CHOMA Central UPND member of parliament Cornelius Mweetwa has revealed that the PF offered K6 million to a UPND MP for a vote passing Bill 10.
Mweetwa was responding to Lusaka Province minister Bowman Lusambo, who challenged him to produce evidence that PF ministers bribed UPND members of parliament to vote for Constitution (Amendment) Bill No. 10 of 2019.
He said the issue was not about being man enough but a serious national issue which should not be taken lightly.
“If PF are used to jokes, for us in the UPND, we don’t have time to be joking around. We have a country to govern, so when leaders are speaking, they must be honest,” he said.
“Let Bowman Lusambo swallow his pride and either shut up or apologise on his own behalf and on behalf of his friends for bribing members of parliament to vote for Bill 10. Let him not play around this matter as if it is a circus.”
Mweetwa said he would not respond to Lusambo by way of giving him evidence.
He said whoever felt injured by his statement should commence defamation suit.
Mweetwa said there was no urgency that could have caused the House to adjourn without completing business on the order paper. On Wednesday, Parliament adjourned sine die citing the two coronavirus cases that Zambia recorded.
“There was no report of coronavirus having entered Parliament buildings which would have sent the whole House into a state of panic. So who would give justification that Parliament had to abandon its proceedings and failed to finish business on the order paper because of coronavirus? Who do they want to mock like that?” Mweetwa asked.
He said when PF failed to garner numbers to pass Bill 10, they tried to hide behind the issue of the coronavirus.
“I have a list of ministers and if Bowman and his friends are going to dare me and push me more than they have already done, I will publish their names and I can confirm that on that list some of them are my friends but it doesn’t matter; provided you were given a task,” Mweetwa said. “They know themselves. They know who was tasked to deal with the two UPND MPs on the Copperbelt, they know the ministers who were given the task to deal with Central Province, and how angry they were when they did not succeed, the ministers who were given the task to deal with Western Province, Southern Province. We know all who were tasked to deal with who.”
He said his party was also aware that an independent member of parliament who realised that they were blindly supporting PF who were instead giving UPND members colossal sums of money for Bill 10, and decided to stay away from Parliament on the actual day until they were given money they demanded.
“Can they deny it? Whatever has been happening is known. We are also aware that one of the members of parliament who remained in that House actually was given K750,000. That person was promised K2 million and they gave him K750,000 advance and that person is now demanding the balance. Can they deny?” Mweetwa said. “You see, when it was D-day, can they deny that they offered a K6 million to a UPND member of parliament but he rejected the K6 million. Can they deny? And if they start denying, we will start naming them one by one. Can they deny that on the last day they offered K6 million that ‘for casting the winning vote, here is K6 million’. They should not play games.”
Mweetwa praised UPND members for refusing the money from PF, and said he would “very soon” start naming and shaming the PF ministers.
He said when Parliament re-opens, PF is bound to lose more members.
“Because a number of PF members of parliament who I had a caucus with are very annoyed that despite them remaining very loyal to the cause of PF, even when they did not agree with Bill 10, they sacrificed their integrity to stand there to vote for Bill 10, they are very annoyed to learn that actually PF had colossal sums of money to dish to the opposition. So they now have a huge undertaking as we go forward. If the only way to pass Bill 10 is to buy MPs, they now have to look for money to give their own backbench,” he said. “Otherwise, Bill 10 collapsed on Wednesday and it is currently lying in political mortuary awaiting burial when Parliament resumes.”
Mweetwa urged PF members of parliament trying to justify their actions to continue “running all over the show” to launder their images.
On Professor Geoffrey Lungwangwa and Teddy Kasonso who defied the UPND position and sided with the PF on Bill 10, Mweetwa said they were working well according to the game plan.
Mweetwa, you sound like See 1. Why don’t you just name them instead of threatening to do so if ‘they push you more than they so far have.’ Better still, take the shortest road to ACC.
Simply sitting on that bounty of info and fighting in the media is a deservice to Zambians.
There was no Corona virus case in Zambia. The two muzungus ( micmar’s son and daughter in law) were taken for review as a ploy of Edgar Changes Lungu to create a scare and close UNZA as lecturers we’re about to go on full scale strike. And it came as handy to close parliament as well.
UPND and independent MPs are not worth K6M. They can be bought each for K5K.Mweetwa shall stop exaggerating.
Give Evidence badala!
It’s difficult to believe your words without you giving us a “dyonko” of evidence.
