Suspensions of Members of Parliament and The shrinking democratic space In Zambia.
The current Government of the UPND is always quick to justify why Members of Parliament should be suspended because during their time in opposition, Speaker Matibini had suspended its 48 members for a period of 30 days!
The comparison is extremely dull and cheap 😴 thinking. In ten years they complain of 30 days when they have gone on ramapage to suspend members for more than 90 days within two years!
Two years members have been suspended for more than 90 days and then you claim to be a democratic society?
Let’s look at tolerance levels for arguments sake, How does one genuinely think that jean can behave the same way with those that have been in the house for over twenty years?
How do they think that her life experie
nce can equate to that of the speaker or indeed the President?
Surely at her age she has made it in life but if you ask those that are above 60 years of age now , what is their story when they were in their 30s? Insoni ebuntu
Jeans complainant has even been sending funny messages that the NGOCC should speak to.
Anyway time will tell as I remain MZ
Hon. Munir Zulu MP
You make noise about democracy when you dont make as much noise about the well being or the work that you are doing for the people who elected you. Self centered man….what are you doing for the people you represent. Do they feel as empowered as you do to express their democratic rights? Or they can bearly put food on the table because the available opportunities are being brought to their attention because you are too busy being a self serving arrogant man whose only role seems to be …banione ine ndine ili na kamwa banione
We don’t elect you MP to go and misbehave in Parliament!
There is a reason you are addressed as Honourable! Your behavior must show! Your language must show!
Some of the Parliamentarians we have today would have been expelled from Parliament during the KK days when we had “no nonsense” Speakers and healthy, well-researched debates!
We should have a new rule in Parliament to expell MPs who lower the dignity of the House!
If you are Suspended 3 times, the 4th Suspension should be a straight Expulsion from Parliament without benefits!
Maybe this way, people will stop misbehaving in the name of Democracy!
You are in Parliament to address issues and not to create drama!
May Discipline, Maturity and Sobriety prevail at Parliament!
In fact, there is need to remove beer from Parliament grounds and also to start Breathalyzing Parliamentarians before they enter the House!
Some of these behaviours could be due to Substance Abuse!
We had a useless previous President, and how do you expect the behaviour of the MPs from this group to be like.
What do you mean man?
I do not understand this boy’s reasoning. How do you relate stupid behaviour to a period a Party has been in power ? Awrong is a wrong, period ! You are a disgrace to fellow Youths.
You sir, Mr. Munir Zulu, have contributed immensely to the drastic decline in the decorum of our Parliament. I still remember how you referred to MPs shaving their pu**c hair. How vulgar! And you call that democracy (freedom of speech)?
All MPs are required to conduct themselves in a mature and honourable manner, regardless of age. If they are immature, then they should not be in parliament.
The behaviour of the Mambilima MP was disgraceful and inexcusable. It is like some MPs want to engage in controversy as a way of attracting attention.
At this rate, we should not be surprised if there is a free for all punch up in parliament, all in the name of democracy and free speech.
You MPs ,we need you always,we appreciate the purpose why you are there in parliament.We want you to do the checks and balances appropriately in the house.Now you want to challenge elders in the house without regards.You can tell people that “tonse ndise akulu tige..”ahh no where do you find this courage my man, the speaker is your mother,the Vice President is your mother or grandma,Dr S.Musokotwane is your father now what really is this? Please,please,please respect your mother and father so that you may live longer on this earth.You must know that the President is not your friend and you can’t shout at him with intent to demean him deliberately like that.He is not the one who opens the sky for rains to come.If there is drought you expect crops like maize to give good yield surely? Yes he promised cheaper mealimeal when conditions of rain weather is good and farmers are empowered with all it takes.Promises which depend on godly intervention or wish can not cause to blame a person with wishful thinking.Democracy is disturbed by your misconduct which attracts punishment then you cry the loudest.To promise is even better than just looting with impunity.A promise which is delayed is not promise denied mind you he was given 5 years mandate of which he will manage and Zambians will give him another 5.Fuel price in Zambia is even better than other countries in the region but we all know what has caused fuel to be expensive. Now you want to blame innocent person .Your party and government lied that they subsidized fuel when they were in power yet zero they just caused debt to swell to the tune of 800,000 dollars and did not pay for it.So let us behave you were champions of lies through the slogan of “don’t kubeba” let us not forget.
It’s you who is shrinking towards zero at a very fast rate. Come 2026, your constituents will realize how worthless you are and not vote for you.