By Staff Reporter
FDD leader Edith Nawakwi says she has not received any demand letter to the tune of K2.5 million over the Hatembos’, describing the same as having been done to shut her up from speaking against the “ineptitude” and extreme pain caused by Hakainde Hichilema on Zambians.
“I just saw it in the press that we have been sued, that I have been given a demand letter by some law firm. I don’t know if this is the real Edith Nawakwi or another one. I don’t have any summons, neither my lawyers. I don’t have any summons, and I just beg them to stop abusing my name. They have to serve me and I also have my lawyers. But they can’t write documents in their offices and start circulating to the press,” Nawakwi said when she called in to Daily Revelation. “They are talking about the Hatembos. If they want to revive these issues and say they have been defamed there is a process. You serve a letter of demand.”
Nawakwi described the same as attempts to shut her up for holding President Hichilema and his administration to account for the pain she said they have caused in the country with high fuel and mealie meal prices among other, arguing that the person who will be most inconvenienced is the “poor Hatembo woman whom they have abandoned. All the people have been compensated except one person.”
“The person cited is a poor lady and further abusing that lady in Choma. Bakabusha nakalele. You can sue me but witnesses have to come forward,” she said.
Nawakwi said she resides in Roma Township and the documents could have been easily submitted to her and not running around with documents on social media like “headless chickens.”
“The point is that this government and actions of Hakainde have caused extreme pain to Zambians in form of the exorbitant mealie meal prices and fuel prices, the FISP. There is no Zambian who is saying one inch of positive news about the presidency. You look at the roads, the dirt, the squalor and potholes, and when I comment that the so-called 9.4 percent inflation is absurd because when you have low inflation you must have low food prices,” Nawakwi said. “You can’t have a country where there is no food and then you are boasting about low inflation figures. You can’t have low inflation and the prices are increasing abnormally. That is not economics but cattlenomics. And there is nothing demeaning about studying cattlenomics. So to say that our President is a cattle economist is an accolade. It’s not abuse. It just points to mental bankruptcy when you want to interpret that in any other way.”