Tell your members they are free to receive PF donations but should not forget to collect evidence just in case. The Job of an MP is simple! Just call for a Town Hall meeting in your constituency. Ask your electorates to vote expressing their wishes then put that on record and vote accordingly! No need to split your hairs even if you have accepted the PF bait which you can use against them later. Trouble is Zambians are timid and are afraid to explore!
Mweetwa / seer 1
Jokes
We are already done
With seer 1 type of allegations can bring something new?
Zambians have reached a stage where if you want to joke like seer 1 they
Will easily know
So if you want to behave like one , you need to ask yourself before acting.
Mweetwa you are not helping the country, can you come out by mentioning there names, stop that baby politics.Let me just remind you what sata did to tandiwe Banda he disclosed payslip for tandiwe.mention they names not to waiting to be pushed
Fool of jokes ba mweetwa
You said you ll take the matter to ACC ,is prime tv now ACC? With due respect if really PF wants to buy your mps can they do it that way,knowing behavior of UPND? When did they start engaging UPND mps.? We all know that if there is bitter opposition MPs in this world are UPND.
Your lies attract many questions.upnd what you do is what you throw on PF maybe this was your plan to bribe independent MPs.
Now it’s too late bill was done successfully regardless of hh controlling upnd mps like chainama cases.
So now you want to deceive upnd supporters who didn’t know what were happening .upnd mps were bought for k6m according to your hypocrisy,tell them that some western province upnd mps were ask to vote for the bill from their king.chitimukulu,mpezeni,gawa undi and litunga want this 10 bill .they are in support of it.dont lie iwe mweetwa.your tribalism is exposing you.
Zambia is bigger than your chitimukulu.Zambia is bigger than any individual, that’s one pf mantra not so?
Yaba, oh yaba!! Remember hh telling the public he has evidence that shows the owner of the 48 houses, he went to ACC and didn’t give the evidence?? Upnd are jokers, real twits with no strategy. BA CHIMBWI NO PLAN, BA CHIPANTE PANTE POLITICIANS.
I doubt it.this is just mere politicking
Mweetwa my friend. COVID19 is real. If you want it to enter national assembly before you take action, it will be too late. Zambia has either resources and sophistication to deal with COVID 19 once it has entered national assembly. Take politics to your home.
Two male residents who flew back from Portugal on March 17-18 have tested positive, Angolan Health Minister Silvia Lutucuta said on Saturday, while Eritrea said its first case was a 39-year-old national who had arrived from Norway.
Uganda’s first case was announced early on Sunday by Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng. She said the man flew in to the country from Dubai on Saturday and was in stable condition.
FROM JUST THE LITTLE DATA ABOVE ONE CAN TELL THAT THE DISEASE IS MORE AERO BORNE, WHY AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE NOT SHUTTING THEIR AIRPORTS IS SO MIND BOGGLING.
basala, upnd has been exposed by bill 10 and corona. most Zambians have now realized that you lie to them about bill 10 after changing goal posts even when the ball was in 18/area and for asking prime not to help in the corona sensitization. God works in mysterious ways. look at upnd all the credible Zambians have left leaving only credible tongaz
Politicians, can you just stop toying with important matters offecting the entire Zambian people. People elected you to humbly serve them with all selfless dedication. Focus more on solutions to key problems facing the Zambian people. Honorable Mweetwa, avail solid evidence to relevant mandated institutions, not sharing allegations on the biased media, if what you are saying is true, otherwise this can be a serious case of defamation that can bunkrupt an individual or a political party. To all of you politicians; listen to me; “As you handle your politics, always keep in view, that you are servants employed by the great Zambian people who will always be wiser and more powerful than any politician than will ever rise on the political platform.”
To all of you politicians; listen to me; “As you handle your politics, always keep in view, that you are servants employed by the great Zambian people who will always be wiser and more powerful than any politician that will ever rise on the political platform.”
PFs credibility is in the pit latrines of chawama, every one can belive any allegation against them……
After all , what Kind of a ruling party starts gassing its own citizens causing mass hysteria and mob lynchings of innocent people all so that the opposition can get blamed ?????
Pathetic, disgusting party, lead by a pathetic corrupt drunken theif
Ba Mweetwa naimwe ifyakwa Seer 1 filekeni, just call a spade a spade, kipeto!!
