By Sara Imatowa Yeta
Any reasonable person with an ear on the ground knows that many people are not happy with the New Dawn Administration for maintaining the Patriotic Front (PF) criminal organisation administration.
We can bury our heads in the sand like an ostrich but ignoring this unhappiness and hoping it will disappear like a fart in the wind is showing very poor judgement; unwise.
The reason people voted ‘en masse’ was to remove the PF criminal administration from government.
People were ready to be killed, maimed, jailed, lose property and livelihoods, and sacrifice resources to get rid of the PF criminal administration.
To the disappointment of many people, their sacrifices seem to be all in vain as the PF criminal administration that caused so much suffering and pain in people’s lives has maintained grip on power.
As a result, some UPND structures, supporters and sympathisers out of frustration for having the PF criminal administration they voted out of power still running the show, have gone into hibernation and only a few are courageous to counsel or criticise the New Dawn Administration even when their careful judgment or opinions on what is happening is meant to help government.
It seems some people would rather bottle up their counsel to the New Dawn Administration and let government continue to frustrate people lest they spoil their prospects to be appointed, which to me is sheer nonsense because we cannot keep quiet to allow UPND the organisation we love frustrate people who voted for change.
The fact of the matter is that people cannot stomach the hard reality that the underworld PF administration that terrorised them is still running government.
If elections were held today, only a few people would be ready to be killed, maimed, jailed, lose property and livelihoods, and sacrifice resources for UPND to win elections when they know that the New Dawn Administration will maintain the PF criminal administration; a political paradox or oxymoron.
We support UPND and President Hichilema, but the over cautiousness, over secretiveness and over methodicalness without swiftness in the manner of doing things is doing more harm than good to the UPND movement.
It is time for our beloved President Hichilema, the hope and help of the people of Zambia, to act like a Makos shark; cautious, secretive and methodical but fast to catch a prey.
People want change of the administration because that is what they voted for on 12th August 2021.