Africa-Press – Zambia. The video currently trending showing President Hakainde Hichilema complaining that 20 to 50 senior members of his party want the DMMU position as a way of perpetuating corrupt practices says a lot.
He further said that the UPND leaders are now demonising him for taking such a hard stance against corruption. We would like to ask president HH to keep an eye on such members because, as concerned opposition parties, we know that problems and alleged corrupt practices can just change colours from one green regime to another red one.
The confirmed presence of such high numbers of corrupt leaders in the UPND, as revealed by president HH, is very worrisome. These are people with influence, because they are in government right now.
We do not know where the president has taken or will take them because they have already shown that they are corrupt. Remember that what the president gave was not a sermon but a statement, so the corrupt people have not converted and turned into better people but still possess and will exhibit the same corrupt tendencies wherever they will be taken.
So this proves that UPND has very corrupt leaders that were admiring the corrupt tendencies of the PF. Their complaining of alleged PF corruption was just so that they come in and have an opportunity to carry out the same corrupt practices that they were admiring and salivating over.
This further means that UPND are not here to make the country better but to take over the ‘chewing’ of our national resources. Since no conversion has taken place, we need to take a keen interest in these alleged corrupt leaders.
Interestingly, the president has now become the whistle blower in his own party and his revelations should not be taken lightly. He also complained of being demonised by these same corrupt people, so he needs our help not to be overpowered by these corrupt elements, but to put up a strong and spirited fight against corruption.
President HH knows who those people are and he should be careful what he does with them because wherever they will be taken they will steal from the Zambian people.
This also proves that there is nothing messianic about UPND, they have just been given an opportunity to run this country. And good governance dictates that our leaders should equitably distribute our wealth and not steal from the people. So they need to be watched and given regular checks and balances, otherwise if we slumber, we shall wake up to find that a lot more of our resources have been stolen by the current government.
