Former UPND Livingstone Member of Parliament (MP) Howard Sikwela is shocked that some UPND MPs are demanding refunds for money contributed towards his campaigns ahead of the Livingstone by-election last year.
And Forum for Democratic Process (FODEP) has charged that it was not mandatory for Reverend Sikwela who had resigned from the UPND to reimburse it because the donated money was out of goodwill to build the party.
UPND deputy spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa was quoted in the media today as having said that UPND MPs were angry with Rev Sikwela’s behaviour and were now demanding that he pays them back every penny they spent during campaign and election.
Mr Mweetwa who is also UPND Choma MP claimed that Rev Sikwela’s campaign cost KR500, 000 (K500 million) which was all contributions from the party.
But Rev Sikwela said in an interview today that the demands by his former party members could be wrong because he also made key financial contributions to help UPND develop.
“Actually, I am very shocked to hear that I am being told to pay back all monies spent during my last by-election. I am surprised people want me to payback when I also made several forms of assistance including finance towards growing of UPND.
“This is my first time to hear such demands and I think, this is not the best way to go that people should be made to payback when they have contributed in one way the other,” Rev Sikwela said
Rev Sikwela resigned on Friday last week citing tribalism in the opposition UPND. This was the first time an MP was resigning from the UPND.
He said he had decided to party company with the UPND because of the hostility he received from the party in his attempt to work with the Government in developing his constituency.
And FODEP executive director MacDonald Chipenzi has described the claims as merely political statement.
Mr Chipenzi said in a separate interview today that it was not mandatory for rev Sikwela to payback the money.
“It’s a well known fact that the money being claimed was given out of free will and were meant to sale UPND in Livinstone.I think, it’s not right to claim their money,” Mr Chipenzi said
He said the demands did not even portray Zambia’s Christian principle because Rev Sikwela left UPND on his own after he made a personal comprehensive thought to quit.
“If UPND claims the money, it would mean that if another MP resigns next time, they will also claim the finances from that MP, which doesn’t show good Christian principles,” he said
Mr Chipenzi said the moment political parties such as UPND start to claim such money, it could result in people doubting credibility of their parties.
He said, UPND should ponder on way forward after resignation of Rev Sikwela. He said the best UPND could do, was to forget about Rev Sikwela and move forward since he former MP decided to quit the party.
Hyena looking for faecal matter
Strange politics;
UPND claiming back its faecal excreta it made Rev. Sikwela eat during the by-election campaigns.
My advice to UPND is that you either create your own or look elsewhere for more faecal matter
OBVIOUSLY UR THINKING CAPACITY IS VERY SHALLOW HENCE YOU HAVE NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE TO CONTRIBUTE
CAN WE NOW CONCENTRATE ON WORTHWHILE ISSUES ENOUGH TALK ABOUT THIS MAN EBWAFYA NA MA ZAMBIANS STILL TALKING ABOUT LAST WEEK’S ISSUES THE MAN HAS PROBABLY GONE TO THE FARM ALREADY AND PIPO ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT HIM
The resignation does make sense at all.Why did he stand in the first place?
Chipenzi you ære stupid, ære you trying to find favour in the eyes of Andeleki. He is on you little fool and just settle your issues with him than joining other people’s fights.
Calm down ba Andrew. You know everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I am afraid he is right on this one. No court of law would compel the reverend to pay back the money. However, this might be a way forward. Maybe parties should force candidates to sign financial agreements which they would then enforce in the event that the MP decides to cross the floor.
yangu!ok 500 million kwacha is alot of cheddar!people are playing with money ..let the party discipline this shi tata maybe it will discourage this nonsense ..manje ba daddy aba his grounds for resigning as mp-how does he cite tribalism..please this is something that his party has been associated with ever since my president A.Mazokas untimely death (r.i.p.)…he shudv known better..and he deserves all the heat!!bye elections are costly not only to these chaps respective parties but to humble taxpayers like myself mxxm ..
MP’s ditching their parties are like Hyenas looking for fecal excreta-Dr. Manda
IF MY MEMORY SAVES ME RIGHT, THIS DR MANDA WAS ONCE IN UPND. WHERE IS HE SEARCHING FOR FECAL EXCRETA NOW HMSELF?
Ba Rev Sikwela that is democracy. Pay back the money and demand to be paid back what you claim to have spent on UPND activities. Simple. We are disappointed with your actions. Please explain yourself again.
