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President Lungu accuses Veteran Politician Vernon Mwaanga to scam of discrediting Zambia

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President Edgar Lungu says government is aware of reports linking veteran politician Vernon Mwanga to an international campaign aimed at discrediting Zambia.

 

Dr. Mwaanga is reported have been to different countries misrepresenting the country over the arrest of UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema.

 

The Head of State says Zambian diplomats should not allow the country’s image to be tarnished.

 

He says Zambian diplomat’s accredited to different countries should be on alert and ensure that they portray the country’s correct imagine.

 

President Lungu was speaking at Sate House when he swore in former Minister of General Education John Phiri as High Commissioner to Malawi.

 

And Special Assistant to the president for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has disclosed that the President has since held closed a door meeting with Dr. Mwaanga

 

The President has also sworn in Lazarous Kapambwe as Zambia’s permanent representative to the United Nations and Friday Nyambe as Zambia’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

And on the newly sworn diplomats, President Lungu urged them to behave exemplary because they will be judged based on their private and official conduct.

100 COMMENTS

  1. Mwanga has sympathy on fugitive HH

    He has no credibility whatsoever

    Which normal person supports HH

    Thanks

    BB2014,16

    • Only Zambians can denounce their own country and heritage.

      VJ is a failure. He had so many opportunities to be a great man but instead he turned into a skirt chasing,petty idi.ot.

    • Lungu seems to have serious leadership Gaps. If truly what he is doing is right, why worry about VJ? Its sickening to see a president who wastes time on trivial matters yet ignoring serious economic issues. The mistake he has is his surrounding with the Doras and all former MMD people. EL wil go badly becoz once his out all these people will run away from him..

    • I don’t understand why Edgar would have closed door dialogue with VJ and not have had the same with HH before things got to where they are now. Is this another way how dictators operate?

    • @ analyser, in what capacity would HH meet EL? All those calling for dialogue are dull, dialogue when he has refused to recognize EL as president, so would HH have a dialogue with a mere member of PF or president EL? If says he doesn’t recognize him as president then let him have dialogue with himself or better still with Frank Bwalya. Zambia is a very good country and its only a handful of short sighted people who want to turnish our image. Thats very wise of EL to have a closed door, the next move, should Mwanga continue , is to slap him with treason as well because thats what it is…selling your own country.
      Mushota is right!

    • They are now scared of their own shadows…..everyone sensible is disgusted with what is happening in Zambia. This include die hard PF supporters. Edgar will be good to listen to the Catholic Bishops

    • Analyzer,
      In what capacity would ECL have a closed door meeting with HH when HH does not recognise ECL as president?

    • @Nubian Princess I agree with you that as Zambians we should not denounce our country even when things go wrong and note that ruling party will only delight at glowing tributes! But between you and me, I believe ECL must exercise discretion and must swallow the humble pie! I am relieved that Amos Chanda also states, the President met up with VJ and must have resolved this! The whole headline is sensational and needless!
      In all fairness you might be a youth and might not know VJ’s rich history! He was an Ambassador to the USA at 18 years, UN at 19, Director General of Special Branch at 25 years and Minister of Foreign Affairs at 30 years! What kind of failure is that! Yes, he fell Mandrax, womising et al. But are we all perfect?

    • My thinking is that Lungu and HH are just politicians who are both Zambians with different ways of how they want to achieve the same thing, that would be the starting point of their discussion. Obviously they will not just start to discuss because of the enormity of their differences. Starting point would be Lungu rising above all this and to have his people talk and set out what needs to be discussed between the two leaders. I am assuming the Lungu can rise above all this as the President of Zambia, that he proclaims to be. Even people like Donald Trump spoke to his most ardent critic Mitt Romney after the election. By the way Mitt Romney spoke very badly about Trump during the campaign, Trump won and as President he initiated talks. Nothing was disclosed but Trump showed leadership.

    • Those calling for dialogue have a bigger picture of Zambia and if President Lungu was an intelligent leader and willing to be a magnanimous one for that matter, he would have been the first one to be seen offering the olive branch and invite the opposition for such a closed door meeting. The reaction to Lungu’s invitation would have assisted gauging to whom the epithet is unfairly rewarded! Its always the enthroned leader who takes intial steps to reach out to his foes and people to build unity and peace. That in turn defines his greatness as a leader!

