United Party for National Development (UPND) today issued the letter saying that the party will take disciplinary measures against any MP that participates in the seating addressed by President Edgar Lungu.
Chilanga Member of Parliament Keith Mukata attended the session addressed by President Lungu.
In a leaked letter signed by UPND Secreatary general Mr Stephen Katuka, the party said that they did not recognize President Lungu as the president of Zambia. The letter further said that the petition to resolve the theft of votes and declaration of Mr Hakainde Hichilema as elected president is still in courts.
Today UPND Members of Parliament again boycotted President Lungu’s address to Parliament. The seats where the UPND MPs normally sit were unoccupied with only Chilanga Keith Mukata attending the sessions.
As Mr Mukata walked into the House, PF MPs cheered him on and celebrated his entrance.
Meanwhile, Patriotic Front-PF Secretary General Davies Mwila says the action taken by the United Party for National Development (UPND) to shun the State of the Nation Address on the Application of the Constitutional Values and Principles by President Edgar Lungu to parliament should be condemned by all well-meaning Zambians.
Mr. Mwila said the opposition UPND has once again disappointed the people they represent in parliament by shunning the important national address by the Head of State.
He said opposition Members of Parliament should not forget that they represent their constituencies in parliament and not their own interest hence the need for them to participate in all national events on behalf of their electorates.
He said Zambians should condemn the behavior of the opposition members who shunned the state of the nation address as they did the same during the official opening of parliament following the resumption of the house after the general elections.
President Edgar Lungu today delivered his first state of the nation address on the application of the constitutional values and principles as provided for by the amended republican constitution.
The UPND which is the main opposition political party in Zambia with 58 members of parliament shunned the event except Chilanga Members of Parliament Keith Mukata.
The Chilanga parliamentarian was applauded by members of the ruling party and the Head of State shook hands with him after delivering the speech.
The Zambian constitution under articles 9 clause 2 provides that the President shall once in every year, report to the National Assembly the progress made in the application of the values and principles specified under articles 8, 9 and 89 sub article (1).
He obviously recognises that he represents the people of Chilanga first and foremost. Good for him. I hope he is prepared for the hellfire that will fall on him from UPND though. It will be good if the Speaker takes action against the boycotting MPs because that was a State of the nation address as mandated by the new constitution.
Which part of the new constitution makes it mandatory to hear nonsense in Parliament?
Mukata is educated he knows what he was elected for while others are just cattle thieves with cow brains under their skulls. HH is deceiving you smelling kachemas. pissed!
Mukata must consider himself dismissed as MP. Matibini must also stop his nonsense and do the right thing.
UPND and its leaderships are simply misleading you because they are so frustrated at losing the past and future elections. They also know deep in their terrible hearts that their petitions are just a waste of time to give its blind members a false sense of hope when they very well they are not achieving anything out of it.
LUNGU IS AND WILL REMAIN PRESIDENT. WE DO NOT EVEN NEED IN PARLIAMENT IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS.
Chi useless HH and its party can hang!!!!!!!!!!!
Neither here nor there for attending a speech delivered by the president in parliament has nothing to do with the MP representing his/her constituents! After such speeches do MP’s rush back to their constituencies to address the people on what the president said? After all it is the duty of the malfunctioning ZNBC to air such an address by the president as it is also of national interest!
The very last paragraph of the article justifies the staying away of those who did as the president in no way gave a report but got busy with lamentations! The reporter should have said some UPND MP’s boycotted than putting it as though UPND had no one in parliament when Mukata was there! Cheap photo shopping that Lungu actually acknowledged as to go over and give Keith a handshake!
I feel sorry for you to belong and support such a backward party that will never stop licking its wounds of defeat. HH and UPND MPs have not removed Lungu from being President by staying away. They only showing out how childish and useless they are to Parliamentary business. It means they are rendered useless for the rest of the term. Only PF MPs are working. UPND are only thieves, getting allowances for doing nothing. They are eating our money for doing nothing!!!!
Why not boycott forever if you are so annoyed at being beaten. It means your MPs are only there for money and not to represent their people.
Senior UPND members are begining to see that their leadership are pursuing a selfish agenda! Well done Mr Mukata for seeing the light! We expect more to wake up to their senses and leave the United Party for National Dunderheads!
