LUNGU TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE
…instead of thank you, we’re treated to arrogance – Mwenye
By Staff Reporter(Mast Newspaper)
FORMER Attorney General Musa Mwenye says former president Edgar Lungu’s hypocrisy statement was completely irresponsible and is a stark reminder of the arrogance Zambians were subjected to during his time in power.
On Friday, in an interview with ZNBC soon after Rupiah Banda’s burial at Embassy Park, Lungu called for dialogue without hypocrisy.
“If we learn to dialogue with one another as we have experienced during the days of mourning, probably we can get somewhere as a country. Dialogue, genuine dialogue between all of us. Those who were in government before, and those who are in now. But what we are seeing is hypocrisy,” said Lungu.
“Where people say good things and then do bad things. And if we can expunge the hypocrisy from our lives and just say it as it is, between now and embarking into the future, it’s a lesson we are learning from Rupiah Banda’s legacy. People have said a lot of good things. May those good things become part of us.”
Reacting to Lungu’s statement, Mwenye wondered if former presidents have people who advise them.
“The word ‘hypocrisy’ is trending today for all the wrong reasons! Do former presidents have people who advise them? After being accorded the kindness and consideration one never accorded others, instead of ‘thank you’ we are treated to the arrogance we were served for seven years,” he noted in a Facebook posting.
He said President Hakainde Hichilema had shown a lot of magnanimity during the funeral of late Banda and those in the UPND government “have treated former PF leaders better than they treated them or would have treated them had they won”.
“They must be commended for facilitating an all-inclusive and dignified send off for our late former president. It was therefore disheartening to hear former president Lungu say what he said. More disappointing was the fact that he said it at a time we are mourning the former president,” said Mwenye.
“Instead of honouring the man he called his brother, we are now forced to focus on his unfortunate words. With due respect to former president Lungu, that was completely irresponsible and is a stark reminder of the arrogance we were subjected to during his time in power.”