moment shortly before addressing the Zambian Living in Angola
Dear Mr. President,
I actually don’t like writing these letters. However, the way you have been running my beloved country has prompted me to do so. By the way, this is free advice. I have written a similar letter to your mentor Rupiah Banda when he was misbehaving at Statehouse. He never listened and look where he ended up. I did the same to Sata and well….Anyway, Mr. President I hope you are feeling better and wish you a quick recovery so that you can get back to the business of running the country.
First and foremost, it is very disappointing the type of people that you are surrounding yourself and appointing in senior government positions. Some of these people were retired on national interest by your predecessor. It’s my assumption that the government and Zambian people were no longer interested in their services. You have totally abused your nomination powers in parliament by appointing people with the least qualifications. You could have better used these powers to go to the ends of the earth and fish out some of the best brains Zambians has but alas you choose to nominate people over a glass of beer.
[pullquote]You have totally abused your nomination powers in parliament by appointing people with the least qualifications.[/pullquote]
Have you really run out of Zambians to appoint? You have done the same in many other government departments as well as the Zambian embassies. Could you please save the dignity of mother Zambia? For once, it will be nice to talk to a Zambian representative who speaks English. It will be nice to have people abroad that are working hard to foster long-lasting relationship with other countries and bring multinational corporations to come and invest in Zambia. Mr. President these people exist and are available to help if you look past your buddies and PF. If you need help I can always send you some names.
Mr. President, I really question if you will be effective and efficient in your new position. If I recall, you were the Minister of Justice as well as the Minister of Defense as recent as a couple of months ago. During that time, you oversaw the operations of the DPP office. You are telling the country today that the DPP abused his office while you were the minister? How did this happen? Don’t you think that this really looks bad on your CV?
There are many things that I think are a disaster already in your government but I would hate to give you another migraine. I suggest that you devote your next 15 months in office to delivering a good constitution to this country. I would assume that having been in a constitution crisis yourself last October, you would now want to clean that mess up. It just makes sense for you to strengthen things up, don’t you think?
Mr. President, you must realize that time is not on your side. If you are a lawyer, that you claim to be, you will pick up that document dust it up nice and clean and actually read it. I don’t mind if you go to Chichele again and take with you a few bottles of whiskey. I am willing to donate one bottle of Jack Daniels, after all this is for good cause. Spend a week there with a few other lawyers from Law Association of Zambia. Digest the document. Go into the future with the document. How will it be relevant in 2064? Ensure that this will be a document that will stand the test of time. You will come back from Chichele enlightened just like Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai with a new constitution for the people of Israel. People of Zambia will love you.
I am sure you will agree with me that the constitution is paramount to strengthening our democracy in this country. It’s a new constitution that will create adequate checks and balances on the executive. It’s a new constitution that will ensure that the legislature and the judiciary are independent. It’s the same document that will stop the politicians from abusing the police and all other illegal powers that they give themselves. It will give us a running mate. I know that if your party had passed this document you would not be president but think about Zambia at large and the big picture. This document is long overdue. I hope that you will do the right thing and jumpstart this process.
I will now end here but thank you for taking the time to read my free advice. It’s the little I can do for my country. If you feel like getting the constitutional roadmap started this weekend, even better. Let me know if you would need some JD and will gladly send it over. All the best. Remember running Zambia is not easy. You have to be stay safe and strong. Safety kuisunga we mwine.
Sincerely,
Wesley Ngwenya
Good piece of advice for
A profound discourse Wesley Nwenya. Hope Edgar Lungu heeds to this free advice.
Well done for telling Lungu some facts, otherwise his cadres are living in the dwellings of denial.
The economy is failing the country & Lungu is being mislead by recycled materials in politics of Zambia.
By the way, can the Lungu entourage send back RDA chairman Willie Nsanda back to UTH where they have neglected the institution please.
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Iwe..this is trash; why would Wesley want the president to appoint his relatives?..to the contrary he is trying to sway the president to go byhis own programs as if he is the presidential advisor or private secretary..grow up
Wesley Ngwenya, another yapper like Mushota. You are not serious yourself, Wesley, for spending too much time talking about beer and whiskey, Jack Daniels, etc
Your so called advice is fragmented, scrappy and lacks depth. You should have been concise instead of giving us a verbiage that waffles.
I am sure you have no idea how govt runs
Wesley Ngwenya, you have not done justice here. Be bold and give advice as it should be. In the majority of your text above you have not come out straight and this makes your advice nothing to go by. In the case of DPP you are spot on. This line of argument should have been used throughout the letter.
