About 224 headmen from Katuba constituency have appealed to President Rupiah Banda and the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) to expel Katuba area member of parliament Jonas Shakafuswa from the party.
Speaking when presenting the appeal to MMD National Treasurer Jeff Kaande, the headmen’s representative Headman Chilwana charged that Katuba constituency has continued to lag behind in development because the area MP has failed to deliver on his election promises.
Headman Chilwana said there is nothing the area MP has done in Katuba constituency in terms of development.
Headman Chilwana said apart from not to bring development to the area, the MP had shown that he had no respect for elders as he was always in the habit of insulting the headmen.
“We the Headmen have discovered that the young man has no respect for elders. We don’t want him. We have rejected him. We don’t understand up to now why NEC decided to adopt him as the MMD candidate”, he said.
Headman Chilwana further charged that the people only voted for Shakafuswa because they did not want to disgrace late President Levy Mwanawasa who had asked the people of Katuba to vote for him.
He called on President Banda to visit Katuba constituency so he could hear for himself that the people no longer wanted Mr Shakafuswa as their area member of parliament.
Headman Chilwana said the headmen are calling for a by-election in Katuba by August so that their preferred candidate can be elected to lead them.
Speaking earlier, Headman Kapilamilanga said the headmen in Katuba constituency were ashamed of the conduct of Mr Shakafuswa.
He said the 224 headmen shall march to the MMD secretariant and state house with all their subjects if the MMD does not heed their call to expel Mr Shakafuswa from the party.
He said the people of Katuba greatly need help from the party leadership as they have greatly suffered under the leadership of Mr Shakafuswa.
And responding to the petition, MMD Jeff Kaande said he had heard the appeal and will deliver it to the President to respond.
Mr Kaande urged the headmen to be patient and remain calm as the party would deal with the matter at an opportune time.
“When we seem not to take action on certain matters, it is not that we are weak or the President is weak but the MMD Government is a government of laws”, he said.
He explained that when the National Executive Committee (NAC) expelled Mr Shakafuswa from the party, he ran to the courts and filed an injunction restraining the party from expelling him.
Mr Kaande called on the headmen to wait until the court process takes place so that no one is held in contempt of court for disregarding the court process.
ZANIS
iwe shaka****er wayufiw la we mwine fuma fye
These headdmen are just being used by RB and MMD. Many MPs are like Shaka, good at talking like pregnant women but their cont remain underdeveloped.
Abantu naba fulwa,mamamamama.Ok but why in the wolrd do they have 224 headmen in that constituency.is it just me or that number is a little too much.
But you headmen,what do people like you expect from another dunderhead like kaande.is he any better than jonas.it’s time we people stop looking at the party but the calibre of the candidates.mwanya mwakulachula ifyo fine till you change your line of thinking..
Why didn’t they appeal earlier on when everything was going well in MMD.
#2, these headmen are not angry. Remember they are in the South? it is Ganja at work!
Politiking at its best. Nothing to do with Governance. Whats the response of Shaka?
Women MP, should be replaced the Prof. Definately the Prof is behind this
Jonas Shakafuswa ,
Is one of the most useless MP that MMD has ever condoned to remain its liability in the ranks. Since his defection from late Mazoka’s UPND for a solicited job from late Mwanawasa all he does is insult and threaten headmen that he is a flying squad with power to bungle them. NEC must just drop him. His call for a Bantubotatwe party is wishful dream. It’s good that they have pulled all GRZ driven business contracts he gave himself under Mwanawasa off the deck. Squeeze him until all public money loans he got are liquidated. Kick him now to miss out on the mid term gratuity. Make him go ZAM FOOT. You don’t retain the seat by insulting voters.
thats why it is important to vote wisely, when are our people going to learn. as evidenced, they vote “not disappoint….”. In my view, serves you right, learn from past mistakes and in 2011 wise up
these headmen have recieved brown envelops from state house rb is using tax payers money to bribe chiefs next he will try and bribe sata and hh
Not only have they recieved brown envelopes, please people chaeck the source of this news – ZANIS. WASTE OF TIME TO READ THIS MATERIAL.
SATA IS THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIAN… HE SHOULD EXPLAIN HOW HE GOT SO MANY HOUSES UNDER THE AVONDALE HOUSING PROJECT . AND HH ALSO SHOULD EXPLAIN HOW HE CORRUPTLY MILKED THE GOVERNMENT DURING PRIVITISATION….. THE BALL WILL BE IN HH’ COURT SO THAT WE CAN SEE HOW HE CAN COPE UNDER REAL PRESSURE. A COUNTRY OF CRIMINALS.
#13 Sata. Your type of corruption is the type where one gets a cheque, deposits it in ones account, gets the interest for it for a few days and the cheque is still used for its intended purpose. Compare this with a minister who went to the Bank of Zambia and cashed a two hundred million kwacha at the counter. Both are corrupt practices but surely the other is less damaging. This is not condoning corruption it is just being realistic.
