By CIC Editors.
CIC EDITORIAL ANALYSIS.
A LESSON TO OTHER FAMILIES TO FIRST UNDERSTAND GOVERNANCE MATTERS BEFORE ALLOWING THEIR SONS TO BE PRESIDENTS ELSE THEY WILL EMBARRASS THE COUNTRY ON THE WORLD STAGE LIKE THE LUNGU FAMILY AND THEIR VULTURE POLITICAL ALLIES.
No lie and truth be told the Lungu family have embarrassed the nation of Zambia and Africa at large they have also embarrassed themselves with their ego. Whatever happens going forward lessons must be learnt to the remaining families of aspiring candidates to please learn and study governance matters before aspiring to hold the highest office of the land. The argument of “Lungu was treated badly” lacks sensible merits in this social media age without first explaining what exactly did he do to deserve such because records are there.
While the nation is trying so hard to restrain itself from descending into the family squabbles of altercations, the Lungu family through their representative Mr Makebi Zulu have continued to hold the nation at ransom with political games and conditions with excuses that don’t make sense. To begin with ECL was a ruthless president the whole nation is aware he was brutal he did not even pretend or hide it not only during his presidency but even post presidency office he harbored extreme hatred towards his friends it’s all known and documented.
Who has forgotten how ECL treated HH how many times did HH get arrested, his house damaged and vandalized, thrown in prison and so on, how many UPND members suffered at the hand of PF cadres in markets, at works, in stations and so on. Lungu presided over a reckless financial state defaulting on international debt obligations. Lungu plunged the country into a financial crisis with no clue how to get back.
Governance wise it was a mess. Overpriced projects with kickbacks to his cronies, inflated figures on simple projects in order to benefit his cartel. Zesco was almost confiscated due to enormous debts it was left it. Simply put Edgar Lungu was a failed project governance wise. We are coming out like this because the Lungu family and their allies perhaps they have forgotten what their member or client to the country such that he deserved his immunity stripped and thrown to jail yet HH did not intend to do that.
Talk of his family members amassing unexplained wealth at the expense of the drowning economy. His son recieved over 70 SUV vehicles as birthday day present. A controversial journalists of his found with millions of dollars. His daughter Chiyeso and indeed Tasila are all facing corruption cases including their step mother Mrs Esther Lungu. Should we include those in jail? Well ask what former Pambashe and Kawambwa MP did before you talk of justice towards them what they did are capital offenses and Lungu watched them quietly law was not done with them.
Amidst all the evidence and grounds of national justice that both the UPND and the nation suffered at the hand of PF with Lungu as it’s president where Zambia was at the brink of collapse due to lawlessness HH chose to offer peace and harmony and left his immunity intact.
Lungu himself announced he is retiring from politics, government moved in to do what the constitution say about the former presidents but political vultures who thrived on his poor health forced him to come back to politics what exactly do the law say about the former president coming back to politics? How are they treated? Who forced Lungu to come back to politics? His family are still facing court cases due to the fact that they need to explain where they got such wealth that has no business background.
Chiluba’s post presidency life was marred with court cases and appearances with his immunity stripped off, Rupiah Banda same thing. Yet someone who mistreated and destroyed the country died with his immunity intact and whatever came on him where his own decisions in the make. Even on his health the same PF kept refusing that he is not sick records are there. How was government going to treat a person who destroyed the country in debts and dragged the nation into violence lawlessness saying he is coming back and he is not sick you think they are foolish?
The LUNGU family and their allies must fool other people because in Zambia no one was born yesterday to fall into their narrative at all. And if they continue with this trajectory it will end badly for them because the nation will remove even the last respect they are supposed to get in order to mourn the former republican president. All this showdown with the government has one end game and motives it’s purely to gain political mileage which the nation unfortunately is not buying.
People are now fed up and are getting irritated with each and every passing day “Lungu was mistreated, Lungu was denied medicals etc” let them be reasonable and come to their senses because their strategy is not only boring but it’s not making sense but shows lack of respect to the nation. Other families who’s son’s and daughters are aspiring as presidents must draw lessons from these moments and learn governance etiquette before embarrassing themselves like the Lungu family.
The interest of government is the fact that Lungu was the head of state whatever Makebi Zulu, Tasila Lungu, Chiyeso or Daliso Lungu rants won’t hold any water Lungu will be buried like all other presidents that have ever ruled Zambia their opinions don’t count.
Government is even trying very hard to restrain itself because it has all the means of getting this thing done as quickly as possible and move on. They are trying to be respectful and reasonable to engage the family not as a sign of desperation or anything but to show the world how sensible leadership ought to be. If it’s HH who died as a former president after mistreating Lungu in opposition God knows what would be happening today.
CIC PRESS TEAM