HH Must Slow Down—Chief Mabumba
…before he destroys Zambia´s democracy
06.07.24
Mabumba Palace, MANSA
Chief Mabumba of the Ushi people in Luapula province has appealed to President Hichilema to immediately intervene in the illegal expulsion of nine legislators from parliament by renegade junior speaker Moses Moyo in order to save Zambia´s democracy.
“President Hichilema whom we respect so much has the final word on this matter,” said Chief Mabumba, “he must stop this illegal manoeuvre to save our most cherished democracy, he must not bury his head in the sand we know he is aware of this mischief.”
Chief Mabumba said the law is clear that only the courts of law can expel an erring legislator and not a junior speaker the way Moyo has done.
the respected traditional leader from the influential Mansa district of Luapula also warns that Mr Hichilema could face electoral consequences in or before 2026 if he fails to reverse Moyo´s illegal decision to shrink the opposition in parliament, joining others such as Chief Munkanta, Chief Chama and Chief Mushota of the Chishinga people.
Moyo has come under fire recently for passing what analyts say is a partisan instruction to rape the constitution of Zambia and declare nine opposition seats vacant when the law of Zambia clearly stipulates that only a court can do that.
Chief Mabumba said, “If President Hichilema is not involved in this shenanigan let him bring it to an end if he doesn’t we will believe the popular narrative that he wants to dilute the opposition in parliament and blatantly rape the constitution. Our people in Luapula want this circus to end now and democracy must prevail.”
The sixth President of Zambia Edgar Lungu has vowed to do everything legal and political to stop Mr Hichilema from turning Zambia into a dictatorship following the illegal expulsion of the nine in an address to the nation on Friday.
“I want Zambians, the church, the chiefs like Chief Munkanta to fight and save our democracy,” said Lungu.
Chief Mabumba cautioned that if Zambia slid into chaos, “President Hichilema will be blamed…he has an opportunity to restore the peace and stability Zambia has enjoyed before he even assumed office he must not destroy Zambia.”
Source: Mabumba Palace
We have laws in this country. So not every mother fcking chief should be making reckless statements which are far fetched from the rules of law. Which law is Mabumba interpreting? These chiefs from Luapula have a tendency of trying to circumvent the law when it affects their subjects. Do they think the laws are for other tribes only? That is nonsense.
Meanwhile, where are the Tonga chiefs to speak up for their subjects. Hichilema is being insulted everyday and they are all quiet as if it’s only Bembas that have chiefs in this country!
We are i the danger of being lawless because of these fcking chiefs! This doesn’t make sense and must be sorted out.
I’ve chikala shut the fuck up. Idiot.
We have laws in this country. So not every mother fcking chief should be making reckless statements which are far fetched from the rules of law. Which law is Mabumba interpreting? These chiefs from Luapula have a tendency of trying to circumvent the law when it affects their subjects. Do they think the laws are for other tribes only? That is nonsense.
Meanwhile, where are the Tonga chiefs to speak up for their subjects. Hichilema is being insulted everyday and they are all quiet as if it’s only Bembas that have chiefs in this country!
We are i the danger of being lawless because of these fcking chiefs! This doesn’t make sense and must be sorted out.
I’ve chikala shut the fuck up. Idiot.
Please ba useless chief let us follow the law ,no need of want HH to come in into this matter, just eat silent the money the opposition specific PF criminals they have given.Hired gun by PF criminals.
Please ba useless chief let us follow the law ,no need of want HH to come in into this matter, just eat silent the money the opposition specific PF criminals they have given.Hired gun by PF criminals.
Mwemfumu, natwishiba ukutila balya bantu balishileko kalupiya kanono ilintu baishile uko. Lelo, belamibepa. Icho balefwaya chakutila HH nga atila ATI bane babwesheni bakese landa ukutila ale fulunganya parliament kabili teshibe ifyo akolanda. Ababantu nabapenafye. Bushe balishile mitandalilako lintu Bali ku State House? Ngechashupa ilelo chinshi?
Ala bela mibonfya ba mfumu.
