The ruling Patriotic Front is still vibrant and strong, party Deputy Secretary General Mumbi Phiri has said.
Mrs Phiri has assured the PF membership that there is no need to panic as the movement remains true to its founding ideals as the Boat.
She said the party may may have challenges and minor setbacks but assured that the party has always made a rebound.
“Our resilient and enduring spirit has seen us rising above every challenge, regrouping and relaunching as a united force. There are those who seek our fall and it is the constitutional duty of every member of the Party to defend the movement from such agendas,” Mrs Phiri stated in a statement.
She announced that the party is in the process of finalising its 2018-2021 strategic plan.
Mrs Phiri said the plan is dedicated to the members, to motivate and grow the Party’s membership base.
Below is the full statement from Mrs Phiri
PRESS RELEASE
PATRIOTIC FRONT LOOKS AHEAD TO A MORE UNITED NATION, IMPROVED SERVICE DELIVERY AND MORE FULFILLED PROMISES IN 2018
BY PATRIOTIC FRONT DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL MRS MUMBI PHIRI
Lusaka, Zambia, 3rd January 2018
The Patriotic Front (PF) takes this opportunity to wish Zambians from all walks of life a happy 2018 and looks ahead to a more united nation. We had our successes as well as setbacks. We had misunderstandings and political challenges.
Through it all, we remain united as a people determined to realize the Zambian Dream as pronounced in our National Anthem _“A Land of Work and Joy in Unity, All One, Strong and Free”_. To realize this dream, the Patriotic Front has a social contract with the Zambian people through which we seek not to leave any Citizen behind.
This we have continued to demonstrate through the various development we have taken to different parts of the Country without segregating between our strongholds and those that might not be.
At this point, it is important to observe that the outbreak of Cholera demands all of us as stakeholders, including all our citizens, to pause and ask what we are doing to contributing to promoting hygiene in our compounds and cities. We have neighbouring Countries like Rwanda that have made it as part of their national culture to continuously clean their surroundings. 53 years after Independence, Zambia must not wait for a wake-up call in the name of a Cholera epidemic to keep our cities clean.
Echoing the remarks by His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, the Patriotic Front is making a clarion call to Councils and the entire political leadership to sit up and ensure we do not have a recurrence of Cholera outbreaks. Our hearts and prayers go out to those who have lost their loved one and everyone affected by the epidemic.
Contrary to assertions in some sections of society, let me reassure that the Patriotic Front does not and will not condone any form of corruption. In our fight against corruption as Patriotic Front, Zambians can be assured that *there are no sacred cows* because we understand the weight of responsibility that comes with our people-given mandate to govern.
In this regard, we want to invite all members of the public with information also known as whistle blowers to tender in any evidence of any corruption with the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). We must have faith in our own institutions and ACC was established to deal with any form of corruption. Whistle blowers must therefore be encouraged to report any such corrupt occurrences to responsible institutions that have the mandate to investigate and prosecute.
This is where we call on our law enforcement agencies to find ways of focusing on the merits and demerits of any reported corrupt activities. Patriotic Front stands ready to stand with these important institutions because it is opposed to any form of corruption.
The year 2018 presents great opportunities which we must not lose sight of as a Country. In this year we must witness the emerging of a pool of young entrepreneurs while supporting the existing ones.
In 2018 we must witness more prudent management of resources and ensure that those cited of misapplication in the Auditor General’s Report are punished by the law. This year should see more expanded service delivery in all the ten (10) Provinces of our country. We must not lose sight of the projects we have set to execute because we have a duty to transform our country’s landscape for the better.
The Patriotic Front therefore commits to ensure the promises of its 2016-2021 election manifesto are implemented without compromise, the seventh national development plan goals and objectives are realized and of course guided by the Country’s blue-print, the Vision 2030. In this regard, the Patriotic Front is calling on all Zambians to put a shoulder to the wheel if the benefits of our economic progression are to trickle down to the masses. As we scale up our social cash transfer, Patriotic Front will continue to do more in line with its pro-poor character.
We must ensure that we double our efforts in achieving food security for every household as well as find ways to make agriculture a more profitable venture for our hardworking farmers. We must remove things that do not work or those that hamper effective delivery of farming inputs and focus on things that work. We must reverse the devastating effect of unemployment on individuals, families and communities. This is one of the objectives of our 2016-2021 election manifesto.
