A leaked audio has gone viral where the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) chief executive officer Amon Mweemba was insisting on including someone from his region after a shortlist of people for a job showed that it was dominated by what he termed as those from Chipata (Eastern Province) and the northern part of Zambia.
He said Zambia was much bigger than those two regions and the list should be more inclusive.
In his conversation with a woman, Mweemba insisted that he would keep rejecting and rejecting the list until the right person was identified.
This surely is not the way to go about handling the recruitments of people in any institution whether public or private, especially under a President who had promised that he was getting elected into office in order to unite the nation.
The saddest part is that there are actually narrow and tribal minds who have gone to town to defend the actions of Mweemba, who has since been reported to the police by EFF leader Kasonde Mwenda for alleged criminal tribal discrimination. We hope the police will move swiftly on this matter just as they did over the tribal remarks against former Information minister Chishimba Kambwili.
Mweemba is being defended by narrow minds who are actually referring to the tribalism that was happening under the PF administration of late Edgar Lungu. They rightly say that public positions under that government were mostly dominated by people from Eastern and northern parts of the country. While that was so, Zambians were wise enough and rightly punished the PF over their many wrongs by voting them out of office.
The argument being peddled by Mweemba’s supporters therefore does not arise because Zambians showed in the 2021 general elections that they did not agree with the country’s trajectory under the PF, the more reason why they voted overwhelmingly for President Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND, not only in his traditional strongholds of Southern, Western and North Western provinces, but across the whole country. For the first time, Hichilema actually won in at least one or more constituencies in Luapula, Northern and Eastern Province. In Muchinga Province, the vote tally in Isoka for instance was almost 50-50 with Lungu. Hichilema also extended wins to other areas where he had not won before including in several constituencies in Lusaka and Copperbelt.
However, Lungu did not enjoy the same luxuries in terms of getting meaningful votes in areas termed as Hichilema’s strongholds.
By voting in the manner Zambians voted, they were sending a message that they wanted to maintain their unity and did not want to be divided along partisan or tribal lines. It’s therefore foolish to defend the wrongs that are being noticed under the UPND just because the same used to happen under PF. We should avoid being a society that sees things through very narrow partisan lenses. When a wrong has been committed, it is still a wrong that must be denounced by all, failure to which we shall continue perpetuating wrongs in the country.
And it’s very disappointing that there has been eerie silence from President Hakainde Hichilema and those in government since the RATSA CEO incident happened. Such a shame actually especially under a government that claims that it is intent on unifying the country.
By Daily Revelation Editor
A leaked audio has gone viral where the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) chief executive officer Amon Mweemba was insisting on including someone from his region after a shortlist of people for a job showed that it was dominated by what he termed as those from Chipata (Eastern Province) and the northern part of Zambia.
He said Zambia was much bigger than those two regions and the list should be more inclusive.
In his conversation with a woman, Mweemba insisted that he would keep rejecting and rejecting the list until the right person was identified.
This surely is not the way to go about handling the recruitments of people in any institution whether public or private, especially under a President who had promised that he was getting elected into office in order to unite the nation.
The saddest part is that there are actually narrow and tribal minds who have gone to town to defend the actions of Mweemba, who has since been reported to the police by EFF leader Kasonde Mwenda for alleged criminal tribal discrimination. We hope the police will move swiftly on this matter just as they did over the tribal remarks against former Information minister Chishimba Kambwili.
Mweemba is being defended by narrow minds who are actually referring to the tribalism that was happening under the PF administration of late Edgar Lungu. They rightly say that public positions under that government were mostly dominated by people from Eastern and northern parts of the country. While that was so, Zambians were wise enough and rightly punished the PF over their many wrongs by voting them out of office.
The argument being peddled by Mweemba’s supporters therefore does not arise because Zambians showed in the 2021 general elections that they did not agree with the country’s trajectory under the PF, the more reason why they voted overwhelmingly for President Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND, not only in his traditional strongholds of Southern, Western and North Western provinces, but across the whole country. For the first time, Hichilema actually won in at least one or more constituencies in Luapula, Northern and Eastern Province. In Muchinga Province, the vote tally in Isoka for instance was almost 50-50 with Lungu. Hichilema also extended wins to other areas where he had not won before including in several constituencies in Lusaka and Copperbelt.
However, Lungu did not enjoy the same luxuries in terms of getting meaningful votes in areas termed as Hichilema’s strongholds.
By voting in the manner Zambians voted, they were sending a message that they wanted to maintain their unity and did not want to be divided along partisan or tribal lines. It’s therefore foolish to defend the wrongs that are being noticed under the UPND just because the same used to happen under PF. We should avoid being a society that sees things through very narrow partisan lenses. When a wrong has been committed, it is still a wrong that must be denounced by all, failure to which we shall continue perpetuating wrongs in the country.
And it’s very disappointing that there has been eerie silence from President Hakainde Hichilema and those in government since the RATSA CEO incident happened. Such a shame actually especially under a government that claims that it is intent on unifying the country.
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