By Staff Reporter
Batuke Imenda’s unruly caderism is being cheered on by Hakainde Hichilema with happiness and glee, FDD leader Edith Nawakwi has charged.
And Nawakwi says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the other creditors the country is owing money to should be alerted on the UPND administration’s wasteful expenditure brought about by the inexperience of President Hakainde Hichilema and his people in terms of managing public affairs.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Nawakwi said whereas the President claims he is fighting caderism, he is actually in the forefront of supporting it, where he’s watching with glee as his “chief cadre” Batuke Imenda is going about dishing out instructions on the usage of public resources.
And Nawakwi said it appears that every UPND member has become a public official going by the behaviour of UPND secretary general, who despite not being elected or appointed to any public office has been giving out instructions on the usage of public resources.
“It appears every UPND cadre has become a public official because whether it is arresting people you find all people who are not part of the executive, they yield so much power,” Nawakwi said, adding that it was more worrying especially that the country was coming from a background of unruly caderism which President Hichilema promised to address. “This government is worse of in caderism and you realise that whatever Imenda is doing is with full support of the President. He’s enjoying it with much happiness and glee. With this happening, you wonder what else is happening behind out backs.”
Speaking on the court outcome where the administration has lost a case involving 32 police officers who were dismissed and removed from the payroll, but won the case and government has been ordered to pay all their salary arrears with interest, Nawakwi said it was not only those officers who were dismissed and removed from the payroll as there were many other former officials facing the same fate.
She said they too will have to will have to be paid salary arrears with interests, saying this would not have happened had President Hichilema stuck to his claims that his administration would be prudent in the utilisation of public resources.
“So the country is broke and will even be more bankrupt out of just inexperience,” said Nawakwi, adding that there were issues with the dismissals of the same officers in that their letters of dismissal were signed by “a person not qualified to be personnel officer” instead of the police service commission. “This is double pay. There is too much incompetence in the UPND. They don’t understand public administration. You can’t allow a cadre to author a letter to dismiss people. It must come from the police service commission.”
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