STATEMENT ON SATA’S INTIMIDATION OF MEDIA HOUSES
Reports that President Michael Sata is now personally phoning privately owned media houses to harass them over the stories they carry is a serious threat to media and free expression in Zambia.
We are aware that President Sata is very intolerant to opposing views, but the idea of him now personally phoning private media houses, like he is reported to have done to Daily Nation to harass them over the story they carried regarding his impasse with the Paramount Chief Chitimukulu of the Bemba-speaking people makes sad reading.
If the entire Head of State can phone a privately owned media houses to intimidate them about a news story, we wonder how much he personally phones and interferes with government owned media houses to control their editorial content.
We know that this is not the first time he has done such a thing as he recently phoned Joy FM radio to intimidate them when they were having a live programme featuring an opposition leader.
As UPND, we have always said Mr. Sata pre-occupied himself with very petty issues at the expense of important national issues of the economy and unprecedented high poverty levels among our people.
We are also wondering why Mr. Sata is involving himself with issues to do with chiefdoms and traditional affairs when he has limited or no jurisdiction as these can ably be handled by the local traditional leadership themselves or through the House of Chiefs.
As UPND on this matter involving installation of the Paramount Chief Chitimukulu, we stand by the processes and position taken by the Council of of the Bemba Royal Establishment that the recognised Chief Chitimukulu is Henry Kanyanta Sosala, who is formerly Chief Mwamba.
We believe that whether Mr. Sata and his government recognise him or not, the traditional authorities are much older than any Zambian government and hence government recognition is merely ceremonial and purely a formality.
Zambians expect Mr. Sata and his PF government to be seriously dealing with reducing the price of mealie meal, reducing fuel costs, addressing the depreciation of the Kwacha, the high cost of living and delivering a people driven constitution than dwelling on matters of traditional affairs.
Mutale Nalumango
UPND- National Chairperson
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UPND Information (PI Dept)
Chumbu Munshololwa, Ukwa , Chimwi No Plan ,Chief Kaponya. Listen to the voices of the voiceless and change for the better.
Typical UPND politics based on speculation, rumour gossip assumption guesswork postulation and uncorroborated information.
Let is be known and put out there and truth be told that there is MORE press freedom in Zambia now than at any time in the history of our country unless one deliberately chooses to ignore these facts.
PF has done very well in this regard and of course more needs to be done
GEn the story was reported in the daily nation newspaper on Tuesday. state house has not refuted it. last time I checked state house has people employed in order to deal with such stories, such as George Chella
And when people call him chumbu mushololwa he says I have been insulted??????????????????? he called others cabbage,nyama soya but zoona chiwamila galu kuluma mbuzi not the other way round
Gen uli chipuba,yu think satana is an angel keep on dreaming .Kuya bebele 2016.We need freedom of expresion not animal farm
DURING MMMD WHERE WERE THESE PIPO WHO ARE MAKING NOISE ATI KOMEKI,CHUUMBWE,HAMIYANZI THESE PIPO ARE MAKING A LOT OF NOISE WHERE DID THEY COME FROM
Yaba this is terribly embarassing! Isn’t there a book that lists Presidential duties? Someone pass him the book ‘How NOT to be a President!’
Yaba Ex-moma you make my day! I love you!
Sata has no capacity to comprehend complex issues of the economy,businesses houses,Democratic advancement.the man has no reading skills but he is good at talking rubbish stuff.zambia has no leader/president at the moment.mcs has given the cartel too much power.the best sata u can do is entrust your wife to run the country.
Evidence please!!! There are a people that can mimic other peoples voices. Very petty politics! No news here ba LT!
@Stirflow, With due respect, if you think it’s not Sata who made that call to Richard Sakala, you mean the entire govt machinery can fail to apprehend the culprit? With this SIM registration thing, ZICTA has all our records and if Richard Sakala made up the story, why hasn’t he been arrested for alarming the nation?
