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Failed State Remark By Maureen Mwanawasa IRKS Mwanajiti
FORMER first lady Maureen Mwanawasa should be condemned for declaring Zambia as a failed State, human rights and governance advocate Ngande Mwanajiti has said.
Mr Mwanajiti said such accusations and outbursts were unacceptable
He said the comments by Dr Mwanawasa following the violence in Shiwanga’andu on Friday could undermine democracy and efficacy of the institutions affected.
A UPND campaign team comprising Dr Mwanawasa, Lunte parliamentarian Felix Mutati, former Deputy Speaker of National Assembly Mutale Nalumango and Lubansenshi lawmaker Patrick Mucheleka was attacked by machete-wielding suspected PF supporters when the quartet arrived in Shiwanga’ndu to address a rally.
Several people were injured in the fracas which police at first failed to control until reinforcements were called.
A helicopter carrying the UPND officials to the rally was almost rammed by a PF-branded Land Cruiser in the confusion that ensued.
But Mr Mwanajiti said in a press statement issued yesterday that there was need to respond to all these challenges with soberness, responsibility and patriotism beyond a particular interest.
“According to Dr Maureen Mwanawasa, Zambia is a failed State simply because there was a clash between opposing camps and the unfortunate incident that caused fear, anguish and possibly loss of life. Quick action by police saved the day.
“Yes, we have seen the video depicting confusion, but we must go beyond the video to establish what really happened before expressing such strong sentiments about the status of our country beyond our ‘no to violence’ posture,” he said.
“For now we are concerned that there are apparent efforts to ridicule the Zambian Government as a whole,” he said.
And Mr Mwanajiti has also called on the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to work with other stakeholders to establish the validity and truth of UPND vice-president Canisius Banda’s accusations that ballot papers have been smeared with a special chemical.
Recently, Dr Banda alleged that UPND had information that the ECZ would interfere with the transmission of results to make his party lose the election.
Mr Mwanajiti said if it was established that the allegations were untrue, the law must “be applied fairly but firmly and with the urgency it deserves”.
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Jane Mulenga
January 5, 2015 at 9:41 pm
ANOTHER MUVI OPINIOM POLL PLACES HH FAR MUCH AHEAD OF EDGAR LUNGU.
Opinion poll Another opinion poll released by Muvi Television Sunday evening has shown that Hakainde Hichilema of UPND would win the elections by 82 percent increasing by one percent from last week. Edgar Lungu of the ruling Patriotic Front trails distant at 16 percent. The result are picked in a graph. Hichilema is in blue while Lungu in red.
HH is expected to win in Lusaka, Copperbelt, Southern Province, Western Province and North Western Province. Lungu will win in the remaining provinces puting him at the second position from HH.
God Bless Zambia and God bless our sixth Republican President.
Nikambeko
January 5, 2015 at 10:52 pm
Laughable and shameful poll results!!!! I couldn’t expect anything different from last week. MUVI TV are hell-bent on making sure they deliver what UPND has paid them for. Shame on them. After all, it does not matter at all as all of us have already made up our minds not to be hoodwinked by such cheap way of campaigning. No matter how harder MUVI TV and their sponsors work to discredit PF, they are going nowhere. The reality on the ground is totally different. Its in fact 82% for EL and 16% for HH.
black chicken
January 5, 2015 at 11:19 pm
wazanga
January 5, 2015 at 9:58 pm
unama
walapapa
tujilijili
January 5, 2015 at 10:03 pm
KACHASU REPUBLIC
kim
January 6, 2015 at 3:28 am
Maureen’s face irks me, this is a devil who mistreated her step children .so full of herself.
maybin M chisanga
January 6, 2015 at 9:26 am
You are right. Even when such violence took place during her (Maureen) late husband’s reign Zambia wasn’t declared a failed state.
Advice to Maureen,
As long as you are in the field campaigning expect such encounters and much worse as you go along the way.
Pay back time, your step daughter is still crying becoz of your home violence against her.
Come to Kitwe we will destroy that you chopper.
kakolwe
January 5, 2015 at 10:14 pm
Actually for me, Mr Mwanajiti, two things irked me in that video. What Mwanawasa said and that statement by the other man saying: “Fwebamano tusapota UPND elyo abashakwata amano basapota PF.”
The man is showing that anyone supporting PF is a fool!! By definition of political intolerance, he does not differe from those that gave them Usain Bold dash. They are both intolerant.
