United Party for National Development (UPND) has described the just dissolved Parliament as Parliament without direction and a Parliament of Government as half the MPs were serving as Ministers.
In a statement made available to the media, the UPND leader said that under the PF Government, the lack of strong and visionary leadership meant that Parliament was often playing catch up and trying to repair the damage of ill-informed policies, rather than proactively driving progressive reforms
Below is the full statement
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
PF Legacy in Parliament
As the 11th National Assembly draws to a close it is a good time to reflect on its legacy.
First and foremost it has been a Parliament of Government, with half of MPs serving as Ministers. At a cost of millions to the taxpayer there have been an unprecedented number of parliamentary by-elections over the past five years, no less than 32. This has all meant that under the PF opposing views and perspectives have been repeatedly sidelined. Meanwhile, chances to pass important pieces of legislation proposed by the opposition, such as reform of the Public Order Act, have been stopped in their tracks, despite widespread support.
Secondly, it has been a Parliament without direction. Government has failed to set out a clear plan of action. Under the PF, the lack of strong and visionary leadership has meant Parliament is often playing catch up and trying to repair the damage of ill-informed policies, rather than proactively driving progressive reforms. Perhaps the most notorious example is the mining tax regime that has been changed repeatedly, firstly in 2012, twice in 2015 and now again in 2016. In other cases it has taken months and even years of pressure from opposition and civil society to make the PF deliver in five years what they promised in 90 days.
Thirdly, it has been a Parliament whose financial standing has been laid to waste due to inaccurate forecasts by the Ministry of Finance, and a failure to heed warnings. As such the PF has pushed increases in the external debt ceiling through Parliament, raising it from K20 billion in 2011 to K160 billion in 2016. Meanwhile, failure to prioritise has seen cuts to areas such as education in the form of meal allowances, while Cabinet grows and enjoys a pay rise despite underperformance.
More broadly the PF’s legacy in Parliament during the period 2011 to 2016 can be seen in a generation of frustrated youths, thousands of redundant miners, struggling businesses, hungry families and a nation in the dark. Their performance is one out of ten.
Hakainde Hichilema
UPND President
time is running out ba hh. i want to know why i should vote for you and not what pf did or did not do. under five.
Their rule was unfortunately affected by the global policies and the act of God. They told the world that; they do not deny it and I am sure your grading will be accepted on that basis only.
Great man HH
Trouble is he is like a man wearing a skirt.
A great man from a wrong tribe.
Because of this , Lungu will win.
Tribalism is embedded in Zambian DNA.
If this man was Charles Bwalya for instance, it would be a forgone conclusion.
Don’t be fooled by the media, watchdog a few lost souls from lusakatimes commenting here.
The bottom line is , UPND has a stooge of persons unhappy on PF it’s not because they love and agree with ideologies of UPND. No, they are doing it because they either not wanted elsewhere or they just don’t like PF.
If UPND loses, which I expect- they will again defect back shamelessly
Thanks
Bb2014
Great man HH
Trouble is he is like a man wearing a skirt.
A great man from Not so good province.
Because of this , Lungu will win.
Tribalism is embedded in Zambian DNA.
If this man was Charles Bwalya for instance, it would be a forgone conclusion.
Don’t be fooled by the media, watchdog a few lost souls from lusakatimes commenting here.
The bottom line is , UPND has a stooge of persons unhappy on PF it’s not because they love and agree with ideologies of UPND. No, they are doing it because they either not wanted elsewhere or they just don’t like PF.
If UPND loses, which I expect- they will again defect back shamelessly
Thanks
Bb2014
Great man HH
Trouble is he is like a man wearing a skirt.
A great man from Not so good province.
Because of this , Lungu will win.
Hatred is embedded in Zambian DNA.
If this man was Charles Bwalya for instance, it would be a forgone conclusion.
Don’t be fooled by the media, watchdog a few lost souls from lusakatimes commenting here.
The bottom line is , UPND has a stooge of persons unhappy on PF it’s not because they love and agree with ideologies of UPND. No, they are doing it because they either not wanted elsewhere or they just don’t like PF.
