Suspended Kafulafuyta Member of Parliament, George Mpombo has described as a blunder of major proportion ,President Rupiah Banda’s claims of being the MMD party presidency.
Mr. Mpombo told QFM radio in an interview that it is an error of the highest capacity for president Banda to want to think that he is more than just an acting president in the MMD.
He said that Mr. Banda should follow the footsteps of his predecessor and observe the laid down party constitution procedures in attaining party presidency.
Mr.Mpombosaid that someone is lying and misinforming the republican president that he is also capable of taking party leadership just because he is a national leader.
Mr. Mpombo also bemoaned what he termed as lack of dialogue between key players and poor party organization in the ruling party.
He also noted that there has been very little attention given to addressing concerns that have been raised over the tactics that certain political leaders within MMD are using to evade the national convention which is expected to clear the air on who is to take presidency.
He says that questions on who is taking presidency in the MMD before the next tripartite elections are signaled, is an issue that needs to be cleared because the situation is very blur at the moment.
[QFM]
Nambala wanu!:)>-:d
“If you know the enemy and know
yourself, you need not fear the result
of a hundred battles. If you know
yourself but not the enemy, for every
victory gained you will also suffer a
defeat. If you know neither the enemy
nor yourself, you will succumb in
every battle”
Sun Tzu. The Art of War, cited by Whitman and Mattord
This Mpombo is now running out of ideas . . . nonsense.
Just prepare well for your disciplinary hearing. No manga manga. You will be sorted out nicely.
soon Mpombo will realise that he is a nobody. I wonder what makes him exagerate his worth.
imwe ba Mpombo just shut up. you were in MMD why didnt you bring out all the wrong . Politics have become boering in Zambia
This Mpombo wanted to succeed Levy shortly after the first stroke. The fight for presidency in MMD started a long time ago. Now he has seen that the Presidency of Zambia is a calling and not by choice. His only solution is to fight RB by ignoring MMD’s decision to hold a convention in order to ratify their earlier decision to field RB as the candidate for the party in 2011. Even after the convention, Mpombo will still be bitter! Levy let him down by not picking him as successor and RB has ignored Mpombo’s request to succeed him. Its rough for those who seek what God has not granted to them.
But Mpombo, whether you like him or not, is right because Banda is acting president of the MMD, period. When Levy died, that thief called Michael Mabenga acted as president and later cowardly handed over the acting presidency to Bwezani. Now, unless Bwezani is a magician, how did he convert this acting capacity without going through an election. It’s like a chicken passing over into another chicken without undergoing the egg process, impossible! And for one, I will not listen to Katele, a fully grown man who thought he could using wizardry hide behind a bush that could not hide even a pygmy like Chiluba, never.
this ***** has run out of what to say.jst shut up you dirty kachasu drinker
You bet a lot of the chaps blogging now are either Bandas, Mwanzas, Zulus, Nyirendas, Tembos etc. They are so blinded by tribal bigotry to the extent of being so blind to the reality Mpombo is verbaturing. When Bwezani loses the polls next year, they will be humbled just like the way Luapulan lumpens were by the ejection of Kafupi from Plot 1.
Mpombo ni Mpombo sure mwe Bantu. I have worked with this man at Boart Zambia in Ndola there is nothing good in him.
Mpombo is still in MMD:d:d:d:d:d… no wonder he is talking as such… he aint out yet:)>-:)>-:)>-:)>-
Mbombo is very much correct!! and hez talking sense! he understands the MMD constitution beter than some of u who are just busy blaming him blindly!
Imwe ba # 10. ba Sebuloni Kamutanda . . .you sound so stuupid! if you admire names from the East you can change yours by deed and you can become A PHIRI. . .So you want easterners to support your fellow fool . sorry dear waitayaaa. sometimes throw your Bemba tribalism away and use your God given free brain to think!
B.o.r.i.n.g – does LT have to make “news” from everthing Mpombo says? It is a matter of semantics – RB is in charge of MMD, whether “acting” or “substantive” president. What is the issue?
The MMD consititution specifically says one has to be member for a minimum of 2years to be eligible to hold any office. Levy was not a member at the time FTJ picked him and also Rupiah Banda was not a member of MMD at the time Levy died. Also contrary to the Republican Consititution Levy picked Nevers Mumba to be Vice President despite the fact that Nevers had contested and lost the then current election. In short our trouble are coming from our lack of respect for the documents and laws that we make.Yes Cadres will always turn a blind eye to these machinations because they also hope for illigal appointments.