Just withhold pay for all the hours they don’t show up and see how these Hyenas will come crawling back.
The UPND and their lawyers are extremely incompetent.
UPND and their lawyers lack understanding of basic law.
The constitution in article 279 states as follows:
(b)if the last day of the period is a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday (“excluded day”), the period shall include the next day;
(c) where an act or a proceeding is directed or allowed to be done or taken on a specified day and that day is an excluded day, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if it is done or taken the
next day; and
(d) where an act or a proceeding is directed or allowed to be done or taken within a time not exceeding six days, an excluded day shall not be counted in the computation of
the time.
Now, anyone who does not understand this basic article cannot defend a case.
The commencement of the case was on Friday when the petition was filed because the filing-in day was not an excluded day.
Where the timeframe does not exceed 6 days, the excluded days are not counted in the computation of time.
Otherwise the excluded day form part of the count – and in the case of the expired petition 14 days is clearly more than 6 days – thus all the excluded days ( weekends and holidays) were countable.
Even the discredited ECZ website has lungu ahead of HH by a controversial 100, 000 votes. That is equivalent to only 3 lusaka townships.
At first the kaponyas as we trying to convince us that lungu won 6 provinces ??? 100, 000 votes only and you claim 6 provinces.
That is why lungu is afraid of the petition.
That’s why Hamundundu has QUIT!!
@ 1.9 Spaka like lilo,
But who said Lusaka belongs to HH?
In fact if a proper verification of votes in Lusaka were done Lungu would add 200,000 to that gap of 100,000.
But there was no need because Lungu won convincingly, both on popular vote as well as outrightly beating the 50 percent + 1
HH has successfully deceived his supporters by using the tactic of petition to create an impression that he is still needed at the helm.
It is amazing because his supporters are so convinced that they totally believe him, that they don’t want to even hear what am telling them here.
All governance matters hinge around the institution called the Presidency and is currently occupied by one ECL. If HH and his fellow bas.tards don’t want to accept that, then they should relocate to another country whose governance needs they will recognize. They are just a buch of embeciles and lack reasoning. Those following them are also just licking smelling a.sses. Mean while the 2021 election in entering the second gear and such embeciles will not receive my vote
Nonsense
Let Mukata recontest the Chilanga seat on PF and see how far he will go. No wonder PF danced for Mukata’s presence. Why don’t these turncoat idyots learn to play the political game? You can’t eat with both hands. Those are the rules of the game. We want a by-election so that this dimwit will finally get it.
It is not about Mukata’s popularity with his highly tribal group, but it is about Mukata doing the right thing. UPND is free to boycott national events until the next loss in 2021.
I wait to see HH punishing Mukata. This boycott does not stop Lungu from being President. He is and will be for next 5 years and beyond. Ba UPND and your HH you are just wasting time by this childish behaviour. Lungu is busy doing his national duties. Do you think the rest of Zambians other than UPND care? No. So boycott forever if you want. Do not come in the coming weeks too.
This is not about UPND, this is about the future free and fare elections in zambia.
Period.
Some of us don’t particularly like HH but hate theives and looters more.
100% Spaka like lilo!!!
These PF thieves want their theft endorsed at all costs. But they are not just stealing the Presidency. THEY ARE STEALING OUR COUNTRY!
That belongs to EVERY ZAMBIAN!
@ Back Teeth Lungu
You must be a retard like Hypnotized Hyena HH OVAL HEAD himself! Actually your MPs are not important to Parliament! Meanwhile Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu is the only recognized President of this great Republic of Zambia. HH OVAL HEAD is dragging UPeND MPs just to remain relevant to the your ka useless grouping called UPeND! Malabishi yabantu imwe atase tuuu!
Grow up you nincompoops
Same mouth (Upnd) call on president Lungu to act …..same mouth says they don’t recognize Lungu as president?
Meanwhile the same idyot directing his MPs to boycott the proceedings was busy watching on TV at home! What a hypocrite this dung beetle HH OVAL HEAD is! It just goes to show that none of all these male MPs have ”b*lls” of steel. They are all sissies! Useless idyots indeed!
