SEVEN headmen and some residents of Mbeza in Namwala say they are disgusted with UPND president Hakainde Hichilema for his alleged verbal attacks and violence directed at Namwala Member of Parliament Robbie Chizhyuka.
The headmen have charged that Mr Hichilema has allegedly been sending youths to harm Major Chizhyuka
Headman Nakamboma said Mr Hichilema is pushing Major Chizhyuka to respond to his continued attacks, saying time has come for the people of Mbeza and Namwala to defend their son.
He sounded the warning in Mbeza when a team of headmen and residents summoned Major Chizhyuka to brief the people on his relationship with the UPND President.
The visibly annoyed traditional leader warned that it is time Mr Hichilema stopped hiring youths to allegedly harm Major Chizhyuka, saying the family and people of Mbeza have been observing Mr Hichilema’s provocations.
He pointed out that the people of Namwala and Mbeza in particular do no want the pact and should not be forced to accept it through violence.
Headman Nakamboma warned that any youth sent to hurt Major Chizhyuka by Mr Hichilema should expect brutal reteliation.
“Some people are not grateful. It is Major Chizhyuka who introduced Hichilema to the people of Namwala. Major Chizhyuka talked well about Hichilema so much that we liked him,” he said.
He said if Mr Hichilema really wants to get some votes in Namwala, he should not rubbish Major Chizhyuka.
The traditional leader noted that in most cases, nothing tangible comes out of pact arrangements, especially those entered into with wrong people.
Headman Nakamboma cited the Choma declaration and the UDA as such pact arrangements which never yielded any fruits.
Meanwhile, a senior representative for headman Shalupumbu, Charles Chiboola, said it is sad that some educated people fail to understand politics and are putting their people in problems.
Mr Chiboola warned that he will deal with anyone who will visit his house to talk about the pact.
“We already have a good MP who has fought for improved lives for his people even way back before politics. What else would we want? We shall go wherever he goes, but not into this pact,” he vowed.
He said it will be difficult for Mr Hichilema to get back to the people in Namwala to ask for a vote when he has forsaken the person who introduced him to the people of Namwala.
“We have already benefitted from Major Chizhyuka’s good works. He has worked well with government to bring us the Choma-Namwala road, a girls’ high school and a basic school in Namwala boma. He worked hard to improve the Monze Nieko-Road,” he said.
Namwala District Indigenous People Rights Association chairman Dominic Shingalwe said Mr Hichilema should understand that Major Chizhyuka has relatives and friends who will not sit back and watch while other people hurt him.
“What wrong has Robbie done? Let Hichilema not start a war he will fail to stop,” he said.
Mr Shingalwe, who was the first district chairman for the African National Congress party, said Major Chizhyuka is an innocent man who is merely expressing his democratic right to oppose the pact.
Mr Shingalwe said Mr Hichilema will regret his move to partner with the PF, saying as a senior citizen who worked close with the late Mungoni Liso and Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula, he has a clear understanding of how the Tonga people have been cheated into forming pacts
ZANIS
Mbeza, this is the area where Chizhyuka hails from. He had a fight with chief Bright Nalubanba. His organisation the Indigenous People’s Right fought Nalubamba up to court. It is known how these people can support Chizhyuka. But why is Chizhyuka clinging to UPND if he has fundamental differences with the party that helped him get elected MP for Namwala. Mbeza is not Namwala, it is just a place in Namwala. These headmen are sponsored really and they cannot bite their sponsor. HH should not ben respond to these headmen
Senior Citizen.
Have you sent anymore money to Namwala Member of Parliament Robbie Chizhyuka?
It looks like he is only now famous in his own backyard.
Your money has been wasted you old pensioner!
ha ha
Mbeza is not Namwala, well said #1. This is brown envelope at work anyway, but won’t go anywhere. No substance, these headmen are just hungry…..Shame on them.
I wonder how much these stupid head men have been paid to make these silly comments i come from Namwala myself do they know the fact that the area MP is UPND but supports MMD works against his own party?
I SAID IT ON THE OTHER THREAD, HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL GOVERNMENT OIL? JUST LIKE YOU BELIEVE IN SATA AND HH, THERE WILL BE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH THEM THAT IS DEMOCRACY. SO SUCK IT UP YOU LOOSERS. GO AND WATCH THE WORLD CUP, THAN MAKING SILLY ASSUMPTIONS. ALA MU 2011 MUKA PAPA BA PACT, THIS IS JUST THE BEGINING!
