WE URGE THE PATRIOTIC FRONT TO CALM DOWN
By Dr Nevers Mumba
We all understand how difficult and frustrating it is to go through what the PF is currently going through. However, we wish to advise our colleagues to calm down, think and reflect before taking any step. We offer this support to our colleagues from a wealth of similar experience. Anything you do in haste and anger usually ends up injuring the very prospects you seek to achieve.
To day, we noticed that the leadership of PF trooped to the American Embassy to seek the support of the US in their “fight’ for democracy. Yesterday, they had the honor of presenting their grievances to the visiting German President. Under normal circumstances, there is nothing wrong with such efforts.
However, not too long ago, the PF stalwarts are on record to have called the West as imperialists who are using President Hakainde Hichilema to advance the imperialist agenda in the region of bringing regime change to Zimbabwe. It is this inconsistency that will disempower our colleagues. You cannot abuse the West on one hand and when you need their help, you troop to them without apologizing for your previous behavior. The moral thing for our colleagues would have been to go to the Zimbabwean Embassy, the country whose democracy they glorified. This is called consistency and morality.
Our position is that our colleagues the PF probably have a good case of what they call “limited democratic space,” but we advise them to take responsibility of their own actions and statements first.
For the PF to be taken seriously by anyone, they need to calm down and think through their actions before creating more bad precedents for future generations.
When you offend a neighbor, first go to them and say sorry before asking them for any favors. Our colleagues should have released a statement ahead of their visit to the American Embassy in which they state that, they regret the unpalatable statements they made against the West and that they were just politicking.
We have insisted on reminding the PF about their previous misdeeds so that they can find it in their hearts to accept for once by saying sorry before they cry foul. We are not saying this to belittle the problems they currently face but we are of the view that their future lies in acknowledging their past and publicly seek for forgiveness.
MMD is committed to equitable justice for all. Both the ruling and opposition parties must be allowed to enjoy their full liberties. We don’t support any contraction of democracy in the nation and we urge all institutions of government to treat all Zambians the same. It was for democracy that MMD was founded and it will be for democracy that MMD will be sustained.
Crocodile tears!!! Mr Hamumba!!!
Well said. They are still calling HH as West puppet.
Could not have expressed it better than Nevas Mumba. The very people they call names they run to when they feel lost. PF is not only for ECL Miles Sampa has as much rights too. The police being at the PF secretariat was to stop a brutal battle between two factions of the PF.
Mr Mumba you have hit the nail right on its head.Today they are asking west to intervene
When all along they were saying Bally is their
Puppet.so what’s changed?
Nevers is speaking from experience, knowing how Nakachinda as a goat that he is has been used and is still being used to cause confusion everywhere he has been.
That is why deranged Lungu found Nakachinda’s stupidity as qualification to even give him a ministerial position undeservingly and foolishly reducing the ministerial position to its lowest and undignified level. STUPID IDIOTS.
PF have a misplaced sense of entitlement like a spoilt child.
After supporting the misdeeds of Zanu-pf in the Zim elections and condemning the SADC EOM team report which was critical of yhe same, they have appealed to SADC to intervene in our situation. What hypocrites!!
PF is the true representation of hypocrisy, lies and lawlessness.