After falling out with President Edgar

Lungu’s regime, thorns have been thrown in the way of Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili and his Bahati counterpart Harry Kalaba.
This is now a matter of concern to CiSCA Chairperson John Mambo who has for the first time voiced out on the duo’s predicament.
He said Kambwili and Kalaba have been clients of the Zambia Police Service since turning political foes of President Lungu.

”A number of political leaders have been denied their constitutional right and freedom to enjoy the provisions of Article 60 as their meetings, movements and association are either disrupted or curtailed by the police. We are aware that political leaders like Harry Kalaba and Chishimba Kambwili associated with Democratic Party and National Democratic Congress, respectively, have consistently been clients of the police. This is against the Constitution which empowers

political parties and their leaders to canvass public support from citizens for the growth of their political parties,”

And Bishop Mambo said CiSCA is concerned that Government seems to have no direction on this issue of enactment review of pieces of legislation.
Bishop Mambo said Government as to date not enacted some important laws despite promising the Zambian people that it would do so.
“It seems the Government is everywhere and anywhere on this score. For instance this government is on record promising Zambians of the enactment of the Access to Information law, the Political Parties’ Bill, the Refined Draft Constitution among others. But to date, nothing has been done, actually muteness has been the order of the day,” he said.
Bishop Mambo said Government has now jumped to talk about the review of the Public

Order Act(POA) which may be shelved after receiving submissions from the people.
He said while money is being wasted in consultations on legal reforms that do not produce anything at the end of the day, Zambians remain expectant and taken for granted.
“It is on this score that we challenge the Ministry of Justice to explain why it has adopted this kind of approach to law making in Zambia,” he sa

And Bishop Mambo says in Enactment of legislation to govern public debt and loans
Article 63 provides for the enactment of legislation for Parliament to scrutinise public funds, and for Parliament to approve public debt before it is contracted. “This is currently not the case as public debt has continued to be contracted in darkrooms between the lenders and the government officials without the involvement of the people’s representatives. We therefore demand thatthe government moves with speed and initiate the enactment of the Loans and Debts Act among other Acts to give effect to the legislative oversight on the executive and to beef up the hitherto hollow austerity measures,” he said
On dialogue and national reconciliation, Bishop Mambo reiterated CiScA earlier suggestion and call that all stakeholders must allow the Church to handle the key national process.
“We are surprised that the Church’s leadership in this process is being contested and yet, just a few weeks ago, the country was observing the day of national prayers, fasting and reconciliation led not by the Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue (ZCID) but by the Church and attended by political party leaders. This puts the church on an advantage to facilitate, lead and chair the entire process like it did during the Day of Prayer, Fasting and Reconciliation. Therefore, we call on the ZCID and those supporting them to allow the church to play its prophetic role and realise that the Church is best positioned to handle such a process as its track record does show,” Bishop Mambo said.

Source: Kwacha Celebrity Newspaper