THE UPND IS A HYPOCRITICAL GOVERNMENT THAT ALWAYS WANTS TO APPEASE FOREIGN INTERESTS AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE
15/07/2022
As National Democratic Congress, NDC, it has come to our attention that the UPND is trying to do many things in one week that they have been refusing to do in ten months. Does it mean, therefore, that when we speak as leaders of other progressive parties, they hear, but can only act when there are international interests to consider?
Here are among the things that we have consistently told the UPND to work on in the past few months, and it all fell on blind ears. But shockingly, they now want to do everything in one week, not because the voices of Zambians matter to them, but because we have foreign dignitaries coming to Zambia for the AU Summit. These people are the biggest hypocrites ever.
- We have been telling them that Lusaka is very dirty and they should clean up the city. They have been ignoring us, but they have now instead embarked on destroying people’s livelihoods by destroying mobile money booths. They look at them as the source of dirt, instead of collecting garbage and improving waste management in the city. Improve water and sanitation in all trading places. Put waste bins everywhere, build toilets.
- I have personally been very vocal about the First Lady championing a cause or charity of her choice. The UPND were very much against this that they even called one NGO in the country to tell me to stop talking about the issue. They explained to me that the First Lady will not have a charity of her own but work with existing ones, including the one that called me. But shockingly, the first lady was last week shown on TV showing the visiting Italian First Lady her charity, and the headline was that our first lady was receiving kudos for her charity from the Italian first lady. Something that the whole nation just saw for the first time.
- The release of the list of recruited teachers has been delayed several times, and BOOM, with the AU meeting underway they say the list will be released today. Please keep your eyes open over this list and see how many people will really be recruited. There are no such coincidences in politics, these are tactics meant to calm one section of the youth after destroying the livelihoods of another group- the booth operators. And I wonder why we are always easily lied to as Zambians. We should always look beyond the headlines. This list of recruitments will soon backfire, please keep this statement for reference.
- We have been saying that the tension between president HH and the former president ECL is unnecessary. President Lungu has described president HH and the UPND as hypocrites, something which most of us politicians can attest to. They want to show that they are good during the day, but stub us with knives in the night. They want to destroy political parties in the country and install puppet presidents in other parties who will do nothing but sing their praises.
Therefore, to hear that today President HH has appointed his predecessor to be our peace ambassador is very shocking. I think we should have the AU Summit in Zambia every month, that way, we shall have real peace among political players, jobs will be available, cleanliness of the city and many others.
There are many issues I can talk of, but I will stick to the above 4 for now. And to president HH and the UPND, you should always remember who voted for you and who gives you the mandate to run this country.
Your actions this week alone are a clear indication that the UPND never does anything out of the goodness or best interest of the people they lead, but do so for the international community. With them, it is always about appeasing foreign interests at the expense of their own.
Issued by;
Saboi Imboela
President- NDC