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Fr Bwalya’s Political Dilemma
Dear Editor,
IN the run-up to the 2011 general elections, Fr Frank Bwalya said he would kill for the PF with his red-card campaign. He meant a political killing. MMD is dying a slow and painful political death this time, while its arch-enemy is now in power. Fr Bwalya has since been seen as a kingmaker, and PF’s victory further emboldened him.
Now Fr Bwalya, an infant in Zambian politics, wants to kill PF. How did it come to this and where will it all end?
“There are no permanent friends in politics,” Fr Bwalya, the now beleaguered president of a yet-to-be-formed opposition political party, has noted.
He has made public pronouncements that few would dare whisper. He has made bold statements on intractable problems such as the fuel-subsidy question and the huge inequality division between the ruling elite and the ruled masses.
If Fr Bwalya has a political fault, it is because he calls a spade a spade and not a big spoon. He does not hide his intentions. He often simply tells a truth that is too unpalatable for others. He is raw.
MUBANGA LUCHEMBE,
Lusaka.
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Dimma
May 10, 2013 at 10:48 am
So what? He feels good about tarrifs increses but bad about energy increases. Wha’s the difference?
politics will just be politics. Even friends from Roads department are making a go at looting and have forgotten about their concious.
Whatever happens, evil does seem to have an upper hand… but we win in the end! He conqured the world!
shibobo
May 10, 2013 at 10:52 am
The insensitivity of the PF will make them the one term party with the influencial Father who created mass votes on the copperbelt pointing out cardinal isues like fuel hike,looming mealie hike and the price ripple the two can cause.This Father knows more than the eye can see.We are watching form the terraces
Reveal!
May 10, 2013 at 9:13 pm
Frank Bwalya did not create mass votes for PF.He was paid K100m to campaign for PF which I believe he had more when PF won elections.
Shikulu
May 10, 2013 at 11:35 am
I knew Fr Bwalya when he was at Radio Cengelo and before that and by that time I was also serving in CCJP at Diocesan level. He is one person who speaks for the poor and once he starts someting he will see it to the absolute end. People must learn to take him seriously not as a joker because he stands for the truth.
And looking at the way things are moving now, I for one will keenly be following him, give him moral support and wait for 2016. Fr, am near you and waiting to be recruited in your fold. TAKWABA LYONSE KUCULA FYE even under pa bwato.
Ndaje Kahks
May 10, 2013 at 12:20 pm
CCJP has lost direction. People just want to be paid and since this stopped most Deanaries have become moribund.
G
May 10, 2013 at 1:00 pm
You are just dull my friend.
Some people truly speak not this Fear you have.
G
May 10, 2013 at 12:59 pm
Some people are just born like that…….
they are a voice for the voiceless.
ken
May 10, 2013 at 1:47 pm
Being in Govt does not mean short sightedness in delivering to the people. In govt its reality. You have got to “have” in order to give. You chaps are talking like “chibola” who says if me I had children, I will send them all them all to University. You foreget that in the first place they have to pass the exams themselves.
What FP is doing now is the only sustainable way to to bring about sustainable income in the pipo’s pockets. The projects on the ground now are the only true means of creating sustained economic boom. And I will list points for you to help you shift your paradigm about a working Government.
1. Implementing a people driven Constitution with emphasis on the rule of law.
2. The Link Zambia Road project will open up area attractive for development and create access to natural resources.
3. Developing, upgrading and reabilitating of Power generation plants will increase capacity for sustained economic boost we can all dream about.
4. Development of the Educational sector by increasing the both the private and public universities to produce human capital required for the future invisaged development coming with the above.
5. Developing a sustained Health care system.
6. Creating a form of inclusive government that welcomes divergent views.
7. Developing a decentralised approach to the development of regions of Zambia by creating more decision making centre like new far flang districts and aligning others to central adminitrative centres.
On the contrary, the following will not sustain a happy citizenry.
1. Subsidising consumption.
2. Government created jobs. Govt cannot do business
3. Cheap talk. Talk is cheap.
When the above mentioned projects are finished and others supported, you will swallow your tong my freind. Watch this space.
isaac
May 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm
Ken your analysis is nothing but whole truth and very objective. Pipo think to acheivre what you have out lined will take one and half years the period PF has been in power no bwana.No human being can acheive anything at the speed light.not even America with all the resorces at their dispsal.
isaac
May 10, 2013 at 1:02 pm
The worry is,this man will stop at nothing even if another can win, he will behave the same unless he himself wins. His ambitions are greater than himself. Even his fellow oppositions should be wooried cause he himself has to win and noone else. So opposition parties should not rejoice saying that it is good he has rebelled against the PF or govt cause has no permanet friends unless his egos are accomplished.
ken
May 10, 2013 at 4:26 pm
“Until his ego is acomplished”, he still will be yapping like Petersen and Pilato. It’s a huge shame.
the eye
May 10, 2013 at 1:10 pm
iwe Luchembe ba wiso te bo balefwaya uku senda chalo ne mfuti just shut up
Mwana mwila
May 10, 2013 at 1:45 pm
The pf should mark father bwalya tightly especially after 2016 because i have got a vision that man will make it. Let’s love one another and stop insulting our beloved priest.