Lekeni umuntu uuletele umutende muchalo atwalilile. Abamasa bakakwe ukulingana nefude LYACHALO Mwane.
Mwemfumu, natwishiba ukutila balya bantu balishileko kalupiya kanono ilintu baishile uko. Lelo, belamibepa. Icho balefwaya chakutila HH nga atila ATI bane babwesheni bakese landa ukutila ale fulunganya parliament kabili teshibe ifyo akolanda. Ababantu nabapenafye. Bushe balishile mitandalilako lintu Bali ku State House? Ngechashupa ilelo chinshi?
Ala bela mibonfya ba mfumu.
Lekeni umuntu uuletele umutende muchalo atwalilile. Abamasa bakakwe ukulingana nefude LYACHALO Mwane.
Let us abolish chiefdoms
Let us abolish chiefdoms
His Royal Highness should at least have referred to the laws that he thinks gives power to the President to reverse decisions of the Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
His Royal Highness should at least have referred to the laws that he thinks gives power to the President to reverse decisions of the Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
President HH must not put his neck in this noose. Should he intervene the opposition will gleefully accuse him of manipulating the legislature and the judiciary. This appeal is a double-edged sword.
President HH must not put his neck in this noose. Should he intervene the opposition will gleefully accuse him of manipulating the legislature and the judiciary. This appeal is a double-edged sword.
Just look at the bloggers above from the Zambezi region. You keep defending nonsense just because it is coming from one of your own.
You think the entire country is stupid except you the Zambezi dwellers.
Vote wisely in 2026.
It is you who is useless. Who expelled the 9 parliamentarians? Was it HH or Sampa?
Who appealed to the Concourt ?Was it HH or the expelled parliamentarians?
Who has now expelled Sampa and causing confusion in the party ?Is it HH again?
The Zambezi dwellers know that there are Laws in this country. And we will vote for law and order and not confusion. We know nonsense people like you your pagan chief thrive in confusion and lawlessness.
Shame on you. People of little to offer rush to tribal inclination. Why talk about tribe when all those contributing are not all from the Zambezi region?
Sensible people appreciate reasonable debate. People are simply trying to tell Chiefs to stay out of politics as it may just expose their ignorance or reveal their weaknesses.
Chiefs must not soil their hands by receiving stolen money from those looking for support of the wrongs they commit. Don’t support crookedness because it has potential to leave an undesirable legacy in this country. Just because those MPs come from your areas does not mean the law must be broken to fix their nonsensical behaviour. The president has nothing to do with their rogue behaviour. It has nothing to do with siding with a tribe here, it is the country’s credibility at stake.
Your obsession with hatred for the so called Zambezi region people ( non Bemba and non Nyanja speaking people) is very worrying. We saw the same attitude during President Mwanawasa’s rule. This time it is worse. The earlier you accept that the Zambian presidency is not reserved for only people from Eastern, Luapula, Muchinga and Northern provinces the better for your health.
With this kind of hatred it is advisable that president HH’s security must be beefed up.
Very sad to see that ba Indigo you have morphed into a fully fledged tribalist/regionalist.
@Indigo Tyrol please be sensible and analyse the comments don’t be judgmental about the Zambezi provinces as you call them and best known to you.
The chief is out of his mind and he is not fit to provide level-headed leadership. He is politically inclined to PF. He is one of the the chiefs who benefited a lot from the corrupt money and handouts from the corrupt PF. If indeed he was wise to offer good counsel when the PF was having intra party wrangles did he counsel PF to go for Convention to elect a party president? When Miles Sampa imposed himself through holding a Convention to elect a new party president and other positions within the PF, did he come to denounce Miles Sampa? Also, why didn’t he speak against Edgar Chagwa Lungu when he came back to active politics and still claimed to be the leader of PF? Actually, the happenings in PF are the ones causing confusion because they are undemocratic? All along the Chief has been mute on these critical issues but why today is he blaming President Hakainde Hichilema alleging that he would disunity and insecurity?