Sikwela gave wat he gave and it was not abused, but what he got during campaigns he abused. Therefore, there is no need for UPND to pay him anything as he has left without any sound reason.
He is not obliged to pay back the money just as you cannot ask your church to pay back all the donations you’ve made so far.
Exactly. Sikwela should grow up and pay. If he has counter-claims let him launch his own claims afterwards or set conditions of payment around that. But he MUST pay back. Maybe this will make greedy selfish MPs think twice before quiting. What is happening in Zambia is very annoying. Zambia has never seen this level of childish politics since independence. Very embarrassing.
UPND shouuld be the first to pay him back. Put money where your mouth is.
Chi Hyena…………..lol
It just makes sense for Sikwela to pay the money back! He was paid inducements to resign after only 5 months, so why should he be allowed to benefit out his “political crime”? He is a useless chap who in fact blocked other credible candidates. Certainly there was no Value for Money spent by UPND so it’s payack time Sikwela!!
The UPND are equally shocked that you are now a hyena,as if being an adulterer was not enough.
You have cracked me up! But nonetheless, you have also highlighted the lack of depth in the character of this man. He lacks substance of any nature to be entrusted with anything. He is meant to be a “Man of God” and yet he not only commits adultery but also denies it despite the overwhelming evidence. He turns to politics and no sooner is he elected MP on a UPND ticket, he starts prostituting with another sighting flimsy reasons for doing so. This man has no principles never mind morals to be an MP or indeed a leader of any description.
There is nothing wrong with UPND demanding the repayment of the money they spent. Actually it would be a good party policy to stop MPs riding on its back and once voted in defect to the ruling party by receiving billions of kwacha, not to mention the other billions which go into the by election. So connelius is just right although for now it is his personal opinion.
ARE YOU INSINUATING THAT THE THE FEW UPND MPS ARE STUCK IN UPND BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF BEING ASKED TO PAY BACK WHAT HH INVESTED IN THEM IF AT ALL THEY DECIDE TO LEAVE UPND?
Shameless chaps these chaps would go to a girlfriend’s house to ask for the gifts back after they have been dumped!kekeke
hahaha….thats UPND for you my man.
Why not..forgotten that our boss at plot one is well known for that???
Shameless chaps these chaps would go to a girlfriend’s house to ask for the gifts back after they have been dumped!kekeke
Says a lot about your level of maturity. How can you equate what is happening with MPs creating by-elections everyday to one having a girlfriend???? Anyway, maybe your intellect level is what is general and most prevalent in Zambia and no wonder this is hapening and people are busy praising it….in the end, billions are being spent on by-elections when there is no medicine in hospitals, no desks in schools, our Universities are constantly on strikes. I wonder what will remain of Zambia 5 years from now. Already the food production harvest for 2013 is projected to be 15% lower than previous years since 2004. It’s the first time Zambia will fail to feed itself since 1996. Meanwhile money is being spent on unnecessary by-elections and people are cheering like savannah monkeys.
Isn’t it called Multi-Party Democracy!
LT is this website finished or work in progress? I hope you didn’t pay anybody for this !kekeke
You got money by FALSE pretence, you man of Satan. May you be struck by lightening during this rain season! Reverend? You’re not a man of God mambala Stu.pid mambala!
So you are a child of god yet you wish death on to others; shameless indeed!
Yangu Ati Reverend Atabaneee… Imwenaimwe Upnd Ifyo Fyama Payback Takwaba
I feel its like people are being held at ransom; no matter how principled they maybe. People are using money to hold others at ransom so that they cannot make their independent decisions. This explains why our M.Ps cannot stand on their own and make analytical decisions on their own.
YOU ARE SPOT ON. ESPECIALLY THE UPND MPS. THEY ARE DAMN AFRAID TO MOVE OUT OF UPND. OTHERWISE THE LONG ARM OF MR IBU WILL CATCH THEM.
Hyena, Sikwela on successfully finding fecal matter!
UPND that unde five mentality. How many MPs in Zambia who ever resigned since multi-partism and his former party demanded what the voluntarily spent to sponsor that candidate. Where else have you heard of this childish demand in the world? If this is your way of thinking out of the box, shame upon you. Leave that man alone. He joined UPND on his free will and he has left on his free will. You spent your campaign money on your free will, there was no condition like the one you are now demanding. Thats utter desperation, guys, Grow up. What a way of thinking! And thats the leadership you want to bring at the national level, well let it remain in the bantustan.
