WYNTER Kabimba is my elder brother and I would personally want him to continue as PF secretary general, says Mulenga Sata.
Mulenga, who is Lusaka deputy mayor, said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that what was happening to Kabimba should, however, serve as a lesson to all leaders in the PF.
A few weeks ago some PF members in Lusaka sent a petition to President Michael Sata through his son Mulenga demanding for the removal of Kabimba as secretary general of the party.
The cadres, who had earlier been involved in a fight with another PF group which was against endorsing President Sata for another term, said they wanted Mulenga to talk to his father over going for another term and to deal with Kabimba.
The group had marched to Mulenga’s home, where they presented the petition.
The cadres also petitioned Sata’s son to have Lusaka district and provincial leaderships dissolved.
Mulenga promised to convey the message to the party leadership including Kabimba, Vice President Guy Scott and his father.
Mulenga was also among officials that attended a consultative meeting in Lusaka that deliberated on Kabimba’s issue and which culminated in a resolution to remove the secretary general.
Asked to comment on calls for Kabimba to resign as PF secretary general, Mulenga said: “Personally, Wynter is my elder brother, who I would want to continue as SG. What is happening to him should serve as a lesson for all of us from the bottom to the top leadership. I am not taking any sides but working at helping resolve these issues.”
Mulenga said there was no need for protests over an issue that the PF could resolve amicably.
“My call to all the PF members countrywide is that we should resolve our wrangles peacefully. We are one family and as such, harmony should prevail,” he said.
Mulenga said failure by the PF to deal with internal wrangles had the potential of breaking the ruling party.
He said PF members worked hard to strengthen the party and it was regrettable that the squabbles were now weakening it.
“The earlier we resolve this tiff, the better because if we don’t do it now, by the time we realise, it might be too late. This will not be good for all of us,” Mulenga said.
He said he was helping to resolve the wrangles in the PF by encouraging dialogue and peaceful resolution.
“I am in my small way trying by all means to resolve the situation in an amicable manner. I am meeting people at the grassroots levels to help them realise that all these protests are bad to the wellbeing of the country as well as the unity of the party,” he said.
Mulenga said he deliberately remained quiet over the PF wrangles because he had been actively involved in seeking a peaceful solution.
“The wrangles are not necessary because as a party, we have only been in government for two years, and Zambians are expecting us to deliver and not perpetuate disruptions in production through uncalled for protests,” said Mulenga.
And Frank Bwalya says it is very sad to see Kabimba being humiliated by PF members after all his done for the party.
Bwalya, who is Alliance for Better Zambia (ABZ) president said Kabimba was one of the most upright and hard working men in the PF and the treatment he had received from PF members was uncalled for.
“It is not necessary to bruise the man in the manner they are doing, having worked with him, I can say he was one of the most hardworking people even for party mobilisation and it is sad to see how he is being treated,” he said.
He said the manner in which the PF were handling the matter would end up destroying the whole party as a whole.
“PF is behaving like a man who sees a snake in his house and decides to set the house on fire to kill the snake. They will burn their house if they are not careful,” Bwalya said.
“And as a person, I feel for Mr. Kabimba. No human being deserves to be humiliated in this manner, awe, it is not right.”
Bwalya added that the current wrangles in the PF were an indictment on President Sata’s leadership.
“People are looking at him as having failed to deal with his house. He is failing to handle such a small matter and they will conclude that he does not have the capacity to handle more complicated national issues,” Bwalya said.
Meanwhile, North Western Province PF chairman Fabian Chiposo has dissociated the province from demands to have Kabimba leave his post.
And Western Province provincial political secretary Alfred Miyato says Kabimba has a supervisor and it was the responsibility of that person to discipline him if he misbehaved in anyway.
Chiposo said even the people that attended the consultative meeting over the weekend went there in their own capacity and not as representatives of the Province.
“Let me inform the nation that people reported to have represented the North Western Province at the gathering (consultative meeting) went in their own capacity and not as representatives of the Province,” he said.
