All the 58 Members of Parliament from the opposition UPND have stayed away from the ceremonial state opening of Parliament.
President Edgar Lungu who arrived at 10:25 Hours is due to give a state of the nation address to mark the first session of the 12th National Assembly.
Only PF MPs, one from FDD and those from the Independent Parliamentary were present in the House.
The Zambian Parliament has 167 members.
29 female MPs and 138 males and the PF dominates the house with 88 MPs and there are 14 Independents with one FDD MP.
After it became visible that the UPND MPs would not attend the session, some PF MPs moved from their traditional right to occupy the seats on the left which were to be held by UPND MPs.
Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini made one announcement before commencement of the session that President Lungu had appointed Richard Musukwa as Government Chief whip while Roan MP Steven Chungu is the Deputy Chief whip.
In his speech, President Lungu is expected to spell out his vision for Zambia for the next five years and observers are keen to see details of his economic recovery plan after the domestic revenue slumped to 3 percent, the lowest in over a decade.
All because of the two rich fools, hh and gbm…! Zambia will move on with or without upnd..! Jealous is evil…!
In the new error those who abdict their duties should not be paid. UPND MPs have today abdicated their responsibilities leaving the people unrepresented. Immediately provincial Ministers and DCs should step in leave these reckless political trolls sink in their partisan utopia. Let’s take development and service to directly to the unrepresented constituents. Zambia does not depend on UPND to make progress.
It’s a New ERA
In this new “ERA” of Great transformation agenda, we have no room those who error in judgemement on nation business.
It’s those who err not those who error.
@London Eye: multiple errors in your rush to post your hateful contents. Slow down.
This is how UNIP died. They boycotted parliament for 5 years and lost all members.
The country should not worry, ikabanyokola njala awele.
Its important for the UPND MPs to boycott opening of the parliament, because in the first place was monotonous behaviour. How would you except someone to respect the views from unknown person?
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First thought: Let them stay away; who cares.
Second thought: Owe to the 3 provinces they represent including Dundumwezi; you wonder why development eludes you.
Third thought: It’s a problem because its true that not all if these absentee MPs willingly wanted to abscond.
Forth thought: we’re back at First thought; who cares, the legislature business in the house must roll with or without the bitter pills.
@Mad Max Chongo,
Where is the hateful content in my posting and where are the multiple errors? Be specific. If anything it’s you that is hateful and evil, shame on you!
Is it not foolish that these UPND MPs were able to accept to be sworn in by a Speaker who was nominated and sworn by a President they do not recognise.It is like saying one does not eat goat’s meat by drinks soup made from the same meat.These MPs SOME OF WHOM ARE very educated even more educated and experienced than GBM and his boss HH,should not blindly follow the over ambitions of HH to become President of this country without the majority approval of the Zambian electorate.They wil sadly find themselves irrelevant in the political dispensation of Zambia.
@Mushota, God will surely punish you for misleading the UPND for such a long time. I hope you can repent before it is too late. Your analysis has been consistently misleading and off target. You sound intelligent (from your pseudo picture), but you are part of the online team that has killed our beloved Party. There has been an online orchestrated scheme (including ZWD) which has sent the UPND into near oblivion because of your guess work. I pity you.
Let them boycott as much as they want, at least sufficient to warrant expulsion from parliament. Then people can vote for more serious representatives.
They did well. At least the government has saved a bit of money for the sitting money the UPND jokers were supposed to be paid for the sitting. I wish they can continue doing the same for the next five years since we have the numbers in parliament to always make a quorum.
UPND knows what all the SMART people know ( thats right you disagree, you are a doughnut), that UPND won these elections and Lungu is an illegal Presdeint. They bent the system
HH won these elections.
Thanks
BB2014
They just want to make news. For how long will they boycott before they start starving because of withheld allowances?
Cry me a River! Who gives a rat’s as.s what undp does!
@ Mushota a declaration by you, ZWD/UPND and any such Toms, Dicks and Harrys will not make it fact. 88 seats compared to 58 is the clearest sign the UPND and its bunch of disgruntled counter productive elements lost hands dawn… Numbers do not lie. That’s why your lawyers failed to present any tangible evidence within the stipulated 14 days. Even up to now UPND/ZWD has not availed anything…. SO PLEASE BASA AMULEKE KUTUSABILA (Indilihi @ Mushota uli muTonga), you have not facts. You have bitten the dust. Period
The Zambian national treasury or national assembly must immediately freeze their emoluments. No Salary, no loans, vehicles or Gratuity allocation. The treasury must instead plan to direct constituency development funds in their constituencies to the people through Provincial Ministers and or District Commissioners. Let’s help them grow on this self-imposed move of irrelevance to the people as much as possible. A culture of rewarding none performers who run away from their jobs only to expect payment must stop.
