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PF candidate for the upcoming By-Election does not have grade 12 certificate-Nkombo

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UPND Chairman for Elections Garry Nkombo at Lusaka Central Police
UPND Chairman for Elections Garry Nkombo

The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) have threatened to petition the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to disqualify Patriotic Front (PF) aspirant Godwin Putu in the Mangango parliamentary by-election on account that he does not qualify.

The Mangango seat left vacant following the death, in a road traffic accident, of then UPND Member of Parliament Naluwa Mweene.

UPND Elections Chairperson Gary Nkombo has alleged that the PF candidate, Mr. Putu confessed that he does not have academic qualification to contest.

Speaking when addressing journalists in Lusaka yestrday, Mr. Nkombo implored ECZ to investigate the PF through Putu’s abrogating the electoral code of conduct.

Mr. Nkombo said that his party will engage the lawyers to scrutinize the documents Mr. Putu presented to see whether the qualification authority of Zambia and Examination Council of Zambia genuinely certified his documents he presented to electoral commission of Zambia (ECZ).

According to Mr. Nkombo, owing to constitutional academic qualification clause, Mr. Putu does not qualify as he does not possess a grade 12 certificate.

41 COMMENTS

  1. What do you expect from the pf. Now watch them cook up a certificate and magically this guy will be qualified. The ecz is a useless pf conduit for theft of elections.

    • I thought ecz with the help of ecz is supposed to verify the candidates qualifications during filing of nominations.what has happened to verifying qualifications?

    • Garry don’t start wasting time in courts again. UPND should leave it to other 46 political parties to fight PF. Why UPND thinks they are only ones in-charge of changing PF government?
      Law doesn’t apply to PF.
      Just go out and campaign and win clean.

    • How many PF Ministers still working whose seats has MPs were nullified by courts? They are 4.
      So waste your own lawyers like Matha Mushipe.

    • What about GBM? I’m sure if GBM was running mate to Lungu, by now your lawyers would be making money on this issue.

    • Electoral Commission of Zambia:ECZ
      Examinations Council of Zambia:ECZ

      But why?

      These guys should change exams institution to Zambian Council of Examinations (ZCE) to make life easy as both institutions have the same acronym -ECZ

    • No one in Zambia has a Grade 12 Certificate because such a qualification DOES NOT exist and has NEVER exited. Those who sit for Grade 12 exams only get either a School Certificate or a General Certificate in Education (GCE) and not a Grade 12 Certificate.

  2. If you ask us….all you people don’t qualify to represent us….until the learned come out of their cacoons Zambia will forever be led by such useless chaps…..whether in power or in opposition…..the last time I checked all those guys who were not doing well in primary and secondary opted to go for less thinking courses….

  3. That’s PF for u, that r all dunder heads including the convicted thief debarred lawyer, this guy will even get a ministry to run if he wins and u expect development from such a lowlife.he wont even know how a contract looks like or understand what’s in the contract he will just sign that’s why we have all this debt

  4. Maybe this candidate is more marketable than the Upnd candidate. Otherwise I don’t think it’s true the guy hasn’t got the papers. Nkombo should give more details.

  5. So you think by having a grade 12 certificate and knowing how to speak the English language ekukwata amano? Do the English or our new colonisers from China know how to speak Lozi or even bemba? Amano tufyalwa nayo mwebantu please! Little wonder today even those professional lawyers/ engineers, doctors and other technocrats etc and even in parliament keep wearing vina WIG, shame on you….

    • Well said. Our friends in the USA and Europe attach more importance to talent and to them education is just an added advantage. Before ZCCM the whites in the mines had set up trades schools where people identified with certain abilities were sent for training. Courses ranged from those with say grade 6 education to those with form 2 standard. These people became the backbone of the mines and would solve problems easily. Enter the Zambian management, EIZ came into force and only those with UNZA or overseas education would be considered for promotion and entrusted with certain responsibilities.

    • Try get a job outside the country without an education and see who will buy that sh!t, no wonder we r where we are currently.

    • We’re not talking about getting a job outside the country naimwe. We’re talking about harnessing our talents. By the way I have seen mere grade 7 machine operators who have been found jobs in the Mideast helped by their former managers.

    • Ndanje well said mate
      Wonder how today every ‘educated’ Zambian has an MBA,PhD etc like Kambwili,gBm,etc. Africa twalisebana

  6. Before we worst alot of time arguing amongst ourselves, what do our electoral guidelines(law) say about qualifications of an aspiring MP? The main question should be: do ALL our aspiring candidates in that by-elections satisfy the requirements to contest or not?

