By Patson Chilemba
Southern Province minister Cornelius Mweetwa says the NDC is in complete oblivion, despite one of that party’s faction working with UPND in an alliance.
And Mweetwa has likened the seizing to Kabushi member of parliament Bowman Lusambo’s properties by the investigative wings to “someone driving a Toyota landcruiser which you bought on your own properly but you have been found carrying government trophy in it. You know that it also gets seized ahh?”
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Mweetwa, the UPND spokesperson, said the current political parties still have a huge steep to climb, referring specifically to the Socialist Party (SP), saying the party which would have been strong by now was the NDC, because like UPND it won some by-elections upon coming on the scene.
“That is what NDC had done but it is completely in oblivion, I mean obliterated. Our colleagues (SP, which has been coming second to UPND especially in by-elections held in the northern regions of the country) still have a steep slope of s mountain to climb,” Mweetwa said. “But you know in politics is like football you cannot be a participant and begin to rule out the chances of your friend because you are not the only voter. It is up to the people when they decide what they want to do. We shall always respect that as UPND.”
And asked as a fellow parliamentarian and minister right now, if he felt all the property seized from Lusambo was not properly earned, Mweetwa said the investigative wings should be left to conduct their investigates.
“I think that we should leave the investigative wings. But again the way the law operates you should know as a journalist by now that if you are driving a Toyota landcruiser which you bought on your own properly but you have been found carrying government trophy in it, you know that it also gets seized ahh?” Mweetwa said. “Yes! Would you say that the land cruiser you are carrying that game meat is also at fault? It is you who has been found at that time with that same property which you could have earned innocently. But the law is blind to those things because at that stage the law may not know. I am not insinuating anything, let investigations take place.”
Mweetwa argued that the UPND would not meddle into the affairs of government institutions as to how they are going about executing their mandate.
“We do not want to be breathing an opinion over their activities, no! They should operate freely,” said Mweetwa.