Yes the two cases of Shiwang’andu (02-01-15 PF) and that of Mongu (04-01-15 UPND) are isolated insidences of idiocy and cannot cause Zambia to be a failed state.
Nikambeko
January 5, 2015 at 10:59 pm
@kakolwe, you almost ripped my lungs open with laughter!! I saw the Usain Bolt dash, though the strange thing is that the video does not show who the assailants were, I mean who caused the Usain Bolt dash???? Could this have been stage-managed. I think we need to know the truth.
Pro-fate
January 6, 2015 at 1:44 am
@Kakolwe africa has only one failed state. Somalia. The rest all have governments from independence to now
kakolwe
January 5, 2015 at 10:21 pm
KaJane Mulenga, Every person is entitle to their opinion just as Muvi TV are entitled to theirs. I believe you also have your own opinion and we respect that.
What is somewhat funny is for you to swallow others’ opinions as gospel and wish to feed everybody with your convictions. It can’t work.
By the way, thank you for declaring your love the other day! The feeling is mutual!!
Dream well in your opinionated mind.
20.01.15
January 5, 2015 at 10:52 pm
Its true,THIS OPINION POLL WAS CONDUCTED AT A UPND RALLY IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE?THIS IMPLIES THAT THERE IS a good percentage 4 EL even at UPND ralies who wil vote 4 EL,Unlike EL’s massive rallies where almost 100% are in favour of Lungu.Its true UPND is winning in southern,north western and maybe even western by 82%,BUT OVERALL RESULTS WILL BE IN FAVOUR OF PF’s EDGAR LUNGU BY 67%.
2016 EL WILL AGAIN WIN BY 70%
Lugarithm
January 5, 2015 at 11:21 pm
according to what I have witnessed, the opinion polls are not a true reflection of whats on the ground. I have taken time to look at the rallies that EL and HH have had, I must say that EL pulls huge crowds.
I was beginning to put my wait on UPND but alas! the number of corrupt scrooge politicians who have joined HH makes me think that UPND is another Shit but on a different pile.it’s like doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
Pro-fate
January 6, 2015 at 1:37 am
The fact that you pull a crowd doesn’t mean they will vote for you
T Woods
January 5, 2015 at 11:28 pm
If Mwananjiti sees what happens in Zambia as normal, then there is something wrong with him. Can he give me an example of another country where a Minister of Justice who is prosecuting a former President accused of serious corruption charges has received endorsement from the accused and even accepts funding from the same person who has been accused of stealing public funds? Then some Journalists who should know better portray the endorsement as a normal event instead of a criminal event! Add to this the violence, lawlessness, even among political leaders (May be Mwananjiti has forgotten the PF circus). If this is not a failed state what is it Mr. Mwananjiti?
Mula
January 6, 2015 at 12:57 am
@T Wood, You Think This Backyard Fighting Makes Zambia A Failed State. Baka Pusafye Ulupi Ka Maureen, You Start Yaping. Everything Is Possible In The Field Of Politics, Mukebe Akaliule Kenu. With All This Developments Yet You Beat Yo Empty Tin. So You Cant See? I Think You Have A Failed Mind. @Jane Mufyoto, Those Opinion Polls You Conduct Namaule Yobe, Wont Take Hakaule To State House Waumfwa. Keep Your Dirty Mind Mumatanta, Efyo Balemikapila. If You Have Nothing To Say, Undress Yoursef, Look On The Mirror. What Do You See? Opinion Toilet Ifyabupuba, Idiot.
P Kasonde
January 6, 2015 at 1:03 am
@ Mula, your views are completely wrong and your language uncivilized! Grow up. If you can’t be civil in your contributions keep quite!
Siad Biarre
January 6, 2015 at 1:34 am
Most of these botches just blurt out things from their mouths without knowing what they mean. A failed state is yet to occur in southern africa because even Madagascar the only country that has had coups in this region is not a failed state. Maureen is just a failed politician. Very foolish politician too
mujosah
January 6, 2015 at 2:02 am
In Politics Every Thing Is possible, next time
Tumikata Tukamikakile Elo Tukamifule mukatombane
Ne mbwa(Dogs)Kwati Muleufwa Sana Sex.
