WE WERE FAR MUCH BETTER IN TERMS OF GOVERNANCE, LIVING STANDARDS – FORMER PF SG MWILA.
FORMER PF secretary general Davies Mwila says Zambians shouldn’t waste their time thinking that things will improve under the new dawn government because the “economic managers are liars”.
And Mwila says PF was far much better than UPND in terms of governance, infrastructure, living standards and commodity prices.
Last week, Local Government and Rural Development Minister Gary Nkombo said Zambians should wait for the UPND administration to clock one year in office and they will see the speed at which the government will satisfy people.
But in an interview, Mwila argued that the UPND leadership would continue asking for more time in which to perform.
“They used to boast that they are economic managers but now things are hard for them, they can’t turn around the economy. Now they are saying give us one year, we are learning. We told the Zambian people that you can’t vote for a person who has not even been a councilor before. Zambians didn’t want to listen. Now, Zambians will continue suffering because they didn’t want to listen. Look, they will move from one year, the other time the President was saying five years. After five years they will go to 10 years. So they will be just going round,” he said.
“They are not going to do anything, people will be suffering. Now mealie meal is K150, by December it will be around K200, and we are not going anywhere. If Zambians expect that things will change, they should not be wasting [their time]. Things will never change, things will never improve because these economic managers are liars.”
He advised the government to quickly change their strategy, saying things on the ground were not good for them.
“Let them just go back to the drawing board and ensure that the economy improves. Otherwise what is prevailing on the ground is not good for them. People are complaining unless Gary Nkombo and Cornelius Mweetwa are living in another world. But if they are living in Zambia, they should go on the ground and ask what is prevailing on the ground and ask the people. They will be told exactly what is going on. It’s better they change their strategy as quickly as possible otherwise things are not good for them,” he said.
And Mwila said Zambians were already missing PF’s leadership because commodities were cheaper during their tenure.
“Of course (people are missing the PF), they are missing. You saw what happened when [Joseph] Majanji went to Kwacha. The whole Kwacha went for him, why? They are missing the leadership of the PF. They are waiting for us to reorganise ourselves and elect a president or have a leader. That’s what all people are waiting for, otherwise, under the UPND leadership, it is a disaster. It’s like we do not have the Ministers, it’s a one-man show; Hakainde Hichilema alone. You can’t even see the Ministers,” he said.
“So what we are saying is that as the PF, we are reorganising ourselves to ensure that we elect a leader at the general conference and move forward. And I can tell you that they will continue missing the PF. Why? They are making comparisons. When we were in power, you look at the price of mealie meal, we left it at K110 and it’s now at K150. The fuel price, we left it at K16, it’s now at K28. So the Zambian people think that PF is far much better than the UPND. When you change a government, you change a government for the better because when things improve or change, all of us benefit, including the opposition.”
Mwila insisted that PF was far much better than the UPND in terms of governance, infrastructure, living standards and commodity prices.
“Very few people will join UPND, there is nothing. All those who are joining UPND just want to go and maybe eat with them, make some money. There is nothing that anyone can follow there, there is nothing. So, PF is far much better than the UPND in terms of governance, infrastructure, living standards, prices of commodities; we are far much better than them,” said Mwila.
(Credit: News Diggers)