The Mutati MMD Faction has distanced itself from the letter written by the opposition alliance to House of Chiefs and published in the Mast newspaper on Friday demanding the release of incarcerated UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema.
MMD National Secretary Raphael Nakacinda said his party was not party of the opposition alliance as the person purporting to be in the alliance with other opposition parties was no longer the President of MMD.
In a letter dated 2nd June, 2017, Mr Nakacinda said Nevers Mumba who is the former party President signed the latter on in his personal capacity as the President of MMD was Felix Mutati and not Dr Mumba.
He explained that Dr Mumba who has refused to accept the outcome of the convention has taken the party to court but the matter has not been settled hence the collect position was that Mr Mutati who was elected as president at the party convention and recognised by the Registrar egistrar of Societies is the legitimate leader of the former ruling party.
“Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), therefore, distances itself from the letter written by the opposition alliance to your office which is reported in today’s “The Mast” edition No.o205in which they are demanding among other issues the immediate release of the President of United Party for National Development Mr. Hakainde Hichilema. Dr Nevers Mumba signed the said latter in his individual capacity and not as MMD President,” reads the latter in part.
Meanwhile, incarcerated UPND leader’s wife Mutinta relased the following statement to the media wishing her husband a happy birth day
55 DAYS IN PRISON, HAPPY 55TH BIRTHDAY MR HAKAINDE HICHILEMA, MY HUSBAND – MUTINTA HICHILEMA.
4th June, 2017.
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Fellow country men and women,
The Hichilema family hereby invite you in wishing the UPND President, Mr Hakainde Hichilema, a happy 55th birthday which falls today, Sunday, 4th June, 2017.
In the past, we have always celebrated Mr. Hichilema’s birthday at our residence while sharing light moments as well as discussing how he intends to provide equal opportunities for all when he forms government.
However, it is not the same this time around, as Mr. Hichilema today marked 55 days in prison and also by God’s grace reached 55 years old.
As always, we once again call on the country to solidly stand with Mr. Hichilema by wishing him a happy birthday.
As family, just like most of you out there, we would have loved to be with him at our residence and celebrate his birthday as we have always done especially on his vision of creating opportunities for all, uniting our country beyond its current disrepair, but this is not the case this time around as Mr. Hichilema has marked his 55th birthday on his 55th day in prison.
Therefore, wherever you maybe, we call on you to join us in wishing Mr Hichilema, a son of this land a happy 55th birthday.
We count each day given to Mr. Hichilema as a blessing from the Almighty, God.
Once more as the Hichilema family and indeed on my own behalf, we say happy birthday my husband, happy birthday Father and may God bless him.
May God bless you all,
And God bless our country.
MRS MUTINTA HICHILEMA AND CHILDREN.
There is no need for HH to be released.
He has serious cases
MMD well done
Thanks
BB2014,2016
How do you demand to circumvate the court of laws
He is not being persecuted because of political causes. The persecutions are justified and they stem from the fact that he undermined the laws of the land that you and many others respect.
Let him face the music the right way, demanding anyone releases him is ignorance, Moronic and obtuse.
You do the CRIME, you must do the TIME
I hold a PhD
Thanks
BB2014,2016
Mushota you are the devil, among other devils like Kudos. I say so because you are heartless; vindictive, unforgiving; wishing others dead, inhuman, inhumane, unjust , un-Zambia and unsympathetic to loss of life. What happened was lapse of security systems. Ask the civilised world even South Africa they will tell you that that was avoideable if people wanted.
As many people say, Mushota you are a devil, among other devils like Kudos. I say so because you are heartless; vindictive, unforgiving; wishing others dead, inhuman, inhumane, unjust , un-Zambian and unsympathetic to loss of life. What happened was lapse of security systems. Ask the civilised world even South Africans they will tell you that whar happened was avoideable if people wanted.
I am beginning to like Mutinta and not because I hated her. I have no reason to hate God’s own creation because then I myself will fallout of favour with my creator. Mutinta has a sober and beautiful mind and I think she can make a good leader. She looks docile but those are the qualities of an assertive person. Slow to anger but always assertive in her statements. Paradoxically, in Zambia we banish clever people so that the majority can remain in the pits with no voices at all whilst the new so called elite ruling class plunder the country’s resources.
I urge all sober minded Zambians to rally behind UPND because PF and MMD are in a poisonous marriage that will end in a very destructive manner – mark my words.
Can you imagine MMD clinging on to Mutati who has been hijacked by the PF…
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………….and MMD are in a poisonous marriage that will end in a very destructive manner – mark my words.
