By Staff Reporter
I assume Mutale Nalumango could be among the witches we have in Zambia, just that her charms have worked against her as she can’t see the reality on the ground, PF media director Raphael Nakachinda has charged.
And Nakachinda charged that Anglo-American is pushing hard to get into Lower Zambezi, and claimed that there is a special purpose vehicle by those connected to the President to get Vedanta back into KCM, describing the prosecution of Milingo Lungu as a media stunt, as there was a negotiated package to get him out of KCM, with the objective of giving mining rights to “their friends.”
Nakachinda also said Vice-President Mutale Nalumango was attacking all the 18 million Zambians who are upset with the K9 fuel increments in the eight months of UPND’s rule, when she urged people to say well done to the ruling UPND for their achievements, as ushitasha mwana wa ndoshi.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Nakachinda said Vice-President Nalumango was one of the mothers in the country, and by classifying people as abana ba ndoshi, she was also referring to herself in the description of witches.
“I am saying that Madam Nalumango is one of our mothers in this country and to that effect if she can classify us as children of a witch or witches, I can only suspect that she’s one of those she has classified as witches,” Nakachinda said. “If she expects that we will have to appreciate the increase in the fuel price which obviously has cascading effect of increasing transport fairs, increasing costs of transport of goods and services which has further cascading effects of increasing the cost of living for the ordinary Zambians. If we have to thank them for the disastrous mining policies, the confusion that is going on at the Copperbelt, the fact that they are determined to give mining rights to foreigners.
“They have cut a scandalous deal at KCM to give their friends, to whom they also have interest to come back in that mine, to reverse the mineral royalty tax regime so that foreign entities that are running our mines can have run away profits without recourse to the poor conditions of the Zambian people, the lack of drugs in hospitals, disastrous employment arrangements at the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education.”
Nakachinda said all these scandals have characterised the UPND administration, and could not expect Zambians to be thankful to them.
“If she expects us to thank them for all the scandalous policies and decisions they have made, whether it is the increase of fuel prices, whether it is the disastrous mining policies they have implemented, the reversal of the mineral royalty tax regime to favour their friends, the foreign entities that they are bringing back, whether it is at KCM and so on,” Nakachinda said. “Of course we know that Anglo-American is pushing hard towards the Lower Zambezi scandal, scandalous decision to try and give them the Lower Zambezi. Yesterday the President was actually in Lower Zambezi having what they called security workshop of Brentwood Foundation, I mean an entity owned by Anglo-American.
“Now we also know that Vedanta is coming back through a special purpose vehicle to which the President and his friends, people well connected to him have created a special purpose vehicle to bring Vedanta back into KCM. That’s why they arm twisted Milingo Lungu to resign. They negotiated a package and of course they are parading him publicly trying to say they are prosecuting, he stole and so on. That is basically just a media stunt. But we know that they have been trying to negotiate to get some of their friends to go there as liquidators or indeed to manage the transition there.”
Nakachinda said Vice-President Nalumango could not expect Zambians to celebrate the lack of drugs in hospitals, and what he described as the disastrous recruitment of teachers and health workers.
“Even the so-called CDF, it has just turned out it will be disastrous, they are trying to implement decentralisation through CDF, which is confusing everything. They law which governs CDF does not really reconcile with what they are trying to implement,” Nakachinda said. “They have loaded CDF with all manner of activities which obviously will be difficult to implement and they are releasing the CDF in a manner that will not be able to achieve any meaningful development by the end of the year.”
He described free education as a disaster, not only on the basis of lack of infrastructure, but that the administration has not put in place systems that will help because teachers and school administrations were under stress owing to the removed of the user fees and PTA fees.
“So if Madam Nalumango expects us and expects the Zambian people to be singing, to praise into praise singers and worshippers of them who are in government, possibly being among the mothers who have been classified as witches by herself it may just be that her charm has worked against her, and she can’t see the reality on the ground,” Nakachinda said.
He said PF should not be used as excuse for the failure and poor performance of the UPND, as they were moving on a trajectory of infrastructure development that would have ensured completion of projects they had put in place by the end of the year. He also argued that the PF administration had already started implementing an economic recovery plan which he said the UPND has disrupted.
He said the song of indebtedness is a song that every country, including the United States, sings about as one could not develop at personal and country level without borrowing, and that was why there were entities put in place to borrow from.
“She has actually called all of us, all Zambians as children of witches and that’s how come I am saying if at all we are all children of witches I can only assume that since she’s one of our mothers, she could be among the witches that we have in this country. Basically she has classified all Zambians, the 18 million Zambians who are complaining about fuel increase, who are complaining about all these things that all of us know will affect them on a day to day basis,” said Nakachinda.