Parliament should not punish UPND MPs because the President was categorical that he is not bothered by their absence. Meaning palibe mulandu apa
upnd did well to boycott the parliament
upnd did well to boycott the parliament
For how long is this immaturity continue stupidity of the highest order..why did they take part in the elections. At who’s expense?
Until the petition is heard.
More the 1.8 million zambians voted for HH, that is more than half of the voting public.
This petition is about future free and fare elections in zambia.
A bitter president will be set if vote rigging is seen as acceptable.
Mad Cow
kikikikikikikiki they dont recognise president Lungu… but they are waiting for the courts to declare HH to be the president…….wonders will never end. Sure bane mwalikolwa ifisushi fya gombe.
No one is waiting for HH to decleared president.
It is the future of free and fair elections in zambia that is at stake.
Pwahahahaha….taumfwa, mani!! Wanjipaya…kikikikikiki!!!
am not just sure what parliament would look like if it were HH addressing the parliament and PF mps had boycotted the address since they are the majority. would it not look like a grade 12 classroom attendance as they are only 57 since keith would have, most likely, boycotted too.
I am sure If HH were addressing parliment there would be no need for PF to boycott as it would have been willingly proven in courts , to the nation who won elections with out fear of petitions and the use of 14 day technicalities to avoid people hearing the truth.
This stance is going to backfire on them for how long are they going to do this…I have always stated that this is childish by Hichilema and GBM.
Whats the worst disclipinary punishment would you give this MP apart from kicking him out and triggering a by election in Chilanga to test the waters.
High Treason ! Who was sworn in as President ? Who took the oath m****** mwe !mututeke infine ba kabwa imwe !
Every organisation has rules and regulations. When one does not follow them you do not expect to be given a cookie. We donot recongise lungu until the fair legal system is used to confirm the legality of his presidency. Till then continue dreaming he is your president
A fair system already exists in Zambia. This was attested by all the stakeholders and international observers in the last elections.
7 provinces in Zambia recognise Lungu as President. You attempts will not work against the majority. You need to wake and understand this simple fact. You cannot force the 7 provinces to rules by someone who has won in only 3. Zambians in the 7 provinces will not and never accept this nonsense. just boycott the rest of the Parliamentary sittings and see if you will have any impact. Zero my friend. This is lose, lose situation for your HH and UPND. He is only misleading you in believing in something he does not believe in himself.
Don’t be daft. You do not win an election by the number of provinces you win whatever that means. Uli chikopo iwe. Alot of irregularities were witnessed with legal documents which are required by the ecz not been made available. You cannot legitimise an illegal process . If you are so confident about winning those provinces but with a few percentage difference in votes between hh and lungu then let the petition be heard in fair way. T
Until that is done we don’t recognise lungu. If you do that’s your personal view. Don’t talk on other people behalf
I asked my 6 year old son who our President was, and he said Edgar Lungu.Then I asked , who the Vice President was , without hesitation he answered Inonge Wina. Then lastly I asked who the First Lady was and he said Esther Lungu.So my boy is more intelligent than NEZ!!
Your son is brainwashed like a ISIS jihadi.
@spaka: jihadist extremistic voting was exhibited in Southern province where children were registered and ordered to vote for their tribal god HH. National turnout average was 60% with PF scooping about 70% of the vote but Dundumwezistic South averaged 90%+ average turnout and 99% votes: WHO’S JIHADIST NOW???
I did not know that even PhD holders like Prof. Luangwangwa can be held under siege by HH and his illiterate GBM. The whole lot of UPND MPs have been directed NOT to think by a sick leadership that is surely destined for Chainama Hospital due to severe STRESS.What a bunch of cowards! UPND is now aping the behavior of the unruly EFF in South Africa. The Tongas must wake up as they have been infested by noxious viruses in the form of GBM and Nevers Mumba who are misleading HH and yet they are networking with Savior Chishimba to revive UPP. under the dark. Watch OUT as GBM has stocked bags of unprintable insults for the Tonga if his ambitions do not materialise in UPND.
The UPND and their lawyers are extremely incompetent.
UPND and their lawyers lack understanding of basic law.
