Archbishop Mpundu Arrives In USA To Seek Audience With US Govt Officials

The story look like a concoction unless the Emeritus Archbishop of the Lusaka Archdiocese of the Catholic Church is completely bonkers. The US Federal Government deals ordinarily with state parties and not individuals. The USA has its man here Ambassador Michael Gonzales. They know exactly what’s going on. Besides that, there are US universities with departments that focus on Africa. They collect data on Africa in a way that would amaze the retired prelate.

If it’s true the Archbishop is in the US, he has done well. God help us before we end up like Zimbabwe because of dictatorship!

PF supporters are really something else. Weren’t they the ones applauding Zimbabwe’s elections held some months ago as being free and fair and vilified Dr. Nevers Mumba when his team produced a report to the contrary?
PF leaders even went further and participated in a documentary in Zimbabwe vilifying Dr. Mumba and president HH. Now today a PF supporter above is saying Zimbabwe is a dictatorship. To me it seems they usually do understand things they do and forget easily. Seriously, how myopic can one be to think the way they do?

True patriots of the soil. It’s unfortunate we can’t deal with our erring selves but run to colonial masters for disciplinary. We are this USELESS TO OURSELVES

Kikikikikikki this is laughable. We wait to see the drama unfold.

This is a fake story. The Archbishop can’t sink so low. He wouldn’t try to see the US Govt officials in the US.
Otherwise they will send a teaboy of no value to see him. That Bishop is too clever not to observe protocol.

Actually me thinks our archbishop should be seeking an appointment with a psychiatrist. Just saying. On a serious note he should not be practicing partisan politics at all
His voice should have been heard against the PF when they were in power because his voice wad needed then.

Praise-singers are already messing themselves up over a story whose veracity is doubtful. Archbishop Mpundu, according to realiable sources, has gone to the US for Church matters.

I am wondering what the Archbishop hopes to achieve, assuming that this is a true story. I am alive to the fact that the Archbishop did not go to such an extent when the notorious PF was in power and maiming citizens for merely wearing regalia that was not liked by the notorious PF.

Defunct TuPF with their ECL expelled the American Ambassador
Zambians have short memories
Now they want assistance from the people they deported
Defunct TuPF, UKWA, the minions SP, will never cease to amaze us

Little advise to our opposition.
As a patriotic Zambian that wants the best for Zambia am deeply concerned with the trajectory being taken by our opposition parties in the current dispensation. My worry is that our current opposition is about to be recorded as the worst and most useless opposition the country has ever had since independence due to their one direction focus when it comes to their checks and balances of the upnd government. Their focus is entirely on their imagined reduction in the democratic space and illusioned dictatorship of the current leadership. They have totally neglected to talk about the real issues that affect the ordinary voter on the street. My first question is how many of our citizens that are still struggling to meet their daily food, shelter, medical, education and employment needs care about the so called freedom of expression which the opposition alleged is being taken away by the current leadership ? Let’s turn to those of us in middle class that care about freedom of expression, human rights etc how many of us actually believe that the space for freedom of expression or human rights is shrinking as alleged by our opposition especially when we compare the current political environment to the previous environment where opposers of the government were forcefully hounded out of radio by political cadres, opposition parties cadres were maimed by rulling caders for merely comparing for their party, police were shooting to death citizens utilizing their democratic right to assembly, citizens killed through gassing and markets burnt in the name of politics and marketeers and bus drivers deprived of their daily earning by political cadres unlawfully leaving them bin the name of the chipani. Comparing that to the current environment where opposition have the freedom to insult, ridicule and mock the president, the speaker of the national assembly and other government and upnd leaders freely with no intimidation from political cadres, marketeers and bus drivers no longer need to pay party caders illegal levies, no citizens are being killed by police brutality, political violence or gassing, no markets are being burnt in the name of politics, politicians and cadres no longer parade looted wealth on social media to mock hard working professionals and businessmen. With the foregoing in mind how can we really believe that the democratic space is shrinking in the country?
With this in mind our it is clear that when our opposition are focusing on alleged shrinking of democratic space and dictatorship they are only talking for themselves only not the citizens because to us that is not what is important right now. The opposition must know that the story of dictatorship and shrinking democratic space is an old story that is sold by the opposition all the time in the world be it in America, Britain, south Africa etc. no one buys it easily without physical evidence. during the pf it was easy for people to buy it because physical evidence was allover. E.g political violence by cadres, police shooting of innocent citizens, gassing of citizenships, intimidation of political opponents by pf cadres, etc was allover in the news. Videos of such incidences are still available online. No one could doubt the claim of corruption, violence, dictatorship etc because physical evidence was there. But presently those claiming these things have no physical evidence and even us the citizens that are suppose to believe these claims we are not experiencing them. Infact if anything we are seeing a great improvement compared to the past resume. How then does our opposition hope to win our support by solely focusing on shrinking of democratic space, dictatorship and insulting and ridicule of the president and up d leaders. As citizens we want a strong opposition so that the upnd can deliver the best to the citizens, we want the opposition to focus on the needs of the people that affect their daily lives which the upnd are fairly to address. I have just realized that the mmd, pf and upnd were the best opposition parties
the country has ever had. I.e the mmd faught for democratization of the country which they achieved, the pf under sata held the mmd accountable insuring that whatever the government did was somewhat inline with the interest of the citizens e.g constitutional reforms and the upnd advocated for delivery of development in their strong holds e.g kafue mazabuka road. Upnd mps talked about this road all the time in parliament until the pf had to fix it even when it was in an opposition strong hold leaving roads like nchelenge chiengi road, chinsali nakonde road etc that were in their strong hold unattended to. What is our current opposition advocating for that affects the citizens directly. I recently used the nchelenge chiengi road. Truth be told it’s non existent. There is simply no road. Then one must wonder are those living in chelenge and chiengi not Zambians, is it not our politicians both rulling and opposition that should speak for them? Why are we not hearing our opposition talk about the challenges the people of chiengi are facing? Do these people care about freedom of expression more than the luck of road network that is hampering their economic and social development? Chitalu chilufya, Ronald chitotela and nickson chilangwa you have not only been mps for the people of luapula province but have held very influential position both in government and pf party what have you done about nchelenge chiengi road. You are now opposition mps why are you not talking about this road? Is it not you to speak for the people of chiengi and nchelenge? But your focus is only democracy, freedom of expression and dictatorship, how do you hope your focus of these three things will address the luck of road network between chiengi and nchelenge? This is merely an example of the numerous issues affecting our citizens that our opposition has neglected to talk about in preference to one focus on freedom, democracy and dictatorship. What our opposition needs to know is that few people are actually reading or listening to their messages because they don’t address their immediate needs. While the opposition are selling this stale message the upnd are using cdf to address the things that affects citizen daily lives. It’s about time our opposition realizes that their current message is falling on deaf ears. It’s about time they begin to offer real checks and balances regarding delivery of development that address the needs of the people. It our desire as citizens that we continue to have a thriving opposition in the country at all times but unfortunately that’s not the case currently. Please heed while there is still time otherwise we may end up having upnd for the next 20 years.