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Voter’s Roll Must Be Scrutinised – HH

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UPND President Hakainde Hichilema
UPND President Hakainde Hichilema with Miles Sampa

In this climate of threats and intimidation we will not be diverted from our calls for free and fair elections. We remain very focused on the urgent and immediate need to ensure that the voters roll is submitted to serious scrutiny following the publication of evidence in the Post newspaper that shows how the document has been grossly compromised by the registration of foreign nationals on a huge scale.

The evidence fits with reports we have been receiving and concerns we have aired previously during our consultation meetings with the ECZ. These concerns should not be subject to superficial dismissals by biased media publications but warrant immediate and urgent examination by the ECZ itself, along with the major electoral stakeholders.

The final report on the voters roll expected shortly from the auditors must comprehensively detail and identify these errors so they can be addressed without delay. Failure to do so will reveal the bias in their work and undermine our prospects for free and fair elections. The earlier the final voters roll can be released for external scrutiny the better, so as to avoid leaving insufficient time for resolving such concerns.

I would like to reassure our supporters once again that the UPND has a plan to protect the vote. However, we must raise our voices now and call for the clean up of the register. We must also vote in numbers on 11 August 2016 so that we secure a conclusive first round victory, regardless of the schemes of those scared for their political survival.

Hakainde Hichilema
UPND President

72 COMMENTS

    • ECZ RELEASE THE FINAL VOTERS’ ROLL FOR EXTERNAL SCRUTINY NOW. DO YOUR NOBLE WORK WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR. REMAIN NEUTRAL AND UN COMPROMISED. YOU ARE DOING IT FOR ZAMBIA AND ITS FUTURE GENERATION, NOT FOR ANY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL. EDGAR LUNGU IS HERE TODAY BUT TOMORROW HE WILL BE GONE, BUT ZAMBIA WILL REMAIN FOR EVER UNTIL JESUS COMES AGAIN. ECZ LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF CONCERN FROM US THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE. ECZ REMOVE ALL NAMES OF THE FOREIGNERS APPEARING IN VOTER REGISTER. WE INDEED WANT A FREE AND A FAIR ELECTION WHICH WILL HELP BOOST INVESTOR CONFIDENCE IN OUR COUNTRY.

    • This guy is going to complain about anything and everything until hell freezes over. Everybody is against him and UPND except his own ghosts. Never seen such a wimp in Zambian elections before.

      I think he is so scared that Edgar Lungu will once and for all humiliate him in these elections leaving no doubt whatsoever. Remember, in his delusions, he still thinks he won last year’s elections, hence his refusal to even congratulate ECL on his win. Now he is really scared his silly claims will be laid bare this time around—never seen a political leader who accuses everybody except his own shadow, every Govt institution in the Country, and complains about everything like HH does. Gosh!!

    • We are green(PF) on the outside and Red(UPND) inside like a water melon.We shall this government that people have power.They will be shocked with with the out come.Ask Kakolwe kani tundila(RB).He could not believe that he had lost dispite assurance of rigging by OP.HH is favored and nothing will stop that this time around.

    • Not too long ago while HH was campaigning in Chongwe, he said he always fails to win because UPND Supporters DON’T TURN UP in numbers on the polls.

      HH will always blame everyone but not himself.

      1.He is not ARTICULATE
      2. He is not ORATORY
      3. He is not MARKETABLE
      4. He has no IMAGE ****
      5. He does not connect with people
      6. His POLITICAL JUDGMENT is POOR ****
      7. He has created tension inside UPND
      8. Going to bed with Mmembe has backfired
      9. Desparation is all over him
      10. He is NOT a POLITICAL TACTICIAN

    • It’s a welcome move HH…………….even the underage children who were registered as voters in Southern province should be removed to ensure that the elections are fair.

    • The yellow Post is the most biased so-called newspaper.
      Mmembe specialises in character assassination and blatant one sided reportage. Ask his hapless reporters.

