Nawakwi promises to reduce Presidential powers

Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) President Edith Nawakwi has promised to reduce the powers of the Republican President once elected on the 20th of January this year.

Ms. Nawakwi has also promised the Bemba Royal Establishment and all traditional leaders in the country that once elected President she will do away with the excessive powers the Head of State has so as to avoid interference in traditional governance.

And the Bashilubemba have said that Chiefs and Traditional Minister Nkandu Luo with her Patriotic Front Government have caused enough suffering in the Bemba land through their mistreatment of Henry Kanyanta Sosala.

Speaking when Ms Nawakwi paid a courtesy call at his palace in Kasama on Saturday, Bashilubemba said Ms. Luo had caused confusion in Bemba land which needed to be resolved by the next President.

Bashilubemba told Ms Nawakwi that the next president who would be elected into office on January 20, 2015 should gazette Henry Kanyata Sosala as paramount chief Chitimukulu.

Bashilubemba has noted that the Bemba Royal Establishment had chosen its desired leader but Government refused to go by what the Bemba leaders wanted.

Bashilubemba notes that the establishment has always chosen its own desired chief further stating that he did not understand why PF Government was against the establishment’s wish.

Bashilubemba says that choosing their own chief caused them trouble to Government despite doing what was right according to their tradition.

Bashilubemba have also noted that there is nothing wrong for a woman to rule the nation because they were not different from men.

And Ms. Nawakwi has promised Bashilubemba and Mwinelubemba that she would reduce the presidential powers under the current constitution when elected into office.

Ms Nawakwi has observed that the president was given a lot of powers hence the interference in chiefdom.

She says the Bemba Royal Establishment needed to be making independent decision such as choosing its desired leader.

Paramount Chief Chitimukulu of the Bemba speaking people further blessed the FDD President ahead of the January 20 Presidential Election.

And speaking earlier upon arrival in Kasama, Northern Province, in her continued campaign trail, the opposition FDD President Edith Nawakwi condemned the violence exhibited by the ruling PF against the opposition UPND.

She has since called on voters in the country to reject parties whose leaders are perpetrating violence as no one in the country wants to see bloodshed.

This is according to a brief made available to Qfm News by the FDD Media Team.