HICHILEMA HAS RELIGIOUS BELIEF THAT MONEY SHOULD BE MADE TO PEOPLE’S DETRIMENT – KABIMBA … he’s a danger to this country
Economic Front (EF) leader Wynter Kabimba says President Hakainde Hichilema is a danger to Zambia for having “a fetishism, religious belief” since he came from Bweengwa to Lusaka that money should be made at all cost to the detriment of the people.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Kabimba said President Hichilema has tried to play the business trump card without realizing the consequences of that trump card, saying one of the first meetings he had was with the Millers Association of Zambia who complained to him about the PF’s regulatory framework on the export of mealie meal, with him answering that, “you are business people, you must be at liberty to make money.”
He said what he did not realize was that mealie meal and maize is a component of the national security of this country, saying for instance there was no way countries like Ukraine and USA could allow for the exportation of all the wheat because people have to make money.
“That’s a ridiculous argument and position for a head of state to take. Because you can’t make money by starving your people. You can’t allow your business people to make money at the expense of starving the citizens. So he fails to understand how mealie meal feeds into the national security of this country and yet there is a video clip coming from his own mouth where he said a hungry person is an angry person when he was in the opposition,” Kabimba said. “And he was right. He comes now into office he thinks that a hungry person must be a passive person as him and his colleagues in that business continue making money.”
Kabimba continued: “So he has this fetishism as we call it, this religious belief in money as a capitalist. That money should be money and should be accumulated to the detriment of the life of the people. That’s his understanding of money. He has this fetishism, it’s ingrained in his mind since he came from Bweengwa and he came into Lusaka to come and make money. He has internalized that as the only important aspect of a human beings life, to make money.”
He charged that that was where “he becomes a danger as head of state and the consequences now of that decision which he made is what you see now in the pricing of mealie meal.”
He said out of panic, the administration was telling the FRA to give cheaper maize to millers, when FRA bought the same from treasury resources at a huge cost.