UPND Whip Garry Nkombo says the party is not in a haste to lay the impeachment motion against President Edgar Lungu on the table of the House because they want it to be thorough and professional.

On Sunday, Patriots for Economic Progress leader Sean Tembo said he supported calls to impeach President Lungu and advised the UPND that the only ground which could hold was the President’s threats on the judges.

But Tembo said he was disappointed with the snail’s pace at which the UPND was moving to lay the motion in Parliament.

But in an interview with News Diggers! yesterday, Nkombo said the UPND did not want to do a haphazard job on the motion for the sake of tabling it quickly.

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and we grant president Tembo his opinion. If he thinks that the only impeachable offence that the President has occasioned on the Constitution is the threat to the judges that is fine. But we also think that there will be a few more breaches on the Constitution attributed to the Head of State. We are sure that those breaches have actually happened, including the breach on Article 104, 105 of the Constitution,” he said.

“Mr Tembo may wish to understand that its supposed to be a thorough piece of work which will be professional and so there is no need for him to be in haste. He must also grant us that opinion of ours as we granted his own. It Is not only the President who we think has breached the Constitution, we think that in terms of Article 104, 105, there should have been a recipient of the instruments of power who is Speaker. So we are studying that matter very carefully to see how the two can be joined. But we do not want to do a haphazard job.”

And commenting on Tembo’s remarks that the UPND should not add frivolous charges to the motion to avoid being regarded as bitter, Nkombo said there was no bitterness in UPND but there was only focus.

“Mr Tembo should be asked the question ‘who is angry’? He must be asked that question and should point at the person who is angry maybe he can direct those efforts to the person who is angry. As far as we are concerned there is no anger, there is no bitterness, there is just focus,” said Nkombo.