By Daily Revelation Correspondent
Chishimba Kambwili says UPND must just live with the fact that former president Edgar Lungu will continue existing, wondering why they are so fearly of him.
And Kambwili has described the 20 NAPSA partial withdraw as a double edged sword where some liquidity will be posted into the economy from the payments, but it is not enough for people to meaningfully invest into their lives.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Kambwili said the threat by the Registrar of Societies to deregister PF was the biggest joke of the year, claiming that Thandiwe Mhende does not have the power to do what she has threatened to do.
Asked if the move was aimed and pushing the PF towards a convention on order to provide clarity on where Lungu stands with regards the PF presidency as is being asserted, Kambwili said he does not understand why the UPND gets scared when they see Lungu in public.
“They must know that the man is a statesman who ruled this country,” Kambwili said, adding that Lungu is a free person. “They should just live with it that president Lungu exists and will continue existing in private and public life.”
He said threats to deregister the PF were aimed at diverting attention from the many crisis, including mealie meal shortages and escalating price of the commodity, expensive fuel and the high cost of living.
He said the huge queues of people lining up to get their 20 percent payments showed that people were suffering extremely.
But the same partial withdraw will also ensure increased liquidity in the economy because of people’s spending money, something Kambwili agreed with saying the disposable income will increase but not enough to conduct meaningful investments at individual level.
He said people can’t even build houses from the money they are getting and will simply end up buying fridges and stoves and TVs before they exhaust whatever they have gotten.
“Those who are getting they are enjoying but their enjoyment is short-lived,” said Kambwili and warned of the effect the same withdraws would have on NAPSA as an institution. “If not careful we may end up finding that soon or later NAPSA would be struggling to pay pensioners their pension dues.”
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