If UPND loses, which I expect- they will again defect back shamelessly
Thanks
Bb2014
I think HH would make a bit of sense if he were to start by congratulating the current Govt on the POSITIVES (and they are plenty) they have been able to accomplish. Then list areas or issues he (HH) deems are Govt/PF FAILURES. I think a CRITIQUE of that sort would carry more credibility. But for him to simply list a liteen of HALF-TRUTHS, as seen through his own jaundiced and skewed view, really makes his observations less impactful. He tends to come off as someone who is so SELF-ABSORBED and NARCISSISTIC so as to think ONLY HE can do better—and it is this sort of attitude that has been, unfortunately, HH’s ACHILLES HEEL!
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It is actually amazing that he (HH) conveniently even forget to praise PF/Edgar or the dissolved Parliament for passing the Constitution. An issue he so loved to TORMENT Edgar/PF Govt with not too long ago and which, without a doubt, would have made the list here today if the situation was different.
Finally PF is gone and buried. We dont want a failed govt.
True Yambayamba. In as much as one wants to support HH, he always manages to make you pose in your decision and wonder what sort of leader he will be. Will he be a unifier or divider? Its difficult to know under HH what one will get. Its the biggest problem this year’s elections have, a choice between a devil you know and an incoming one. We needed a shining light in this darkness.
Cozzie, I am equally anxiously waiting for the manifestoes.
UPND mps were the most useless…. always sleeping and dreaming in chitonga
don’t vote for him if you don’t want. we are already there to vote for him ourselves.
Tabakwata na manifesto. The paper they have is a cut and paste from PF. He claims to be an enonomist but what comes out his mouth on economic matters is quite strange too.
I have a full understanding of why Zambians are so poor. Keep on voting tribe and have a excellent poverty day!
AND THAT SAME PARLIAMENT HAD A THIRD OF UPND MPs. YOU ARE SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT SIR.
The direction of that parliament was of Pathetic and Futile policies. The incoming one should be Upwards, Progressive, National, Decisive (UPND) for it will be composed of learned people instead of cadres.
Kwisa na mwebo….Ba GBM finshi basambilila ba vice presido benu?
Ala bakolwe baseekene ifipato!!!
“LEARNED PEOPLE”? YET YOU DONT WANT G12 CLAUSE. SO “LEARNED” IN WHAT TERMS, FARM LEARNED, CATTLE HERDER LEARNED, OR WHAT?
Their rule was unfortunately affected by the global policies and the act of God. They told the world that; they do not deny it and I am sure your grading will be accepted on that basis only.
Globlal policy effects and acts of God will always be there and thus contingencies should be made to counter or cushion them. What this gov did is expose the nation to very high risks particularly with the current debt, this is unheard of in properly managed countries. Sadly the economic situation will only get worse before it improves, regardless of who is at the helm.
Misanga, stop repeating, which global policies that has affected Zambia but not our neighbors? Our country is worse than our neighbors who have been equally ffected by the same global trends, in that the leadership under lungu have failed, to provide leadership to manage this global trends you are referring to. Leadership is about managing problems. When there is no enough cash in your house, you don’t become extravagant, you stick only to the necessities. And in good management you do not borrow loans to build your infrastructure, instead you can borrow to develop your income generating projects base that will help you build your roads, schools etc. & also will help you repay your loans, now that & many more should be directives from a good leadership, which PF administration has…
You MPS were the most disappointing because they tried to oppose everything dispute some issues being progressive. If they were objective people would have taken them seriously.
Your coment on mining jobs is in sincere who doesn’t know what affected mining jobs? All copper based economies suffered the same fate. It was worse in Brasil and even neighbouring Congo where Anglo America fired hundred thousand ds of miners.
Unless you and your team become sinsere you will remain irrelevant opposition politicians. For now PF and Lungu will still win.
What do you expect from one suffering from hh madness disease it has mouth cholera which kills.
A PARLIAMENT FULL OF PF CARDERS INCLUDING THE CHIEF CARDER HIMSELF THE SPEAKER YIELDED NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS. WHY CAN’T WE HAVE PATRIOT ZAMBIANS LIKE GBM WHO CAN STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN AGAINST THE FEARED LIKE THE LATE MCS. THE PROBLEM WITH ZAMBIA STEMS BEYOND THE PRESIDENT. IF THESE MPS BEGIN TO THINK INDEPENDENTLY THE PRESIDENT CANNOT ABUSE THE COUNTRY LIKE LUNGU HAS. I THINK MINISTERIAL POSITIONS SHOULD BE GIVEN BY PARLIAMENT FOR MPS WHO BELONG TO THE RUILING PARTY BUT HAVE THE MERIT FOR THE JOB. WHEN YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT APPOINTING PEOPLE THEY FEAR TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT. ZAMBIANS SHOULD NOT ALLOW ONE MAN TO DESTORY THE COUNTRY LIKE MUGAGE HAS DONE TO ZIMBABWE
How can GBM be a patriot when all he tried to do as minister of defence is enrich himself through military contracts at the expense of the poor ordinary soldiers? The only patriotism by GBM is the one in the myopic sights of UPND cadres.
