By Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba
Chipenzi, NO!
President Hakainde Hichilema has appointed constitutional lawyer Mrs. Frances Mwangala Zaloumis as Electoral Commission of Zambia Board Chairperson.
She will be the first non- judge person to occupy the position.
Previous ECZ Chairpersons have been Supreme Court Justices.
1. ECZ Chairperson Hon. Justice Esau Chulu
2. Hon. Justice Irene Mambilima.
3. Hon. Justice Florence Mumba.
4. Hon. Judge Bobby Mack Bwalya ( High Court Judge).
5. Hon. Justice Mathew Ngulube.
Of concern is the appointment of the of the Commissioner , Mr. Mcdonald Chipenzi.
The Executive Director of Governance, Elections, Advocacy, Research Services (GEARS) Initiative and former Executive Director of FODEP has sufficiently demonstrated that he is a UPND surrogate and has been highly and openly partisan in many civic and national affairs.
It is our prayer that President Hichilema finds someone deemed neutral than Mr. Chipenzi.
President Hichilema has re-appointed Commissioner Amb. Ali Derrick Njavwa Simwinga and made him Vice Chairperson. He was first was appointed Commissioner at the Electoral Commission of Zambia on 6th April, 2018.
Since its establishment in 1996, the Commission has delivered five (5) General Elections (in 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016), two (2) Presidential Elections (in 2008 and 2015)
Mr. Mwamba, remove the pickle in your own eye before you look into the eye of another person. Have you forgotten about yourself? You were equally a PF surrogate and don’t think people have forgotten what you were doing. Are you not one of the diplomats who used to come back home three months before elections? What were you coming for if you were not PF stooge? With Mwangala Zaloumis, Ali Simwinga and Macdonald Chipenzi, in place, chances of manipulating elections by UPND, PF or any other party are becoming very very slim.
Uyu wine, eotulefwaya chipenzi! Good move!
Iwee ka mwamba, who are you? To comment on ours, ikalafye!
Fimba upoke when you had Isau Chulu and Mukaladi you thot all is all. Let him be and you will understand it all.
THEY WERE APPOINTED ACCORDING TO THE PF MANIFESTO WHICH SAYS THAT ANYBODY TO BE APPOINTED IN A POSITION OF INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENT AND PARASTATAL MUST BE PF. DO NOT START WHAT WE KNOW ALREADY ABOUT THOSE APPOINTMENTS OF YOURS. CAN YOU COMPARE THE PERFORMANCE OF CHULU WITH THAT OF CHIPENZI? CHIPENZI IS A BETTER PERFORMER THAN ANYBODY APPOINTED BEFORE3 IN THAT POSITION.