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Stephen Kampyongo warns People calling for impeachment

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Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo
Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo

Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo has cautioned people propagating for the impeachment of President Edgar Lungu not to cross the line.

Mr Kampyongo who featured last evening on Zambia National Broadcasting Cooperation (ZNBC) Sunday interview, wondered why some people were desperate to impeach the President, when the country will be having general elections in 2021.

He explained that the impeachment motion is aimed at creating uncertainty among the citizenry.

Mr Kampyongo said the opposition are using the impeachment motion to cast doubt in the minds of people who elected President Lungu during the 2016 general elections.

“Let’s not create unnecessary situations, unnecessary certainties, when it is not necessary at all. We all know there will be elections coming in 2021, why would one be desperate to impeach the President? What next, and in whose interest is the impeachment, not to cross the line?” he said.

The Home Affairs Minister said the talk about the impeachment motion is only creating uncertainties among Zambians both locally and those living in the diaspora.

He noted that the maneuvers being employed by the opposition are not good for the economy, as they have the potential to negatively affect the country’s national economy.

Mr Kampyongo said the impeachment motion is not an ordinary situation but aimed at undermining the presidency.

The Minister has since urged the opposition to respect the decision made by the courts of law.

He explained that President Lungu was ushered into office through the highest constitutional court, which should be respected.

And commenting on the enforcing of the law, Mr Kampyongo refuted assertions that law enforcing agencies were selective in the application of the law.

Mr Kampyongo said law enforcing agencies have been impartial in there execution of their mandate.

He noted that it is wrong for people to insinuate that the Anti-Corruption Commission and the Zambia Police was selective in applying the law.

Mr Kampyongo explained that the same treatment that ordinary Zambians are subjected to is the same treatment that is rendered to people perceived as “big shots” in the political arena.

“When we are offering checks and balances lets be sincere, there is no selection, no abuse, the same things happening to the would be big shots is what is happening to the ordinary citizen.” He stated.

He emphasized that whoever commits an offences despite their status in society will be dealt with according to the set rules and laws of the land.

36 COMMENTS

  1. No treason stuff again, please, bu hero hero hero everyday?
    The same guy caused horrible atmosphere with Commonwealth, now UN and their Logan about to leave, all because of the MONGU Kuomboka traffic sagga unnecessary arrests. People forget who cause all these mess.
    Now we go again, arrests over just mere TALKS in parliament.

    • Really laughable honestly if Lazy Lungu is a smart lawyer which he is not ..he would pull this midget empty tin and tell him to shut up but the man is useless as his appointees

    • Dundu head…full of intimidations Zambia does not belong to you or Lungu…A quick reminder this is not 1990.

    • The call for impeachment is legally frivolous with no grounds to hold. In ideal democratic society as ours, they are resorting to such acts of aberration on a working Presidency to keep him detracted from building his expendable political capital. They know petition is baseless and devoid of credibility to move beyond the filing desk, but nevertheless, they’re endeavoring to slowdown President Chagwa from his development momentum. Besides insults and tribalism smear work, they will have to campaign temperate.

    • Let them continue on paths of self deceit all the way. Impeachment calls on frivolous grounds and their daoly despucable smear rhetoric of calling Chagwa a foreigner from Malawi, Rwanda, Mozambique, sometimes Burundi has zero dividends come 2021. We have some parody for opposition politics # mama tell us what we should do with them. Malema is very right.

    • @ Senior useful !diot

      Not just “humble hardworking” but also “visionary”, “vise”, “anointed” and CONVICTED EMBEZZLER?

  2. If lungu is not a corrupt theif and is a true leader , he has nothing to fear with the impeachment , after all PF have the numbers, kailee

    • Who is Kampyongo mwebantu? I perceive him as a good for nothing illitrate masquarading as a minister. He has spent all his life in that too big for him office inciting PF cadres and commanding Kanganja to beat opposition.A minister should be a role model but nothing you can learn from this corrupt Kamyongo. Let impeachment take place its not your father being impeached Kamyongo waumfwa mambala?

  3. Just shut your mouth you fool…
    We are tired of your intimidations…this is not 1990…do us a favor go home and cry…
    We are counting down for you fools to get the hell out of power…the time is ticking every day.

  4. Well done Kampyongo. ECL has an opportunity to rescue the county from these lunatics. Cage them before it is too late. Inform the commonwealth that enough is enough and don’t allow them to enter the country when you cage the zombies.
    I am very annoyed.

    • You are annoyed about this yet are happy when they are breaching the constitution signing $1.2 billion for a carriageway where have you seen that.

