SPEAKER of the National Assembly Amusaa Mwanamwambwa on March 17 reprimanded Patriotic Front (PF) Roan member of Parliament (MP) Chishimba Kambwili for voting on behalf of Livingstone MP Sakwiba Sikota on the amended Anti-Corruption Commission Bill No. 41 of 2010.
Mr Mwanamwambwa, who made a ruling on the matter for close to 30 minutes, said he is discontented with the conduct of Mr Kambwili by breaching the Parliamentary etiquette by voting on behalf of Mr Sikota.
The punishment meted out on Mr Kambwili was for him to stand behind the Parliament bar for 30 minutes.
“I order you to go and stand behind the Bar of the House. I also instruct the Sergeant-At-Arms to take the Speaker’s mace and stand behind you.
“This is not the first time you are being punished for breaching the rules and procedures of this honourable house.
You have been reprimanded and admonished several times before, which should be embarrassing for any honourable member. I want to believe that disciplinary measures are intended to create positive change in an individual. This doesn’t seem to be happening to you, which is very sad. This is the last time the House will have to mete out disciplinary action against you,” Mr Mwanamwambwa told Mr Kambwili.
He said the MP’s conduct misled the House and the public as the results of the voting were not a true reflection of the actual votes cast.
He said voting is one of the mechanisms used by the House to arrive at its decisions and it is gross misconduct and a serious breach of the rules and procedures of the House for any member to attempt to exercise it on behalf of another member whose constituents he does not represent.
Mr Mwanamwambwa said it is wrong for Mr Kambwili to vote on behalf of Mr Sikota because the rules do not provide for proxy voting.
Mr Mwanamwambwa said Mr Kambwili’s conduct caused grave embarrassment to Mr Sikota and brought the integrity of the House into question.
He said Mr Kambwili has lowered the decorum and standards of the House by breaching the rules and procedures the House has put in place to ensure that MPs perform their functions in a dignified and unimpeded manner.
Mr Mwanamwambwa said it is depressing that Mr Kambwili has continued to breach the rules and procedures of the Housedespite him being guided several times to desist from conducting himself in a manner that can lower the standards of the House.
He said the National Assembly Standing Orders of 2005 regulate the proceedings of the house to promote decorum and dignity in the conduct of business in parliament.
During the sitting of the House on March 16, November 3, 2010, Mr Kambwili voted twice when the amendment to the Anti-Corruption Commission Bill No.41 of 2010 proposed by UPND Itezhi-Tezhi MP Godfrey Beene, was put to the vote.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
When will this Kaponya grow? Is this what you expect should PF form Government? Disgusting indeed
The man have no lines to cross.l now doubt his upstairs,the school he went to. this rubbish in Zambian parliament. Just give him red card.
Totally despicable behavior and a total embarrassment to the title “Honourable” .
Politics aside, I think as political parties , we really need to be serious about people we field as candidates in elections. Lets pick people with self dignity and honour than just pick anybody. I know the minimum requirements to be an MP are really low but why pick the worst from the pack when you can pick the best. We should not just go for people that meet the minimum requirements.
Obviously Mr Kambwili does not value the significance of a vote and in his mind this is just like a game he used to play at bus stations.
This is serious business and and MPs need to give this process the honour it deserves. I think this rigging alibi is just being taking too far by our friends in opposition.
OMG this speaker says the MP lowered the standards of the house!!!!!what standars if i may ask.
This behaviour is exceedingly dishonourable. When in leadership please set good examples
Kambwili, GBM, Nsanda, Chilufya Sata; there seems to be a worrying trend of thug behavior here! Sadly, these are the goons we want to form the nxt Govt? For all it’s shortcomings, atleast UPND does not have a single goon in it’s mgt committee.
I can appreciate that you don’t have the numbers to defeat devious MMD bills, you can lobby MPs to vote along with you
I feel for his constituents.PF leadership is crap.Look at their MPs, what criteria was Sata using to adopt such crap as kambwili,Mushili,Mumbi Phri etc.Anyway cant be surprised since its one Michael Chilufya Sata.
Kambwili is truly a clown. He is not even fit for a decent circus!
The face in the picture LT has provided tells the whole story.The shadow Finance minister rigging?and you trust this thug to administer the national treasury?
what type of Lawyer maker is i wont be supprised to hear one day that he was caught shoplifting
#4 you can’t know about standards of parliament bcoz people like you are just like kambwili with no know how that each place has its own standards.Even LT here has its own standards.You have no standards- not even bad ones!
