PRESS STATEMENT
11 TH NOVEMBER 2021
THE CASE OF “CLIQUE OF THIVES”; NIMBILA YAMUSHI TABAYANKULA
We are not surprised why some people over reacted to the issue of “clique of thieves”. The guilty are always afraid. What must be understood clearly by those implicating innocent people without their consent is that President HH is the Father of the Nation. His concerns about how some people have plundered the Country while majority of Zambians are poor is within his responsibilities.
This can only unsettle people with questionable riches. Its only thieves and crooks that can be bitter and offended by what President HH said. At community level, if a parent takes to the anthill for the unclear death of his child and blames it on witches. It will be self confession for anyone to claim that was directed at him or his grandfather when no names were mentioned. In Bemba we say that IMBILA YAMUSHI TABAYANKULA.
Further, they say ULELILA TABA MUCHEBA KUKANWA. President HH was crying on how a greedy “clique of thieves” has made our youth , our mothers and majority Zambians poor, he was doing so out of passion for the ordinary suffering Zambians. Such passion only comes from a responsible and caring President. Not too long ago we saw how a few people were moving with huge sums of money on wheelbarrows.
When President HH says we are taking the money to the real owners so that they can have a say and determine what they need. This has obviously rattled a “clique of thieves” who are very bitter and offended for taking away the loot from them. The only time this “clique of thieves think of the ordinary Zambians is when they go to harvest Mukula tree from their areas. It’s this kind of greediness that President HH is totally against; all he wants is to share the national cake equally.
President HH and the UPND must be commended for genuinely wedging a war against corruption. It’s only a “clique of thieves that feels insecure and exposed each time President HH talks about stealing of public resources. We are aware also that corruption is fighting back vigorously. But it’s our sincere hope that very soon we will know this “clique of thieves”. That’s when Zambians will appreciate how this evil this“clique of thieves” has stolen from them.
Percy Chanda
UPND – NMC Member and Chairman for Mines