    • CONSPECUOUSLY MISSING AND SILENT IS THE VOICE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THEY CLAIM TO BE THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS. UNFORTUNATELY AND CURIOUSLY WHILE VOICELESS ARE BEING BATTERED AND KILLED IN COLD BLOOD AND THEIR RIGHTS RAPED AND VIOLATED BY THE GOVERNMENT, THE VOICE IS VERY SILENT. WHAT IS GOING ON? LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THRIVES ON CONFUSION AND CORRUPTION. TO KEEP SILENT IT MEANS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS SOMEHOW BENEFITTING FROM THE CORRUPTION OF THIS EVIL GOVERNMENT. MOST PROMINENT, NOTORIOUS AND INFLUENTIAL MEMBERS OF THIS GOVERNEMNT ARE CATHOLICS: CHIKWANDA, MUMBI PHIRI, KAMBWILI, FRANK BWALYA, KAMPYONGO, LUO AND MANY OFFICIALS AT STATE HOUSE ARE CATHOLICS. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT EVEN DURING THE TIME OF FTJ MOST INFLUENCIAL MEMBERS OF HIS TEAM WERE CATHOLICS WHO…

    • continued..WHO WERE LATER FOUND TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN SERIOUS CORRUPTION CASES WHICH HAD ROCKED THIS COUNTRY. THESE PEOPLE DONATE GENEROUSLY TO THE CHURCH, HENCE THE SILENCE AND THE BLIND EYE. LET THERE BE A GOVERNMENT THAT WILL NOT TOLERATE CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF OFFICE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH VOCAL VOICE WILL BE HEARD, PASTORAL LETTERS WILL BE FREQUENT AGAIN IN THE NAME OF SPEAKING FOR THE LESS PRIVILEDGED OF THE SOCIETY AND GOD’S PEOPLE. IT HAPPENED DURING THE TIME OF KAUNDA AND MWAMNAWASA. THIS TIME AROUND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS EVEN ALLOWED THE BRUTAL PF TO USE THE CHURCH SONGS IN THEIR CAMPAIGN MESSAGES; EVEN LUNGU’S VISIT TO ROME IS BEING USED AS A CAMPAIGN MESSAGE. LOOK HOW THE CHURCH HAS ABANDONNED THE POST NEWSPAPER WHICH HAS BEEN THERE FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE CHURCH!

    • Under 5 politics webo…ilyo lyashi mutulo webo…wapona imiko 17times/hr webo. Just start preparing for another defeat – you must have gotten used to it by now!

  1. There he goes again. This chap i think fears even his own shadow. Too early to start crying victim. Mukalusafye bwino, and there wont be any malpractices involved.

    • Whats there to vote for Lungu anyway? To retain hunger, loadshedding corruption and a batch of murderers and illiterate cadres controlling state wings? God forbid! I thank the people of Copperbelt for coming to their senses. Those masses were huge all chanting Lungu must go. Please vote wisely!

    • Saulosi you will lose with your PF.Tell how a normal person can vote for Lungu.especially a civil servant and School leaver.

    • I now know why UPND keeps losing.
      You can’t keep insulting people who don’t support you when you know those who support you are few – how do you hope to increase the number? Those you insult they cannot move to join you after receiving your insults.
      Last time you said those who voted for PF were not thinking, and you go to them this time to ask for their vote, after your insult they should pay you a vote for that? No way.
      This is the reason why UPND will not gain the required numbers.

  2. Ng’a ng’a ng’a alila mwana. HH, Zambians do not need you nor your running mate GBV. Accept that you made a mistake. Where is the Dr by the way?? You are opposing to everything man!

    • We need HH than Lungu.Here on the Kopa belt twafwa kunsala.Ikunya amanshi no no no chibwato chalibunda.VIVA Shimaine.

  3. I have NEVER had problems with Chagwa, BUT the question one should ask themselves is do we have Value in Chagwa??
    Is Chagwa similar to Mugufuli of Tanzania??
    The answer is NO!
    Chagwa is wasteful, surrounds himself with Criminals like ex Presido- You know who, Kaiser.
    Only hope next President will be similar to Mugufuli, than Chagwa’s mate Museveni.

    • And you think the political novice Magufuli is better than Chagwa? What you read about his pronouncements is different from what is currently obtaining in Tanzania. The guy came thinking he was the answer to Tanzania but things are not looking well for him as the president. Mwilabelengafye,muleenda to get the facts on the ground,social media can be deceptive and misleading.

    • Move to Tanzania you loser if you are so impressed with Magufuli.

      This nonsense of always looking at everything being done by leaders of other Countries as being better than what our own leaders’ efforts to better the lives of Zambians is really shallow and self-defeating.

