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Kabwata Member of Parliament Given Lubinda has challenged the Electoral Commission of Zambia to stop the TV campaign adverts of President Rupiah Banda.

Mr. Lubinda said the adverts being aired on national television are illegal and that the ECZ should stop them from being shown.

He said that it was unfair for the ruling party to take advantage of its incumbent status by airing political campaign adverts on national television while stopping other political parties from doing the same.

Mr Lubinda said that no announcement of the elections date has been made; hence the campaign adverts of President Banda receiving airplay are illegal.

Speaking In an interview with QFM News, Mr Lubinda challenges the ECZ to show its strength by taking action against the MMD

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  1. Anyway, Za Yellow Lubinda has a point. The electoral commission needs to demonstrate it has power and Independence by ordering MMD to NOT ONLY STOP airing those TV adverts , but they should go further and ask the MMD to rREMOVE BILLBOARDS AT EVERY CONSTRUCTION site showing the face of RB with a message like working for you bla bla. This is simple and pure campaign and unfair advantage the MMD has.

    Today if you go to Ndola near the new stadium you will find RB’s billboard. Go to any of these hospitals being constructed or any road being constructed  you will see RB ‘s face. Why is his face there as if he is one of the firm constructing these infrastructures?

    This is illegal and ECZ need to show us that they can be trusted and  Act Now against MMD!!!

  3. PF guys, Lubinda just sought out your mess at Lusaka city council as all fingers are pointing at you for those plots, and demolishing of people’s houses in Libala South and Chilenje.

  4. While the laws are there, ECZ behaves like a toothless bull dog. It is just bloated and extremely incompetent when it comes to dealing with illegalities committed by govt & MMD. The strangest thing apart from announcing dates for by-elections, is that entire ECZ leadership acts like they have no idea what the Electoral Act deals with

  5. Chomba the issue here is not council or the demolishing of Houses but Adverts contribute accordingly

  6. PF whether you cry or remain silent you are losing the coming elections, as your party only has jokers for leadership. Your combination with UPND represented a good team to move the economy, but the day when you chased upnd you kissed power. Zambians are not intereted to remove MMD and replace it with people without any agenda for the nation, hence they would rather stay with the same MMD. The facts on the ground are that, you never looked at a bigger picture when you chased UPND from the pact. You insulted HH and called him names because you felt you were more popular than him, but you will be punished for your bad attitude towards others who mean well for you.

    • Chomba…speak for yourself! and besides…get your facts straight on who ditched the other before you make baseless accusations & embarass yourself!!! simple literature & history!!

  7. We want fair play. The ECZ should not be biased. Let them stop those political adverts. Zambians should also stop paying TV Licence if ZNBC will only be used by the MMD!

  10. Za yelo, just ask Sata to do the same. Let him put up bill boards where he has initiated developmental programmes. You will just lose, Za yelo. You are in a wrong camp which will never rule in zambia. And why don’t you stop the post from campaigning for you. ZNBC is owned by govenment let it serve their bosses which is GRZ. Za yelo, are you like some one at the Post? Having been born out of wedlock?

    • I believe the bosses of ZNBC are the ZAMBIAN peeople (not MMD) thus fair play should be addressed…as ssimple as that!

  11. #10 you are right, pf mentality of seing bad only on others, the post is campaigning for you, so leave ZNBC also to do it for MMD. Special warning zambians, pf is a dangerous party.

  12. Lubinda is right. The only problem is that ZNBC in a state owned media. The ruling party controls the station. Directors and programme managers are just date stamps of the owners of ZNBC.

    The other alternative for the opposition is to use private TV and radio stations for their campaign messages.

    I don’t think ECZ has a backbone to stop these campaign messages by RB. ECZ just like ZNBC is givernment owned. So professionalism is compromised.

    Putting the portrait of RB on bill boards where some developments are taking place is wrong. Constructions are not done by RB or RB does not use his personal money to fund these projects. They are funded by Zambian people through tax. Even loans for such projects are paid by Zambians and not RB. RB is also paid by Zambians.

  13. And the show continues. If Zambia was an episode, I would not miss a single. RB should just announce the day of elections, dissolve, parliament and open the doors for everyone to start campaigning. But this being an interesting show, he will hold on to announcing the date till he has finished showing his “developmental” projects. ZNBC should be ashamed of it self. Why should the president be the one to announce the date if he is the participant in the show? It is like having a referee cum from a competing team. And do we trust ECZ that is appointed by RB and now they are already showing double standards by letting their Boss campaign while stopping others. Zambians!! what year do u think this is? We being taken as if it is 1970.

