Justice Deputy Minister Keith Mukata has resigned from Government to join the opposition UPND.
Mr. Mukata who is MMD Chilanga Member of Parliament says he tendered his letter of resignation to State House this morning.
And Kafue PF MP Obvious Mwaliteta has quit the government for the opposition UPND.
Speaking at a media briefing where he was welcomed to the UPND by party President Hakainde Hichilema today, Mr. Mukata says his resignation has been dictated by his conscious.
Mr. Mukata says there is currently no better leader to become the next republican president other than UPND President Hakainde Hichilema.
Mr. Mukata has since apologized to Mr. Hichilema for having previously campaigned against him saying he had been casting his fishing net wrongly.
And Mr. Hichilema has described Mr. Mukata’s resignation from government and the subsequent joining of the UPND as an indication of united Zambians are in their resolve to remove the ruling Patriotic Front from power in this year’s elections.
Mr. Hichilema says his party is expecting more of such resignations as the August 11th general election draw near.
Meanwhile MMD Members of Parliament who supported Mr. Hichilema in the 20th January, 2016 presidential elections have reaffirmed their endorsement of the UPND leader’s candidature in this year’s elections.
These include among other Mumbwa Member of Parliament Brian Chituwo and his counterparts for Liuwa, Nalikwanda and Ikeleng’i Situmbeko Musokotwane, Geoffrey Lungwangwa and Elijah Muchima respectively.
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We all make mistakes. Only the wise and those of integrity are big enough to apologise. So we accept your apology. I heard this news days ago from our internal support officer and am glad to welcome you to a forward thinking party. I will be travelling back to zambia end of this month once I conclude funding activities here in cold Europe. I hate the cold but for my country I will.go to whatever measures to bring sanity in governance. Vote upnd and we thank you.
Nez live from Aberdeen
Chief strategist of the upnd
No grade 12 cert no adoption, not even DCs. Doomed UPND
Haha,you must be joking,A lawyer without G12 certificate?
UPND has quality educated aspiring candidates.pf is full of thugs.
where are the patriotic f.o.o.l.s supporters? folding their loud t.a.i.l.s? no comments? shocked about the wind of change?
Bantu botwe twlimishiba akale Amano yenu. Among the fools endorsing kachema no 1 is bemba. Gogogo super bemba and ngonis let them pack for good. Tribalism eyo balya.
Iwe tribalist behave yourself ai. Wen PF was parading maxwell Mwale last week and praising him for ditching upnd and joining PF I didn’t hear you call him a tribalist! So just sit down and wait for 11 August wen you will weep. Who told u that if a lozi, luvale, Linda or kaonde joins upnd then it’s tribalism? Have respect for other tribes, you are not more important than the rest of us. SIT DOWN
Weep for what? Change if government? Where you born yesterday? Governments will change a thousand times over. The only one who cries is hakainde coz rupiah cried after missing the seat. Unless you feed from them. If crying was a norm, then all you hakaindeans will have been shedding your semen by now coz your tears would have dried by 2011.
One more cry as at 11/08 when you shall finally become Muntangans after you pack your serial loser of 23years.
So mwaliteta has decided to defect from pf to jo4n upnd because of the grade 12 requirement? Does he think he will be adopted under upnd ticket? What a dull young man. Whether u are in upnd, pf or mmd, the requirement is the same. In any case i did not hear mwaliteta speaking in parliament. Obviously this had something to do with his limited grammar due to his low level of education. Shame on u. U are still young. Just imr
I meant mwaliteta is still young. Let him just improve his education
Tribalism is working what more if they are in power
Kikikikikikiki………thís is the last we are hearing of some MP’s. Viva PF and ECL.
WHAT IS THE NEWS HERE? are these not the same MMD MPs that supported UPND in 2015…?
As for Mwaliteta.. well his friends from PF are gone, i.e. Scott, Miles, gbm, Kabimba and that woman from Chongwe… and we all know that, they were the mouthpiece of the cartel in State House.
