Friday, March 29, 2024

Nalumango calls on women to rise up and demand their rights

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United Party for National Development (UPND) Vice President, Ms Mutale Nalumango has called on women in the country to rise up and demand their rights in order to weather the political storms and injustices they suffer.

This year’s International Women’s Day is being held under the theme: Women In Leadership Achieving An Equal Future In A COVID-19 World

In wishing the women a happy International Women’s Day which falls today, Ms Nalumango reiterated the need for women to demand a safer political playing field that would allow them to freely participate in politics.

“Rise up! Rise up and weather the storm! Demand for your space as the daughters of Manasseh because if you sit quietly, they will forget you. We have signed numerous protocols as a country and one of this protocol calls for us to have 50 per cent in all decision making positions of Government. But do you know that we have a [paltry] 17 per cent women in the Zambian Parliament against the required 50 per cent,” she said.

She stressed that the demands for gender equity and equality both in the country’s political playing field and in society, in general, wasn’t meant to suppress the men, but as a means for moving together.

“We are not saying we will take over from you men. But what we are saying is that we must walk together because you don’t understand how we feel. The woman is the only person who knows what happens in the development of a child in the womb. When human life is hopeless and dependent on the mother: come on and be proud of you. That is a woman. I was only you and me [for nine months],” she said.

She stated that it was gratifying that the world had finally come to appreciate the critical role that women play in the various facets of human endeavours.

“World over, women have been regarded as minors-people who do not grow and do not think. But the world has seen that a woman is a great contributor to development. We keep the home; we keep the peace. When a woman rises, the nation rises,” she said.

She said that it was regrettable that women have for too long been treated as the weaker sex when they were the source of life who understood conception and the pains that comes with it.

“You need a woman to help formulate health policies because I feel what my fellow women feel. On 12th August, we come in and for us its proportional Representation so that the youth and the woman know what per cent is allocated to them in decision-making positions of government.

She has since applauded President Hakainde Hichilema’s fulfilment of the pledge to increase the number of women in the UPND National Management Committee (NMC) to 32 of the 70 members in the highest decision making organ of the party.

Newly appointed UPND Chairperson for Special Duties, William Banda has called on party functionaries to rally behind Ms Nalumango as she delivers her duties as UPND Veep.

“Madam Vice President, Mercy Changwe has said something important…about discipline and protocol. That’s the task I have been given and I will ensure that discipline takes centre-stage in UPND. We are lucky to have Ms Nalumango as the new UPND vice president. Therefore, let’s support her,” said Mr Banda.

Mercy Changwe, who has endured endless, brutal attacks at the hands of the PF, stated that she was saddened that a Government that prides itself in safeguarding the wellbeing of women could allow its caders to continue attacking her unabated.

“I was attacked by PF for displaying UPND regalia on my makeshift stand in Woodlands. These PF cadres have been attacking me for merely being a [fearless] UPND,” she said.

And NDC Lusaka Province Women’s Chairlady Mrs Maureen Sense expressed happiness that the presidential candidate has been identified and it’s Mr Hakainde Hichilema.

“All NDC members who have seen and know the problems have decided to support the UPND alliance because there’s hope in the alliance,” she said

She urged the women in the alliance to work together during the run-up to the August 12 elections.

14 COMMENTS

  1. Great woman this one. Massive experience as former Kaputa MP and also deputy speaker of parliament then. I expect quality responses to parliamentary questions during Vice President question time. Made of metal

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  2. Women are problems to themselves. They form the biggest constituency in the country. But accept to be used against each other by men. Look at it this way. Nalumango, Masebo, and other women in UPND have ben set up their fellow women in PF( Inonge, Jean Kapata, etc) . We are going to start campaigning and the same women will be trading insults against each other. Men will be cheering fro the terraces. Its the same women who will divide their own women constituency we have seen to be the largest group of voters. Women cannot trust each other and therefore cannot be trusted.

  3. Women women….so happy to be VEEP …….why did you not challenge the male HH. Are you just content of just being second??

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  4. I love Nalumango to death. Even Nawakwi will vote for her as first female Zambian president.
    My president Kateka of Heritage is in hiding, any one seen her, I miss her.

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  5. SOMEONE IS INSULTING WOMEN AGAIN
    RISE UP WOMEN YOUVE SEEN IT AND HEARD IT .
    THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO SAVE ZAMBIA AND MAKE IT GREAT AGAIN

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  6. Well articulated facts by the Vice President Mutale Nalumango. Keep it up! God is with you as such, soldier on untill Zambia is Liberated.

  7. Madam Vice President, in an endeavor to increase Woman representation in Leadership, you need to take deliberate steps that will make your fellow women come on board. What are you doing on that score, as a woman of that potifolio find ways of encouraging woman in a pragmatic sense.

  8. Tikki a woman needs to take care of herself. If this woman can not take the effort for her looks, how can she look after an entire country. Let her shave her beards too

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  9. kikiki Kaizer you are an animal BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP
    ITS WHAT LIES BENEATH THAT MATTERS …….AND I MEAN CHARACTER AND NOT WHAT YOU ARE THINKING

  10. Great message from Nalumango, keep fighting madam, the country needs strong women, women who will lift and build others, women who will love and be loved. Look at the female -led countries, they handled coronavirus better, Germany, New Zealand, Denmark, Taiwan and Finland suffered half as many deaths on average as those led by men. They had early lockdowns while the men were at sixes and sevens

  11. KAIZER……This is cyber bullying . Leave madam alone. Its not about looks. Its about the brains and courage to take the bull by its horns.

  12. What is funny is that Kaizer himself is very ugly and its only stolen money that allows him access to pretty women. Even the one he bought a Range Rover for would not look at him if he was a man of little means

  13. Zambian who is not Zambia cause I know you are a upnd diasporan, for your own information, I met my wlfe before I owned my many businesses and before I became successful. So it must be my charm, looks and personality she fell for. Don’t be jealous just because you have a gonga for a wlfe

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