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UPND MPs to attend official opening of Parliament today

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Jack Mwiimbu Chairman - Legal
Jack Mwiimbu Chairman – Legal

Opposition UPND Members of Parliament will this morning attend the official opening of Parliament which will include the address by President Edgar Lungu.

Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Jack Mwiimbu said the decision has been arrived at in the interest of the nation.

Mr Mwiimbu said the UPND MPs had a caucus on Thursday 14th September 2017 in Lusaka to discuss issues related to the official opening of parliament.

He said the nation may recall that in the last session of parliament, 47 UPND members of parliament were suspended by the Speaker of the National Assembly.

Mr Mwiimbu said the UPND members of parliament have since served their one month suspension.

“At today’s caucus, the UPND members of parliament resolved to resume their duties in the House. The UPND MPs took this decision in the interest of the country in view of the forthcoming political dialogue aimed at promoting peace, stability and democracy in Zambia,” he said.

He said the UPND MPs believe that their attendance at the official opening of parliament will go a long way in giving confidence to the process of dialogue.

71 COMMENTS

    • Yes lets move forward together. I hope the PF and the president wont take this as a mocking issue but will applaud them for that

    • Its a plus Jona who is so OBSSESSED with recognition. But UPND have chosen to be the bigger person in the argument so that Jonathan has nothing as an excuse to continue abusing power.

    • These are a disorganised bunch of fooools…. they say that they dont recognise Lazy but will attend because they are also too greedy and do not want to miss out on their K100,000 a month they also rob from taxpayers!!

    • Just after one month of forced fasting and you have given up? His EXCELLENCE ECL will address you today and your HH will be watching you say hear! hear! hear!.

    • it is for National interest or pocket interest… the speaker touched your pockets. if you want to control politicians deal with there pockets.

    • This is why someone stated that if you want to see change put politicans on minimum pay…these greedy foooools are no different to those morons in govt!!

    • If you need wise counsel and reformation get in touch with HH. Prison seems to have worked well, just look at his MP’s sudden obedience.

    • WHO CARES WHETHER THEY COME BACK OR NOT. UPND AND THEIR SMALL GOD ARE NOT A FACTOR IN ZAMBIA’S POLITICS. THEY ARE TOO TRIBAL TO BE A FACTOR.

    • Boma ni boma kwisa? That’s why you continue as a country to wallow in poverty without even knowing that your rights are being trodden on by kadansa

    • This is sad and shows even UPND MPs are more concerned about their stomachs than their constituents.

      All their past protests and jailing of their party members are now wasted.The score now is

      Election Stealers 1 Democracy 0

      Corruption 2 Rule of Law 0

      Dictatorship 3 Freedom 0

      Suffer Zambians! !!

    • @David: did you honestly believe the upnd has anything new to offer apart from “it’s also our time to rule (ie. to eat as well!!)” ???????

    • Which economy are you talking about? Obviously u are out of touch with the situ in Zambia. Ask your relatives back home, they’ll narrate to you.

    • my village has power and dstv. Thats east ern province.

      young boys own light trucks for smuggling maize to Malawi. they have no business wit fra.

      no poverty sir

    • The problem with silly ignorant kids of today is they have not lived in a one party state hence make reckless statements like above!!

    • @3.1, @3 IS TALKING ABOUT ZAMBIA’S ECONOMY. HE IS SAYING WHILE UNDER 5 WAS IN THE BOARDING SCHOOL ZAMBIA REALLY IMPLEMENTED A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITHOUT EMPTY NOISE FROM MATEBELA. MEANING UNDER 5’s RIGHT PLACE IS IN THE BOARDING SCHOOL.

  1. had it not been the act of the speaker to refuse them thier monthly fee I do not think the UPND could have managed to see national interest, these are the very people who took the case to court, demanding for thier salary which they receive from a government they do not recognize, ati no it’s tax payers money ,iwe who collects that very money, is it yowa father? Government pays you and if you don’t work then you shouldn’t eat, UPND will never miss the opening of parly this we know, they need the money. message approved

    #HHLIES

  2. don’t allow them. they are not constructive.

    even if there leader stood as concilor in bauleni he would lose because of lack of maturity.

    he told his mps to keep away because he does not recognize ecl and for sure they followed without looking at big

    • @ 7.1 Abene ba Nyekese,

      He is speaking as a voter, which is what matters.

      ECZ is just a facilitator, not a voter. When you lose the voter is responsible and not ECZ, and not the winner.

      Blaming ECZ and the winner is disorganised thinking, regardless of the justification.

