The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has exposed the shaky position by the United Party for National Development (UPND) who have objected to printing ballot papers, both in and outside Zambia.
YALI President Andrew Ntewewe who said his organisation considers the decision by Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to print ballot papers in Dubai as reasonable as Government Printers has not yet fully developed the capacity to print ballot papers, said Mr, Hichilema is on record to have opposed the printing of ballot papers locally.
“We are alive to fact that since 2017, President Lungu’s administration has constantly championed that Government Printers should be capacitated to enable it print the 2021 ballot papers. On the other hand, the UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema, on Wednesday, 22nd February, 2018, said the UPND opposes the decision to print ballot papers locally, claiming doing so would be a scheme by the Patriotic Front to steal votes.”
Mr Ntewewe charged that Mr. Hichilema is not showing any consistency on where they want 2021 ballot papers to be printed as the main opposition party neither want the voting materials printed outside Zambia or locally. He wondered where else outside the earth would ballot papers be printed to the satisfaction of the UPND.
In 2018, Mr. Hichilema had responded to the announcement in Parliament by Republican Vice President Inonge Wina that Government was working on measures to print 2021 ballot papers locally as a ploy by the Patriotic Front to rig elections and manipulate the next election.
Meanwhile, YALI said Zambians must support the decision by ECZ to halt the practice of spending colossal sums of money transporting observers to destinations where ballot papers are printed, saying the Commission must make the most of the little resources allocated towards preparing and management of the 2021 elections.
“We have noted that ECZ plans to overhaul the voters register by beginning registration in May, 2020 although we are not sure whether the available costs would meet this ambitious programs. Secondly, there have been constant reports that observers who go to monitor the printing of ballot papers don’t have a 24/7 physical presence at a printing facility but spending most of their time in hotel rooms or doing some other errands,” said Mr. Ntewewe.
YALI has encouraged parties who want to go observe the printing of ballot to take up the costs and advised ECZ to help these parties with administrative arrangements for such party-sponsored observers.
Hh is the original chimbwi no plan.
Ruling PF Andrew Ntewewe doing his thing.
These are the youth we need in society. Objective and not politically biased. Kz
When you lack education you just yap!
What money can do. Amazing. We can buy a jet but fail to sponsor observers in a very deceitful environment like ours which needs scrutiny of every little detail. And you are told that we cant stop giving mealie meal in Chilubi during bye election campaigns because it is a government program, REALLY?
Just the name Yali is a proper description of noise making in an exam. If you gave this answer to a question asking for a description of noise making you are done and just put Kaiza on the name and you are off to a 100% pass mark. Wasting money on things that don’t move the country forward like purchases of fire wheel barrows but failing to sponsor a noble civic duty which you can get credit if you win the elections though it is impossible for you to win.
Lets print ballot papers from his Kasama home. He will.be happier
@Kaizar Zulu are sure, mind you comedy has its place. Any way Li Wenliang, a medical doctor and one of the first eight people to warn the public about the novel coronavirus, has died late last night due to the infection, sparking a level of collective anger and grief unseen on Chinese social media.
MYHSRIP
Inconsistency by the Upnd. Today they say this tomorrow they say something contrary to what they said the previous day. Ninshi mufwaya kanshi?
U massaging HH by using the word “precarious”. HH is a hypocrite.
HH wants ECZ to consult Zambians on.printing of ballot papers through the church; hh wants Lungu consult Zambians when travelling out through the church; hh wants govt consult Zambians when deciding to build clinkcs through the church. What kind of leader is HH? Very dull
Remember how they protested wildly when Mutembo Nchito was about to be appointed DPP by MCS?? Today they support him, even saying they will make him AG once in powet. That’s upnd and hh for you, chibwis with no plan, the real chipante pante party.
On Wednesday February 2018 HH criticized the government for planning to print ballots boxes locally.what else do UPND want?
I meant 22nd February,Wednesday 2018
UPND as been talking about wasting Tax payers money but on this one they are silent.Who ever wants send observers to Dubai were printing of ballot papers will done must provide the cost for those people they want to send.That is a very good idea which must be supported.
Up and Down Leader does not know what he wants. Maybe he wants Zambians to advocate that tender to print ballot is awarded to him and his children. His own mouth is a danger to HH. Thank God we got brave young leaders exposing him!
I agree with YALI, the UPND and Hichilema don’t mean well. I don’t know which country they’ll govern with their kind of thinking. You can even print ballots on bond paper and still hold credible elections. What we need is honesty and it’s not one sided. All players must put Zambia first, elections shouldn’t be reduced to an exercise to remove PF or defeat Hichilema. It should a platform for people to express how they desire to be governed
Ntewewe!!! these are real PF cardaz, what poverty can do awe mwandi.
Problem with us UPND is we ve stopped thinking. Pressure of losing 2021 is making us say anything. We can’t just be putting up drama on every matter, yesterday we said this and today we say another thing.
YALI you should be focusing on the transparency of the whole process and consultation. ECZ didn’t consult stakeholders and they changed the rules to no sponsoring observers isn’t that a clear sign of something shady no wonder malawians are busy trying to lecture us about elections and integrity. The know we have a shady corrupt government who would do everything to steal an election only to crush a good economy like ours. Let ECZ be transparent and honest because the lack of these will taint whatever government wins, no body wants to work or give money to a shady government.
KZ,U ARE PRAISING NTEWEWE CZ HE TALKS WHAT YOUR MIND AND HEART WANTS TO HEAR BUT HE DOESN’T MEAN WELL. BE OBJECTIVE NTEWEWE. AFTER THAT THEY EVEN GIVE U KICK BACK BENE KZ. WAKE UP AND THESE SAME PEOPLE BENE KZ AND HIS GROUP WILL FLEE AND LEAVE U IN TROUBLE. CAREFULL WITH WHAT U SAY. GOD IS WATCHING. KZ,SEER1 HAS EXPOSED U PEOPLE THAT YOUR LEADERSHIP IS FULL OF CHARM. IN THE PRETEXT THAT U ARE CHRISTIAN. GOD IS NOT YOUR COUSIN. SEAT AND THINK THAT YOU HAVE DESTROYED DEMOCRACY. Y SHOULD JUST A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MONEY HUNGRY AND WANTING TO LIVE EXPENSIVE LIVES LIKE BENE KZ THEY DON’T MEAN WELL. BOSS,KZ U WILL REMEMBER OUR ADVISE WHEN YOU WILL BE IN HOT SOUP. YOUR TIME IS CATCHING UP WITH YOUR FRIENDS. MIND U NO ONE WILL SYMPATHISE WITH U.YOU,ARE ON YOUR OWN.
HH is just okay. The panic from all these PF paid surrogates is fear of loosing that revenue base they get from the PF, remember we are in a high unemployment country. They will and have tried hard to demonise HH at all costs. What has HH not gone through in this country, even treason for a road offence where the man was not even the driver. I am PF but an objective and sober minded character
It is a Shame that YALI purports to represent the youths in the country such organisations that always suck the balls of their masters who pay them don’t mean well for the country. while such useless organisations have been quiet on many issues of government misusing money they have however been quick to point out very little silly things that have to do with the UPND. YALI is quiet on the campaigns taking place in Chilubi, YALI was quiet on the fire truck purchases, and many other things. YALI only came to be because they are puppets to the PF thats why they are quick to jump to PF’s defense even when we know PF is in the wrong. YALI has never been objective in the way they come out on issues affecting the country and because of the Above that is why the youth in Zambia will never hold…
I am PF but I don’t even know why we are entertaining organizations like YALI who only came to us for refuge after having had issues with the law over some donor money. And because as PF we are desperate, we entertain them