  14. #8 chomba,you are being kindly advised to stick to the topic and you respond by saying,’pf is losing’truly upnd is a party of interllectuals!!You are so sarcastic towards pf supporters,but i’ll tell you what,we have lost elections b4 3times!!& life goes on,the people that will suffer are the general citizenry as they may lose a chnce to have a radical,hardwrking leader in michael sata

  15. Chomba we do accept that everyone is entitled to their opinion. But why is that if something is anti-government you fail to contribute positively? You go straight pin pointing who PF is and what! Mind you whether the only reason we want to remove the MMD is to change the thinking of such people like you for the betterment of Zambia. Your children (if you have any) have a future in this country, so if you dont work on it now, you will open your brown teeth 25 years from if at all you will be alive!

  16. 14# do not pay attention to people that do not have skills and brains to analyze issues otherwise we will not tell you apart. Wait till you see Mushota’s comments.

  17. Now,coming to the issue at hand,our honourable Mp is right & i agree too with #1,the MMD is out of line,with the election date only known to rb,they are going all out to disadvantage other players.RB does not need to parade himself on construction sites as if they are donations!!& showing us ct scanners when they are endless ques at hospitals,where we are only given coartem!News is simply campaign material,telling us why Rb should be re elected,and the chiefs have endorsed him,SHAME!!

  19. A woman only realizes that her husband is important when he makes up his mind to divorce her. Even the people she never used to greet will become her friends thinking they may help her retain her marriage.Thats the time she will prepare the best meals in the home and try to do all the tuchawas thinking things may change.When a man has made up his mind he will never be impressed by any of these and this is what is happening now. Don’t waste time complaining about what your outgoing government is doing after all it is for the benefit of all Zambians but simply vote them out when the right time comes 

  20. Mr Lubinda, never mind! we all know what the so called ECZ are doing but reality is uno mwaka wena  baleponoka ba I-D-I-O-T. 

  21. Iwe No.6 what Ground are u talking about….you are there very far and saying ground ground .which and what ground,we are here on the ground and are aware of what people are saying.People want change of government with a pro POOR Government under the PF Leadership thats all.You will say this and that or go to the moon but nothing will change anything.Don’t kubeba……PF and Zambia……..

  22. Fellow Zmabians G Lubinda is just trying to make up with Sata. Of late the two have differed resulting in Lubinda loosing the spokesperson position. He wants to show his relevance. ma rubbish!! See how people can be reduced, he will mostly likely not be adopted in Kabwata as Sata wants Winter (The nephew) for Kabwata.

  23. Double standards ECZ, they have no Balls to tell off MMD. I wonder how fair the elections will be if we have such a weak commission.
    VIVA Lubinda, Good job.

  24. but everyone is campaigning ba poor finisher PF and upnd even poor panji kaunda is doing it. mwabi if you have cash you can also put up bilboards like you have done at namakau house we wont pull it down. Even znbc will accept your campaign material

  25. unless the are some new adverts running which i havent seen the adverts ive seen have been running for the past 1 year……..any one with a marketing IQ will tell you that those adverts do not talk about voting for the person in the adverts…………….infact the slogan is something like working with you……..or working for you…………………they are not elction campaign adverts and we all know it………………so i challenge lubinda to make the some adverts showing us wat he has done while he has been in government…for the ignorant being and MP makes u a part of the legislature vis a vis a member of government

  26. #24 if the adverts do not talk about voting for anyone what are they there for? Just showing how handsome our president is? Iam surprised you used the word IQ when you can not comprehend why people, companies, organization put up adverts. And there are plenty new ads of RB. By the way, UNIP has a nice new song as usual. It runs on one of the Radio stations. They should stop that one also

  27. Just go flat out to campaign not that hullabaloo you are talking about.I thought your Homo magazine is vigirously campaigning for you.

  28. But I was under the impression that no one watches ZNBC so why upanga chongo bo Lubinda? As for those who are saying it is unfair for RB to announce the date of the election, well that is what you get with the Sata sponsored constitution of 1996 we are currently using. The constitution bill that has just failed because of the collusion of the two opposition parties was going to bring a fixed term for the president which means everybody would know exactly when the election would be held. Never throw away the baby with the bathwater and it is extremely foolish to cut off your nose to spite your own face.

  29. The Big Issue here is not about MM, PF or UPND. It is about ECZ standing up to show they are not boot-lickers. Some comments from above just show how some people have no brains to understand issuesa. Lubinda is talking for all. Fairness by the ECZ. Silence by the ECZ is already showing they are bias. They don’t have usefulness despite consuming lots of money for nothing. This are reason Zambia should use PVC because ECZ is already compromised.

