‘DEFIANT’ UPND MPS FACE SANCTIONS

PROFESSOR Geoffrey Lungwangwa and two other UPND MPs will be severely dealt with for defying the party directives to shun Bill 10, party national spokesperson Charles Kakoma has warned.

He said the party was just waiting for the actual voting of the Bill to take place and a report from the leader of the opposition in Parliament, Jack Mwiimbu.

“Once that is done, appropriate action is going to be mated on the erring MPs,” said Mr Kakoma.

Mr Kakoma said for now it was difficult for the party to discipline Prof Lungwangwa and the two others because Parliament had not yet voted on the bill.

On Tuesday, the UPND Nalikwanda Member of Parliament Professor Lungwangwa and his Senanga and Solwezi West counterparts refused to walk out of the house during the second reading of Bill 10 by the Minister of Justice Given Lubinda.

Commenting on the UPND’s boycott, Mr. Tonga, who is 3RD Liberation Movement (3RD LM) president, said the party was abusing parliamentary privileges.

He said MPs, by law, in exchange of their pay or allowances, must be made to sit and debate bills within the House, vote for or against.

He called for the repealing of some privileges which were putting the House in jeopardy such as walking out of Parliament because MPs were voted to represent the people.

And Lusaka Province PF secretary, Kennedy Kamba said posterity would judge the UPND and its leader Hakainde Hichilema harshly for letting the people of Zambia down over the Constitutionmaking process,

Mr. Kamba said Zambians would show a red card to selfish UPND MPs for their continued abstinence from Parliament to make Bill 10 not to succeed.

“Morality demands that irrational leaders who refuse to put the interest of the people they claim to represent first do not deserve to be given chance in the political arena and must be ashamed of themselves.

“The UPND Members of Parliament and their leader, Mr. Hichilema, should be ashamed of themselves for letting the people of Zambia down and posterity will judge them harshly,” Mr. Kamba said.

Morality demands that irrational leaders who refuse to put the interest of the people they claim to represent rst do not deserve to be given chance in the political arena and must be ashamed of themselves.