The National Constitution Conference (NCC) says it has received mixed reaction from the public on the recently launched draft constitution. NCC Spokesperson, Mwangala Zaloumis says it is however happy that the public has shown great interest in making their submissions to the draft constitution.
Mrs. Zaloumis told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka Tuesday that the public has been calling on the NCC to make the documents more available adding that this was a good indication that people were interested in the draft constitution.
She said people have realised the need for a new constitution and were looking forward to its conclusion.
“People are looking forward to have a new constitution; they have been calling for us as NCC to make the draft copies readily available to them. We are happy that this is coming from the public because it means they have been looking for this copy but cannot find it” She said.
Ms. Zaloumis has meanwhile appealed to all Zambians to carefully read the draft report before making their submissions to the constitution.
He said there was need for people to read the documents so that they make informed decisions adding that there were people who were condemning the NCC without first reading the document.
Ms. Zaloumis said the NCC has hastened the availability of the draft constitution which would be accessed at all District Commissioners Offices and all Provincial Administrations around the country for people to access it.
She said the draft constitution was also accessible on-line and it had also been published yesterday’s copy of the Times of Zambia newspapers.
She has meanwhile appealed to political parties to embrace the draft constitution if the country was to have a good constitution.
Ms. Zaloumis said all political parties needed a good constitution for the country’s good governance.
She said it could however not print the draft constitution in vernacular due to inadequate time as it had to follow the NCC amendment Act.
Ms. Zaloumis however, said that this was not an issue as the Mug’omba CRC was also not made in local languages but people still contributed.
The NCC last week launched the NCC draft constitution to the public which would go for 40 days for the public to make their comments.
ZANIS
Can I now access this document on the three websites the NCC mentioned at first? I tried before and I was unable to access it!!!! I will check the sites again and see what’s up this time. I definitely look forward to reading it and make my contributions if necessary.
You I.D.I.O.T. look on the home page of this website!
Again people contributing the same things which they threw in a rubbish bin at the ncc??:o:o:o
MB:
Wow! What so I.D.I.O.T.I.C about someone asking a simple question?
I clearly saw the link you are talking about on LT home page and I have already downloaded it that’s why I said I look forward to reading the document, but how does one comment or submit contributions using this link LT has provided? This was the basis of my asking, Mr. SMART A.S.S!!!!!!!!
Mrs Zaloumis is so pretty, guys stop insulting each other life is so short.
Ok The Impostor of my name and Picture has now gone out of line and it is time to act. I have let him be my impostor for a while because he was towing the party lines. But he has committed two sins. 1) Attack Senior Citizen 2) Attack our president. Anyway It looks like Zambians here in the USA are good at being impostors. Anyway am here for a short course which ends next week and am going back to my base station in South Africa. I will not blog till then. So treat the current MMD Chief Bootlicker as an impostor until you see the real one in mid July blogging with a South African Flag.
Besides check ,my past posts from South Africa. I write Bootlicker as one word as opposed to this imposter
Waste of oxygen. We will come up with our own
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Can one tell me from which day the 40 days given started, or when is the closing date for the submissions? How can the NCC talk about 40 days without being specific. Another issue which I’ve heard people complain about is that the are very few copies. Even the offices which are supposed to issue copies don’t have them. So, how do they start talking about 40 day, before making sure that everything is in place: That most of the people, not only in Lusaka, but country wide have a copy. This is not just poor planning, but also taking people for granted. They should have first of all distributed the copies and made sure that all the respective offices have enough copies and the public should have been informed about this development before talking about 40 days.
On “She said it could however not print the draft constitution in vernacular due to inadequate time as it had to follow the NCC amendment Act… Ms. Zaloumis however, said that this was not an issue as the Mug’omba CRC was also not made in local languages but people still contributed,” please avoid using the word vernacular when referring to local languages. However, there is need for the NCC to provide translated NCC Draft Constitutions into the 7 major local languages especially because only 67% of Zambians are literate according to the 2008/9 Human Development Index of the UN.
I am currently working on a Tonga Language translation but it is proving to be a tedious task.
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