Ndanjekakhs
January 6, 2015 at 4:25 am
By the way Edgar was in that province so was it deliberate for Upnd to be there too? As those poles there is no you can.
on SMS when you know that people have more than one.cell no and. Vj is town (
vampiro
January 6, 2015 at 5:50 am
Kuti mwebantu muli ba mmd mwaya mukupanga rally in support of upnd efyo bakula mipumina. You are confusing electorates who have never seen such kind of ubufufuntungu bwasango ngefi. Ayo ba mutati, maureen and the rest malibu yakuilombela, asoliti, if yu are mmd campaign for mmd not upnd. Thats why yu were chased and simple an operation, ihope yu have understood that english.
The one
January 6, 2015 at 6:17 am
We condemn the violence that occurred, but remember that you Mutati, Nalumango and Maureen planted evil violence in people when you were in MMD now you are harvesting what you sow. On opinion poll, Muvi TV continue cheating people we shall see after the actual poll because ifintu ni Lungu
kakolwe
January 6, 2015 at 6:32 am
Let me repeat what I said the other day.
If I, a reasoning PF supporter, go to Namwala to campaign for PF and the good people of Namwala politely say to me: “Peepe, swebo tulayanda HH a janza kumbele buyo. Twalumba mdala for trying amhinke cibotu cibotu” Then the following week I go back with a team of PF die hards with loads of cash to try and sway the minds of the people I talked to!!! Ehhh! Baneee! If they roast my balls/malepes, I’ll no one to blame but my opinionated minds.
The UPND/MMD team should have understood that the NO! which the people of Northern Province gave to HH was humble but final.
S Chalibonena
January 6, 2015 at 7:19 am
Ngandwe, it was you and your elder brother who first brought the tribal tag on UPND by declaring who the rightful successor to Mazoka (MHSRIP) should be. Then you on your own accord, perhaps due to the embarrassment your pronouncement brought upon yourself. Now you are calling for the condemnation of a statement by one who survived a traumatizing assault, are you sure you are not losing something very critical here? Violence in whatever form is always ugly. TAKE IT EASY YOUNG MAN and be honest with yourself!
New Age
January 6, 2015 at 7:24 am
Naba Nalumango balesangwa mumalyashi aya!!! mwebantu the office of speaker or Deputy Speaker of NATIONAL ASSEMBLY is a very nobble one. mulesala abantu who are above board. Its embarrassing for the office of the speaker to have its formers indulge in stupid political situations as this. SHAME BANALUMANGO NANGU NINSALA BANE NIFI?
FTJ
January 6, 2015 at 7:39 am
@Kakolwe, naukwata sana amano mwaiche wandi. Please continue with your good analyses.
FTJ
January 6, 2015 at 7:46 am
I believe the complainant in this video which does not show the chaser but only the chasee is MMD because the majority were MMD. So if Nevers Mumba doesn’t speak out for his MPs, UPND should keep quiet.
Ndaje Kahks
January 6, 2015 at 8:18 am
why is it only you talking about these polls? We know these are being posted by the same group as a campaign strategy. It wont sway my personal opinion if that is what you are aiming at.
vampiro
January 6, 2015 at 9:18 am
@ftj yu are very right. Let mmd nec complain on behalf of its members not upnd. As far as the pipo of shiwangandu are concerned they were rejecting mmd not upnd.
jj kalonda
January 6, 2015 at 9:41 am
I do not agree that Zambia is already a failed state. What is true is that beating up somebody whilst holding a panga, in full view of the police, is something that is normal in a failed state. It is the duty of every right thinking Zambian to condemn filthy acts, regardless of the perpetrator. We can only be proud of our country if we are proud of our relationships with each other. No matter where we come from, it is us to blame for whatever becomes of our country, or us to praise if we build ourselves a great nation
MAKAVELI
January 6, 2015 at 10:02 am
Maureen is HHs WHORE!
IF NOT
January 6, 2015 at 11:20 am
I fell to understand how selfish some pipo can be, Maureen is comfortable with all the inheritance and what she grabbed from her step children, why cant she sit back and enjoy quietly than embarrassing herself like that running like a headless chicken with her colleague nalumango????????????? shame upon you.
IF NOT
January 6, 2015 at 11:21 am
fail
Isaac
January 6, 2015 at 12:12 pm
I
Isaac
January 6, 2015 at 12:16 pm
In a failed state, no one is able to cast a vote, in a failed state no one can have the democratic rights to do anything he/she wants.In a failed state you cannot embark on any development as it were. So Maureen Mwanawasa is a liar and being economical with the truth.
fuks
January 6, 2015 at 2:20 pm
Will u define failure to be near misunderstanding or liken yo party as cause fo yo behavior