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Morgan Sitwala MP
Member of the National Assembly of Zambia
Incumbent
Assumed office September 2016
President	Edgar Lungu Hakainde Hichilema
Preceded by	Carlos Antonio
Constituency	Kaoma Central
Personal details
Born	(1958-11-26) November 26, 1958 Northern Rhodesia
Party	United Party for National Development (UPND)
Education	Form V
Awards	United Nations Medal
Military service
Allegiance	Zambia
Branch/service	Zambian Army
Rank	Brigadier General
Commands	Zambian UN Contingent (UNAMSIL)
Battles/wars	Sierra Leone Civil War

Sitwala Morgan Sitwala (born 26 November 1958) is a Zambian politician and former army officer who has represented the Kaoma Central constituency in the National Assembly of Zambia since 2016. A member of the United Party for National Development (UPND), he previously served in the Zambian Army, where he rose to the rank of brigadier general.

Early life and military career

Sitwala was born on 26 November 1958, and completed his Form V education. He spent his early career as an infantry officer in the Zambian Army, eventually rising through the officer ranks to become a brigadier general in the Zambia Defence Force.

In January 2002, holding the rank of colonel, Sitwala was deployed as the commanding officer of the Zambian United Nations peacekeeping contingent stationed in the eastern Tongo Fields of Sierra Leone. During the country's national disarmament programme, his contingent collected and processed 386 weapons from former combatants following an expansion of the peace initiative.

On 6 January 2002, his sector experienced a crisis when an accidental mortar bomb fell from a transport vehicle carrying confiscated weapons and ammunition. The resulting explosion instantly killed four Zambian peacekeepers and fatally wounded two others. As commanding officer, Sitwala reported the incident over the UN radio network.

Political career

National Assembly and committee assignments

Sitwala entered politics ahead of the 2016 general election, and was elected to represent Kaoma Central in the election. He secured re-election during the August 2021 general election, held alongside the presidential election won by UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema.

Sitwala has served on the Committee on Privileges and Absences during the 2017–2021, 2021–2022, and 2022–2023 sessions, and since 2023. He also served on the Committee on National Security and Foreign Affairs during the 2016–2021 Parliament. Following his re-election in 2021, he was reappointed to the committee and later became its chairperson.

National security and foreign oversight

In April 2017, Sitwala was part of a parliamentary delegation to Southern Province concerning a boundary dispute between Zambia and Zimbabwe over Lake Kariba.

In June 2018, he travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, as part of a parliamentary delegation that met with the Kenyan Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to discuss anti-corruption institutions (EACC).

In October 2019, during the Kaoma council chairperson by-election campaign, Sitwala served as the UPND's campaign manager. Following political violence in Kaoma that resulted in the death of a UPND supporter, he criticized the police response, alleging that officers had failed to act against Patriotic Front supporters and that police were reluctant to enforce the law against ruling party cadres.

In December 2023, he led a delegation from the Forum of Parliaments of the Member States of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (FP-ICGLR) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On 17 December, three days prior to the Congolese general election, Sitwala met with independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) President Denis Kadima Kazadi to discuss preparations for the general election, where he said that a inclusive vote was vital to the economic development of the broader Great Lakes block.

In May 2025, he requested increased funding for the country's civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) framework, saying that universal birth and death registration was a fundamental national security priority by stating, "You cannot secure a population you cannot identify." Later that year, the National Assembly's Budget Committee reversed a planned funding cut and approved a 67% increase for civil registration in the 2026 national budget.

In January 2026, Sitwala addressed an investigative review of decaying Zambian state assets abroad. Referring to a 2022 parliamentary report that he’d chaired, which identified problems including underfunding, staff shortages, and procurement delays, he stated that maintaining older embassy buildings presented logistical challenges and said that renovation work had begun at the Zambian embassies in Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Constituency affairs and 2026 election

In his constituency, Sitwala has supported projects via the allocation of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). CDF-funded projects during his tenure included the commissioning of a K1.2 million, one-by-three classroom block at Mulamatila Secondary School, built to alleviate overcrowding for more than 800 pupils. In local civic affairs, he joined Kaoma Town Council Secretary Peter Sati in May 2023 to deliver the official eulogy for the late town council chairperson Bindundu Muti.

The UPND selected Sitwala to defend his seat as the party's candidate for Kaoma Central in the August 2026 Zambian general election. In July 2026, President Hakainde Hichilema toured Western Province to campaign directly for regional party candidates, including Sitwala.

External links

• Morgan Sitwala National Assembly of Zambia Profile