Can you imagine MMD clinging on to Mutati who has been hijacked by the PF to manage the national coffers? From president of a former ruling party to finance minister of a former bitterest rival? You must be joking! MMD has no relevance whatsoever. My advice to Pastor Mumba is to stir one last massive storm in MMD by joining UPND together with his many other followers and then we can drive one huge nail in the MMD coffin.
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Mutati himself don’t want to be president of MMD, when did you ever see him holding any MMD press conference?
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That was an attempt to say HH happy birthday and stay strong as the day or reckoning is soon coming. Us here in the USA are pressurizing the US government to consider Zambia a rogue country under a dictatorship. We don’t want our hard earned money going to into the wrong hands.
@1.9 white man.
Thank you for helping Zambians by trying to deny lungu funds to erode democratic rights of citizens…..pleas even just 30 minutes of emails to IMF, world bank and the UN will go a long way in bringing to light lungus budding dictatorship…..if he gets western money we can say at least we tried.
Free HH. Aluta Continua.
What else would one expect from the Mutati MMD Faction?
So Mutinta is telling us that on her husband’s birthday they discuss how to create employment and opportunities for all.
Does she mean that they don’t discuss such on any other days?
Does she mean those are the major topics on HH’s birthday?
This is an attempt by Mutinta to be political but she failed because she is below under five politics.
No slight psychology whatsoever. Trying to impress some Zambians that they care about them on their birthdays.
From her message, It might appear like all Zambians are at preschool age.
What is happening in Zambia is simply foolish and stupid. Felix Mutation does not head any political party. He lost being the head of MMD in the courts and Pastor Nevers Mumba won the battle of the MMD leadership. Nakachinda you are as slippery as your Mutation and this is a serious contempt of court. You two must be arrested. The leader of MMD is Never Mumbai!
YOU LAW BREAKERS WHEN DID FELIX MUTATI BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF MMD? HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU WANT TO BE TALD THAT MUTATI IS NOT THE MMD PRESIDENT WHEN THE COURT RULED OUT THAT THE PRESIDENT FOR MMD IS AND SHALL CONTINUE TO BE DR. NEVIOUS MUMBA? EBUFONTINI BWABA PF. THIS SHOWS HOW IGNORANT PF IS. LT YOU ARE PF AND NOTHING GOOD IS OFFERED FROM YOUR REPORTS LIKE THIS PUPPY HAIR DRESSER (PHD)
Mushota you are another embicile. Mutati you are drunk after drinking from Lungu’s cup of corruption.
Normal uncorrupted humans around the globe are demanding HH’S immediate release.
NOKO ICHINTU
Comment:waba ama button pa chinena ka mutinta.so you still exist i stopped following you.you are bore and LT mole
Lol!!!! Raphael and Mutati, it’s you guys that are illegal office holders. You guys are just PF, in the office of “MMD”. Propaganda is propaganda, truth is truth. How do you move from suspended MMD members of MMD to a convention, funded by PF and RB and install a president and other office bearers and call yourself MMD. I know Zambia has become lawless, but as soon as order is restored we will see who has the last laugh…Enjoy deceiving the blind, for now…Cheers.
@ BBJ B1TCH
Shuffle your fake PhD down your wide arse
One of the signs of the end of time is political tensions where nations will rise against nations, terror attacks etc. It reminds me my childhood song :weulele Buka weulele buka. ……..
Your ancestors thought just like u….the world never ended in 999 bc as they dreamt not in 1914 ad as your great grannies thought and not in your time u tonga I’d.ot
Release HH -demands the European Union.
EU IS A TOOTHLESS ORGANISATION. THE UK HAS ABANDONED IT AND THE USA HAS DESERTED ITS PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE. SO UPND CANNOT USE EU AS A SCARE CROW TO INTIMIDATE US. AFTER ALL THEIR SO CALLED DEMAND IS NON BINDING AS ECL CONTINUES TO DRINK COFEE WITH THEM. Kikiki…
The EU remains the largest and richest trading block in the world
Ati no teeth ?Zambia is nothing but a burden on the Europeans without their aid money lungu will not survive 1 year.
Spaka. Is richest same as largest? I doubt Zambia gets that much aid from EU though…? It has a lot of countries among its member states with negative GDP….. frankly without the UK, Europe will struggle but lets wait and see
Greenwich resident.
Yes it is the richest, largest “trading block”.
Is there another trading block richer and larger ?.
