Africa-Press – Zambia. WE DONT SUPPORT TRIBALISM, WE EXPRESSLY CONDEMN IT – SP It is not being tribal if you advise the President not to appoint people from one region in key positions of Governance, Socialist Party (SP) Spokesperson Frank Bwalya has said.
Mr Bwalya said hired individuals including some Government officials are trying to silence those who speak against tribalism by labeling them as being tribal. He said despite the President having said he will have a Government of National Unity, his appointments do not qualify his statements.
Mr Bwalya said praise singers and the Government instead choose to brand everyone that speaks against tribalism of wanting to incite the people to rise against Government.
“The Problem with Tribalism is that once you point out the appointment of people from one region, people gang up and say that you are a triballist. The people accusing us of tribalism want to silence us.
We are not promoting tribalism, we are speaking against tribalism,” he said. Meanwhile, Mr Bwalya has charged that President Hakainde Hichilema does not have time to seat and deal with the Challenges the country is facing such as escalating mealie meal prices.
He said it is the more reason he spends much of his time visiting different countries. Mr Bwalya has however advised the Government to invest more in Agriculture because that’s where the majority of the people are.
And Mr Bwalya has said it was unwise for the Government to rush to IMF when the money they are trying to borrow would have been realised from the mines through tax.
He said the current Government needed to get more money from the mining sector and resolving the issues at Mopani and KCM. “The votes he got from the copperbelt is because he convinced the people that he was going to manage the mines better,” he said.
Mr Bwalya has also lashed out at the current Government for failing to reduce the Prices of fuel as per the pre-campaign promises. “One of the first thing the President should have done was to announce the reduction of fuel by K3 because he said the PF was stealing K3 on every litre of fuel.
“If the thieves were stealing K3 for every litre for fuel, then the saints have failed to reduce, it means they are also thieves,” he said.
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