Africa-Press – Zambia. This morning we featured on Hot FM Radio and engaged the public on a wide range of issues regarding the governance of this country and its consequences on the Zambian people.
We discussed a number of issues and prominent among them being the topical criminal incident involving gold that recently occurred at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (KKIA) and prompted a haphazard press conference from State House by Mr Hakainde Hichilema upon his return from Angola.
We described the gold incident as a leadership scandal, which has exposed the underlying defects of Mr Hichilema’s leadership. We also highlighted the crookedness and high- level corruption that is currently obtaining in the running of the country today and how we warned before about illicit gold dealings, which were taking place in the country.
We categorically stated that Mr Hichilema was running the country like the late Mobutu Seseko – the former Zaire and now Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) corrupt, authoritarian and imperialist puppet leader. We emphasized how illicit gold deals have been going on under this regime for a long time now and how the recent KKIA incident was just a tip of the iceberg that had caught up with Mr Hichilema and his leadership.
We further dismissed the pledges by Mr Hichilema that the KKIA gold scandal will be handled independently and culprits brought to book because we find him compromised and ill- suited to make such guarantees, especially that currently, the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) and other law enforcement agencies, report directly to State House.
On the ongoing BRICS summit in South Africa, we took time to explain what BRICS was and its global significance as grouping and why Zambia’s full participation and commitment was cardinal, and beneficial to the country and the people.
We mentioned the growing inequality, poverty, unemployment and destruction of the environment in the world today and how we strongly feel that BRICS, offered an opportunity, which can deal with these specific challenges and others facing mostly poor countries today.
We shall continue engaging the general public across the country to expose or unmask the many crooked dealings, manipulation and lies of this corrupt, far- right UPND puppet regime and that of Mr Hichilema in particular.
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
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