  5. I think Mr. Kampyongo is wrong to issue a threat in this manner. What instead he should have done is educate the citizenry what impeachment is and its qualifiers. If this word is enshrined in our constitution, why shouldn’t there be a discussion about it? They way Mr. Kampyongo has presented himself, is pure demonstration of the rule of people as opposed to the rule of law. When leaders fail to perform to expectation, they must be removed swiftly before things get messed up. When people get appointed as diplomats representing Zambia and they happen to underperform, they get recalled. There is no waiting for a change of government so that the next president can remove them. If we believe and support the rule of law, let impeachment take place and see what comes out of it. There has to be…

    • THIS COUNTRY MUST BE CALLED TO ORDER; this purported threat and statement attributed to one, Stephen Kampyongo MP, and Minister of Home (Interior) Affairs is a very serious demonstration that the PF Regime and its Leadership isn’t aware of the contents of the Republican Constitution and/or simply do not respect the supreme Law of the Land.
      Whichever side you view this, is essentially what the IMPEACHMENT MOTION before the National Assembly is all about: GRAND IGNORANCE AND VIOLENCE OF PART OR WHOLE OF THE CONSTITUTION ON THE PART OF PRESIDENT EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU

  6. PF members be brave, why are you so desperate… we have the constitution which is the supreme law of the land and impeachment issues is there in the same constitution. I am in full support of the motion so that we can have a precedent in our country. if Mr. president violates the constitution, let him face the same law he assented.

  7. impeachment is good for the nation, for zambians. please may someone educate kampyongo. if it is not possible through day school, let it be done through night school. awe shuwa

    • These empty tins like Kampyongo the former Street currency dealer need to civics lessons…Power without Authority is Tyranny!!

  8. You know HH’s desperation for state house should not be entertained because why allow Kainde to take us Zambians at rasom?Kainde and Kambwili must be caged!!!i really miss KK or FTJ Chiluba’s era where such evil politicians were not lasting for 1 year!!!TOO MUCH OF ANYTHING IS BAD.YES,WE ARE DEMOCRATIC NATION BUT PEOPLE LIKE KAINDE AND KAMBWILI SHOULD NOT BE HANDLED WITH KID’S GROOVES!!INSTEAD OF OUR ECONOMY PICKING UP,KAINDE IS BUSY BRINGING CONFUSION IN ZAMBIA AND WE ARE ALL WATCHING THAT F00L WITH NO FATHE(-MWANA WA MUCHIGOLOLO) MESSING UP OUR COUNTRY-SHOCKING!!where is OP or patrotic men in uniform to get the hell out of Kainde?
    We are sick and tired of that tribal Kainde!!
    I repeat,HH will surely turn upnd into a terror group if he loses 2021 elections because he is a very bad…

  9. I think ***** should go back to the streets where he comes from because he talking rubbish your boss is a thief period !

  10. The other day the British ambassador advised h.h that Patricia cannot chair the dialogue process. That it is purely a Zambian affair. Those were the words of Baroness Patricia Scotland, speaking through Mr Cochrane Dyet, diplomatically warning h.h not to denigrate the high status of the Commonwealth Secretaty General with his petty politics.

  11. I really can’t wait to see this Kaponya go to Jail….I will make an effort to visit the prison facility they will take him….I am so done with his brainless intimidation’s.

  12. He has talked about not crossing a line without defining that line clearly, especially according to the law or the constitution. That is not OK coming from a Minister in charge of the Police. I can only speculate how he will determine a line has been crossed…

  13. Mr. Kampyongo has nothing to say apart from trying very hard to intimidate people. It is clear that there is something he does not understand about what the Presidency stands for in a country. It is about upholding the highest integrity in the land by abiding by the highest law of the land, the constitution at all times. Once abrogated, he must step aside right there and then because he is no longer ‘His Excellency’.

  14. Why not debate the impeachment motion once it is tabled in Parliament? All these commentaries aimed at non-parliamentarians make it appear as if PF has something to fear – likely to lose if tabled. Please project strength and not fear!

  15. That’s what happens when you sign a document into law without reading it and upstanding it then appoint people like kampyongo dandaheads mawe ba ECL if you have the numbers you brag about why are you busy trying to find ways of stopping a process so legit sure

  16. PF let the impeachment be tabled in parliament. You have the numbers why are you stopping it? You are just afraid of the evil that you have committed, the evil that even your fellow PFs are not happy about. You choose between who is abrogating the law and who is not. I am disappointed that some if you PF MPs dont know that the case of a president abrogating is impeachable, shame on you. Just the failure of a president protecting the law is impeachable. The sensible Cathrine Namugala confirmed that impeachment motion met all conditions and qualifies to be tabled before parliament. Why do you still urgue? You are making yourselves as a laughing bunch of leaders who dont think.

  17. It is strange that the people who did not recorgnise the election of His Excellence E. L are the ones in the for front on the motion of impeachment. How do you even remove something you don’t recognise is in place?

  18. The voters who acknowledge ECL as president can impeach him.
    Guys from dundumwezi who are still waiting for HH to be inaugurated should sit down and wait for him in 2045.
    Besides, how many presidents are u going to demonize just to have a Tonga president?

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