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Mpombo: It Is Immoral & Callous For Tribal HHs UPND to Wish SATA Death
Mpombo
Commenting on Vice-President Dr Guy Scott’s statement in Parliament last Friday that UPND leaders were speculating about President Sata’s health through online media, Mpombo said politically and culturally, it was evil to speculate about someone’s health.
“It is not correct to take delight in the suffering of anybody. We are all in moving departure lounge. The best thing to do is to pray for someone,” Mpombo said.
Vice-President Scott urged the UPND to stop their campaigns hinged on a view of what they thought was a looming presidential by-election.
“We have to reach a consensus to stop these campaigns by thinking there will be a presidential by-election. Honorable Jack Mwiimbu the other day was supporting the (Zambian) Watchdog, saying it is doing a good job. Now the reports of the Watchdog… there is no better parliamentary term I can use to describe them…they are malicious.
So if you are going to support that kind of journalism, then we are in a campaign mode. So I would gladly participate in the consensus to find a comprehensive solution to this issue,” said Vice-President Scott.
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Mkhondo Lungu, who presided over parliamentary proceedings, on several occasions curtailed points of order by opposition parliamentarians on President Sata’s health.
But Mpombo said it was not automatic that the opposition political party would win the elections.
He said it would be serious wishful thinking for the UPND to think that they could win a presidential by-election.
“God forbid but if a presidential by-election was to happen, I don’t think that will be an automatic ticket for the UPND to come into power. There are a lot of issues to be considered and one of the issues is the sympathy vote.
The other issues will also have to do with the way the PF will handle itself in terms of the candidate. So it is an exercise in futility for the UPND to hinge their hopes on a presidential by-election as a way of going into State House,” he said.
And Mpombo said there must be a smooth way of engaging the public on the issue of the President’s health.
“If the President is unwell, they must put up arrangements to inform the nation about his health so that you can plug the hole on speculation.
But so far this whole issue regarding the President’s travel to Israel has been handled in a clumsy way. A lot of gaps are being left in jejune,” said Mpombo.
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diamond platinum
July 4, 2014 at 8:36 am
Amen Ba Mpombo
jack mwale
July 4, 2014 at 8:37 am
People who have values be traditional or other wise do not celebrate when someone is ill or dead. UPND have wrong cards.
John
July 4, 2014 at 8:46 am
Guy Scott’s insult on the Tonga speaking people due to the ZWD and other online media publicising the president’s health is very misguided. Online newspapers have become the media of choice among both opposition and yes, ruling party cadres because many times they provide latest and top secret information about what government leadership does. And this will continue beyond the PF in power, nothing personal. Online media will give information on some plan or action by government or PF and many times it happens just like they said, hence arguably their credibility. But how does this happen? Are they psychics? Online media has “correspondents” from all walks of life from top PF government officers even in Cabinet and State House to the common man on the street. Even our own wives are potential correspondents. In relation to top secret information, online media rely on senior PF government officials to provide it. It is not a secret that there are very few Tongas in high positions under PF. Most of the top government jobs including sensitive positions at State House are occupied by people from one region. These are the people who plan for sensitive activities like the recent secretive evacuation of the president. Soon after they have planned, many times before implementation even, their plans find their way on online publications. Who then hands over that information? Is it really Hamasaka or Zyambo they are closely pursuing? How does Hamasaka or Zyambo get hold of sensitive plans and secretes at State House or Cabinet? Is it therefore the Tonga speaking people of southern province at fault really? Even the assertion that online media are speculating over the president’s health is short of reality. Among the people that are with the president right now, there are “online correspondents” who will continue sending information secretly to their friends, wives or family members about the health of the president. And most, if not all, of them are Bembas. Guy Scott is barking up the wrong tree.
The glorification on one hand and the demonization on the other of the ZWD and others as if they are psychics who read people’s minds and get information from PF government secret meetings by dubiously or by force are partly misplaced. All they do is receive information from PF itself which they then publicise. Without PF secret correspondents, ZWD and other online media have no story to tell on government confidential information. It is top PF officials who will be billionaires if one day the ZWD will become a billion dollar enterprise.