      It is like hating you classmate for passing number when you fail the exam. This is also uncoordinated thinking.

      After a loss of one month salary they now confess that at that time they did not have the interest of the nation.

      Suddenly, the UPND MPs have their interest for the nation felt through suspension.

      Thanks to the wise speaker. He was right, they did not do things in national interest but theirs.

  3. I don’t like Upnd, but on this one I support and encourage them. Like somebody, you don’t take crying as a sign of weakness but that of courage. Only a weak person will tease the Upnd on this.

  4. They are avoiding a suspension again. This time it could be a 2 months suspension. They could not just imagine losing salary and allowances for 2 months!!

  5. UPND has made a good move but you will see negative comments from people whose brains are filled with water. Edgar Lungu and HH are not enemies, they are opponents. Politics is not a fight. Comments should be helpful in rebuilding the nation.

  6. That’s a sensible “decision” by the “MPs”, or is it instruction by underfive?
    I particularly like the part where Jack Mwiimbu says: “The UPND MPs believe that their attendance at the official opening of parliament will go a long way in giving confidence to the process of dialogue”. Wondering to myself why they did not think of the national interest right from the beginning. Jack Mwiimbu for example was the lead lawyer who “abandoned” underfive and his “petition” in Concourt at the last minute, why didn’t he simply advise underfive that the “petition” had failed for lack of evidence within the 14 days allowed? Also Jack’s statement quoted above on is contradictory to the actions and statements of one underfive when he went to see his cousin Maimane. Did it have to take…

  7. @ Chisenga and @ Cadre: When things are going the right way just thank you God for that: Ninshi ba PF Muli Bansele sana. You are the ones who are tarnishing the good image which PF has: Just say thank God, we are now moving together as a family of Zambia.

    • No difference from a kid. A kid would boycott eating after being disciplined by the mother and later forgets his protests and go back to sack the same breast. These are indeed under5 politicians. This is the true meaning of up and down. What is the net achievement of their boycotts if I may ask?
      It’s the same as a side chik denying a married man xex. He will simply go and have from the wife. In short upnd have no idea how to arm twist ruling govt.

  8. They have no option but to become normal ever since the Under5 Kaponya (HH) came out of prison. They are beginning to mature these cry babies

  9. MP are elected by the people to represent them. UPND MPs going to parliament is their job and responsibility. I salute you. I dont expect UPND members to recognise my president, that’s their subjective decision that has no bearing on who the president is. One Zambia…

    • Parliament has rules. That’s why you see the opposition in South Africa are been beaten by security each time they break the rules. At least in Zambia we discipline them in a civil way by simply suspending them and withdraw their allowances.

  10. The UPND MPs couldn’t sustain staying away, they would be broke beyond repair. Their decision to attend is not based on principle by survival. Zambian politicians are the same, in all parties including UPND. Money has forced to recognise Edgar Lungu.

    • Their boss has not stated his position on Lazy since he came out of prison…why does he not tell the truth on this issue or what he discussed with the Colonial master’s servant!!

  11. UPND cimo na zero……..ati in the interest of the nation? After denouncing the republican president in South Africa today they will be listening to him speaking…..kikikikikiki. If UPND was food only dogs can eat.

  12. Just go and hear what he is going to say but don’t take anything,because me seriously it’s difficult to understand some words when pronounced

  13. Change is the spice of life.Don’t boycott. Just stay and boo Sadist and Dictator Lungu. Anyway the DPP might Nolle Prosqui the Parliamentary Debate this Session. U are MPs of your constituencies and not of Chakolwa Lungu. Pay homage to our National Hero HH after 127 days in Jail based on Trumped Up Treason Charges by the Sadist and Dictator Lungu.

    • This is nothing about putting Zambia first.. .its about their pockets; these lazy foools in Parley get K100,000 to shout hear, hear!!

  14. ….. Did it have to take Professor Gambari to come and advise underfive against childish careless statements? Or is it that UPNDonkey MPs suddenly have been given authority to think on their own? So many things you cant understand about these UPNDonkeys, but then if you are not a donkey you cannot understand them.
    Anyway you are most welcome to parliament, after all the people sent to you there and expect you to attend on their behalf.

  15. Bantustan Party (upnd) 0 PF (HE ECL) 9

    Yabanyokola njala! Don’t mess with Boma bamakaka imwe. Just swallow your pride and thanks for recognising the great leader HE ECL as the anointed one.

  16. Cant wait to hear the vision (SONA) this greatest leader will give us in parley, the anointed one, the powerful one, the intelligent one, the wise one who doesn’t sleep but is ever planning for us. Countrymen and patriotic citizens lets support him all the way, he is GOD given. ECL for 2021 and later third term.

