The Technical Committee drafting the new constitution has said that the final draft document will only be ready after the National Convention is held. This will be after the people of Zambia participate through the provincial conventions and sector groups were they will be expected to make recommendations on the draft constitution.
Committee spokesperson Simon Kabanda has told QFM news that sector groups will include citizens, stakeholders from the NGOs, the church and business community among others.
Mr. Kabanda noted that from the provincial conventions and sector groups, representatives will be chosen to take part in the national convention where the final draft constitution will be produced.
He adds that the committee is working hard to ensure that it produces the final document which is expected to be put to a referendum by June this year while the first draft constitution will be ready by the end of February.
Mr. Kabanda has also hinted that the committee may consider content from the document that was done by electoral technical committee saying there are some constitution matters that need to be taken care of in that document.
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All the Best in the works…
How is that going to be different from NCC? going round in circles.
hope no more nonsense this time around. i have seen sata’s nose hovering around this 1.
We are seeing a route to the failed NCC[MMD]
The MMD used all tricks to drible the people of Zambia their much needed NATIONAL DOCUMENT. So new PFgovernment should not cheat the people of Zambia once more like the defunct MWANIA MULAMANA DOO [MMD] or Movement for Mad Dogs.We need the new constitution this year not any later than this.
Im for a federal state, so that bembas do not dominate us.
Kamalasha, wa bar ibo lo
Sounds good. NCC could have come up with a good constitution if George Kunda had not bull dozed his way through it.
“He adds that the committee is working hard to ensure that it produces the final document which is expected to be put to a referendum by June this year”. So even the so called Technical Committee has not learnt lessons from the impractability of the 90 days hallucinations? Provincial conventions, national convention, referendum all by June? Well well well, before we know it we shall have another NCC complete with its costs, and finally we shall revert back to Hon George Kunda’s constitution draft.