What priorities does our president have?Even the facebook page is not his work we know it is George Chella.The exchange rate has gone haywire,the KCM boss is laughing at us,interest rates have gone up,inflation is on the rise,mealie meal prices are rising everyday,fuel is now k11 from k6,his government is broke and he has time to waste over Chitimukulu issues to the extent of phoning Richard Sakala.He has already made his bed over the Chitimukulu issue and he should just wait for the time to come when he will have to lie in it.Even if he changed his stance it wont gain him any political mileage.Why then waste his time on it in the midst of a crisis.
Agarwal mocked the Zambian government for giving him VVIP treatment when he came to acquire the asset and eventually becoming majority owner of KCM at the current 69 per cent.
Speaking to the Jain International Trade Organisation in Bangalore, India between March 22 – 23 this year, Agarwal told the cheering crowd how he bought KCM for a song, rather than the US$400 million asking price.
In the 3:58-minute video, a bragging Agarwal describes his surprise at receiving a VIP welcome to the Zambian Parliament, and ridicules the then Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa for claiming that Vedanta would improve the lives of Zambians, especially those in Chingola and Chililabombwe.
Agarwal reveals how he duped late president Mwanawasa on their first meeting that 30 members of his delegation missed…
I fore see our president having a terrible ending. Let him keep fooling himself. WE ARE WATCHING!
one Zambia one party.
and that party.
as started by kk wamuyayaya.
I micheal chilufya sata will make Zambian a voiceless people.
No opposition more more prosperity
Thank you…….after all mwebena Zambia mwalibelela. ilyo nail mu UNIP we ruled you for 27 years. Iwe kachela mpostilako pa facebook. beshibe at one party ilimunshila.
KIKIKIKIKIKEKEKEKEHAHAHA my ribs are breaking!
Give us Sata’s state house number so we can also start calling him because he thinks he is some god.
This is what happens when a group of people decide to vote for a leader in a tribal way without considering the consequences.
This guy the so called the President he is “destroying ALL INSTITUTIONS of Democracy” this is bad leadership.
Its bad of him. If he comes from a SMALL VILLAGE in Mpika he shud just ACCEPT thts all. His family cant be Chitimukulu FULL STOP !!
Its a blunder of great proportion, the President involving himself in Chiefs succession process, auchi! HE MC Sata has done great things since he came into power and rightly so we appreciate. But this case involving Chitimukulu of the Bemba people is a boomerang. If he lives longer after being president he will suffer consequences, I can just imagine. Surely something is seriously wrong on this issue and I hope and pray our President will pull out of this utterly unnecessary confrontation. Let chief follow their traditions as has always been. If you false things otherwise there shall be none ending knock-on effects. You can stop this Mr President, its not worth it. Attack those indians boasting over mines bought for a song, not your own people.
One fact everyone is missing here , including the UPND is that ‘ A Republican President’ is above bode, he is above a Chief and he can gazzett or degazzett a Chief irrespective of who is chosen. It doesn’t matter who the President is, he has those powers , just like RB wanted to todegazzett Nkomenshia. And a President is always well informed, he always has information on issues like these. What the UPND should do is that they should instead dig deeper and research on why the controversy. If Sosala did not pass through a ritual when ascending yo
@Amuna Onzuna, is your Cumbu Munshololwa the custodian of every Paramount Chief to be to ensure that he/ she passes through a ritual or do you tell me that those who witnesses and recommend that Sosala passed through the ritual are f.o.o.l.s ?
When a country falls in love with hearsay , this is what happens. This is a very simple case. Give the public a recording of the presidents phone call , you can even leak it on youtube. Other than that this is the typical opposition politics of the PHD sydrome in zambia
Slow news day at LT…
It is the responsibility every Zambian to defend interests in the media or anywhere else.
mr. sata i remind you again but why your government not action to nasla chemical industries and nasla group company
company owner name
mr. nasir pardesi +260955278692
mr. hanif pardesi +260966768696
mr. hameed pardesi +260966566666
this is people of family cheater and lie every time givein problem of worker
nasla company owner not business man nasla company owner job is cheat with company worker. make worker foolish force every time worker company worker no future no life company worker salary too small
company management none educated and company all management family member
5 month ago nasla company my 15 month salary hold then without salary send me country even my work permit cancel but no any person help me
i think your government give free hand to nasla owner