Friday, April 4, 2025

Voter Registration starts on a low key

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The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) voter registration exercise has started in most parts of Zambia but on a low note with some towns like Kabwe
recording a poor turnout.

A check at some registration centers within town revealed that there had not been any people coming for registration.

By 12:00 hours today, only one person had registered at Broadway Basic School Registration centre.

A Registration officer at Zambezi source lodge registration center, Chela Chipwende, who was found putting up posters of notice, said many people do
not yet know that the exercise had started.

Chipwende’s sentiments were echoed by Samabona Gondwe, a registration officer at Neem Tree Basic school registration centre.

Registration officers with a police escort were dispatched to different registration centers this morning for the commencement of voter
registration.

The exercise which will go on for a period of ninety days is meant to capture new voters, remove deceased voters and allow for change of details.

ZANIS

12 COMMENTS

  1. I am very happy to see Zambia grow in its democratic tendencies. We are a young nation with a 4th president occupying the State House. We have a collective responsibility as citizens to help shape and grow this country. We need to take our hustle to a higher level and promote harmony through various offices within out government. There is only one Zambia and one president at a time. Not everybody will have the blessing to run our country. Some politicians will come very close to running the Office of the President but a few are chosen to fulfill God’s plans. Lets support our government at all cost regardless of our impartial support for our candidates. I for one will support and defend the office of the president of Zambia regardless.

  2. As much as its a civic duty to vote, the whole ongoing voter registration exercise is facing highly apathetic Zambians because all have realized that the incumbency of MMD and RB are doing extraodinary work in the country. They have realized that RB is eligible for his second and final 5 year mandate and has no credible alternative for 2011. Therefore there is absolutely no need or basis to vote him out for utopian tribal warlords only skilled in tribalism, chauvinism and anarchy. The endless mass defections from these leaderless parties like PF and UPND are manifests Unparralel MMD political viability. People have realized that the menu of insults so-called pact offers is neither here nor there. Its not a voter converter but staged theater of losers good at rehearsing insults only

  3. The apathy because Zambians believe in MMD and the pragmatic leadership of RB

    There is no alternative on policy, democracy, leadership or guarantee of both national and regional peace

    They have realized that the only protector of national morals, virtues, convenant and constitutionalism is MMD

    Zambian have realised that circular parties like PF are sponsored by the International Lesbian and Gay Association-ILGA without national moral interest.Because they draw their funding from Gay organisations, they have alread sold out our moral values.

    Zambians have heard how unpatriotic the pact leaders are. Sata is calling on donors to squeez Zambians to death and pledging to seek asylum in Taiwan after lossing again then ordering his thugs to burn and lead a bloodbath in the country.

  4. Every potential voter in the country has realized that the incumbency of MMD and RB is doing extraodinary works in the country. Zambians have also realized that RB is eligible for his second and final 5 year mandate and has no credible alternative for 2011 to risk with the initiated national development around the country.

    This futureless pact is opposing all manor of national development from feeder roads, commerce roads, hydro power plants, hospitals, schools, raillines, refinaries, upgrading of airports to international standards,setting up of port bays in Namibia, Mozabique and promotion of PPPs.

  5. All opponents to RB are selling out are menus of insults, threats for bloodbath in the country, re-nationalization of the national economy and business entities. Such is the utopia not selling and will never to Zambians.

  6. Zambians across their political divides believe in MMD and the pragmatic leadership of RB for a better tomorrow.

    There is no alternative on policy, democracy, leadership or guarantee of both national and regional peace to MMD considering that opponents are only selling out a menu of insults wherever they open up.But Zambia will not eat that pact menu of insults or indeed send their children to schools on insults.

  7. They have realized that the only protector of national morals, virtues, convenant and constitutionalism is the ruling MMD continuous mandate until emerging leaders nurture for leadership in 2016.

    Zambian have realised that circular leftist parties like PF are sponsored by the International lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered groups-ILGA. They are without national moral interest.Because they draw their funding from Gay organisations, they have alread sold out our moral values.

  8. Zambians have heard how unpatriotic the pact leaders are. Sata is on public recrd calling on donors to squeez Zambians to death and pledging to seek asylum in Taiwan after lossing his fifth election in 2011. He says he will then remotely from Taiwan order his thugs to burn and lead a bloodbath in the country against our mothers, daughters, old and children until they are all cleansed out leaving a country of PF kaponyas only.

  9. on the other hand, Ichilema is on record of threatening Zambians of giving them an ungovernable country is they don’t buy in his tribalism and vote him in.Little does he know that such coercive statements make Zambian resent you because they take such as insults on their conscious.You don’t win Zambian hearts by threatening them with mayhem.

    This said, only unintelligent unpatriotic souls would choose to waste their votes on none starters other than the winning stamp of RB and MMD.But because we are in a democracy, losers will certainly be there burning their votes on fellow losers like HakaSata.

  10. Those of us in the diaspora and in touch with relatives can we plse encourage them to register and vote 4 change.

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