PF SCHEME OF SPONSORING INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES IN WESTERN & NORTH WESTERN PROVINCES UNEARTHED
Cry my beloved provinces. The PF have offloaded huge sums of money to independent candidates particularly those who were not adopted by the UPND.The aim is to weaken the UPND perceived strongholds.They are covertly sponsoring independent candidates.Hiding behind independent candidates, the PF is writing deformatory articles and portraying a picture that UPND candidates have failed to develop western province in general!
Whilst I agree that western province is amongst the least developed regions in the country,I don’t agree that this regional under-development should be attributed to opposition Members of Parliament in the province.
Whilst these MPs have tried to live up to what they promised within there means, the responsibility to provide resources for developing the country lies with the central government! We all agree that the Province has lagged behind especially in infrastructure development, however,it is naive to think that the province should have been developed by opposition Members of Parliament.
As a matter of fact,Western Province should not have been amongst the least developed provinces in the country because that’s the province were the Vice Republican President comes from! When Mama Inonge Wina was picked to be the first female Republican Vice President, people from Muoyo village in Nalolo district celebrated and shifted there loyalty to the Patriotic Front.They were convinced that the 5 km dust road stretching from Mongu/Senanga road to Muoyo palace would be finally worked on for the first time to bituminous standard! The people of Nkeyema and Kaoma equally elated because they thought their dreams of working on the Tateyoyo to Kaoma via Nkeyema road would eventually come true, which Sata and her predecessor Guy Scott failed to work on! The People from Lukulu were among the happiest of having their own daughter as not only a ‘very important person’ (VIP) in the entire country but also the leader of parliamentary business were all the MPs including those from western province report to! The people of Senanga,Sesheke,Mwandi,Kazungula,Sioma,Mitete all celebrated by having Mama Inonge Wina as the second most powerful person in the country!
Remember that the late Sata had done ground breaking and laid a foundation stone for the King Lewanika University,up to now there’s only a stone at Namushekende university site standing as a reminder to tell that story.Meanwhile,this University was initiated at the same time with the now completed and functional Robert Makasa university in Muchinga Province! Seven years down the lane,I doubt whether the people of western province can have something to point at in rememberacy of their own daughter as being at one point the Republican Vice President! Take a drive from Tateyoyo to Kaoma Boma and see whether you will have a reason to remember her honor the Vice President .Go and ask the people of Lukulu today if at all they’ve seen the benefits of their celebrations of having her honor the Vice President from Western Province! Go to her home village in Muoyo and drive on that 5km dust opening called a road and see whether you’ll believe that it was the home village of the Vice President!
Now if the second most powerful person in the country has failed to even work on just one stretch of a road in the entire province,in all fairness, how do one expect an MP to develop these roads? Western Province has remained the same as before Mama Inonge became the Vice President.This is the Province that failed to develop when it was the home village to the Republican Vice President, how then do the people of Western Province imagine that the coming in of Nkandu Luo as the Vice President will change the status quo????? Is it very difficult for some people in western province to realize the reason why almost everywhere zambians are craving for change of the President??
My country men and women,I ask you to temporarily remove your partisan spectacles and search your souls by asking yourselves these questions
1.When you look around your Nkeyema,Kaoma, Lukulu,Senanga, Sesheke,Mwandi, Kazungula, do you see any roads worth celebrating as the PF’s achievement?? or you’re just following what other provinces are seeing?
2. Do you honestly think that the coming in of Nkandu Luo as the Vice President will outdo what your own Mama Inonge Wina did and didn’t do?
3.Has anyone of you carried out a thoroughly background check on most of those in leadership positions and some of those aspiring to be your MPs especially from the PF? What were they doing before coming into politics,if they were in formal employment,why and how did they found themselves out of formal employment? Can you trust them with state resources and power??? I know that most of you know them,but what I fail to understand is why do you want to gamble?
4.If PF had a genuine agenda for the province,why is it bribing unsuspecting independent candidates??
Viva Hakainde Hichilema
Viva UPND
Mupishi Jones
Provincial Vice Youth Treasurer Upnd
Western Province