UPND’s TOXIC BILL 7 WILL NOT HAVE OUR VOTE – PF MPs
Opposition Patriotic Front Members of Parliament led by Parliamentary Affairs Chairperson, Brian Mundubile, have maintained their position not to support the widely rejected Constitutional Amendment Bill 7.
Speaking at a Media briefing in Lusaka this afternoon, Mr. Mundubile reiterates that Bill 7 will and should not be supported by opposition MPs on the floor of the House.
Meanwhile, Shiwang’andu MP, Stephen Kampyongo, has challenged the UPND Government to channel the money it allegedly wants to use in bring weak opposition MPs towards paying farmers who hitherto have not been paid by the Food Reserve Agency -FRA..
And PF Chairperson for Legal Affairs, George Chisanga, said the party would be engaging the Oasis Forum on possible ways of collaboration, including the possibility of signing a social contract as an assurance that MPs would not support the ill fated Bill 7.
He appealed to other MPs who might have been approached with bribes by the UPND administration to be strong and resist the temptation of betraying members of the public who sent them to Parliament as people’s representatives.
Are you people rally sure of what you are saying or it’s just mere politicking as usual? To me it makes more sense to leave the MPs to receive the money so that you can use it as an exhibit. Without an exhibit, no one will listen to you, it’s just a fabricated story, and that’s why you fail to prove your allegations in Court and end up being jailed like Nakachinda. Talk of things that you can prove with tangible evidence and not speculations. Hon Milupi and Musokotwane were accused by someone of having received a bribe for Ndola-Lusaka DCW but when he was taken to Court, he failed to give any proof.
And Mundubile should stop telling the MPs on what to do, these people are adults and can choose what do on their own. Hon Sunday Chanda raised a very valid point few days ago, looking at the degree of confusion among the pf factions, he has observed that most PF members of Parliament will have a problem when it comes to standing next year. On which party ticket are they going to stand? The most important thing for every MP is to win, so no one can continue supporting any party if the chances of retaining his/her seat looks blink. I am sure most MPs have already seen that if Mundubile hasn’t seen yet. Those who have vision have already seen that most of MPs who will be allied to UPND or adopted by UPND stand a bigger chance of coming back to Parliament than those who will stand on any of the PF factions’s ticket. They have to play their cards very well otherwise for many of them, it will be bye bye Polio to Parliament. Even Mundubile himself, if he is not elected party president by Lubinda led faction, he has to work hard otherwise he won’t come back to Parliament, so is Sampa and Mutotwe Kafwaya. In politics if you see that your side is sinking, political prostitution is unavoidable, you have to jump out before you are swallowed. We still remember how Sata managed to poach ba Richwell Siamunene, Greyford Monde and others.