Those 224 Headmen have bin bought and not represent the views of the silent majority to destablise Katuba contituency where Prof. Clive Chirwa has MMD membership. The target is not Shakafuswa as such the MP is just collateral damage of Prof. Chirwa.Does it mean all those headmen are members of the ruling MMD. Comparing Katuba to other arears in Zambia, that palce is better off. MMD has structures which pipo should follow whenairing their grievinces in this case they straight wnet straight to Deputy National Secretary Gen. Jeff Kaande. Jeff stop practising politics of stone age, they will never take you any where. Just state that Prof. Chirwa is not welcome in MMD to contest the Party Presidency. Leave Shakas alone, I dont think the guy has sunk low to be insulting elders.ABASH DICTATORSHIP
These villagers are really still very backward.
They should know that the MP is the people’s representative in Parlaiment and it is the duty of the government to develop the country.
The minster of finance produces a budget and the individual ministries allocate these resources to needy areas.
So these misguided chiefs should petition Bwezani for development issues and election promises.
even if its brown envelops at work, surely not all the Katuba chiefs. I think Shakasali’s time has come for him to reckon with his past. After all, every dog has his day
villagers! no further commets
Why in the first place have 224 headman. Secondly How many MPs have done something in their Constituencies Why just expell shikafuswa. It well be fair to expell the whole banch of them.
These misguided village headmen should learn to respect the courts. Shaka filed and won an injuction to remain in MMD. Stop this cheap politicking and dwell on real issues concerning your subjects. It is not only katuba constituency that is underdeveloped, all the other 149 constituences are in bad shape. To be fair, every MP should be recalled….
Bribery at its best,MMD under the orders of Lupiya Kanitundila Banda has paid these chaps,how can they all come up at once & make such a decision,it means someone went to them!
Utter rubbish! Only 2 poverty stricken kachasu drunk headmen were parading themselves before corrupt Kaande.Dont those yokels know that there is an injuction against the MMD.
Headless head men which consituency in Zambia has developed? Jeff Kaande stage managed this
Mr chicks,
Sir in zambia we dont understand pidgin english,why can’t you pick one language among the seven that we have in zambia for you to express yourself than the comic you are parading. Anyway i laboured to understand what you meant and my free advise is that.if you see the person who was galavanting with the chiefs.it is jeff kaande the MMD deputy national secretary and this man is pure RB campaigner so if you have a stable mind my bro’,do you realy think he can go out on an erand championing the course of the prof.be fair to your thing at times mr chicks.
Its a lie altogether. 224 is too much
Following “And responding to the petition, MMD Jeff Kaande said he had heard the appeal and will deliver it to the President to respond”, what was Mr Kaande doing in that part of the country which is not his constituency?
On “Headman Chilwana further charged that the people only voted for Shakafuswa because they did not want to disgrace late President Levy Mwanawasa who had asked the people of Katuba to vote for him“, this is very very sad news from a headman as it shows that even him is an MMD president and Zambian President bootlicker.
Development is far.
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Eph 6:12 + KJV Bible
12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high…
These are all lies,,Lenjes are tribal and dnt think they wud luv to hav an MP wu aint Lenje.So Chilwana,shut yo beak and eat yo money in silence..Hopeless
Why are they petitioning the MMD? Shouldnt they be petitioning the Speaker? Since when did headmen get the power to intervene in politics? They are supposed to be non partisan. And how did over 200 headmen somehow acquire resources to get themselves to the Mmd secretariat? These are supposed to be poor men
There is no case here.What has Shaka done wrong to deserve expulsion.I am not aware of any better candidate in this area.Shaka is not a bootlicker and thats his only crime and i stand by him on this one unless the headmen put better reasons here.
Above all what a reason to have voted for him in the first place.They should not blame him but blame themselves.Shaka had even won under UPND before going to MMD
Plaka i am more concerned about you than your comment……….You look nice if i may comment
And they are very dull too? What do they mean by not wanting to disgrace the late president? Since whuchever candidate Rupiah chooses will be voted for, why should he even bother visiting the area when he can just appoint someone and these chaps will vote for him. They should have taught LPM a lesson by not voting for Shakas. Very dull villagers, these. Why should you vote for an a.hole just because LPM said so? Would u have voted for a frog just because he said so?
For how long has Jonas been their parliamentarian ? What is the area for Katuba for them to have so many headmen and also what is the population of the area. Beware those are just sponsored criminals. By election is an expensive exercise and should not be allowed because of someone’s selfishness. Kaande don’t forget your time is coming also
BA KAMUSHI NBO NI BA PROBLEM MWE.
Rupiah promised to kick out Shakas out of Katuba. Brown envelopes at work people. These are the same people who were with Shaka at his press briefing and vowed to always support him. Bootlickers. Shakas was from UPND then when they first voted him into power.
Ba LT, is it deliberate that you misspell names in the headings?
224 headmen its possible. How many members are needed to form or to make a village?
splaka, if thats your picture, mind the way you dress before showing yourself to the public.ulelanga insele while insultign headmen.bakolwe basekene ifipato