Wesly ngenya from zimbabwe. We dont need your advse. Have a good day
Cape Town – Zambian leader Edgar Lungu, who is in South Africa for medical tests and possible surgery after he was diagnosed with a blocked windpipe, says he will quit office if his health continues to deteriorate.
“We are coming from a history of having lost two heads of states in office and I think the nation is anxious to know the state of their president, and I thought it’s imperative to come out and explain to them where we are, and if I’m unfit for office I will tell them that sorry, I can’t continue,” Lungu told the SABC on Tuesday.
Did Wesley Ngwenya hear that Edgar is sick, how can you write such a condemnation letter to a patient? It is period to write about Edgar’s a cross with Jesus.
Imwe mwe bantu, DPP if has done wrong let him face the music. If not he will come out scot free. Let us not put names above the law. DPP is a person like all of us can fall prey to temptations against the law. Already we have DBZ/Zambian airways issue. So let the law take its course.
I will not comment on nominated MPs since i have not studied their qualifications, but Mwanakatwe, Mulenga Sata, Simbyakula, among the 8 nominated MP are very qualified citizens of Zambia.
Qualification is not only academic. In fact management encourages leadership above other traits because leadership brings out the best performance in people. Of course right people need to be in right places and (though the writer has not indicated which people and position are wrongly married) EL should look into it.
WE WANT A NEW CONSTITUTION NOW! VIVA NEW CONSTITUTION. LUNGU SHOULD STEP DOWN. ZAMBIA DOESN’T NEED ANOTHER FUNERAL OF A DEAD PRESIDENT. LUNGU IS SICK AND CANNOT FUNCTION AS PRESIDENT. WE ADVISED SATA AND HIS BLIND SUPPORTERS, BUT THEY DIDN’T WANT TO LISTEN. IT’S YOUR CHOICE TO FOLLOW OUR ADVISE, AND THE CONSEQUENCES ARE YOURS.
This article is very shallow with a lot of verbiage without substance albeit the demand for a new constitution and personal insults to ECL. It is obvious you support Nchito and the cartel. At least in two months ECL as Head of State has sorted the cartel. Sata was in cahoot with the cartel of Membe, Kabimba, Mahtani, Nchito etc who appointed their cadres to the foreign service. ECL has started to dismantle the rot built by the cartel hence the insults from the Post and ZWD
Ah! What fools we are! Is this not the Ngwenya we know on ZWD? Who does he think he’s fooling? Okay, let’s leave names aside. When you read this article with more care, you’ll notice one thing – no facts. “it is very disappointing the type of people that you are surrounding yourself and appointing in senior government positions…” Who? He doesn’t say. “You have totally abused your…powers…by appointing people with the least qualifications…” Who and without what qualifications? He doesn’t state. “…you were the Minister of Justice…you oversaw…DPP office…the DPP abused his office while you were the minister?” For how long was EL in the Ministry? Wasn’t it the Nchito’s fellow cartel member Kabimba the Minister there? We know Ngweya = UPND. You could do better though. Go to…
On top of recommended individuals is Wesley Ngwenya. Most of the so called’advice’ lacks depth and real meaningful advice.
Author of this letter, be sensible and human. You don’t just wake up from bed and post such rubbish you call advice. Don’t attack person, argue constructively and people will then respect and take you seriously. I don’t just like people with emotional immaturity insulting others. Do to no one what you you wouldn’t like anybody do to you, says the Lord. Good day ba so called, Advisor
Chile
Its exactly what you’re doing! Typical PF cadre mentality always in denial.
Remain in denial whilst the economy of the country is nothing else but decaying because of mediocre leadership.
I’m not shocked by your insinuations b’coz PF cadres are pathetic to comprehend real issues.
Wake up early from your slumber Chile please!
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You people do not waste your time responding to this rubbish from Ngwenya. I know the fool he always writes without thinking.
Ba Ngwenya mulibe nzelu. Someting is totally wrong with you? Are you on this planet? Who, in their right frame of mind would support Nchito? Only corrupt people like Ngwenya or Fred Mmembe will do that. Ngwenya shut the f.. up
Wow Mr Ngwenya dats a very good advise take it or leave it
opinionated letter with dry jocks.
if you want P Lungu to run the country the way you would have done I am sorry you are wrong. even if it were you in government with the same names that you have in your mind workin with you it wouldn’t have been a perfect government too.
grow up.
Personally i think Mr.Ngwenya is spot on and i think its good piece of advice. …
And what was the advice. Sorry I didn’t read anything about advice in the article.
Very useless article,ba Lusaka times be ethical and stop publishing slandering materials on your site.