Zambia gets a lot of aid from individual countries from within the EU. memorandums among european MEPs can influence were individual countries provide aid.
I also think France and Germany can carry the EU. they are manufacturing power houses which the UK lags far behind. The EU provides a ready market for their cars, airplanes, machinery and chemicals…
Locking HH up is the worst thing dictator lungu has done for himself and the greatest thing he had done for the profile of HH.
HH is now a household name within our borders and beyond.
Only a negociated agrement with HH will save lungu.
If he locks HH up more expect sanctions, if he frees HH expect a hero emerging from jail. And we all know paranoid hapless lungu can not deal with heros in a free and fair democracy.
Again the dictator finds he is baggared if he does and baggared if he does not….that is the fate of a theif.
Happy birthday HH.
…yaba…kwekwekwekwe…a donkey in dream mode…kwekwekwe…ati if he frees hh expect a hero emerging from jail…kwekwekwekwe……kwekwekwekwkekwke…!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can sense shrils of panic from the kaponyas who can read who are now realising lungu needs western funds…….he can only tax Zambians to a limit….no western money will come lungus way.
Yesterday we managed to compile a list of 21 major Scandinavian energy companies. We have sent our petition asking them to not consider investing in Zambia energy at this time as this will only help lungu and his assaults of our democratic freedoms that the scandanvians take for granted.
We saw PF trying to woo Swedish investors….not while we are brutalized.
…owe, wayamba uku pena…..kwekwekwekwekwe….heee hawwww….kwekwekwekwekwe….why are the same Scandanavian governments increasing their funding to our health sector???? Then they go back and tell their companies not to invest in Zambia…nasha ko ibange, mune….kwekwekwkekwke….!!!!!!!!!
Keep laughing….we started of with 11 and ended on 23.
Our next petitions will be to as many EU countries that have diplomatic representations in Lusaka.
We are not peddling lies but verifiable facts of places and dates when opposition rallies and other gatherings have been cancelled , and when and where opposition leaders were banned from interacting with the public….
Whom do you honestly believe would suffer from these sanctions ordinary Zambians or Lungu ?
You are practicising the politics of Morgan Tsvangirai who campaigned for sanctions and hoped to achieve a regime change in Zimbabwe .And now??
Look at how Zimbabweans are suffering and do you honestly believe Mugabe is suffering?
Did Tsvangirai’s strategic work? To the contrary he made Mugabe to be popular…and look at the mess that Tsvangirai created? You want to repeat the mistake?
Chiweme
Morgan is a foo.l. Mugabe was on his knees when Zimbabweans were being set alight in S.A. and Botswana threatened to seal the borders with Zimbabwe. But the foo.l pleaded for sanctions relief and Mugabe survived.
Mugabe only survives because Zimbabwe has some of the largest diamond and gold fields. Zambia has no of those and lungu would be lucky to last a year with sanctions.
S.A. and the West are weary of dictators when they look at Mugabe. Mass migration results causing social frictions.
HPBTHDAY
Happy birthday HH, we share the same birthday and be strong for you are not alone.
I pray that HH gets to know Christ on his 55th day and 55th birthday.
What so special about him celebrating his birthday in prison.
“The Mutati MMD Faction”…really laughable….even when he has sold out and he is at Ministry Of Finance!!
Happy birthday HH. May God shine His face upon you. God is faithful and is in control. The evil schemes by your enemies will not succeed
Fellow Zambians,they can’t hold HH for more than a month in prison if he is clean as an angel and mind you HH is not a God to be worshipped even when he errs. Support your leader with wisdom not in the name of Zambia is a democratic nation or that it’s a Christian nation even when people misbehaves.
Use your time in America to learn English properly Rainford Tembo. It’s a ridicule but honest advice.
You know the trumped up charge of treason is not bailable. So what holding him for more than a month are you on about? Why am I even wasting my time explaining this when all sober minded people know this already.
If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime…bravo mushota you made my day.
I also have a Phd from uni of Dundee.
A leader who just think for himself is a fake leader. There’s no peace in Zambia. How come political leader are distancing from what the majority want.
Once U5 ibegins to serve time, we shall quantify how much of our precious time the baby donkey has wasted.
Mutinta the wife to HH make anpotiment with lungu and go and talk to him he can here you madam is also a human being he can understand you
While it would be the most human thing to do, releasing HH on the orders of the president would be very unfair to HH. It’s better the case runs it’s cycle so that everyone will have a clear and free mind. There are alleged coup plotters who were pardoned by KK but up to now they are not free in society because people still believe these guys are criminals.