#16, Dejavu – Don’t say what you do not know. The MMD constitution says one has to have held a high party office he can contest or must have been a member of the party for three consecutive years. Levy qualified bacuse he was the Vice President of MMD and republican Vice President. I don’t know what the situation was with RB because he did not public when he switched from UNIP to MMD. It could be that he was in the party ranks and file for over three years otherwise he wouldn’t qualify. Or may be that is why they did not subject him to elections of the party President and only made him a Presidential candidate only. Truelly, RB is not MMD President but acting President and I wonder what Katele Kalumba was talking about. Do they talk out of desparation to please the boss?? Total…
mr mpombo is talking too much
Ok,now anyone up for some cookies.
I wonder why I read on this Mpombo, love of literature I suppose.
On “Suspended Kafulafuyta Member of Parliament, George Mpombo has described as a blunder of major proportion ,President Rupiah Banda’s claims of being the MMD party presidency” I thought MMD National Secretary cleared the above misconception by indicating that MP Mpombo was just charged and not suspended from the MMD. Otherwise, when did the MMD NEC suspend MP Mpombo in case I missed some news?
As for “Mr.Mpombosaid that someone is lying and misinforming the republican president that he is also capable of taking party leadership just because he is a national leader” this looks like truth and I hope President RB will not behave like he is in a Monarch system – system ULP’s Saki thought he was in while in UPND.
Have a blessed day all.
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Matt 6:33 But seek ye…
I wonder how the thinking the MMD supporters is: They condemn democracy that was done by the mighty UPND Group when late UPND leader Mazoka died and embrace the MONARCH when of doing things — even to the extent of excusing God, my Creator, to have been the one who made Mr President RB Banda a Zambian President (please revisit or visit the Book of Revelations in the Holy Bible).
Now that the current MMD, except a few lone voices like Magande’s and Mpombo’s, condones non-democratic means even by claiming that now UPND president should have left ULP unelected leader Sakwiba Sikota to be president of UPND bcos he was late unelected UPND leader Mazoka’s acting president when the bro fell sick. How sad for young Zambia.
Have a blessed day all.
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Matt 6:33 But seek ye first the…
Awe kwena Let MMD destroy itself. They are in self destruction mode. Who cares whether Mpombo rants or not, its their baby. By now they seem to be detructed by Mpombo to the extent that they dont know what to do to him.
It’s their comfusion. I have wondered why up to now they have not expelled him but rushed to expell others before. Hmmm I smell a rat, I smell a very Big rotten Rat.
All peaceloving democratic Zambians should reject this bad monarch behaviour by MMD and other political parties that detest internal democracy and throw mad at the mighty UPND Group for practising democracy in that mighty political party which holds the best manifesto for Zambia.
I do not want to see a monarch situation where an Acting president who was not even elected at a Convention but was imposed on the MMD members by MMD NEC becomes an MMD president using underhand methods.
Keep it up MP Mpombo, Kavindele and Magande. I hope the MMD National Secretary Katele Kalumba will clarify this mess MMD is in by giving out the constitutional provision over this matter of the MMD to the Nation.
Have a blessed day all.
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Matt 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom
Mpompo is just wasting his time, move to the pact or form a new party. i honestly can’t believe some people surely think Mpompo is our country’s solution for a good President.
Maestro you sounding like Senior Citizen aka BK,what happened to you,,,
LT, Criticism time: Tell me, isnt there anything more interesting for your wonderful team to wirite about than being a political journal. Everytime i visit you guys i find RB panted through out the home page , Sata, Mpombo and Ron Shikapwasha. Am sure your CTR (Click through rate) and Page impressions are way apart. Doesn’t it bother you? Most people just visit, glance and go.. Be creative naimwe, be a news portal not only a political portal. We would like to know places improving in Zambia, new infrastructure. Emerging companies and those that are falling apart. Anything interesting. And.. I emailed you for your stats and audience profile and someone, unidentified hidden behind support told me you do not reveal such info???? Nhuh.. you serious?? Was disappointed!
26 RED CARD-Smoothcriminal greetings. On your “Maestro you sounding like Senior Citizen aka BK,what happened to you“, I am clearly a junior Citizen since I am only just about 30 years old and I thus dont even qualify to challenge Mr President RB or any other the MMD will sponsor for Zambian President in 2011 elections as I am disqualified by our current Constitution which is discriminatory.
Anyhow, this is why I support the PACT and “Dr Simutanyi said there was also need for the pact to develop a clear power sharing mechanism negotiated by the parties well ahead of the elections… “Even if the pact succeeded, there is no guarantee that a junior partner will receive a fair share of power” in the Times of Zambia is bad for us as a Nation since he undermines…
And, the comments font is horrid. Arial was so much better
They need to go to the convention
miss daisy, please may you put your cell phone here so that i can get in touch for more talking. i like the title miss. am also a free mr. waiting for the response. i know you are my neighbour so it makes it easier. email me on [email protected]. please am not joking your. lets forget about all these politicians and do better for ourselves. please fellow bloggers help me to begging miss Daisy to email me. thanks for your help =d>^:)^
An acting Presidentshould act AS President.