Where did UPND get all that number of 58? I thought UPND only won 3 Provinces
-SP = 17
-WP = 16 out of 19 (3 with independents)
-NWP = 12
Total = 45
So where did HH ‘steal’ the extra 13 MPs from? Now I see, after all, HH has not run down Mazoka’s UPND of 49 MPs. He has in fact grown it beyond the traditional ‘3 Provinces’ i.e. with MPS/Councillors now in CB where Great Andy never won even a Councillor!
HH is not a failure but an overachiever!
Somebody give a breakdown of the 58 MPs!
Whether they are in or stay away it makes no difference. No allowances please ! If they wish, let them give up their parly seats and we shall have bi-elections easily. Boma ni boma !
Imagine these are the same idio.ts who were crying to rule zambia. Its good zambians rejected thi idi.otic party. Clearly unpd is not only a regional and tribal party but also full of chainama under fives.
PF MPs moved to fill the empty spaces… why? Let them boycott and let history record the empty seats. Let the President comment on the empty seats if he so chooses. Sometimes it is embarrassing What grown men and women do…
Come on naimwe ba PF,why are u trying to hide the obvious, let UPND knock themselves out by being absent. The people and world is watching. Just get back to the side of the House NOW!!!
Never before has it happened. And UPND is correct. Lungu did not win these elections. It may take 20 0r 3 years. The truth will pop up.
My worry is that if UPND continue missing parliament, the theft which is the hallmark, trademark and touchstone of PF will go unchallenged. Their leader is a kleptomaniac. Remember how much he looted in one year?
You cannot force them to attend. Let them stay away! This also means they not debate on the motion by the president.
Whether they are in or stay away it makes no difference. No allowances please ! If they wish, let them give up their parly seats and we shall have bi-elections easily. Boma ni boma !
panyo ni panyo…
My dear we dont care we shall if Bembas and Nyanja are the only human beings in zambia.Let them continue stealing untill they steal no more because they will be nothing left.What a shame to Lungu this has nver happened in Zambia.
since without UPND a two thirds.majority is still attainable, the constitution should be ammended to ensure that all losers who boycot for a maximum of three times should have their seats nullified and given to the person who came out second. That way, only serious and mature people will be in parliament. Viva true leadership, viva magufuri democracy
Very good suggestion. I also add that MPs be paid based on the number of days the are present in parliament doing their work. e.g. 20000 divide by 20 sitting =1000 per sitting.
Well, I hope they boycott the illegal pay, salary and gratuity from an illegal or illegitimate parliament that receives money from an illegal or illegitimate government formed by an illegal or illegitimate party that stole the votes from HH during an illegal or illegitimate elections conducted by an illegal or illegitimate Electoral Commission of Zambia.
Iwe niwe cipelelo kkkkkkkkkkkkk
True. Mr Speaker, all those absent should not be paid
hahahaha
MPs are not employed by the President, but by the people. Get it?
And here people you have it plain. All that matters to Lungu PF thieving band is money, allowances, gratuity, cars. All base things of instinct.
It’s like telling a woman who has been violated by an hiv std infected rich man to continue opening up since the brute has already had carnal knowledge of her.
Principle is infinitely better than bread and butter.
I salute you UPND compatriots for saying NO to abrogation and violations of the Constitution in articles 45, 101 ~ 105.
Alluta continua….amandla ngawetu
@MMD Chief Bootlicker, I thought you were smart enough to know that the ‘pay, salary and gratuity’ MPs get paid are not government or PF money but the people’s, it’tax payers money that belongs to the people of Zambia. The government are merely custodians tasked with the responsibility to protect and take care of it. It’s like the tellers working in the bank who look after people savings.
It’s this kind of thinking that makes this country still stuck in the stone age period because govt think they own public resources.
I commend the principle stance taken by the UPND MPs. I know to these thieving unprincipled lot, it means nothing but in other progressive countries this would have been a big deal.
@Maverick, you must be a retard and more often than not you really sound like a bitter UPND cadre! You never make sense at all. Which sane tax payer would want his money to paid to idyats for doing nothing? Let them stay away for all I care, the rest will deliberate and push the developmental agenda…gellout!
Why listen to the pans of a corrupt,drunkard,thief leader…
I hear HH paid some people alot of money to help him win the election and that is why when the result was announced in favor of ECL HH has not accepted the result- reason is he pumped into this election alot of money.
This is the most childish act by these cattle-herders. No wonder they wanted us to vote them in using that silly song ” jigijigija jigijigija”
Let them continue boycotting and see if HH will pay them sitting allowance. Imwe kateka ni Lungu !!!!