I think an appropriate punishmanet would have been suspension or expulsion from parliament. If you vote twice in a general election and discovered you can be jailed, why not doing it on him? The problem with Kambwili is that he has failed to live with his wife, he wants play boy type of life. He has no adult to advise him in the bedroom at night because wife has been in the UK for more than ten years. Be with your wife or soon you will be punctured Mr Kambwili. If your wife was there you would not be doing stupid things in parliament and at night.
Number 4 , if you have nothing to say just shut up. Parliament is not Kulima Tower right
ON the Speaker’s words:You have been reprimanded and admonished several times before, which should be embarrassing for any honourable member. I want to believe that disciplinary measures are intended to create positive change in an individual. This doesn’t seem to be happening to you, which is very sad. Kambwili has insulted the people of L/stone by assuming the position of representing them. This is day light robbery and criminal. Let the people of L/stone speak out against this imposter. Kambwili is now number two on the list of riggers after VJ.
Well, it a bad behaviour for mr kambwali but we have to understand that he is doing this on his own just like that diplomat who danced like an ***** when drunk.So he has to be displined by the party he belongs.
Ebwaume…. Ni Donchi Kubeba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He reminds me of my grade 5 class days at Northmead primary school.
Hon.Kambwili is a man who does’t want corruption.He couldn’t stand the sight of MPs voting for useless bill that will take corruption to the highest levels in the history of Zambia.
Hon. Kambwili speaks for the miners and the poor atlarge.
IFWE NI KAMBWILI,SATA AND PA BWATO COME WHAT MAY.
Let PF discipline Kambwili or they should never speak against election rigging in Zed because they (PF) are embrassing this ugly culture.
# 13 Kashimani kabwili;s wife the 1st one is a Nurse, fled Zambia due to Hardships, low pay for nurses and Kambwili was in all sorts of trouble with the POLICE at tha time. Kopakopa issues. Kambwili has a second wife. If he denies I will disclose the Name. She once lived in Chililabombwe.
PF MPs are becoming a gross let-down. Quite frankly I now don’t care whether MMD wins the elections or not.
# 19 walasa zooona ikali boi, we shouldnt be bootlikers.Kambwili is a very brave man who speaks for the people and he doent want to see corruption at all.All those who are saying bad against him are very corrupt chaps.
#19 YOU ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY, VOTING TWICE IS IN ITSELF CORRUPTION, CAN YOU GROW UP YOU PF KAPONYAS! MALABISHI PF
#21 Mpangula Mputyu, So kambwili has two wives! i thought marrying two wives was a tonga tradition, so it is one Zambia one Nation and everyone has joined in the good tradition.
THE QUALITY OF MP’s IN ZED POLITICS IS WORRYING, WITH THE LIKES OF KAMBWILI ETC! CRAP
# 24/25 you are a wrong chap and very corrupt.You should understand issues.Kaponya’s are there because of your corrupt Government.If the we “KAPONYA’s” had a decent job, we shouldnt have been in the streets looking for food.So understand issues dont just talk on this forum.
i WOULD ALSO LIKE TO JOIN HIM STANDING BEHIND THE BAR AT PARLIAMENT MOTEL MR SPEAKER!! HE DESERVES THAT SORT OF PUNISHMENT!!
TWA NWA AGAIN!!
Kambwili belongs in the garden; as a garden boy and not in Parliament.
This is the so-called Shadow Finance Minister! My foot and God forbidooo! This chap is dishonourable and a lumpen period. Pliz ba PF don’t adopt this nincompoop again twapapata!
Kambwili’s actions show gross disrespect for Zambia and the Zambian people who voted for their parliamentarians. If “Hon” Kambwili did not want corruption and could not stand the sight of MPs voting for a useless bill (as our so-called academic friend would have us believe) then Kambwili should not rig the way parliament votes – this is like staging a personal coup so is not only atrocious behaviour for a lawmaker but actually corrupt in and of itself.
Still, I can’t help but giggle at his punishment – to stand behind the Parliament bar for 30 minutes. Sorry, but I just get the picture of Kambwili taking drinks orders from MPs while the Sargent at Arms keeps watch to make sure he doesn’t steal the money. Frankly, I think they should have tied a carrot to his nose too.
