HICHILEMA MUST STOP ATTACKING HIS PREDECESSORS-TUTWA NGULUBE
OPEN LETTER TO MR. ANTHONY BWALYA
In Kabwe, Sunday 7th November 2021.
With Due Respect Mr. Bwalya I write to request you to please read this and discuss it with the President. I want to request you Sir to familiarize yourself with the Cabinet Handbook. Sir, whatever the President or Minister says becomes government’s policy.
Remember that you are not Chief Government Spokesperson and you are not Information Minister and you must remember that State House is just an Office and not government.
Sir, at Parliament which holds the Executive accountable, there is a Committee on Government Assurances. It takes stock of all the promises you make and will summon your vice president and Ministers to account and all their answers will be put in a book called “Action Taken Report”.
Sir, we don’t want to see your President’s name in that book because he accused predecessors of theft. We urge you sir, to differentiate between his position as Party President and his Position as Head of State( HE)
As HE, He is in Charge of all the State institutions including Defense Forces. Sir, he has so much power that even his joke can land someone in Jail.
Sir, of let your President has been Quoted as having attacked his predecessors and also the that you inherited empty coffers.
We crave your President to please desist from attacking his predecessors or former government officials for three reasons:
1. Collective responsibility
2. Oath of office.
3. Oath of Secrecy
By Collective Responsibility, Your President and his cabinet are bound by all government decisions made by the past regime and he can’t escape or attack such publicly. Some information that he comes across is not meant for the public. Let him strike a balance between National duty and personal wishes.
Kindly also desist from clarifying every statement the President makes. Right now our main Problems are not staments but Zesco, fertilizer, roads, jobs e.t.c
I hope and trust that this letter will find you in good health and in a mood that will enable you to be at peace with me. Your supporters will not see sense in this today but when the sun rises they will remember this.
We shall continue to educate you in the spirit of One Zambia One Nation.
Yours in National Service
Hon. Tutwa S Ngulube
Former Deputy Chief Whip and MP for Kabwe Central
Senior Citizen.