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Tonga’s Reject New Districts
TONGA chiefs have totally rejected the re-alignment of three districts in the Southern Province and have also refused having disowned UPND president Hakainde Hichilema.
In an Interview on behalf of other fifteen traditional leaders who on Monday met republican President Michael Sata, Chiefs Mukuni expressed surprise and shock at the extent of the land which has been re-aligned going as far as Sinazongwe’s Kapa stream with Zambezi river proceeding to the boundary between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Chief Mukuni who was flanked by Chiefs Nalubamba and Chikanta said that government did not consult stakeholders before the decision of realignment could be reached at.
He said that the traditional leaders told President Sata that people in the Southern Province and its entire local leadership were against the idea of realigning Chirundu, Siavonga and Itezhi Tezhi District from Southern Province to Lusaka and Central provinces respectively.
Chief Mukuni said that as per gazette notes of 22 of 2012 of April, 13, 2012 there was lack of consultation and dialogue in the manner the matter of realignment was done by government.
He said that traditional leaders also noted that the culture of insults among political leaders was worrying and source of concern which was dividing the people of Zambia, adding that they were ready to mediate between President Sata and other opposition leaders to restore sanity and older in the political governance of the nation.
“There is lack of consultation and dialogue on national issues between political party leaders and traditional leadership which is a recipe of disunity in the country,” he said.
And Chief Mukuni said the traditional leadership from Southern Province did not disown UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema during the meeting held with President Sata.
“How do we disown our child? Even President Sata himself is our child, so people talking about us advising President Sata to ignore Mr. Hichilema are trying to antagonize the people of Zambia.
In fact it was President Sata himself who said he has always tried to ignore the criticisms coming from Hichilema and that did not come from anyone of us,” said Chief Mukuni.
Chief Mukuni who is the chairman of the Southern Province Royal Foundation said the traditional leadership urged President Sata to clear the perception that people from a particular region were being appointed to serve in government at the expense of other well learned and experienced groups.
“We told the President that there is a great need to remove the perception that people from one tribe are being promoted or appointed in to political or civil service position. There is need to broaden the consultations process by appointing authorities before taking action to remove appointees,” Chief Mukuni said.
The Chiefs who rejected the group called Tongas on Oath urged government to thoroughly investigate the issue, “As we strongly feel it is politically motivated to divide the Tonga’s and Bemba. Tongas will continue interacting and living with people of other tribes and nationalities as we have done in all the past years. It is One Zambia, One Nation.”
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Zed
September 26, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Bravo Chief Mukuni…it is one zambia.one nation for sure.hope those your people can emmulate that from you mwee.
FUTURE PRESIDENT-ZAMBIA
September 26, 2012 at 2:52 pm
OK WILL SEE.
NKANDU
September 26, 2012 at 2:56 pm
very good language chief.we need love,peace and harmony.we are one people.God BLESS U and continue preaching that good news.
kakolwe
September 26, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Thankyou your royal highnesses. Conversly, as relates to your rejections, does it occur to you that Political boundaries (local govt, district, National) do not affect AT ALL your TRADTITIONAL boundaries? So confuse not the two?
Jojo
September 26, 2012 at 3:15 pm
I thought since Fred Mmembe is now busy driving his 100 trucks to prepare for the money he will lose in future towards the k14 billion he has stopped lying in his Post newspaper. Liar for life.
Tupac
September 26, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Ba Jojo matole yenu muleikalafye ngatapali fyakucita,what do you know about yha mullar you are talking about?Tekeni umusula kabwamba kenu.Kadansa abepa imwe ati fishinka you can be jailed eve asala no sala(Haba Hakalibolo).
Kalu
September 26, 2012 at 5:08 pm
If you understand Zambian politics,you can easely tell that Tonga chiefs are under pressure for meeting Sata.What they are saying now is some kind of a damage control.Mind you,this is the first time they are talking about the extent of the areas realigned to lusaka even mentioning Siavonga.Someone must have fed them with an exagerated information.Your guess is as good as mine.
