PF COULD GO THE WAY OF UNIP AND MMD, MEMBERS MUST FIND A NEW HOME
A KBN TV EDITORIAL
Now that the dust has settled, we can freely advise, hoping that someone will take heed. We have noticed how some members of the estranged PF have expressed shock at some of their members who voted in favour of Bill 7.
If we were to be brutally honest, this shock hasn’t started today. Although credit must be given to the general membership across the country, the same can’t be said about the PF leadership that has failed to live with itself.
Today’s voting pattern was a glaring and shocking manifestation of a lie that has been masked and entertained within the party’s rank and file. Since August 2021, PF as a party have lived in denial, they have never accepted the fact that they lost elections to President Hakainde Hichilema.
With their own miscalculation and blind loyalty, they lost control of the party to Miles Sampa and later to Chabinga, both of whom are highly suspected to have been used as pawns by an invisible hand in a well schemed power grab.
Todate, many people within the embattled former ruling party have been arguing that PF is the biggest opposition outfit with 57 Members of Parliament.
Well, this claim had to be put to a stern test, and it had to take Bill 7 to reveal just how the lines have become blurry between the ruling party and opposition in the National Assembly. The verdict is out, PF is just big on paper. In principle, the gatekeepers have runaway.
Over 30 PF MPs voted in favour of the Bill despite having committed publicly and signed an agreement made available to the OASIS Forum that they would reject Bill 7 on the floor of the House.
This must be a huge lesson and a wake-up call to the remnant PF leadership that they can never use the number of MPs to claim a lion share anymore on the opposition negotiation table. PF has been cut to size and their followers are now like sheep without a shepherd.
If PF doesn’t learn from this incident and reorganise themselves to forge meaningful partnerships with other opposition outfits, they will look back and regret their current posture of bullish arrogance.
With Parliament set to dissolve in exactly five months and delimitation a definite reality, PF MPs are assured of a constituency and guaranteed adoption by the UPND administration.
Unfortunately for the PF leadership, they can’t discipline or even expel any of the defiant MPs as they lack the legal backing to do so with Chabinga firmly in control of the party whether legally or illegally.
Considering the leadership wrangles at their peak, the PF general membership are open for everyone’s taking. They won’t wait for a selfish leadership that has lost its way and can’t discern the time and what is required to be done.
Our recommendation is that the PF general membership must move fast and find a new home now that elections are around the corner. PF could just be beyond redemption like UNIP and MMD.
Ba KBN TV, the PF MPs who voted for Bill 7 just did the right thing, they voted with their conscience instead of caving in to the pressure from the party. The opposition to the bill was incoherent. Some were unhappy about the process rather than the content of the bill and none could point out exactly what clauses in the bill they had issues with and the nature of those issues.
All we were hearing is the bill was undemocratic, it will plunge the country into chaos and so on but nothing about how. PF approach was that because their Bill 10 failed, UPND’s Bill 7 must also fail.
Where does this leave the Catholic clergy and the NGOCC? The people have spoken through their elected representatives and in August 2026, we as the people will render a collective verdict on who will be our leaders.
Even this ka pro-PF kantemba tv station is jumping ship
Some Radio station seem to be positioned as opposition political instruments meant to discredit other political parties instead of reporting facts.
How has MMD gone into their historical data when it is now thriving under the new name NNP. Where they happy with the noise and constant unnecessary interference from sponsored groups.
The analysis by some of these media houses is very questionable. There is no balance at all. They seem to serve one agenda . To distort facts and hence no bet very professional. Thorough and impartial reporting is what is needed and not partisan politics.
Given himself on TV hinted that when the boat has developed holes and there is another boat passing by to the same direction you changed boats. When asked if that passing by boat exists, he said they are plenty. Read in between you lips.
I find it hard to even comment on this very dark day when PF MPs betrayed the hope of Zambia..
Backing the illegitimate and unconstitutional Bill 7 is Treasonous..As I walked the streets of Kitwe, the disappointment was very evident.
Ba Nkuku, donot project your state on the innocent people of Kitwe.
They have more pressing matters to worry about than Bill 7.
PF is already gone into the political dustbin. We are only waiting for the refuse collection truck to come empty the bin.