PanAfricanist
May 10, 2013 at 1:54 pm
It is just Zambians are desparate for quality leadership. Fr Bwalya is NOT a presidential material..not even ministerial. I have listened to him talk, he is very erractic at best. Teti bamineko namate. He is a very good activities though because he has ‘chibe-chibe’ altitude. Which at presido level can be risky.
Compos Mentis
May 13, 2013 at 7:35 am
I have also listened to him talk. Rhetoric, rhetoric and more rhetoric.
He sounded ill-prepared and insincere.
Election to the highest office should not to be taken lightly.
southcant!
May 10, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Good luck to the Papa, after all he ia a citizen of Zambia and enjoying his rights as enshrined in the constitution. He is at liberty to veer any direction his ego drives him!
Compos Mentis
May 13, 2013 at 7:37 am
And Zambians should remember they are not obliged to entertain that ego!
aka ken
May 10, 2013 at 2:18 pm
i agree wth you ken my namesek..you are a learned person.
ken
May 10, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Thanks
Musonda
May 10, 2013 at 2:20 pm
I have never seen a person from pulpit to state house or white house
Jey
May 10, 2013 at 10:33 pm
Go to google ans search, or maybe uyou use your phone for brousing
isaac
May 10, 2013 at 3:01 pm
If a clegy man failed to save pipo and their souls while he was at the pulpit can he/she deliver them when hes joins politics, am yet to see.
james gift mwamba
May 10, 2013 at 3:19 pm
What father bwalya should be reminded of is what the bible quotes as the saying of our lord jesus on the poor,him is trying to hide his ambition.”””I RE- QUOTE’JESUS SAID THE POOR WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU. SO WHO IS HE TO CLAIM THAT HE CAN ELIMINATE WHAT MAKES PEOPLE TO BE POOR?
Zotaya
May 10, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Let him come up with his own political party, we want apolical party which atleast can try to shake the pf gvt. Mmd and upnd is history now, luk guyz we were driving to a 1party state, atleast frank fimo-fimo can raise to a strong opposition.
OSMORE
May 10, 2013 at 8:03 pm
Is it a political stratege where one critisizes anything even what is positive. @ ken u are right but u see, there’re these that are cousines of the Devil who cannot appreciate anything.fr Bwalya falls in that category. Upnd is worse.
kiduli
May 10, 2013 at 8:09 pm
Ken for Presido!
deluxe
May 10, 2013 at 8:50 pm
MMD AND PF GET WARIED AND TERIFIED.HERE IS A REAL POLITICIAN COMING SOON.FR.F.BWALYA DNT WARY MY VOTE IS YOZ ALREADWY.
ck
May 10, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Welcome on the political scene fr frank bwalya, for sure you will be bruised ask your fellow clergyman pastor nevers mumba.
ck
May 10, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Welcome on the political scene fr frank bwalya, for sure you will be bruised ask your fellow clergyman pastor nevers mumba.
JK
May 10, 2013 at 10:13 pm
Ken u re da man!!! Brother keep on educating some shallow minded fellows who ve got eyes bt can’t see.
Chazyamantandi
May 10, 2013 at 10:20 pm
I thought HE MCS is also a Catholic,i wait to see which one the Catholic’s will follow?
Barotse diaspora
May 11, 2013 at 12:27 am
Fr bwalya should respect pf.if pf failed to meet his demands he must ask and wil be given.not to tùrn away his back after stoning the hissing cobra and think that its dead.it wil spit venom and bite him!
kakolwe
May 11, 2013 at 5:33 am
Zambians learn quickly. MMD dribbled Mazoka & Sata, we sealed the loopholes. Father, they shall not be bought by empty words again. That is why Sata I busy workin & U foolishly go into retoric!
the angel
May 11, 2013 at 5:49 am
Let him do what he feels z right 2 do,kaili ni ba fr babufi
Thugnificent
May 11, 2013 at 7:10 am
This bwalya guy is actually a fool.Surely if he thinks the PF ar not delivering,wat makes him think he can do better as president..development cannot cum at the blink of an eye,it takes years 2develop even decades at that..so aba ba Father,its too late 2actually think that he can “HOODWINK” the pipo of this great nation Zambia.Ba father i ur brain is telling u that the PF are developing this country at a tortoise’s pace,then u urself can bring development at a slugs pace.By the way i love the way my dude KEN analysed things & outlined them so that those that are blind up2 nw can begin 2c wat the PF are doing!Thumbs up KEN.