Chiposo said the official position of the Province on Kabimba was that he was still the PF secretary general until the appointing authority, who was President Michael Sata, made a decision on the matter.
And Miyato said Kabimba had supervisors who should discipline him when he misbehaves and it was therefore, not the duty of party members to mete out discipline on him. “It is the responsibility of the supervisor to discipline Kabimba. What those people are doing actually…they are now showing us that the supervisor is not working. In as far as we are concerned, we don’t want to be part of that,” he said.
Miyato said there was no official notification to the Province for the consultative meeting that took place over the weekend.
“To start with, nobody told us about what is happening in Lusaka. We are just reading about it in the papers. As far as Western Province is concerned, we were not party to that and we are still not party. It is not true to say all provinces were represented,”he said.
Miyato said he had been inconstant touch with his provincial chairman and all provincial officials who were supposed to have represented their respective provinces, but that they all expressed ignorance about the consultative meeting.
“We were not party to that. If there was any from our executive, that person was not mandated by the provincial committee. I being the provincial political secretary, I am not aware, the provincial chairman is not aware. We have not held any meeting to mandate anyone to travel to Lusaka to be part of that gathering,” said Miyato.
And Cornelius Mweetwa says Kabimba is being hounded out of the PF because he has shown willingness to fight corruption.
Kabimba on Friday said corrupt elements wanted to take advantage of the absence of President Michael Sata to hound him out of the party.
“Most of my colleagues are busy flying out of the country almost every other week. They are busy doing business in their government offices. They are busy acquiring tenders to prop up their businesses which were failing when they were in the opposition. I don’t do any of those things; my concentration has been on holding this party together,” he said.
Kabimba added: “My enemies in the party are playing the game of the appeasement, so that they can show their political fortunes. They think that is what it means to be good politicians. I do not think so myself. To be a good leader means to govern a country in the interest of everybody.”
And Mweetwa who is African Parliamentary Network Against Corruption chairperson said the PF secretary general was being used as a sacrificial lamb for the ruling party’s failures when he had clearly highlighted that there was a lot of corruption going on in the party.
“…From what we are seeing,Kabimba is fighting a lone battle against corruption because this is not the first time he has said his colleagues are corrupt and nothing has been done about it,” he said.
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“I am wondering why we are witnessing wild protests just after President Sata left the country. This to me shows that the clique is working against the President; it wants to undermine the leadership of the President,” Mulongoti said.
He said President Sata should institute reshuffles to his Cabinet immediately he comes back as it had become apparent that some of his senior ministers were behind the protests.
“Personally, I will support Kabimba through and through. I won’t abandon him, I know what he has done for the PF and so far, he is the best SG we have ever had in PF,” said Mulongoti, adding that Kabimba’s contribution to the PF was too immense to ignore.
Anthony
October 1, 2013 at 6:28 pm
Well said,You are a man enough than Kambwili & GBM who believes in confusions every time.
Kasenge Richard
October 1, 2013 at 7:28 pm
The quicker these squables will be cleared the sooner peace will prevail and the talking from pipo with a problem of incontinance in their be blaaaaanck!MULENGA SATA U ARE WISE.
Yakanitoya Kwelele
October 1, 2013 at 7:32 pm
Ok. We are just waiting and seeing things as they will be unfolding.
Yakanitoya Kwelele
October 1, 2013 at 7:34 pm
Ok, we are waiting and seeing as things will be unfolding.
kapuli wa ng'ongo
October 1, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Kabimbas issue needs to be reflected upon very well. PF has a constitution which must be read and understood properly before anyone, cadre or otherwise can demand his removal. His appointment contract needs also to be understood and the appointing authority needs to be known.
The Press should by now have used their research unit to disclose to the public what the PF constitution provides on removal of SG and what other contractual and appointment terms are for SG.
Merely covering cadre demonstrations demanding removal of an individual whose appointment they do not understand is foolhardy. Also foolhardy is the ineptitude of some senior PF officials who are giving various unresearched theses and views on the issue to the press instead of educating us on the issue. It had to take one brave minister to tell people to stop the annoying debate and diatribe.