I think this is a cooked story from Lusakatimes. People of Namwala are the largest producers of beef in Zambia where an average person has 1, 200 cows in the area, and now there cows are dying because the MMD GRZ is not concerned. If Chizyuka is an asst the way he claims let him contest the seat on MMD ticket, and no one will block him, why sticking to a party which does not need you or whose policies you do not agree. If he believes in MMD or ADD of Milupi he should join the them, simple. Many people are missing the point here, Chizyuka is naturally a tribelist who cannot accept leadership from any other tribe. He cannot agree with HH because he is a very liberal man, he accepts every tribe and can work with anyone regardless of tribe, and I like him for that. We need this man HH.
Mr Chizyuka is a lonely wouned buffalo. He knows for sure that he can and will never win Namwala seat in his life time, be it in MMD, ADD. Infact, there is information that Chizyuka is trying to associate himself with Milupi so that he may recontest his seat on ADD because on MMD, he knows for sure that he cant even get more than 50 votes. but then who is Milupi to convince the people of Namwala to vote for Chizyuka on Add? Chizyuka, and others, i urge you to continue eating Milupi’s money so that by 2011, milupi would have remained with two chikens and one corrola. he is drunk with his little money. even Kenny Ngondo could be better that milupi as a president. Milupi, you are not a presidential material and this is your free advice from king. Let people not cheat you mwana.
I have metcheadmen in my life before. They are uneducated. Sorry we need Zambia to develop in a mordern world. Headmen go back and start from standard one. Leave HH alone!!!!!!!!!!!!
AtI tu headmen utwafiko ATASEE. These guys are too dull such thaT any useless person and party can lie to them. What is good, to continue wasting money in opposition till Jesus comes or to get into a PACT with another party so you rule and make policies for the country together? It is a shame that always dull people talk about tribes. You should know that soon there will be no tribe in Zambia coz of inter marriages. The tribeless youths are so many now and these are the people who will be voting in 2011. They have parents and grand parents from different tribes. Really in this computer age talking about tribe makes one look so foolish. GREOW UP YOU DULL HEADMEN IN NAMWALA.:)>-:)>-
#1 This Chizhyuka guy is not part of UPND. I believe he was expelled from the party. That is why he keeps favouring the MMD people.
Please, l m tonga and have good information about southern province, but its sorry if it is true about HH. Namwala is a very traditional area to represent south. Wake up Namwala if you are true leaders even me from Pemba or Sata or HH or Banda are your sons. If u cant recgnise this then later coup.
You also have to look at who is reporting this: ZANIS=MMD. The most immediate past shows these are the tactics now adopted by the dying MMD starting with VJ calaiming southern chiefs are for MMD. When will it dawn on the MMD and its trqditional leaders that support them that chiefs and village headmen are irrelevant to the outcome of elections in today’s Zambia? Chizyuka can take his entire village to the polling station on election day, it will be the people of southern province who will decide his fate. Not his village headman.
:d:d:d:d I personally, do not believe story to be true. Remember the story which was published some weeks ago about Uncle Vernon Johnson Mwaanga visiting Southern Province and the contents there in. This is cheap propaganda from the MMD Camp and the truth shall be known next year. Honestly can one hungry headman yearning for a brown envelope from the ruling MMD represent the people of Namwala ? HH is nonviolent person believe you me the way some people tend to take him.
On “He [Mr Chiboola] said it will be difficult for Mr Hichilema to get back to the people in Namwala to ask for a vote when he has forsaken the person who introduced him to the people of Namwala” Mr Sunny Hakainde Hichilema is not UPND party but UPND president and so he must be let alone to do what he likes as Major R Chizyuka is doing. Therefore, let us just go for an election in 2011, or by-election now, so that this talk ends once and for all.
UPND Namwala MP Hon R Chizyuka can stop clinging to UPND and become independent or join any of the many political parties in Zambia where he can continue contributing to the people of Mbeza and possibly Namwala in a fashion that he is now missing from the mighty UPND.
Have a blessed day all.
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