Chief Chitimukulu Urges Zambians To Vote In 2021

Paramount Chief Chitimukulu of the Bemba people has urged Zambians to turn up and vote in next year’s general elections, advising that the apathy surrounding the 2016 presidential election cannot be allowed to carry over into 2021. 

His message was conveyed in a speech read on his behalf on Saturday night for the launch of the Movement for Voter Sensitisation (MVS) - an organisation set up to improve voter turnout rates. Chief Chitimukulu is a patron of the newly-formed MVS. 

At the same event Paramount Chief Mpenzi and Presidential Affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe also conveyed messages calling on Zambians to vote in large numbers next year.

The message comes at a precarious time for Zambian politics, with several opposition figures accusing the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) of disenfranchising voters by scrapping the existing electoral role ahead of next year’s elections.

The ECZ maintain that they will register some 9 million voters - approximately the entire adult population of Zambia - between October 28 and November 30.