By Merlyn Mwanza
I don’t live in Hakainde Hichilema’s house to be thankful to him, says Economic Front (EF) leader Wynter Kabimba.
And Kabimba says the UPND administration has signed up Zambia to homosexuality in the declarations from the Democracy Summit and it doesn’t matter the denials from the administration as soon the Americans will be demanding the decriminalisation of homosexual practices in the country’s penal code..
Featuring on CAMNET TV, Kabimba was confronted by one caller to the programme who asked him to be thankful to President Hichilema as the UPND has administration ended caderism as compared to the PF administration, something Kabimba disagreed against saying the caderism has merely reduced and not ended while violence under the UPND administration has become more rampant.
“Ifyo mulelanda ati ukutasha (That which you are saying that I should be thankful). I don’t live in HH’s house for me to tashya him,” Kabimba said.
The EF leader further said it was wrong for President Hichilema not to move into State House as he will have to answer for all the developments at community house one day as no one stays in power in perpetuity, saying the same people who are doing the renovations will also be the whistleblowers when time to account comes.
Asked on the rampant mealie meal shortages last seen in the country during the final years of Dr Kenneth Kaunda’s reign in the late 1980s to early 1990s, Kabimba said President Hichilema’s recklessness was to blame for the problem as he greenlit rampant exports of the commodity by telling millers that they were in business to make money.
He said a bag of mealie meal in DRC “where people just dance and do not work” was costing around K700 and therefore millers were finding it more profitable to sell the commodity there following the directive from the President and in the process creating the shortages locally.
But Kabimba sided with those in government on the conflicts involving Lumezi member of parliament Munir Zulu and ministers Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane (Finance) and Charles Milupi (Infrastructure), saying the “boy” does not deserve support.
He said Zulu thought that he was the same with the two ministers who have spent several years in public service just because he was serving with them in parliament.
Kabimba also wondered how Zulu could say he wanted to privately prosecute the matter where he has accused the two ministers of each receiving $250,000 bribes from a named company, without a complaint.
He said leaders from the PF like Brian Mundubile should not be seen to be supporting and siding with him over his conduct.
