By Daily Revelation Reporter
Chishimba Kambwili says he will leave it to President Hakainde Hichilema to reconcile with his conscious whether what he has done with the extreme tribal appointments is the right thing to do.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Kambwili said if the list is indeed true – as the several verified names have indeed shown to be true in the diplomatic appointments – then what was good for the goose must be good for the gander, saying if it was wrong in PF it must be wrong under the UPND.
“If people were complaining that PF was appointing people from the same regions then it should also be wrong that people are being appointed from the same regions. That’s why we need genuine reconciliation, genuine actions that culminate into building this country as a unitary State. It’s not unity when there is only lip service. It should be unity in deeds and in actions,” he said.
Kambwili said it was extremely unfortunate that the country could continue on the same trajectory, saying what was needed was not pronouncements “that you are uniting the country but your actions are something else. It’s unfortunate because insoni ebuntu. If you are saying something that you don’t do you must have some element of shame,” Kambwili said.
He said truth was a virtue that must be inculcated in every leader, and “if you can’t tell the truth, if you are saying something and you are doing something else it’s unfortunate.”
Kambwili said appointments were the prerogative of the President and in making appointments the President must have a conscious that what he was doing was correct.
“But if he feels that what he has done is correct let him go ahead. If his conscious is telling him ‘what I have done is correct’ let him go ahead. Because it is his prerogative anyway,” said Kambwili.
And Kambwili said what business man James Ndambo is doing to help uplift the living standards of the poor is a welcome move and should be supported.
He said Zambia needed people like Ndambo, and one needed not belong to any political party to support what he was doing.