#30 Champ I believe the speaker thought Kambwili was going to collapse by making him stand for 30 minutes since he has a big body
# 28 please respect every work/Job.remember that everyone in society is very important.We know that you have been to school but its not everyone who have been to school and this is how society is.We just have to respect each ones job OK……..
What is happenning in the country is sad. One can end up voting twice in the hope that you can change things to the better.
Kabwili is not to be allowed to come near money. He is a lair. With kind of lying, we should not give PF grz, else all your money will be stolen when he becomes minister of finance. What a dirty mind……..!
No19 academic worrior,i can believe the level of misunderstanding that you have desplayed here.what you dont understand is that parliament is a very seroius place.its because of these same PF MPs who are lowering the levels and importance of the house because they do not understand and later on know why they are there.They think its all about politics and fighting.its so disgusting.
You are saying that kambwili fights for the miners.Again you dont know, here because he is only serving his interests.Rememeber he is a suplier to miners but mnies are not giving him business.So what corruption is Kabwili interested in. My advice to 19 is that you must not just beleive in people you dont know well.Learn to find out about them.then you would know their interests.
he is not the first person to be reprimanded it just propagander…we have heard alot of mp’s utter insults from the house.
I keep saying (and I will not get tired of repeating it for them until it sinks) that if you are PF you can never accuse anybody of wrong doing without accusing yourself. If you were not born this morning you would know that PF is the master of all vices including corruption, hunger for power, abuse of the catholic church, deception, lies, flip flopping, doing the opposite of what they preach, and now the latest vice of supporting homosexual behaviour in our society.
The list of bad things associated with PF is just endless. At least with their colleagues in other parties you can count the vices on your fingers.
Kambwili is an interesting character indeed,but think of all the rubbish presidents and ministers we have,we are just a doomed nation with no future. This same Kambwili was voted for by people,a lot of Zambians…it shows what kind of people we are,they’re people on this forum who religiously support everything the government does and others defend the opposition even when they’re wrong,we are supposed to be the young with the voice of reasoning,but alas,we are even worse..If these people really performed so well,why does this country look like it has been at war and has no resources? get real and as young people,let’s not join the failures generations of old!
Oh I forgot to mention that PF is the Master of Rigging which is why the word is always on their lips.
Chilufya practised rigging when he was in UNIP and MMD, and now he thinks everybody does it.
By the way, this behaviour of disHonourable kambwili is pure rigging, confirming what we already know about PF.
Why is Kambwili always on the other side of the game. Parliament is a place where one goes to make positive contributions not mere joking. Its high time electrotes started scrutinizing those who aspire to represent them. Hardly a month passes without hearing Kambwili has done this or that. And this is the stuff we expect PF and Sata to appoint as cabinet minister. We will be in trouble pipo.
This Story to me is one sided and its ment to discredit PF members to the public. Yes he may have voted twice, But L.T if you have professional Journalists why haven’t you call Kambwili to get his comment so that this story was complete. You may find that even the speaker himself is even more corrupt than the House itself, Coz last time I checked the Speaker was an MMD cadre who has just sided with MMD on the issue of PVT. No wonder Kambwili voted twice coz he couldn’t just sit to watch bad laws against the people of zambia being past in parly without doing something to stop it. That’s patriotism. L.T you are real Kaponyas yourselves
SATA AND HIS PF MPS NEVER STOP AMAZING ZAMBIANS ITS SCANDLE AFTER SCANDLE AND THIS IS THE PARTY TO FORM GOVERNMENT. ITS SO EMBARRASSING AND UNHONOURABLE WHY CANT PF MPS LEARN FROM THE WAY UPND MPS CONDUCT THEMSELVES. PLEASE PF KAPONYAS ON THIS ISSUE DONT BLAME LT OR MMD THIS IS JUST THE BEHAVIOR OF YOUR MPS,I FEEL PITY for john phiri who blindly supports these thugs watch the space tommorow u will read another scandle from pf
Youi see why PF needs UPND more,the calibre of 90% of their MP’s is so low.
#21, Just to remind you that polygamy is legal in Zambia. Nothing more to say? Buzz off be real. The Copperbelt has been destroyed beyond recognition by the disoriented MMD. Its only the opposition MPs and and true real Zambians who are condemning this negligence to dvelopment. So if you live on MMDs hand out, time has come for you to know the meaning of real cahnge. Sata has won the support of all normal thinking Zambians and he has already won the election, the voting date just a formality for PF and Sata.
