Blame PF, not UPND on constitution bill failure, says president Banda
President Rupiah Banda says it is the Patriotic Front not the UPND that should be blamed for parliament’s failure to pass the Constitutional Amendment on Tuesday. And President Banda has refused to dissolve parliament as demanded by PF leader Michael Sata. He said the failure will not affect the smooth-running of Government as it is [...]
The Tonga Traditional Association (TTA) has removed United Party for National Development (UPND)’s Hakainde Hichilema as its patron. The TTA instead says it has started campaigning for president Rupiah Banda ahead of this year’s general election. President of the TTA Dickson Namanza says the position of patron has been frozen because it was held by a [...]
Continue reading …Eighty-three billion, nine hundred and forty nine million, seven hundred and sixty five thousand kwacha (K83,949,765,000) was spent on allowances for National Constitutional Conference delegates whose bill failed in parliament. Deputy Minister in the office of the vice president Daniel Munkombwe told parliament Thursday that the money was gobbled between 2007 and August 2010 when [...]
Continue reading …Patriotic Front President Michael Sata has asked president Rupiah Banda to dissolve parliament and call for general elections immediately. Sata made the demand Wednesday morning at a press briefing in reaction to parliament’s failure to approve changes to the constitution. Zambia has 158 parliamentarians and requires 106 of these MPs for any constitutional bill to [...]
Continue reading …By Nicholas Sengoba Embattled Libyan leader, the ‘powerful’ Col. Muammar Gaddafi, is probably hiding somewhere in a bunker, biting his nails. But things have not always been like this. The self-declared ‘King of Kings’ and a horde of other high-sounding but equally spurious titles is in a very precarious situation following the imposition of a [...]
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