Abandon Bill 7, M’membe urges HH

By Chinoyi Chipulu

Socialist Party (SP) leader Dr Fred M’membe has urged President Hakainde Hichilema to withdraw the controversial Bill 7 for the proposed Constitutional amendments for want of sense, clarity and public support.

In a statement to the media yesterday, Dr M’membe stated that President Hichilema and his league were not making sense over their Bill 7 and that UPND should pick up courage, yield to public demand and withdraw it.

“In politics, one must not be too stiff-necked, too harsh and unyielding. In politics, and in life in general, yielding is legitimate and essential in two cases: when the yielder is convinced that those who are striving to make him yield are in the right (in which case, honest political leaders frankly and openly admit their mistake), or when an irrational and harmful demand is yielded to in order to avert a greater evil,” read the statement in part.

Dr M’membe further stated that in politics, arrogance did not show strength but actually signaled decline.

“Mr Hichilema should learn to listen. When a leader stops listening, he stops leading,” he stated.

Dr M’membe stated that soon President Hichilema would realise that ignoring people’s demands and criticism was not strategy but it’s self-sabotage.

“Listening and yielding to people’s legitimate demands and criticism is strength and wisdom, not a weakness. Ove- reliance on power doesn’t just corrupt it isolates,” he stated.

Dr M’membe stated that good leadership depended on the courage to hear and yield to what’ was uncomfortable and that when decisions on very important national issues like the Constitution were made in isolation, failure was a matter of time.

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