Edgar Lungu’s third term bid a clear cut agenda of Stayism and eroding of democracy- ROMEO KANG’OMBE

SESHEKE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ROMEO KANG’OMBE WRITES;

President Edgar Lungu’s third term bid a clear cut agenda of Stayism and eroding of democracy.

The post  colonial trend of leadership in some African states has taken a trajectory of stayism and Godfather and this can be seen through ECL’s bid for the third term.
Any political science scholar will attest that if Lungu comes into power, ‘God forbid’ he will at all cost ensure he becomes a life President more so with the brutal character that he exhibits Zambia will be plunged into a one party state.
It is important, as a country and as a people to critically analyze the machinations that ECL and his team had put in place in ensuring they perpetuate their stay in power and the reasons.

One of the reasons is kletocracy and knowing too well that this has a negative effect on them, their bid to come back becomes the only safe landing they have.

But is Zambia in short of leaders, especially in the so called Tonse Alliance that all members can be duped into believing that it can only be Lungu and no one else without fully analyzing the consequences of bringing such a leader back into office? It is important to look at the leadership style of our man with regards to the violation of the rule of law, which is one of the fundamentals of democracy and human rights.

How was the rule of law during ECL’s time?
Were elections free and fair?
Elections under ECL were purely a window-dressing ritual as can be seen from the electoral violence that we experienced.

ECL brought gorrila movements of arming cadres and gave them unlimited powers to the extent that the law enforcement agencies had no spine to curb violence, instead they could be beaten by the cadres.
Do we need to go back there?

It is therefore important for all of us to raise and defend not just the future of this country but the constitution.

Just thinking out loud.

RLK MP