It was never about allowances in the UPND fool
Yes indeed why waste time to hear somebody speak who will not keep what he speaks. He spoke and said he will uphold the constitution but never did. It is better to sit and listen to somebody who speaks the truth not a liar. Continue listening to your liar
Wina azalila ?????
Stay away imwe ba up and down party if you want. What’s the meaning of that nonsense. Did the people of Zambia voted for you to push hh and gam agenda? Stay home and never get paid for doing nothing l believe hh and gbm will pay your salaries. Elections are over get to work.
Even if they boycott, we know that right now HH and all his MPs are glued to………..ZNBC !
They will get their allowance because I pay tax and I want them to get it.
Yep you’re the only one who has made a valid point regarding allowances…. these PF cadres think the government does opposition MPs a favour by giving them salaries and other benefits; they think the money belongs to PF. It is no wonder they loot it with impunity.
If these people really had a some level of decency, they would sober up and reflect on what this stance really means. Remember these are people representatives and they are pretty much saying they don’t respect and recognise Lungu as president of Zambia.
I can never listen to DeadNBC. I have enough money to pay for nice channels
I have not watched DeadNBC for the last two years. I watch DSTV Channel not aya ma labishi.
Mwalalu owe, chikonko mwikate ! Its Edgar and not that cow of yours opening Parliament for five more times. Ufa na BP !!!
Elyo it pains you so much because each time you are commenting on UPND. You cant live without them????????? They give you sleepless nights
UPND is a Cult headed by a Sadist…Business will continue with or without the boycotting of these danderheads…The only people who will suffer are those being represented by those danderheads…
Let them stay away until expelled and eventually barred to re- contest- that’ll mark the end of the tribal party- it’s all good since the country atleats’ll save on their sitting allowances- sole losers!
We will win the 58 by-elections again you moron!
@Lififi but think of how much time will have been lost by the time the 58 by elections are held. There will be no UPND representation in Parliament and i can assure you, government will be very happy with that scenario. Those by elections will be delayed.
Thats an embarassment to the country and the presidency;it is within their constitutional rights not to attend to ecl but once parly business resume they got to attend and represent their constituencies.i thot mps are 157;plus 8 nominated brings to 165.zambians should think of establishing senate .too much political workers nowander we will never develop as a nation,50% of domestical revenue goes to feed these politicians.
Sorry Should hav ..read domestic revenue
I don’t care what it should have read, your post is just utter rubbish just like Mushotas posts! Bitter mororns, who cares if they stay away after all we just talking about a paltry 58 miscreants! Who gives a damn, ise ni business as usual.
Let them boycott CITIZENSHIP as well.these DUNDUMWEZI retards.Attention seekers,tiered of you now,if you want you can commit suicide all of you.
Why are you so incensed about it? Chill be poofs.
I knew Mr.HH would make his MPs do the unthinkable. Working with this man is a pain in the Ass. EISH. What an ANNOYANCE . BITTERNESS IS DESTRUCTIVE. AND JEALOUSY IS A DISEASE , get well soon Mr.HH , Mr. GBM and Mr. Mumba Nevers.. CHILDISH…
Not that working with HH is a pain in the a.ss, the idytas who cannot use their own sense of judgemnt are as.whores themselves! Grown up retards indeed they are, all of them, 58 in number! Very bitter losers!
This losers are lucky where they come voters vote for tribe and bitterness rather than quality and development.if they came from bembaland or eastern province, their political carriers would have come to an abluptly end coz over there people are more objective and reasonable.
The opposite is true,tho am from east i kno for sure that we hav penetrated the political and judicially system in zambia for a long time.my advice to my fellow easterners blogging AVOID hate speech,we are wiser than them ,upnd members in eastern and pf members in southern province mingle freely,reading most of the comments here its a shame to call zambia a christian nation.
Planzo
Are sure that the opposite is true, how many independent mps do we have from southern province or western or north western.
Let them get expelled we have fresh elections to elect serious opposition members of parliament. These id.ots have lost it. No pay for these mambalas. Izamunyokolani njala amambala!
Will vote UPND again and again
Ndiye problem ya vibantu vinangu always thinking about how to fill your tummy by kulwisha ka money from the govt. panga ka money kako and then thats when you can save your community better and objectively your level of ignorance i must say is astounding #fowardchabe.
Let them stay away for the whole term of 5 years to be significant enough of a protest. It means more keg room for MPs and they can fill up the spaces with Patriotic citizens as a scheme.
That’s ….more LEG room!!! They should face disciplinary action and financial sanctions.
Very sad, PF has the majority in the house , i think this is miscalculated,
There absence is meaningless.