Hey OCTOPUS PAUL BWALYA. I’m not John Phiri, Cant you read it says Thomas Phiri formally Thomlee. as for you guyz who have already taken your stance in condeming Kambwili, to me you are all very dull or maybe your heads are just vurnerable to propaganda coz you sucumb to anything L.T writes about PF, maybe its the hate you already have for PF inside you, but to me you all sound like you dont read between the line and you are doing just what the people who bring these stories want you to do ( dance to the tune), anyway you are all entitled to your opinions.
So these chaps have started rigging? Are we sure in Mpolokoso they were not voting twice? Then who actually rigs elections in Zambia?
Fellow citizens please understand the context in which Hon Kambwili was trying to vote. This bill is about the removal of the ‘Abuse of Office’ clause. The already corrupt Govt want to pass this bill promptly when most of paliamentarians who would otherwise vote against are out of parliament. Out of desperation and love for Zambia he casted the vote for Mr. Sikota who had previously told him how he would vote. This man is trying hard to fight corruption and all you do is lambast him.
Yaba, E rigging iyi. Awe mwandi, words fail me.
I don’t know why you people like putting people who are not there in issuers like this #13 a Man can do anything even if the wife is present.. #21 you are not God to start telling us what kambwili do or have.. i am not saying that what he did was good NO!! what he did was very wrong.. but i think if he can’t change then it’s a big problem.. All i can say is that let’s not say things that will make other people fail to change. people like him needs prayers that’s all!!!
Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be the only way to prevent a catastrophic radiation release, the method used to seal huge leakages from Chernobyl in 1986.
In times of crises, Zambians look up to politicians for the magic solution – PF, MMD, UPND. In Japan, engineers take the lead. Lets continue with joy our swim down the drain. What has our education done for the country.
LT ???
Kambwili just as his name my suggest has no morals like his party,his followers who support this behaviour i think zambians are realising the full potential of corruption stinking in PF just as it is stinking in their strong hold councils,shame to have him in that house
Like father like son, Sata is a robber, kabwili a thief, what a shame for PF
Only a fool will support such chaps like kabwili & Sata.
VIVA KAMBWILI!!!!AT LEAST YOU DID YOUR LEVEL BEST TO STOP A BILL THAT IS LEGALISING ABUSE OF OFFICE. I AM EVEN DISAPOINTED WITH UPND MPs WHO PROPOSED THE BILL
Kabwili is just another thug. As a lawmaker we expect better things from him that this clowning. Those muppets trying to justify his action are just as clueless as him. For example Zingi in 54 as a typical PF cadre thinks Kabwili’s wrongs are right because they better than his perceived UPND’s MPs wrongs. That is what is wrong with Sata’s Parrots. They just repeat whatever the clowns in their party say. All they know is to scream ‘Pabwato …..Donchi Kubeba!’. They have no manifesto but just engage in populistic debates. They are no better than the Nazis. Alkl they claim is that Sata and the PF are popular. So what? Hitler and the Nazis were also popular. If what Kambwili did was done by an MP from another party, these PF cadres would be calling for his blood. Hypocrites!!
#48 and others, what you say about the context in which Kambwili was trying to vote is no excuse for flouting the very rules of Parliament he has sworn to uphold! If Kambwili has no more imagination or ability to express his opinion then to cheat the legal system, then he is not worthy of his position.
In fact, from what you say, we also question why Mr. Sikota was not present for such an important vote. Sikota has also taken an oath to represent his constituents (…and is surly being paid fees and allowances for doing just that!), so why wasn’t he around to do his job if the vote was so very important?
Slackness and corruption, is that all the opposition has to offer over the Abuse of Office clause? No wonder govt gets away with such bs.
Kwena Ichi Chaume.
zambia B+ rating false and crooked zed leaks
Just what’s in the heads of Luanshya pipo to send a clown to parliament?
Honorable! honorable! kambili what a shame is that for you to vote twice, those are manners from Bus station. You should grow in mind as the title honorable Member of Parliament. But it very opposite with you Kambili. You do not deserve to be in parliament bar instead you should at KMB station.
#4 Red Card.
