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Father Bwalya denies urging electorate to vote for a PF candidates
Father Frank Bwalya has distanced himself from the allegations by the UPND that he is he inciting electorates in Livingstone to vote for the PF candidate in the forthcoming by-election.
Yesterday, UPND deputy spokesperson Edwin Lifwekelo accused Father Bwalya of inciting people of livingstone to prove that they are not tribal by voting for the ruling patriotic front.
But Father Bwalya has strongly refuted Lifwekelo’s claims stating that at no time did he make such remarks to anyone.
He has since challenged Lifwekelo to prove where and when he claims he made such remarks.
Father Bwalya tells QFM news that what he is only aware of is that some individuals masquarade, even on social networks, under his name just to put his name to shame.
Father Bwalya says he is very dissapointed with the accusation because he has never said anything to anyone on the Livingstone Central by-election.
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Evans will scoop the Livingstone seat- Munkombwe
Veteran Politician Daniel Munkombwe says the Patriotic Front (PF ) candidate Lawrence Evans for the February 28, 2013 Livingstone Constitution bye-elections set for February 28, 2013.
And Mr Munkombwe said the United Party for National Development candidate Sakwiba Sikota in the Livingstone by-election is not a threat to the PF candidate at all.
The veteran politician expressed his confidence that the PF candidate Evans was the right candidate who was going to scoop the seat without any difficulties.
ZANIS reports Mr. Munkombwe to have said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that it is however, up to the electorate to vote for the best candidate to represent them in parliament come February 28, 2013.
Mr Munkombwe was speaking in a wake of the United Party for National Development candidate Sakwiba Sikota whom the opposition political party has settled for to contest the Livingstone central seat.
He said every political party has a right to choose a candidate of their choice based on the popularity of their candidate adding that he was optimistic that the PF candidate would defeat the other candidates.
He bragged that as a veteran politician, his predictions are always right and urged the parties contesting the two by-elections to campaign peacefully devoid of violence.
Mr Munkombwe also cautioned the people of Livingstone not to vote for the opposition candidate because it is only Government who is able to bring development by working with ruling party MP.
Mr Sikota, who is also United Liberal Party President ,served as Livingstone Central MP before and after the demise of the UPND founder president late Anderson Mazoka.
During the 2011 elections, Mr Sikota did not contest his Livingstone seat t but opted to support the candidature of former President Rupiah Banda before MMD was humiliated by the ruling PF in the 2011 Tripartite elections which saw his Excellency President Sata become the 5th President of Zambia.
ZANIS
President Sata promises to address the issues raised by the African Peer Review report
President Michael Sata has said that the constitutional instability that has characterised Zambia since independence will soon be a thing of the past.
In his statement at the 18th African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) forum in Addis Ababa on Saturday evening in response to the contents of Zambia’s review report, Mr Sata said his administration had made a promise to the Zambian people that the constitutional instability that has characterised the country since independence would soon be history.
“As correctly observed by the country review report, Zambia has experienced frequent constitutional changes since independence in 1964.
[pullquote]Mr Sata said even if the country review report was a reflection of the governance of Zambia by the previous regime, his administration would not engage in the blame game.[/pullquote]
“A committee of experts has already been constituted to review the recommendations of all previous constitutional review commissions in order to come up with a draft people’s Constitution,” he said.
He said as pointed out in the country review report that “presidential pre-eminence and state centralisation are re-enforced because the country’s chief executive officer has extensive powers of appointment of all the pivotal officers in state administration,” this issue and many other issues of a constitutional nature raised in the report, including challenges in the electoral laws, would be addressed during the constitutional review process, which is currently underway .
President Sata also observed that government faced a number of challenges in ensuring access to justice for all as a large number of citizens were “constrained by structural bottlenecks in the justice administration system”.
Mr Sata said access to justice, remains a priority for government and to that end, government was in the process of carrying extensive judicial reforms involving all stakeholders.
[pullquote]“..presidential pre-eminence and state centralisation are re-enforced because the country’s chief executive officer has extensive powers of appointment of all the pivotal officers in state administration,” this issue and many other issues .., would be addressed during the constitutional review process, which is currently underway .[/pullquote]
Mr Sata said even if the country review report was a reflection of the governance of Zambia by the previous regime, his administration would not engage in the blame game.