Just look at the bloggers above from the Zambezi region. You keep defending nonsense just because it is coming from one of your own.
You think the entire country is stupid except you the Zambezi dwellers.
Vote wisely in 2026.
It is you who is useless. Who expelled the 9 parliamentarians? Was it HH or Sampa?
Who appealed to the Concourt ?Was it HH or the expelled parliamentarians?
Who has now expelled Sampa and causing confusion in the party ?Is it HH again?
The Zambezi dwellers know that there are Laws in this country. And we will vote for law and order and not confusion. We know nonsense people like you your pagan chief thrive in confusion and lawlessness.
Shame on you. People of little to offer rush to tribal inclination. Why talk about tribe when all those contributing are not all from the Zambezi region?
Sensible people appreciate reasonable debate. People are simply trying to tell Chiefs to stay out of politics as it may just expose their ignorance or reveal their weaknesses.
Chiefs must not soil their hands by receiving stolen money from those looking for support of the wrongs they commit. Don’t support crookedness because it has potential to leave an undesirable legacy in this country. Just because those MPs come from your areas does not mean the law must be broken to fix their nonsensical behaviour. The president has nothing to do with their rogue behaviour. It has nothing to do with siding with a tribe here, it is the country’s credibility at stake.
Your obsession with hatred for the so called Zambezi region people ( non Bemba and non Nyanja speaking people) is very worrying. We saw the same attitude during President Mwanawasa’s rule. This time it is worse. The earlier you accept that the Zambian presidency is not reserved for only people from Eastern, Luapula, Muchinga and Northern provinces the better for your health.
With this kind of hatred it is advisable that president HH’s security must be beefed up.
Very sad to see that ba Indigo you have morphed into a fully fledged tribalist/regionalist.
@Indigo Tyrol please be sensible and analyse the comments don’t be judgmental about the Zambezi provinces as you call them and best known to you.
The chief is out of his mind and he is not fit to provide level-headed leadership. He is politically inclined to PF. He is one of the the chiefs who benefited a lot from the corrupt money and handouts from the corrupt PF. If indeed he was wise to offer good counsel when the PF was having intra party wrangles did he counsel PF to go for Convention to elect a party president? When Miles Sampa imposed himself through holding a Convention to elect a new party president and other positions within the PF, did he come to denounce Miles Sampa? Also, why didn’t he speak against Edgar Chagwa Lungu when he came back to active politics and still claimed to be the leader of PF? Actually, the happenings in PF are the ones causing confusion because they are undemocratic? All along the Chief has been mute on these critical issues but why today is he blaming President Hakainde Hichilema alleging that he would disunity and insecurity?
Zambezi region Chiefs rarely involve themselves in politics. I can’t figure out whether it is out of Wisdom or Cowardice. I can imagine if they also took sides of their Politician Subjects, the chaos and hatred that would be in the country. But whatever it is why they don’t voice out, at least it keeps the political temperature down in the country, there is just too much political heat being emitted in the country daily, Tik Tok Tik Tok. The country will never ever heal from this stupid polarisation fueled by social media which these morons and brainless Bloggers have taken advantage of. Now everyone is viewed first as a Bemba or a Tonga or whatever tribe he belongs to before being viewed as a Zambian and a brother, what a Caveman Mentality.
Zambezi region Chiefs rarely involve themselves in politics. I can’t figure out whether it is out of Wisdom or Cowardice. I can imagine if they also took sides of their Politician Subjects, the chaos and hatred that would be in the country. But whatever it is why they don’t voice out, at least it keeps the political temperature down in the country, there is just too much political heat being emitted in the country daily, Tik Tok Tik Tok. The country will never ever heal from this stupid polarisation fueled by social media which these morons and brainless Bloggers have taken advantage of. Now everyone is viewed first as a Bemba or a Tonga or whatever tribe he belongs to before being viewed as a Zambian and a brother, what a Caveman Mentality.
Umungulu.
Umungulu.
What had HH got to do with the expulsions? What have the Zambezi people got to do with the inner fighting of the PF? It is not region’s that are causing the confusion but some desperado that wants a come back because his ego is bruised.