We do not expect you to know what standards are. That is why you have such kind of MPs who find themselves in parliament by default and cannot even know how to conduct themselves in the house. so you are wasting your breath trying to know parliamentary standards.
Kambwili is a very brave man, obviously he meant well, he is always on the side of the poor…look at what kunda is trying to do with his gratuity for the Presdo, who between them would you say is displined..MMD guys, posterity will judge you harshly
This is the man who is likely to be the minister of finance in Micheal Sata Chilufya’s government.This Kaponya makes me laugh at times
Thanx LT. Kambwili’s picture goes with his actions.
Voting twice is corruption on its own. This is why they want PVT so that they rig elections, No PVC especially with these examples we are seeing of casting votes twice. Viva RB
I would be surprised if Kmbwili was NOT PF.
But what about Sakwiba…Saki also must know something. These guys talked about it. Details please. Remember Sakwiba also has PF background. Once PF always PF. The Speaker should also ask Saki how he allowed Minister of Finance Kambwili to vote for him!
PF bane, please change. We know you are never going to win elections, but you can still behave like human beings!!!
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wonder how many of those honourable members ofthe House really speak on behalf of their constituents!! Why not just amend the rules and allow voting by proxy? Anyway, did Saki complain?
International or local dribbling! Yo children have heard what u did. Anyway they may only a handful honourables in that house you call your selves honourables. Honourable for what ?
Zambian parliamentarians!!!! Awe kwena chashupa. Just a bunch of immoral corrupt and dishonourable lot. Abas MASAKA!!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen, let us be on the look out for these Kaponyas in the name of PF during this year’s elections. These are master riggers and Kambwili has confirmed to be one. The other precidence is when a PF Parliamentary Candidate in Luanshya was declared winner disadvantaging the real winner in the name of Simon Kachimba who is now Deputy Minister of Labour. The other example is when their Master, King Cobra was in MMD as National Secretary when he took a ballot box with pre-marked ballot papers to Twatashya and Kuku Welfare Hall when he instructed the Cadobis of Kulima Tower. This is the so called Chawama Saga. Therefore, the mighty UPND should equally be on the look out as PF is the first enermy who are specialised in rigging and Kambili has even taken the rigging to Parliament.
Kambwili the Man of corruption integrity.
#46 b4 u call yo friends dull, check yoself fo defending corruption. I hope u understand
#62, RB’s issue is being presented transparently, that is not the same as kambwili’s case which is pure rigging. PF cadres, do you really know what you are talking about? And if it was Chilufya who had won the 2008 presidential bye elections, you would have done exactly the same. The only difference is that because PF people do not like reading they would not have picked up this anomaly, and then if it came to paying time they would have been advised that it was not possible. But of course they would pay without regard to the law.
We would not know about it in Chilufya’s regime because PF has no systems, no procedures, no regard for law, everything starts and ends with Chilufya’s word.
In PF, Chilufya’s word is law including abductions and gay rights.
For the uninitiated, “Man of action” simply means that Chilufya is law and can do anything under the sun.
Typical of the PF and the unfamous pabwato and donchi kubeba slogan!
Clowns, clowns, clowns….. ELO UBUKOPO:-:-?
#56 LT have failed to publish my previous posting but you can listen to Kambwili paliament speeches on line on ‘ukzambians’ and you will learn how well he articulates and represents his people.
So this is what is coming if these f.ools come into power. But why give them chance. You will never get it. Rigging in parliament and in day light. This is embarrassing indeed! This fellow should be caged!
#4 I pray u grow up.That is parliament by all means it should be respected.No different from a court of law.
Ba LT I can’t see my earlier comment>..???
On “Mr Mwanamwambwa, who made a ruling on the matter for close to 30 minutes, said he is discontented with the conduct of Mr Kambwili by breaching the Parliamentary etiquette by voting on behalf of Mr Sikota” this is the rigging that PF accuses MMD of.
I just hope Kambwili will not be allowed to recontest the MPship he holds under PF because of his dishonesty behaviour.
Be blest all and vote for the UPND Team under HH as Presidential candidate to form GRZ Administration.
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Matt 6:33
YOU MEAN YOU HAVE NEVER HEAD OF ‘DRIBLLING’?…..ASK KAFUPI……..
