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Zambia is actively Engaged in what is going on in Zimbabwe, says Vice President

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Vice President Inonge Wina
Vice President Inonge Wina
Vice President Inonge Wina says government is actively engaged with authorities in Zimbabwe on the current political impasse in that country.

The Vice President said as Deputy Chairperson of the SADC troika committee President Edgar Lungu wants to ensure that Zimbabwean authorities find a compromise and resolve their challenges in a peaceful and amicable manner.

She urged Zambians to be patient as they will be updated on the unfolding situation in Zimbabwe.

And the Vice has clarified that President Lungu never declared that he will not contest the presidency in 2021.

Speaking in Parliament this morning during the Vice President’s question time, Mrs Wina said President Lungu only said his current term ends in 2021.

She said the President observed that his candidacy in 2021 will depend on his and the PF’s decision.

Mr Wina said there was nothing wrong with the PF Secretary General Davies Mwila to state that the party’s preferred presidential candidate in 2021 is President Lungu.

The Vice also said the President has bemoaned the lack of intra-party democracy in opposition political parties.

Mr Wina said clinging to power without seeking election is a phenomenon in some parties which have not allowed intra party democracy to take root.

And Mrs Wina has assured farmers that they will soon be paid money for supplying produce to the Food Reserve Agency -FRA.

She said the Ministry of Finance has been instructed to release funds to start paying farmers by Monday next week.

She said government has intervened in the matter because it is concerned that some farmers have not yet received their money despite supplying produce to the FRA.

Meanwhile, Mrs Wina said government is engaging the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC- government on the banning of Zambian goods from entering that country.

She said the DRC and Zambia are important trading partners who should resolve any disputes amicably.

Some of the Zambian goods which have been barred from entering DRC are cement, steel, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

8 COMMENTS

    • When Zimbabwe was going through hard times, you stood by and just watched.

      What is it you can possible influence there? You can not even manage your own country, busy stealing money. Talk about barking self importance which is non existent.

      If Lungu carries on with his third term bid, we will borrow those soldiers from Zimbabwe to escort him to Mukobeko prison. And you Madame, will accompany him.

    • lungu’s main and only concern on what’s going on in Zimbabwe is that his consultant, role model and mentor has lost power, and with that loss goes the ability to demonstrate practically how to cling to power until you are at least nearly a hundred years, or until a brave army boots you out. That’s what lungu is mourning and what the misguided vice-president is alluding to when she says Zambia is “actively” engaged in what’s going on in Zim. Mugabe is gone.

  1. I am wishing our Zimbabwean brothers and sisters a safety transition to a new Government. It’s sad that one of Africa’s Greatest men had to be removed from power by force, but whatever it is, his party members understand him better than the rest of the world, and his appearance publicly at a Graduation ceremony is assurance that he is fine. It may be true that the military action was not against him but whom to succeed him. Let’s pray that he retires with the dignity that he ruled Zimbabwe with. We should always celebrate him as one of Africa’s greatest men. Latest information says that the Army Generals have failed the people of Zimbabwe; and that Baba Mugabe has refused to hand over power to them. So we shall watch as things unfold and wish them the best. Baba Bob’s public…

  2. Can President ECL tell us what makes his Zambian men pillage a woman. Surely as their victim, all I can request an international criminal tribunal is to jail them for life. They committed nuisances and acts immoral to the eye and mind. Why pillage a woman in abuse if state machinery? President ECL should concentrate on paying back all that his people stole and wasted and are illegally with holding, than to meddle in Zim’s internal Affairs. Those people have respect for human dignity and they kept my children safely for more than five years, in South Africa; whilst Zambians mobbed and killed my young daughter within 3 months of my absence, just because of a UN job; and his IG of Police is compounding such felony because he is implicated. I urge the entire world to condemn such…

  3. Mrs Wina has assured farmers that they will soon be paid money for supplying produce to the Food Reserve Agency. She said the Ministry of Finance has been instructed to release funds to start paying farmers by Monday next week…..

    Madame, the rains are here. Farmers needed that money to buy seeds and fertilisers to plant this season.

    This is an open admission that your Lungu who is off on a holiday somewhere else in the world has FAILED. He has failed to provide food security for the Nation and miserably failed those poor farmers.

  4. The comment above that Zambia stood by and did nothing for for the Zimbabweans while they suffered is so
    damming. Madame your speech above if a fudge, a cover up – the beginning of years of lies, misrepresentations that will threaten the freedom and rights of the very good people of Zambia.Zambia is a beautiful country with resources– demand those resources to be used to update schools, infrastructure ,
    agriculture and industry. Make the government accountable , do not let Zambia descend into the economic ruin
    of its neighbour. We pray to give the Zimbabweans the strength to forge their future and never ever allow
    complacency to rob them of their personal freedom and the chance to better their lives.

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