Teny
May 11, 2013 at 9:08 am
Fr Bwalya made a name when he fought MMD and from no were u turns against PF with one and half years in power. I starting to wonder his integrity. May God prevail in Zambian Politics.
aines
May 11, 2013 at 9:41 am
eeeeeeh.if ba fr gets into state house who is going to be da first lady anyway?is he going to look for one himself or someone will do it on his behalf…..H.E Fr.Frank Bwalya…uuuhhhmmm icalo capwa but teti tupape
mwewa in South Africa
May 11, 2013 at 11:06 am
Limbula isansa talilamena imishila is our bemba saying. Father Bwalya is very right.He said he will praise and encouradge the pf & president Sata when they do a good thing but at the same time criticise them when they make a mistake.Let us not insult this man as he is surely a very strong voice for the majority poor and voiceless Zambians.If you look carefully the political climate obtaining currently in Zambia,there is no strong political voice that can expose all the wrongs the pf are making.Even if he does not win an election,the mere fact that he is there will even help the pf to always be awake and perform to our expections. Mind you, if there was no Sata during Mwanawasa’s presidence, Mwanawasa would not have peformed the way he did.Sata was always giving Mwanawasa a heardache there by reminding him of what he was supposed to do and the only good thing about Mwanawasa was that he listened and did exactly what Sata was saying thereby making him one of the best African Presidents.
BRAVO FATHER BWALYA AND ALL PATRIOTIC ZAMBIANS BACK IN MY COUNTRY. I LOVE YOU ALL AND MISS YOU.
frederick
May 11, 2013 at 12:06 pm
at frst 4 u Zambianz,u voted pf coz thy said dat thngz wil change in 90 dayz k?nw if u guyz nw dat it cn tke even A decade y wre u suportin de 90 dayz,fr bwalya is jst A thret 2 u guyz n yo Gorvment of pf k?bt wat I cn tel fr bwalya is dat fr dnt Allw pipo 2 pull u dwn k?stand 4 wat u bliev in n do wat is ryt 4 all de poor Zambianz k?coz dis guyz de hav 4goten all de promises thy mde k?fr bwalya or Nevers cam 2016,tke it or liv it lets jst wait n c,bliev me u k?full stop go fr go.God is wth u k??
Belgrade boy
May 11, 2013 at 12:15 pm
When I was growing up. .the saying that politics is a dirty game didn’t mean a penny to me..now that am grown prostitution seems to be ascending even to the levels of politics…today am your friend and tomorrow your enemy. .sure ba father! !
goms
May 11, 2013 at 1:19 pm
I would have preferred Fr Bwalya come back to the alter but with the weak threatened dented & soft spotted opposition in MMD & UPND am afraid we shall drift back into one party style of UNIP & MMD eras.He is the only one who has shaken PF (kambwili) to the extent the Hon Minister couldn’t hold insults on public media.Intellectuals know the meaning of such uncontrolled outbursts of the like of Minister Kambwili- Luxurious life shaken isn’t it?
SK
May 12, 2013 at 2:25 am
People should realise that Frank Bwalya is lying to people when he says he has gone into politics so that he can speak for the people. He had a good platform as a priest to speak for the people all his life! If elected as a president, he only has 5 or 10 years, what is he going to do after that since he won’t be allowed to be active in politics? Someone lied to Frank that there’s money to be made in priesthood and found nada! The most worrying thing in Zambia is the precedent being set, NGO’s becoming politically active overnight. The government of the day will start treating NGO’s as political opponents and this might become ugly even for innocent groups because trust is been betrayed by selfish individuals like Frank.We should not be surprised when we see operations of some NGO’s closing, the line is getting blurred, you cannot run an NGO and also run a political party you have to choose on which side you have to speak from. You cannot have it both ways like Frank is trying to do. I am still wondering which calendar Frank used, I have never seen the shortest 40 days in my life!
chanda chimbwi III
May 12, 2013 at 10:20 am
Point of correction.Mr. Bwalya and not Fr. Bwalya
Spanking kids in Zambia
May 12, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Compos Mentis
May 13, 2013 at 7:49 am
Misplaced video?