By Melony Chisanga
LUSAKA youth Dillon Mayangwa has told Pambashe PF member of parliament Ronald Chitotela to search his soul and seek forgiveness for failing to speak against his party’s brutal leadership.
On Friday during the Vice-President’s Question Time in Parliament, former tourism minister Chitotela asked Vice-President Mutale Nalumango when government would end violence in the country.
Chitotela claimed that his heart was bleeding because of the violence he was witnessing across the country.
Reacting to Chitotela’s remarks, Mayangwa said it was hypocritical for the former minister to lie in the House that his heart was bleeding because of political violence under the UPND government when peace and unity was being restored in the country.
He said Chitotela was a church elder in the Seventh Day Adventist who should have used his influence to denounce and stop political violence in the country when his party, the PF, was in power.
“Member of parliament for Pambashe Ronald Chitotela needs Jesus in his level of mockery. His hypocrisy on violence has even shocked Lucifer. He claims his heart is bleeding at the levels of violence under the new dawn!” he said. “May he kindly tell us which violence he is referring to? Chitotela is a senior elder in a respected church, SDA, who is expected to stand on honesty and truth. To start with, when the PF was in government with his close friend Stephen Kampyongo as minister of home affairs, they did nothing to end violence in this country. But they condemned violence when it was against them.”
Mayangwa told Chitotela to reflect on his life as a lawmaker that represents Zambia and bring out things that would unity the country.
“Chitotela needs to search his heart and seek forgiveness for failing to stand up and speak for the people of Zambia when he had the power to do so. If not, let him close his mouth because memories of PF violence in the minds of Zambians are still fresh,” he added.
Mayangwa recalled that a lot of people died under the PF regime but Chitotela was quiet.
He said as a church leader, Chitotela should start preaching peace in the Church.
“During the PF reign we had an innocent young university student die at the mercy of their irresponsible police force motivated by cadreism. We are still mourning State prosecutor Nsama Nsama and many others who were killed by PF cadres in police uniform,” said Mayangwa. “Hundreds of people got injured, others killed and many lost property during gassing. And our hearts are still in pieces over the killing of ‘Gaddafi’ [Lawrence Banda], Mapenzi [Chibulo] and others under the hands of PF cadres and police which all fell under his best friend’s supervision.”
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