  7. Gary is a time worster who does not even visit his constituency shame upnd work up and lets ague on constractive issues we are fed up by the way were is the mp for solwezi, chavuma,senanga they are always dozing when their friends are discussing serious issues in parliament there are there for allowances shame to the people who voted for u, coz u it seems u don’t know yo role why u there for, when yo constituencies are facing alot of challenges u are busy dozing in parliament waiting for the allowance

    • Iwe Ubuntuse.. Empty tins in parliament what can you expect from them. Those who are dozing in parliament are failing to contribute to the motion or does not understand English well hence Nkombo’s demand that they meet the mninmium qualification should be justified. I was in Kaoma, Mongu and senenga 2018 nothing new I saw since my first visit in 2011… . And what do you mean by saying “work up” ???

  8. Probably blowing hot air as usual, no facts this Nkombo. The trouble with upnd is that it is a trib.al based party, I challenge anyone to challenge me on this? For example isn’t it a regional party? Deny it, I am waiting. So whatever its leaders say, the reasoning is already flawed and cannor be trusted. They have never denied their trib.al base which means that they live by it and wants their regional own to rule.

    • Why ate you upnd cadre if you can talk hogwash about upnd.
      The matter in the article is about G12 certificate for him to qualify to stand as Mp.

    • G12 certificate is a MUST. Mind you No time wasted No illiterate should contest parliamental seats just because they are pf cadre.

  9. Good Garry, we need to start exposing PF for their dirt tricks, I know most cadres think this is a laughing matter. But it’s serious, this same illiterate might be appointed to be a minister of a very critical ministry. Look at the some the people appointed, like the dude who just got married and you will understand why the country is in a mess. We can’t allow this corruption and trickery by PF to continue mocking our intelligence and constitution.

    • No one in Zambia has a Grade 12 Certificate because such a qualification DOES NOT exist and has NEVER existed. Those who sit for Grade 12 exams only get either a School Certificate or a General Certificate in Education (GCE) and not a Grade 12 Certificate.

  10. THEY SET THE RULE OF LAW THE PF BUT NOW CZ SOMEONE HAS ASKED THEM WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS THEN IT BECOMES AN ISSUE.NOT CHIZIWAMILA NGALU KULUMA MBUZI. WISDOM CAN BE FOUND EVERY WHERE EVEN FROM A SCHOOL DROP OUT. BUT PF WENT AHEAD AND CHANGED THE CONSTITUTION TO SUIT THEMSELVES.UBUNKOMPO BALIFULISHASANA.THE TIME WHEN YOU WILL REALIZE IT WILL PAIN U ALOT MWEBANTU. THINGS SHOULDN’T BE BENDED INORDER TO MAKE SOME PEOPLE HAPPY. THE SAME LAW CATCHES UP WITH YOU.

    • point of correction,its not chiwamila galu kuluma mbudzi but instead its chiwamila mbudzi ku koma galu.That is the right way to say it.Thanks.

  11. What is wrong with upnd kansi mwe bantu,always wasting time.Are you telling me Putu never new that he needs a g12 b4 aplying for adoption.Even ecz and pf bonse niba ngwele never knew the requirements for one to stand as mp.upnd talema naimwe grow up pliz shaa!

    • Normally when you hear such things from Upnd it means they have sensed loss. Remember the Chilanga elections? It was the same. ..panga for panga, they have employed PF cadres as returning officers etc

  12. In UPND nowadays all leaders are Sangomas. They just wake and start making noise of what they saw in their dreams. There are specific institutions tasked to verify qualifications for aspiring candidate. Even if the PF candidate had no G12 certificate, can he go to Nkombo and confess of not having that certificate sure? These are time wasters. In other ways, they have sensed defeat already. UPND lack campaign strategy, instead of talking to the electorate in a bid to convince them, they chose to talk to the wrong audience. Know your playing ground and your opponent first.

  13. No one in Zambia has a Grade 12 Certificate because such a qualification DOES NOT exist and has NEVER exited. Those who sit for Grade 12 exams only get either a School Certificate or a General Certificate in Education (GCE) and not a Grade 12 Certificate.

  14. Upnd is panicking!!! They can smell of taking a seat in there not-so-stronghold. Bangena. Mulabeja. Muzaona!!!

  15. These UPND characters always ceases to amaze me. They approached the same man they are vilifying to stand on their ticket and today they are busy insulting him. Ba shonongo you must repent.

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