Leader of the opposition in Parliament Jack Mwiimbu says the lifespan of Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 10 of 2019 has elapsed.
And Justice Minister Given Lubinda has deferred the tabling of the Bill
And Mwembeshi independent member of parliament Machila Jamba has thanked UPND MPs for their support against the amendment Bill.
Addressing the media at the UPND secretariat Wednesday afternoon, Mr Mwiimbu said Bill 10 is legally and procedurally killed by timeframe and cannot therefore be debated.
He urged Mr Lubinda to consider bringing a fresh Bill to the House if he is still interested in constitutional amendments.
Mr Mwiimbu revealed that the Bill has expired it’s lifespan as it went beyond the stipulated six months during which a parliamentary Bill ought to be concluded or withdrawn.
Mr. Mwiimbu vowed that the UPND and Independent MPs would not support a dead Bill, argued that if the PF wanted to bring the Bill back to the House, they needed to start the process afresh.
He said according to the processes and procedures of Parliamentary practice, any Bill before the house had to be concluded within 6 months, after which it expired making any attempts to resuscitate it an illegality.
Mr Mwiimbu who is Monze Central MP and UPND Legal Chairman further added that the members of parliament would take any appropriate action and exhaust all avenues within the confines of the law to ensure that the PF does not proceed with the Bill.
And Mwembeshi Independent Member of Parliament, Machila Jamba said he was grateful to note that UPND MPs have stood firm in fighting against the controversial Bill and bowed to ensure that the will of the people is respected.
Mr. Jamba said Zambians from all walks of life have rejected the bill and wondered why parliament should force a rejection on the people.
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Given Lubinda yesterday afternoon deferred the bill to another date with Speaker Patrick Matibini urging the government to ensure that the Bill is exhausted in the current sitting.
These PF goons are hell bent on trying to perpetuate their stay even when they have brought misery on the people. Have you seen how myopic their thinking is?
The writing is on the wall.
You need to start thinking of how life will be in jail.
BID 10
NOTE: Meanwhile, Justice Minister Given Lubinda yesterday afternoon deferred the bill to another date with Speaker Patrick Matibini urging the government to ensure that the Bill is exhausted in the current sitting.
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Game is over 90 min + extra time
As Ucar Chitalu scores a late goal agnostic Zaire.
Late Dennis Liwewe
Speaker Matibini says Bill10 should be concluded within the current sitting of Parliament. What about the Expiry of the said Bill? Bill 10 was controversially extended for 6 months on 4th December 2019. The 6 months life of Bill 10 expired on June 4, 2020. So why is Minister Lubinda deferring for debate a dead Bill? This is strange thinking by Hon Minister Lubinda. The Speaker should declare Bill 10 dead since it expired on June 4, 2020.
1. I would like to commend our opposition and independent MPs for their undying resolve to chack out this rubbish piece of legislation. Inspite of all the offers of bribes from pf, they have stood firm. I salute you! May God bless you.
2. Speaker Matibini is a law breaker. Firstly he has usurped the power of interpretting the law from the juficiary, and now he has allowed a bill that is expired to be tabled and debated. What a disgrace of a man. It goes to show how compromised he is.
3. You can defer bill 10 as long as you wish. But your desperation to pass this bill only convinces us more and more of the mischievous intent and undemocratic nature of bill 10. Lungu is going down with bill 10. Come rain come sunshine.
“Justice Minister Given Lubinda yesterday afternoon deferred the bill to another date with Speaker Patrick Matibini urging the government to ensure that the Bill is exhausted in the current sitting.”
Nothing In there says the speaker stated that the bill was dead. Upnd are dreaming again. These guys build castles in the sky. Their leader is another dreamer who thinks he is president. The chap even holds press conferences in his backyard. These guys are maniacs
Who is a lunatic? you and pf. Bill 10 people of Zambia they don’t know it. Its only lunatics who know and have no brains to continue fighting for a dead bill. Jail Bars are now smelling. Kukakwa nomba after 2021 elections.
Are you back from Malawi? How did the elections go. Did you manage to do what you wanted to do in Malawi?
It is over now and we want to see new dreams from PF leadership which will bring sanity in the nation. Yours is now to knew down before citizens so that we can give you extra votes in 2021 than your daily arrogance you are to the Nationals or else start preparations of exit into self exile one by one so as to enjoy your stolen 2016 vote and money.
@KZ Bill 10 can come any time. Its DEAD, DEAD and DEAD.
Its the final nail in the PF confine, the sooner you remove that dead jacket in statehouse the better. Otherwise you will not have a candidate for the elections. I can assure you the knives are out for him…… wait for the PF conversion.
We the people of Zambia are so determined to chase the BABOONS out of the maize field
*cofin
Ghananian Dancing Pallbearers, the useless , corrupt, inept and spent PF are waiting for you!!
Let us wait for reaction from Pf. Hope it is not their lawyers who have interpreted it for them. Upnd lawyers behave as if they didn’t pass through law school.
Bill 10 dead alive and what a shame to PF government.
I told you that Lubinda is arrogant and has ni legal knowledge what he is pushing for.
PF must go!
