PETAUKE CENTRAL BY-ELECTION SET FOR FEBRUARY 6, 2025
By ZR Reporter
The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has set 6th February 2025 as the date on which to hold the Parliamentary by-election for Petauke Central in Eastern Province.
The seat in question has been declared vacant following legal matters “former” Parliamentarian Emmanuel Jay Banda is faced with.
Mr Banda, who allegedly escaped from law enforcers through a hospital window, faces the charge of aggravated robbery, among others.
Government recently announced his apprehension in Zimbabwe, but information emerged later that Banda was actually a free man in that country.
Meanwhile, according to ECZ Corporate Affairs Manager Patricia Luhanga, two ward by-elections in Ntanda Ward of Mpongwe District in Copperbelt Province and Litawa Ward of Mongu District in Western Province will also be held on the same day.
She said the polls will take place from 06:00 hours to 18:00 hours on Thursday, 6th February, 2025.



This election is illegal.
The speaker demanded that JJ presented himself within 7 days. However, according to the government, JJ is in their custody in Zimbabwe. Why could they not avail him to parliament?
So many people will go to jail over this same JJ because they are breaking the law to fix JJ that irrigated on a UPND cadre. This same JJ will visit you in jail just to laugh at you after 2026. You supreme leader will have escaped to his beloved Panama, and will be posting videos like a mad man same way Tayali does.
Umulandu taubola.
Vote with your stomachs in 2026.
Vote like they do in their region.
Vote wisely in 2026.
What about JJ Banda’s supposed illness for which he even sought hospitalisation? The hospitals where he was admitted ought to send a bill to demand payment for wasting their time and resources.
From Jay Jay banda to bye bye banda. You have lost your seat without even a fight.
And since you have insomnia and can’t sleep over him daily he will take you with him to Panama so that you continue blogging against him there. I am sure you can’t resist that offer, can you? How will your daily life be here without him? What good riddance and fresh will that be to us?
Imagine you were absent from your job with no explanation. Who would wait this long to replace you?
PF jokers need to start learning that there are consequences to actions.
In private companies, even 1 week unexplained absence from work you are out. Anyway it’s a culture of some people and political parties to get free things without working for them. That’s why we are here as a country