Wait until the President acts by dropping some of these ministers next week.
Denkete
October 1, 2013 at 8:13 pm
A question to those you who are praising Mr Mulenga Sata. Do u see him becoming the President of Zambia one day?
pompwe
October 1, 2013 at 8:14 pm
the man is a strong chap..they have failed to hound him out..kekekeke….viva Wynter..
Mwewa Mano
October 1, 2013 at 8:37 pm
It would be very dangerous and unsustainable for Pf corrupt elements such as GBM and his surrogates to hound Kabimba from the party on the basis of manufactured falsehoods .Those of us that know the genesis of PF as a political party.in the beginning was Sata and Guy Scott, followed by Kabimba,The three were the founding fathers of PF and the three suffered a lot together as the Government in power at that time tried to frustrate the party and kill it before it could take root but such satanic efforts did not work. So to attempt to boot out Kabimba now would be to destroy the party because actually he is joint owner of PF together with Scott and Sata.Please be thoughtful before you start practising your madness.
colonial
October 2, 2013 at 12:03 am
But kabimba is also selfish, alachinga abanankwe, lesa wa bonse!!
likaki nyau nyau
October 2, 2013 at 5:51 am
@kapuli…..you are spot on!
Sulu
October 2, 2013 at 8:44 am
Why call himself kapuli which means balls?
pope
October 2, 2013 at 8:48 am
imwe it is MAFIAS VS KAPONYA (Kabimba, The Post Guy scot, KK VS GBM, NSANDA and the man)
pope
October 2, 2013 at 8:58 am
Do you think the post is genuine? then u are misled, do u think they support kabimba for nothing? mafianism at play be careful
Isaac
October 2, 2013 at 9:30 am
Do you know pipo that without Kabimba PF today would still be in opposition? The last 6 months towards the 2011 tripartite elections, Kabimba went flat out to canvass for the votes and all these 6 months he never slept in his house. How many SG did PF employed since its inception? About 4 of them and Hon Kabimba is the only SG that has made PF triumph and to be where it is today. Almost single handily, Kabimba showed unquestionable loyalty to the party president then.Kabinda just like Vice President Scott toiled for this party to be where it is today. Scott, Kabimba and President Sata himself,braved the scotching sun and crossing streams on bare foot most of the times to canvass and reach the would be voters. Surely,can Kabimba be bad today to the extend of wishing him hounded out of the party?
chikwanda kauseni
October 2, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Kabinba is for me, hardworking. he is for me, fit for his position and i think he deserves that power he has. in my views, he derseves respect for the humiliation he is going through. only a few have the powers to stand up and i think people within the party are really pushing. i guarantee you people, remove him and the same people will go back begging for him or if pride is heeded in them, they will start looking for someone to take care of the party on that position. those are just my views and insults are welcome…!!!!
AZIONONGELA KABIMBA
October 2, 2013 at 12:55 pm
chikala chobe
tizopano dorairaj
October 2, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
pope
October 2, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Kabimba is arrogant proud and full of bad language. The guy has no respect for elders, how can he call Gen Miyanda un educated, call his fellows, street kids. He is not fit. Any straight thinking human being has issues with kabimba
FuManchu
October 2, 2013 at 5:30 pm
In this respect maybe this is where Kabimba needs advice that he ‘grows up’ and learns to be respectful and control his foul running mouth
pope
October 2, 2013 at 12:17 pm
As far as zambians are concerned very few individuals can vote for winter. At the moment Given Lubinda deserves to be vice president and anyone from opposition as president, we need a coalition goverment if His excellency decides to step down after 2016. VIVA SATA
Isaac
October 2, 2013 at 12:53 pm
That can only happen in your dreams which are in fact imaginary. The coalition govt comes if the person declared a winner has far short number of mps. Sata won himself without coalition with any party and those who came after him were toasted distance away. Rupiah came distant second and the man whom Rupiah made a coalition with Hakainde came distant third.So how can a coalition govt be made? No sense at all!