    • They are now scared of their own shadows…..everyone sensible is disgusted with what is happening in Zambia. This include die hard PF supporters. Edgar will be good to listen to the Catholic Bishops

  2. Lungu will never be like VJ politically in life. Never! Lungu deserves to be permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Services.

    • But the people of Zambia said he is presidential material. He has won elections twice, while others who have tried countless times have failed. Life is like that the invisible hand that determines our fate needs to be respected. For a politically impotent person to insult all those of us who voted for Lungu is very unfair. The real employers of presidents are the electorate not the courts, nor thugs that insult the law enforcement agents. No matter how long you reject Lungu, he is the head of state and calling the shots. The earlier you reconcile with yourself the better. If any of the opposition leaders won the 2016 presidential elections, I would have no problem according them the respect. Because it is a respect of our highest office in the land. Those who lost must learn to pick up…

    • ba ‘Lombe’, are you normal? What ECL is today was just a dream that never was for VJ. Spare the old man from your cheap mockery!!

    • Even me I wouldn’t be happy if I was the Head of State and someone goes about discrediting my leadership in other nations

    • #Lombe, history has taught us something. Even Hilter was elected by his people democratically, but that did not make him a GOOD leader. Today the Germans are still paying for what he did…!

  3. @ Lombe the man was Minister of Defence, Minister of Justice and PF Secretary General all at the same time.
    That is incredible CV already. And since 2015 he is president of Zambia. That is far beyond what Mwaanga achieved.

    • @7 Chainaman, NOT EVERYTHING CAN BE DISCUSSED PUBLICLY but you can still tell people that you have discussed. If you have observed well, political dignitaries especially Head of State make official visits, hold meetings and PRIVATE TALKS and yet their citizens are only told that “they had fruitful discussions” THIS IS THE DIALOGUE THAT LUNGU and even the “SHAMELESS” CATHOLIC BISHOPS have been calling for! WHEN YOU DIVULGE CERTAIN PIECES OF INFORMATION PRE-MATURELY YOU END KILLING THE SPIRIT OF DIALOGUE!!PLEASE RESPECT LUNGU FOR THIS APPROACH ON VJ!

    • To clarify reports the president needs to hear it from the horse”s mouth. That is leaderahip. Your VJ looked lost last night as he was waiting for SA 066 to Lusaka at OR Tambo. No one paid attention to him except one young lady who gave up her seat as we awaited boarding. He is old enough to show patriotism to his country. Of course not to Lungu or HH. Whoever bought him that business class ticket is just wasting money. He over values himself and few people him take him seriously.

  4. scared or cornered lungu is now shifting blame and trying to shut every one up. juat abandon your dictatorial tendencies and uphold the rule of law.

  5. Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 22 verse 16 says”To know God means to do justice” and “to do justice is to know God”.Lungu and Lusambo enjoy to inflict pain and suffering on HH,GBM and UPND Officials in jails. These inmates are innocent and have been slapped with trumped up charges by the Lungu Regime. Clearly Lungu is a hypocrite and is not a Man of God. Christians for Lungu should be ashamed to support the Barbaric Raid on HH’s House, ransacking it,teargassing the occupants and then arresting the Victim of that Raid on trumped up charges. No man of God can condone the treatment of HH and his Family. Lungu is heartless and demonic and therefore wishes the Petitioners dead.

  6. Amwanga namwe banene mwakula siilanikoni afana ndale mweo akamuvalilani muchifungo muzafela mwamene. kodi nunjala yamunyokolani?

  7. Mr Mwaanga deserted FTJ when Levy started to persecute him (FTJ) .Anyway VJ thought he was going to be State House advisor to HH.

  8. Ambassador Kapambwe, you are truly the pride of Nchanga. One of the most knowledgeable and polished Diplomats that Zambia has ever produced. Keep it neat and silk Ambassador, just like Chingola was. ( password: kamutanda)

    • tired of recycled personnel. let other Zambians take over, this is why we even had foreigners representing the country at one time.

  9. This should serve as a very big lesson to Zambia just don’t go to compounds to pick some one as President look at this Lungu he has failed In every department you can think of.

