PRESIDENT Michael Sata has said he is pleased that the military personnel in Zambia are not misusing their guns and swords to engage in robberies and other wrong vices.
Mr Sata, who was accompanied by the First Lady Christine Kaseba, also saluted the male military personnel for not misusing their guns and swords to attack their wives although women were very provocative.
He was speaking in Livingstone at Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International Airport yesterday when he officially commissioned a Zambia Airforce (ZAF) parade which comprised of 100 graduating officer cadets out of which 25 are females.
“The Zambian people have trusted you (ZAF personnel). They have given you a gun and they have given you a sword. I am very pleased with all of you and your command that you have not misused those guns to engage in robberies or otherwise. You have not misused the guns against your wives because women can be very provocative,” President Sata said.
He said Zambia was very peaceful and that was why the men and women in uniforms had not used their guns and swords to fight during the last two years.
During the same colorful ceremony which was full of exciting marching styles and flypast by ZAF personnel, President Sata promoted a graduating student Mercy Simatemba from the rank of a Lieutenant to a Major.
[pullquote] You have not misused the guns against your wives because women can be very provocative,” President Sata said.[/pullquote]
He said he was very impressed with a woman who was commanding a team of men and that was why he promoted her.
Late President Frederick Chiluba’s son, Frederick Chiluba junior was one of the graduating officers who are direct entrants into ZAF.
Defence Minister Edgar Lungu, Youth and Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili, Home Affairs Minister Ngosa Simbyakula, Transport Minister Yamfwa Mukanga, Tourism and Arts Deputy Minister Lawrence Evans, Southern Province Minister Daniel Munkombwe, Senior Chief Mukuni, Defence and Security Chiefs as well as senior Government officials were among those who witnessed the ceremony.
Mr Sata also called for an improvement to the conditions of service for men and women in uniforms.
“Zambia is very peaceful and that is why we have not used these guns and swords for the last two years.
We have not used the short buttons, if there is anything we can do to improve the conditions of service for these young men and women in uniforms, let’s do it,” he said.
Mr Sata also said he was very grateful to God for giving him his wife Christine Kaseba.
“Without my wife, I would have died a long time ago. She feeds me well and she talks too much. But I have survived and we need more of that,” he said.
In a light moment, President told ZAR personnel that they were all very intelligent as well as diligent and that they were not looking like Mr Lungu (Defence Minister).
He also narrated that in 1956, he broke a barrier to go into what was called a European job to work as a policeman.
“In 1956, we opened Lilayi Police Training Station and there were mainly white policemen in key positions while blacks were only constables to be sent to go and harass other fellow human beings,” he said.
[pullquote]“Without my wife, I would have died a long time ago. She feeds me well and she talks too much. But I have survived and we need more of that,” he said.[/pullquote]
The President urged ZAF officers to work hard and carry on from where the colonial masters ended.
Mr Sata also thanked Mr Munkombwe and the men and women in uniforms for protecting him.
“When I was coming to Livingstone early in the morning, my intelligence told me that the United Party for National Development (UPND) was waiting to hijack me and embarrass me.
Thank you Hon Munkombwe and the ladies in uniforms for protecting me,” he said.
Speaking earlier, Zambia Air Force commander Erick Chimese said the graduating officers to maintain high standards of discipline and loyalty to the President and the Government.
Lt Chimese also urged the men and women in uniforms to resourceful and innovative as well as to desist engaging in political activities and other vices which could bring the military life into disrepute.
“From 2011 to-date, ZAF is better equipped to carry out our mandate as an air force compared to the previous situation,” he said.
If you ask me, this is speech was not presidential and if George Chellah wrote this for the president, he should be fired. This is disgraceful for a president to talk like that and even suggest women are provocative. Who told him that men are not provocative. Does he know how many prostitutes abuse we endure to keep our marriages , does he know how hard it is to balance the house budget when your husband is busy wasting money on beer and prostitutes. Are these not provocative behaviours? So, the President is happy that men use other weapons to abuse us as long as they are not guns? This is disgusting at the core, particularly that it is coming from a head of State. I feel like throwing up really
Well said! Tell them sister.
I will come back to read what Mushota has to say.
If you want to judge his speech without understanding the context in which he made some of the statements then you are an as$hole.
