UPND ABUSING BY-ELECTIONS
….threats and intimidation will not work this time around during the forthcoming by-elections, says Socialist Party
Copperbelt…. Saturday December 28, 2024
The Socialist Party (SP) has accused the ruling UPND of abusing by-elections in the country saying these levels of desperation is unacceptable.
SP General Secretary Dr Cosmas Musumali says this time around, threats and intimidation will not work in the forthcoming by-elections.
Dr. Musumali says it is clear that the UPND is desperate after realizing that they have not performed according to the expectations of Zambians.
He said the UPND have created a bad legacy of dictatorial tendencies, corruption and that they will be remembered as the incompetent government.
Dr. Musumali says the UPND have done enough damage to the country and do not deserve another term of office.
“The picture you (UPND) have created is that you are dictators, corrupt and an incompetent government. You need to torn down on your desperation and it is clear that the people have sensed it. You talk about being in opposition for 23 years then you want to hold the people of Zambia hostage? Zambians are not your slaves,” he said this when he addressed the media on the Copperbelt today.
“You are saying you suffered for 23 years while in opposition, your mission was to come and serve Zambians but you have lamentably failed. Go on the streets, jump on a bus and ask Zambians what they will say about you. You have done enough damage to this country and you don’t deserve another term of office. For Zambians, 2026 is too far.”
Dr. Musumali said the UPND have betrayed the people of Zambia who innocently with the hope of having change woke up early enough to go and vote for them.
The SP General Secretary also said despite the unfair by-elections, his party will continue to take part in the future elections.
He said the SP has not done badly in the 55 previous by-elections as in most cases they come out second.
SP Media
Sir, you can not tell Zambians who was or is what type of government. Zambians know very well where they are coming from, where they are and exactly where they are going.
They also understand that it is easier to descend a mountain than climbing it, which can be compared to the ease of destroying as opposed to building. In this case, UPND have done a great job restoring what PF destroyed in 10 years of their misrule. The positives can be appreciated under very challenging circumstances which includes the continued frustration of efforts to improve government performance by the remnants of PF who continue to syphon funds through complex operations of accounts. They were offered an olive branch as fellow Zambians but they continue to abuse the opportunity so that when or if they were fired they would sing the ‘TRIBALISM’ chorus.
SP offers no alternative right from inception because it’s leader has a tainted past in tax evasion as well as non payment of Loans obtained from government institutions. Apart from that, He and his partners refused to pay former Zambian Airways Employees their terminal benefits plus a couple of months’ salaries using ‘ Lawyer Mingalato”.
All these things plus the signs of brutality he displayed by firing a gun into a crowed are warnings of the kind of leader he would make.
Socialist governments are known tyrants and that’s not what Zambia needs at the moment and not in the nearest future.
Bwana stop using asperation to discredit.
All we now hear from you is a person “whinning”. As I have always said about the socialist party your indiological basis is out of touch with reality. Just go to South Africa and see how misguided the communist and Socialism message has messed up the country.
What value does Malema add? Where does Communist party fit in the government of national unity message? How did the movement help ANC stop Zuma from state capture? How have SOEs been abused by a group/clique of connected individuals that are out of touch with what you stand for as communists? All they have done is looted and like Lungu enriched their children who feel so entitled that they have little concern for the plight of the unemployed misguided illiterate South Africa living in squalor.
Yes, the Russians and communist block had a hand in the literation of South Africa. But help doesnt mean you are now yoked with the values and outlook of your liberators. South Africa has the right to choose what is good for its people. Russians want to act like those it helps owe them. That is not help. Its indenture the very act they suggest the west does, the west is very clear. A loan is a loan. A grant is a grant. Aid is aid. Soft diplomacy is should not be a yoke.
You are an intelligent educated man. Unblemished unlike your compariot Mmembe who is a selfish, selfserving and arrogant man. One has to wonder what you have in common as his belief in the party is not about service.