      Some have even gone to the extent of praising the almost autocratic Rwanda. A Country currently in a deep political-coma because of the semi-dictator, Kagame, as being better than Zambia. Remove people like Kagame, introduce plural politics the kind Zambia embarked on almost a 1/4 century ago and watch the chaos and barbarism return.

      Yes, Zambia has her own problems, but this pecimisime of the proverbial “CUP ALWAYS BEING HALF EMPTY” is really nauseating, to say the least!

  4. A country where the general citizenry is not serious. You are kept hungry and people tell you they are working.

    • Yes fat lies, they are working i.e, the useless slogan – “Seleni tubombe” whilst all the kubomba they do is filling the own, wives, & girlfriends pockets!!
      #LunguAyende.
      #PfKuyabebele.

    • Did lungu mourn the girl he shot? This is campaign period and everyone has to maximize his efforts. HH has sponsored that funeral in all areas. He needs to concentrate on pounding Copperbelt. Most of you bloggers are blinded by DeadNBC and you will cry when you see the results. Tune to Muvi who have balanced news coverage and thereafter make your analysis.

  5. There goes the desperate and clueless Hexit Hexit (HH) again. Whta on earth hasnt this man accused everyone in Zambia of? The other time he was busy accusing the ECZ on their decision to choose the ballot paper printer from Dubai. Now that his representative in Dubai has okayed the Dubai printing company the man has kept quiet and not apologized to ECZ and now he is accusing ECZ of having doctored the voters’ register, what the hell is wrong with Hexit Hexit?
    Has he just woken up from his slumber and realised that whilst he was sponsoring violence and and insulting President Lungu day in day out, PF was busy working for the people and delivering to the people on the promises made in 2011? Has he just realised that the fake defections to UPND by the rejected cartel from PF have nothing…

    • HEXIT, HALENYA AND HAGAIN ARE WORDS THAT DO NOT EXIST IN ANY LANGUAGE ON EARTH. THEY ONLY EXIST IN THE MINDS OF PF HERB SMOKERS. THEIR USE GOES TO SHOW THE WARPED THINKING OF THE USERS OF THE WORDS. ONLY A PERSON WHOSE BRAIN IS FULL OF SMOKE OF FORBIDEN HERBS CAN THINK LIKE THAT.
      ZAMBIANS HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE ON 11/8 BUT TO VOTE OUT E. C. LUNGU AND PF, AND LATER PUT HIM ON TRIAL FOR KILLING INNONCENT PEOPLE AND FOR TREASON FOR ILLEGALLY GIVING THE ZAMBIAN NATIONALITY TO FOREIGNERS. ZAMBIA DOES NOT BELONG TO LUNGU AND PF. THIS SHOULD SINK IN THE MINDS OF ALL PF SUPPORTERS.

    • But you are very foolish MensoMenso! if i may ask you what programmes has PF put in place to curb down the problems Zambian pipo are going thru? Already Zesco is planing to increase the rates by 20% and you are part of every meaningful zambian. the reason is simple your foolish president is visionless he cant think outside the box after closing many companies the only standing company existing is zesco and he feels that is where the country can make money fast not knowing that he is punishing inocent Zambian especially who are vanourable. Load shedding, high prices of products talk of mealie meal fetching at K120. and u are busy supporting ecl. Mulibapuba. Copper belt is for HH now and not ecl wait for 11 August. you will be suprised. This time is different from 1991 and 2011 coz there…

  6. lol!!! you where complaining about ballot papers being printed in Dubai and now it voters’s roll. you are really a cry baby

  7. Yes,a free and fair election is what we want. All foreigners must be erased from our voters’ roll. No printing of pre-marked ballot papers.Winners should win with dignity. Losers too, should lose with dignity. I just cannot wait for this election to pass so we forge ahead with other things. There’s too much rubbish going on.

    • @Dununa Reverse…These are good suggestions but how will foreigners be known when they have been issued with NRCs? It will be hard to tell from the register who the foreigner may be as the pre-requisite for appearing there is only an NRC. I went through the process of getting a replacement for my lost NRC and I could see how porous or just almost non-existent the system is! Any one could get an NRC as along as the officers are “oiled”!!

  8. I’ll don’t see how a person with a brain and thinks on his own can vote for s self proclaimed vision less leader. Is it stupidity? Tribalism? Lack of education? God help us.