    We will not accept MMD wining. War is coming, start preparing to chase RB dead or alive.

  31. PF complaining about anything and everything.You must understand that the only time ECZ INTERFERES with political campaigns is when the period of campaigning has been appointed by them.This is usually after the elections date has been announced.I’m afraid,for the time being MMD WILL TAKE MAXIMUM advantage of incumbency without any shame and illegality on their part.It will be foolish for any cook to starve when he/she is the one preparing meals.MMD will have themselves to blame if they do not legitimately take advantage of their incumbency status.As for RB’s pictures,why complain of isolated developmental places where these bill Boards are when his pictures are literally in all offices public or private.Should they be removed just because 2011 is election year?

  33. I dislike PF but I agree with you Given. ECZ please take heed and act. MMD please be sane. RB’s advisors, don’t act out of desparation. We need a level playing field.

  34. ECZ SHUD BE NEUTRAL AND NOT APPLY DOUBLE STANDARDS, PF PLAYED A KA SONG AND THE ALL ZAMBIA HEAD, RB IN A DRUNKEN STATE ALWAYS APPEARS ON DEAD NBC TALKING ABT UNDER DEVELOPMENT ECZ DOESNT COMPLAIN, SHUD EVERY ONE START ADVERTS OF WAT THEY WANT TO DO ALL WAT THEY HAVE DONE IN THE PAST? DEFINITELY NO, THIS WILL COZ LAWLESSNESS AND I.D.I.O.T.S LIKE CHOMBA HIERED BY MMD WILL BE THE FIRST TO CRY OUT. BE OBJECTIVE U CHAP.

  35. # 24 you have never seen a new bill board being put for RB? Go to N/Western province.The so called Mutanda Chavuma road is being advertised with those billboards and right now…one is being placed in Kabompo and this will go on to Chavuma.Wat can u tell us.people know wat is happening now.
    If the husband has made up his mind i tell u its difficulty nomatter how much the wife will try to do.This is exactly wat is happening.Zambians have lost trust and it cannot be shown today wen it has never been shown.

    • I believe the Post is a private institution and the national media is public but I’m not that smart so you may want to double check

  38. There is only one thing that African leaders are good at, and that is ABUSE OF POWER entrusted in them by voters. Very few African leaders have done targible things to satisfy the masses or atleast respect the rule of law, and this abuse of power looks like its a norm in African politics. Too bad.

  39. Rasheed Lubinda,who has stopped you from campaigning?Your mentor Gay mmembe has has been ejaculating your manifesto in every post/toilet tissue issue,No one has complained.Your polluted brains are just coming to the reality of another MMD victory.

  40. What’s the point of building more schools en hospitals when Govt (RB)has failed to staff the already existing facilities.what difference will a few mobile hospitals make when the number of graduating health personel is reducing.Clinics are being run by Cleaners en Security guards all over the country en pipo have the nerve to campaign for),bull ***t

  42. The reason why Gov. decided to put these posters is because of the negativity coming from the oppostion who claim that MMD Gov is doing nothing! Just to let the pepole know, they decided to remind them that MMD Gov under the able leadership of HE RB have things happening everywhere. The opposition especially PF are to blame for claiming they don’t see anything the MMD Government is doing. So in short those are not campaign posters they are positive messages to people who are being bombaded by negativity everyday by the Yakumbuyo Post and PF. Atleast let the people take a brake from the hate messages Post Failure (PF) party and see that there is hope for the future.

  43. As usual Mbita chitala campaigning for wrong fellas as presidents, he did it for Chiluba a thief and did it for Rupiah another joker and mismanager and now endorsing another wrong and more disastrous chap sata for president, what a cursed people we are in this country. God please, interven in our afairs and save us from the looming disaster never experienced before.

  44. Chomba, please stop embarrassing yourself. Read the story and then contribute accordingly. Some of these things you are saying are very reflective of who you are. LOUD MOUTH. It is sad you cannot connect with anyone here. No one hates you, but everyone seem to hate your brains and what you are discussing. Bushe nangu ni buCadre nifi? Sometimes being quiet is noble. Wait until some topic that you see fit and then contribute intelligently. Don’t let yourself look like Kamalondo. Sometimes namashilu yene they stay calm and think normally. Now try doing so or pretend you are normal.

  45. #28 kolokombwa, if the majority of the people vote for RB and MMD, which people will fight your imaginary war? Sane Zambians know that they can change their government democratically whenever they want to do so because they enjoy full democratic rights. They even know that they will lose such rights under the proposed government, and they also know that they have never had it so good or so promising ever in the history of Zambia. If you want war my friend do not waste your time here, go to some Arab country where there is no democracy, or better still to Afghanistan where the Taleban need volunteers like you in large quantities.