It is amazing how wife beaters, lumpenising thugs and illitaerates like GBM and William Banda get saintinised by the UPND! Totally unbelievable and shocking!
SONTAPO!!!
Awe ni SONTINZO and SONTALIZATION…
Who doesn’t have direction between HH and Zambians? Scott was the most stupid white man. Is Scott still stupid? Sata was cimbwi no plan today HH is praising him. Who can trust such a man? You have tried hatred try love and remember if you can’t appreciate what others do very few will appreciate what you do.
HH you should focus in real issues now, blame game will not help you. We have seen that PF has worked well when we compare positive to negatives they are not angels to perfect things but we saying we’ll done!! The last five years has been fruitful to this nation.
Go for convention becoz we shall soon take you to court. The new constitution says a political party should conduct elections within.
PF should be the first to do so. What are you scared of?? Let Lungu win clean if he even can. Do not try find excuses to try avoid the elections.
A group of thieves in parliament can’t do anything. Pf is just a group of thieves.
Admit it, you have nothing to say.
This includes UPND MPs, for receiving Mid-Term gratuity which no one deserves.
Surely,PF episode of parley was the most diabolical & useless one ever in the annals of Zambian political history,it was irrational & unproactive,full of policy inconsistences & reckless mind sets!These devils in PF must be investigated for all the frauds & abuses immediately!
Parliament was not effective becoz of Leadership failure from the Executive arm of govt. With a visionless and clueless President that was to be expected. Now Lungu is causing another problem which he should have solved thru Parliament. Following the dissolution of Parliament, Lungu has refused to to dissolve Cabinet. In 1996,2001& 2011 Lungu’s predecessors dissolved Cabinet and Ministers vacated their posts after Parliament was dissolved. In 2016 Lungu is refusing to disband his Cabinet and wants his Ministers to stay in their posts and help him rig and win the elections in 2016. Lungu is causing unnecessary constitutional crisis. If this man loses elections on 11th August 2016 he will refuse to handover power to the winner. This man is stubborn and unruly. Time will tell!
Ba Tembo read the constitution
“..Parliament was not effective becoz of Leadership failure from the Executive arm of govt…”
Ba Tembo, Parliament is not (supposed to be) supervised by the Executive…
Ba Vizungu, these UPND cadres insult us and call us Kaponyas while they don’t even understand the basic governance structures such as judiciary, legislature & executive which are independent from each other.
This is exactly the same with their so called president/demigod HH, he has no clue what it entails to run government. If I have to draw parrallels, he is the Donald Trump of Zambia, rumbling and insulting every action by others and having the “know it all” attitude. Truly narcissitic if you ask me and I am a pretty good judge of character.
Its possiable for a dog to give birth to a cat than for Edgar chakolwa kaloba Wrungu to provide good leadership.
Well spoken, HH. Yes, we owe it to ourselves as Zambians to take stock of how we are doing from time to time, and what better time than now when National Assembly is drawing to a close. No well-meaning person would oppose this.
As the wise old adage goes :- “Smart people learn from their mistakes, wise people learn from the mistakes of others.”
In your stock take don’t forget to differentiate between government and parliament. You are literally insulting your own MPs too with your usual insults. So people from southern province voted for visionless MPs
@Dominion,
I note that you agree with HH that it is good to take stock of performance. But for you to characterise what you agree with as insulting is a bit of a misnomer, wouldn’t you say?
Nothing new from HH just the usual diarrohea of the mouth most of the nonsense in Parliament is caused by the likes of UPND MPs, Gary Nkombo, Cornelius Mweetwa – how this terrible former Unzasu Sports Secretary, and civilian kapokola became a leader of a Parliamentary Committee is exactly why Parliament has been a circus!