So there is no News here. and by the way, Governments never lose elections in Africa, unless there is an all people driven revolution (e.g 1991 & 2011) and NOT A TRIBE and COUSINSHIP (mbuyas) one, as was the case in 2015. I’m not a betting man, but if I were to put my house on who is going to win in August, I would go with the ruling party….
BA SO CALLED WHITE GUY DO’NT COMENT BLINDLY LIKE YO VISIONLESS PRESIDENT KAFYABUBELA(CHIPUMPUTU).THIS COMING ELECTION IS NOT ABOUT TRIBALISM,BUT ABOUT CHOOSING A LEADER WITH VISION.WE ARE ABOUT 73 TRIBES,ZAMBIA IS BIG IT’S NOT ONE OR TWO TRIBES WHICH VOTE. THE TACTICS OF TRYING TO SAVIVE ON TRIBALISM WILL NOT HELP BOSS, WE ARE CHANGING THE GOVT ON 11/08/2016.WE KNOW THEY ARE PAYING U TO WRITE SILY COMMENTS, MY ADIVICE JUST IS GET THE MONEY, IT’S STOLEN…TAX PAYERS MONEY.
It has been long ever since i posted on matters like this.Let us call a spade a spade,these are all tribesmate to hh hence rekindleling the tribal tag attached to upnd.Hh i think is a very good candidate but i doubt if he has the capacity to win an election in zambia
There is no conscious in changing only when going to elections………..if this were new, we would agree. Zambian are nother as bumbling as politicians would like them to be.
Undressing the woman who was wearing upnd regalia and near rap in the presence of ZNS, ZA, ZAF, ZP and in presence of Vice President who is a lady also just after International women’s day. does this not confirm pf’s poor leadership and that pf is mostly of Idiots. gaza street in zambia.
I’m not surprised! a pig will remain a big even if you bleach it with gik. Bantu Botatwe consider tribe to be thicker than anything else. In this year’s elections, regionism will play a big role because the nega nega formula has opened up pipoz minds. The beauty is that the Bembaz and Ngoniz are the majority tribes in Zambia. Ask Daniel Munkombwe how he miscalculated, “ukapanya neeco wikeete”
I thought there’s also Sinda MP Levy Ngoma amongst those that have defected? Is he also HH’s tribes mate or part of the so called bantu botatwe? Just asking.
This were moles who used to Leak the government secrets .
Wind of change beginning to blow?
F00ls will always have something stup!d to say, always.
The same MPs supported HH but he lost to Edger Lungu. Nothing has changed Viva PF and Edger Lungu
Nothing new here the same people supported hh last election and we are not surprised, for mwaliteta we wish yo well Viva PF.
Keith Mukuta has no morals after being in govt for five years can he come and cite poor governance now as the reason for resigning? Where was he all this time, I thought he was different from these other politicians considering that he is young and a lawyer! Anyway nothing will change on the political landscape because even in the 2015 elections Chilanga voted for UPND and they lost to ECL, as for Mwaliteta he has just dug a political pit for himself unless he improves his academic qualifications and thats what we call poor timing.
I agree with 100 because I personally know Keith but what I did not know is that such a young educated lawyer can be so deceitful. He has enjoyed being in government for 5 years only to come and say what he says now. This is a big stub and posterity will judge this man accordingly. For Mwaliteta, its a pity. Its a pity that this guy even outside Parliament he could have had a good job but alas! These are the chaps who think after acting.
Information coming in is that about 12 mps have quit mmd to join upnd. Bane change is here. Uwashala ashalila
NEZ the other 11 MPs are the same guys who suported HH in 2015 but failed to win the elections plus Levi Ngoma from Sinda who has just dug a polital grave for himself because he wont win that sit.As for PF we also have more than a dozen MMD MPs who will join us so there is nothing to celebrate here ba NEZ.