The constitution in article 279 states as follows:
(b)if the last day of the period is a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday (“excluded day”), the period shall include the next day;
(c) where an act or a proceeding is directed or allowed to be done or taken on a specified day and that day is an excluded day, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if it is done or taken the
next day; and
(d) where an act or a proceeding is directed or allowed to be done or taken within a time not exceeding six days, an excluded day shall not be counted in the computation of
the time.
Terrible state of affairs. We condemn, but we wonder when PF back bone will kick in? Banish these people from parliament and hold bye elections. This is treasonous behaviour and is undermining law and order in our country.
The current Bill of Rights administered by the High Court of Zambia gives the MPs the Right to boycott Parliament especially if its being addressed by an illegitimate President like Lungu. These MPs have petitioned thru their Party UPND the election of Lungu as President. That Petition is still in Court and there is no valid and legal reason to recognise a person whom u accuse of having stolen your votes. Why is Lungu blocking the Petition? Ayopa Chani? #Let the Petition be heard without fail!!
Lungu has not been proven as illegitimate by the Courts. This means unless proved otherwise, Lungu is the legitimate President of Zambia as declared and sworn-in. Therefore, you argument holds no water. The Bill of Right you are referring, does not apply here and this shows how dull you are.
The Speaker will be correct to met punishment as he promised to do last time. You fighting a no win battle. No one is behind HH and UPND apart from you guys in or from Southern Province.
Lungu claims he won by only 13,000 votes.
UPND say at least 100,000 votes were stolen.
You can see that the little gesture by UPND to boycott has disturbed the nation and the PF camp. Mind you it will be like this the whole 5 years until everyone comes to their senses to have better polls next time round. Everyone judge at ECZ and police will say next time let no rigging get done. Good for Zambia.
You are correct, this will help render UPND a useless party for next 5 years. PF will have continued to rule and gain huge governance latitude. UPND will go into oblivion apart from Southern province. The rest of the provinces will not care even if UPND MPs stayed away the whole 5 years. It will be easier to beat them again in 2021 because they will have provided zero progress as a political party. It is a lose, lose situation for you dull guys!!!!!
Dudumwezi stupidity mentality at best.
UPND is Not Zambia for your own information.
HH is as useless as a freemasonry satanic ritual killer.
I salute Keith Mukata for representing the people of Chilanga as a real zambian, God bless you my brother.
This is one Zambia one Nation
Lungu is not zambia. Until the petition is heard lungu is illigal.
Just notice how happy he was when just one UPND MP greeted him???
Every election will be petitioned because opposition goes into the battle field with the confidence bolstered by on line media like the watchdog.
And we should accept illegitimate governments just for your convenience? Kikkki te country yawiso iyi
So iwe umona kwati ni country bashi Kainde ino…chee-color-chow-bay!
IF I WAS AN MP FROM UPND, I STILL WUD HAVE BOYCOTTED THE SPEECH, ZNBC WAS AIRING IT, BUH THEY DIDN’T AIR THE PROCESSION OF THE PETITION!!!
WHAT A FUC**,
PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHTS TO CHOOSE BASED ON WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR, NOT VAUPUBA IVI,
WHO WUD WANT TO BE PART OF THE DISGRACE, IF LUNGU DIDNT RESPECT THE PETITION, AND HAD TIME WITH FOOTBALLERS, WHO ARE THE UPND MPS TO RESPECT HIM AND ATTEND PARLIAMENT???
LET NGULU ANSWER THIS
Party interests+ an individual’s interests before a nation’s interests is what has ruined many African nations.Nuff said.
Election rigging is the concern of a nation and the future of its democracy is dependent on transparent elections.
Nuff said.
The most tribal and backward party ever to appear in Zambia!
Since the end of the stone-age !
So who has been invited to attend the SADC Summit in Swaziland, is it Edgar Chagwa Lungu or is it Hichilema? Who is attending dinner tonight at the Royal palace in Swaziland? Answer these simple questions and that is the President of Zambia.
Lungu is just running uninvited all over the world to try to convince people he did not steal the elections.
Every one knows he is avoiding the petition.
HH should not hoodwink us by having these lengthy court cases. We Need UPND Convention NOW !!!!!