    • So any Zambian who lives in a komboni should never aspire to become president of Zambia? So even HH would not qualify as he grew up fatherless in a poor household.

  10. Hmmmmml………interesting! I wonder what they discussed. Was VJ ‘warned and cautioned?’. So from this meeting there will be speculations that ‘VJ has moved to the other side’

  11. Yamba , Zambia is rotten. Even Congo DR will be better. Shutting everyone up is not the solution the situation.

  12. The only foreigners VJ can influence are Upnd cadres in diaspora and the Colombian Medlin Drug Cartel. No decent government can entertain him with his reputation. All governments protested his appointment as foreign minister by FTJ. If I were Lungu I wouldn’t waste my time on such thrash.

  13. “And Special Assistant to the president for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has disclosed that the President has since held closed a door meeting with Dr. Mwaanga” -THIS IS WELCOME, LET THEM TELL HIM WELL WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CONDUCT OF HH and LET THEM ASK HIM TO COUNSEL HH! HH’s behavior has greatly contributed to his current state of affairs! MWANAWASA’s Presidency was under dispute THROUGH OUT HIS REIGN but NEITHER MAZOKA nor SATA WENT TO THE EXTENT OF CONTINOUSLY INSULTING HIM and even REFUSING TO OBEY TRAFFIC DIRECTIVES FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE! A states man does not do what HH has been doing, the guy who REFUSED TO ACCEPT DEFEAT EVEN BEFORE VOTING,FAILED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF RIGGING BEFORE and AFTER ELECTION RESULTS!!

    • Hypocrite…….Go back and check the history. Sata was worse than HH to Levy but the later knew the law and dangers of incarcerating his opponent. He played the democracy card very well and earned respect in the end, managed to grow the economy and brought decency to the country.

      Watch how the current president will politically evaporate and I hope you will remember everything happening now so that you can correctly attribute his failures to the decision he himself has made

  14. better be polite than demean other people….. When shall we share ideas on how to develop our country. This country is bigger than Lungu and HH.

  15. DR MWANGA IS ONE OF ZAMBIA`S MATURED AND EXPERIENCED POLITICIANS, WITH DUE RESPECT. I THINK HIS CLOSED DOOR TALKS WITH EL IS A WELCOME MOVE WHICH COULD BE FRUITFUL, HIM AND RB WHERE BOTH (UNIP BOYS) UNDER SUPER KEN, RINGS A BELL?. EVEN IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM LIKE LADS, POLITICS ARE THERE FOR YOU TO SEE. RESPECT FOR ALPHA MALES IN ANIMAL KINGDOM IS CARDINAL, POLITICS SEPERATE BOYS FROM MEN, I PRAY FOR THE BEST IN THE INTEREST OF ZAMBIA, PEACE BE STILL ZAMBIA.

  16. T he police is unprofessional and even H.E E.C. Lungu knows. How many politicians have been accused falsely when they were innocent. Many examples. Look at Garry Nkombo & other UPND members accused of killing a PF official in livings tone by Policewoman Katanga and spent weeks in jail for nothing. What about the UPND member also accused of murder in Chongwe when he was innocent. So how can one beleive the police?

  17. I fail to understand those Zambians who run to other countries to paint their own country as a failed state, what manner of dullness is this? So you insult the sovereignty of your own country and later on come back and pretend you never said anything evil? These are the same characters who would overnight change their view simply because a different face is sitting in state house – mere hatred for an individual rather than being rational. If Mwanga thinks evil of Zambia let him go and stay in those same countries he thinks are perfect. The level of tribalism is alarming in this country. Give Lungu a chance to rule and judge him after 5yrs from now, thats what the constitution says.

  18. VJ is a Veteran, Seasoned Diplomat and a Senior Citizen of Zambia. VJ is doing the Right thing by persuading SADC to intervene in the Zambian political Crisis. What is wrong with that? Its very clear that the 2016 Election was Disputed and Petitioned and we don’t know who won it. Both Lungu and HH claim to have won the Election. So let AU and SADC mediate the Disputed Election b4 Zambia descends into another Rwanda. SADC should provide the Judges to hear the Petition and declare the Winner of the 2016 Election. Why is Lungu afraid of the SADC Mediation over the Election Dispute and the Petition? Zambia is already on fire and Lungu himself has threatened a State of Emergency. HH the Leader of the Opposition is in jail and slapped with trumped up Treason Charges. At least 2000 UPND…

    • Did you even vote for you to talk about who won the elections? Just keep quiet before we put you behind bars as well.

