Some UPND cadres caused chaos in Livingstone when they allegedly ambushed Kabwata Member of Parliament elect, Given Lubinda.
Mr. Lubinda who is in the tourist capital on a holiday has told the media that he does not understand why the UPND camp would resort to restrict his movements which he says is an infringement of his rights as a Zambian.
He says if he is harmed in anyway the UPND leadership will be held responsible.
UPND District Publicity Secretary, Neto Halwabala has justified the cadres’ action claiming Mr. Lubinda’s visit to Livingstone is suspicious noting that the action by the youths to intercept the Kabwata Law-maker who was found buying curios at Mukuni Market was meant to interrogate him.
Meanwhile, The post-election routine verification of ballots paper account forms exercise in Livingstone has temporarily been halted.
The exercise which was supposed to take place today, failed to start following a request from the United Party for National Development (UPND) Livingstone district team.
The UPND team led by one of the party’s Legal Counsels, Fred Chunga, requested for the suspension of the exercise in view of the petition that the party has filed in the Constitutional Court.
And after consulting the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Head Office, Livingstone District Electoral Officer, Vivian Chikoti, informed the stakeholders of the suspension, awaiting further instructions from the ECZ Head Office.
Ba LT, bring to bear the real news and discussion issues for these our compelling and perilous times the nation finds itself.
Our constitution framers desired to cure a mischief of a post election swift ascendance to power before disputes were resolved. And thus creating the position of President-elect and placing elaborate “Transition period before assuming office” in Article 104 where there is a petition provided in Article 103 after an election of a President-elect in Article 101. This was carefully thought of as seen in Article 72 which exempts the Speaker and his first deputy when Parliament is dissolved. This was to allow the Speaker step in as Acting President in case Article 104 kicks in.
The Constitution is great. We now need great institutions to effect the…
The Constitution is great. We now need great institutions to effect the provisions of the Constitution. ECL and PF will not abide by the Constitution. Will Likando the Attorney General be as brave as Musa Mwenye and enforce the provisions of the Constitution or will it take the Army to do so? Cabinet Secretary Msiska is a lost corrupt cause. We know what he wanted to do for ECL in the past bar for the strong resistance from Musa Mwenye and he is now doing the same corrupt stuff.
There is no doubt or lacuna…this is brazen impunity by ECL and his cohorts to justify the ludicrous and he must be resisted lest we end up like Zimbabwe or even Burundi.
This is not what the story is about. You’re ashamed to discuss the issue at hand because you know that what your rabid dogs did to Lubinda is not acceptable in a civilized society.
You guys, UPND, I wish to advise you for free.
UPND, in your application, you have said that the election was full of irregularities and that the process was flawed.
You say, as such you petition its outcome.
But now you go down and say that a recount be done and if the results do not show that the president elect got the said numbers, then HH be declared winner.
Winner?? How? Winner of which election??
Winner of the same election which you have already condemned saying it had irregularities and was flawed?
So as UPND if the results favour ECL then the elections had irregularities and were flawed, but should the same process favour HH then there were no irregularities and it was credible, and HH should be declared winner??
I think Mushipe is misguiding you.
This UPND Philosophy:…
This UPND Philosophy: “if we win we will accept results as free and fair, if we lose we will not accept the results as being free and fair” is a flawed philosophy.
Mushipe needs to think again on this one, but it will be sad if she will come up with the same concept after re-thinking.
UPND cadres will never come of age.
These tongas are a problem. Zambia is for us all bamambala.
Given Lucinda my cousin, don’t go Livingstone to dance your fraud victory! Go and dance in kabwata, there are a lot of bars there
HH and UPND should realize that it’s finished! Start preparing for 2021. 2016 is done and dusted. There is no were the ConCourt will reverse the declaration that ECL had won…It is for the public good that it will rule against HH – whatever had happened. The outcome against HH & UPND is obvious – 3 provinces Vs 7, 44 MPs Vs 112, All observers local and international have said Free and Fair….
Why are moderating comment? Lusaka times come on!! Your seem to only support PF comments
At some point Police need to get very tough with these UPND thugs before the situation gets way out of hand. You let these people keep endangering the lives of other citizens for no good reason whatsoever, they start thinking they are law unto themselves. This is how insurgents being. Before you know it you created a three-headed Monster.