Why are the PF kaponyas crying for HH to step down ? Could it be because lungu had to use violence intimidation and the whole GRZ illigally to fight the mighty HH , in the process bankrupting the treasury. All this while he spent 10 billion on development, and still had to rig. ???
Just imagine, the whole PF gang cheering and applauding when only one UPND MP greets lungu ?? For sure this desperately seeking recognition.
Legitimacy is tricky business people! Someone seriously needs it!
Traitors are not good for anyone! Judases!
I feel sorry for HH and his group. Surely UPND you are in denial. Cry your lungs out, but His Exc. ECL is President, mulandu wasila. Its 5 years bane, soon it will be one year,keep mourning. Kuluza munaluza. Prepare for your own emagedon in 2021. Ise tili pee. Cry babies, munawina kuti in your own village. Hon Mukata and Hon Indipendents good reasoning.
Even the discredited ECZ only has lungu ahead by some 100,000 votes. That is 3 townships in lusaka.
What 6 provinces did lungu win with those numbers ?
Next time election theives will think twice before stealing votes. You will remain illigal in the eyes of atheist 1.8 million zambian voters who want the petition heard.
The address thing was just academic, it was just meant to fulfill a constitutional provision.
Just go and wake up Chitotela and ask him about the speech, he will be blank.
If one UPND MP can bring him down from his lofty seat, face with a humongous moon shaped smile, i wonder what he would do if he met the entire UPND crew, nileka leka no ama brakes…. Ni pwi pwi pwi…
Bamo abantu balafwaya recognition ayi, mona smile iwe
Pwi pwi pwi pwi.
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Fake letter obviously – what does “who forego decide” mean? It sounds as if written by an illiterate Nigerian (or drunk PF cadre) not UPND SG. This type of childish rubbish is holding our country back
The discredited ECZ has lungu ahead by about 100,000 votes on their website.
That is equivalent to 3 townships in lusaka alone.
How does that equate to 6 provinces the theives are trying to convince us lungu won ?
Until the petition is heard , the 1.8 million voters who voted HH see lungu as illigal.
Upanddown are not required at any point
Up and down do not add any value to Zambia
Thieves and looters are making zambia lose big time, never mind not adding value.
The worst parties to have ever emerged on the Zambian political landscape are PF and UPND. It is laughable that these two incompetent parties are even out doing one another on social media. Both have mediocre leadership and just lack capacity. The economy is in the doldrums as acknowledged by ECL today in parliament but the chap fails to provide a way forward. If UPND came in, it would be the same
Worse still the English in that letter ma ma ine! Who is the SG for this same party kansi!
I don’t think boycotting presidential address will make our president popular. Infact our behaviour in upnd will cost us at the next election because we cannot learn from the time we wasted during presidential petition and we have continued in the same path wasting time instead of getting organised for 2021. If president Sata (MHSRIP) was doing things like Hichilema he was not going to win presidential election convincingly. President Sata could lose today tomorrow he gets back to the drawing board not crying for spilled milk. Better I defect than supporting the failed party. Maybe GBM does not pump any sense but only brings useless suggestion but its them to lose. Boycotting parliament address did not remove even a fraction of president Lungu’s powers and nothing was added to Hichilema…
Boycotting was for future of free and fair elections in zambia. It is not for HH or lungu.
Election results if disputed should be heard in Court, not the 14 day dodging nonsense we see.
Well put H. Malambo. State of the Union, same as what Lungu did in Zambia, is a big deal here. Everyone from every Constituency attends the President’s Address of The State of The Union per here. So Kundos to Mr. Mutaka. Actually, I had a very good friend of mine in Riversides, Kitwe in the 1970s. Probably that friend of mine came from Chilanga. You know what when I was growing up in Kitwe in the 70’s we were all speaking bemba, for me I did not even know that they where other people who spoke something different. We played together as one. But now you punks, little brains talk cramp and BS. Good Night Yo!! And God Bless YO!! As matter of fact I am coming back to Zambia and join a progressive Party, PF YO!!
By the way why don’t these chaps walk out when Inonge addresses parly since she was elected on Lungu ‘s ticket?
Mamamamamamaaaa iwe walasa mudala!..Good kweshoni!
