Friday, March 29, 2024

Parliament Should Remain adjourned-Katuka

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We are shocked that in the face of the swelling COVID-19 cases, President Edgar Lungu and his unPatriotic Front want to reopen the National Assembly just so they can resuscitate his dead Bill 10.

We are shocked in the sense that Vice President Inonge Wina moved a motion to adjourn parliament sine die (indefinitely) due to the rise in COVID-19 cases which at the time were 3, 326. Our view is that cases have now doubled at 8,663 with 246 deaths and to think of resuming parliament amounts to desperation obviously for PF Bill 10 to go through.
The House has seen the death of two Member of Parliament to this deadly pandemic and many more members of staff have been found positive of COVID-19 after the adjournment.

a right -thinking person would decide to re- open parliament. Zambia is not in a constitutional crisis that it should risk lives of people over BILL 10.

Vice President Inonge Wina moved a motion to adjourn parliament sine die (indefinitely) due to the rise in COVID_19 cases which at the time were 3, 326. Our view is that cases have now doubled at 8,663 with 246 deaths and to think of resuming parliament amounts to desperation obviously for PF Bill 10 to go through.

We are appalled that the PF now wants to put at risk the lives of the over 150 members of parliament, their families and hundreds of the members of staff at the National Assembly so that they again illegally push for Bill 10.

As UPND, we are urging the Speaker and the Clerk of the National Assembly not to allow resumption of sitting in the face of increasing COVID-19 cases.

The country has already lost two members of parliament and other senior government officials while others are still admitted at Levy Mwanawasa Teaching Hospital due the pandemic.

Zambia has no constitutional crises to warrant the resumption of sitting of parliament amidst this deadly pandemic.

20 COMMENTS

  1. If there’s a Political Party with ugly members, it’s UpandDown.In future please don’t place such photos, you scare my grand children.

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  2. For Bill 10, a big NO, but for MPs to come and pass other pending legislation,a BIGGER YES.
    Politicians are scums, earn, nay rob billions every year with no productivity. Parliament shall be abolished, each province run on its own with federal government of 5 elected positions to be responsible for foreign relations and defence. Provincial legislature allocate a small percentage of their budget to federal government to take care of above two subjects.

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  3. @wajimona, all politicians without exceptions are robbers, scumbugs.PF, UPND, they are all there to steal and enrich themselves at the cost of poor masses.
    These politicians are farting thugs, over eaters, big bellies, drain on national budget.

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  4. Status as as this morning-total cases: 9,343. Active-671. Deaths-260. RECOVERED OR DISCHARGED-8,412. Death rate 2.79%, recovery rate 90%. If people sanitise, practice social distancing and wear masks, we can live with this covid-19 under “new normal” rules. OPEN PARLIAMENT AND LET LIFE MOVE!!

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  5. @hoho, I totally agree with you. Parliament must be abolished and find other ways of managing the country. Chiefs must equally be done away with, they offer nothing to this country except divisions and self interest.

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  6. @Wajimona…Please have respect for elders. The other day you were saying Jack and his ugly mouth then blablabla . Today you are saying Mr. Katuka is ugly and scares your children. Are there no ugly leaders in PF? Please respect leaders of all parties.

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  7. Hahaha katuka of course you lazy upnd mps want parliament adjourned as you are used to getting paid for doing absolutely nothing and walking out of parliament. You are cowards who run away from debating and run to courts with useless lawyers who always lose. As for katukas looks, I have always said he looks the way hh is on the inside- evil and ugly. I know I am not the most handsome man in Zambia but katuka patali. Pa menso kwati ib0l0 yo fota

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  8. @Zambian Citizen, Spot on!
    MOH is just alarming the public and killing the Economy all because of their greed to lobby for funding through fear-mongering! Statistics have shown that those who are dying are those who already have underlying conditions like Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, Immunocompromised, and the Aged. What MOH should have done was leave the economy to run normally while implementing Mitigation health measures established with targeted interventions for high risk groups!
    If we were to rate MOH and PF performance on Covid Response, we would give them 10,000 tests out of 18 Million Zambians which is a dismal 0.0556%

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  9. Right you are, Chikubabe. It’s scaremongering. I heard one theory over the weekend-it said GRZ doesn’t want to open bars as they are a platform for campaigning. By keeping bars closed, it cripples the opposition from getting info to citizens. Don’t quote me, just heard it!

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  10. We have 11 months remaining b4 August 12,2021 Elections. So we need to pass this Bill 10 into Law so that we can have free,fair and credible Elections next year. There are numerous clauses that need to be implemented b4 August 12 if our Elections are going to be smooth and credible. Parliament should urgently convene virtually to vote on this crucial Bill. The support for this Bill among MPs is overwhelming. Lets have the vote as a matter of urgency.

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  11. Let them reopen parliament. For the PF , 2 dead MP’s means nothing.
    Maybe after another 4 more bill 10 supporters will die , then they will accept that parliament is not worth reopening.
    After all parliament will be dissolved in a few months time.

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