WE’VE LEADERS WHO ARE DISLOYAL – CHIGAGA
LEADERS who are not loyalty to the country must not be given a chance to govern, Mwila Chigaga, wife of late former Finance Minister Gibson Chigaga has said.
In an interview with The Mast yesterday, Chigaga wondered what the benefits were for citizens to be governed by individuals who had total disregard of national values.
“If we have no loyalty to the nation, then what do we have? But Zambia is so depressing right now looking at how the country has been destabilised and lost its values,” she said.
Chigaga said since independence, Zambia had never witnessed the current division it is witnessing today which was spreading rapidly.
She said it was depressing to live in Zambia because of the normalised promotion of ethnicity and tribalism.
Chigaga said the country had lost the best moral unifying character of One Zambia, One Nation which the forefathers cherished dearly.
“It is so depressing, you know. Things are so bad. There is a lot of hatred and division which the country has never witnessed ever” she said.
She challenged freedom fighters in the country to come to the table and rebuke the current division and tribalism being promoted in the country.
Chigaga said the still living freedom fighters should tell their stories to the current crop of leaders, especially the government, how they had managed to unite all the tribes of the country, unlike the current situation.
“What would be nice is to bring in the freedom fighters to give us their take on the division in the country. What is happening in the country is actually my biggest and a generational worry,” she said
Chigaga said Zambia had lost its sense of nationhood because One Zambia One Nation meant absolutely nothing.
She was sad that the promotion of division by the current elders would have serious negative effects on the future generations.
The Mast
When she notice the division ?
Madame Chigaga, when you say that there is a lot of hatred and division which the country has never witnessed before, I don’t agree with you.
This kind of division and hatred have been there since Independence Madame, that’s what led to One Party State after signing the Choma declaration of 1972. Some people sacrificed their interests and put their country first. And for many years Zambia moved on peacefully even after coming back to multipartism. So when one critically analyses the Zambian politics, you find that there has been this small Clique of individuals which has been holding the nation at ransom. This Clique has all along believed that it’s only them to rule this country whether things are good or bad. Always, it has to be them to rule and not others. And as long as the general citizenry continue tolerating their nonsense, there is guaranteed peace in the country. It’s this kind of selfishness and lack of patriotism that’s spoiling our country and is fast erasing the spirit of one Zambia one nation in the citizens’ minds. Madame Chingaga you are saying that the country has lost the best moral unifying character of One Zambia, One Nation which the forefathers cherished dearly. But the big question is when did this moral deterioration of our country lost or when did it start again? because Zambia has been independent for more than 60 years now but UPND has just been in power for four years. Don’t you think it’s the same small clique trying to bring confusion in its struggle to get back the power? I don’t think there is anything really scaring in Zambia now, may be the country is even more peaceful than at any other time in its history. On global ratings, Zambia remains among the top 10 most peaceful and safe countries in Africa and the top 40-50 in the world. Outside politics, Zambia is very peaceful country where people are freely going about doing their everyday business. We just need to combine our efforts from all sections of our society preaching love, peace and unity to our people. This is the message we should be hearing from politicians, the Church and the traditional leadership because Zambia is bigger than all of us combined. Country men and women, it’s our collective responsibility to foster and maintain peace in our country, if we think that Hakainde Hichilema alone will give us that peace, then we are terribly mistaken because he needs our support just as we need his support also.
The hatred is propelled by people who cannot accept a person from other Regions to be president. “A Tonga to be a president, not this one aspiring ” said ECL at his peak Miles Sampa said ” if Tongas want to be presidents, they should start marrying Bemba women”. Now that there is a Tonga president, some tribes cannot take it hence the division created by people who believe that they were ordained to be presidents..
I have never heard of this Mrs Chigaga. Who is she and where has she been all this time since her late Husband was Finance Minister, and that is a very long long time ago? Smell of 2026? All of them are waking up from hibernation and slumber: Mwansa Chigaga, Mulenga Kapwepwe, this one and that one….ni Sangwapo
Mrs. Chigaga, please donot pretend not to know who the authors of this divisions are. PF were an unmitigated disaster for this country and they openly discriminated against those from certain regions especially from Southern Province.
Iam from Northern Province (not that it matters) but the naked regionalism/tribalism that was practiced by the PF regime was shocking and disgusting to say the least. No other administration managed to thoroughly corrupt our values as the PF did.
Correcting the damage that PF wreaked upon the nation must start with an honest conversation and not trying to blame the victim. Having said that, let me hasten to mention that tribalism is not the exclusive domain of Northerners or Easterners. Other regions have their share of tribalists.
Well said JMC. I wish there were just 10 JMCs and zero HaaIndigos in Zambia, Zambia would have been a Paradise
Now that’s honest conversation not beating about the bush…
Very refreshing to read through you comment brotherman. We need free thinkers like you. Kudos!