What had HH got to do with the expulsions? What have the Zambezi people got to do with the inner fighting of the PF? It is not region’s that are causing the confusion but some desperado that wants a come back because his ego is bruised.
Ba Chief Mabumba,Your Marjesty I wanted to avoid attending to your submission but I thought of doing that because it is important to respond quickly respond before people are mislead on this matter.Miles Sampa and his PF members had a convention.PF of Mr Lubinda and his PF failed to have a convention due to insufficient funds.Where Sampa found the money to organize the convention is not my baby to nurse.The fact is Sampa emerged the new President of PF.Some PF members were not happy and did an injunction to restrain Sampa from acting as PF President and the court did that but later the court recognized Sampa as President of PF.Sampa observed that his MPs didn’t recognize him as President of PF but new of ECL and they did not respect him he and his members Sampa expelled them from the party not parliament.In Parliament a member rose on a point of order to ask if the house was in order to allow expelled MPs from their party to be in the house when their party which sponsored them has expelled them.The Constitution of Zambia of 2016 (amended one) has a close which talks about circumstances which can lead to discharge of MPs or MP from the house.President Hichilema was not in Parliament when the constitution was amended to allow that close precisely section 70 2(e) When a member asked the Speaker he said he would study the matter and give the decision later.And later the 9 MPs were discharged.And earlier these MPs took the matter to the Constitutional Court where unfortunately the Court pronounced that it had no jurisdiction to determine the matter and the petitioners did not raise constitutional matters.I can’t tell you at what point the parliament derived the reason to remove the 9 MPs from the house ba Chief.PF have been having their own problems since the demise of Mr Sata.Succession disputes in PF are very old, a child could be born and reach grade 3.The reason of bringing Hichilema in this matter is flabbergasting and it is a deliberate ploy to dent his image.The President of Zambia doesn’t attend to court matters ba Chief.Let the 9 MPs explain to the court that has jurisdiction the reason why Sampa has no powers to expell them from the party.The expulsion from the party triggered discharge from parliament.Other points are for the court to say.Stop putting the name of the president in bad taste to make him be hated by people of Zambia who love him so much.We respect you ba Chief God bless.
Ba Chief Mabumba,Your Marjesty I wanted to avoid attending to your submission but I thought of doing that because it is important to respond quickly respond before people are mislead on this matter.Miles Sampa and his PF members had a convention.PF of Mr Lubinda and his PF failed to have a convention due to insufficient funds.Where Sampa found the money to organize the convention is not my baby to nurse.The fact is Sampa emerged the new President of PF.Some PF members were not happy and did an injunction to restrain Sampa from acting as PF President and the court did that but later the court recognized Sampa as President of PF.Sampa observed that his MPs didn’t recognize him as President of PF but new of ECL and they did not respect him he and his members Sampa expelled them from the party not parliament.In Parliament a member rose on a point of order to ask if the house was in order to allow expelled MPs from their party to be in the house when their party which sponsored them has expelled them.The Constitution of Zambia of 2016 (amended one) has a close which talks about circumstances which can lead to discharge of MPs or MP from the house.President Hichilema was not in Parliament when the constitution was amended to allow that close precisely section 70 2(e) When a member asked the Speaker he said he would study the matter and give the decision later.And later the 9 MPs were discharged.And earlier these MPs took the matter to the Constitutional Court where unfortunately the Court pronounced that it had no jurisdiction to determine the matter and the petitioners did not raise constitutional matters.I can’t tell you at what point the parliament derived the reason to remove the 9 MPs from the house ba Chief.PF have been having their own problems since the demise of Mr Sata.Succession disputes in PF are very old, a child could be born and reach grade 3.The reason of bringing Hichilema in this matter is flabbergasting and it is a deliberate ploy to dent his image.The President of Zambia doesn’t attend to court matters ba Chief.Let the 9 MPs explain to the court that has jurisdiction the reason why Sampa has no powers to expell them from the party.The expulsion from the party triggered discharge from parliament.Other points are for the court to say.Stop putting the name of the president in bad taste to make him be hated by people of Zambia who love him so much.We respect you ba Chief God bless.