You are right. Cards are not on their side. Typical of people who are bitter and full of hate!
I also think that committing suicide would be the best they can do so that we see how serious they are…
Let them boycott as many times as possible.PF go ahead as we know you form majority and can ratify laws in parliament.Let those who represent 47.8% Go to hang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chamikalipa ba kolwe imwe ba kabwalala kutemwe tu ma allowances.We shall form our on country called Zambezi republic not this useless zambia.
UPND under HH is no longer a political party but a regional CULT. His MPs and members generally will do and say ANYTHING their cult leader HH wants them to say or do, no matter how nonsensical! HH does the thinking and reasoning on their behalf, so their brains are as good as brand NEW. They should go further and boycott the entire session of this parliament because it has been opened by an ‘ILLEGAL’ president
Correctly observed UPND is a Cult headed by a Sadist…Business will continue with or without the boycotting of these danderheads…The only people who will suffer are those being represented by those danderheads…
IT’S FREAKING EMINENT
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I am seriously tempted to think in those lines. Spooky inference but suggestively likely.
He goes to parliament just to talk about dundumwezi he forgets that actualy the whole country rejected him, he just stole those votes what a shame.
Your Supreme Leader HH of the UPND and Cult leader will never ever be the President of Zambia that we can assure you because of what he stole from majority Zambians during the privatisation programme and most of them are now dead…
Which whole country only you in dundumwezi rejected him for tribal leader.mulibe nansoni,who can vote for hh kansi,and akali kuluza ndipo.
Produce evidence to substantiate your claim that the election was stolen. Otherwise shut up if you have no facts sir.
@Dundumwezi crew wanisekesa,they wanted to win with a ka stupid political song ati” HH aluza!! jigijigija ×3, Mutonga vaupuba!! jigijigija ×3. now today they are boycotting after compaining hard for those positions, IS IT THE ZAMBIANS THEY WANT TO SAVE OR THEIR god the free Mason?because he has commanded them to boycott.
so nivi chani vamene visekesa Apa uli na nseko ayi olo nikufunta che
@26 Mwiinga which whole country rejected him. I feel sorry for you. HH should not think he’s the only one who must “win ” an election. 2015 Guy Scott who was in charge of all state machinery failed to prevent Edgar from “stealing ” votes from HH.
Remind me please…who won the last election? Is it Lungu?
I’m surprised HH was in Lungu’s mouth during campaigns because he was a threat.
Now after stealing his victory, no one want to mention the name HH any more.
The guilty ones….
@26 Mwiinga, no you are wrong. The correct position is that most tongas rejected Lungu. Now that does not matter because the other tribes (and some tongas with a head on their shoulders) who are in the majority were able to meet the threshold of 50%+1. I am one of those in the 50%+1.
As for the boycott, please don’t debate the presidential speech too, boycott forever including the budget soeech to be given by the minister of finance appointed by President Lungu. Let’s how the people who voted for you will get a share of the national cake for the next five years.
Ala ba UPND finangwa, senseless people. Do they even know what they are doing? I thought that the minimum qualification for MP was Grade 12, people who can at least think a little?
You see what don’t realise is that they cannot even participate in ministerial questions because all ministers are appointed by President Lungu. They cannot ask the vice president because if they do they will be admitting that President Lungu’s election with his RM was legitimate. So the only thing remaining for their stuipid and childish behaviour is that it is only hate they have for Lungu and other tribes and NOT legitimacy.
Pwahahaha! tell them bro, else they will die out of sheer bitterness. If you asked me who lost out by their brainless agenda, it’s the people like those in Dundumwezi and UPND’s so called strongholds for lack of presentation in the house when the sitting president delivers a key-note visioned speech.
@Terrible you have just nailed it there! Even when they return after ECL has gone, they will still have ministers appointed by ECL, the Veep…ala then of what relevance will they be to the people who voted for them? On what matters will they debate then? Yaba! The problem with these 58 guys is that they would rather opt not to use their own brains! I am begining to loathe this party even more now…eish! It seems no one has b*lls in UPeND?
Let them stay away forever but business in parliament will go on even without them!
I hope the unity shown by UPND will continue throughout the sitting of parliament
All countries in the world are dealing with Edgar not any other person. I remember what Timothy Walamba said about some men : YOU QUARREL WITH YOUR WIFE AND BOYCOTT THE VERY FOOD THAT YOU BOUGHT. IT’S BETTER TO BOYCOTT HER BODY INSTEAD OF MY ON FOOD “
That’s why they messed up their petition because they boycotted the consititution debate.
They can hang themselves for all! The President of Zambia is Edgar Chagwa Lungu, ehh ehh!
