By Merlyn Mwanza
Alliance for Community Action executive director Laura Miti has described yesterday’s PF online meeting as “wolves gathered” to impose a weak and failed president on the people of Zambia.
Miti, went on social media and patched holes into Patriotic Front (PF) virtual rally held yesterday.
The PF held a virtual rally where its apparent agenda seemed to discredit the Tonga people by labelling them as tribalists. Godfrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM), Chishimba Kambwili among others descended on UPND president Hakainde Hichilema, labelled him as tribal that does not deserve to ascend to the highest position of this land.
But Miti this morning stated that it was unacceptable for the PF to gross over the misery Zambians are currently grappling with by suggesting that the problem the country is facing is because of the Tonga people.
She stated that GBM, Kambwili and many PF supporters are aware that President Edgar Lungu has failed to run the country, but are deliberately deceiving people in order to win their votes.
“The level of joint evil required of a group of people to be willing to sacrifice a nation, just so that they can keep someone as President, whose patent inability to carry out the basic requirements of the office they well know, deserves recognition. You see, President Lungu’s running of the country has been so poor that his campaign team is genuinely bereft of arguments as to why a sane population would keep him in office,” Miti explained. “So, a band of individuals who need this weak President to remain in office if they are to get or keep a seat at the table of plenty, has come up with a brilliant way to distract the nation from the gnawing hunger pangs in millions of stomachs.”
Miti explained that PF campaign team were using tribal card to discredit Hichilema, which political strategy, unfortunately is backfiring because the people of Zambia already know who they want to be their next president.
“They have decided that tribalism will be the last defence against citizens’ simple question – why are we so hungry?,” wondered Miti. “So, yesterday, individuals took turns to veritably suggest to a nation, they hoped was listening attentively, that the biggest problem we have as a country is not an economy on its knees, hunger in homes or youth desperate for jobs. They worked hard to convince us, rather, that our most critical headache as a nation right now, and one that needs our collective effort to resolve, is that we have Tonga people among us. Now, come on people, is that argument not worthy of recognition for its sheer self-preserving evil? Anyhow, once again, it falls to Zambian citizens to save our country. To save ourselves like we have done so many times before, when political wolves have gathered, dressed up as sheep seeking the national good. As to how anyone sees a sheep in GBM or Kambwili is another ability worthy of an Olympic medal!”
