Saboi displayed highest levels of immaturity in her ranting – Nyirenda
By Oliver Chisenga
NATIONAL Democratic Congress vice-president Sam Nyirenda has warned embattled politician Saboi Imboela to tame her mouth and desist from dragging civil servants into what he termed her political frustrations.
Recently, Imboela’s accused home affairs permanent secretary Josephs Akafumba of conspiring with the chief registrar of societies to alter the official NDC documents.
Imboela said this caused her faction to report the matter to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Reacting to this, Nyirenda said Akafumba was a distinguished lawyer who immediately he was appointed permanent secretary detached himself from political matters, let alone issues to do with the NDC.
“Saboi is inept, dangerous and by far incapable of holding a high political office. She has become a conflict of gender interests herself with such loose and highly volatile insensitivity to statements that are an assault to the very gender she purports to protect,” he said. “First and foremost, it is embarrassing for a person of Saboi’s stature to expose herself with such ignorance and insincerity in the manner she did. We wish to inform Saboi that she does not own the NDC, neither will there be any one individual now or in future as if it were a personal property.”
Nyirenda said the NDC was owned by Zambians, and not an individual.
“This is an organisation with a constitution… politically and legally NDC has moved. In case Saboi has forgotten, NDC was led by honourabble Rikki Akafumba with honourable Mwenya Musenge as secretary general while Chishimba Kambwili was its consultant. Kambwili (CK) became its president and later left for PF, leaving the NDC intact in the UPND-Alliance,’’ Nyirenda explained. ‘’Honourable Akafumba, then as vice, took over the reins and later left, then briefly came hon Musenge who equally left. These were all individuals. NDC National Governing Council has finally ratified Mr George Sichula – a new generation of relatively young leaders – as its interim president going forward until we get to the convention.”
He reminded Saboi and her team about the matter against them which is still active in court.
“This is an order which restrained CK and his agents from masquerading as NDC leaders. This order included herself Saboi and the then purported secretary general Dr Mbulo who has since recused himself in the High Court from belonging to an illegal grouping,” said Nyirenda. “Saboi should be careful with her utterances. She has of late tried to ride on gender in her effort to seek immunity for her careless, unjustified accusations against the UPND Alliance government. She appears to have been so emotionally charged and unfortunately, she lacked the emotional intelligence to coordinate and control herself when making public statements. Saboi displayed highest levels of immaturity in her ranting. Her allegations that the UPND is a morally bankrupt party are very serious accusations. She attempted to paint the whole party black, with the exception of one HH (President Hakainde Hichilema), that only HH is morally upright. Saboi should be aware of the law in Part II of the Zambian Constitution clause 8 that emphasises on the dignity.”