UPND to have four vice-presidents
Hichilema (in green) with Peter cottan of National Milling
The United Party for National Development (UPND) extra ordinary general assembly has approved the recommendation by the National Management Committee(NMC) to have four Vice Presidents.
The Four Vice President will be in charge of Administration, Economics, Politics and Gender.
In a statement to ZANIS in Lusaka today, UPND Chairperson for Information and Publicity Charles Kakoma also disclosed that the NMC has expanded from 42 to 51 members, while the National Executive Committee (NEC) has increased the number from 17 to 30.
He added that the provincial Management Committee has also been expanded from 14 to 33 and similar expansions have also been made at District, Constituency, Ward and Branch levels.
He further disclosed that the Assembly resolved to recognize the pact between the Patriotic Front (PF) and UPND.
Mr. Kakoma has also approved the recommendation by the NMC which are aimed at working together with PF and liberate the Zambian people from the ruling Movement for Multi party Democracy (MMD).
The Assembly has also aimed at working together with PF and liberate the Zambian people from the ruling Movement for Multi party Democracy (MMD).
Mr. Kakoma noted that the pact will also have two Deputy Secretary Generals, one in charge of Administration and other for Politics and two Deputy Treasurer Generals for Accounts and Resource mobilisation.
Others will be two National Chairperson for Publicity and Information one will be in charge of Media Relations while the other one will be for Propaganda and Internal Communication.
The Pact will also have three Deputy National Chairperson for Women Affairs of which each one of them will be in charge of three Provinces and there will be also three Deputy National Chairpersons for Youth Affairs, each of whom will be in charge of three provinces.
Mr. Kakoma said the committee also approved to have twelve National Trustees adding that the Party President has been empowered to nominate a Director of Research, National Coordinator, Senior Advisor to the President and nine other nominees.
He explained that these appointed by the President are meant to balance regional, gender and disability issues which are subject to ratification by the NMC.
He has however said all the new positions created will be filled soon.
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This is lucky of a vision. 4 Veep for what badala? This is madness to its extreme!! HH just forget you will never rule this country just continue herding your goats and cattle. Yoo think you can play on the minds of intellectuals? Your same big mouth says that the MMD reduce the size of cabinet, again your same mouth wants to increase Vice presidents to 4. You are not a stable person to entrust with the constitution of this country. Forget HH maybe 4 Vice shepherds of goats and cattle. Bye HH thats the end of your political career.
what for,to deputise,his incompentence.
i have never seen this nonsense, watch out we are in trouble!!!!
HH the cattle herder as he call himself is at it again and should forget of being the president of this country. I thought he had learnt lessons from the old folks leadership such as RB who we ve called leadership failures. With HH and UPND forget we can not sustain you. Right now we are crying and spending too much on the trips made by RB and what more paying the 4 veeps in office for 5 years. Would rather say, RB you are better off than sustaining HH and his UPND. This is just the begining of the dying horse of HH and his likely to be the most expensive president cos the goat herder wants to live large. Let him remain in the streets with us and not at state house. Akuna matata, HH!
We’re told that under the pact the issue of who stands for presidency will be discussed later. But on his attire above HH presenting and campaigning as presidential candidate. 2011 HH.
Have always said that HH is upto to no good. Why should Zambia be subjected to 4 veeps when his the one critising MMD to down size cabinet. This is madness. I guess this want happens with a dying horse, you a loser HH.
In the past few weeks HH has been sounding paranoic. Now with this I can only conclude our young man is losing it. If so, why?
not a bad idea remember people that this is party level not government level… the new constitution will allow us to vote for the president and a vice only…
Now, this doesn’t make sense. What is the idea of a vice president? Who succeeds the president when he is incapacitated? Please UPND, stop this circus!
To be honest, this sounds like ma labbish..
One word: NONSENSE
HH with his Bourgeoisie megalomaniac mentality has just drifted UPND into a communist structural functionalist entity.Four Vice Presidents of a political party? Then if they ever joined with PF, we would be talking of 8 VP, 2 frictional Presidents of populist Bourgeoisie. To that will be nine paid ministers in every Government ministry?
This is extreme Confucius commune mentality at variance with democracy and social progress under any logic.Indeed only communist parties have such positions because they want to be more communal communist than others.
We all know that democratic parties like the MMD carry out internal elections to elect the president and vice-president and not appointments by tribally sown in President who turns into an appointing authority of 4 vice presidents, MCCs and National Executive Committee (NEC) members.
Prepare to hear more of such madness typical of megalomaniac communists:
VP for finance
VP for Monze
VP for Mapanza
VP for each of the 9 provinces
VP for cows and live stocks
VP for youths VP for Genda VP and cadres
VP for security
VP for insults on RB
VP for make Zambia ungovernable
VP for education
VP for FDI and Commerce
VP for Mines
I must admit that this sounds like a brilliant idea but as far as i am concerned its one way of accommodating greed