President Michael Sata should avoid the temptation of ruling Zambia by decree and should stop behaving like an emperor because he was democratically elected, MMD director of communications Muhabi Lungu has advised.
Lungu said President Sata’s culture of publicly admonishing his ministers and other senior government officials should be condemned because the people he was humiliating in public were adults and professionals who deserved respect.
Lungu told the Daily Nation yesterday that President Sata should know that the people he was verbally abusing had a limit to which they would tolerate embarassment and that the resignation of former Defence Minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba was a sign that many of the cabinet ministers were not happy with the style of leadership Sata was providing.
Lungu who is MMD president Nevers Mumba spokesperson wondered how cabinet ministers were putting up with President Sata’s culture of rebuking them publicly stating that being a president did not mean that one was above any other citizen.
During the swearing in ceremony of Ngosa Simbyakula as Home Affairs Minister at State House on Monday, President Sata openly pit the new Home Affairs Minister against Sports Minister Chishimba Kambwili by disclosing intelligence information that the Roan Member of Parliament had doubted the capacity of Simbyakula to manage his new position.
President Sata also openly told off his Home Affairs deputy minister Alfredah Kansembe that he was aware that she was planning to resign from her position challenging her that she had joined politics alone and should therefore resign if she wanted.
Lungu said it was clear that President Sata needed prayers to repent from his dictatorial ways of governing the country and called on Zambians to consider putting the Head of State in their daily prayers so that he could embrace justice and humility.
“President Sata has been using threats and decrees in governing the country and in communicating to his cabinet ministers which is certainly very bad. President Sata is an elected leader but he is bahaving like an emperor. He cannot continue humiliating and admonishing his ministers in public because they are not workers at his house. There is always a limit and a certain degree to which they will tolerate him and once they stop fearing him, they will walk away and this is what GBM (Mwamba) has done,” Lungu said.
And Lungu said the year 2013 had been a difficult year that saw hieghtened efforts by the PF government to silence the opposition political parties through arrests and the continued nulification of seats by the Supreme Court.
Lungu recalled that it was during 2013 when the Lusaka Magistrate Court was host to three prominet citizens in the names of former president Rupiah Banda, MMD president Nevers Mumba and UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema who were apearing in the court at the same time for various trumped up charges.
He said the year 2013 shll be remembered as a year when the PF government decided to increase the suffering of the majority poor Zambians by removing subsidies on maize and fuel the resultant of which had been a sharp and suden increase in mealie meal and transport fairs.
He said Zambians would have to remember the PF as a ruling party that cheated them again by collpasing the constitutin making process so that the country could go to the next general elections under the current constitution.
He said the year had also seen unprecedented levels of intra-party violence in the PF that had left Moses Simuwela dead while many other cadres including Lusaka district PF vice chairman Julius Komaki heavily wounded.
The Idi Amin of our time!
Idi amin o bothoka.
I think the president is being singled out for no reason at all
He is doing an amazing JOB if you ask me
Thanks
Please do not equally Ukwa to Idi Amin. Ukwa is merely a dunderhead.
Imagine employing a supervisor in your Company of Ukwa’s calibre, one that you cannot confide in. You will be doomed.
Way forward is to vote PF out come 2016 but unfortunately whom do we replace them with?? PF is not pro-poor and actually there is hardly any money in peoples pockets. Ancient type of politics is what we have witnesses from this PF govt and we shouldnt forget that we will soon need another HIPIC due to reckless borrowing by thez selfish politicians. They will soon be no more but we the youth and our children will suffer the consequences of this selfishness – bye elections, court cases, blotted cabinet, plunder of resources and lip action/development is what PF can offer poor Zambians. No wonder even the rains aint falling ku eastern nafumine uku….anyway let me rest a bit…
SATA is a Smug, Self-righteous, Egotistical, Disingenuous, Megalomaniacal, Overwrought, Pest and a Parasite who Uses and Abuses his people.
Ex ZIT,Are you sure of that?The problem with us Zambians is that we vote with our skull and not brains.Just imagine how many people bought into this 90 day s.h.i.t ,
We have a president whose irrational behavior does not bother the majority in his cabinet.
