The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has called on the Electoral Commission of Zambia to rescind it’s decision of not allowing stakeholders ask questions that will enable them to clarify queries on the result it is announcing on the Presidential vote.
Isaac Mwanza the YALI Governance Advisor said despite their disapproval of UPND’s Martha Mushipe’s confrontational behavior the decision by the Commission extra punitive against other stakeholders who would want to clarify before the Commission declares anyone winer.
He said the Commission must that the country is a multi-party start where different opinions should be tolerated.
“Despite our disapproval in the manner the United Party for National Development (UPND) legal counsel, Martha Mushipe, conducted herself in a confrontational manner which is not befitting the high status she holds as a learned lawyer, YALI finds the decision by the Commission extra punitive against other stakeholders who are genuinely interested in having matters clarified before the Commission can declare anyone a winner in this competitive election.
“The Commission must appreciate that Zambia has embraced multipartism where different opinions, including those who may opt to use emotions or sarcastic language, must be tolerated and we as such think the Commission must move with its well – set and long time tradition where the Commission has been able to allow stakeholders to raise questions on issues they may need clarity,” he said.
He also called on the Commission to quickly honor it’s commitment to publicise the outcome of ye Referendum outcome from Constituencies alongside announcement for Presidential results as was promised by ECZ Director of Elections, Priscilla Isaacs.
Mr Mwanza also wants clarity on the numbers needed to meet the referendum for it to be successful.
“The Commission had further promised to revert to the public to clarify on how many numbers will need to be met in the referendum for it to be successful and how many should be able to say YES. We therefore request ECZ and the Commission to provide guidance on this matter,” he said.
He also said YALI was disturbed by the Commission’s silence on the man arrested for entering the ECZ IT room.
“We are also disturbed that the Commission is constantly avoiding informing the nation on the arrest of the man who was found in their server or IT room despite the fact that it has taken over 24 hours. To remove any such suspicion that the vote has been tampered with, the Commission may do well to inform the nation on that matter and, most importantly, to submit the requested Gen12 form which political players have requested.
“The Commission must consider not proceeding to declare anyone a winner in this election before they can handover these forms to stakeholders for them to reconcile the vote. The Zambian Constitution demands that electoral disputes must quickly be resolved and the Courts must be seen only as a last option when and if the Commission fails to handle these disputes .
“We have confidence in the capacity of the Commission to deal with electoral disputes and we believe the Commission appreciates that conducting elections elections is more than just announcing results and declaring a winner. It is their primary duty to ensure that the Electoral Process Act and Code is enforced,” he said.
Earlier during the first briefing Ms Mushipe accused some ECZ officials of colluding with the PF to alter the presidential elections result a thing that lead to bitter exchange of words with ECZ Public Relations Manager Chris Akufuna.
Someone, a no- nonsense human being—finally waking up to ask pertinent questions triggers complete ban on asking elections-related questions. Very backward countries indeed. Serious patriotic Africans must wake up to prevent dullards like Lungu coming to power. Oh, may be Grandpa was right: “bring back the colonialists and work with them, look, they are developed because they question–few Africans question their misleaders, they accept every thug who pretends to be a leader, and encourage dimwits like Lungu coming to power. See how they are stopping Donald Trump from the presidency. There is something to that”. There is some truism to this: Exactly, how do you explain the fact that 35-40% electorate don’t care that the guy they are voting for knows nothing about governance and…
The abuse is too much for ECZ! Wrong forum for grave grievances. Acussations are extreme! You are sufferings for UPND’s subjective and selfish unrealist violent nature.
Lets go for rerun with new ECZ, we delete the current who can’t even count.
Your Grand Father was weak if he want Colonialists to rule. My Grandfather defeated the parasitic colonialists you are singing praise of.
@Bapongozi
I told you please shake that House Negro mentality out of your dull head…..why you so worried about the “backward countries “???????
Yes we are uneducated so just leave us alone and keep on enjoying your cozy democracy whereever you are domiciled at….
Stop insulting Zambian voters please…..!!!!
If your preferred candidate didn’t win…..tough luck…
Let me ask you this again….if you’re better off wherever you are with your PHDs….then why you worried about backward Zambia?
PHD with no shishi in your pocket? I guess so
Anyway
WE HAVE WON
I thank you
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE UPLOAD MARTHA MUSHIPE’S Interrogation of ECZ ONTO “U-TUBE!!!!!”
I thank you!!!
The abuse is too much for ECZ! Wrong forum for grave grievances. Acussations are extreme! You are sufferings for UPND’s subjective and selfish unrealist violent nature.
@Thorn in the Ar.se:
You are a mother fuc.ker! What sh.it are you spewing? Someone has been caught manipulating data ready handed and is being protected by the system – what more evidence of rigging do you want?
Bitterness will continuously haunt your poor little ungrateful soul. It is that point in life where one comes to the realization that you can not always win. Calm down. Stop hurting now. Okay HH azawina. Hashi baby! Run to mummy, let her change your nappy; you have poopooed in your pants
@ Chilyata: Stay the hell off my posts punk!
