UPND castigates PF over constitution

Moono Mapani

The opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has observed that the presentation of the Constitution of Zambia Bill to Parliament by Justice Minister Dr. Ngosa Simbyakula is a first step in declining to give Zambians a new constitution by the PF Government.

The opposition political party is of the view that the country will never have a new constitution under the PF Government as the clauses taken to parliament will not go through saying the PF have the majority Members of Parliament.

UPND Chairperson for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani says the people of Zambia did not want to amend the current constitution but wanted to have a whole new supreme law of the land.

Mr. Mapani says the PF Government has gone against the wishes of the people of Zambia by amending the constitution through parliament.

He says from the beginning, the people voiced out that they wanted to have a new constitution through a referendum and not amending the current constitution through parliament.

Mr. Mapani says there is no doubt that the failure by the PF Government to give the people of Zambia a new constitution as they promised will haunt them come 2016.