FORMER Government Chief Whip Steve Chungu says the suspension of three Constitutional judges has come being done at a wrong time by President Hakainde Hichilema.
Mr Chungu said soon in the next 15 to 16 months Zambia’s Parliament would be going into dissolution and election would be called.
” The timing is wrong in the first place in the next 15 ,16 months there would be dissolution of Parliament and elections would called and if we were to turn the cost into the institutions that will be deciding on who should be the president of this country or who should not be a, candidate it is quite unfortunate because I am of the view that all these things should be left to the people of Zambia,” He said
Mr Chungu said , the former Head of State , Edgar Lungu has the fundamental rights to contest for the top most job in the country.
He said the democratic space in Zambia has continued to shrink in the country under the New Dawn Administration.
He said Zambia is no longer a democratic county saying that rights of people have been taken away under the UPND regime.
Mr Chungu appealed to the UPND Government to practice the law of rule that they practice people of Zambia when in opposition.
” The voters card can not be intimidated, let them go back to the drawing board, and do what they promised the people of Zambia” he said.
He further said that the one year that the UPND has before the general elections should be utilised in addressing various challenges that the people of Zambia are currently facing.
Mr Chungu who is also a former Luanshya Member of Parliament said making people work for food is not a solution.
“The cost of living is just too high it is unfordable by more than 90 ,96 percent it is out of reach, let them concentrate on finding solutions to the problems people are facing,” he said.
He said the money that Government is paying people ( Cash for Work) after work is free, adding that Zambia has become a laughing stock by countries that donated the money for the program.
Ba Chungu, what are you saying? The chap is all over the place, with poor English!
If you want to taste the true character of a person give him power…..UPND has been under the Supreme leader Ayatollah HH since the untimely death of Anderson Kambale Mazoka….this tells you alot about HH…a power hungry pompwe….and HH will only leave office via revolution …this man wants to rule Zambia forever
Too much power in one man’s hand is dangerous. Give an African power & he thinks he is a god. upnd has been given a rope (power) to hang themselves with & they have done a great job at that!!!!
No that is true about the whole of mankind. Any man with excess power becomes a small god who thinks he cant be touched by anyone. The frail looking Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema is feared like a God.
The North Korean President Kim whose family has been in power the past 76 years rules by decree all the time. Donald Trump wanted to emulate Kim but for the US population’s addiction to capitalism and its kind of democracy. Paul Biya in Cameroon thinks his pact is with God not the people
Zambians we love mulomo, just 3 years ago we kick out ba Lungu and today we want him back and for what? The former is not fighting to improve the lives of zambians but to get back the properties the government has ceased from hes children. There are is some much unnecessary in the country which is driven by nothing morons. If we really want to drive this economy lets participart in grocery business because it has been taken over by foreigner…and most Zambians are just consumers which is very bad for the economy.
Honestly guys u need to think. What HH is doing at the moment is not right. This man should seek advice before making a decision and is not suppose to take people for granted and also put in mind that people of Zambia change fast from what see and hear.
So the JCC didnt HH advice? They recieved a compliant, verified the facts and make a decision. Recommending to HH inline with law. A law that was amended in 2016 to create the JCC.
Now if Lungu was signing the constitution blindly. The same blind law is visiting him in his blind state and being effected.
As they say what goes around comes around…
The amended law in 2016 that created the JCC missed a chance to democratise the Judiciary. If I had been in Zambia I was going to ask these constitutional reviewers to autonomise the Judiciary. You cant create a Judiciary Commission that the President should continue supervising. You havent changed anything!
Lungu was never on the ball with democracy. He doesnt understand it until he is on the other side and sees how it can assist him-and every other citizen for that matter. It is the same with the Ministry of Information. It is obsolete in a democracy. It supervises ZNBC making it a State Broadcaster. Democracies dont have State Broadcasters. They have Public Broadcasters. Ask your journalists to tell you the difference.
All is fine, why are you people busy complaining about everything. If I remember very well in 2016 when the other camp had a case in court not heard during your party rule you celebrated all over our cities, now it’s your turn to test your own medicine. Just move, without you we still eat our nshima even yesterday we did eat nshima and tomorrow we will continue. Mwanfwa efyo funfwika just go cry alone sir.
As far as I am concerned any time is good for caging a suspected criminal as long as we have gathered enough evidence to prosecute. It is at the end of the day which side one is on. There are no good reason to keep judges suspected of bad behavior in their positions. It is surprising how some Zambians even lawyers have been commenting on this case that is being dealt with by competent authorities. Most likely we are truly not one nation.
Both camps, same same, draw draw, same difference