MANIX, THIS IS A “GENERAL ELECTION” AND NOT A “BYE ELECTION” AS WAS THE CASE IN JANUARY 2015. THOSE SEATS (12) ARE NUMBERS THAT HH NEEDS IN PARLIAMENT WHEETHER HE WINS OR LOSES THE PLOT 1 SEAT. HERE ITS “each one for himself and the people for us all”, POLITICS IS ABOUT NUMBERS….
Any guarantees? Balya balepusa amakwempa can win those seats? Landako fimbi. Just as it would be foolish of me to hope that I am unseating Garry Nkombo from Mazabuka on the PF ticket. hakainde’s presidential hope suffers real issue attention. You go preaching copper mobbing concessions at the time it is not selling and hope to convince normal thinking people? Ukutali bapompwe!! We are recovering na ECL. You also go and recover from privatisation effects.
Lungu should learn to respect PF members. what has he achieved in dumping his own members and appointed pipo from other parties? let him apologize to scortt and his group. Zambians HH will fall come 2011. Those pipo have never voted for PF and PF has been winning
It is 2016 and not 2011. Please control your emotions.
Mwaliteta do not have grade twelve certificate and the area itself is attracting him and think otherwise
fintu ni Lungu ;I think people have memories of what happened last year; the voting pattern in southern province it shows a bad signal, and if all provinces do the same then, I see HH crying. bcoz people from southern were not voting on merit but wako ni wako. which is. very bad. Lets change the voting pattern. if hu is to win the election. if that will happens again and we happened to go for re-run then all the provinces. will do the same meaning that hu will lose.
If the people of Southern province voted on wako ni wako, show me a UPND MP in Muchinga or Luapula province, what kind if voting is theirs? Learn to be objective. When it is happening in your neighbours home, it is wrong, the same thing happening in your home, it is okey…hypocrites.
There will be deflections and counter defections. This nothing new. Some will benefit others will regret
Actually those who will regret are many, starting with Mwaliteta, even mukata.
Mr. Mukata says there is currently no better leader to become the next republican president other than UPND President Hakainde Hichilema. WHAT AN INSULT. STOP INSULTING ZAMBIANS
looking at the names of defectors and endorsements they all come from one tribe. this speaks volumes. I leave it at that.
@Manix You’re right. If there was poor government then Keith is part of it. By the way Ngoma is not ngoni etc he’s a mintu botatwe. Please know your civics
I HAVE NOTICED THAT IT’S ONLY PF AND UPND FIGHTING WHAT ABOUT OTHER POLITICAL PARTYS. HOW I WISH AUGUST 11 WAS TODAY SO THAT WE START TALKING ABOUT OTHER THINGS. ANYWAY IT’S DEMOCRACY MADE SIMPLE IN ZAMBIA, MATURED NOW AS KALABA SAID LAST TIME. KEEP YOUR REG AND VOTERS CARD SAFE.
Chikala Mwaliteta is dull we muntu ulibe G12 Certificate and you decide to miscalculate your times. Do he think if Kachema was to win elections will be apppointed as minister without papers?
There is nothing new in this story. It is the same old tribal story. I challenge anyone from UPND if there is anything new here. There is no revolution and you are cheating yourselves if this action by rejected MPs will bring any tangible votes.
And it is a big lesson also to my PF that after we win the August 2016 elections, there should be no opposition appointments. Therefore, we must work extra hard to get enough seat in parliament.
double standards by United Party for Tonga Development. Not long ago Mwaliteta was called a dull person not to be minister! Today he’s a champion?
Bantu botatwe! Foolish Mukata shall regret this!
The grade 12 clause was brought in by the opposition who thought PF members including their president were Standard 6 drop outs
mwaliteta u ar disgrace to the pipo of kafue be in pf or opposition,no tangable works in kafue,bad roads but busy enriching yourself.so tell us your reasons for leaving pf,we all know that your family has been upnd only u pretended to be pf.
