THE PRESENCE OF CHARITY LUMPA BROUGHT CONFUSION IN PF?
The Candidates’ Comment
The decision of Charity Lumpa to contest in Lusaka Central Constituency as an Independent candidate, after failing to get adopted by the Patriotic Front (PF), speaks so much about her possible involvement in protests and sabotage we are witnessing against Margaret Mwanakatwe.
As a matter of principle, we do not think Margaret deserves that adoption. We have openly criticized Margaret because of her failure to control her drinking habit. We do so not because we are perfect ourselves but because we have been disappointed with Margaret for failure to control herself where alcoholism is concerned to a point where her work as Minister of Finance – before she was fired – was affected.
However, even as we do not agree with Margaret’s adoption for Lusaka Central, we cannot deprive her of the legitimate support bestowed on her by her party. We are witnessing sabotage by the PF District executive against Margaret where officials have openly spoken ill of her and have decided to withdraw their support which they have directed towards Charity Lumpa who has opted to contest as Independent candidate in Lusaka Central.
Not very long ago, we played a recorded phone conversation between Charity and a Margaret Mwanakatwe sympathizer Mwansa Kapwepwe. In that conversation, Charity refused having a hand in any of the protests and sabotage against Margaret’s adoption. We do not think Charity is being honest. Her finger prints are all over these protests, the sabotage against Margaret we continue to witness.
We know that Charity’s campaign has a lot of money. Many people in PF are supporting Charity because of the money she has, which she is dishing out to all sorts of people. Those minions, sycophants who are supporting Charity are doing so because they have discovered a stream of revenue to sustain their lives. Those elements do not have any fundamental belief in Charity’s candidature than the belief in her wealth which they take as a means for survival.
It takes very little intelligence – if a little is all that one has – to realize that Charity is at the center of the sabotage against Margaret’s candidature. We say so because if indeed Charity is not involved in these confusions and has conceded defeat to Margaret over the adoption – as she wants to have us believe – why is she contesting as an Independent 
candidate?
Charity and her minions peddle a notion that she is honest and has integrity. We dare agree with Margaret’s sympathizer Mwansa Kapwepwe that Charity has no integrity going by her decision to go for a seat of her former boss Margaret after being left out. We are not taking away her democratic right to contest an election. Of course, she has that right. But her right should not be used to sabotage Margaret who has been preferred by her party.
Beyond what the surface suggests, Charity overrates herself and thinks she is better than Margaret. She is in denial of the fact that PF chose Margaret and not her. It is that overrating of herself which propels her in what she is doing. But of course, there is nothing honest about what she is doing. There is nothing honorable about her behavior. When someone tells you that they are honorable, that they have morals, they are honest and have integrity, listen less to their own mouth but pay attention to their behavior.
We must not fail to tell what influences certain people to do certain things. We do not think that Charity has a noble cause in her uncontrolled appetite to become an MP in Lusaka Central. Clearly, this is not about the poor voters in Bauleni. There is more than what meets the eye. Charity cannot be splashing all that money around for nothing. There is a reason that is bigger than the interest of the people. It is a matter of time before we all know the reason why Charity has this huge appetite to be an MP.