“WE ARE AT SEA!” — KAMPYONGO FUMES
SHIWANG’ANDU Member of Parliament Hon. Stephen Kampyongo this afternoon delivered a blistering challenge to the Executive over what he termed the confusing, contradictory and opaque handling of the constitutional amendment process.
Rising on a matter of urgent public importance, Kampyongo did not mince his words:
“Madam Speaker, we are at sea!”
He demanded clarity on why the government had suddenly reactivated the controversial Bill 7 while ignoring the freshly submitted report and draft constitution bill from the President-appointed Technical Committee.
“Madam Speaker, the urgent matter without notice I am raising pertains to the constitutional amendment process,”
He reminded the House that “a day or two ago… the Technical Committee… presented its report… and the draft bill… which draft bill was said to be heading to this institution.”
But without presenting that report to Parliament, the Minister of Justice announced yesterday that she was reviving Bill 7 the same bill that had been deferred on the floor for “wider consultations” and was tied to a constitutional legal dispute.
“Madam Speaker… the Minister of Justice… notified this August House that she was reactivating the deferred Bill Number Seven, which had been deferred on the floor for the reasons of wider consultations.”
Hon. Kampyongo sharply questioned what he described as two clashing constitutional tracks running in parallel without explanation.
“We are at sea… regarding what is to happen to that report and that draft bill… Now that Bill 7… has been reactivated… what will happen to both processes that are dealing with the constitutional amendment?”
He stated that the Executive was creating confusion around the Constitution of the Republic and insisted that Parliament and the public deserved transparency.
The First Deputy Speaker ruled that the matter did not qualify as one involving loss of life or property or nothing catastrophic damage will happen directing the Shiwang’andu MP to file an urgent question when Parliament Is set to rise sine die on friday.
Despite that procedural ruling, Hon. Kampyongo’s intervention struck a national chord.
“Madam Speaker, we need serious guidance on this matter the people out there want to know whats NEXT”
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The new dawn has brought about a new Kampyongo who talks sense, however without looking at the person talking you really see the sense in what he brings on the floor of parliament, it is when you see the person talking then you begin comparing what he championed whilst in power and what he is championing now, this brings to question whether with power he is a different person and without he goes to factory reset. However, keep it up but I would never trust you with power.
It is PF which is at sea. Zambia is on firm ground and poised for greater things!
Hakainde is in a Constitutional Mess , and he is getting dipper in this mess each passing day.
His Bill 7 was ruled Unconstitutional and Illegitimate by the Constitutional Court. He sets up a Technical Committee tasked to consult Zambians on the Constitutional Amendment within the Confines of the terms of reference, and to draft a Bill at the end of the process. The Constitutional Amendment Technical Committee presents the report to him but what he does is outrageous! He shelves the Report, doesn’t make it public, doesn’t present it to the Minister of Justice or Cabinet.
Instead he goes back to Parliament and resurrects the same dead , illegitimate and unconstitutional Bill 7 at committee stage. He constitutes the committee members to start debating the same unchanged illegitimate and unconstitutional Bill 7 .
But this was the Committee which was halted in July 2025. Why resurrect the old Bill 7 when a new Bill was supposed to be drafted, from the submissions received from the people?
What was the purpose of the Technical Committee if the report they produced is shelved and the Bill 7 is not amended as per the submissions of the people?
Anyway Counsel Celestine Mukandila and Munir Zulu, start the Contempt proceedings against the Speaker and Members of Parliament who want to ignore the Ruling of the Constitutional Court.
After this commence Impeachment proceedings against Mr Hakainde Hichilema, and
Ms Nellie Mutti… They are not at sea. They are serious violation of our Constitution and should be held accountable.
No wonder Retired Judge Mushabati , the Chair of the Technical Committee skipped the handover ceremony of the Report. Interestingly even Nellie Mutti was nowhere to be seen when the Illegitimate and Unconstitutional Bill 7 was being resurrected. Things are not right.
It’s laughable that he can wake up now and claim that he’s at sea! PF has been at sea since August 2021. The SAD part is that there is no one to rescue PF from itself. It will finish itself in a civil war. Now they are trying very hard to spread their confusion to the nation using their rented Oasis, ECZ and the so called NGOCC.