By Isaac Zulu
The Seventh Day elder has failed to live up to the values of the Church with his manipulative ways, says Mwenya Musenge.
“I have always been praying that one day this country should be ruled by an Adventist because I am an Adventist also. You see, in the Seventh Day Adventist Church there are very strong Christian values that are inculcated in some SDA Church members. One of them is the fear of God, then love your neighbour as you love yourself and in all that you are doing you have to be sincere… be trustworthy. Unfortunately I am not seeing that in my Seventh Day Adventist Church elder in the current President (Hakainde Hichilema). I am not seeing that,” Musenge said. “If you look at the Kabushi and Kwacha parliamentary by-elections, you can see from a distance that the UPND have been engaging in serious schemes to ensure that they have it their way. The President who has been talking about the need to promote the good governance and the rule of law has now brought manipulative rule of law. This is very unfortunate.”
Musenge further said that the UPND administration should stop playing politics and being hypocritical on the issue regarding the famous Forest 27.
Musenge, who is the former National Democratic Congress secretary general, observed that it has now dawned on the government that most of its serving ministers and UPND officials acquired land in Forest 27, and that is why the UPND administration is being reluctant to effect what they promised the Zambian people on the subject matter while in opposition.
“The issue to do with Forest 27 is one of those things that the UPND promised to address when they were in opposition. Most Zambians, including myself, believed them. They knew even when they were in opposition that some of their colleagues had acquired some pieces of land in that Forest Reserve. But now colleagues have come to know the extent of the involvement in Forest 27. It has dawned on the New Dawn that some ministers serving in the current government own some land in Forest 27 and have since built properties there. And that is why they are trying to change goal posts,” Musenge explained in an interview. “So I feel that our colleagues in the UPND government should stop playing politics and being hypocritical on the issue of Forest 27. They should just own up and do the right thing.”