Change…Change,what wind of change are u pipo talking about?
Are these not the same guys who stood behind the under five trying to defeat a new kid on the block in 2015 elections but failed….this time that kid has become a man,he is the president of the nation & He is going to be victorious.
I am humbled and re gogitated by the trends. Take not thee lightly its just the begining. MMD is a party on Paper, just like UNIP et al. NOw real parties in order of popularity are as follows:
1. UPDN – HH
2. Poor People party – Alex Muliokela
3. Green Party – Sinkamba
4. Patriotic front – Edgar Lungu
5. FDD – Edith Nawakwi
The top five are important. But please focus on number one because the revolution has began. I wont say much but just watch and see.
kafuti what revolution? Maybe in Monze
I always laugh at the upnd strategist NEZ who speaks of change.Changing what when u are promising positions to the same people u are saying u want to remove.Is that change to u?GBM was pf until he was rejected,he is yo vice to u that is change.change is bringing in new brooms and not what was there otherwise u are just jokers
When gbm ever rejected. Gbm resigned from ministry position and is still representing the people of kasama. So who has rejected him? Please keep up with affairs in your country. You seem clueless like your president
It is a well known fact that all those that ve defected are from perceived UPND strong holds I wouldn’t be surprised to hear Masumba joining the wagon.but still more PF will go through come 11 th August because the people frm the defectors voted for UPND in January so no impact!
yes mwaliteta u ar disgrace to the pipo of kafue be in pf or opposition,no tangible works in kafue,bad roads land corruptions ,tractor thefts and busy enriching yourself buying animals and trucks at our expense in fact wait the law shall visit you all the money you obtained dubiously shall be recovered as sureties in courts of law for your bails .so tell us your reasons for leaving pf,we all know that your family has been upnd only u pretended to be pf with your chief nkomesha.
in fact Mr.mwaliteta you have made more damages to our kafue economy all your contributions were dammy especially in mungu ,kabweza ,lukolongo and chanyanya
These tribalits let them group together will teach them a lesson again.visionless kachema and his mad pilato will see red on the day of reckoning.
only fools and un educated Ndanje and MCCM think people like prophesor lungwangwa is tonga. when did Lungwangwa,levy ngoma,hon Muchima become bantu botatwe? kxkxkx. According to my imformant,s Mwaliteta was not part of defectors and has not told anyone about his plan,but fools here are crying like bababies. secondly Keeth and Mwaliteta never campaigned for HH last last mwembushi.
keith mukata mwaice ubufi no wonder your first wife ran away from you .you have made another blunder i do not see h mazokaaa h carrying the day on 11/8/2016 he failed to control his cattle what of human being with five senses
atleas keith only one wife left but how mamy wives have left a certain president i know? Banyina Tasila,the police lady in chelston who was keeping him etc.
This is my prediction for the August elections; there will be no rerun. Lungu will win with 56 per cent of the votes cast, hh will come second with 41 per cent, mmd in third place with 2 per cent and the other parties sharing the remaining one per cent. The international community will declare the elections free and fair. Anyone who thinks the actual final results will be a total departure from my prediction must be living in fantasy island.
sir George stop calling others fools. These political vultures you support are always shifting camp whenever they feel ” a party may win but will change position if this fails
Ba pf you should have gone to southern province to thank them for votes since edgar compaigned only for 20minutes there,while hh camped in lubembaland. Instead you have even sidelined them completely,forget even the little votes you got last time. tongas have given pf and mmd mps when ever they compained,has bembaland given upnd any mp or even? only inly 1 councilor in bululu ward. pf has more than 50 councilors in upnd stronghold. This time around bemba as a single tribe has no bearing because other tribes from lusaka and copperbelt are in the majority and hh is suported by majority tribes,then Muchinga pf will lose good votes to Sata’s family Miles. pf only counts luapula and northern
sir George all names you mentioned are either Tongas or their partners in tribalism
sir George your assumptions are Fantasia