Coolio and all the other men like you are so typical of trivializing everything as a joke. This was a president Speaking on a national stage. A lot of our young people listen to him and hang on every word he says and for them to hear that women are provocative, what do you think they will do to their so called nagging women. I still maintain, the president shouldn’t be reckless in his speech, especially if it is on a national stage. If he want to be a comedian, let him go to Lusaka Play House and ply his trade there and nobody would give a hoot. We expect presidential language for a presidential office and not street jokes
Man! get over with speeches. This is no time for speeches but hard field work. Speeches will never feed people. Projects implementation will.
@Anti-Mushota ,you just ended up with a wrong character for a husband.The president is spot on.Go home you are drunk.
– What is all these about attacking wives, while even know about his 7 weapons? That Sata’s marriage is over, look at body language between him & Kaseba, I pit that woman.
Anti Mushota you sound like a prostitute to me.
There’s a reason why Americans have it that traditionally, everything and anything official that an AMerican president conveys to his audience shall ALWAYS be from the WRITTEN SCRIPT. So, if this clown of ours had QUALIFIED AND COMPTENT script writers and the discipline to stick to his written speech he wouldn’t say all this crap.
1. The country’s arms were never intended to be used for domestic violence. Therefore praising solders in this regard is like praising fish for swimming
2. The author must improve their English and start referring to people as “OF WHOM” and not ” OF WHICH”. Kindly note also that it’s wrong to say COMPRISE OF. Instead, one either says “CONSISTS OF this and that” or simply ” COMPRISES this and that”
3. Who wants to know how talkative Christine is…
Anti-Mushota,
This is good analysis. Tell us who to vote for in 2016.
True.It is not a long time ago when that police officer in Kasama shot and killed his cheating wife before blowing himself up.We had a similar incidence in Chisamba in 2014 where an officer shot his wife and her lover.
Spot on…thank you for your contribution.
Please, allow us to commit RIGHT vices not wrong vices.
@ Anti Mushota, you are absolutely right on this!
His speech tells me that ZWD has been spot on to reveal that there are marital issues at plot 1.
The trouble is that Zambian men have singularly and severally become irresponsible due to drunkenness and bad company! A lot of so called husbands have become terrorists in their homes and most are foolish enough to implement the trash their friends feed them at the watering holes. We’ve become a nation without values, like a tree without roots!
I know most wives contract HIV from their wayward husbands and fewer men get it from their loose wives. All this happens because we think we are now modern and we have abdicated our responsibility to teach our children good values! Television is doing it for us.
Sad to hear such trash from an…
Well said bosses ! And this is while your prophets of doom keeps on praying and hoping for you to get sick and die.Aluta continua !
Long live king cobra !!!
Saulosi, can you address the first comment posted by our pissed off sister above than dwell on trivial than nobody has even raised in this article
@Educated UPND…It is not Sata`s fault that her husband loves prostitutes or abuses her.My father was a military man and never once did i see him lay his finger on my mother.In every organizations there some bad eggs and it is those bad eggs Sata was indirectly referring to in his speech.This sister of yours has just been unlucky in her marriage.For example the reserve police unit in Lusaka was scrapped down because of men in uniform who started taking advantage of their positions to engage in criminal activities.I suggest this woman takes her frustrations to her banachimbusa instead of spewing her bitterness here.
@Saulosi, respect your parents, stop misusing them here. The same with Sata, he should not be abusing Kaseba in public all the time. We know he is well married and the wife is not at all.
@Nostradamus…how am i not respecting them when am commending them for being good role models ? Looks like lelo tamukwete ifyakulanda ba guy.Ni weekend go and drink two bottles of beer or something you will just be fine.
Sata is a Joke.
The President’s speech was offensive, ridiculous, silly and absurd. I don’t know how many words i can use up here to describe the rhetoric…it’s disgusting!
MIND YOUR LANGUAGE MR, IF YOU ARE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH, WHY DDNT YOU STAND FOR PRESIDENCY SO WE CAN ELECT YOU?YOU ARE TELLING THE PRESIDENT THAT RUBBISH, DIDNT YOUR MOTHER TAUGHT YOU MANNERS AND HOW TO RESPECT ELDER PEOPLE?
And some haters wants to find fault in this speech ? Nothing will ever be good enough for you as long as you remain African opposition party members.It is in your skin.
“Amin” of Uganda>
firing wives on public rally
appointing personal on parade
causing alarm and accusing perceived attackers on parade. How can cadres kidnap a President, even had men failed on Mugabe?
Condition scoring below 0.5
GOD BLESS ZAMBIA
The President’s salute is better than that of the officer, straight and firm. The officer’s looks lazy.
that’s because Sata salutes like a Northern Rhodesia police constable….airmen do not salute like that!!