Therefore Guy Scott is using a political tactic that is very dangerous as it has the potential of causing civil strife. Then he (Guy Scott) will be sipping Scottish Whisky in Scotland, watching us on CNN as we slaughter each other. Typical!
awe sure
July 4, 2014 at 9:27 am
so you are a reporter aren’t you?
PF are I-D-I-O-T-S
July 4, 2014 at 8:49 am
Winter Kabimba was campaigning in Southern and Eastern Provinces just before he sent Sata on working holiday. Why should there be a Presidential by election when Sata is merely on (planned?) working holiday?
kakolwe
July 4, 2014 at 9:05 am
@john. Which insults? Is the phrase “small tribe in Southern province” an insult? Stop being a paranoid bigot. We all are small tribes but make up a great nation; Zambia!!!
John
July 4, 2014 at 12:01 pm
It is an insult to say Tongas are the ones spreading info on president Sata when it is his own Bemba relatives and friends at state house giving information to online media. And who said onlide are owned by Tongas?
mj banda
July 4, 2014 at 9:12 am
If its true what Mpombo is saying then HH ndi galu wamuchila
Chagy
July 4, 2014 at 9:48 am
in jejune ..lol
Bullu
July 4, 2014 at 10:17 am
Last comment i saw from HH was that the country should pray for the president. Is it wrong to ask to know the condition and whereabouts of the nation’s president? I might have missed something but it seems HH is the main man and everyone is happy to talk about him just so they are seen to be talking. Not to say he was taught well the short time he partnered with the incumbent.
mwanya
July 4, 2014 at 10:57 am
Mpombo is lie a thief hypoctric crocodiale sata is 40 days no eating you think he can savive he’s old he mast be put to rest kambwili kabimba pamwamba guy wil runn to his scotshi
chanda
July 4, 2014 at 11:33 am
i have stopped trusting these online publications unless after detailed research, otherwise they are all mostly FALSE and MALICIOUS
tutu
July 4, 2014 at 11:33 am
iwe mpombo ulemonakwati kuti wateka ichalo no mwemfu wabusali ubo kukanwa? ulingile ukuba muchifungo iwe na bena kanene
Global
July 4, 2014 at 11:37 am
Guy Scot was right to call them a small tribe and why only them? is because they have been wishing HEMCS to die, how ever, only God knows, nimbushi sha bantu tukamona abakabvotela.
Surprised Zambian
July 4, 2014 at 11:59 am
One can write a sentence or two and make sense while another can write a thousand pages and simply make a fool of self.
Chani
July 4, 2014 at 2:13 pm
Ci Mpombo has no principles…
jamakudi
July 4, 2014 at 2:40 pm
Njala plus ma cases, Mpombo is in sheet.
pompwe
July 4, 2014 at 3:34 pm
another pf puppet..nonsense..
afcon phiri
July 4, 2014 at 5:17 pm
SATA SHUD RULE UNTILL 2019; HE HAS OUT PERFOMRMED MANY.
LONG LIVE SATA.
ABASH HATERS AND BITTER PIPO.
Wanzelu
July 4, 2014 at 10:34 pm
Mpombo is a toothless political dinosaur Zambia does not need for now.Let him struggle for bread crumbs off Sata’s table. Oh! unfortunately Sata is no where to be seen. How ironic!
UPND is only hope and help for Zambia to get better.And HH is the man to restore Zambia to its past glory. Even KK and Sata now knows that fact.
Viva UPND and HH
FuManchu
July 5, 2014 at 12:44 am
Only God knows when His creation would expire but how I wish I could meet the president in his current health state just to say……”Mwaleseka abanenu bear with those that have no kindness towards you in your current situation!”
stan
July 5, 2014 at 9:02 am
mpombo chikala kazinyenge. who told you upnd wish sata death. you have heard the president HH himself say he wishes president sata health so that he can beat him fair and square in an election.
Teacher
July 5, 2014 at 11:03 am
f*cky u editor