#HungryHyena(HH)MustFallForThe5thTime
2016 ECL nafuti
What do you expect from Dr Jerabo and associates? mafi yeka yeka
Stop thinking that HH and UPND have a magic wand that will take away the problems or your business will thrive because they have a solution you need. Business is business the political factor is just one of things that help business thrive, its not everything. We have to change our mind set towards work and public resources hence we should be grateful for what Edgar Lungu and PF have done on infrastructure development. Zambia is part of the global village hence the economical malaise affects every nation under the sun, the most powerful nation in the world has 19 billion US dollars whilst the commonwealth is broke.
Visionary leadership??????? Lord have mercy for hh followers tabaitemenwa. HH time yamana what do you have for zambians??? Privatisation again?? / insults??
BA HH shallow. That’s o u woke up to say fo the day. And u think that can make u president of our country? Awe, mayb FO yo bantustan chabe
HH shall be remembered as the most intelligent and visionary leader who could somehow not figure out how to rule Zambia. Leadership is teamwork my brother HH.
I quote: “In other cases it has taken months and even years of pressure from opposition and civil society to make the PF deliver in five years what they promised in 90 days.” So PF has delivered all that they promised after all. An open admission from HH. So why pretend that PF has failed when you also admit that they have delivered. Kind of strange attitude. Let’s be serious and play mature politics.
Chimbwi uyu. Finally he will done so we don’t have listen to his ngombe sh.it. No pan intended
HH is an *****. He is complaining about bye elections but he doesn’t mention his party contributed to the mess. He expelled any UPND MP who accepted a ministerial appointment. His MPs opposed every motion that was passed even when they were good.
And why does HH always try to point failures instead of being balanced? What will you do better? What are your policies on mining taxation, ending load shading, employment creation, and education? You claim to have a vision but that vision has never been properly communicated. So shut it.
HH is not a politician or indeed a team player and that’s why he will lose the elections because he’s self centred. His Party was part and parcel of the same Parliament he’s demonising…Sometimes it’s important to respect and appreciate the governance of independent institutions that are in the constitution than always have a reason to blame others…What Zambians are interested in is to hear your manifesto that is if at all you really have one rather than the reactionary approach of baseless criticism of anything…
This Parliament passed a constitution that has escaped Zambians for the past 50 years. Guess u missed that. That debt u hv mentioned has built Hospitals, Schools, Bridges, Roads, Dams, etc for the poor Zambians who had to go long distances to access medical care, water animals, plants, and clean water for themselves, Cross rivers safely and efficiently where they used pontoons and some instances swim across, attend schools without doing those long distances to get to schools that wr very far away, and to have goods and services, inputs and people mobility across the country. Guess you missed this. If you can recall last year some truckers refused to go beyond Chipata to Chama to distribute fertilizer cos the road was bad, now they can go cos the road is good. Mbala traders used to spend 3…
thats so true ba President..these pf mps stole
YOU KNOW VERY WELL THAT YOU WILL NEVER EVER BE PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA EVEN IF YOU WERE TO TRY FOR 6000 TIMES. HARD LUCK.
Get a long rope ready to hung yourself,because HH is wining this year.If by rigging Lungu wins be ready to die like flies out of hunger when IMF comes back to Zambia.Me and my family I will simply pack the brief case and fly out Zambia.jesus Christ said don’t cry for me but yourselves for suffering will greater than mine.HH will still remain rich and can leave happily anywhere in the world.
“REMEMBER THAT THE NEXT ELECTION WILL JUDGE YOU ALSO.TREAT THOSE WHO YOU HAVE VANQUISHED WITH THE RESPECT AND HUMILITY THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT IN YOUR OWN HOUR OF DEFEAT.”
” Out going President Rupiah Bwezani Banda 2011″
As if his own mps were not part of that same parliament!! This man awe sure
Funny how HH can condemn parliament when UPND mps were in parliament also there. Does it mean UPND mps can only make a difference when their party is in power. If parliament failed then all mps failed regardless of which party
The only reason the last parliament had no direction was because of your redundant MPs who senselessly
opposed everything even progressive ideas that PF came up with. Those imbeciles like Muntanga, Nkombo, mwimbu contributed nothing but opposed everything.
Isn’t parliament different from government. Or did you mean to talk about PF government sir.
Parliament includes your MPs sir. That’s why your MPs never refuse increments of allowances they vote along with the ruling party. This grade 12 clause people are talking about was first introduced by you and your MPs in the form of Degree for presidential aspirants sir and it was meant to discriminate against the late Michael Sata. Its people who thought of scaling it down to grade 12.