In the year 2018, we look at our laws not through partisan lenses and make the desired amendments which will make our democracy more functional must build on the constitutional values of our democracy and human rights. We therefore call on our Members of Parliament from all Political Parties to rise to the occasion and ensure our laws are sound and in tandem with our democratic aspirations as a Country.
Let me end by assuring the membership of the Patriotic Front that your movement is strong and vibrant – it remains true to its founding ideals as the Boat. We may have challenges and minor setbacks but be assured that your Party the Patriotic Front has always made a rebound. Our resilient and enduring spirit has seen us rising above every challenge, regrouping and relaunching as a united force. There are those who seek our fall and it is the constitutional duty of every member of the Party to defend the movement from such agendas.
Let me also inform the membership that the Party is in the process of finalising its 2018-2021 strategic plan and there is no doubt that the heartbeat of such a document will the general membership – it is a plan dedicated to the members, to motivate and grow the Party’s membership base. The period under the plan will be characterised by heightened interface between the Party leadership and general membership to address concerns, challenges and opportunities. Such interface will not be a one-off event but on-going process as we continue building the Party. There is therefore no need to panic, lets keep our eyes on the ball.
Signed By:
Mrs Mumbi Phiri
Deputy Secretary General – PATRIOTIC FRONT
Party Headquarters
Mwayamba!! Nosense!!
By graveyard standards you are still “vibrant and strong.” In the world of the living, however, you are dead.
Uko!
What opportunities in 2018 is corrupt PFs deputy SG Mumbi Phiri is yapping about? Cholera is now a people’s blanket for the already suffering poverty & hunger majority Zambians.
The Nkoswes suddenly jumps out of the hot boiling PF mpoto of corruption echoing dununa reverse opportunities when actually she means opportunities for selfish, corrupt, gluttonous, violent undemocratic & greedy PF Koswes Mumpoto.
Visionless PF bandits can illusionary defend their undemocratic & corruptive “power” when yapping , but remember that time is more powerful than PF~vima Nkoswe Mumpoto. I smell some presidential elections until UPNDs petition is heard.
PF is incapacitated!
The Skeleton Key
~206~
Meimatungu,
Forgive the visionless PFs SG on her yapping.
What she’s yapping to say that PF Koswe Mumpoto is apparently “vibrant and strong” refers to physical activities in violence, corruption, anarchy, failed economy & all institutions.
Imagine now cholera is a blanket for the majority of people in Zambia under the undemocratic & unlegitimate violent PF forceful leadership.
The Skeleton Key
~206~
Mumbi Phiri ”…… announced that the party is in the process of finalising it’s 2018-2021 strategic plan.” Mama this is 2018 and we have already had 3 days chewed off the calendar! Strategic thinking means thinking 1 , 5, 10, 20 and even 100 years in advance! But pa Zambia once party loses its governance, kwasila! It’s also realising that people must be free to come in and leave! It’s not a cult where if you leave, you will expose the secrets! This must be an opportunity to bounce back not saying and doing the same all same all! I think you need to bring into PF a PhD holder such as Mushota (although that’s the best way to disperse cadres)!
Definitely, pf as strong as ever.
We are yet to see the real reasons why Kalaba has resigned.
His quick pronouncements about corruption seem to be a scape goat and a vent for real reason.
He sounds disadvantaged, and unhappy with matters that boarder on personal issues. Otherwise let him be instrumental in reporting what he has seen to the anti-corruption, and help with investigations.
Otherwise he turns out to be another Chishimba Kambwili, and later a Myles Sampa.
@ 1.3 Skeleton:
You are a saint. I am not. I am trying to drive sense into her thick skull.
BA MUMBI PHIRI
PRESIDENT LUNGU NEEDS TO MAKE A STATEMENT ON THE RESIGNATION OF KALABA WHO HAS INSINUATED THAT LUNGU IS CORRUPT.
YOU ARE ONLY OBFUSCATING ISSUES
Kalaba is in a league never seen before worldwide. SA and Nigeria, the biggest African economies there is corruption and we have heard no resignation. China the Kremlin and the biggest Western countries with corporate corruption that disadvantages the poor third world citizens, no one resigns for the plight of the vulnerable. Kalaba you have just done that. I feel small as a diasporan.