LT please produce the full speech of the President’s speech, and not one small extract of the President’s passing observation when men and women in uniform who are allowed to sleep with guns use the same weapons to intimidate their spouses.
LT can`t do that because that can`t attract comments.The media feeds on controversial stories.It is the same everywhere.Positive news doesn’t attract comments but negative news does.does. Thats the way it is unfortunately in the real world.
Yeah right – how exactly do you imagine that misogynistic remarks can be put in a better context?
Maybe:
“Women are provocative….. but some of my good friends are women.”
“I am happy soldiers do not (often) used their weapons to beat women….. it is nice to have them looking good.”
“Even though she speaks too much, she feeds me.” (….oh wait, he actually said that!)
Serious, if the President were an NBA owner he would have been banned for life by now like Donald Sterling of the LA Clippers. Better context my foot!
Next time how about: “Women are useful, 50% of voters are women?”
“because women can be very provocative”. How can the entire President make such a negative statement in public???
That’s the reason i couldn’t find how many words to describe the speech. So insensitive to women – please don’t claim it was another joke!
It is not a long time ago when that police officer in Kasama shot and killed his cheating wife before blowing himself up.We had a similar incidence in Chisamba in 2012 where an officer shot his wife and her lover.
What he means is our Zambian women are too subservient to political leadership hence the reason he promotes…look no further than one Stella and Katanga at ZP.
so of all the things the President said, you only picked that statement ”women can be provocative” and nothing else you nonentities.Why cant you just leave the president alone?Is it because he is the PRESIDENT and jealousy cant let you?
…proper description of being on the horns of a DILEMMA….in this case faced with a choice of a frying pan and fire. Just as much as we would love our ‘beloved’ presido to be regularly out there interacting with us in public and national platforms, somehow we feel its better he stays away and send representative to read his speeches on his behalf….but the problem is that we want both situations at the same time………
@Wanu Ngwee, ati this clown? Ukutumpa! Ati Amerika this, Amerika that. Now you will start ibange, ponog, gay lights bla, bla, bla, bla because you think everything from your country is bad. What has Sata done to you? Did he take your wife away?
Very uninspiring speech to say the least but then again when is this old man ever said anything sensible.
How does promoting a woman from LT to Major help her cause. ..its no surprise we have too many incompetent women heading ZP because of this selfsame fast tracking.
…from Lt to Major…????….by passing a rank of Captain..???…all of suddenly her seniors(captain) are saluting to her….??…This breeds frustrations, divisions, morale dampening, bitterness, name it…..there were other better ways to appreciate her role at the parade…..or just recommendation for her upgrade to her superiors……her superiors would have known how to handle the process amicably without ’emotionally injuring’ her workmates…..
Most Zambians lack critical thinking and analysis. ..and will quickly mark your comment down (that’s what they’re good at). If the empty tins in government want to promote and encourage women at least they should introduce intensive fast track leadership programmes.
It is evident at ZP that this Sata’s positive discrimination programme is a flaw and costing us dearly.
@Wanu Ngwee, why do you call the president a clown? Mbulwa amano! Ati America this, America that. Now you will start weed, ponog, gay lights bla, bla, bla, bla since you thinking is that anything from your country is not good! What has Michael done to you? Bushe, did he take your wife away?
The president really is a clown. Am sorry it hurts you but its true. I also almost did not accept at first but then I heard his speeches and realised it was true. The Commander In chief is actually Bozo the clown.
The country clearly lacks effective leadership and good governance that is what the clown Sata has not done for him.
If that hurts you then you have misplaced loyalties.
Wake up from your docility and passivity NOW!!
Chief clown,side effects of Morphine at working in the devil.
The only thing that shocks me is that people actually thought there would be a sensible speech from Sata. You have more chance of a donkey graduating as an astrophysicist. I have accepted that Sata has mental problems and that is how I cope with the ridiculous things he says. What am trying to learn to cope with at the moment is how seemingly educated people on these blogs see nothing wrong with WHATEVER sata says and would rather spend their time justifying it than trying to objective. Totally baffling.
Exactly my thoughts. We have a situation where every time Sata says something f00lish, there is this horde of intellectuals trying to justify his action. For them, its ok for cadres to kill each other because Sata is not the one doing it, its ok for fuel and food prices to go beyond the reach of the poor because its not Sata increasing prices, its ok for youths to be unemployed because its not Sata who owns companies, wage and employment freezes are ok because Sata wants Govt to rest, its ok for Sata to just sit and laugh at the labour day parade because other Presidents have already said enough….What type of docility is this honestly?