    • I will not vote for tribalist Lungu with Dola siliya.Sata did like Dora and RB.This Ka Lungu should tell Sata were he got insambu ya ku chita appoint Dora slit and nyama soya.

  9. All the Red Flags have been shown that these elections will be rigged. To think otherwise will be folly! Lungu has reversed all the democratic gains that we made from 1991. He is the worst president this country has had! If we allow him he will make Zambia what Mugabe has done to Zimbabwe. Lungu Must Fall!

  10. HH is very correct. Without an Electronic Voters Register there is no point in voting becoz our votes will not count.They will be stolen by Lungu. Infact a number of people will find that their names have either been deleted or transferred to remote constituencies so that they don’t vote on the Polling Day. Votes will will be swapped and number of votes will exceed number of registered voters for each constituency. Electronic Voters Register is key to Lungu’s Election Rigging Plan. For this reason ECZ will resist releasing the Register to protect Lungu’s rigging plans. Opposition parties must mobilise their supporters to converge on ECZ offices demanding the Voters Register. Going to PF courts will not work. This Register will determine the outcome of this election. In 2013 the…

  11. My heart bleeds when I read HH is on the copper-belt. which Copper-belt? The Guy had sold the mines for a song and in Zambia now, he is the richest. The Miners were deprived of there well being. When I take stock of the companies that HH owns, the worker are not happy. Let HH one day, parade some of the workers to say something. Let them tell the nation that they are working happily. I remember those days, a week could not pass in Luanshya without hearing of a suicide incident. Two men had to exchange wives in Luanshya because of your HH who became richer after privatization. As a Presido, he will become more and more richer. GBM also will award himself more contracts than those he had in PF. Thanks to Winter Kabimba for sounding a bell.

    • you are late my dear let your heart continue bleeding till death in fact it can be better you die faster coz people like u are pointless to live coz you cant see the dangers. Ifwe kuno ku kopala ni HH washala iwe!

  12. HH from now till the 11th August 2016 should shift his attention from campaigning for votes to vote preservation measures. Lungu and PF are not seriously campaigning but busy strengthening and refining their rigging plans. This is what HH needs to do to counter Lungu’s election rigging. Insist on receiving the Final Voters Register as a pre-condition to participating in this election. To participate in this election without a Final Voters Register is like playing football without rules and the referee is also a player. HH should not legitimatise Lungu’s rigged election. ECZ must be compelled to release the Final Voters Register now. We know this Register is key to Lungu’s Election Rigging manoeuvres. Lungu must be stopped from stealing our votes thru a compromised ECZ. Viva HH & UPND.

  13. Those of u passing silly comments ad in support of pf u don’t kno hw u will crushed by the same pf even wen u are eating with them God is watching and he will surely come through 4 Zambia

  14. HH is right, let the voters register be scrutinized because there are lot of underage voters who were registered in Southern Province.

    • And how long is it going to scrutinize the register? Bwana today is 12th July, so if you are not ready for the elections keep quite. Only 30days to go.

  15. Today the ECZ announced that the Presidential candidates will be given the voter’s register each for them to keep and scrutinise… Now why is he ranting when he’s aware that he was told that he will be given the register for him to reveal and inform the ECZ if “foreigners and underage children”are on the voter’s register…

    • @21 Zakeyo, thanks for bring this one out. In fact I have known this to be a normal process all the time. Registers are given to political parties for their verification. Further when they are distributing election materials to constituencies all parties on the ballot box are present. What I wonder is how under age children and foreigners will be detected from the register because the only requirement to be registered is having an NRC a process which seems to have lacked during the time of mobile registration!

  16. All the negative comments against HH fail to raise tangible points in opposition. Sonta pa data yama! Let us hear sensible points and not character assassination while Zambians are literally being brutalized and killed for holding a divergent view. Do you have to wait until one of your own falls at the hands of uncivilized people? If ECL loves you the ordinary Zambian, why has he allowed your fellow Zambians to be brutalized?

  17. Very boring, hopeless, dangerous, divisive, unthankful, petty and uninformed businessman masquerading as a politician. HH understand that:
    1) You are meddling in the ops of ECZ.
    2) You’re undermining ECZ operations.
    3) Your level of suspicion is alarming.
    4) You’re sounding extremely childish
    5) You’re wasting ECZ’s time over useless talking points.
    6) You need to campaign not wasting your own time over petty talking points.