    Under 5 Kuya bebele.

    • “Countrymen and patriotic citizens lets support him all the way, he is GOD given……”

      Maybe you will change your mind and sing a different tune when you find out how much of YOUR money he has stolen!!!!!

  17. UPND MPS welcome back to reality.I knew that boycotting of parliament can not outwit your loans from the banks,household hunger and unexpected incurring of imaginable debts to run your daily lives.Suffice to say the decision to attend this time was made in the interest of their stomach.

  18. Boma ni Boma!!
    Ba upnd “insoni bwanji?” Kikikikikikiki.the president of Zambia is ECL until 2021!!
    Plus looking at how people are still voting in Zambia from yesterday’s by elections,2021 voting pattern shall be regional too,a situation which favours PF because its popular in 6.5 provinces!!
    Am told PF has won all by election seats in Northern,Muchinga including in chilanga while upnd has also won in bantustan areas!! SO ITS SAME OLD STORIES!!!
    COME 2021 NI PF NAFUTI NAFUTI!!

  19. Just go and attend!!! He is president…you already started attending parliament which he opened. There can never be parliament if the president does not open…….i don’t eat T bone but i like steak on bone …how? Its the same meat baba…If the president is there i will not come ,but when he leaves i will come. Traditionally parliament is opened by the president of the republic…kkkkkkkkkkk….MWAISENIPO MUKWAI

  20. So happy the UPNDonkeys have eaten a humble pie. I will eat prawns and lump steak after SONA in celebration. Your Excellency ECL your wisdom and smartness never cease to amaze me!! KiKiKi by HH with his Bantustan cadres

  21. This move by the incoming UPND does not confirm that Lungu was legimately elected as president of Zambia. It is in the interest of the national development. The Commonwealth Secretary General would not be wasting time and resources if Lungu won the 2016 elections squarely. In fact Lungu confided to the Commonwealth Secretary General that there were flows in the results and that if petition was heard the results would have been different. Lungu at that stage was asked why a petition was not heard himself as a lawyer and signed the constitution to uphold that constitution. The president was for lack of a better term ashamed challenged by a prominent lawyer herself. UPND does not recognise Lungu won the elections but will move on for the sake of the country.

  22. Finally the fishing expedition on dry grounds is over.Losing elections is painful but i did not expect UPND to behave as if there were the only oppositions which participated in the 2016 general elections.Hatred,bitterness,resentments,anger and envy defines opposition parties that we have nowadays in Zambia.If ElC is mismanaging the affairs of the Nation give us the alternative to what he is undertaking.

  23. Zambia needs love and genuine reconciliation.It can only come if we raise our barometer of arguments above tribalism and petty talks.The wounds of poverty are being felt by all of us except those who are enjoying tax free things.No politician,not even a single one,will make this nation a better place to live in.Progress and liberation should start from household level.People should not depend on politicians to liberate them from the yoke of poverty.These politicians are all cut from the same cloth of deception.They are their for their stomachs and well being.Let’s fight poverty in our own homes minus thing about politicians who are not after our well being.We have a responsibility to choose leaders of our choice because that is our civic duty.

  24. A Govt retiree committed suicide and died becoz his money was not paid to him instead stolen and channeled to building personal casinos

  25. The stance taken by UPND not to stay away from the parliament opening by his excellence ECL, should have been done in 2016 and people would be talking of other things now. To me this seems like the start of acceptance of defeat in the general elections which UPND lost. Some many national issues have happened in the one year they have been dragging their shoes to accept ECL as the eligible president of Zambia. Imagine their electorate have lost from the nation cake this year’s budget allocation as no one stood for them to ask what they required to be worked on. Time lost is never recovered, the one year our able brothers and sisters in southern, north western and western have lost in terms of development will go down the history of Zambia books. Off course the able government of ECL did…

  26. If you’re a good statistician you will agree with me that the 2021 election results will not be any different, so UPND should be ready to loose again-plain truth and there is never rigging.

  27. Go and work. You campaigned for the job and you were granted by the people to represent them. Why should you even go to court for absenting yourself from work without a sick report. If your farm worker did the same you wouldn’t hesitate to discipline him. Go and listen to His Master’s Voice. There is a lot to learn from him because he is informed. Lastly do not just look for negatives for there would be no positives without the negatives. Look for information and solutions instead.

  28. @HaJayJay, # 1.4 your heart is failing you fast! Try Jesus! He is the best medicine for heartaches! I doubt if ever you do find sleep! Hate and anger wear the soul bad!

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