HH WANTS TO BRING BACK KAKUBO, HENCE DELAY IN APPOINTING NEW MINISTER – MUNDUBILE
Monday, 29 January 2023
MPOROKOSO PF member of parliament Brian Mundubile says President Hakainde Hichilema has delayed appointing a Foreign Affairs Minister because he wants ACC to clear Stanely Kakubo so that he can reappoint him.
Mulambo Haimbe has been acting as Minister of Foreign Affairs since Kakubo’s resignation in December last year.
And last week, the Anti-Corruption-Commission (ACC) said investigations relating to Kakubo’s involvement in a suspicious financial transaction with the Chinese were ongoing, assuring that progress had been made.
In an interview, Friday, Mundubile said the President should have appointed a substantive Minister of Foreign Affairs upon Kakubo’s resignation.
“President Hakainde Hichilema has failed to fight corruption because if he was actively fighting corruption, upon the resignation of honourable Kakubo, he should have appointed another minister immediately because there are a number of competent MPs in the backbench that can be appointed.
But because he would like ACC to clear honourable Kakubo and give him back his job because he supports whatever Kakubo was doing, that’s what the delay is about. The delay is that he wants to reappoint Kakubo because he approves of what Kakubo has been doing,” Mundubile said.
And Mundubile said the UPND should not celebrate their victory in the just ended ward by-elections because the results showed how much they had lost popularity.
“But when you look through what happened in that ward by-elections, it’s also a confirmation that the UPND have lost popularity. Where did you ever see a ward by-election with 10 ministers in and out of a ward? And with all that effort and money they got 1,300 votes? If I was UPND I would not celebrate. How would you celebrate 1,300 votes with 10 ministers campaigning?
When you are analysing an election victory you look at the efforts and the results. When is a win a win and when is a win a lose?
When you analyse it from that angle, you will realise that the UPND government is at its lowest because they sent ministers, DCs, a lot of money in corruption and they got 1,300 votes, he said.
He said the electoral system in Zambia had completely collapsed as elections were being conducted outside the law.
“The point is that the electoral system in Zambia has collapsed completely because elections are being conducted outside the law.
Corruption in elections has become a norm. Article 52 of the constitution is very clear that when a candidate resigns, dies or withdraws, that particular election must be canceled. What happened in Chinsali? One candidate withdrew in accordance with provisions of the constitution, but because of lawlessness, because of having a government that has no regard for the rule of law, the elections still went ahead, confirming that the electoral process has collapsed completely.
It has collapsed completely because ECZ is being run by cadres,” said Mundubile.
“The commissioners are all members of the UPND, so they will do everything to frustrate what the law provides. It’s also true that minister Elias Mubanga and Elvis Nkandu were distributing money openly, in the full view of the Police and other electorates. But because the electoral system collapsed, nobody bothered to even spite that electoral malpractice”.
(Credit: News Diggers)
If Kakubo is innocent yes he deserves his job back.
Ba Brian Mundubile if UPND has lost popularity in Chinsali your PF stronghold, then why didn’t your failed PF Project win the bye election since it is popular? Your sentiments are full of unimaginable idiocy and nonsense from a learned Lawyer like you bwana. Too much beans in your submission.
Double standards, why did nt Mundubile cry out that HH is delaying in appointing a provincial Minister for Luapula after the Chilundika scandal? When the fight is lost malice is the only tool left in the hands of the loser.
If you, you want to bring back Lungu whom the people of Zambia rejected in 2021, why should Kakubo be victimized when he is innocent? Even Hon Chilundika could have gotten his job back had he proved his innocence. If ACC has failed to find any proof of corruption, then where is the case? You are a lawyer yourself and if you have any evidence, go and avail it but if you also don’t have, then Kakubo is innocent and he free to get back his job or he can still be appointed to another Ministerial position if it is the wish of the appointing authority. You are better off to fight for your lost position as the leader of opposition in the house than fighting Kakubo’s possibility of being reappointed which doesn’t concern you. A person remains innocent until he is proven guilty and if that proof is not there, then theman retains his innocence.