Agenda for a Better Zambia, ABZ president Frank Bwalya has said if - TopicsExpress

Agenda for a Better Zambia, ABZ president Frank Bwalya has said if PF members of parliament were representing the interests of the people who voted for them, the motion in parliament for a roadmap in the current constitution making process would have gone through easily. Fr. Bwalya has said the reality is that majority Zambians and stakeholders, especially those that supported the PF in 2011, have been demanding for a durable people driven constitution. He has said it is therefore very disappointing that PF prevailed over its members of parliament to vote against the will of the same people that sent them to parliament and that what is now clear is that PF wants to keep Zambians in the dark about the steps they wish to take in the current constitution making process. He has charged that the reason is that the PF, which he has labelled a deceitful party, has no political will to deliver a people driven constitution contrary to their own much publicized promise. Fr. Bwalya has said ABZ is aware that PF senior officials including President Michael Sata are against all the progressive clauses that were included in the first constitution draft report and as such, PF is now looking for a way out of the predicament they have found themselves in given the fact that they supported the same clauses while in the opposition and promised to deliver once voted into power. The opposition leader, in a statement made available to Radio Yangeni News has urged Zambians not to relent in demanding for a good constitution saying this Independence Jubilee year is the right time to deal with the issue of a good constitution. Ends..............