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Why do they ask Mama Inonge kweshons during the Veep’s question time okay? Aba bantu fipuba fye mwee!
UPND kuwaya waya fye….ichikonko at work.
HH & UNPD, no need for disciplinary action. You needed at least one person in the house to hear the nonsense that PF were going to say about you.
Mukata was planted on the UPND …he new that he could not win without the blessing of the UPND but he is PF this is why he can not hide anymore….
On what law are you going to expel Hon Keith Mukata? I thought that Zambia is a country of laws and not men? Is hh a law? Which Act, Article, Chapter or section? Or “Article hh” in UPNDonkey constitution?
What curse has befallen this t.ri.be kanshi?
kekekekekekekeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! yaaaaaaaaa Terrrrrriiiblllleeeeeeee!
Huh, the way these donkeys behave…ahh you can be forced to ask zoona!
Hoping that what happened to Shamunene and Moonde will be repeated on Mukata will turn into shock when he recaptures his Chilanga seat. Just wait.
Again in 2021, HH will come out a few tribes short. Unless UPND can see beyond tribe (90% MPs from one region and failing to win a single seat in Lusaka Urban), they will never form government. If Lungu stands in 2021, even if Mutati does, HH will be a few tribes short.
These guys are still hurting,the hatred that the harbor can make the water of an Indian ocean boil to maximum temperature.
@47 meant they harbor
We have seen time and again the DA,EFF and other Opposition Parties in South Africa demonstrating year after year in Parliament during Zuma’s SONA. Why is it that these Parties and their MPs have not been banned from Parliament in RSA? Boycotting an injustice is a Constitutional , and Universal Fundamental Human Right by the UPND MPs. This Right to boycott Parliament by these MPs is enshrined in the Bill of Rights administered by the High Court of Zambia. No Parliamentary Rule or Code can supercede the Constitution of Zambia. If such Parliamentary Rules and Procudures exist then they are Unconstitutional and should be struck down. Even a Compromised Concourt cannot deny the fact that the Bill of Rights is part of the Zambian Constitution. Its only in Zambia where such Fundamental Human…
Comment:That is the way to go Keith.You behave in such a manner and expect to be voted in 2021?Dream on!You are digging your own grave UPND because you are showing the nation how selfish you are and that is the way of decampaigning yourselves.Such politics are of primitive thinking people.You think by boycotting the national duties will stop running? NO!Things will go on smoothly.You did not only disrespect the President but the speaker and the nation at large.
Zambian politics very funny ,Mr lungu is very selective in this new Constitution he chooses which one to follow or not to
UPND you must employ an editor to proof read your memos. Obviously the chap who wrote it would have failed E110 at UNZA. For those that dont know it’s A-Level English…. but then again wht can you expect with Fat Albert’s assembled post Form 5 papers?
Upnd MPs should not be controlled like bicycles by village advisors,muzi sebanya chabe. Separate your works from back yard village advisory opposition stance and show pipo that you’re real men by doing your level best.
This sat.anic party called upnd is useless
H H SHOULD REALIZES THAT SEASONS COME AND SEASONS GO AND THAT HE SHOULD STOP CRYING BUT START PREPARING FOR THE NEXT ELECTIONS STOP WASTING MONEY PAYING THE LAWYERS INSTEAD HELPING THE POOR WHO WILL IN TURN VOTE FOR HIM PARLIAMENT MUST SIT TO ADRESS THE NEED TO STOP THIS NONSENSE OF MPS BOYCOTTING WHY IS IT IN THE FIRST PLACE THEY AGREED TO BE IN OPPOSITION IN PARLIAMENT WHEN THE KNEW THAT THE WAS NO PRESIDENT AND GOVERNMENT IN PLACE WHAT ARE THE DOING IN PARLIAMENT ITS BETTER THE THE STAY AWAY COMPLETELY ITS SEEMS THE DON’T KNOW WHAT THE ARE DOING ONLY TO BE MISS LEAD BY THEIR PRESIDENT WHO IS FIGHTING A LOOSING BATTLE
those people supporting mukata and the PF are useless,honesly how can a normal person support the president who just store the elections.the all world knows the trueth about what hapened during last years elections in zambian,thats why we shall never move forward as acountry with people like you.