You will never succeed in your rating to get us to hate UPND. UPND will. Win the seats theyt have anytime
If UPND MPs are serious with what they have exhibited today, let them continue boycotting so that they can be expelled. They think they can take government at ransom! These chaps are really dull with their Hakainde and GBM. Can well reasoning UPND advise these chaps.
SEEING THE HOLE IN THE DOUGHNUT AND IGNORING THE DOUGHNUT AROUND THE HOLE! WAKE UP UPND!! WAKE UP!!! ITS A SHAME……… YOU WERE ELECTED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE AND NOT HH
WHO SUFFERS WHEN THERE ARE SUCH BOYCOTTS ? WELL KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT ONE.
SO NO AMOUNT OF PROTESTS WILL CHANGE THE STATUS QUO, THAT IS ECL IS PRESIDENT AND HH IS ………………….WHO CARES.
And these are the people you wanted us to vote for,big fools are those who voted for them. same as stopping to support your own
baby just because it is born the sex you didn’t want.
These dim wits in upnd are really jokers! They have continued with their charade exhibited during the petition and it’s not adding any numbers for them- the country’ll continue to reject this tribal party because of its low morals headed by tenderpreneur goons- voersak!
Am surprised that these MPs are still in rejection, self-denial and have not recovered fully from a devastating election loss.This is exactly why Zambia’s development is slow.The behaviour of these MPs is of 14th centuary and retrogresive.The “unless its me” syndrome is killing Zambia.Anyway time heals lets see how long they do that.
UMWANA NGA OBE NINSHI OBE,nangu afyalwe umwaume/umwanakashi you can’t stop supporting that child,nembwa yakwatapo namano.
They are implementing sela tubombeko. Ka HH kale chita mislead abvaiche
Perhaps we should allow these goons to take their farcical charade to some Indian Island that has a similar name- am sure the locals would forth with cast them to the fish- mucinje!
No work no pay policy should be implemented, you will see how these guys will be coming running. HH has nothing to lose, he is already on the ground. He will do everything to attract attention so that people in his party do not question him about the convention to test his popularity in the party. The unfortunate thing is that HH can only delay for so much, but sooner or later time will catch up with him.
Up N Down, sorry, you are fake. Don’t worry, you are irrelevant in political scene. No wonder! UPND was refusing that they wanted Collision government. Yes, we also do not want collision government and to avert this problem, we gave a resounding victory to ECL. Therefore, stay away for good and we do not need you this time around. May be after 2021.
Lungu refused to obey the law to step down during petition, so don’t demonise UPND MPs, Lungu has no vision, so nothing new, let him address his PF cadres
Equally you have no vision sir.
They didnt just want to listen to the commedy by the drunkard.they are back on tuesday to liberate zambia.watch the space.
Njovu you are thinking what am exactly thinking. They can’t stand the sight of Lungu a few metres away from them. These people are really bitter after the alleged stealing of their votes. Presidential Affairs Ministry is back! It was there during the chiluba Administration. The President has a lot of Special Assistants in different fields at State House. So why the need for this Ministry? And the Housing and Infrastructure department from local government should have been taken to Works and Supply.Housing and Infrastructure are “works”. The Buildings department under the Ministry works and supply is now called “department of public infrastructure”. A bit confusing at times. Wonders just never cease in this country!!
Yes it is the thief they don’t want. They are there to discuss issues for the people that voted them. Not to listen to a thief. He can address his worshippers.
Probably they have joined their leader at a blood drinking party somewhere. By the way how true is it that HH is a satanist? Perhaps this explains why he has been again rejected. This is my opinion that using men and women, God stopped the satanist from ascending to power.
Well done UPND MPs….when a President of a country stages a daylight robbery and steals.you don’t sit down and smile and say there is 2021…voting is a serious issue…if it is made irrelevant through fraud, then people will look for other means to change governments including a coup…it is gross misconduct by a head of state to force people to do this because u have trashed their vote.. totally unacceptable…we have too many grade sevens commenting on this platform on this they don’t even understand. …
And you are one such grade 7 who would rather wait for the class teacher to show you how to add! In this case you are one such grade 7 because you have believed the crap that your cultist has shoved down your throat about ”kundibida mavoti”..iwe lyonse ndiwe babela ma votes, ninshi uli chipuba period, just like all the dung beetles in your party! 14 days was 14 days and nothing tangible was adduced get real you dunderheads! Let them stay away all they want who gives a damn anyway, business will instead continue in Parley! And we shall pass a law that will make it treasonable for anyone who says “I will not accept the outcome of these results before a single ballot has been passed”. Mwanya fotseki mwatitinka manje atase!!!
