By Patson Chilemba
I have served this country with diligence as Finance minister and opposition leader, but ba koswe have failed to manage the mealie meal in this country, says FDD leader Edith Nawakwi.
And Nawakwi says she’s aware how the “idiocy” from State House conspired with police officers to have her locked up and be transported to Choma, wondering how one State House official knew she was in a certain ward in hospital a few minutes after the police had left the hospital.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Nawakwi said she deserved to be treated with dignity and not “the idiotic” manner where police had to refuse a sick note from medical doctors at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH), such that a “DIO Yuyi had to send five police officers to go to the hospital to check through” and demand another note from the doctors.
“They had to go to UTH, five police officers, and my lawyer to find my doctor who had to scribble a note and that they should put it in writing, meanwhile I had another note from the 30th of March from the doctor, but he had to scribble another note. How did those at State House know I was in a certain department at UTH?” Nawakwi asked. “For them when they see someone in Mother and Child all they see is reproduction. Totally blind, totally inappropriate and misplaced … Hakainde is misadvised because he himself has chosen to be misadvised.”
Nawakwi questioned the caliber of people surrounding the Presidency.
“There is no word you can ascribe to that kind of idiocy and foolishness. But if you have such charlatans around a President do you think he can direct the country in a proper way?” Nawakwi asked while at the same time hitting out at Yuyi and the other police officers. “It has never happened in the history of Zambia that a policeman rejects a note from the hospital. Yuyi was working under very strict instructions from clowns who told him to lock me up in Choma.”
Nawakwi said “that is the kind of idiocy and foolishness where their master is begging for money from the IMF and they are abusing their power here because Hakainde doe not understand his purpose.”
She hailed her service to the nation serving in several ministerial positions, including the Ministry of Finance and as an opposition leader, saying she deserved a bit of respect.
“I have served my country as minister and as opposition leader with diligence. They have failed to manage the mealie meal bakoswe bene (these same rats). Ubunga bonse balilya (They have eaten all the mealie meal),” said Nawakwi.
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