I don’t expect such words to come from a Chief, HH is UPND party President, he has nothing whatsoever to do with PF wrangles or for any other party. Just after losing power, PF failed to go for convention, is it HH who stopped them? People paid ma 200,000 but that money is nowhere to be seen. Is it HH who got it? Those factions that are there now were already there even in 2015, Lungu’s faction is the one which carried the day but through unconstitutional and I democratic means. There is nowhere in the world where people just show their hands to elect their Party President, it’s only in PF where such things happen. The Vice President already said it, PF has destroyed itself and is irritating many Zambians for its irresponsible behavior. When Miles Sampa fired Robert Chabinga as leader of opposition and Ng’uni as SG, he appointed new people in the names of Kampamba Mulenga and Sibong’ile Mwamba and they gladly accepted. Hon Kampamba even praised Miles Sampa as a hero and I hope he is not a bottom hero. So after all this confusion and drama, how can a sane person start talking about HH? This is a drought year and HH is busy tackling many challenges the nation is facing, he has no time for such petty and foolish issues happening in PF. They were caused by PF and let PF deal with them. In Zimbabwe, a bigger number of MPs from opposition was expelled or recalled, but in Zambia any expulsion of an MP or MPs, the simplest and easiest name to think of is HH, ni upuba manje ubu. Don’t we have a Constitution to consult and be guided on such issues? Don’t we have Constitutional layers to guide the nation? Why are they ndwii like dogs who can’t bark? I fully agree with HH and his Cabinet that some laws should be reviewed as quickly as possible otherwise abantu bala tumpa sana, they don’t know how to use their freedom, they just know how to abuse it.
I don’t expect such words to come from a Chief, HH is UPND party President, he has nothing whatsoever to do with PF wrangles or for any other party. Just after losing power, PF failed to go for convention, is it HH who stopped them? People paid ma 200,000 but that money is nowhere to be seen. Is it HH who got it? Those factions that are there now were already there even in 2015, Lungu’s faction is the one which carried the day but through unconstitutional and I democratic means. There is nowhere in the world where people just show their hands to elect their Party President, it’s only in PF where such things happen. The Vice President already said it, PF has destroyed itself and is irritating many Zambians for its irresponsible behavior. When Miles Sampa fired Robert Chabinga as leader of opposition and Ng’uni as SG, he appointed new people in the names of Kampamba Mulenga and Sibong’ile Mwamba and they gladly accepted. Hon Kampamba even praised Miles Sampa as a hero and I hope he is not a bottom hero. So after all this confusion and drama, how can a sane person start talking about HH? This is a drought year and HH is busy tackling many challenges the nation is facing, he has no time for such petty and foolish issues happening in PF. They were caused by PF and let PF deal with them. In Zimbabwe, a bigger number of MPs from opposition was expelled or recalled, but in Zambia any expulsion of an MP or MPs, the simplest and easiest name to think of is HH, ni upuba manje ubu. Don’t we have a Constitution to consult and be guided on such issues? Don’t we have Constitutional layers to guide the nation? Why are they ndwii like dogs who can’t bark? I fully agree with HH and his Cabinet that some laws should be reviewed as quickly as possible otherwise abantu bala tumpa sana, they don’t know how to use their freedom, they just know how to abuse it.
I can’t believe that someone who was labeled “under five” can cause so much havoc in the “mighty” PF!
PF and its symphasisers must take full responsibility for the chaos in their party. Of course it is much easier to blame others but it won’t make the problem go away.
PF has always been a party of confusion. Chaos reigned even during the time of their misrule.
I can’t believe that someone who was labeled “under five” can cause so much havoc in the “mighty” PF!
PF and its symphasisers must take full responsibility for the chaos in their party. Of course it is much easier to blame others but it won’t make the problem go away.
PF has always been a party of confusion. Chaos reigned even during the time of their misrule.