Appointments now skewed towards bantu botatwe – Angela … I’m wondering whether people from one region have become more intelligent than others

 

“I would have thought that we have had enough time to look and make reviews over what concerns people. And in some of those appointments by now, if I recall the time that President HH was campaigning he usually started his address by greeting the Zambians in all the major languages, seven major languages and this was encouraging that here is the President or rather a leader coming in who was looking at the totality of the nation and also bringing back the One Zambia One Nation motto,” Cifire, who campaigned with President Hichilema and the UPND in the 2021 general elections said. “In the past we have dealt with the issue of (family) forest with … I think it was president Mwanawasa. We had issues with president Sata. We had issues with president Rupiah Banda. And here is HH, and by the way HH is a peer in that we were in university at the same time.”

She said she campaigned for President Hichilema because she was excited that “here was a peer” who was talking about correcting what was wrong.

 

But she said there seemed to have been a situation where one region has been replaced with another region.

 

“And skewing the regions now we are talking about is the bantu Botatwe arrangement. And if something like that has been noticed, you should now say ‘okay, fine we have noted this, we correct it.’ Because we are supposed to be the new generation leaders. We should have corrected what should have gone wrong at the time we ended with who? The last one was Michael Sata,” Cifire said. “HH and us are supposed to have been the new leaders that are going to leave leadership to the other people at some point, and at a point that, that was going to be done we should have refined the systems. And that’s why the Bally fix it, you know he made all of us get excited that yes now we are going to fix all the things that should have gone wrong. So with any new appointment, the other new appointment like the latest ones that we are see, we should have seen now to say okay fine, yes we do agree you can look at the regions but this if I may call it a revolution was not a bantu Botatwe arrangement.”

 

She argued that the people in regions were President Hichilema was being voted for overwhelmingly had even given up at some point until they were joined by Zambians from other regions to change government, and therefore, the most credit must go to them.

“The winning should be attributed to all of us,” argued Cifire, saying she went to school with Zambians from all walks of life but was wondering whether Zambians from some regions have become more intelligent than others.

Some of the appointments made to public institutions include at ZANACO where the managing director is Mukwandi Walusiku Chibesakunda, Human Rights Commission has Panic Malawo Chilufya, at Zesco the board chairperson is Vickson Ncube with Perry Mapani as managing director, and FRA has Kelvin Hambwezya as board chairperson and Mwansa Casimir Chamatete as executive director.

 

At ZDA, the director general is Albert Halwampa and chairman Professor Biemba Maliti, with Charles Nakhoze heading ZSIC and Reynolds Bowa and Yohane Mukabe being board chairman and director general respectively at ERB. Denny Kalyalya is Bank of Zambia Governor, Kakenenwa Muyanga (ZCCM-IH chairman). The ZICTA chairman is Mundia Muya and deputised by Milner Mukunim with Choolwe Nalubamba as director general. The Board chairman at National Council for Construction (NCC) is Vitalis Mooya and Ernest Nshindano was dismissed recently as director. Davison Thawethe heads TAZAMA with Emmanuel Hachipuka heading the Zambia Railways Board, Tom Shamakamba and Musa Mwenye are ACC director general and chairman respectively).

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