@Gift I couldn’t agree with you more. You have said everything, adding to your comment will just spoil it. But I just wanted to say that I hope UPND goes as far as they can go to attain Justice for their petition. And mind you, this petition is not about UPND, this petition is about the Zambian people half of its population. The Very Zambian people voted for UPND, I don’t understand why ECL cannot respect that.
FEAR GOD AND LEARN TO RESPECT EVERYONE……..
DONT WORSHIP ANY PERSON WHETHER ECL OR HH……..
PF OR UPND ARE PARTIES IN ZAMBIA…..
WATCH YOUR SOUL …
THE LIFEGIVER IS WATCHING YOU AND YOUR ACTIVITIES…..
EVERYTHING ON THIS EARTH IS VANITY…..
REMEMBER ADAM AND EVE….. WE ARE HIS OFFSPRINGS….. AND WE NEED TO BE ARROGANT………
I WILL ALWAYS EVANGELISE TO SAVE ALL OF US FROM GOD’S WRATH..
REMEMBER NOAH AND LOT IN THE BIBLE…….
Amen my brother….at least you made my day meaningful.
Am so disappointed with these UPND MPs. Who elected them to become MPs in the first place…?Now i believe they are more interested in their selfish desires and obviously serving HH they god. Cause truthfully why would any MP elected by his people he represent behave in such a manner.
PF should not take UPND lightly. They need to take the step which Levy took against Sata. For you UPND MPs you need PF more than PF needs if you are to develop your areas. HH and GBM eat all the time but pipo who voted you.
Does the money Government generates belong to PF?
88 minus 58 is Equal to 30 what a huge margin. This UPND MPs have their priorities all wrong. Their view of the world is all upside down. Their duty is to the electorate.
Reminds me of one Tonga lecturer married to two women and all living in the same house including their children. You can all imagine, it was total chaos. The man was totally oblivious to the mess he was causing all around him and all out of selfishness. Inevitably, the end was disastrous.
SALARIES:Please Boma assist us with our salaries.We love u and voted for u hence the need 4 our pay to come at the right time.Poverty in our homes has now taken centre stage.
Don’t wory muzafola lelo by end of the day, remember nipa sate manje ka?
My mum is bemba my father is Tonga so for you dull arrogant chaps who only talk of tribe should think twice before commenting.we are strong pipo who work for our families we don’t depend on politicians.the dull will ague but the wise know that lungu and pf store elections
DUNDUMWEZI, YOU CAN’T SPELL
@ dundumwezi 1 a Tonga is a Tonga. This is neither malice or a misrepresentation. With a bit of emphasis, the tribalist tag that follows them is not made up.
One thing you should note as well is that, by our highlight this despicable trait we are helping them turn a new leaf and also make them realise that, being tribalistic will not help their cause,in this case win elections.
They are back next week. I also urge them not to debate the stupid speech. Just go there and drink your tea. After all it will be a waste of time to debate the speech where your contribution will not matter. Those of you supporting this PF watch out for the one party state you are celebrating about. I urge all of you MPs to allow PF in parliament to do what they wish so that these stupid chaps can feel the heat of having one party.
loser!
Mushota and the other tonga bloggers. the composition of parliament is as below:-
PF 86 MPS
PF INDEPENDENTS 8
PF/MMD 8
P/F FDD 1
P/F NOMINATED 8 MPS
UPND 55 MPS
As things stand, the boycott by upnd is not a factor. PF has a more than 2/3 working majority in parliament.
As for the boycott, if thy stay away for three consecutive sittings, they will automatically be expelled and by elections will be held in 55 constituencies. not all of them will come back as some will loose to PF.
58/167*100=34.73% representing a very small minority. The UPND is full of dunderheads. This is simple maths to show them how irrelevant they are. PABWATOOOOOOOOOOO!
And it beats all logic how they can claim that they won the presidency given their 34% minority representation in parliament. This is actually constitutes the single and strongest evidence that HH lost PERIOD! So UPND, give us a break and learn how to mourn your loss without attempting to drag the whole country down with your foolish selves!
Let them hang! who gives a rat’s ass?
ALL the local and international election independent election monitors certified the elections free and fair and declared President Lungu as the winner. ALL international leaders west and east, south and north have congratulsted President Lungu for winning the elections. If UPND won the elections who declared that?
PF will then have more than 100 mps in parliament. This will be the distribution of constituency funds
easier. this will be used to set up development projects in these constituencies. It will also be used to
entice voters to vote for PF. In the end, we will have no opposition in parliament, Zambia will become a defacto one party state like in the days of Kaunda. In 2012, PF will sweep in all their constituencies and return to run the country. Mushota, remember Kaunda’s boycott of the 1996 elections under the zero option plan?
unip nenver took part. mmd at the time won with a landslide. this marked the demise of unip. up to today they don’t have a single mp in parliament. I can see it coming to your under five leader and his tribal party.