He said the report had come out very timely for the PF government, at the time it had been entrusted with the stewardship of the affairs of the Zambian people.
“We shall use it to improve the lives of the zambian people. The country review mission report findings in the four thematic areas, the cross cutting issues raised and indeed the recommendations for the said thematic areas will be of invaluable assistance for us, as we strive to make Zambia a better place for all,” he said.
And Mr Sata said Zambia continues to be a beacon of peace and political stability.
He said in its 48 years of existence and independence, Zambians had continued to live peacefully and alongside each other, in spite of lingual and tribal diversity.
“We are one of the few countries on the African continent that have had peaceful handovers of political power following general elections.On 20th September, 2011, the sixth successive multi party general elections since 1991 were held. Our party, the Patriotic Front (PF), defeated the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) under the leadership of President Rupiah Banda.
“Like his excellency former president Kenneth Kaunda in 1991, my predecessor handed over power peacefully. In fact, former president Banda attended my inauguration ceremony at which he symbolically handed over instruments of power to me,” he said.
Mr Sata said this gesture demonstrates the growth of democracy in Zambia which other countries on the continent may wish to emulate.
[pullquote]“Like his excellency former president Kenneth Kaunda in 1991, my predecessor handed over power peacefully. In fact, former president Banda attended my inauguration ceremony at which he symbolically handed over instruments of power to me,” he said.[/pullquote]
Mr Sata said his government acknowledged that democracy, good governance and the rule of law at national level, as well as an enabling environment were essential for national development.
Meanwhile, Mr Sata said reducing poverty remains one of the major challenges facing zambia.
President Sata has said in order to fight high levels of poverty in Zambia, the Government has priortised four core development programmes, namely: education development, health services, agriculture development and local government and housing development.
He said to address the high poverty levels in the country, government had priotised four core development programmes, which are education development; health services, agriculture development and local government and housing development.
He said these four core programmes are supported by other key sectors such as infrastructure development, social protection, commerce, trade and industry, and tourism.
On the problem of the poor state of infrastructure, President Sata said government had committed a substantial part of the national budget to infrastructure development.
Mr Sata said priority had been given to the construction of roads linking various provinces and districts in the country as well as the construction of bridges, schools, universities, hospitals and health centres.
On corruption, he said government was working hard to fight the vice.
He said over the years, the Zambian public had lost confidence in the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) with respect to the fight against corruption.
“To restore public confidence in the commission, my government has repealed and re-enacted the anti-corruption commission act in order to introduce much stiffer penalties for corruption offences, including, reinstating the abuse of office clause which the previous government had removed,” he said.
Give Your Faith a Voice
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
“And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also believe and therefore speak.”
(2 Corinthians 4:13, NKJV)
TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria
Every believer has been given a measure of faith. In order to see the promises of God come to pass in your life, you have to give your faith a voice. You must declare what God says about you in His Word. Those seeds of faith inside you are activated when you speak them out into the atmosphere. That’s why the scripture tells us, “Let the weak say I am strong. Let the poor say I am rich.” When you give your faith a voice and send forth the Word of God, the Bible says that He watches over His Word to bring it to pass in your life.
Every word you speak is a seed. Don’t dig up your seed by speaking against your faith! Don’t allow words of defeat or negativity come out of your mouth. Instead, water your seed by continuing to declare the Word of God. When you wake up every morning, thank Him that His promises are coming to pass in your life. As you do, you will see those things come to pass and live the life of victory God has prepared for you!
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father, today I humbly come before You giving You my thoughts, my actions, and my words. Help me to give my faith a voice by speaking Your Word daily. May my words and my thoughts be pleasing to You always in Jesus’ name. Amen.
— Joel & Victoria Osteen
Youths told Government Funds meant to initiate them into Satanism-Masumba
SOME opposition politicians in North Western are reportedly telling youths that Government’s Youth Development Fund was blood money meant to initiate them into Satanism.
According to North Western province minister Steven Masumba, some youths were shunning the KR 1.1m fund for fear of being taken into Satanism.
Masumba said in notes delivered on his behalf by Mufumbwe District Commissioner Emma Mankishi and ministry of Sports Youth Coordinator for North Western Christopher Malisopo at meetings held in Lumwe, Kashima and Matushi areas on Friday that as a result, several youths especially from Kasempa had stayed away from applying for financial support.