Bitterness will continuously haunt your poor little ungrateful soul. It is that point in life where one comes to the realization that you can not always win. Calm down. Stop hurting now. Okay HH azawina.
Hashi baby! Run to mummy, let her change your nappy; you have poopooed in your pants
Iwe chilyata, go back to post on ZWD where there are no intellectuals who discuss issues unlike insults
ECZ are full of makaka period.
@ chimbwi Because of people like you thats why the other stake holders are unable to ask questions. You people are seeking attention in wrong places. Zambian have spoken we dont want you!! So with all those out bursts what gain has Martha gotten
…And the loser is Hazalusa Hagain his tribal grouping!
Are you the only tribal ***** who doesn’t understand politics? These results are due to oppression people of South have gone through tribal and heartless politicia
No one stopped the loser! He stopped himself with the help of your tribesmen! Now he will grow a lot of watermelons at his farms! I believe you have some at Bapongozi Farms!
I have no dog in this contest. Iam an observer, and an African in love with Zambia. Unlike you, I voted for no one. I vote for smart principled leaderships, with a track record. ECL’s leadership is not one by any imagination. Oh…I don’t have “Bapongozi Farms. BTW,I don’t know HH and have never met him except that I have seen him in cyberspace. I have–(seemingly unlike you)–multiple advanced degrees including from the most advanced ivy league schools in the World. Like you, I once followed dullards and Africa’s ignoramuses, pretending to be presidents. No more
Bapongozi – So, you are just a critique without any bearing on the outcome but are an interested party in this collective property called Zambia and you would rather just castigate?
ECZ can not stop people from asking questions about their elections. These are not ECZ elections. We pay ECZ to manage elections on behalf of the Zambian people. They should answer all our questions. If they can’t do that then they are not up to the task. They should all step down. Elections don’t belong to ECZ employees.
@ Ngolwa, thank you! My thoughts exactly.
Ngolwa – Yes, but the difference between stupidity and freedom of expression is not a thin line. ECZ officers are people just like you and me.
Ba Observer I understand ECZ employees are people like you and I but that doesn’t not warrant shutting up everybody.
ECZ are paid to manage elections, not to be insulted. Good move ECZ!! Meantime, we are just waiting for official permission to start celebrating PF victory.
When are the 18.00 hours results going to be announced?
They are under instructions from One Son Of Satan Edgar Chakolwa Kaloba Wrungu,please Chakolwa Zambia has rejected you.
Please Satan take Chakolwa,his former Minister and supporters with you to hell,we can also give you the all bunch of his fellow useless ECZ members so that Zambia remains peaceful.
PEOPLE ARE SHOWING IGNORANCE HERE. THE ECZ HAS MANY FORA ON WHICH YOU CAN REQUEST FOR RESPONSES. MULUNGUSHI IS FOR ANNOUNCING RESULTS. NOT FOR EMOTIONAL, FRUSTRATED, PARANOID, HORMONE FILLED, LAWYERS TO KEEP COMPLAINING. ITS NOT FOR US VIEWERS . ITS FOR THE ECZ TO RESPOND. THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED CAN STILL FOLLOW UP.
Iwe chisenga don’t expose your limited thinking,the constitution says all queries must be solved before winner is declared and there is no other platform rather than that one to air out their grievances.Some of you want things to suit u not following the procedures,dont be like ecl who ignored the advice from lazy president on weather ministers were to remain in offices but he bulldozed later he lost in the constitutional court ruling because he wanted to suit his situation.That lady mushipe was very right bcoz all observers shud know the whole process and give a complesive report already pipo want to know what one Mr chavula doing in the servers room and who gave him the password for those computers
Bapongozi, just shut your big mouth. No one wants to know your credentials.
I will not dignify you with a response. Under Lungu, you will take 1 million years to get to my status. Multiple advanced degrees, yes, educated and learned, and rich. But above all these earthly trivial credentials I have, I love my friend–Jesus Christ will all of my heart
No point in answering questions from certain quarters as whatever answer you give them they will try and find fault. ECZ has got a job to do not wasting time with disgruntled UPND cadres like some who comment on every issue here on LT. In any case, you can ask as many questions as you would like but that is not going to magically transfer ECL’s winning votes to Hadolf Hitler.
Seriously why should the Director or Chairman of ECZ be announcing Parliamentary results and drip feeding Presidential results…this is a job for Returning Officers in constituencies …its all shambolic and myopic leadership..if you want to announce give the final result.
Bitterness will continuously haunt your poor ungrateful souls. It is that point in life where one comes to the realization that you can not always win. Calm down. Stop hurting now. Okay HH azawina. Hashi baby!
Yes, I am bitter because we are still stuck in the stone age and incompentence yet we are wasting millions of dollars on substandard service …72 hours after the elections you still dont know the winner ..are you not bitter you ****?
Calm down poor little soul. Put you thumb in your mouth and take deep sucks on it, I will bring you lollipops on my way back. Cry babies! Have you ever conducted elections before? Ungrateful little lazybums, you will die Hurting and Hating.