What is so freaking suspicious about Given Lubinda visiting Livingstone? What is going on in Livingstone that makes the visit of a former Minister look suspicious to these UPND !d!ots. what is it are they trying to hide which they Don’t want people to see? And under what authority or law are they allowed to INTERCEPT anybody and interrogate them, for what reason? POLICE, PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NONSENSE!
Lubinda, what holiday when you know that things have not settled?? why also driving a vehicle without a number plate?/ all that is abuse of authority?? being an MP does not give you such powers. lead by example
Tongas just cant accept the fact that they SHALL NEVER RULE ! Zambia detests their backwardness probably caused by their practice of humping cows. Who does this, come on ( In FTJ’s Voice)
I think now cows are thinking better than these primitive, stone aged Tongas. I believe very soon no one from your region will support your HH. People are reading between the line who you really are. Yo HH is becoming UNPOPULAR each and every day mark my words. You people are a shame to living beings (even to lizards, snakes, anything with life)
@Ndobo, keekekekekeke take those LT to constitutional court, we will give all evidence you want. You could see that the UPND guy was honest, but their Lubinda is lying.
The insults be printed on this forum like from Ndanje khakis, will destroy this country. LT find time to bring down such comments, unless if you are promoting the hate speech against the Tongas is part of your mission too. There is no way a person can hate people he has not understanding as is that case with a few of PF cadres here. Tongas do not owe anyone their vote, they can decide to vote or not vote that is their right. Shiwang’andu people do block others from accessing their region and that is not condemned at all by PF. That is where the problem is and we need to face it, and fought with all intent and purpose. Those give chance to lead others at political and government levels must take this responsibility serious if this country is to survive this bad seed being planted.
Please edit your headline. It doesn’t make sense.
I will sue all Zambians for wasting all that money for voting for nothing. Did Lubinda win elections, who knows, I don’t care anyway.
What happened to referendum? All those tons of paper from adubai just filling up as trash.
Lubinda is not on holiday in Livingstone. He is there to coordinate vote recount for Lungu. Following the UPND Petetion to Concourt ,PF are panicking to tally Lungu’s votes to those that were announced by Chulu and those appearing on ECZ Website. Its cardabra cardabra of votes. Very anxious to see how this election was rigged.
There was no rigging. Why would they focus on livinstone and not lusaka
Why should Lubinda abandon protecting the “rigged votes” in Lusaka where HH has been humbled and humiliated and go to Livingstone were ECL lost? UPND have really lost it!
Cordinate the votes from S.P that were rigged by PF????@zulu come on get real. You dont have anything to blog
HH is gone way too far. Now these guys are taking the law into their hands. If they suspected Lubinda of breaking the law they should have reported him to the police. The guy being interviewed should be apprehended and charged for harassing Lucinda,. Enough is enough. By the way did this guy write your headline?
Why can’t ECZ suspend this same exercise in Lusaka?
UPND, how can afford to allow tampering of votes right under nose ,and then u cry fowl later,,
Hmmmmm,,expect no sympathy fro me. U not egual to the task if u couldnt protect yr votes in Lsk and now tampering of same rite whre u are.
Continue crying…
LT lies again.
LT like the police you have become instruments of lies and propaganda for PF.
Lubinda was driving around in a unregistered car. that is why he was questined. LT why have you ommitted this ? Where in the world are you allowed to drive a car that has no numberplate ? Especially a senior PF minister.
The way things are the opposition had the post and PF has LT in their pocket.
Looks like PF think they are above the law and LT , lusaka times is a propaganda tool for PF.
Like the other day some people injured someone in a fishing camp in namwala over domestic fishing camp issues and LT attached UPND to the accused in their heading of the story.
You should be ashamed of your self’s LT.