He said some youths had been dissuaded by political opponents of the Patriotic Front that the resources from the YDF were maneuvers to get them into satanic practices.
Masumba stated that the fund was a way to alleviate poverty and create employment through clubs formed by women and the youths.
And Lumwe residents Judith Dinala and Juliet Kuneti appealed to Masumba to deliver on his promise that the women and youths in the area would be financially supported unlike previously when they were only alerted to the possibility of applying for the funds but never got any of their projects approved.
But Malisopo assured that the current administration was determined to reduce poverty by taking empowerment programs in the rural areas and ensure that vulnerable people were not disadvantaged.
Mankishi told the women that the PF Government had put them at the center of driving development in their communities and would not neglect them
Sakwiba Sikota refuse to confirm or deny if he will stand on UPND ticket for Livingstone
Renowned Lawyer Sakwiba Sikota has refused to confirm or deny whether he has been adopted to stand on UPND tickek in the forth forth coming Livingstone by election slated for February 28, 2013.
When contacted today, Mr. Sikota neither denied nor confirmed but said he was going to get back and issue a statement after consultations with the UPND top management.
However UPND Deputy Party Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa when reached for comment on the matter could also neither confirm nor deny the issue.
Mr. Mweetwa said that if his party has adopted Mr. Sikota it will make an official announcement, next week.
He could not deny the candidature of Mr. Sikota saying that although the party could not announce officially, Mr. Sikota was the likely candidate to stand on UPND ticket as he was the people’s choice in the area.
“UPND is considering Mr. Sikota, who is also former MP for Livingstone and stood under the UPND ticket in 2001, “he said.
The renowned Lawyer, is opposition United Liberal Party ( ULP ) leader. It is not known whether if adopted , Mr. Sikota will relinquish his party post for him to contest the Livingstone seat on UPND as required by law.
The MMD has adopted former district commissioner of Siavonga Fred Siasuntwe as its candidate for the Livingstone parliamentary by-election.
MMD chairperson for elections Kennedy Chipungu has since appealed to voters to give Siasuntwe their vote.
He said Siasuntwe is a bonafide member of the MMD with unquestionable loyalty and is politically mature.
Siasuntwe also served as District Commissioner for Kazungula.
The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) will field a Livingstone businessman Lawrence Evans as their candidate for Livingstone Central seat.
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Government allows UPND rally in Kabwata, but Police will not be there to keep peace
Government has given the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) the green light to hold its planned rally in Kabwata constituency scheduled for tomorrow.
Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu says decision to allow the UPND to go ahead with their planned rally was arrived at following a successful consultative meeting he had with Inspector General of Police Stella Libongani and Lusaka Police Commissioner Joyce Kasosa, respectively.
Mr. Lungu has however stated that police officers will not be present at the rally because of the UPND’s confrontation approach they have taken over the matter.
He said it is the responsibility of the UPND leadership through their Marshalls that they ensure maximum peace before, during and after the rally.
Mr. Lungu said the leadership of the opposition party will be answerable for any violent act that may occur before, during or after their rally, adding that the challenge now lies with the UPND in ensuring that the rally is violent free.
He said the UPND must nonetheless bear in mind that the earlier decision by the police in Lusaka to deny them permission to hold their planned rally on grounds that the opposition party could not be trusted to hold a violent free rally was done in good faith.
Mr. Lungu said the police’s stance was not in any way meant to deny the UPND their freedom of assembly or association as enshrined in the constitution.
The Home Affairs Minister said every Zambian saw for themselves the violent acts that were perpetrated by UPND cadres when they assaulted an innocent police officer who was merely carrying out his duty to safeguard the lives of the general public and those of UPND cadres.
He told journalists at a press briefing in Lusaka today that it was against this background that the police denied the UPND notice to their rally.
“However, though they refused to heed to calls by the Lusaka police commissioner to have dialogue over the issue, as provided for under the Public Order Act.
“ We will allow them to proceed with their planned rally because we want to discourage the spirit of confrontation and violence and at the same time foster the spirit of peace and dialogue because that is what our Government believes in,” Mr. Lungu said.
He appealed to the leadership of the opposition party to ensure they adhere to the provisions of the Public Order Act by ensuring they have enough Marshalls to oversee the event according to the assurance they gave the police in their notice to hold the rally.
