MUNIR’S DOWNFALL
Working closely with Munir prior to 2021 general elections taught me that stories told about him in the media were untrue.
This is a buildup to what I wrote earlier on.
However, one significant trait you can’t take away from Munir is genuine generosity. He will do something for you for the sake of doing it, without expecting anything in return from you. That is why today Munir is both popular and famous. Anyone who encounters him can testify.
His political journey started when he was at NIPA studying law, and participated in Union Elections where he was elected President of the union. It was during the Rupiah Banda administration. He was among a group of students who had been putting pressure on the MMD administration of Rupiah on governance . State House then, engaged all student union leaders and Rupiah was surprised that a small chap in stature was the one ‘troubling’ him and his administration.
After leaving NIPA, Munir joined politics, at a very young age. He made his impact and money. When PF won elections, Munir was already in politics, specifically , he participated in Lusaka Central Constituency. This is where his intentions to contest Lusaka Central came from.
The PF, Michael Sata particularly had a good relationship with student union leaders and it was easy to work with Munir after he left NIPA, in whatever small ways they could. The plan for Munir was to start as a ward councilor, then contest as Lusaka Central Constituency MP. Something I will share later changed, and he went for Lumezi in 2016.
Anyways, between 2011 and 2016, Munir became broke and lost friends. He was no longer the young rich kid. Then he lost friends. The people he ate with ran away from him. They abandoned him. Spoke bad of him behind his back. In fact, many glass stories about Munir in those days when social media was a monopoly of a few, we’re generated and spread by the very people who ate, associated with Munir when he was very rich.But since a man never falls down forever, he somehow picked it up.
This is someone whom, before getting into financial trouble, could travel to China for business and sponsor or carry along others to expose them to the world and help them get established.
But around 2017, Munir came along again. His businesses started booming again. He ran a fleet of vehicles for hire. He invested in printing and advertising. He was in real estate. He invested in Auto and hardware and started putting money in exports and imports of agricultural commodities. He started building his fortune and became a household name again. Unlike, false stories that he is Kaiser Zulu’s young brother and therefore , became rich because of this relationship, Munir and the former State House political advisor are not related in any way. They only share surnames, and at one point, they were not in good books. By the time Munir was associating himself with PF, he was already affluent. He already had money. Actually, Munir never did any business with the PF government. He never did any business with the MMD government. He has always been in the private sector.
However, Munir’s downfall between 2011 to 2016 taught him lessons until today. He learnt to endure all sorts of hardships, so much that his incarceration now, is nothing that can break him. What I know as a matter of truth is that when Munir falls, he comes back. He is coming back not long from now. This time around full force. What I am not sure of is whether or not he will go to Lumezi again or rekindle his Lusaka Central Constituency interest. Or perhaps, he has something different up his sleeves.
Jeff Mbewe
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Mr. Munir Zulu’s generosity certainly affected the author’s judgement. My first recollections of Mr. Zulu was a clip in which he was exchanging blows with a traffic police officer (the officer seemed street wise and Mr. Zulu ended up on the receiving end). This was just after PF came to power.
Then there is his infamous speech in parliament referring to other MPs a adults who shave their pub*c hair. For me, it was absolutely shocking and it heralded the decline of the quality of debates in parliament.
There was his ” conversation with Mr. Mumba the Kantanshi(?), Mufulira MP, again involving unwholesome language. The author is trying very hard to sanitise Mr. Zulu’s image but it is so filthy no amount of spin can cleanse his tainted image.
Clearly such looser who lives off the dirty money that he gets from the likes of Mr. Zulu. And if he has a serious means of making a living; this is hardly proof of it. Cant find anything better to do but “praise a convicted criminal”.
If this man had any sense of morals or dignity he would have realised how abhorent the character of Munir Zulu is.
How money can blur their vision of the weak and corrupt.
Yes,and Munir harboured in his house,those now jailed wizards hired by JJ Banda and Umodzi Kwatu to harm the President
The former young law maker has nothing left positive of him to be talked about. Himself and JJ Banda are the reason why many of us feel young people in parliament are a waste of time. The author is well advised to just restrain a bit writing about Mr. Zulu in the meantime so as to let him reflect. When he comes out of jail he can try something else not politics, business probably would suite him. Mention of him invokes bad memories in many people. Mr. author sir, find other people to write about.