3 points inappropriate or uninspiring for recruits: (a) Military parade 4 graduates talking about GBV (b) That comparison to Edgar Lungu’s looks was innapropriate (c) That promotion of a recruit from 2nd Lieutenat to Major on pass out parade appears very suspect & innapropriate.
I have left out “wife provocative issue” & “hijacking” deliberately for obvious reasons!!
How do you say recruits are better than their Minister? Appointing a pass out to a major when there other women out there?
Spot on!!
Here is a commander-in-chief who doesn’t even know that nowhere in the world do soldiers keep their firearms with them in their homes. So, this is the most ridiculous statement to ever come out of the mouth of a president and commander-in-chief, indeed! Is this the most important thing he could think of saying on an occasion like that? Disgraceful!!
Hey UPND losers. Why is it that you want to twist each and every statement that comes from the president. Come on guys we know that yu are still not happy that MCS is your president. Just live with this fact for the many years to come otherwise eishhh we are not as stupid as you are.
In the entire history of the Zambian armed forces, this is the first time that both the president/commander-in-chief AND the ZAF commander have referred to service men and women as “men and women in UNIFORMS”! All over the world everyone knows that the correct usage is “men and women in UNIFORM” – singular; not plural. Just goes to show the calibre of the men and women leading both our country and our security and defence services!! Who writes these speeches for these people?
@Law 101 my guess is that you are some of those UPND blind followers. I pity you chaps with your wannabe president HH. You prayed that the president would be very sick as proclaimed by your fellow tribe mate’s malicious online publication ZWD, only to see him stronger and fitter.
Hatred is a sin. Ba UPND mukafwa nechikonko. Unlike your leader HH who is a master wannabe, Sata is a real character who does not pretend like his predecessors and always wants to be as closer to the people as possible. Fact is that you can never remove the real character in Sata. We can all guess what would become of Nevers, Hichilema or ka Father kabufi ka Bwalya if Zambians made a mistake to vote for these chaps.
God be with this nation. That is all to be said here.
Detractors abound. He only speaks the truth. He is not pretentious either. A man of action who has very little time for rhetoric. What he can change in a minute he will. Check how our men and women in uniform are doing us proud
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This is what I have been fearing for all along- staying too long under mediocre leadership. Slowly zambians will start appreciating the wrong way of doing things. And before very long from now, the wamuyayaya band of songs will start springing up and everyone will be singing them in some tranquilised trance. Remember in the KK era such songs like, ”zambia sitifuna adriver awili, tifuna chabe keekee…..” and ”yonse mawigi mumona, ni keekee aleta…..blah blah…..”.
When you reach this stage, be assured that you are beyond salvage and it takes a really really long time to snap out of it. We came out of it and so did malawi. However, some jokers here still want us to go back there? Never!
You are absolutely right we will never go back to the UNIP days. Not with Sata in power. We just give credit where is due. Detractors will always misunderstand the man of Action (MCS) but then, that’s their entitlement.
Nigger these are things you don’t need a whole lot of a President to advice you or thank you for unless you are what’s termed insane in the US. You ought to know what’s right and wrong and the punishment or repercussions, Soldiers already know what will happen to them if they used them wrongly, they are grown responsible people not the way Sata is trying to portray them
there is a time for everything; but serious things like pass out parades should be handled with the respect they deserve and a joke like the president passed was out of order; it would have be appreciated during the function after the pass out; guys he is our president but some things he does are not right and if we value him, then we should correct them without insults and the empty vessels that say there is nothing wrong make those comments because they are empty vessels;
This is what you have for a president.,someone who does not engage his brain before he utters anything. Why is he saying the soldiers dont use guns because Zambia is peaceful? The other thing that bothers me is what are those ministers doing especially the transport minister at this gathering, shouldn’t they be doing the work we pay them for? These are the reasons africa will never reach levels of development of the western world, we spend much of our time doing fako.
Promoting a graduating student to Major on the graduation day????? Maybe the position of Major in ZAF doesn’t require any experience.
” PRESIDENT Michael Sata has said he is pleased that the military personnel in Zambia are not misusing their guns and swords to engage in robberies and other wrong vices. ”
Have mercy hahahahahahahaha sure swords.
Ati women are provocative! Are men not provocative? This is a speech made by a fossil. I cannot imagine Cameron or Obama congratulating his security officers for not using their weapons to commit robberies. It is a given that anyone who did that would face the full force of the LAW. Stone-age speech for a stone-age country!
Back-pedaling to stone-age era!