By Daily Revelation Reporter
Nalimyebele ne mbwili nalimyebele, Chishimba Kambwili is singing over what is viewed as tribal appointments being churned out from State House by President Hakainde Hichilema.
And Kambwili has questioned the setting of the deadline for the submission of K200,000 nomination fees for PF male presidential candidates and K100,00 for the females, saying there hasn’t been any advertisement in the media about the same.
Speaking with Daily Revelation on what are being seen as regional appointments by President Hichilema, with the very recent ones being the appointment of Himba Cheelo , Mooya Lumamba and Anthony Mulongoti as permanent secretaries for Energy, Mines and Commerce respectively, with Cheelo taking over from the dismissed Sakwiba Musiwa, Kambwili laughed at the move and proceeded to sing “nalimyebele ne mbwili nalimyebele (I told you, I Kambwili told you)!”
“Nalimyebele eeh nalimyebele. Nalimyebele ne Mbwili nalimyebele,” Kambwili sung. “That’s my answer.”
And asked if he has raised the K200,000 nomination for presidential aspirants and if he agreed with the same, Kambwili said he would make his position known in the central committee as it will be highly confrontational now if he said something either in the negative or positive, suggesting that some people would take it the other way round.
“Since I am a member of the central committee I will be able to give my views because I was not there when they were making this decision,” he said.
But asked how he would make known his position in the same central committee meeting in the event there was no central committee meeting before October 31, 2022 deadline day for the submissions of nominations, Kambwili responded: “How do you set a deadline when there hasn’t even been an update to advise people when those things should be done? Because you are supposed to announce that now there should be an advert in the paper or in the press to say that we have now opened up for nominations.”
“But just an announcement from the central committee can’t set a date for everybody because not everybody was sitting on that central committee. So there is supposed to be an advert,” said Kambwili.
But put to him that his fellow leaders would argue that a quorum for the meeting was established, Kambwili insisted that “we (will) wait until the advert is made officially then we will be able to follow through.”