    • Hichilema,Hichilema, Hichilema this name has become a curse in Zambian Politics. We have had the Chonas, the Musokotwanes, the Mazokas, the Mundias and a lot more other names, Zambia has been quiet. But the moment the name HICHILEMA entered politics, Zambia has gone upside down.
      I believe there must be something secrete behind the name which is causing all the confusion.

  19. Lungu, you have done more than enough damage especially in the area of discrediting Zambia internationally yourself. Stop this blame game and hear the petition before the entire Electoral Commission disappears through resignation. You are Fraud!

  20. Can anyone defend the police: whether they always tell the truth and wether they always do the right thing. Simple question

  21. Its not a Secret that the 2016 Zambian Election was Disputed and Petitioned. That Petition has not been heard and this has heightened Tension in the Country. HH ,leader of the Official Opposition is in jail facing trumped up Treason charges,over 2000 UPND Supporters are in jail. There are Arson Attacks accross the Country. To deal with the crisis Lungu has threatened to declare a State of Emergency. The Role of Senior Citizens like VJ is to help bring peace to Zambia in time like these. The Role that VJ is currently playing must be applauded by every peace loving person including Lungu. Zambia has an Election Petition Dispute and SADC should come to Zambia and mediate the Petition Dispute. SADC should facilitate the Petition Hearing Process by an Independent and impartial Court. The…

  22. And Special Assistant to the president for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda has disclosed that the President has since held closed a door meeting with Dr. Mwaanga.

    Why does this Lazy Bum always like these closed door meetings? What is he hiding?

  23. Mushota PhD doesn’t even know the meaning of fugitive, just like all pfacists mistakenly confuse their fanatical behavior to been Patriotic.

    • She is not a PHD holder, she just happens to be married to a Scotsman in Scotland. Last week she wrote that VJ was as a drag dealer instead of drug dealer.

    • She is not a PHD holder, she just happens to be married to a Scotsman in Scotland. Last week she wrote that VJ was a drag dealer instead of drug dealer.

  24. CHA did not need to. How come I know What’s going on in other countries without even stepping a foot their or being told by their rebels? Don’t be daft 1diots!

  25. Hh will now negotiate to obtain what he had before- president of UPNDonkeys no more no less, not even a face saver.

  26. VJ is a true Zambian unlike most of these renegades…he is a freedom fighter..viva freedom..engage the man if you are not sure of what he’s capable..

  27. A leader who is always quarreling with his citizens is not a wise leader! A father in a decent home finds tactful ways of engaging his household! Why is the kateka so irritable and so easily disturbed by even the most constructive criticism? VJ is an elder in our state and elders don’t just talk any how. If I were ECL, I would have long taken wise counsel from all concerned elders in the state! That is how you build a nation! You don’t build a nation by being paranoid especially about who recognizes you! Half of the electorates voted for opposition political parties. What are you going to do with them? If you won genuinely, enjoy the presidency but if there was cheating, too bad. No rest until the petition is heard! Stolen things are sweet but we never get to enjoy them!

  28. Hh is fast learning that when you are in prison you have absooutely no bargaining power unless you are Mandela. You can even negotiate to go to the loo….kikikijiki

  29. Hh has realised that his freedom does not lie with Keith Mweemba or Martha Mushipe especially, but in negotiations with tail between legs. What a way to finish yourself! We mwine ukuipwisha.

  30. I pity The Copperbelt University is agonizing in pain for having conferred on VJ Mwaanga an Honorary PhD degree based on his flimsy personal database. Just what compelling criteria did CBU use to make such an institutional blunder? We understand that UPND-backed CBU Academic Union pushed Mwaanga’s nomination on University Senate.

    In principle prominent men and women on whom Honorary degrees are confined are judged on their past, current and possible future worthwhile contributions to humanity. But VJ’s DNA can be likened to cruel people who ignited the massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda. VJ can no longer be equated to Salim Salim or Kofi Annan. He is an African disgrace.

