A plot to expel former Defence Minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba from the ruling Patriotic Front has been exposed and is reported to have reached an advanced stage.
The provincial leadership has asked party officials in Kasama constituency and district to officially write to the provincial executive committee complaining that GBM had put the name of the party and President Michael Sata into disrepute.
PF officials who met last week on Thursday at Kasama Municipal Council Chambers discussed among other issues the divisions that have rocked the party in the area as a result of the decision by President Michael Sata’s government not to recognise Paramount Chief Chitimukulu Henry Kanyanta Sosala and the subsequent resignation of Mwamba from cabinet.
The officials said that the only way to go over the current situation was to expel GBM from the party, adding that suspension alone of the former minister would not help the party as he was still strong and able to mobilise using party structures especially in the constituency.
“We also asked the leadership as to why the provincial leadership had shown keen interest in the matter before the constituency and district could lodge a complaint against the former minister? But nobody answered that apart from telling us that they were also following instructions left by the ministers who visited Kasama last week,” said one of the officials. But PF Kasama District youth secretary Chanda Nsofu has warned the party leadership to abandon the scheme as it would work against the leadership in the region.
The expulsion will automatically mean that Mwamba ceases to be Kasama Central Member of Parliament.
Under the scheme, the Northern Province executive committee is expected to charge Mwamba with conduct that has brought the name of the party and the President into disrepute.
The plot involves some named senior provincial officials who will coerce the constituency and district officials to present a petition to the province for GBM’s expulsion.
However Mwamba has reiterated that he had nothing wrong in the party, for the leadership to unleash attacks on him and his family, adding that he was still a member of the PF and would continue supporting President Sata.
The officials however said that some party officials at the province were looking forward to the expulsion because they had not been adopted to contest the Kasama Central seat in the last parliamentary election.
The officials also revealed that party officials felt that GBM had a hidden agenda which was detrimental to the progression of PF in the region.
“Nangula umwana mung’anda tatulolela abafyashi abaume ukuti bese balande nankwe na nyina kuti a muchita discipline. So even us we can go ahead to discipline GBM pantu nabika inshina lya party muchifulunganya. People think that there is no leadership in the party. Can ba GBM honestly do what he has done if at all he doesn’t want to defect?” one of the officials in the meeting said.
But Nsofu said that GBM was not a blind loyalist like some of the ministers in the PF.
“GBM is not a blind loyalist and that is why he resigned as minister of defence after seeing that President Sata had refused to gazette Paramount Chief Chitimukulu. Blind loyalists have lead presidents to destruction.
“Blind loyalists destroyed Kaunda’s government. Blind loyalists destroyed Chiluba’s government. Blind loyalists destroyed RB’s government. For Zambia to develop efficiently we need alert loyalists like GBM, ,” said Nsofu. Nsofu said that Bembas were not happy with the way Paramount Chief Chitimukulu was being treated by government.
Yawn ! Am now getting tired of this GBM and PF issue.
This is not a trivial matter my friend. The stance GBM has taken has a potential to extict PF. The PF is nothing without Bemba support, I mean nothing..
And as far as we’re concerned Sata needs to sober-up start working as he should and only concentrate on matters that concern him. On our MwineLubemba, we’ve already made a choice, we just don’t care who likes or doesn’t like him.
In 2014 – Sata ninkulungwe alya mwaka umo. KuLubemba, ekasako.
GBM news sales and is attractive to readers at the moment. PF is aware that the collapse of Bemba support in the North, will trigger Luapula, Copperbelt and Lusaka in areas with many Bemba speakers and loyalists. Moreover, Southern is HH and Western is a tricky customer, Eastern is RB sympathisers not happy with the way the Satanist is treating the former leader. The other provinces will be tricky in 2016. I cant wait to see Sata and The post being treated with the justice they deserve.
Me Too
But no one is fircing to read it! Do you really have a bit of brains left?
Sata has opened a pandoras’ box and unleashed the black wasps that will consume him alive.
Despite the fact that chi GBM ni mbifi nayo, easily GBM can work well with HH, he is an intelligent chap, despite his low education levels, which do not matter. With HH he can transform himself into a credible leader, escalate his astute business skills. He has a conscious and admits wrongs, a great leadership competence. Under Sata Claus, he had a wrong role model. With HH he will understand the concept of making clean money like HH has, both are already wealthy anyway. GBM has got a great political future if he plays his cards well. He should wait for PF to expel him, as that will give him sympathy popularity and then make the right pronouncements. This is a case of Uhuru and Ruto. God bless Zambia.
I cannot agree more with Nsofu. GBM, you have our blessings. We need leaders like you and will for that matter vote for your as President.
We already have our MwineLubemba, and it’s not for anyone no matter how insane they claim to be to say otherwise.
