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I joned UPND to ensure HH is ushered into State House, says former Justice PS

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FILE: Southern Province Permanent Secretary Bernard Namachima (far right), Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba, Solicitor General Musa Mwenye, Justice Permanent Secretary Josephs Akafumba, LAZ president James Banda (far left) singing the national anthem during the opening of the 7th annual State Advocates workshop at Protea Hotel in Livingstone
FILE: Southern Province Permanent Secretary Bernard Namachima (far
right), Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba, Solicitor General Musa
Mwenye, Justice Permanent Secretary Josephs Akafumba, LAZ president
James Banda (far left) singing the national anthem during the opening
of the 7th annual State Advocates workshop at Protea Hotel in
Livingstone

FORMER Ministry of Justice Permanent Secretary, Joseph Akafumba has said he joined the United Party for National Development (UPND) to ensure that its leader Hakainde Hichilema is ushered into office during the Forth Coming General Elections.

And some UPND Parliamentary aspiring candidates for Livingstone Constituency, who declined to be named, have castigated the party’s district leadership for parading Mr Akafumba to the people of Livingstone when he was not yet an adopted candidate.

Mr Akafumba, who is vying for the Livingstone Constituency seat under the UPND, said it would be pointless for him to win the parliamentary seat if Mr Hichilema lost.

He was speaking in Livingstone on Saturday at the Livingstone Weigh Bridge where scores of UPND members turned up to welcome him.

Mr Akafumba, who was accompanied by former Southern Province PF chairlady Alice Simango, said his support for Hakainde Hichilema was because the opposition leader had been consistent with what he wanted to do for the people of Zambia.

He called on members of the UPND to work hard, campaign and take their president to State House.

“I didn’t expect this reception but however am extremely very grateful for the gesture. I just have a very short message as the chair has said, the task ahead for the UPND is very huge and I have not come here to come and campaign for a parliamentary seat, to me what is important is to ensure that we take our president to State House.

“What will it benefit me to win a seat as a Member of Parliament and my president loses? It will result to zero, its better I lose and he wins. I want to assure you that being a member of parliament is nothing, its just one of those few rooms in my father’s mansion, “Mr Akafumba said.

Some UPND Parliamentary aspiring candidates, who declined to be named, castigated the party’s district leadership for parading Mr Akafumba to the people of Livingstone when he was not yet adopted.

The aspiring candidates said the party had created an impression to the people of Livingstone that Mr Akafumba had already been adopted to represent the party during the fourth coming general elections.

“The whole process is not transparent. We don’t know whether Mr Akafumba has paid them for them to be acting in such a manner.

“How do you parade someone to the people, organize members to welcome and host a party I his honor and claim that we were just welcoming him.

“Some of us feel duped and we will petition the party if it turns out that Mr Akafumba is adopted as our candidate because they want to impose a candidate on us who has been rejected twice before by the people of Livingstone under the ruling party and what magic can he now perform,” they said.

But UPND District Chairman Michael Kangai said that the party was only replicating what their national office had done by welcoming the two officials from PF.

UPND District Spokesperson advised the aspiring candidates not to blow Mr Akakumba’s reception out of proportion as the party was merely welcoming new members.

39 COMMENTS

    • For those that are daily accusing the PF of planning to rig,just in case you wonder where the votes will be coming from, I want to state here that I have a voters card and will vote for ECL.

    • I can vote for Lungu for sympathy because he will be the poorest ever ex-president. Edgar has nothing, not even a farm, that lazy guy can’t work the land.
      HH has nothing to lose.

    • “I didn’t expect this reception but however am extremely very grateful for the gesture…”
      THERE YOU CAN HAVE ANY AMOUNT OF RECEPTION. BUT, TRY TO EXPERIMENT IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY- SAY NORTHERN, LUAPULA, EASTERN, CB, NORTH WESTERN, ETC. THEN WE CAN APPROVE YOUR POPULARITY.

    • Bemba’s Luvale’s Tumbukas, Lenje, Lunda’s Chewa, Zambians of Asian origin, European origins etc ..Zambia united to change the way a country is run. When thuggery will be met with the force it deserves….We the people of all walks of life tribe and tounge with a green Zambian National Registration Card are going to vote and we shall vote With our hearts. FWD FWD FWD

    • Not only that, this is the guy who chewed voluntary retirees moneys at the ministry and left many of them stranded and dying.

  1. That’s why PF will lose is because of insulting other tribes like Tongas and lozis.God will fight for the oppressed this year.

  2. My humble appeal to all Politicians more especially whoever is aspiring for elective office, please have respect with humility for the electorate. It is the single ballot of a voter which ushers anyone into office, not popularity of people who merely cheer at leaders waiting for droppings from candidates’ pockets and tables. We the voters hold the sway, and most of us are never campaigned because we are non-partisan who vote for leaders who do not even blow their own trumpets because the genuine and efficient leaders. Be careful of mobs and politicians who shift from Party to Party in search of honey, or whenever they get discarded or lose popularity from their previous Parties.

  3. Akafumba which state house are you talking about my friend,are you sick in the head?in fact I hear you were discarded because of incompetence. And you want to do shadow boxing with who?go to hell.pf for life.