This RB chap is a good and health product of a one party dictatorship and that is the reason he thinks he is MMD president. Shame.
The MMD is full of lawyers (well, at least I think so), why doesn’t someone simply lay down the constitution and explain the relevant articles that either make or do not make AlaBee the president of MMD. In short, what does the MMD constitution say?
Sikota Wina will be MMD President after the convention. Period. After that the true blues (formerly young turks) want to rid the party of uninvited guests, gate-crashers and intruders such as Mulongoti, Shikapwasha, Mabenga, RB, William Banda, Mangani and that canine-worshipping Minister. William Banda knows about this move but they are ready for him. Remember where you heard it first – Lusaka Times.
Miss Daisy,nimwe ba computer guru….na font mwai shooter suuuuuure!!!..See,this blog rarely does it’s own news items or stories as it were.
not interesting at all
ba Mpombo basasa mwe 2 much of us hearing about him :-w:”>
Mpombo wibilima aba bilima bala bunsanisha ama cheque…
thats true GM..he’s not president of party but acting..we need the convention ..
mpombo is not presidential material even if he thinks being from the same province as mwanawasa is the qualification. however if banda could make it maybe he should try his luck. this country has reall gone to the canines
Mr Spooni ni Foloko ##10
I know now you hate BEMAS coz Sebuloni Kamutanda is Kaonde name.We were just wondering
It is amazing how some PF chapps are falling al over themselves commenting on MMD paarty matters! Do you even have the guts to ask Michael Sata to go for a convention? Ten years he is just appointing his national committee. this fella is a dictator, period. Now let me hear you PF democrats defend him
Maestro Hhehhehhe ##28
Anyhow, this is why I support the PACT. Dont mislead yourself. You have never supported the pact in all your posting. Your right answer is this is why I support HH
Nga kamalasha uwikele pachipuna kwati nimbushi ilefwaya ukufyala ni nani? Te akakene beta ati ka mpombo? Awe kwena ni mpombo batupele.
Awe kwena chamupamba naba kamalasha nabo balefwaya ukuba ba presido! Awe iyeeeeeeeeeee.
Miss Daisy…ni ka mpopo!
#14 Mr Spooni ni Foloko, Kupusa Spooni sure uleke. Uli chizende weo, uliye malango ndithu. Even Galu ya Chiwewe Kaingu is better because it knows who the master is. The MMD constitution is crystal clear and one has to be foolish in the gutless type to swallow the vomit Banda and Katele are puking. As Zambians, we have never forgotten how the stinking spirit of “Umodzi Kumawa” ushered in a wayward suspected secretary rapist lumpen from Eastern Province into power. If Enstein was alive and Zambian and had to run for president against galu ya chiwewe called Mr Banda or Phiri, you bet the entire Kumawa will congregate in true “Kumawa Kumodzi” style and root for “galu ya Kumawa.”
Here are some MUST READ books by Zambian writers: “How to be a shushushu on LT & remain anonymous” Nine Chale.”How to fight tall & big people” FTJ. “How to lose elections 3 times in life time but continue to try”. Sata. “Simple ways to get treatment in SA when you have heart condition” FTJ. “How to become a first lady at tender age” Thandi. “How to please a young woman in bed” RB. “5 Steps of avoiding pain when leaving preaching to politics” Nevers Mumba. “How to run a TV station when all your friends have left you” Pule. “Simple ways to fly without a crash” RB.
Kaunda really destroyed a lot of you people’s thinking. Only those who were so psychologically damaged by KK’s “Kumulu?, lesa!, Panshi?, Kaunda!” nonsense can deem a “Democrat” in MMD an enemy of the Party. And some MMD cadres on here and Rupiah Banda seems to have taken this bull-crap to heart!! What is wrong with Mpombo insisting that things in MMD be done in a Democratic way and by following laid down Party rules and regulations? Is MMD going to be ruled by ORDERS and DECREES now?
Where have all the original Democrats/Founders of MMD gone?! My goodness, how foolish we all were by thinking that MMD was our savior when they just started in the early nineties. I guess “old habits die hard”, yeah? Once a UNIP, always a UNIP!—-and that’s RB for you.