Please like others have said tell us what you will do to improve on the good job being done by PF government. Sincerely, you can’t call rural road construction poor leadership. You don’t want good roads in rural areas?
so hh is talking about his failed mps too bad
This has to be the most useless Parley in Zambia’s history including opposition MPs who are happy to secretly agree to allowance and salary increments for doing absolutely nothing.
Mmmmmmm HH alaumfwa sana, self prestige is dangerous. Kulibonesha taa. He thinks we Zambians are fools and he only smart guy.
Talk about Kicking oneself in the Foot. The Leader of the house was Guy Scott for 4 years. The Minister of Defence was GBM. The Justice Minister was Wynter Kabimba. The Commerce Deputy Minister was Miles Sampa. These are the PF Rejects HH wants to impose on the people of Zambia. HH has no moral right to condemn the PF now . He is now with the PF rot. We have Edgar Lungu, Inonge Wina, Dr Ngosa Simbyakula, Harry Kalaba, Given Lubnda , Chishimba Kambwili ,Frank Bwalya, and many other gallant and principled PF members. These are the people who will take the PF Vision further. UPND is a group with an Agenda of hate.You cannot have hate as a manifesto and think you will win elections. People have lost interest in UPND.
Ndagambwa this hh awe sure very pompous I guess its because of his up bringing forgive him.
This man is all ice and no berg
I hope sir HH you are also looking at the voters registers as produced yesterday in the news papers.
Muchinga and Northern Province swallows up southern province, eastern swallows up central province, luapula swallows up north western province, copperbelt swallows up western province. Leaving you with Lusaka. The question is how many MPs are you likely to have in Lusaka, copperbelt, Muchinga, Northern, luapula and eastern province.
All those thinking PF will loose check the voters register and analyse it in the light of the tradition voting pattern in Zambia then with all sincerity and truthfulness say which party will win.
hahahaha, it’s always fun watching PF cadres come out to attack a person who has had no hand in destroying the economy the way PF has. Proof? The return of the IMF. Dunderheads in control.
Satana tawaka tekepo ichalo. Ungrateful quack! You have missed it again. Evil doer. Watch with envy as we put ecl back to power.
Tired of opposition stories
When did up and down last go for a convention to elect a President ? You shall tell by their actions not thru rhetoric.
Under5, we are now tired of yo NoNsEnSe
HH SIT DOWN, WE NEED ANOTHER LEADER
You cannot tell us that you will win the August 2016 election when half your time is spent in calculating which cadre to borrow from PF! These borrowed chaps have very little political value and you HH personally are responsible for wrecking our party with your selfish agenda. Please do not think these borrowed goons will be anywhere close to being ministers, not even as MPs. We are ready to reject them at will. So, sit down before it is too late because you have to be replaced! We need another leader.
Lets deal with this pagan called Under 5 on 11 August 2016 once and for all. Even the blind can feel the development that President Lungu and PF have delivered countrywide except this imbecile. In PF, we say, SONTA EPO WABOMBA.
In all the 10 Provinces president Lungu has delivered and we are yet to see great things done under his able leadership after 11 August 2016. God bless.
Guy Scott was the Leader of Government Business in Parliament. If it had no direction then part of the blame goes to Guy Scot the man that HH has so much embraced. Zambians do not easily forget. do not be fooled.
Who was supposed to direct parliament? I believe the speaker and his deputy did all they could to manage a parliament in terms of directing but your UPND members kept on walking out when things got hot. More over UPND’s fight on the grade 12 issue just qualifies the fact that they never understood deliberations while in the house. In short the UPND did not know their mandate in parliament. They were there to praise and protect their leader and got derailed most of the time just to shout hear hear hear and so on.
You may have a point hon hyena hh your mps actually did completely nothing to help the people in there areas instead they were yapping things told them to.i challenge hh and his mps to highlight developmental projects they did during five years completely nothing.many of them lips became caved due to insults ~upnd mps were the worst the nation has ever had confrontetional for nothing
HH is the best economist that the world has seen, that is according to himself.
Because of what he has stolen from you and me, some people believe in him. Stealing from the people does not make you a good economist, Mr HH.
For us to believe that you are a good economist tell us the truth and don’t be economic with the truth
You are a Satanist – How are you going to lead a Christian Nation?
You are tribalist – How are you going to unite the people of Zambia?
You are a bitter man -Are you not going to pour your bitterness on citizens that you don’t like?
Let me have answers from you or your representatives and not insults.