Given Lubinda Is A Trouble Maker -Sata

President Michael Sata yesterday publicly mocked sports minister Chishimba Kambwili, describing him as “our new president” during official opening of the Fourth Session of the Eleventh National Assembly in Lusaka.
And President Sata says Kabwata PF member of parliament Given Lubinda is a trouble-maker.
President Sata walked into the debate chamber at Parliament Building shortly after 10:00 hours, accompanied by Speaker Dr Patrick Matibini, and joined Dr Christine Kaseba, who was already seated at the centre of the House where the Speaker usually sits.
The Head of State greeted most the Cabinet ministers on the right side of the chamber and proceeded to take his seat in readiness to deliver the speech.
In off-the-cuff remarks, President Sata said he wanted to introduce two very important people who were in the House at that particular time.
“One is the woman on my left hand side. Although she has made me stay up to now, I haven’t yet died…,” he said of Dr Kaseba.
President Sata also described education minister Dr John Phiri, whom he asked to stand, as the tallest member of parliament and further referred to gender minister Inonge Wina as a true Lozi woman.
He also introduced Dr Guy Scott as the only white man who happens to be Vice-President of a country from Cape to Cairo.
“So I am not very strong when I have two vice-presidents,” President Sata said. “I would like to introduce Mr…Shamenda and our new president, we read in the paper, ‘president Kambwili’.”
President Sata’s reference to Kambwili as ‘our new president’ caused raucous laughter within the chamber and in the four galleries above the debating chamber, while Kambwili simply smiled.
Earlier, Chadiza MMD member of parliament Allan Mbewe, seated on the left side of the House, pointed to Kambwili while shouting “The chosen one”.
Meanwhile, Kambwili reached for mints placed in front of him, which he chewed intensely, as his eyes darted from side to side.
Kambwili had walked into the House about an hour before President Sata arrived to deliver his speech and energetically shook hands with some PF members of parliament.
When he got to Mpongwe PF member of parliament and deputy foreign affairs minister Gabriel Namulambe, he started talking about Moses M’hango, the former Roan Constituency PF chairman who disclosed yesterday that he (Kambwili) has been holding meetings in Luanshya, where he was telling his supporters that he was the one President Sata anointed to succeed him as Republican President and Patriotic Front leader.
Mhango told The Post that Kambwili had been claiming to have been anointed to take over from President Sata because the Head of State was not going to seek a second term of office.
During an impromptu visit to Ndola last week, President Sata warned Copperbelt PF youth chairperson Nathan Chishimba against being used by people like Kambwili, who were campaigning to succeed him as Republican President.
And while delivering his speech, President Sata said the courts were on ‘holiday’ as most of the judges were at Parliament attending the official opening of the House.
“The clerk of court will just adjourn and say ‘Come back next year’, especially Mr Lubinda, he is a trouble-maker,” he said amid more laughter.
During a public rally that he addressed in Solwezi Central to drum up support for the losing PF candidate in the just-ended by-election, Newton Malwa, President Sata told newly appointed PF secretary general Edgar Lungu to tell Lubinda and his Kasama Central counterpart, Geoffrey Mwamba, to organise their own rallies where they would be talking about Wynter Kabimba.
While looking at chiefs and traditional affairs minister Prof Nkandu Luo, President Sata asked about the white hat she was wearing.
“I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity and thank everybody who listened and as per tradition of this House, I am giving the whole speech to Mr Speaker,” said President Sata. “I now declare this House officially opened. And Madam Clerk, I have seen so many horrible hats here.”
Meanwhile, transport and communication minister Yamfwa Mukanga says President Sata has not anointed anyone to succeed him.
Speaking to journalists at Parliament shortly after President Sata opened the Fourth Session of the Eleventh National Assembly, Mukanga said there was no presidential vacancy in the PF.
“I can tell you that there is no vacancy in the PF in terms of the party president. So since the President has given us all the members of parliament direction on what to do…get back to [our] jobs and ensure that we work. There is a lot of work that we have to do and no one should dwell on trivialities,” he said. “There is no vacancy so we should all go to work.”
Mukanga said no one was President Sata’s chosen one as far as the position of president was concerned.
And Vice-President Scott explained in an interview that President Sata’s speech, although unusually short, had set a tone on the direction of the government.
“He (President Sata) talked about education, infrastructure, road projects and so forth. That ‘once more, I want my ministers to back up and get this programme finished in the next two years; to get Link 8000 going. Get universities started’. That is just the outline, ka dionko (snippet) into the most solid nitty-gritty,” he explained. “Kenneth Kaunda used to read three-hour speeches when opening Parliament; we decided the more modern way to give a half-hour speech to saying ‘this is the general direction of my government’. I think it’s fine and there are documents with some of the details. So let us see what people make of it.”
Kafue member of parliament Obvious Mwaliteta added that it could be seen from the President’s speech that he had the desire to develop the nation.

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