Why is Lungu failing in North Western since there are no Tongas? Same for Western province.
LUNGU, Edgar C
Edgar LUNGU
PF
329,616
HICHILEMA, Hakainde
Hakainde HICHILEMA
UPND
271,484
Now that HH is leading, does it mean the elections have now become credible?
@docc2M,
The answer is definitely NO !!!!
We all know ECZ is playing with HH `s nerves and playing it safe so people like you can think this way.
What has changed that results are now flowing in faster? This is the rate we were expecting right from yesterday and not after the “job” has been done.I hope you understand what the “job” means
Latest figures after 42 constituencies is HH 384,801 followed by EL on 373,496
42 constuencies out of 156 and we r so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just wait my people.
Unless you repent (satanism ),you will never rule the anointed kingdom of zambia. Weither by 100% vote. If God say no ,its no
Iwe the cursed u’r not God to judge who is holly or evil, By judging someone’s Christianity is a since and hating someone without any reason is also a sin remember God commands u to love your neighbor or enemies .may God deliver u from that spirit
The elections were free and fair so say rhe observers. Parties collected and collated the results at polls station during the counting. PF counted 93 seats. This is a fact. Why is Mushipe desputing this fact?
ECZ is just trying to avoid questions from psychotics like Martha Mushipe. This woman is suffering from a very serious mental problem due to a long period of sexual drought.
When last did you have sex your self or the so called sexual rains? So if you are a real man help her from the sexual drought, otherwise, please don`t talk about thinks you don`t know. She might be better off than you.
@Kudos aka senile citizen
You said you would whitewash HH and Molina.com
You said only Tongas were against Lungu PF theft, HIPC debt accumulation, corruption and looting.
Are Tongas only the ones giving HH those votes, albeit small ones, in Northeast Rhodesia? Are Tongas the ones who voted for HH in North Western province more than in Southern Province?
so far Highest Votes for HH
MWINILUNGA
33,801
91.9%
Highest votes for ECL
KWACHA
24,582
65.6%
Are Tongas residents of Mwinilunga? PF say HH votes are only from Tongas.
Chakolwa wont win this elections and we are likely to have a re run.
@Chilyata
“SOMEONE HAS BEEN CAUGHT MANIPULATING DATA…”
If your English exam marks have been captured by your teacher in the presence of everyone and shown the overall result to everyone in the classroom, why should it worry you if the headmaster or anyone else in the process tries to manipulate it?
NW,WP are voting for their tribal cousiona and they have shown how hateful they can be. Imagine dudumwezi HH 33,000, ECL 200 votes. ECZ has done well by asking parties to have their queries attended to in private. UPND are issuing every i
Whatever the outcome of this election, the word of the Lord says (Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord – Romans 12:19.
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows – Galations 6:7.
Nigerian wisdom has it that, those who ride on the back of a tiger end up in its belly.
Just like the parasitic blood suckers the bed bugs at a boarding school go quiet when school kids go home as the feast is over, the kaponya parasites bloggers have gone quiet knowing their looting could be over.
This site does not seem to scrutinize the posts in order to keep out the distasteful posts ! My thinking is that divergent views should be EXPECTED AND TOLERATED ! I have noticed bloggers trading insults right here ! That is equivalent to violence ( only that you can’t see each other ) ! Please let us just debate soberly !
We were expecting next results at 22:30, so what is going on again ECZ?
Like I said on Thursday as soon as the polls closed….our Victory celebration is tomorrow at our usual meeting place at CBI building in Matero….Kelvin Mutale Sampa,Margaret Mwanakatwe, Given Lubinda and Emmanuel Mwamba the leader of the Boostele team will be in attendance…come and pop champagne with us….from Matero we are marching to the state house with our raised clenched fists….
Thank you mother Zambia and God bless
EDGAR LUNGU 5 MORE YEARS….
WE HAVE WON
I thank you
If we are incapable of conducting this democratic process called elections, why can’t we just give it up instead of pretending. We seem not to fully understand, appreciate and comprehensively accept the intention of what elections were created for. We borrowed and copied the process, so just let it go and go back to the traditional chiefs governance style.
For starters, I really don’t understand why election results have to be announced in Lusaka, instead of at the respective source constituencies. The constituencies should announce the results instantly on national platform, ala Euro Vision style. The LSK guys just add the totals. What do they have to verify in LSK since they are just recipients of the results numbers?
Kkkkkkkkkk aaaaaah expiry
@ Bapongozi even your multiple degrees have not helped you analyze correctly on who would be the winner! Kikikiki aku lileni oweeee chikonko mwikate! ATI riches! You are very poor in thinking and poverty is a state of the mind where you begin to think you know it all! We have stopped the Tongas hagain. No rich rich for 5 more years during which 6 provinces will consolidate the voting pattern you have just witnessed! Form GN 12, Ask your agents to send you the polling station results naimwe! I though yo hh said he had a plan to prevent rigging in place! Where is it ba economist.
Congrats ecl,another mandate to prove your hard work,