Tell us how many MPs resigned hardly a few months after being elected in a bye-election? Grow up yourself. This is simply a case of a very immature person.
“If UPND claims the money, it would mean that if another MP resigns next time, they will also claim the finances from that MP, which doesn’t show good Christian principles.” – MacDonald Chipenzi
What sort of BS reasoning is this? So McDonald, by extension, believes that wasting meager tax-payer resources on unnecessary bye elections “show[s] good Christian principles…” What a buffoon!
UPND is only shocked about resignation and also worried as victory on Livighdtone was quitebnarrow and this may be first PF seat in Southern Province. The refund story is none-issue!!
just pay back if you have the money and if you do not have tell your party you’ve joined to help you pay,you fool,that money was alot to be wasted on a hypocry.
SO UPND ACTUALLY USED MONEY EVEN TO GAIN THAT NARROW LEAD IN L/STONE BYE ELECTION. HAVE THEY NOW RUN OUT OF MONEY?
The issue of cost of elections is really coming to the fore. I think all these are nuts we are straining at, while swallowing camels like slow pace of delivering the new constitution. I wish the PF had really delivered their 90 days new constitution, then we wouldn’t waste time talking about this.
The draft constitution has the solution on this and why can’t the Justice Minister speed up the the process if they are serious about saving money the country is breeding through these silly resignations
They wont be in hurry to do this for their own political expedience..meanwhile they promised it would be ready in 90 days!
Sad indeed the undemocratic ways and approaches by UPND. the Rev was put under intense pressure and was isolated by the Top UPND, how do expect him to proceed? Any reasonable person would consider the decision he has made. Personal attacks on the Rev are unwarranted and it just shows the calibre of the party he belonged to, we all have our short comings and only God can help us through his Grace.
Let’s build a Zambia with a solid opposition that is able to work with Govt of the Day on issues likely to improve our country at large. Right now Positive opposition is lacking and dwindling numbers in Parliament not good so let the opposition show tolerance towards their MPs and engage them internally not via the press. Time is dynamic Sata showed his own way wen he was in opposition.
And what way did Sata exactly show when he was in opposition? Fact is he never worked with the government of the day then. He never accepted defeat in 2006. One week after his defeat in 2006, he had a rally in Mtendere where he held a cabbage in his right hand and told the crowd that ‘this is what you voted for’! He went on to promise that he will make ‘Mwanawasa’s life hell’ (sick)! So please go to hell with this cow dung about Sata! He is just an illiterate and divisive guy! The only lesson one can learn from him is not to be like him!
ITS ONLY A FOOL AN IMMATURE BITTER ILLITERATE FOOL THAT WOULD DEMAND FOR HIS MONEY BACK,WHY DIDNT THEY THNK OF THE MONEY THEY SPENT WHEN THEY WERE THREATNING HIM,WHY DIDNT THEY THINK OF THE MONEY THEY SPENT WHEN THEY REFUSED TO ASSIST HIM WITH LEGAL ASSISTANCE YET UPND HAS A LOT OF LAWYERS??THEY RE JUST BITTER CAUSE HE HAS THE LAST LAUGH,ITS A WARNING TREAT UR MPS RIGHT,DONT TAKE OUT UR FRUSTRATIONS ON THEM FOR NOT GOING TO STATE HOUSE HH,AND IF YOU KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR YOU HH YOU SHOULD STAND ON THE LSTONE SEAT AS AN MP,YOU NEED THE EXPERIENCE !!!!!!!!
Sikwela a hypocritical pastor, shame on you old man just because of greedy you loose your principles. Stop crying.
go well randy MP..we hear you were on rampage at parley motel..hahaha
thou shall not bear false witness,dont get excited over the moment and start telling lies
this pastor is a lier and greedy and he should refund the mind.
Kekeke..hahaha…mamaaa… Surely thats why you are called under5’s . Only children under five behave in this manner. The chldren ask back whatever they gave to a friend whenever they fight each other. Under 5 is UPND. Shaaaaa.
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.
One thing political parties need to start doing is to sign legally binding agreements with those they adopt to stand on their tickets that hold them fast to the party till the next election.
Zambian politics : autupe mali yatu mulombwana like kids ka its interesting mwee.