Talking about Mumbi, your talk is empty. Firstly PF is not a movement, MMD is.
Secondly, you are lying about a strategic plan for 2018. If this was true the plan could have been ready by the start of the year. This is just desperation.
Thirdly, your illegal collision with MMD thieves is you downfall.
KBF needs to be listened to you party you call a movement is on shaky and not solid ground.
Imwe mayo which ACC are you talking about.Tha commission is as useless as a used condom.How many cases dit it successfully bring to the courts of law for prosecution?Fire trucks and ambulances were all bought at inflated prices.Road constructions by the corrupt Chinese companies are being constructed at twice the price.
Awe katwishi.My prayer is this year pf must fall.
The woman has applied lip-stick but her mouth looks like Koswe, why?
The PF house of cards is about to collapse.
Preposterous. Your actions are incongruent with your words. You are horrible guys. Just go away.
But ACC is dead. What can they do?
Vibrant and strong? That is besides the point. Why this desperation by the Lungu regime to steal and conceal? Why are you trying to hide your crimes in broad day light?
“In this regard, we want to invite all members of the public with information also known as whistle blowers to tender in any evidence of any corruption with the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). We must have faith in our own institutions and ACC was established to deal with any form of corruption. Whistle blowers must therefore be encouraged to report any such corrupt occurrences to responsible institutions that have the mandate to investigate and prosecute.”
“This is where we call on our law enforcement agencies to find ways of focusing on the merits and demerits of any reported corrupt activities. Patriotic Front stands ready to stand with these important institutions because it is opposed to any form of corruption.”
AND SO IT IS, MADAME PHIRI. WELL PUT.
This is a nice and powerful quote. But note that this is the first time the word “whistle blowers” has been used. Up until now, the message has been “if you have evidence prove it to ACC”, WRONG, you cant expect that. This changes the whole context because you can not ask a Zambian to proof the facts, that is the job of the Police and ACC, whistle blowers will provide information and details to the best of his/her knowledge and ACC and Police should find facts. And this what some of us have been calling for, all this time. So MUMBI has realized that was not the correct way to communicate that message. BTW: You are a strong caller of people to prove corruption. Are you convinced there is no corruption or what is your motivation for defending the corruption calls tooth and nail?
As long as they act professionally, it is easy to disinfect the system from the corrupters and corruptees . The only worry is that chances they could be worse than the corrupters. They could be running a “wholesale” for corruption, they use whistle blower information to fell their own pockets throw threats.
Deputy SG when you have soft spoken credible honorable stalwarts like Hon Kalaba resigning on principle then there’s a problem. You are closer to our President. Advise him correctly
don’t just bootlick
Both the pulse and the body temperature are elevated. They never lie.
Yes, there must be a problem. And there is.
useless lady
She also claimed Sata was strong and vibrant, two days later Zondwa was sleeping with the fishes. May her prophecy about PF also come true.
UNIP left power, MMD left power. The time for PF to lose power has arrived. With or without third term, we shall vote for alternative leadership.
In short: the looting can continue do not worry we are still safe.
The PF with motto “power to the people” seems gone. The party is now characterized by selfish agendas. The President needs to be stronger than before in handling issues that continue to grieve general populous. Many corruption cases cited required suspension of mentioned officers and paving way for serious investigations.
PF is still a viable party though it is slowly dying helplessly. Its leadership must act swiftly to curb corruption, high cost of living, high cost of doing business, widening gap between poor and the rich, wasted skill obtained by citizenry.
Somebody tell me why we should hire chinese to import building materials and construct disposable houses for the army countrywide? Dont we have our building materials? Is the MIGHTY Zambian Army not able to build houses for…
themselves?
Don’t waste our time iwe ka Mumbi, which corruption are you fighting?
For all, we know Levy Mwanawasa fought corruption!
Levy came, he fought and we saw!
Lungu came, he steals, and we have seen!
You Patriotic Fissure (PF) and MMD have run down the economy, basically pocketing the whole national treasury.
ECL Leadership, my foot! People are suffering, too much cholera because of your corruption. For the first time, the humble Zambia Army has been turned into public cleaners.
Not even Njimbu can listen to you ka mumbi.