Bwalya
September 26, 2012 at 6:00 pm
hh chikala cha wiso,tomba noko satanyoko u will never be a president matole yobe.
Tom Bar Know Call Cheekalah
September 26, 2012 at 6:57 pm
What’s wrong with this tribe kanshi?MP Reverend Howard Sekwila is saying he cannot serve in government if called but why are chiefs complaining bout appointments of one region.This tribe Tonga should be the worst after the group called BOKO HARAM even after al-Qaeda.If Tonga was a law it would be Sharia Law..if it was an insult it would be Munyelo Pwete!
BryD
September 26, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Bwafya sana kuma village chiefs. Rejecting development,leave them they’re used to their village way of living but we’ll see if their trusted tribalist the so called hh will take them anywhere.
Mwanarob
September 26, 2012 at 7:40 pm
The Chiefs are right. We know why Sata and his minions have created new districts. Zambians are not fools. Almost all positions in Government are occupied by people from the Bemba tribe.
Maestro Hehehehehe Hahahahah Hehehehe Reloaded
September 26, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Mwanarob, and all who think with your dicks instead of your heads, you complain that all positions are occupied by people from one tribe but your leader HH is busy threatening any Tonga that will accept a PF appointments! You won’t even let your MPs attend government, repeat, GOVERNMENT funtions, not PF functions!! Do you people use your heads when writing on these blogs? Sata appoints Tongas, expel them from your tribal party; When he does not appoint Tongas; you complain!! What planet are you creatures from?
huwiii
September 27, 2012 at 12:10 am
chiefs are chiefs. We knew the story was doctored by those who have lost conscious because of more money in their pockets.Viva HH. Viva MC too. Viva Democracy.
kakolwe
September 27, 2012 at 5:36 am
But surely answer this question, which Tongas do we want the President to work with if such leaders can be made to say I wont ACCEPT any govt appointment?
Now you are shooting yourselves in the foot!
kakolwe
September 27, 2012 at 5:44 am
If I were Sata, I would publicly appoint Garry Nkombo as minister of Lands, Request Muntanga Minister of Information, Mweetwa as Muchinga province minister. They will all hold press briefings to refuse & I’d ask HH & the chiefs ‘who do I work with?’
mwaba mwinji
September 27, 2012 at 9:04 am
bwalya, kafwiti kako.why are u insulting HH you lack maners.such insults come from a son of a bich,a witch,danderhead mad person.i no u are going to insult back but what ever you are going to say,i send the same rubbish back to you.
concerned citizen
September 27, 2012 at 11:12 am
@ bwalya, NOW YOU SEE THE CONNECTION. this is typical example of a kaponya, a replica of pf, a siamese twin of GBM N SATA.
Tonga Bull
September 27, 2012 at 12:44 pm
It is easier and lighter to Accurately insult someone in Bemba as can be observed from Bwalya’s insults to HH(above comment). Typical Bbemba!!! YOU have stepped on my nerves. Wamumensa Nyoka. Your Dad was better off Kupowela pansi than having you.
kolwe
September 27, 2012 at 2:00 pm
but what was in the minds of the chiefs for them to go to state house when they knew very well the type of person they were going to meet? it was a big mistake to go there. anyway, hope they left a formal letter there.
nez
September 27, 2012 at 2:28 pm
I THINK TONGA PIPO U ARE JST IGNORANT!U ARE JST TOO SELFISH AND GREEDY!
Hamubbwantu
September 27, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Bwalya you are demeaning all tongas who are supporting PF on this platform because of your tribal remarks. Honestly, I feel like to some of you, all tongas are for HH. Well, there is no problem with me. Now I quit PF even if I loved MC since childhood when he awarded my sister with a prize for reporting early at work. But the majority Bemba views are putting some of us off.
kiyara
September 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm
@maestro to ansa ur question, yes we are 4rm dis planet….creatd in the image of God. dnt let selfsh indvduals lyk hh 2mek u thnk lyk evry1 is the sem…rembr wen we o die. God wnt dcd if u going 2hel basd on tribe. thnk abt it. nd plz fynd tym 2read mathew 5:44. gddy