  46. Can we talk about more Important things than national issues. At the end of the day non of you will be politicians, you will NEVER make a difference, and are just barking dogs going backwards Today in Zambia it is the men who govern, but the women who rule.Any Zambian man who claims to understand women is either a psychologist or in need of one.Some of you and your comments Please Act your age and not your shoe size. I was having a pretty good day till I read the so called ‘expacts here’
    ..NOT THE BRIGHTEST CRAYON IN THE BOX NOW ARE WE BLOGGING ABOUT POLITICS?? Thanks

  47. What goes around will surely come around, today the MMD guys are enjoying the proceedings at the show in the political amphithearter of Zambia, tomorrow don’t forget it will surely be president Sata and his PF party.

  49. The Post does not campaign for Sata. All it does is point out the mistakes RB and MMD are making. The Post in a normal society could regarded as the only paper telling the stories as they are. So, stop vilifying the paper for bring out the truth about RB. Ask yourselves why Daily Mail, Times of Zambia or even ZNBC has never discussed the arms deal with SA. Ask yourselves why they never discussed Thandiwe’s Ghost Worker crime. Now if The Post brings out what your RB and MMD are trying to hide, to you that means they are campaigning for Sata. No, just accept the wrongs RB and MMD are making. Why are you guys so afraid of The Post? 

    On the Billboards (generic name), I was just wondering if these buildings are MMD sponsored. MMD and government must be two separate entities. BACK to UNIP. 

    • I am shocked to read this from you. I think that every sober person who reads the post knows that the post is campaigning for Sata. They try to show that Sata in Holy, Blameless, a savour, man of action etc. The post will maginify whatever NEGATIVE news talks about MMD and Ingore what ever is positive about the MMD and the opposite is true about sata and PF. This explains the messages on TV, the Bill boards and Chanda Chimba’ programs. This are strategies the MMD has put in place to prove Sata and the PF wrong. So tell me what is wrong with that. Let sata also start using the electronic media for his messages. After all we know how much his gay friends have given him.

  50. well articulated, the MMD should allow everyone to air their adverts freely. We are tired of seeing the ugly head of Banda.

  52. GVT HAS NEWSPAPERS WHICH ALWAYS TALKS ABT RB, BUT IT SHUD NOT GO TO THEIR HEADS THAT EVEN THE TV WHICH WE PAY FOR SHUD BE USED TO INSULT THE OPPOSITION. POST IS A PRIVATE PAPER AND MMEMBE CAN CHOOSE WAT SALES FOR HIM NOT THE TAX PAYERS NEWS PAPER.

  53. #49 Kalos
    You have a point but the question is, who is willing to listen? Our Lord Jesus christ said in the scriptures and i quote: ” They have eyes but they can’t see, they have ears but they can’t hear; My people perish due to lack of knowledge”. and i will add on by saying that they have brains but the can’t think, they have the will but they can’t act. Thanks for telling it like it is anyway.

  54. #31 Pambela Shutabo & #42 MMD Assistant Deputy; that is both cute and fact, you make me enjoy being a Zambian.
    #41 Chakolwa, we told them that what their mmembe and his Post were doing would come to haunt them when others adopted those tactics. Just look at these complaints today and on Chanda Chimba III, now they are crying foul, typical spoilt brat mentality where only he must have the sweets. And they said people don’t watch ZNBC or read the Daily Mail and Times, how else would we know what schools RB is building for us? And all bloggers, tonight don’t forget to tune in to ZNBC TV for Chanda Chimba III, the programme of the moment. We now know that even PF cadres watch it!

  56. #52 Dance kubeba, sorry it does not happen that way in real life! If we all chose what the government could do with our tax money, only the rich would benefit. They would probably choose a tarmac driveway to the front of their houses rather than books for children in Twatasha township, no one would build the Mongu-Kalabo road too or Mutanda-Chavuma highway, or even buy mobile clinics for the rural poor. It would be each one for himself, same as not paying tax!

  58. well spoken Lubinda i salute you.let us have Ronnie comments and if any thing let him close down ZNBC and all those media stations running RB Adverts. Shame on ECZ

  59. Lubinda you are right. The MMD are saying they are democrats but what they practice is the opposite. RB is just too selfish!!!!!!!!!!!