#17 The True Watcher: Morning. The problem with me is that my mind records even the most minute events. Levy at the time FTJ picked him was already a member of UPND. So was RB a member of Unip even when he was VP. If you are ready to invetigate Sata’s so called crimes of 50years ago, I see no problem in checking records concerning the above.
joseph sakhar:
A negative can never prove another negative (some Math jargon there, if I remember correctly). Proving/arguing that Sata is a “non-democrat” does not make MMD democratic. It will only make the MMD leaders look just as “filth” and undemocratic as Sata.
No one needs to prove anything about anybody for the MMD to be true to what their Party Constitution stipulates. Surely, MMD can lead the way on this one!!
Fact is Mpombo has a point, which should not be ignored! You may not like to hear it or like Mpombo, but every “club” or association has got rules.
He is merely highlighting the fact!
Mpombo just as predicted he is a headless politician.^:)^
Hahaha ba Sebuloni Kamutanda imwe … whr is the galu coming from! just change your name to Banda or Phiri maybe things will work for you fool. You sound like a real dog . . .Stop hating Easterners for nothing or you will get burnt you stupid ***** !
Allow me to recycle my own sentiments:
“My attack today is going to be on our Zambian media. You know the saying that goes ‘be the change you want to see’? Well I have this idea (as I am sure do many other Zambians), that if we stop rewarding such pettiness by making it front page news and move to making intelligent ideas about how Zambia can attain some realistic, progressive and developmental goals, the front page news, then maybe the nation will have a better idea who to vote for next year.
Maybe a small column for old and unintelligent politicians (including the popular yet without substance ones) should be reserved on page 6, and titled ‘On a Lighter note’. Right now what we have is a media the rewards the Mpombo’s and the Mangani’s for their lack of substance.
Hallucinations have become a national pass time. Even previously unknowns like Gyiogy Pombo have suddenly become newsmakers all in the name of preserving Levy’s non-existent legacy. What legacy? Good thing though is that with 2011 quickly approaching, we shall rid ourselves of such unwanted luggage as Mpombo and other such wild dogs.
Actually, they may even be more intelligent than I am,for they have figured out the best way to get publicity in Zambia, which is by hurling insults while making no sense at all. So while I sit in front of my computer frustrated about the bleak plight of the average Zambian citizen, they may well know that by playing ‘unintelligent’ they will get into power and enjoy all the perks that come with it. Which would be worse than rewarding nonsense, it would be rewarding both nonsense and laziness. So let’s start rewarding those that deserve it and not get sucked into this popularity contest that makes a mockery of our common sense. PUBLISH MORE SENSIBLE THINGS ON YOUR FRONT PAGES! You owe it to the nation and your loyal readers. Give a voice to more deserving people and less fluff.
It is not just a blunder but scandal. We cannot have a UNIPist for President of MMD the party whose birth Bwezani was totally against. The UNIP leadership has highjacked our party. Where are we?
It was very unfortunate that our briliant Levy saw it fit to bring in UNIPists into our leadership.
Tonga Bull # 44 spot on. Maestro has never supported the pact. His postings speak volumes regarding the pact.
Can mpombo become president in the real sense, the guy does not know the difrence btween a Dam and a swimming pool, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEse spare us, even if we have run out of Leaders , pple like mpombo, Just a few months back a monkey attacked him n he fell in the pool , wen asked the guy says this dam is too deep, m wondering why LT is even picking finished , outdated , and Expired matreials like Mpombo, if u dont have news to give us please get to villages and tell us what life is for the pool villages , how are they making it in this had times. NOT MPOMBO AGAIN twapapata. Take that thing to school to learn what a dam is first then bring him back to politics.
Without understanding what Mr Mpombo is actually talking about people have already drawn their swords to slaughter an innocent man. For example when RB goes out of the country Goerge becomes acting President, he does not become President of Zambia and commander in chief. In the same vein RB is only acting as MMD president because Levy is no more. Get that thick heads.
#59 As you rightly put it, RB was invited into MMD and none of the MMD members complained. Calling him a UNIPist is very shallow because in Zambia almost all the older generation are UNIPists. At least RB did not jump from one branch to the other like most monkeys around. He ascended to leadership because of circumstances not tribe like others. Acting President or whatever your Mpombo wants to call him is just time wasting. In Zambia the Head of State is boss of the ruling Party period – forget semantics. In case you were too young – if KK had not run Zed with an iron fist using the William Banda types at that time in the history of our region, this time you were going to be speaking Afrikaans.
Always good to read the comments here never get bored. Keep them coming guys!!!!:)>-
why so confusions in MMD? Lets strategise guys .elections are near.ba banda please advise your surbodinates………………………………………especially that one and that…………………………………………………..i end here. ……….you know them