Mwanasa institutionalised corruption if don’t know.He imported prosecutors who tormented FTJC, left, centre and right until they sent to grave early.You call that fighting corruption.He failed to enact a new constitution!!
@ROKA
I am talking about Mwanawasa the late President, you are talking about Mwanasa who has never ruled Zambia. It is unfortunate that FTJ my fellow Luapula boy engaged in corruption, his boys like Saviour Chungu, Shantonga, etc became fugitives running away from corruption charges.
You are wrong, my fellow Luapula boy FTJ died during RB tenure of office, and RB had already pardoned him or stopped corruption cases either!
He destroyed MMD now PF guess who preak is?
He destroyed MMD now PF guess who he preak is?
Who grabbed UNZA land as a VP and had to hand it back after an outcry? Who was one of the first to build in the City Airport land? Who was accused of building a family forest including having relatives in senior positions at State House?
@abilima
Ba wesu!
You said after an outcry, The VP handed it back, isn’t? That is what normal people with working conscience can do.
Alas! tell me if ECL and cohorts of corruption have handed back anything after an outcry on various corruption activities including fire tenders..
Window dressing, the cracks are too big to cover up, am afraid.
PF, you are terminally ill, suffering from a deadly virus called “CORRUPTION.” Check the latest exists from your party – a cabinet minister, who has resigned because of corruption. In case you are still in doubt, ask Kalaba and Kambwili.
We dont want MMD to take over our party. if the PF goes who will remain with our President?
Lets save our party we still have time
But its the presdent who is headong corruption with Kaizer
This should not be about the PF being strong and intact. This is about Zambia. Please do not put your political party(and belly) ahead of you country. Our people are suffering. The medical system is a disaster, education is failing, agriculture is suffering. Meantime foreigners and a few select PF members are getting rich, at the expense of the masses. Please, let’s not lose our humanity just for the love of money. How can you watch your neighbour starving and start politicking. Worse still, how can you steal from the poor and claim all is well in your political party? Beware, there is a God. And He is holy and Just. He is the judge you will one day have to face. But also know that the Zambian people are also judging your actions and words.
Also I saw picture of Mumbi Phiri put online by CK ……looking worse than a compound maid!! These faggot’s forget their miserable origins.Today it baleteka Zambia !!!!!!
God! please help us, we need another Levy Mwanawasa
I love Levy Mwanawasa, each I am crossing Levy Bridge I Feel Levy fighting corruption!
In God we trust!
To borrow Njimbu’s words: Harry Kalaba is another Levy Mwanawasa!!!
I think Hon. Kalaba should visit the ACC and provide information than crying lion!lion!lion!
It’s one think to preserve yourself and another to do the right thing.
I thank the government for maintaining faith in our own institution the ACC.
It is up to those at ACC to make the Zambian people proud by doing their duties patriotically.
It’s very easy to accuse anyone with corruption especially when you are over ambitious like Hon Kalaba.What is hard is demonstrate your accusations with facts to the public now that you are a back bencher.
it is not his or any other citizen to provide the evidence. it ACC that is supposed to investigate and find the evidence or the absence of it. thats what they are paid for.
it is not his or any other citizen’s reposibilty to provide the evidence. it ACC that is supposed to investigate and find the evidence or the absence of it. thats what they are paid for.
That is a trick that those in power are using to threaten Zambians from reporting anything.
ACC is passively waiting for a citizen to prove???…..atase….yet they are supposed to be investigating and gathering evidence, not the citizen.
It’s upon ACC to protect whistle blowers both identity and physically. Pressure should be on ACC to start acting and not on Zambian Citizen, who is a victim. Citizen can only report their suspicion. ACC has all the machinery to gather the evidence.
surely are we going to let corruption kill our party and allow a pathetic Under 5 to chance Plot 1?
The answer is NO madam SG
PF is the most corrupt and tribal party this whole universe. Firing experts from one region because they want to conceal their corrupt activities. Am seeing kambwili dismantling this carcass for the advantage of Upnd.
It is true PF has felt the impact of being ditched by a very senior minister. The tone of her voice can tell that they have felt it just that those who like talkng always find something to talk about even if it is nonsense. We await to hear similar nonsense from Sunday Chanda, the other Chanda, Frank the priest, Davies Mwila and other vuvuzilas tasked to speak for PF. Mumbi Phiri, a minus does not add or multiply, it always reduces the quantity.
