THE situation in Western Province is expected to remain calm as the government and leaders of the province explore ways of reaching an agreement over the recent stand-off, said Minister of Home Affairs Kennedy Sakeni in an interview yesterday.
Mr Sakeni said police officers are on the ground monitoring the situation adding that there is an atmosphere of peace in the province at the moment.
Two weeks ago, the Barotse National Council (BNC) raised issues around the Barotseland Agreement of 1964, which they felt needed addressing.
“We are in charge, it (Western Province) is one of our 10 provinces and the status quo is just the same (calm),” said.
Mr Sakeni said Western Province is not the only area facing various social and economic challenges but all the provinces, including the newest one, Muchinga, which Government has plans to resolve using the national development plan.
“It was only a few people with political ambitions who are pushing their own agenda. At times you imagine a person who was in government just a few months ago changing his colours after losing power,” he said.
The minister said there is no need to create despondency in the country.
Mr Sakeni said he believed that the majority of the people of Western Province are not interested in secession, judging by last year’s election results in the region.
“Speaking for myself as a politician, I am alive to the fact that our party was propagating the restoration of the Barotseland Agreement. But what happened, we lost most of the seats in Western Province and got only one or two seats.
“This clearly means that most of the people there are not for secession. That is my own supposition as a politician who is able to analyse the politics of our country,” he said.
Mr Sakeni said Government has no problem holding dialogue with the people of Western Province and that it was entirely up to them to present their suggestions.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
“Speaking for myself as a politician, I am alive to the fact that our party was propagating the restoration of the Barotseland Agreement. But what happened, we lost most of the seats in Western Province and got only one or two seats.
“This clearly means that most of the people there are not for secession. That is my own supposition as a politician who is able to analyse the politics of our country,”
hhhmmmm!
cage them
Typical African m.o.ro.n! Anyone I have a disagreement with on an issue should be jailed! Primitive monkey!
Does Ukwa even know where or what Western province is these days let alone the agreement?
The situation has no choice but to be calm.Its only a few old dilapidated bad mannered and tired anarchists who do not want to die alone who
The situation has no choice but to be calm.
Sakeni has just admitted that the Agreement would have been honoured if the pf had won the majority of seats in. Barotseland. Accordingly if the . Barotse wanted secession they would have voted for. P. F but they didn’t. And . Sakeni is a senior minister! Santa Maria!
Yaaaawwwn…..booooooring…… where is our diaspora girl Mushota please to entertain us?
Barotseland is calm because we have already resolved to rule ourselves, we have nothing to do with the zambian police.
Keep dreaming boy
Otoman: well said!
u lichi puba masipa a hao u twile nji
These guys the way they give statements as bachoka mukachaso.
Mr. Sakeni is a poor political analyst. The apathy in Barotseland and fewer votes for PF does not mean people don’t want to secede. Sata did not promise that if the people voted for him he would help them secede, he promised that if he became president, as someone who understood that the BA64 was a legal document, would address it. In fact what the people wanted at the time was restoration with only few suggesting for secession. But when Sata defaulted on his promise, majority of all the people opted for secession. Even in the commission of enquiry more people desired secession. But the commission of inquiry decided to recommend restoration as a compromise, and when Sata was reluctant to compromise the people of Barotseland had no other option but to call for complete separation
@ OTOMAN,
I TOTALLY AGREE!!
What a country full of lunatics. Is sakeni ministrial material? The answer is no. The only pipo fit to be ministers are chikwanda , john phiri and katongo the rest are kmb material not even near to be called district commissioners but vitelelwe
I’m just from reading that the people speaking in western aren’t real nkoyas but government puppets and the litunga is yet to declair the independence of Barotseland. Is above statement about calmness bogus? Somebody reply!
What is he saying? If PF won the majority of seats in Western Province, then Western Province was going to secede… wtf?
How could we even have a Homes Affairs minister who doesn’t even understand what the Barotseland Agreement is for, what it stands for? He has no idea about the basics of the agreement. Restoring the BA’64 as PF promised doesn’t mean letting WP secede – in fact the reverse is true.
Someone school this dumb wit that its the non-restoration of the Agreement that is prompting people to say they want out of the unity that wa created by the agreement.
And this man is a minister?
The province is very calm and we are all in our positions as law enforcers to brutally deal with any form of revolt! Its intresting to note that all the chaps who are making noise on the issues in western province are useless cowards! Like this chap ngambela wainyelawila, he cant even kill a rat! He is a real coward
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