AZIONONGELA KABIMBA
October 2, 2013 at 12:58 pm
chikala chobe
tizopano dorairaj
October 2, 2013 at 7:49 pm
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Kasenge Richard
October 2, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Why insulting pipo who are writing and making sense,guyz stop insults thats being lazy you NSHIMA BRAINs.are u facing defficulties just to construct a sentence? shameeeful!
ba wiso
October 2, 2013 at 3:40 pm
bukala bobe
tizopano dorairaj
October 2, 2013 at 7:50 pm
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
katuba old boys
October 2, 2013 at 4:33 pm
What lessons do we draw from the sqwables that have rocked the PF? PF recruited members using a mass recruitment approach , where people just declared themselves as members of the Party without following any process of becoming a member to an organisation . Others felt because they were Bembas they had a right to be members of PF , other also felt because they had no jobs they had to join the opposition grouping , and others really felt we needed to change as they were fed up with the MMD . Therefore everybody voted without any ideological basis.So PF won the 2011 elections without a membership but just a following of People who just cast their vote on that day without a sense of belonging and not inspired by anything , without any belief in any line of thinking .After wining the elections everybody became PF even KK who did not renounnce his UNIP membership , there are no membership registers or cards in PF . We now have peope taking law in their own hands and we call the suspected PF cadres . PF as a party they must realise that they have moved from that stage now they are in Government where they have to be accountable to everything , they need to know who are their members and where are they coming from , section , ward, district and province. Introduce membership cards now with some code of conduct an ideology, then you will be able to control the indiscipline in the pary.
Village Chicken
October 2, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Sata has made history by not holding a press conference in 24 months. Does he hold cabinet meetings then? If he does, how do these corrupt cliques sit eye to eye? Sata is the real failure in this GBM vs Winta Kab (etal).
FuManchu
October 2, 2013 at 5:38 pm
Maybe he want’s to prove he is really a ‘man of action’ as he has been called and men of action do not spend time talking but work to show results! However it is indeed a record that as a sitting head of state he has not directly addressed the nation! He is scared to face journalists
Hakahinde Sata
October 2, 2013 at 7:53 pm
Kasenge Richard you made me angry with most of your comments.you are not a neutral person,but pf cadre.Learn to give comments which can inspire & educate others.
haiggy
October 2, 2013 at 8:27 pm
@mwewa mano
Stop lying pf was not started by guy scott and winter kabimba. Winter came somewhere around 2006, scott in 2004. Pf was started by sata and many poor zambians walking the streets today.
Ka kabimba joined after all attempts to salvage his ailing law firm.
Mmembe is propping kabimba not for good reasons
fransman chiellinee
October 2, 2013 at 10:22 pm
guyz!if u are anti-kabimba then u are corrupt.let the atmosphere suck-up corrupt mindz 4rm the pf jungle
fuzica
October 3, 2013 at 7:59 am
This is my contribution on Goldman Insurance
Nobody will bring expatriates if locals work as hard as the Indians, Chinese and Europeans do. This coupled with our selfish persons of influence. Goldman Insurance is owned by a fugitive from Kenya Dev Bhola and our ministry of finance welcomed and gave him a license. Mr. Bwalya Chiti, nephew of Sata, late Mazoka and Alexander Chikwanda joined the board and own shares in Goldman Insurance.
When the top leadership is selfish what do you expect from the Chief Executive Officer?
T.K
October 3, 2013 at 9:23 am
Poverty,akasense ng’andu, ubunga,lavish life,motor vehicles,land issue.These are the root causes.A normal person cannot be bought over a packet of shake shake opaque beer and go and protest over the thing you do not even know.I feel sorry at times the happenings.You let your relative to go and protest because you will be given a chitenje material,300 ML Coca cola, KR50 and you go home.What next………..You will be waiting for another protest !Youths please wake up and work hard.
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Prince Charming
October 3, 2013 at 10:10 am
Zambia?
beee
October 3, 2013 at 10:19 am
wynter is very foolish,let him go.
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