NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT POLITICS – KAWANA
MINISTRY of Information and Media Permanent Secretary Thabo Kawana has advised politicians not to politicise everything, especially matters of public health.
In light of the now dying down hype of some mealie meal brands being contaminated with aflatoxins (poisonous substances), Mr Kawana inspected the mealie meal section in Shoprite at Lewanika Shopping Mall in Lusaka’s Woodlands yesterday.
He was impressed that all the mealie meal on sale in the outlet and elsewhere has been classified as safe by standards agencies.
To those who are politicising the issue of aflatoxins, Mr Kawana said not everything is about politics.
“We are a Government that is tasked to look after its people and public health is number one.
“We see the machinations of people who want to politicise this episode but we pay little attention to that. President Hakainde Hichilema’s number-one goal is to ensure that the people of Zambia are safe,” he said.
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In a normal government, the responsible and accountable ministers are health and agriculture possibly invite their counterpart minister of information who in my humble experience, wisdom and knowledge would have been visiting the shopping malls or shops to reduce the anxiety of people scared of buying meal mealie.
PS is taking the jobs of these ministers because this is a trend and competition of the highest order of this government. Everybody in UPND is a spokesperson for the government. Special consultant for politics, Principal specialist communication all weired titles created out of self unworthy syndromes. If you come from the Zambezi region you will create a title of your own. No one asks why are the people from Southern provinces are the only ones with titles like, specialist, principle, human rights specialists advocates but their own deeds or actions or works are not in line with their titles. In psychiatry or clinical psychology people who are narcissistic, self serving, misogynistic, jealousy, self indulgent, neurodivergent are naturally attracted self praising and anyone who disagrees with them, they will come after you with criminal charges or abuse their power with the view to silence those they feel are questioning the stay in power. The abuse institutions that one day will come after them when the leave government. They lack the ability or capacity to think beyond today . Today they group and find themselves glued together and have deaf ears to hear or eye to see. They like retribution and hates those who do not like them based on political ideas or ideology. They have no sense of respect as they do not understand or know principles of justice, respect , rule of law, knowing limitations, using power in a modest and restraint manner. Kawana is not a civil servant but a cadre and too pompous for nothing because we have seen and witnessed so many PS in the past keeping in line with their job descriptions. Even in provinces we see deputy ministers visiting and checking of projects and not PS unless there is a joint visit with the deputy minister