How do you allow a poor country like Zambia to be having by elections every 3 months.At what cost?
We have capable intelligent Zambians both abroad and at home if given chance can steer this country to great economic development.Alas the intelligent ones at home have decided to stick to a party that has no vision and purpose.They are humiliated every day at state house.How long are we going to put up with this lunatic,nonsensical behavior?
There are other Zambians and parties to chose from. Dominance does not mean the best.
@Sun-of-a-beach – very well stated and entirely spot on.
Prophet chanda chimba told zambians not to vote for the moron who is now in state house but no one listened.
If no one listened, Sata would have gotten 100% vote.
well spoken, you are the opposition partyz we need in zambia, but what suprises me most is that wen u were in power u forgot to take in to consideration advises from opposition, now wat makes u think the king cobra would consider this
things were not as bad as this my friend. Cost of living was affordable.
Progressive commentary by Muhabi Lungu should be emulated by all progressive thinking Zambians. Been wondering for along time if any of us Zambians 14+ million citizens can not pluck courage to tell the nakedness and decadency of Michael Sata.
The entire PF membership including sympathizers like Catholic bishop Mpundu can not dare tell Sata of humanity (Ubunthu). This man misrepresents the rich Bemba culture that take respect to be the core of societal ethics. Zambians, NEVER, NEVER NEVER AGAIN to be abused by those who claim to be above board to govern us.
Hey Muhabi,
long time- no speak (forgive the pidgin English) . Nice to see you have not lost your eloquence. I always liked listening to you.
Let’s just call it “fair” and declare that 2013 was the year Sata declared that he was GOD to himself and his party members.
I feel that in some warped way, the man believes that HE created these people and that they are HIS to command and toy with.
Anyone that disobeys him (in his head) has disobeyed their GOD! All must obey without question, all must live for their Fuerer. “Heil Sata”!
A serious case of Megalomania going on while his “Eva Braun” aka Christine K traipses around the world on a Cancer Campaign.
I’m told that Hitler used to get an erection and even ejaculate during his tirades. Someone should check the old…
CHAND CHIMBA STATEMENTS ARE VERY TRUE. HE SHUD BE LEFT ALONE COZ WARNED ZAMBIANS AND SAID THE TRUTH
Good points but who can get them seriously given that MMD never listened to advice nor did it give Zambians the constitution they wanted. Any way all politicians are the same–useless.
Whoever becomes next president should honour Chanda Chiimba II. He was like a saint from heaven. but alas! Zambians and donchi kubeba demonic song made us blind.
@zambian u re very correct!
Chanda Chimba’s words ring true but Chanda Chimba should not be praised. While his uttterances are coming to pass, they were not completely his; they were and still are a literally property of Chanda Chimba’s pay masters.
I do not trust Muhabi Lungu. He is a plant. Planted on KK, now on Nevers. His father also batted for India (MMD) and Pakistan (PF) at the same time. Now he is deputy speaker. A mango never falls far from its tree.
Chanda chimba indeed was a prophet in disguise.
Tiye tiye twende forward
You are asking to much from Sata . Only A.I.D.S ( All Individuals Doing Slaghter ) will keep Sata in his place . Brother Miyanda calls it mass action or something like that. emperor he is and should be removed the way emperors are removed .
POLITICIANS ARE NOT THE SAME.I DOUBT IF WHAT IS IN SATA`S HEAD CAN ALL FIT IN HH`S HEAD OR IN LUBINDA`S HEAD NIVIKULU LOOKING FUNNY
@UWAKAELE CHIMBA SAID YES BUT HIS CONDITIONED WORSENED AFTER WINNING OKE SORRY WE MADE A MISTAKE
Well stated Muhabi Lungu.We have an egomaniac crafting an imperial presidency with autocratic tendencies.Sata has a “know it all” attitude and thinks he’s the only human above missteps.He just wanted the presidency for prestige coz he totally lacks in leadership,ideas or vision.
Good question, who do we replace Sata with? He has dissapointed everyone including my 96 year old granny.
Anyone is better than having Sata in State House!!! Seriously!!!!
i wish i was not born in zambia bcoz of this old monkey
CHIMBWI NO PLAN