By Staff Reporter
Those in the PF attacking HH over Christianity must first interrogate the Christianity of Nkandu Luo who wanted to introduce studies on witchcraft in universities, says Zambia’s former Ambassador to Australia George Zulu.
And Amb Zulu said the only way President Edgar Lungu could win Eastern Province is if the Mozambicans and Malawians vote for him.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Amb Zulu was asked if he thought the person he was supporting, opposition UPND leader Hichilema should categorically answer to various allegations from the ruling party that he was anti-Christian.
Responding, Amb Zulu said Christianity was a way of life, which must be seen in people’s conduct and not just their words, in the manner he said the PF were doing.
He said if they regarded Hichilema as a non-Christian, which he said he wasn’t, then they have done a poor job of winning him over to God as the Lord commanded.
Amb Zulu argued that if anything, Hichilema has proved to be more Christian than his accusers, and that if there was to be a genuine debate over the matter, then the PF must genuinely scrutnise the Christianity of President Lungu’s running mate, Professor Luo, who could be Republican vice-president and would immediately take over in the event anything happened to the President.
He said Zambians must demand to know why Prof Luo wanted to introduce the study on witchcraft, which is against Christianity and the constitution, as the supreme law bars any promotion of witchcraft, saying she was only stopped in her moves following opposition from Zambians.
“She wanted to introduce studies on witchcraft (when she served as Higher Education minister),” Zulu said.
He said satanic allegations against an opposition leader by those in the ruling party was not new, as even the people in MMD like the late Chanda Chiimba and Dora Siliya accused late president Michale Sata, then as opposition leader that he would legalise homosexuality and kill all the old people because of appetite for blood if he came to power.
And Amb Zulu said he had been in the Eastern Province for three weeks now and was confident that Hichilema would win.
Put across to him that he was merely politicking as an interested party, Amb Zulu argued that he was confident that the UPND would win because their own man Lungu had let the people of the Province down.
“They promised Eastern Province a University which hasn’t come. They promised people that they would increase fertilizer bags to 16 from eight, but this government is giving them to share one gallon. How many jobs have been created in Eastern Province?” asked Amb Zulu. “HH will get at least 8 seats in Eastern Province and the presidential vote, unless the PF candidate is going to be voted in by Malawians and Mozambicans, otherwise HH is bound to clean him up.”