Mr. Lungu implored the UPND to cooperate with the police by ensuring that they have an audience with the Provincial Commissioner today so that they can discuss on how best the rally can be policed to avoid acts of violence by UPND cadres as witnessed in the recent past.
“Further the UPND leadership is urged to ensure that their cadres respect members of the public who may be either near the venue of their rally or along the roads leading to the venue for the rally by avoiding the use of unpalatable language or any form of annoying behaviour,” he said.
Yesterday, the opposition party announced that its planned public rally in Kabwata will go ahead after various consultations with Zambia Police.
In a statement made available to the media by Kuchunga Edwin Simusamba, the Deputy general Secretary for Politics, UPND said that Police has agreed to allow the rally to proceed.
” On behalf of the United Party for National Development (UPND), I would like to inform members of the general public that the planned rally in Kabwata will go ahead this Sunday 27th January 2013, starting at 12:00hrs at Kabwata Basic School grounds, ” read the statement
“This follows various consultations between the UPND and the government. The Police has finally agreed to follow the law by allowing the rally to proceed. See you there! Zambia forward,” concluded the statement.
Meanwhile, the Home Affairs Minister said he has powers to bring into extinction a society that threatens the country’s peace, law and order.
He said his ministry has been closely following events in the MMD and has since warned senior MMD officials that the current happenings in the party had the potential to disrupt peace and harmony in the country.
He said he will not hesitate to invoke the powers vested in him as a custodian of law and order in the country to act on the former ruling party if they fail to resolve their internal differences.
Mr. Lungu urged the MMD to straighten out their differences before filling in of nomination for the Mpongwe and Livingstone by election begin saying the party risk not taking part in the two by elections.
He said the Police will not allow a situation where two different factions from the same party bring different names of candidates for nomination on the two by elections.
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BOZ withdraws K2.2 trillion old currency from circulation
THE Bank of Zambia (BoZ) has issued about KR2.4 Billion (K2.4 trillion) in circulation and has since withdrawn about K2.2 trillion (KR 2.2 billion) of the old currency.
BoZ currency rebasing project manager Morris Mulomba said the BoZ had managed to issue about KR2.4 Billion and had withdrawn 56 percent of the old currency.
Speaking in Lusaka yesterday during a press briefing, Mr Mulomba said BoZ now had all the rebased currency denominations in circulation.
He said people should not have the perception that there were some denominations missing in circulation.
“We have issued to the market about KR2.4 Billion in circulation and we have withdrawn K2.2 Trillion which is 56 percent of the old currency and we are hoping that by June we will be able to withdraw 90 per cent of the old currency,” Mr Mulomba said.
He said the Central Bank was experiencing a stable inflow of cash during the cash exchange period adding that the extended period for currency exchange had also contributed to this.
He said the bank had withdrawn K2.2 Trillion of the old currency which was 56 percent and was hoping to withdraw 90 percent by June this year.
He said the BoZ had visited all the provinces and had come up with a report that showed how the general public had received the currency rebasing.
Mr Mulomba said the report noted that the general public had accepted the new currency notes and had started using them saying most of the people appreciated the new notes.
He said most people had complained over the coins saying they were too small and could easily be lost.
“We visited all the provinces last week to see how people have received the new currency. We have come up with a report that shows that the new notes have been accepted by everyone, and we also think that more sensitisation is needed as some people still do not understand how to use the new notes,” he said.
He, however, said BoZ should come up with more sensitisation programmes so that those that still had problems with the new notes could understand.
Mr Mulomba said BoZ had not received any fraud case following the rebasing of the kwacha following a threat of having some counterfeit K100 note in circulation.
“We have not received any case of fraud following the rebasing of the kwacha, but there is a threat of having counterfeit K100 notes. We have seen some but we as BoZ are doing something about that,” he said
We want our case to be heard in Western Province, Mongu detainees tell judge
EIGHT Mongu accused persons in a matter in which they are facing an offence of Seditious practices yesterday told the Lusaka High Court that they want their case to be heard in Western Province and not any other place as proposed by the State.
This is in a case in which Christopher Muyendekwa, Malamo Mubiana, Mulima Mubiana, Nalumino Lufwendo, Mubita Silumesi, Kaiko Kaiko and Mubiana Muyunda are charged with one count of seditious practices.