Is it so hard to report this to the authorities ? Am sure parley has regulations against your allegedly accusations. The speaker can then sanction the involved MPs and the 2/3 will be untenable. Why play to the gallery ? Pathetic strategy
Upnd again proving to be the worst and most naive opposition party in Zambia. Instead of growing balls and intellectually challenging bill10 within parliament, they first choose to walk away, but still get paid by tax payers. Then now we have a whistleblower who is claiming that we are inducing their mps. If that is the case why haven’t you reported this to the authorities or powers that be. You run to the media because you want to gain political mileage. Well let me tell you facts:
1. You will never rule this country,not in a million years with that attitude
2. Your president is the weakest link in your party and he will forever prevent you from winning any future election
3. You are a bunch of childish chancers with the brain capacity of a goat.
Grow up !
Mweetwa man is this the best you can do? Very disappointing. Integrity knows no boundaries my friend and cannot be applied selectively or on condition. If UPND has evidence put out for the people to see and judge. I wish Zambia had all MP’S who are independent not affiliated to any party and the only positions that get elected through the party structure is that of the president and vice, this way maybe all MP’S would work with the govt and development would be brought to all parts of Zambia without any segregation or regionalism.
Massive d!ck head KZ, is there a law which says when a President is campaigning in an area which is 30 km wide ,the opposition must leave that area .It happened in Chilubi because you wanted people not to see the amount of vote buying which was happening .The Place didnt have an ambulance , come election they get one using tax payers money .If that is not election malpractice then what is that ?
Why not name who offered and to whom?
@ Kaizar Zulu
Why are you insulting goats?
Ivo you are right. Even goats are better than these upnd rifraffs
Is this a way for mweetwa to tell us that his party is only willing to support bill 10 for 6million kwacha and above ?
UPND is a big let down!
You can’t be crying Wolf without showing Everyone where the Wolf!
In 2016, you told us you had Won going by your PVT but when asked to produce your PVT!
Now, You are saying you have evidence but you are not forthcoming with it. UPND must learn that Zambian politics is street politics! You need to be ahead of your opponents all the time! PF is ahead with street politics and you still want to play clean? You can’t win a Zambian elections with your strategy ba UPND and you have become a source of frustrations to your members, no wonder they are falling prey to bribes! Change strategy or forget it!
UPND is a useless party indeed!!!which normal person would believe that nonsense?Does Mweetwa understand what K6 million kwacha is?Which UPND MP would refuse K6m just to please Kainde?kkkkkk Mweetwa please go and cheat cows in Choma!!
You are just ashamed that Bill 10 shall go through because UPND have no numbers in parliament!!To be honest,only your tribesmen understand what UPND stand for politically!!Majority of us Zambians do not take UPND serious-mark my words!!
Whether Kainde like it or not,Bill 10 shall go through-period
Kaizer Zulu survives lynching in Mumbwa over gassing
STATE House Aide Kaizer Zulu on Sunday escaped lynching in Mumbwa’s Nambala area when he was caught in the company of some Indians suspectedly supervising the gassing of people.
Police sources revealed that Zulu was only served by police officers and quickly whisked to Mumbwa Zambia Airforce base.
“We dont know what Kaiser was doing in Nambala area where he was with some Zambians of Indian origin. At the time they were in the area there were incidences of gassing,” the source said.
KZ, U ARE AWARE OF THIS INCIDENT KA?
THANK YOU CORNELIUS FOR THE WONDERFUL REVELATIONS. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A COUNTRY MOVING 50 PLUS 1 THRESHOLD TO A SIMPLE MAJORITY. WHY THE COMPROMISE, WHY ARE PEOPLE SKEPTICAL? THE MONEY BEING OFFERED TO MPS WOULD DO WELL TO TAR TOWNSHIP ROADS IN MAKENI SIMOSONI AREA. THE ROADS ARE SO PATHETIC WITH VEHICLES FAILING TO MOVE SMOOTHLY. STOP BRIBERY.
BRAVO CORNELIUS! WE NEED COURAGEOUS YOUNG MEN LIKE YOU. MILLIONS OF OUR PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE 3 MEALS A DAY, IT IS WRONG TO PAY PEOPLE ALREADY EMPLOYED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR PEOPLE. ALUTA CONTINUA CORNELIUS, VIVA HH AND VIVA UPND!!!!!!!!!
Ba Njimbu: Bill 10 in it’s original form is a bad law to be. Unless PF withdraws that first bill and incorporate the recommendations. otherwise, they will pass a bill that brings back D/Ministers; allows Ministers to stay in office after dissolution of parliament; Govt borrowing without parliament approval; No independent MPs; Appointment of Attorney General by the president without parliament rectification. Read bill 10 not the recommendations.
If it is true, these MPs should have played don’t kubeba and take the money to the rightful owners. the Zambians in their constituencies. In fact collecting that money was going to make good cases of corruption. Why did you not collect naimwe bangwele? kabwalala ku muplayer.