Iwe fyabupuba ifyo naiwe ,free advice kwisa when u jus insultin our president,chi colour u shd even learn hw to write correct english
rubbish letter You are just talking about beer Dont you know that the best deals are born in bars. Such letters should be edited and given to your wife in your bedroom then you read together. Coz apparently thats all you can do in your bedroom sit and read
He is not Ngwenya, he he Hangwenya, his article is one piece of trash.
The suspension of nchito is ill timed. Who wouldn’t think he is become a victim of circumstances, especially that he is key in RB’s prosecution? is someone dealing with all obstacles to RBs freedom?
Nonsense…..malabishi….
The worst advice ever rendered to someone. Please if you are doing it for UPND, then you have done them a big disservice. Be wise my brother and please try next time to be objective. If the DPP did those wrongs and some people new, it does not mean everyone new those offences he committed. Certainly, you cannot blame it on any person if they decide against the wrong doer in future because they were overseeing them. However, i do understand. During the run-up to January 2015 by-elections, Wesley Ngwenya was pro-UPND and surely cannot offer any meaningful advice. Whatever he says is to destroy the perceived enemies. You will fail my brother if you think in those lines. Sleep over what you said and retract because majority of Zambians now are very objective and enlightened.
Mr Hangwenya, please do not insult our time. I will not talk about our brains because this is surely time wasting. Why go to that length when you can simplify your idiocy by merely admitting you are UPND. Be real. DPP and Mmembe knows no boundary nor sympathizers. Yes the Constitution has taken long but who is procrastinating now? Is it not Sara Longwe and her cohorts.
President is elected to come up with his own team not what you (the unelected) want. The problem is you think that democracy is to think and decide for the president. This is what Mmembe does. Zambians choose a president, he appoints himself to rebuke Zambians by insulting the peoples choice, the President. We cannot allow this to continue.
Useless piece. Get a life!
This advice is all rubbish and does not make sense at all.The constitution should be adopted through a referendum which we can not afford now due to financial constraints and time before the 2016 elections. This can be done after the elections and for now let us adopt some contentious issue through Parliament though people like you will still cry foul cause the opposition is in the minority so it favour the party in power.On appointments please Zambians let’s get real,we are all Zambians whether in opposition or not for as long as we can build and take Zambia forward we should not call each other names.Its not an individual task,but every concerned Zambian.I don’t agree with individuals who champions that when in power they will do wonders to change things in Zambia for a better living.
Ba Ireen Mambilima,Mugabe,your group and whoever was involved in making your relative a President, are you not ashamed of how much you are now costing the majority of Zambians on the expense of you greed, evil, injustice just for wanting positions??? The God of justices always has s listening ear!! President Obama says Africans are very difficulty to help!!!!! because they put anybody in office even those who are not suppose to be presidents!! SHAME!!!!SHAME!! who upon all those calling themselves BEMBAS in the name of tribalism!! Those cards(poor Zambians) used cease your attitude, do the right thing for a better Zambia please!!
What are you really saying? You’re completely incomprehensible. Try the local dialect!
Wesley, Alcoholism is a disease and it is very insensitive and totally uncalled for to mock a person who may be having this condition. If the President was suffering from lung cancer, would you say to him, ‘I don’t mind if you go to Chichele again and take with you a few packs of cigarettes. I am willing to donate one packet of Peter Stuyvesant, after all this is for good cause.’ Or if he had HIV, ‘I don’t mind if you go to Chichele again and take with you a few prostitutes. I am willing to pay for one, after all this is for good cause.’
Thank you Wesley for being bold and tell this president who doesn’t seem to know what he is doing. Anyway we can understand when one is not very well, it is difficult to make the right decisions. I think this job is too stressful for EL.
What a narrow opinionated piece of article littered with, as someone here said “dry jokes”. Are you really offering names for the president to appoint to his cabinet ?
What makes you think your names are better than what the president has selected.And who said if you drink you then cant do a competent job.You are so out of touch with life and stuck up in your delusional world.Get a life and stay in your lane.
Why would the president elected by the majority people of Zambia came to you a “key board warrior” for advice on who to appoint into cabinet?
Mr Ngwenya, that is your opinion and not mine and that of many other Zambians. As far as I am concerned, ECL is on the right track so far. He is spot on regarding DPP, that is the way to go, Zambia cannot afford to have someone carrying so much baggage as its DPP, are there no better Zambians than that shame of the cartel? If the allegations are false he will come out clean. If not, which is more likely as we now know from his behaviour and shameless nolles even for his friends, then so be it! Let’s have British type of DPP who can step aside on their own if they are suspected to be wanting.
what a useless post! who did the president who u think is useless? is a emmanuel mwamba ? i think banankonko aba.