HH IS PLAYING CHESS, HE’LL EVENTUALLY ALTER TERM LIMIT – MUNDUBILE
Lusaka – Wednesday, 16 April 2025.
MPOROKOSO PF MP Brian Mundubile says President Hakainde Hichilema cannot be trusted because all the allegations he is denying pertaining to the constitutional amendments are true.
On Sunday, President Hichilema said allegations that he wanted to amend the Constitution in order to increase his term limit, remove the running mate, among other things, were very unfair.
But in an interview, Tuesday, Mundubile said President Hichilema was slowly moving towards achieving all of those things.
“All the allegations that he is saying no to remain true because of the manner in which he wants to handle the process, they remain true that he wants to remove 50+1 later, he wants to remove running mate, he wants to remove term limit and so on, that is his intention, he is playing chess, he doesn’t want to win on the first move, the first move should help him secure 2026 and then when he comes back all those clauses he was denying [will be amended] because remember, it is the same President who would say ‘today people are lying, they are saying that we want to give KCM to Vedanta, that’s a lie’, a month later, he comes to say we are glad to announce that we have found an investor, we have cancelled court cases, KCM is going to Vedanta, that’s the President, that’s President HH,” he said.
“He is not one who would shy away from turning around completely from something that he said previously, these are things that we know, even constitutional amendments he said we won’t [make], he is at it now, KCM we can’t give it to Vedanta, it’s now with Vedanta”.
Mundubile said even though President Hichilema was refuting the allegations, he was pushing a constitutional amendment agenda aimed at gaining majority in Parliament.
“What is of concern is that it’s the President who is justifying himself over the proposed amendments, it’s the President who is denying allegations over the constitutional amendments. In a constitutional amendment process, that should not arise, even the defence he is putting up, he is just digging himself deeper into the hole because why is he saying ‘I am not amending the Constitution for this’, that statement alone tells you there is something wrong because the Constitution says we the people give unto ourselves this Constitution, so there should be no time when an individual says I am not doing this because of this, he is already admitting that he is doing something wrong,” he said.
“He is admitting that he is the one amending the Constitution. The arguments we have is that it should not be him to amend the Constitution, it should have been the people to propose constitutional amendments so even if he is refuting those allegations, what we know is that he is pushing that agenda to gain the majority in Parliament through delimitation in strongholds, through nominations and if he can get two thirds just from his side, then after the elections, he will now come back and amend those other clauses that he has shied away from”.
Mundubile said the proposals, if implemented, would give President Hichilema an unfair advantage in 2026.
“He pushes for amending some of the clauses now that will give him an advantage in the 2026 elections because why should you tie the amendments of the Constitution to an election? They are the ones who are saying before 2026, why are they tying the elections to it? That is one question, meaning the amendment should give them an advantage in the 2026 elections and then thereafter, because of the many things that have happened in his first term, he will not then remove 50+1 going forward, he will remove the running mate going forward, he will remove the term limit going forward and so on. We have seen these things happen before in other countries so he must understand that there are a lot of people that read, there are many people that can see him in his tracks,” said Mundubile.
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Opposition should wake up, when you look at the information coming out of UPND, they are talking very much to the delimitation exercise, and this exercise will directly increase the number of parliamentarians, then they are tying that increase to the increase in nominated MP’s by coining a wrong narrative that, nominated members are deduced by percentage in order to increase the nominated members of parliament, but never in this republic have we ever come up with nominated MP’s by percentage because it is by prescription which says not more than eight (8), ask your selves why the issue’s tied together speak to increased number of MP’s and your guess is as good as mine. So, if they say by percentage which is actually wrong how are they going to deal with let’s say 2.3% and then as an example that calculates to 2.5 members of paliament!, are they now going to say the point five is a short MP???? that is why the number is fixed and not by percentage, and if you say by percentage, are the nominations going to be adjusted if an MP resigns or MP’s seats are declared vacant? they talk about Lacunas and want to create a big Lacuna. When Muchinga became a province resulting in a provincial minister being brought in, did the nominated number of MP’s change? the answer is no because that number is by prescription and not percentage. be very careful about the motive of increasing MP’s through an innocent looking exercise of delimitation and ask the right questions.
I used to think you were genius but alas, just like the rest of the opposition the Mundubile quality.
You! So you don’t know that 5.13% of 156 MPs gives you 8 nominated MPs. Most of you people were kept in the dark for long on how MPs work.
Mundubile stop telling lies. Why are the current amendments said to be non contentious?
Werent you as members consulted?
If you didnt agree. By way of votes the majority agreed.
Unless you can state that didnt happen as said then you are lying.
As for KCM and Vandenta. KCM doesnt belong to us. The owners are Vandenta. So again stop telling lies. You as PF lost the case in London and the South African courts, as to the rightful owners of KCM. Its been given to the owners. Want it. Buy it from Vandenta. Otherwise the woes that befall KCM need to be addressed by its owners. Period…
But kwena! Why should a grown up person like mundibila whom I assume has got even children and grandiez continue lieying to the nation. He is a let down to himself and I think even to humanity. Why? Why ? sure mwebantu just for silver you continue opening your mouth in spectacles to vomit lies?