ISHI, NI NSHIMBI…..KAMBWILI NGA TALIMO MU PARLIAMENT, ABASHALA NIBA NGWELE…
Sad indeed. Remember that is the calibre of PF minsters to be, crooked and dishonest. Remember those are the true traits of this man. Its looks like all PF pillars are clowns. imagine kambwili being health minister. please vote wisely.
MAc………he..nde yake….nkunku…..uyu mambala….
quote: “The punishment meted out on Mr Kambwili was for him to stand behind the Parliament bar for 30 minutes.”
sounds like secondary school
<bThis is very Gross. This can only happen in Zambia. In other countries, he could have lost his Paliamentary WHIP. And a possible expulsion.
DONT FORGET THAT THE HON KAMBWILI WAS ONLY A G5 CHIBOMBEBOMBE IN ZCCM/KCM. WHAT HE IS DOING IS CONSISTENT WITH HIS BACKGROUND
The opposition in Zambia doesn’t leave much to be desired. This is ignorance of the highest order.
He is better than lupiya who embrasses thieves and corruption. When useless MPs have been bought to vote for useless bills one is bound to do something about it. Zambians have been pushed too far. Blame the cause not the result.
This is the man who is going to be running our nations finances supposedly in less than six months.The question we have to ask ourselves is?Is he ready or is he the right man.If he is cheating on a simple and striaght forward things like a vote,what about which cash.Cobra should have his head examined at Chainama mental Hospital for picking this man as shadow finance minister.
Sakwiba should come out and explain himself and what could have been going on behind the scenes.
his is the man who is going to be running our nations finances supposedly in less than six months.The question we have to ask ourselves is?Is he ready or is he the right man.If he is cheating on a simple and striaght forward things like a vote,what about which cash.Cobra should have his head examined at Chainama mental Hospital for picking this man as shadow finance minister.
Maybe Sakwiba should come out and explain himself and what could have been going on behind the scenes
During the sitting of the House on March 16, November 3, 2010, Mr Kambwili voted twice when the amendment to the Anti-Corruption Commission Bill No.41 of 2010 proposed by UPND Itezhi-Tezhi MP Godfrey Beene, was put to the vote.
When did he vote twice, March 16 or November 3?
Kambwili rigged the vote in parliament, rite? Now, thats major! Technically speaking, what he did is tantamount to taking the law in his own hands in parliament for that matter. And he is supposedly the PF minister of finance-to-be, rite? God save our our souls.
Tenze pamozi same deks ku Group threee mu Grade one, nsamu zikashupa tenze kufakapo ma ansa yabili, confuse the enemy, confuse the teacher..,. hahaha
what an embarassment to the people of Luanshya…the search for a mature, reasonable and honest MP starts now. PF should not even think twice to re-adopt the guy for the next elections please..what a shame!!!!
Ehe @ 95, Namukumbuka Kambwili. Siuja anafeluka 5 times my giledi 7. Niwamene eheeeeee!
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Would like to comment on the reaction Number 16 made on Number 4’s comment on Kambwili’s behaviour. Firstly I agree with No.16 that Parly is not K/Tower, i believe he was talking of the morality that has to be upheld in the House. Secondly lets not just slap No.4 in the face for he may have a valid point to his statement. Standards in Parly mighty not be as high as you may think. Hence No.4’s questioning about the stds that have been lowered (there may be no standards to write home about).
With all due respect to sentiments of No.98, i feel before u totally agree with No.4, it would be better for No. 4 to realy elaborate and explain in detail why he feels there are no standards in parliament. which standards does he think the speaker is talking about. Does No.4 know anything about parliamentary standards? has he ever been inside parliament, is he familiar with the operations of parliament? only when No.4 elaborate on what he implied, can we be able to see sense in what he espoused. i think thats the best way to look at No.4’s concerns about standards in parliament, and not just making wild allegations just becoz he can blog.
And i dont subscribe to the thinking that Kambwili did that becoz he has the heart for miners, the poor in society and doesnt want that nasty bill to pass thru.For arguments sake, he may have these poor people’s sufferings at heart. Granted, but does that make him do what he did, vote twice? in other words righting a wrong. surely people, when there is hunger in a home and your children want to feed,do you go to Shoprite and steal and when you are arrested you say the intention was good becoz you had your family’s situation at home in mind? no ways, thats crime. why couldnt you lobby from neighbours or whoever you think can bail you out in your hour of need? similarly, Kambwili should have lobbied harder from other parliamentarians, who knows, some would have voted with him in the end.