Bashupa aba tonga.
others see u as a saviour while others see u as denger. It just depends on which side of the country one commenting from.
Otherwise those protesting are able to see beyond what the ordinary eye can see. Respect them for presenting the most honest huge population. Kikikiki
Check ECZ results. Central province was won by UPND. That makes 4 provinces. C/B rural was won by UPND both parliamentary and Presidential. Analyse this. THE BOYCOTT OF PARLIAMENT WAS JUST NOT TO BE ADDRESSED BY AN ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT. This will happen every time he goes to parliament.
@Joseph stop unreasonable propaganda. Ndola Rural has four seats of which PF took Masaiti and Kafulafuta with Lufwanyama and Mpongwe going to Upnd so Mwiche C/B are you talking about? Fyonse bubela, you just lost.
So according to you tribalists these are also Tongas because they voted UPND????
And central province only Tonga Lenje parts went to Upnd the rest went to mmd and pf. This included Kabwe seats. It appears Upnd went to different schools to learn geography and arithmetic
I hate to say it but the status quo will not change in Zambian politics unless something huge happened. We have the majority who have a natural tendency of stealing, looting public resources at will and for them stealing votes is no biggie.
I think it’s becoming clear to everyone that the experiment that is the union of Zambia has failed lamentably. I think it’s about time the country is cut in half. The other half would use their sheer numbers advantage to usher in the thieving politicians that protect their interests while shouting on the rooftops to accuse others of tribalism and yet they are the worst tribalists – let’s get real: the only reason the likes of clowns like Sata and Lungu can be president I’d because of the Bemba populism.
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They would gang on you using their sheer numbers if you dared questioning them on tribalism. It’s up to others to stand up and reject this hegemony, even if it means separating. Barotseland should push hard to separate from this union if they want to take control of their own destiny.
Tiff, Tiff, Thief; who is a thief/tiff. When campaigning, PF was smart by enganging Independent MPs who campaigned for themselves and PF Presidential candidate. Equally, MMD Parliamentary candidates were campaigning for their parliamentary seats and PF Presidential candidate, then PF Parliamentary Candidates were campaigning for themselves and PF Presidential candidate. Therefore, PF Presidential candidate had more participants campaigning for him and this included the current Minister of Finance who tirelessly campaigned for PF. Whereas, UPND only had individuals like Guy Scott, Nevers Mumba, Miles Sampa, Venon Mwaanga, etc. Therefore, who had stolen the votes between PF and UPND. Who got thousands of votes and not others in Dundumwedzi. Tiff, Tiff.
@maverick what is required in Upnd is to attract “real ” people not disgruntled gangsters like gbm, Guy Scott etc. You need original people like Patrick Chisanga, Sakwiba Sikota ….people who had a development oriented agenda not vengeance. Am sure by now Mazoka would have made it to State House.
AS PF, WE DIDN’T WANT THEM IN PARLIAMENT.thank you for justifying and favouring our WISH.this is the real SELA TUBOMBEKO.They think that the CLOCK will stop TICKING when they boycott.
how i wish we could have the tri-pa-tight elections soon so that HH is convinced that Zambia doesn’t want him as president.
One thing I learn from GBM is do not touch what he believes belongs to him even if it does belong to him.
Someone asked for the number of independent mps in all Upnd strong holds. There 8 and all of them attended Parliament which means the entire country was represented.
The UPND are in the proverbial horns of a dilemma. If they attend parliamentary sessions, this will signify their tacit acceptance of the legitimacy of the PF government (which to them is taboo). On the other hand, if they continually boycott these sessions they are likely to face serious sanctions, including expulsion and forfeiture of allowances and gratuities. Where are these miserable souls headed?
YES THIS IS A SIGN OF NO CONFIDENCE IN THIS GOVERNMENT AND ALL PEOPLE FROM NW,SOUTHERN, COPPERBELT, WESTERN LUSAKA AND CENTRAL WHERE THE OPPOSITION MPS WERE GIVEN A 100% VOTE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE ILLIGAL PARLIAMENT OPENED BY THE ILIGITIMATE PRESIDENT THE CRIMINAL.
LET PF SAY WE DESOLVE THESE SEATS AND WE THE PF WILL REPLACE THEM WITH OUR PEOPLE SECRETLY BUT IF THEY SHALL COME IN OPEN TO CHEAT THE CAMPAGNS, WE SHALL REACT AND BIT THEM TO DEATH BECAUSE LUNGU DOES NOT REPRESENT US. GO AHEAD WITH WHAT YOU WANT TO DO SO THAT WE CAN DIVIDE ZAMBIA INTO TWO.
