UPND Livingstone councillors warn Lusambo over his attacks on HH
By Edwin Mbulo in Livingstone
LIVINGSTONE UPND councillors have resolved to take on former Lusaka Province minister Bowman Lusambo personally if he continues attacking President Hakainde Hichilema and his family.
Lusambo in last Thursday’s lead story of The Mast said President Hichilema’s days in office were numbered.
He charged that the Anti-Corruption Commission was “wasting my time” adding that soon “they will start getting my underwear and start saying proceeds of crime”.
Commenting on the arrest of his wife Nancy on Monday by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Lusambo said it would soon be President Hichilema’s turn to answer to possible charges when he is out of office.
Nancy was arrested on charges of concealing properties believed to be proceeds of crime.
“I want to tell Hakainde Hichilema that the privatisation issue is not dead. Whether he died today, as we come into government, we are going to investigate. We are going to investigate the children, the wife and whoever will be in custody of their property because he has never given a convincing answer to the people of Zambia,” Lusambo charged.
“Now, I want to address him. I am a politician. I was born a politician. All my life I have been a politician. I have also worked before in this country. I worked for Carnival Furnishers, in Cash Crusaders. I worked for GTV. I owned my own small businesses in this country. It is very unfortunate that Mr Hakainde Hichilema thinks I just dropped from heaven, no! In my tour of duty, definitely, I have been having something. I have been investing. I want to assure him that his days are numbered.”
But Zambezi Ward councillor Robert Wandila, who is the ruling party’s chief whip in the local authority that has 19 UPND and one independent councillor, said Lusambo’s attacks on President Hichilema and his family could not go unanswered.
“We feel that Lusambo is becoming personal by saying that investigations that are going on are being brought about by the President. We feel such investigations are being done by law enforcement agencies in this case the ACC and if at all Lusambo has any reason that he feels these are just innuendos, that is why the courts of law are there and not attacking the President and his family,” he said.
“We say so because we feel the President has every right to be defended by well meaning Zambians…we want as Livingstone councillors to register our displeasure and advise Lusambo to desist or stop attacking the President in person. If this goes on, we as councillors will be forced to take him on personally. This is becoming unacceptable, and it can’t go on like that, where our parent is being attacked by an individual and it goes on without any reaction at all! We advise Lusambo to stop this forthwith,” Wandila said.
He noted that President Hichilema had on several occasions said that he had no reason of going against any Zambian.