Mushota you hold a phd as a motury attendant?
Happy birthday HH. You are leader.
Bloggers are brain-storming on Nevers Mumba’s claim as MMD President, when the majority of MMD members heed Mutati’s advice to support Edgar Lungu. If we consider a hypothetical assumption that Mumba and Mutati split the MMD into 50% for Mumba and 50% for Mutati, why is it that more than 80% of MMD members voted in support of Lungu? The advice to South Africa’s DA is that Nevers Mumba is an IMPOSTOR and a MOLE as President of the Association of Opposition Parties in Southern Africa.
The presence of Mwenya Musenge at Chimbokaila to meet HH reveals his association to Army-worms consisting of Mmembe, Nchito, Guy Scott, Musa Myenye, Linda Kasonde, Kambwili, DA’s Maimane, NUMSA’s Jim that recently hatched to cause havoc in Zambia.
Yes and membe paid the EU and the bishops to tell off lungu.
While the openhimers are paying the IMF to delay the much needed bailout for Zambia……politics is full of comedy.
Ba up and down party indeed surprise me with their high levels of unpatriotism.They are busy tarnishing the image of our country to the outside world. There is no body above the law and pliz give space for the court to dispense justice accordingly. What is so special with their leader ? The detention of our opposition leader is regrettable but he indeed deserves to be where he is now like many other millions in custody world over.
Ok put aside the detention of HH, why are UPND rallies being cancelled ?? Why was the last press conference called by UPND cancelled by the police ??
Why were HH and GBM not allowed to travel in Zambia without being escorted from some provinces ????
Why are HH and GBM not allowed to greet and inter react with well wishes in places of public ???
JUST IGNORE MUSHOTA SHE STOP POSTING EVIL COMMENTS. IT’S NOT A HUMAN BEING BUT A MACHINE.
Firstly Mushota is a Chainama case. Ignore the creature but if it resembles Chakolwa no wonder Zambia is the way it is resembling rats and monkeys. Secondly, Mutati is a disgrace. People like him are not fit to rule a country. Mutati is only fit to be ruled and led. Believe u me and mark my words.
Mutinta must be missing conjugal privileges. 55 days is not without a man in bed is not a joke.I pit her. For she has a long wait to contend with. Shakafuswa must start servicing her.
A 55 year old adult ought to know that you give way to the presidential motorcade regardless of the circumstances. An adult knows better than to hurl insults at a fellow human being upon disagreement but then again akulu aba nabakulu chabe aliye malango…..
So Mutinta is telling us that on her husband’s birthday they discuss how to create employment and opportunities for all.
Does she mean that they don’t discuss such on any other days?
Does she mean those are the major topics on HH’s birthday?
This is an attempt by Mutinta to be political but she failed because she is below under five politics.
No slight psychology whatsoever. Trying to impress some Zambians that they care about them on their birthdays.
From her message, It might appear like all Zambians are at preschool age.
Kekekekeke “this spaka like lilo thing” is running out of ideas!!!he really sounds like my 3 yrs old boy!!which sanctions can upnd cadres achieve?who knows HH abroad?kekekekekeke,i feel sorry for this tonga man!!NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST MOTHER ZAMBIA SHALL PROSPER!!!
YOUR HH HAS BEEN BEHIND BARS FOR MORE THAN 56 DAYS NOW,SOON YOU MAY START COUNTING YEARS!!MEANTIME,ITS LIFE AS USUAL FOR MAJORITY ZAMBIANS HERE!!
If you were here,the only thing you will hear from Zambians IS NEWS ABOUT U-20 WHO IS AT THE WORLD CUP IN SOUTH KOREA!!!Nobody talks or cares about where HH is currently!!!HH IS ONLY A HERO IN YOUR DREAMS!!EVEN IF HH IS OUT OF JAIL,ONLY FRED M’MEMBE’S MAST WILL REPORT ABOUT IT.MANY ZAMBIANS MAY KNOW ABOUT IT AFTER WEEKS!!
Release HH. Why hate him for nothing. God will judge you Mr. Lungu and your fake advisers/praise singers.
Spot on Njimbu I live in Lusaka and it’s as you have put it people are talking about under 20 and life goes on . If HH had won the elections there would have been tension in Lusaka but it’s normal life goes on and no one cares about HH . Ba UPND have tried everything including burning of markets but Zambians are firmly behind ECL , sorry bane it’s Edgars time!