You bast.ard. Since when did UPND cadres take the role of question drivers with unregistered cars. That is the role of RATSA and Traffic Police. With such broken hill mentality. You will never have a president from that territory. Just give HH a chiefdom in Dundumwezi if you want him to lead you. There are no votes in Livingstone for Lubinda to check. By the way why verifying the same results you i.diots hijacked in Livingstone. Most UPND cadres are semi literate and good for dribbling. This time Lungu dribbled you big time f00ls
You my friend are a lost cause! When did it become UPND cadre’s responsibility to stop and question people with unregistered cars?? Boy, sometimes you don’t whether to cry or lough at some of this stuff. @Spaka…, it is not your responsibility to justify and defend every 1diotic thing UPND thugs do. Sometimes simply staying quite makes you look intelligent than trying to look smarter than you really are. Go have a life outside of blogging mune. These elections are done and gone!
Iwe spaka why was Lubinda not reported to the police. Oooh now upnd have become police officers.
People of the south have to take matters in their own hands if the PF police will not do anything.
Instead the PF police are arresting and jailing UPND suspects while the PF savages who nearly burned a UPND bus in mutendere seriously injuring the driver are free despite video footage of their identities.
Suspected rigging was done by ECZ/PF across the country. A known example is Lundazi and Chingola. Following the UPND Petition to Concourt a recount has to be done and Lubinda was in Livingstone with the aim of de-rigging votes. UPND cadres must stay alert and vigilant and make sure PF does not tamper with the Presidential votes especially. ECZ and PF are panicking to tally the votes for the purpose of the Petetion. The truth will free all Zambians.
Disgusting, that is the only way I can describe UPND cadres, very disgusting especially that Spaka like lilo thinks that UPND cadres are the law enforcement officers in Livingstone. Sounds much like some war zone somewhere in black Africa, like Somalia, where militias reign supreme. Now Spaka and UPND have formed thier own militias, I bet its the same idioots who searched empty trucks, causing delayed delivery of important election materials. This kind of militua nentality is not knew in thatvregion, it led to the formation of one party state in Zambia. I think the army should move in an round up these thugs before another one party “democracy” becomes necessary. What is wrong with these people? Defective birth or defective DNA?
Its alright for some to enjoy their holiday ..i just hope he has back paid the salaries and allowances he accrued when he was illegally acting as minister.
Again there goes another cadre who has nothiny to blog. @jay jay if you have nothing sensible to contribute just pass stop justifying for the sake.
Let’s just k1ll these Tonga id10ts. They lost these elections way before we voted and the Concourt must be real and throw their stup1dity out before we lose patience.
President Lungu won by over 50%+1 period and nothing will change it.
The concourt judge if he passes judgement against ECL, he should be eliminated
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if it was a government vehicle that he ws illegally using hence he removed the number plates . They should have effected a citizens arrest & taken him to the police to verify the true ownership of the said vehicle . I guess the laws of the country don’t apply to some people …….” Animal Farm “
Tonga mentality… only them are clever than the rest… these Tonga idioots wants southern province to be no go area for non tongas..how stupiid is that.. before and during election you motthher fukkers used to chase every helicopter, truck and planes on suspicion of “pre-marked” ballot papers..now that you have lost you want to hold our beloved country to ransom…..wait …after the ignauration of president elect…you will be driven across zambezi river…
The only good Tonga is a dead one ! These cavemen are full of themselves always want to dominate even where its not necessary. No more road projects for these ungratefull baboons !
You theives can join Congo with your other stealing relatives the kasiais. Take your usless mines with you and join the zairians leave us in the south.
All you know is non stop stealing and prostitution.
In the name of Jesus Christ , please let us avoid insults. They are not necessary. Pleeease.
Govt in Z has become very weak – honestly how can Govt allow *****s to b impounding ECZ trucks, impounding voting materials, now hounding pipo out of towns???? How? Who exactly is in charge here? Why r o these fools not being arrested?
UPND in one breath says the election was fraudlent BUT if the recount favours Hungry Hyena then is is free & fair so the said Hyena should be declared President. Mwe mbushi mwe dont you know the Charges against Mwaliteta alone will overturn the tables ? Forget about the Ministers issue coz ConCourt already delivered judgement on that matter. Its ECLs God Given chance to lead you again !
