from the government but please do not use already suffering zambians for personal gain , god will punish you.

  29. GBM and foul language are one. You can’t tell them apart. And Kakoma, wait until Nselensele unleashes insults on you. Only then, will you be sure.

  30. Obscenities from people who do not reason,will cost UPND votes.There are people like GBM who do not care about progress of the party.This is not time to lose votes through careless talking.I sympathise with HH in that the man is deprived of victory because of careless talks from people like GBM.The little victory which he was supposed to get during presidential by elections was wasted by people like Munkombwe.A repeat of the same thing will happen on 11 August if big mouths like GBM are not tamed.Kakoma should not be defensive of vulgar language from his vice president.GBM is a mole in UPND who will destroy the support that UPND has gathered so far.

  31. GBM is a mole planted in UPND by PF to destroy its political party adversary. That is the only explanation. There can be no other way to explain it. Otherwise, it is completely inexplicable that the whole party establishment including its President, Chairperson and Party Spokesperson are all unable to nip the flower in the bud. Kakoma’s reaction confirms the amount of power GBM wields in UPND today. Make no mistake, HH is very smart man, and he knows he surely cannot trust GBM but because of the huge amount of resources that he put in in the last elections, he needed a bit of financial relief this time round and which oddly could only come from GBM. Watch this space!!! This dilemma will also extend to the selection of his presidential running mate. He has a very difficult choice: Either…

  32. … to choose a trusted, loyal, pauper and long-standing party member in C Banda or choose a financially powerful, egoistic, untrusted; 5 headed, brainless-and-senseless monster (all completely undesirable attributes of the second-in-command) in GPM as his running mate. As they say, be careful what you wish for — you may just get it!!! This is a good testing point for UPND’s moral leadership stamina; failure to which they must kiss goodbye to the presidency. And unconfirmed, we also credible information from insiders that the likes of Mutale Nalumango have already been victims to GBM’s thuggery language.

  33. to choose a trusted, loyal, pauper and long-standing party member in C Banda or choose a financially powerful, egoistic, untrusted; 5 headed, brainless-and-senseless monster (all completely undesirable attributes of the second-in-command) in GPM as his running mate. As they say, be careful what you wish for — you may just get it!!! This is a good testing point for UPND’s moral leadership stamina; failure to which they must kiss goodbye to the presidency. And unconfirmed, we also credible information from insiders that the likes of Mutale Nalumango have already been victims to GBM’s thuggery language.

  34. Why do some people want a response from H H? Does the president ever give a response to the insults of Mumbi Phiri, Kambwili Frank Bwalya let alone important life threatening issues like the Ndola airport saga and Kambwili insisting that Jerabo thieves be released because they fund PF? Come on be serious on some of your debates.

  35. UPND bloggers must just live with the reality that GBM has done them irreparable damage. There is no way to wish this away or even rationalize it. Try suspending or expelling GBM from the the UPND and he will explode and do a lot of damage to the party- ukufilila munsenga style! If you keep him in the party, he will still be harmful to the party through his arrogant stalk borer style – damaging the party from within. The truth is that HH napapa kalama; whether he kicks him out or keeps him in the party, GBM will still harm him. GBM will haunt HH for the rest of his political life!

  36. Thought this was common language amongst people of a certain lingual persuasion. Kambwili uses it. Sata was using it. Street kids use it. What’s wrong now?

  37. UPND cannot claim not to know the authenticity of the recording. It is easy to verify it with GBM. However, their response to not to say anything about it, means that, they disapprove GBM’s uncouth language but are dead scared to distance themselves.

    HH’s quest to be president of Zambia is one that has shown that he is an unprincipled man. He has shown that he is prepared to go to bed with the devil to achieve his ambition and this is why his wealth is questionable.

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