  62. Sata is simply testing his own medicine. He was very powerful in the cabinet that did not change the public media to be better than they are today. He also had chance to leave us with a better electoral system when enacting the 1996 constitution but all they did in Parliament was sing Kaunda alala. Sata will therefore have to compete under the current system which he left. Good luck to him and his cadres. In the unlikely event that he wins this year’s election he is never going to change the surrent system on both the media and the electoral system. Subtle as he is, he has already enlisted the Post to help him beat RB and the government ‘propaganda’ media. Fair enough isn’t it?

  63. #56 Have you been recording the Chanda Chimba III programmes and if so is there a way you can upload them onto youtube so that as many people as possible know the true nature of the putrid flesh (pf) leader?

  67. To conclude the debate, there is nothing bad that PF can accuse anybody of doing without also pointing a finger at itself. That is the tragedy of Mr Sata and his PF, he is well documented in the Post, all his misdeeds as complete as the bible.

  68. It is a well known fact that when you are in government you will twist the laws so that they don’t affect you. Those RB billboards are all over the country and their purpose is purely campaign! if PF and UPND put up such billboard there would be uproar from Shikapwasha and Dora. Look at the adverts on ZNBC at prime time viewing time featuring RB, surely that is campaigning but as usual government machinery has maintained them. Anyway in a few months the pipo are going to choose who they want to govern them

  69. #66 katongo, well spoken but the people will choose change only if it is change for the better. Always remember “…..there is nothing bad that PF can accuse anybody of doing without also pointing a finger at itself. That is the tragedy of Mr Sata and his PF, he is well documented in the Post, all his misdeeds as complete as the bible…..”

    • Stop the Post also for defaming the president. By the way who deserves more respsect Mr Sata or RB. Stop politics of hatred. By the way sata will never rule Zambia. Unless using arms but God forbid.

  72. I am about to opening my pit laterine behind my house, is there any politician ready to provide me with his/her potrait. Looks like politicians have fallen in love with trying to portray the idea that any little development taking place as a result of using government and private coffers should be attributed to them

  73. No 43-what is wrong about Michael Chilufya Sata?What has he done to deserve such hate from you?Are you God to declare disastor upon the image of our creator?Who are you that you can condemn what is in the make?You can not change what is and that you truly know, If Sata is meant to be president he shall definitely be and no doubt about it.

    Some of these who are presidents were not meant to be, they got it through dubious means. Change of Governemnt is inevitable and it is coming this year! Allow others to put up billboards too

  75. why do mmd supporters always choice to justify the state owned and government controlled media bias as a counter weight to the posts bias?If the mmd or any party that finds itself in power wants a propaganda mouth piece I suggest they set up their own paper.This is because znbc and the times and daily mail and zanis are funded by my tax kwachas.And as such should serve interests of all zambians and NOT mmd’s.Even if I dont buy them,I still pay for them somehow.that doesnt apply to the post.If I disagree with their editorial policy and dont buy the paper,not a single ngwee of mine finds its way to them.Can you understand that?

  76. CHOMBA BE RATIONAL AND FOCUS ON THE ISSUE AT HAND. DONT DILUTE THE INTELLIGENT REASONING OF THE BLOGERS.WHO IS MORE DANGEROUS KILLERS ,CORRUPT GOVERMENT AND THOSE ADVOCATING A STOP TO THESE VICES .CHOMBA MAILAILA ULEICHEBELA PA KWENDA DONT BE BLIND.

  77. Iwe Chomba you should first go to school! ZNBC can’t be compared to the Post. Its a public or state owned company. MMD is not the State. MMD can’t use ZNBC for partisan purposes. It belongs to all of us PF MMD etc and should therefore serve us not MMD. We will take ZNBC to court for allowing itself to be used for political motives.

  78. Hey Zambian,I think we are all cowds, I wonder why we pay TV levy when we don’t even get the benefit of it.I you switch on the so called ZNBC TV what you see is RB and the MMD with their threats and lies.Please I think its high time we stand up and tell the MMD and RB that we are tied with his lies.Not going into the streets but lets use our votes as this is an election year.If the cheat then we can using the North African formula.

  79. But Ba Lubinda you and you party do not watch ZNBC. What is the problem then? Mind you Sata never entertained the formation of other TV stations until LPM and RBB came on the scene. SO DONT KOFYONO

  80. Ka Lubinda nakena tetimwikalefye nelyo balimuchita sideline in preference to winter Kabimba. 100 court cases 99 loses 1 no contest credit this to Winter Kabimba

  82. TALK LIKE NO 52, We all pay tv licence, but we all don’t belong to chanda chimba and company, we need balanced coverage all maybe of all political players in zambia. Y only bwezani

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