By Merlyn Mwanza
Edith Nawakwi says the UPND administration must now be called the mosquito government for reintroducing malaria back in Zambia.
“We the voters are really really suffering. We are not only suffering from hunger , lack of money and inability to survive. We are suffering from the lack of focus by the UPND and it’s leadership,” Nawakwi said. “How can a government in office even fail to do simple public health activities? For example from the time that president Edgar Lungu handed over power to this date, Hakainde Hichilema has failed to do mosquito spray, now malaria is rampant. Wherever you go in the evening or in the afternoon, there are mosquitos everywhere. Are you telling me that the International Monetary Fund has put such a big hold on the Zambian revenue that you can’t even, Mr Hichilema afford to buy simple medicine to do indoor and outdoor spraying so that you save the Zambian people from this pandemic of mosquitos?”
She said the Bombay drain given to Zambia by the Americans was now a breeding ground for mosquitos, saying the drain has never been cleaned since the new government took over, and that everywhere there was dirt and squalor but worse off there were just too many mosquitos.
“This government came in with so many mosquitos. I will start calling them the mosquito government because there is no way you can ignore the fact that mosquito is number one killer of any African, malaria,” Nawakwi said “But honestly, honestly Mr Hichilema you mean you have no money to buy some medicines, drugs and chemicals to control this overpopulation of mosquitos? Is this the way you were dying to get into office so that you can kill all of us or mosquitos?”
She said it seems everyone was now sick of malaria, saying she knew that there were no mosquitos at Community House probably because they do public health spraying, but she was worried for the poor millions who had no such privilege.
She said when they are chasing president Lungu they were looking first to finding out whether he also took away the mosquito nets because people used to get nets every year but there was now zero and there was no hope that the government could even clean the Bombay drain.
Nawakwi said the nation could soon have Dengue because the government does not understand that killing mosquitos was part of their job, saying they thought their job was about chasing people over property believed to be proceeds of crime.
“So when we seen mosquitos we are now calling them UPND,” said Nawakwi. “I seriously believe that UPND has reintroduced malaria
