55 NEW CONSTITUENCIES? WHERE DID THE REMAINING 44 COME FROM?
By: Political Correspondent
Hon. Mutotwe Kafwaya, MP for Lunte, has challenged the government’s logic behind the creation of 55 new constituencies describing the process as “a deception tsunami.”
Object (a) of Bill 7 claims to “actualize the ECZ report on delimitation of constituencies.” But according to Hon. Kafwaya, the government cannot produce any evidence supporting the figure of 55. Ministers have repeatedly told citizens to consult the ECZ for the report, yet when ECZ appeared before Parliament, they revealed that the 2019 report the latest legitimate document recommended only 11 new constituencies.
“I remember this accurately because Lunte was among the eleven, together with Kasempa and Chilubi,” Kafwaya insists.
This revelation raises a critical question!
“Where have the forty-four additional constituencies come from? How can you add 44 constituencies to a report which only recommended 11? This is deception. This is grand deception,” he says.
The matter is further complicated by ECZ’s claim that the 2019 report was “revised” in 2025. Kafwaya says this revision is questionable because delimitation is a consultative, on-the-ground process, involving public meetings, boundary walks, and stakeholder submissions none of which have occurred since 2018.
“So how did ECZ suddenly revise the report in 2025 without going back to the people? Where did they conduct public meetings? Which boundaries were walked? Who made submissions? This is fiction,” Kafwaya argues.
The MP also points to the government’s contradictory statements, ministers claim the report is with ECZ, while ECZ says it has been submitted to government.
“Government says ‘go to ECZ.’ ECZ says ‘go to Government.’ It’s deception galore!” he laments.
Kafwaya has issued a direct challenge:
“I challenge Government to release the 2019 report for public consumption. I do so because I believe there is no revised 2025 report. The motivation for this arbitrary 55 must be explained.”
As Parliament debates Bill 7, the public is left asking: Are these 44 constituencies real, or are they a politically convenient fiction crafted behind closed doors?
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Lunte Member of Parliament Hon. @Mutotwe Kafwaya writes:::::
55 Constituency Delimitation – a DECEPTION TSUNAMI.
Object (a) of Bill 7 deals with the actualization of the ECZ report on delimitation of constituencies.
When you ask Government that; where is the ECZ report which recommends that 55 constituencies should be delimitated?
Government will tell you that – go to ECZ, the ECZ chair person is there. She has the report. One minister said so on live TV.
As if saying the ECZ chair created Bill 7. You must have a basis for coming up with 55 new constituencies – that is the point Hon Minister!
If the report is still with ECZ, then where did you find the number 55? Utuntu!
You can not be this all over the place, you are very image of Government – as if saying that; we dont know, only ECZ knows about this report as of now. So go find out from them.
Then BOOM! ECZ appears before that select committee currently scrutinising the controversial Bill at the National Assembly of Zambia. And then they are asked about the report.
Without knowing that a minister who did not hear about their response would go on to state that the report is with ECZ, they indicated that they had submitted it to Government.
And further that the ECZ can not release it to the public because it is now in the hands of Government. Its being kept like accountable documents.
But listen to the other important details accordingly to the ECZ:
(i) This is a 2019 report.
(ii) It was revised and handed over to Government.
These two details as offered by ECZ are critical pieces of information which I want to discuss briefly below.
About this being a 2019 report.
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Of course the 2019 report on delimitation of constituencies is the latest ECZ report which exists in the country.
It was presented to a cabinet in 2019. And I can tell you for certain that this report recommended an addition of only eleven (11) constituencies.
I remember this accurately because of course Lunte Constituency was among the eleven, together with Kasempa and Chilubi constituencies.
So, where have the forty four (44) additional constituencies due for delimitation come from?
This is deception. This is grand deception.
How can you add 44 constituencies to a report which only recommended 11? This is not normal! And this expansion without regard to the current economic status of the country.
What then is about the revision of the 2019 report in 2025.
This is one of the funniest stories that I have heard from ECZ this year. Remember ECZ was making this submission to a parliamentary committee under CAP 12 immunities.
Delimitation information gathering is never conducted in offices.
It is a go there activity. Go and talk to the people. Let them walk through their situation. Make boundary and name suggestions. This is what happens.
Public presentations and feedback from the actual people in actual places.
This is what happened in 2018. ECZ came to Vincent Bulaya in Lunte. Stakeholders were called including myself and we made submissions. And made boundary suggestions and even gave a name to the would be born new constituency.
That is how the 2019 report was arrived at.
How then did ECZ revise the same 2019 old report in 2025 without going back to the people?
How did ECZ arrive at an additional 44 constituencies to the original 11?
Where did ECZ conduct public meetings?
Why is government failing to release the 2019 report and the so called 2025 revised report?
Why is the ECZ report is being hidden like the Technical Committee report. Such that when you ask government through a minister, you’d be told to go to ECZ. And when you ask ECZ through the parluamentary select ommittee, you are told go to Government.
Deception galore!
This deception is beyond measure. This is not transparency. This is not accountability.
I challenge government to release the 2019 report for public consumption. I do so as I believe there is no revised report for 2025.
This is so as I believe revising a report of that nature way after it was submitted to Government would require a go back to the people act – which has never taken place since 2018.
The minister and ECZ should consider reconciling their public views on the ECZ report. They are one government. They should not contradict or accuse each other.
And the motivation for coming up with that arbitrary 55 delimitation of constituencies should be explained. This deception tsunami should not be left unattended.
Restoring EVERTHING PATRIOTIC.
MK11.12.2025
Abena Hakainde, explain to us why you are keeping this document secret at community house. How many more MPs are proposed in your Southern province?
REJECT TRIBALISM, CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
This is the Unholy grail of the Illegitimate and unconstitutional Bill 7.
Let Hakainde release the Delimitation Report…the 2019 Delimitation, and the 2025 Secret Delimitation as alluded to by the Electoral Commission of Zambia.
Let Hakainde explain how he came up with 55 Additional Constituency based Parliamentary Seats.
Let Hakainde explain how the 55 additional Parliamentary Seats are distributed in the country.
Let Hakainde release the Census Population Report for each District and Constituency in Zambia.
In Delimitation lies the Crookedness of people resolved to change the Constitution of Zambia using the illegitimate and unconstitutional Bill 7.
To the Members of Parliament, how can you vote for some thing you don’t know?
Only a fool can do that!