Ba Cigarette Muli Chipuba ichapelekeshako ku bupuba
ba Sengeleti, you are just another bitter idyot from North Western, and by the way it’s true that idyots write in capital letters!
Every place of work has got rules , parliament too has rules. In the next 1 to 2 weeks as ww wait for presentation of the Budget, MPs will be debating the President’s speach, I wonder if the UPND MPs will be in the house by then. If they abscond for a certain number of times, the Speaker will declare their seats vacant. I hope HH reads the procedures of Parliament, because he seems to hold those poor MPs at ransom. Wait and see what will happen.
servants as they call themselves. funny servants of the people. they will go back to parliament to do wat because parliament is headed by her honour the vice president, Chaired by the hon speaker appointed by His excellence, marshalled by two chief whips appointed by the president. surely it does not make sense and they are just jokers.
UPND MPs are very dishonest and deceitful characters. They should have refused to take Oath of parliament if I were to give them any credit.
When Members of Parliament (MPs) take oath before the Speaker of the National Assembly they swear to uphold and protect the constitution but they also swear allegiance to the President, to be loyal and faithful to him/her. Why swear allegiance to someone you are claiming to be illegitimate? This is the highest level of dishonesty and being double tongued.
You better decide now?
Our country is sliding into some slimy mud of confusion. The unfortunate part is that we don’t seem to have a strong establishment that ensures that we remain a united nation. Leaders we elect seem to be more interested in what party they belong to than the country at large. Zambians are being divisive without shame as if they are making sense. Where do you think you are driving your country to? At this rate, we can easily be defeated by an external enemy because we are enemies of our own selves! United we stand, Divided we fall. When you see that even men of God start taking political sides, then know that the devil is becoming the driver. Where are we heading?
Well done UPND members of parliament for the boycott of the opening session. ECL did not win this election. The petition should be heard. We need sanity in Zambia. Thuggery should be stopped in our beautiful land.
I like you man..excellent comment of the day.
what do you expect from a westerner? All UPend zealots and bitter to the core!
@GIFT…not surprised by your comment…just like your leaders you think you are better than every body else..shame on you! God favours the humble and rejects the proud! UPND must put an end to this charade..before they lose everyone’s respect. Take a leaf from the democrat’s loss to the republicans in the US when George W Bush won the presidency. It’s time to move on!! Don’t insist on this retrogressive if not immature behaviour!!
It takes two weeks to debate the Presidential speech and then he sends the Minister of Finance to present the Budget which takes until December to pass. They are total i.diots if they appear during this period. Ill advised gimmick and it will back fire. UPND is a very s.tupid party and will never rule this country. UNIP tried to boycott and they are total history. Very soon will shall bury undo as well. Boycotts are not helpful politically. They have damaged themselves.
They must boycott forever because they do not recongnise the one who has opened parliament. Let them come and attend in 2090 maybe when hh ghost will open parliament. THEY WILL BE CONSIDERED F00LS IF THEY ATTEND ANY SESSION OF THIS LIFE OF PARLIAMENT.
Hahahahaha under five gimmick. Parliament becomes alive after official opening by the Head of State. Whatever they debate for the next five years will mostly be government bills for service delivery. What they have done means they should never step foot in parliament for the next five years unless they are imbeciles. HH and GBM are committing political suicide and we shall see on Tuesday and confirm whether they are i.diots or wise people. Wisdom demands that they never go there if it is the government they want not to recognize. Any foot there makes them recognize government. VERY STUPID MOVE AND IT WILL COST THEM HEAVLY IN 2021. WAIT
You only reap where you sowed, NO WORK, NO PAY.
To my dear UPND MPS, you are being deprived of your God given right to represent people who put you in that office. Why do agree to even wrong instructions issued to you by that little rich fool hh???? C’mon you people, does hh feed your families? Is he the one who sent you to school? Do you call that loyalty? Are you all so dead that nobody can advise or correct this little monster in any way? Is hh the owner of this party? Not that the Great man Mr. Anderson Mazoka ( MHSRIP) is not well in his grave because of this evil kwindi hh who has no heart even for his own tribal elders from whom he grabbed land to enrich him self !!!!
Come out of that cage you sons of my mother and do the work you chose to do men !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How many meetings are you going to boycott before you except what GOD’S final say was during the past elections? hard work defines good and loyal country men who can take this country forward as you used to say during your campaigns, now you want to under staff our GOVERNMENT and make headlines every time with these silly fits you throw as if you are all not degree and PHD holders.