United Party for National Development (UPND) Kasenengwa aspiring parliamentary candidate in the August general elections, Titus Miti has died.
UPND Kasenengwa District Chairperson Wickson Lungu confirmed the death to ZANIS in an interview that Mr Miti died this morning at Chipata Central Hospital after a short illness.
Mr Lungu said the party is devastated by the untimely death of Mr Miti who contributed a lot to the growth of the party in the district.
Mr Miti who was an engineer by profession was born in 1967.
Sincere condolences to the upnd and this mans family and friends. It is times like this we need to stop politicising deaths and come together as one. I hope you rethink your strategy and join hands with us. Amen
Politicians are busy gathering in big numbers and campaigning not knowing they are risking their own lives.
Unfortunate loss of life.
Sad news. RIP
COVID is really causing havoc in Zambia.
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This disease is repeating what HIV AIDS did in the 1980s. It took away so many of Zambia’s learned men and women, the bread winners and the higher contributors to the economy. With AIDS at least, the path to death was long and the time was used by the survivors to prepare. This is not going to happen this time. Death is quick and so many people will be caught unprepared. There will be debts unpaid. The thing is that even people who are masking, sanitising and keeping social distancing will slip up once in a while and that one time may prove fatal. The country MUST come together and solve this problem once and for all. The Medicines Regulatory Authority MUST licence Ivermectin, proxalutamide, povidon-iodine and many others for use against this disease. The vaccines are too few.
Condolences to the Miti and UPND Alliance Family. Death is not predictable. Between now and August 12 we don’t know which Presidential, MP and Councillor Candidate will die. ECZ needs to adopt a modus Operandi of replacing dead Candidates. The practical approach to this problem is to simply ask UPND Alliance to Nominate a Replacement since its within 30 days of the Election of August 12. Surely a Presidential Candidate who withdraws from the Race should fall by the wayside and those Candidates proceeding with the Race should not be prejudiced.
Another politician died from Covid-19! KZ why don’t you accept responsibility in the name of the failing MoH, part of the failing PF government, lead by the failing Edgar China Lungu? PF: Lying about everything, not delivering anything!
The Covid-19 Pandemic is finishing us.People are dying like flies. What is Govt doing about this second wave? Are we now reaping the failure to lockdown the Economy, increase testing,contact tracing and quarantine/isolation? The Head of State is quiet. Is he okay or he is in Quarantine? By now all the frontline workers should have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Instead of wasting Money on useless PF Cadre Empowerment Deals we should have bought PPEs for the Frontline workers. Now Drs and Nurses are dying. Covid-19 is a lethal disease but in Zambia it hasn’t been managed well. The writing is on the wall.
Condolences. So it’s another cancelled election. Instead of just the Party on whose ticket he filed his nomination to nominate a replacement, all candidates will have to resubmit their nominations and each has to pay the non refundable nomination fee of K15,000. The PF gathered multitudes at Hero’s Stadium from all over the country for Edgar sign a useless document called 2016 Constitution. The UPND marshalled all its members to shoot down Bill 10 that sought to address some of these useless clauses because to them the Constitution was just fine. These 2 are currently Zambia’s worst disasters
As upnd with or without corona we wil go flat out and campaign,hh will fix it.Are you still saying the same thing?May the soul of Mr.Miti rest in peace.Uwa fitala akaimwena says HH.
Edgar signed the constitution because the civil society and the opposition made it a campaign tool and thought he would not sign it for fear of 50+1 and running mate clause and they insisted he signs it the way it was drafted without changing anything in it and so he gave the people what they wanted. The loss was on bill 10 which could have ironed out all the lacunas but because of greed we’re bound with the defective and costly constitution when the MPs had time and mandate to amend.
The death of MP Candidates in Mandevu and Kasenengwa prejudices the Political Parties who nominated the late Candidates. The prejudiced Parties should be allowed to Nominate Replacements. We don’t see why Political Parties which are not affected by the deaths should be affected. There is no need to Cancel all Nominations. They should just ask the affected Political Party to Nominate a Replacement Candidate within 30 days. As for Lusaka Central we don’t see the need for ECZ to Cancel all Nominations. The Independent Candidate withdrew from the Race and this shouldn’t prejudice other Candidates sponsored by other Parties. An Independent Candidate represents himself/herself and has no Party to resign from. The Cancellation of Nomination by ECZ is erroneous and should be withdrawn…
Yeah, true that @David. People seem to forget so easily. The same people who showered insults @Winter Kabimba when he warned about the many lacunas in the Constitution that needed fixing before it could be signed into law are the same “losers” who are complaining about the Constitution today. They are not even ashamed!
These same people insisted that the 2016 elections MUST be held under the new Constitution, and Edgar Lungu should NEVER think about tinkering with anything in the document. Yes, like you have rightly stated @David, they turned it into a campaign issue. Therefore, Edgar Lungu promised to sign it into law the moment he got elected, and so he did. So what the h3ll are you people complaining about today? You got what you wanted. You campaigned against Bill 10 (just like…
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you did against the BILL OF RIGHTS) which could have fixed some of these inconsistencies in the Constitution. But shortsightedness and myopic politics took over, and we are where we are today because of s!lly politics. Don’t forget that!
We need a discussion of men over this COVID-19. If those medicines Dr Ngoma has advised above work, let powers that be allow their use. Let no one die quietly at home hoping that steaming is the answer. An old man died last night at home in my neighborhood. Family says he had a short illness and was failing to breath and they kept on steaming him. Sounds familiar!