PLEASE,LET US BUY A COFFIN FOR IT AND EVEN KZ A COFFIN SO THAT HE GETS NOT TO FACE HIS CASES.THE PROBLEM IS SOME OF THESE RIFF RAFF DOYOS LIKE KZ WHO WANT TO PLAY IT TO THE PEOPLE THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN ZAMBIANS WHEN THEY ARE JUST TINS FULL OF NOTHING BUT JUST NOISE.EVEN,THE SAME GIVEN LUBINDA IS DUNDERHEAD HOW DO U BRING A BILL WHICH IS NOT SUPPORTED BY WELL MEANINGFUL ZAMBIANS?JUST WANTING TO APPEASE ECL?THIS IS A COUNTRY NOT A TEMBA.WE THANK GOD THAT BILL 10 IS DEAD AND NO ONE WILL COME IN BETWEEN. I HOPE THAT EVEN THE SPEAKER SHOULD NOT ENTERTAIN THIS SILLY LAW.I PRAY UNTO GOD THAT EVEN DURING ELECTIONS WE SHOULD BE UNITED LIKE THIS SO THAT PF SHOULD NOT TEMPER WITH THE VOTING PATTERN SO THAT SOME RIFF RAFFS SHOULD STINK AND ROT IN JAIL.
Wondering how PF also failed to debate with themselves, because UPND and independents were not in the house.
My apologies to Matibini.
We have just seen lungu begging for debt relief from the commonwealth …….meaning the economy is in deep trouble.
Will this bill 10 that PF is desperately trying to pass help the economy ?????
Lord only knows that if PF showed the same determination they are using to pass bill 10 was used to fix the economy , Zambia would be in surplus budgets….
All the arms of the government of the Republic of Zambia are headed by LAWYERS. Executive- lawyer. Judiciary- Lawyer (naturally), Legislature- Lawyer. Lawyers are in the media, NGOs, and State owned enterprises. Every board of directors has lawyers over represented.
Dear Zambians, do you not see a problem with this?
Lawyers never leave their egos outside their work.
Exactly! Lawyers are meant to fix law-breakers, not to run an economy. It’s like the role of mechanics, theirs is only to fix cars, not to help you find money to buy one
KKKKKK KKKKKK KKKK BUT PARLIAMENT WAS SUSPENDED WHAT TIME FRAME IS THIS.AND UPND WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF DEBATING COME OUT OPEN AND SAY THE TRUTH.
Matibini is a joker, how does he urge the government to ensure that a dead bill is exhausted in the current sitting? Matibini, incobeninconi ngu suntwe, kusondoka ngoku pe!
And you think by walking out would kill the bill, or covid 19? Thinking of our MPs is slaggish. Don’t celebrate before winning….Meanwhile they go round organising a briefing to celebrate and when they see their pants down, they want to rush back and cry, “time has lapsed”. Fine….then we will work with then same 14 days and wina azalilila, Yesu. What goes round comes round.
Debates should kill or let the bill through. Not this shunning practices……meanwhile allowances balechonkomya bamambala on the pretext that they are working. God is more powerful than mdyelekezi, who is constantly opposing the Christian Values that God has in His Children. Any the Cross determined everything. Mdyelekezi is a defeated Foe.
“These guys build castles in the sky” WHICH IS MEANT TO BELITTLE OR MOCK THE UPND BUT I SAY IT IS BETTER TO BUILD CASTLES IN THE SKY WITH HONESTY AND SINCERITY THAN TO BUILD THEM ON THE GROUND USING CORRUPTLY OBTAINED MONEY.
Thumps up to UPND and Independent MPs. BILL 10 IS DEAR AND BURIED. SHAME TO GIVEN LUBINDA. LETS NOW TALK ABOUT 2021 ELECTIONS. NO MORE BILL TIME WASTING BILL 10.
Did any money exchange hands in the process? Bribes for and against. Am sure serious money was moving. Profit or Loss? No one lost since recipients were Zambians.
Walking out of Parliament …… again.
You debate not these poor attempts at filibustering by delays, legal machinations on time limitations, wild calls for withdrawal….like it’s a field battle.
UPND do not understand democracy, why would anyone allow them to rule Zambia. Just messy people.
Patriot, you insult them night and day now you want them to support your bill. Just like the way you have neglected the youth and jailing them like you vote for yourself. Come next year the disgruntled youths, the marginalized tribes and the ones you kicked out of the party are going to teach you a lesson
If u consider how much money, effort and time devoted to Bill 10 it is such a shame that this Bill is resting in peace at Ngwerere Cemetery. There is no way this notorious Bill can be resuscitated now. Without enacting Bill 10 Lungu requires a major rethink on his Political Future. PF has to learn some lessons from Malawi given recent devts there.History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes. Lungu and PF will have to drastically change and if he has to conserve some form of legacy if any. Time will tell.
Bill 10 dead is good riddance , trash it. There’s going to be a lot of PF in jail next September nxt year.
Put it to a vote if got guts. Are you afraid of suprises?
zambians are fade up of your corruption.. to hell with Bill 10… why force the people to accept a bill which they don’t want? did we vote for be a dictatorial nation or leader by the people? your days are numbered…. people have died due to gassing? but you don’t want to tell the nation.. hypocrites