  18. There he goes again. complaining about everything.Today he is for Bill of Rights today he is against the same rights. The man has failed to market his 10 point plan. I see this Plan like General Miyanda’s Village Concept. Hollow through and through. Now he is telling people who loved Mr Sata to vote for UPND. The man he called Chimbwi No Plan. Desperate measures. August 11 . 70 + 1. Vote Early. Vote All. Vote Edgar C Lungu. Kopala.Luapula.Muchinga. Northern. Lusaka. Western.NorthWestern. Eastern. Central. We cannot have this Man , GBM and Mmembe controlling our Affairs.

    • My THUMB UP VIVA LUNGU…What has changed? He even campaigned to ensure SATA does not become President. Today he likes SATA when he is dead. When SATA was alive , the man hated even the water SATA drank. Let God judge GBM, SAMPA and SCOTT harshly. THe created the environment which pushed KABIMBA out of PF and now is the time to silence them all and ZAMBIA shall be free from the crooks manipulating us pretending to be business man when they are conmen. VIVA LUNGU

  19. Toni well spoken,I have heard too much of him and 3 quarters of what is coming in his mouth are vomits’.let him yap as he always do,August is jst near to send parking,he has brought shame on Zambian politics.shame on you.

  20. but how many foreigners can over rule majority vote, its evident that you will again lose and retire for gender beating manager to take over.

  21. Amazing how much wrath is garnered each time HH raises valid concerns. I have never seen such political grown ups who gets so so worked up by a so called under 5 minion. Imagine trying to a reason with a toddler, no amount of insults and advise will help cos he is too small to comprehend the adult level of discourse. So the easiest is to say….”leave him be, he is too shallow to engage with; it is also a waste of time and breath; let him interact with his fellow kids”. And we the under 5 followers, find HHs reasoning excellent, his personality inspiring and most of all, worthy of my vote. Ofcourse our ‘adults’ will vote for for PFs ECL cos they understand him far much better than us simpletons. Isn’t that fair, so what is the fuss over HH for?? Huh:-)

  22. How ease is it to register even 50000 foreigners, that will be a logistical nightmare. how much do you pay them.lets be serious countrymen/ladies and accept the verdict on 11 august. This habit of crying even when you are above 50year shud come to an end. HH with his members of parliament should hav concentrated on strengthening the gorvenance systems in the last five years than crying at the last minute. its too late if at all there are weakeness in the systems, you cant seal them now.

  23. HH, if it God’s will that rule you Zambia, indeed you shall win but if it is not his will…then sorry again. My point is no matter what the rulling party do to win if ot is your appointed time, non of their schemes will work. slow down, dont attack then anyhow,take a chill pill and trust God. Inthat way, you will even avoid ma bp and untimely death. finito.

  24. Any genuine man or woman on the Copperbelt CANNOT vote for Hexit hexit (HH), the chap who doesnt even know what an Underground or Open pit mine looks like, he has no clue whatsoever whats involved in our mines. Voting for HH on the Copperbelt is like giving him the license to finish off his failed privatization agenda and reaping where he did not sow.
    If one had to seriously ask, what is plans does Hexit Hexit has for the miners other than his interest in the Anglo America group who fled Zambia and left our miners stranded to death? It is very clear and beyond doubt that HH and UPND are just in politics for their own personal gain. I have never heard of anyone from their party, especially the T0nga MPs, talk about the welfare of our miners and people in general.
    President Lungu and PF…

  25. HH is perennial loser. No sane person can vote for this devil incarnate. United Pangas for National Destruction will lose heavily, come August 11 2016. HH has already promised with the Americans and the Brits that he will sell the Mines to the Anglo-American Corporation Business Empire, once elected to office. Ba Kopala, be careful! This HH may just “privatize” our mines again for his own benefit. However, he’ll not win.

  26. But this hh…..is a heartless person you can’t even call off campaigns to mourn your friend. So you animal hh stop telling the people of Zambia that you have a heart for them when you have failed your own.
    Sat…anist

    • As a matter of fact he looks even so excited after losing two people on the same day! I am really surprised by the behavior of HH. After two people die from his party the following day he is laying flowers on late Mazoka’s grave and like nothing else happened he is jumping up and down campaigning! I don’t know where his morals are!

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