May the almighty God dispense justice to the citizens who were ethnically cleansed from the public service.May the hands that did the cleansing suffer in shame for eternity
Sorry, PF, you are an amputee. You just lost a leg, a little while ago, an arm.
Like the Titanic Ship the PF Boat laden with stinking corruption is sinking. When u see people like Harry Kalaba jumping off the Boat then u know drowning is imminent. Lungu and his PF Koswes believe in 100% Corruption Tolerance and in 2018 the dice is cast. The problem in PF is that Lungu is the Kingpin of Corruption and he has surrounded himself with thieves,criminals and mafios. Under the visionless Lungu Corruption cannot be eradicated becoz Lungu is Mr Corruption Number One himself. The fish rots from the head downwards. Things fall apart in PF becoz the Centre can no longer hold.
Who dresses you? Your hairline is receding, your eyebrows look like a witch and the makeup does not suit your face. Stop showing your old breasts . They are not young and firm. You need to go cover yourself. Truly, you are not pleasing to look at.
We know that the bleeding is now very severe and acute. You should be crying, instead of jesting; mourning, instead of boasting. Be real, Madam Phiri, be honest.
You lose one limb and claim the body is still intact, how?
For as long as clowns like this woman remain the face of the corrupt PF Experiment, the party can only go one way; down the tube!! No amount of window dressing will serve it from the demise they have created themselves by failing to carry through a the mandate the people would have entrusted unto them to rule Zambia. They forfeited that mandate when they began to steal, plunder national resources to enrich themselves at the expense of the people! They have lost the trust of the people and the people will be happy to see their backs!
Madam Phiri, how you remind me of Francis Bacon when he says: “Certainly there be that delight in giddiness and count it a bondage to fix a belief.” Why can’t you see trouble when it shows up and call it such, see a storm from afar and prepare for an escape? That’s what smart people do. It’s what Harry Kalaba has done. He has earned our respect and admiration. By contrast, you sound entrenched, unmoved. I wish you the best of luck in the new year and the years to come. Remain the ardent patriot and staunch loyalist you have always been. Happy New Year!
You people surprise me. You honest;y expect Mumbi Phiri to speak sense.
Look at her physical appearance and you will have your answer.
It is people like Mumbi Phiri who make zambia a laughing stock.She is such lier. Very annoying too. Mr President, do you need cheer leaders who lie when there is no need to do so?
Same words as Ruphia’s
bana phiri stop protecting your job just hand over to KBF. you have failed to organise our Party structures.
Lungu will be found to be the most corrupt President ever…..as a clue Zambians should look at the fact that lungu does not even deny being called a corrupt theif…..because he is a corrupt theif…….it is a known fact that lungus gang of theives demand a cut from every over inflated tender.
Spaka the most influential blogger. 2017
TITANIC SINKING TATA, PIPO WERE BUSY COMFORTING THEMSELVES BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY DISASTER. NDELOLELAFYE
Kalaba please cool down. It is not true you resigned for corruption’s sake but bola nayikosa imwee. We all want plot 1.
“…bola nayikosa imwee.” Wish that were the case. PF are scoring own goals. That is what is causing the frustration.
The enemy within is far more dangerous than the one far away!
Ankanwa ububi Mumbi. Uyu ena te koswe no kwindi.
As usual, Mumbi felt the need to say something and yet explaining nothing.
It’s a shame that Mumbi Phiri is even thinking that they are members left in the Pf party.The only members could be herself and the service Pf MPs & Ministers.
@38 meant Serving
Humwine Halila. What is the difference between (Ka)Imbwili and Kalaba and Mulusa? HH and his minions are waiting to be joined by Kalaba to add more votes to the bantustan. No ways, HH will remain popular only in Southern province. Thank you!
Aren’t ashamed of what you say? How can a black person use the epithet “bantustan”, a derogatory word used by the Boers during apartheid. I thought we had no tribal bigots and neo-nazists in Zambia? Stop it, you neo-nazist! The world has no place for people like you. Every human being is equal irrespective of their origin, region, ethnic group, etc. Aren’t even ashamed to display that flag? That country does not subscribe to your retrogressive ideas.
Tribal Under Five is unelectable!