Unless Otherwise but from what I have seen in the shared roadmap, there’s nothing like President HAKAINDE HICHILEMA extending his term limit by altering the constitution and remove the 50+1 and running mate? There’s nothing like that but why is this black magic man getting all this? Just to intice the majority iliterate Zambians?
These murderers the Mundubiles are evil. Zambia work up with these gassers and killers.
It is very good that President HAKAINDE HICHILEMA has brought free education so that the majority Zambians will not be cheated but look for the truth on their own because ( if only they can read and uunderstand) it is the truth and only the truth that will set them free. Than listerning to these vulchers.
They destroyed the economy, they defaulted but instead of them thanking President HAKAINDE HICHILEMA for the tough but workable decisions he had taken to clean the mess and repair/ cure the economy, the same people are on top of their voices pretending to be saints? I have never seen this in my mothers land – such evil with vulgar. NEVER, NEVER only may be in certain areas which is totally demonic.
You! So you don’t know that 5.13% of 156 MPs gives you 8 nominated MPs. Most of you people were kept in the dark for long on how MPs work.
Brian just retire from politics, you don’t inspire anybody. Your pfools and tonse type of politics are outdated and no sane Zambian would vote for you.
Let us be clear, KCM, “as a company”, doesnt belong to us. But the mine cannot belong to Vedantta, a Zambian mine? We can as well close it and let future generations mine it when they are capable. I do not usually agree with Hon. Mundubile, but on this one he is right. Our one-man-show president thinks nobody can replace him. In his next term, the song will be “he has done so well, let him continue”, and it will pass with the ground being prepared now.
Addressing the house of chiefs, he was talking of a woman carrying a baby on her back, holding one by the hand and a third one in the stomach, walking to a clinic kilometres away. What he did not tell them is where the woman’s husband, or any relatives, were. This is the sound of desperation
The same Mundubile and the whole PF are the ones who messed up with kcm. First ask yourself this question, Why did PF fail to replace Vedanta after grabbing the mine from Agawal. Vedanta managed to defend their property because the government then did not use the right procedure to remove him and managed to halt their plans using the courts. You don’t bulldoze even if you feel you have the power. HH did the right thing, the wrong thing with Mundubile is failing to see and accept that their process stunk with corruption, that is why he doesn’t see any problem with some one surrendering $240milion as an individual gotten from the same deal he says was the right way to do it. PF made a very big mistake at first and they should accept that
@amdone very naive analogy. You act like the miniing licence is in your name. You go around bragging that you own a house while living in your father’s home. Your father is just doing you a favour by letting you (an adult to live with him; act like one who wakes up and does something productive.) Instead of making claims to ownership that you have no rights to.
Let’s have a mature perspective to things. As long as the rights are endowed to Vandenta, you dont own that mine. You have no rights to that mine. Go to court and make that claim. See what the courts will tell you. Rights have devolved to Vandenta, you tried and lost that case in a courtof law. You actually had to sit down with the owners of the mines; so that they do flex on you as the Zambian government. They could have sued. And you still want to bring that ownership nonsense.
“Dont flex on you”…I meant to say
Imagine, Mundubile is revealing why those large constituencies were not divided during PF’s time in office because most of them are in perceived strong holds for HH and they always wanted to keep UPND with very few members so that they could not overide in decision making. Because that issue of delimitation was proposed by ECZ in 2019 and the same people did not consider it because it looked like it had so many constituencies favouring UPND strong holds, so today UPND is in power and they have decided to consider the proposal by ECZ, then, Mundubile and his clique are frustrated, mwaloba ilyauma, what you thought you would keep at bay is sailing into deep waters. Akantanshi takalisha, lelo akalekelesha. You had your time to manipulate the affairs of the nation let the serious ones show you how to work for development.
Honourable Brian Mundubile and the PF political party appear to be grappling with insecurity and apprehension, leading them to make baseless claims that His Excellency President Hakainde Hichilema intends to manipulate the Constitution to extend his tenure and benefit personally.
In contrast, the PF party is currently experiencing confusion and disarray, lacking effective leadership. They recognize their inability to challenge the UPND government successfully in the upcoming 2026 general election, prompting them to disseminate misinformation and propaganda regarding President Hakainde Hichilema.
The leadership of certain opposition political parties, along with their affiliates, seems disorganized and confused, lacking the strength to engage the UPND government in constructive dialogue.
At this moment, the opposition parties seem to rely solely on spreading falsehoods and misinformation, driven by their anxiety over the potential outcomes of the 2026 elections. Even before the elections take place, they are already expressing fear and resorting to misleading statements. A well-coordinated and mature opposition is essential for Zambia’s development, yet the current situation reflects the opposite.