I am really buffed at just how much of “lost sheep” we are in Zambia. How does someone “reason with, later on justify such a meeting?” A man wishes to dethrone, your own paramount chief, without advancing any credible, or otherwise, reasons for it and you see sense in defending him. And among the collective empty heads, they concur that GBM has put the name of the party and “wamuyayaya” into disrepute when infact it is Sata who has brought disputes into their kingdom. I wonder where the preamble to the meeting started. Was it at GBM’s resignation or Sata’s interference? Calling this lot “Blind followers” is being kind to these “belly politicians”… Nsofu is on cue..and there is no way Sata can come out victorious in this. Let him ask Miles Sampa…on picking the wrong battles.
The person that needs to be expelled is SATA, he has brought confusion in the country with his decrees and actions. The man has never followed procedure from day 1 of his appointment. There is no issue that has gone under parliamentary debate and approval….now he wants to manipulate the constitution. SATA is the devil we need to get rid off at the earliest possible time.
I am not a GBM fan because ni dugude wansele, but what name has President SATA has to safeguard sure?
I hope Sata and PF know that any action taken in panic or haste is invariably regretted later.
@Law101, that is true for GBM. He made a haste desicion he will regret in no distant future.
JUST try IT TO EXPEL GBM AND LUMINDA
Who is Luminda? You don’t even know what you are talking about. Dull like your Grade 5 Mwamba
The arguments being advanced by the anti-GBM elements are very hollow. Do they know that this is 2014 and that by 2015 the political landscape will be rough for PF. Have they honestly assessed the mental health of their President who has exhibited the worst kind of insults against the Bemba Chiefs.
Ha, Koma a Bemba ni vindele/vipuba. (Ala ba Bemba Fipuba), mwasebana just for a few newly introduced Nwgees.
The behaviour of the ant-GBM PF members will make Simon Kapwepwe, Titus Mukupo and Robert Makasa and several other perished genuine Freedom Fighters etc turn in their graves. Ala mwe ba Bemba mwatola mupamba ukalamba. God Hear Our Prayers.
I love a conspiracy as much as the next guy but if this is where energy is placed then someone cannot see the wood for the trees. Don’t particularly care about any politician but the man has walked so move on. Revenge is a waste of resource, time lost and an opportunity to feel good about doing something bad. None of you politicians have time for this but then again that’s the job description… say and do anything that boosts ego, pay check and profile, deny everything that catches you out and pretend everything you do is not self serving but for the greater good… Wish you’d all grow up the minute you win a vote but no… Egos rule…sadly
Do it quickly kabili for this story to move on.
Cant see any wrong in GBM resigning. Chamukalipa shani bafikala
Chamukalipa because he has such a huge ego and does not take kindly to rejection!! Ask Dr. Kaseba. The man doesn’t rest until you take him back!!
KEY ISSUE?Blind loyalists….
Lubinda
GBM and Lubinda shall join MMD and finish Sata off.
Come 2016, sata will not have the power and energy to go to all provinces to campaign. He will be be so tired and then we will see who will do the campaign. This is the beginning of the end for pf
Apparently there is a new “hot dog” on the State House menu that is getting people intoxicated with an effect like marijuana. The “hot dog” is called “cork burger”. The cork burger is disgusting to eat, as you can tell, there is little left to the imagination regarding the ingredients but the only plus side on why it has become popular with one individual is that it prolongs life for prostate cancer patients!
but chimuda Chi Sata can’t really understand issues.We bemba speaking people are not happy with him.He can’t take us for granted as if we worship him jst becuase he speaks bemba.He’ll loose in 2016.Bemba speaking people are united and can’t let nonsense to continue of intimidating Chitimukulu.He should know that.We are very different from other tribes.If we say it’s over it’s over.let him listen before it’s too late.He’ll never win elections in Southern,western,northwestern,central and parts of Lusaka.But if He continue intimidating bembas then no one will support him.People who sorrounds him are jst cheating him.They are telling him to fix bembas so that other tribes can see that he is a president of all Zambians.He is mistaken.Bemba speaking people are very influentual in…
LEAVE GBM ALONE HE MADE A VERY HARSH DECISION TO RESIGN BU MINISTER. PLEASE LEAVE HIM ALONE.HE WILL NEVER JOIN MMD HE IS GOING TO JOIN FATHER BWALYA,S ABZ.
But even a Rat smells a thick plot in this Thriller even before the winds begin to shift! GBM what an important leading actor….. who could have guessed?
@cindy
I new that GBM would throw in a towel after Sata’s silence on the issue and openly supporting Kabimba. I have always maintained that Sata can not get rid of Kabimba because he holds a mine field of info that might implicate him more than GBM.
@Wanzelu,
I admit you were on target! Chimanibaba when I still think about Ka Kabimba.
The A Team.
WHY IS EVERYTHING DONE THROUGH SMOKE AND MIRRORS?
NOBODY HAS EXPLAINED WHY SATA DOES NOT WANT CHANDA SOSALA TO BE CHIEF CHITIMUKULU.
A MAN CHOSEN BY HIS OWN PEOPLE!!
GBM WILL DO WELL TO JOIN UPND AND WORK WITH THE ABLE H.H PERIOD.