Through their lawyer, Sakwiba Sikota, the accused submitted before High Court Judge Evans Hamaundu that they were comfortable to have their matter heard in Mongu due to security reasons.
Mr Sikota wondered why the State wanted the matter to be transferred from Mongu to Mumbwa knowing well that it would be too expensive on both parties especially the accused in an event that they were found with a case to answer.
“Your honour the State is putting you in an embarrassing situation because the accused are not on any warrants,” he said.
He said if the application was all about fairness and security then it was better the matter was heard in Mongu because the matter carried the interests of the community who were eager to follow the proceedings.
In this matter the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mutembo Nchito had made an application to have the matter be transferred to Mumbwa because the environment situation raised security concerns after their arrests.
The State in reply to Mr Sikota’s submissions said the accused persons were fully aware of the particulars of the offence and emphasised that they are in no way going to make the trial difficult.
And judge Hamaundu clarified that he was not going to issue any extension of warrants to the prisons authorities because the accused persons were not in the hands of the Court yet but that of the State.
And Judge Hamaundu said he was aware that there was a complaint of illness from some of the accused persons and that he would visit them in the afternoon after court.
The court has since reserved ruling on whether the case should be tried in Lusaka or any other place to January 29 this year.
PF will not allow anyone to disturb peace in Kabwata
Patriotic Front Kabwata Constituency Chairperson David Silubanje has vowed not to allow any person to disturb the peace and order that exist in Kabwata.
Mr. Silubanje said people of Kabwata were not interested in political rallies but in ensuring that development programmes in the area progressed.
He said the PF in Kabwata constituency will therefore not engage in violence but will cooperate with the police in maintaining law and order as well as promoting an atmosphere that is conducive for development.
He said the Patriotic Front in Kabwata constituency was aware of the insistence by opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) to hold their rally in the area.
Mr. Silubanje noted that the opposition political party was insisting to hold a rally in the area because of a well known PF traitor whom UPND has been working with so that it will easy for it in case a by-election arises.
He however stated that the PF in Kabwata will still wait for a decision from the central committed pertaining to the case of area Member of Parliament Given Lubinda.
In the recent past, some Patriotic Front members from Kabwata constituency have been accusing Mr. Lubinda of working with the opposition United Party for National Development.
ZANIS
Richard Kachingwe faction announce list of candidates for bye elections
THE Richard Kachingwe led MMD will announce the final list of candidates to contest the Livingstone and Mpongwe parliamentary by-elections on Tuesday next week.
Ousted MMD National Secretary Richard Kachingwe and expelled party chairperson for women affairs Catherine Namugala on Monday formed a parallel structure with a new party headquarters and declared that a new leadership would soon be ushered in.
MMD splinter spokesperson Bernard Mpundu said in an interview yesterday that the party leadership had been receiving overwhelming response from several candidates intending to stand on the MMD ticket.
Mr Mpundu said, so far, the party had received three names for Livingstone and Mpongwe respective, although, several other people were still forwarding their applications.
But MMD vice president for politics Michael Kaingu on Wednesday said at a press briefing that the party had filed in Miniva Mtesa as its Mpongwe candidate and that the party’s candidate for the Livingstone by-election would be announced soon
The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has set February 28, 2013 as date for the two by-elections in Livingstone and Mpongwe Constituencies.
Chembo Ready for Zesco United Challenge
Zesco United interim head coach Tenant Chembo has declared himself ready to lead the Ndola side.
Chembo was last week tasked to coach Zesco for the next six months following the resignation of Wedson Nyirenda who has joined HCB Songo of Mozambique.
In an interview, Chembo acknowledged that coaching Zesco was a huge challenge.
The ex-Ndola Lime Hotspurs and Indeni trainer said he was indebted to the club executive for giving him the mandate to coach Zesco.
” It’s a big challenge. Life is all about challenges and I am ready for this challenge,” Chembo said. “I have worked with the team for some time now and I have a good relationship with the players,” he added.
“I know we have a task to win the league,” Chembo said.
Chembo, who was Nyirenda’s deputy, is being assisted by Alfred Lupiya and goalkeeping coach Stephen Mwansa.
Zesco finished third in the 2012 FAZ Super Division campaign.