    • You are just another heap of PF faeces stinking with a huge stench like your grand mother’s stale and unwashed pu.ssey!!
      Go and rot in HELL mother fcker!!

  31. How can you say VJ is a failure when the man has a track record. As for the bad part of VJ’s track record we all have it. Police cant go to a house of somebody who has not refused to go to the Police station and tear gas his family and VJ must go and tell a different story to the world. It is always morally right to stand on the side of Justice which VJ is doing. Don’t expect VJ to go and endorse road rage as treason, the world will laugh at him – now wake up for once

    • To clarify reports the president needs to hear it from the horse”s mouth. That is leaderahip. Your VJ looked lost last night as he was waiting for SA 066 to Lusaka at OR Tambo. No one paid attention to him except one young lady who gave up her seat as we awaited boarding. He is old enough to show patriotism to his country. Of course not to Lungu or HH. Whoever bought him that business class ticket is just wasting money. He over values himself and few people him take him seriously.

  32. You little upndonkeys little underfive politicians, just shut up, what do you know about politics? Why do you think you have flopped six times?

    • Zambians know that Lungu stole the election and that is why he is arresting people. PFdonkey fools still worship Lungu despite living in dirty shanti compounds with no running water, places infested wtih flies, open sewers running right infront of their kitchen door and yet they worship and glorify Lungu.
      Zambians, the undecided and non-voters wonder why PF and UPND are fighting over leadership.
      TWO PARTIES IN THE WHOL OF ZAMBIA FIGHTING OVER STATE HOUSE YABA

    • To clarify reports the president needs to hear it from the horse”s mouth. That is leaderahip. Your VJ looked lost last night as he was waiting for SA 066 to Lusaka at OR Tambo. No one paid attention to him except one young lady who gave up her seat as we awaited boarding. He is old enough to show patriotism to his country. Of course not to Lungu or HH. Whoever bought him that business class ticket is just wasting money. He over values himself and few people him take him seriously.

  33. I pity The Copperbelt University is agonizing in pain for having conferred on VJ Mwaanga an Honorary PhD degree based on his flimsy personal database. Just what compelling criteria did CBU use to make such an institutional blunder? We understand that UPND-backed CBU Academic Union pushed Mwaanga’s nomination on University Senate.

    In principle prominent men and women on whom Honorary degrees are conferred are judged on their past, current and possible future worthwhile contributions to humanity. But VJ’s DNA can be likened to cruel people who ignited the massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda. VJ can no longer be equated to Tanzania’s Salim Salim or Ghanaian Kofi Annan. VJ is disgrace in Africa.

  34. All don’t respond to Terrible, lest we will be seen to have the same defunct thinking capacity. Lets just respond to intellectual debate.

  35. Lets try again maybe this will work – VJ is alleged to have told some foreign people about the way HH was arrested. VJ did not subtract or add anything to the story, so up to now we don’t understand why simple minds are criticising him.

  36. Lungu is not suitable to be a President but merely a Minister. He has messed up the Country in a very short time. He is an Accidental President no wonder he is failing. He is surrounded by people who only wants to benefit themselves and giving him wrong advise. Why can’t he emulate Levy Mwanawasa instead of listening from Bakaponya?

  37. UPND cadres have short memories. Not long ago they accused FTJ and VJ to have rigged elections for Mwanawasa. VJ was a swear word in Tongland. Today is the most mature etc. What manner of people are those who believe in UPND?

  38. @45 Maliya, look who is talking! Another UPNDonkey, never heard of you donkey before, where did you creep from?

  39. Let us be careful with tribal hatred on LT. You can insult Tongas because you’re Bemba but tomorrow you go to the hospital and the doctor treating you is Tonga. Or you insult Bembas because you’re Tonga but the doctor treating you is Bemba. LT is owned by known persons and in future they will be held accountable for promoting tribal hatred. The time is coming. Soon.

  40. Mushota talks from its ass all the time. Give your ass a break and use your brain if you have one. I’m sure your brain is located by your ass hole. How can someone be a fugitive when they are in police custody.

  41. What this quarter of population is doing is regrettable If they think that is how they will go for into office, never.They should humble themselves before the three quarters of electorates and remove tribalism tag if they are to pull through.let’s support our Lungu,we need him even in 2021/

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