    • He was the one who was smuggling information from the government to opposition.How can they adopt him without subjecting him to primary election or scrutiny.Double standards

  4. It is good to view elections with an open mind. UPND supporters must prepare for life after August 11 because there is a higher chance that the PF could sweep clean the election. Do not underestimate the impact Dora Siliya has had in Eastern Province, I really think that will be the decider, if Edgar Lungu gets around 90% of the vote there, it will be all but over.

  5. It is a fore gone conclusion that PF will win this election, PF will sweep clean in Luapula, Northern, Muchinga, Eastern, Copperbelt Urban, Lusaka Urban so ba Akafumba has just burried himself politically.Those UPND cadres who were jumping up and down with excitiment when those MMD Mps from bantustan areas endorsed HH, where are you? ECL has also recieved endorsements from almost all MPs from Eastern province. Viva PF.

    • Including Central urban. The urban’s of Lusaka CB and central with massive population. How UPND will win with only 3 and half provinces (Southern, Western, N/Western and rural Central) still beat my rational thinking.

  6. ‘Extremely very grateful’…. I was taught in elementary school not to use these two words in one sentence as is the case here. Ati ba former PS, mwa? Next time we shall demand for a first degree. This Grade 12 Certificate thing is not just working for me. Epo mpelele…

  7. This tribal talk must come to a conclusive end please! Im bemba, but i can assure you no matter how many sermons you are going to preach labeling certain groupings as tribal, they will never move me. I challenge anybody to give me any ethnic grouping in Zambia that is not tribal. Zambians, the challenges that we are facing now know no tribe and can never be sorted out by calling anybody tribal. Lets be serious with our approach to national issues and debates.

  8. lol which problems are u facing mudala?PF has performed and we gonna vote for them.Pabwatooo nafuti nafuti. Why should pipo vote for a tribe party who are planing to remove other tribes in govt.We don’t like such such leaders in zed.

  9. No wonder these guys can go to such levels as to start giving out instructions to ECZ not to print the ballot papers from a named location. All they want is for one man to enter state house come rain come sunshine. While one is joining, many are leaving for greener pastures. Plus one minus five is equal to minus four. Can you win like that?

  10. old,sick,finished and tired politicians ba Akafimba uli wa kwi iwe wine umungulu iyeeeeeeeeeeeee.

  11. AKUFUMBA OR WHAT EVER THEY CALL YOU, YOUR HH WILL NEVER ENTER STATE HOUSE BECAUSE HE IS TRIBAL AND HIS PARTY IS ON TRIBE LINES!

  12. Read this and weep, citizens. ‘being a member of parliament is nothing!’ How so??? Representing citizens is the highest patriotic duty a man/woman can do in their country. If you can’t even grasp that concept then you surely should not be an MP. You cannot have more regard for a party leader than the citizenry whom he/she wants to vote them into office! This is cult like.

  13. Politics is not about sponsoring an individual for economical gains. It’s about the people of Zambias well being. We’re are the people in your manifesto?

  14. Comment:WAIT 4 AUG WINA ALILA HH 2 B PRESIDENT NO NO, BCOZ TRIBLELISM IS IN BLOOD WE SHALL TEACH U A POLICAL LESSON,NEGA NEGA OPENED OUR EYES

  15. Comment:
    Please take not that not all people in the east are for PF. Am one of the typical Easterners who support other parties

    • I used to support other parties but I have taught otherwise. Reflected ever since some tribes had their tribesmen standing as presidential candidate that they vote a particular way. So why not me? If anything we Easterners give in too much against our own.

  16. I, and all my family members shall vote for PF and president Edgar Lungu on 11/08/2016!!!WHY SHOULD I VOTE FOR A TRIBAL PARTY WHICH DOES NOT EXPLAIN WHAT IT WANTS TO DO FOR ZAMBIANS!!LOOK AT WHAT THIS AKAFIMBA IS SAYING “I JOINED UPND TO ENSURE THAT HH ENTERS STATE HOUSE”.SURELY WHO IS INTERESTED IN ENSURING THAT HH ENTERS STATE HOUSE?IF HE ENTERS STATE HOUSE,THEN WHAT CHANGES IN OUR LIVES?THIS IS HOW MOST OF THESE BANTUSTANS WANT”PUTTING HH IN STATE HOUSE”!!whether this will be puting food on their tables,nobody knows!!!PLEASE ZAMBIANS,LETS NOT VOTE FOR UPND IN 2016!!!PF IS MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN PF AND WE HAVE ALL SEEN WHAT PF HAS DONE SINCE 2011!!

  17. WHO IS TRIBAL? Is it not the person who uses this word? HH has never used the word ” Tribal”it does not exist in his VOCABULARY. Please those of the Kambwili type, the Dora Siliya type are the ones who have it in their VOCABULARY and hence use it quite often. PLEASE YOU TRIBALISTS DO NOT RUB THAT DIRT TO OTHERS WHO ARE CLEAN FOR THEY DO NOT NEED IT!!! STAY AWAY FROM THE ACCOMMODATING TONGAS, YOU HAVE RELATIVES IN THE TONGA LAND WHO ARE LIVING COMFORTABLY AND NOT READY TO GO BACK TO YOUR PROVINCES for it is obvious that they are well respected and accommodated.
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  18. Someone may not use it for a reason, but there actions speaks louder than they can use the word. Foolish thinking isn’t it! Check it out! To be tribal is real human nature and I feel it describes human nature for sure! Argue objectively!

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