Under what law are these UPND thugs being allowed to question people with unregistered car number plates?Where are the police?These thugs if not dealt with quickly and sternly are going to harm innocent people in Livingstone and indeed Southern province.Its mind boggling and surprising that up to now,their power hungry hyena,Hexit Hexit hasn’t condemned violence being perpetrated by these UPND thugs against non Tonga speaking individuals living in Southern Provide.UPND definitely can’t form government and lead this country.
meanwhile government offices have been burnt down by Upnd cadres even though their headless HH has petitioned the election.
upnd, even after massively inflating and manipulating voters in your territories you still lost. You don’t believe it, so you opt for recount of ballot papers. Warning: In the process, we will prove that there was massive rigging in all your strongholds. Mwayapwila umulilo pa mutwe. May the wrath of God be with you.
HH, it requires wisdom to know the extent of your actions. If you were humble, I have no doubt you will be the next president in 2021. Just own-up and conceded defeat. You are the next president. If you don’t own-up, I am afraid not even your own will lose interest in you.
STOP WASTING THE NATION’S TIME!
UPND cadres,
1. ask RTSA if a car is ever allowed to be driven without a number plate?
2. we voted, results were announced and some candidates won.
3. you have no right whatsoever to hold the whole nation to ransom simply
because you want your candidate to be in State house.
Now, stop the ROT! Your unreasonable behavior is annoying a lot more people than you think and you are pushing many more away from sympathizing with you and your leaders.
Since you have taken your case to court, be patient and wait for the verdict. In the meantime, please behave and respect other citizens.
When we say that upnd supporters need Jesus in their lives we are condemned. Such behaviour just exposes whats in their hearts.
It’s time Zambians stopped kidding themselves, that UPND under HH constitutes a credible opposition.
HH, should stop wasting our time. He’s done well in the elections and as a Church Elder, should know the Bible teaches not to sue for things unrighteously (or otherwise…), because all court cases are based on someone Lying and someone responding with a lie and HONESTY /TRUTH/ RIGHTEOUSNESS is often based on a Human Being (A Judge(Honourable..!) conferring it upon you…NOT GOD. As a church Elder, you should go to your Prayer Cabinet and PRAY to God because the PEOPLE have chosen. There is only one who comes to destroy and take life and Zambians as Christians need to SEND him back. Reject him, his Agents and seal your hearts against hatred and violence. SPEAK LOVE to one another…
PF caders have attacked and evicted suspected UPND traders in soweto market.
The traders were dragged to the perimeter and warned to stay out of the market. some have had their goods stolen. Only the intervention of some concerned citizens stop the traders being seriouly assulted. The police were helpless as they were no where to be seen.
Now you understand what would have happened to some tribes in this country if these UPND people had won these elections. I rest my case!
For some tribes school does not mean a thing as they are naturally bitter, jealousy, dull and losers. I mean Tongas, you’re a dissapointment and disgrace to modern society. How do you harass an innocent person for no apparent reason? You will never rule Zambia as a Tonga only when you decide to be Zambian. Shame on you unreasonable and confused kachemas! You luck wisdom and I wonder how you’ll go about your petition.
And you usless theives will never develop zambia. All you think of is looting and getting money which you have not worked for.
Just like you brothers in Congo potentially the richest country yet all they know is stealing like you bembas.
If it were not for other tribes yo stop you bembas stealing zambia would be like Congo.
Ba Nathan, what have the Bemba’s done? Is it not Easterners/Westerners vs Tongas/Bembas? Why single out the Bembas? What if HH’ s father is actually Bemba, will you still curse them? Ba Natty…
Nathan you might hav been born from a cow!wonder tongas marry cows.which bemba has ever stolen from you?
From an academic point of view that is not tribal raises a few questions. Is it not an offence to drive a vehicle that is not registered? Are there no penalties due to road safety foroffenders including a former minister? I am sure there are fines associated with this and should not be tolerated. The police should clamp down on culprits who remove number plates and should impound their vehicles. This goes to say we should not take matters into our own hands and the cadres should have called the police. If indeed Lubinda was lurking where he should not have been instead of tour sights are questions the police need to ask Lubinda. Its quite fishy how the car issue and being found near where he’s not supposed to be play a key role in this mystery. Now under fire they are crying wolf. Yaba!!