Give ceza wat belongs to ceza bazifuna ndalama zao boss ba Rev. sichela.
Let him pay back. Even ka Namulambe should pay back to whosoever sponsored him. This move will make the potential resignees think twice.
have we had an mp that resigned like this hyena for lack of terms to describe him
CHI REVEREND EWE, I ALSO WANT COMPENSATION FOR WASTING MY TIME WAKING UP VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING AND STANDING IN THE QUEUE FOR 5 HOURS TO VOTE FOR YOU.
YOU ARE NOT EVEN ASHAMED OF RESPONDING. ‘AT FEELING SORRY FOR THE PEOPLE OF LIVINGSTONE WITH A HEAVY HEART.” BLOOD FOOL
What tribe is this so called rev.sikwela? i think let him join c.milupi’s party ADD peto!!!!
ti patse ndalam dzatsu!!
True under 5s indeed, ka Mweetwa had to even travel to Livingstone for the money. No wonder UPND MPs cannot resign for fear of being asked to reimburse the money. Why ask for the money anyway. Atase, that is why I can NEVER join such a ka rubbish party.
sikwela, you are welcome to join my No Refund Party (NRP). you are free to resign any time, you do not even have to give any reasons why.
You are the biggest i.d.i.o.t among the bloggers here!!!!
Ahaaaa! You see the family of HHyena are every day problem!!!:
“THE GREATEST THING THE WORLD NEEDS ARE MEN WHO CANNOT BE BOUGHT ” (HELLEN G.WHITE) BA REV ITS UNFORTUNATE ,ANYWAY LET ME NOT JUDGE IN ADVANCE , HUMAN MIND IS SO COMPLEX AND DYNAMIC. “THE HEART IS DECEITIFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS WHO CAN KNOW IT ” (JEREMIAH 17:9)
SO DECEITFUFUL IS THE HEART THAT EVEN WHEN IT HELPS YOU, IT CAN TURN BACK AGAINST YOU TO CLAIM WHATEVER IT PROVIDED TO YOU.
I happened to mess around with a certain prostitute in Choma who asked me that, and I quote “amundipe mali nijatilile limwi”. So it is typical of these people, there is nothing for nothing. Ba Rev you are in trouble.
The drama has just begun, UPND get ready to lose your seat to the evergrowing PF. Go ahead to field candidite in both Mpongwe and Livingstone to test their streangth and popularity and not to seek pact with titanic MMD. Had it not for a loose pact with MMD, UPND woud’nt have scooped Livingstone because if you look at the difference that was there you will say the vote which PF got and divide the vote Sikwela got between MMD and UPND You will believe that PF. If they dont form a loose pact , PF
I feel the UPND and all other political parties should go the way of formalizing reimbursements to the party whenever an MP quits. I say this because for one to be nominated to stand as MP, one should have been a long standing member of the party so much so that they should have seen the purported tribalism as well as their party’s intolerance to work with the government. Paying back, if supported with some form of a contract, can also deter selfish politicians like Rev Sikwela, Gabriel Namulambe and Masumba from unnecessarily causing by-elections and costing the nation colossal sums of money. Go UPND charge him! AS A LIVINGSTONE RESIDENT, AM ASHAMED OF YOU REVEREND!
This fake,ulderterous rev.should pay back every penny he got! we can not continue spending money on usesles bye elections caused by this useless fake rev conniving with UKWA!!!!!!!!!
when you voted for him he wasnt fake or adulterous now that he has resigned you call him all sorts of names shame on you for having poor judgement,make ur stand,dont just go with the flow just because everyone is insulting doesnt mean you should,do bosses in ur work place call you names when you resign?some of you re just showing how shallow minded you re
have u ever suffered rejection ? th waste thing so far.
This randy bastard of a ‘Reverend’ should be expelled from the church and barred from politics – reverend of ubuchende, ili hule Sikwela
Gambling! its sad christian should not gamble.I still admire the unity in UNDP,Iwonder what holds them together..
IT IS THE FEAR OF NBEING ASKED FOR REFUND IF AT ALL THEY WERE TO RESIGN.
I didn’t hear Reverend Howard Sikwela saying the word TRIBALISM in his resignation speech. Media be factual, fair and accurate. Don’t try to talk about tribalism when it doesn’t truly exist, just because you want to promotes your personal agendas.
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