{"id":23839,"date":"2022-05-28T19:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T19:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/nakachinda-is-a-genius-here-is-why-2"},"modified":"2022-05-28T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T20:06:02","slug":"nakachinda-is-a-genius-here-is-why-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/nakachinda-is-a-genius-here-is-why-2","title":{"rendered":"Nakachinda is a genius \u2013 here is why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Contaminate the economic and social discourse with raw sewer and create enough of a stink that causes all manner of distractions and diversions. It\u2019s a political stratagem that the former ruling Patriotic Front (PF) successfully adopted and deployed over the years with maximum potency. This helped the party to maintain its stranglehold on power.<\/p>\n

Scapegoating ridiculous poverty levels to a decades-old state-sanctioned privatisation program, the PF also exploited an ethnic polarised society much to their benefit. Their strategy \u2013 casting blame on their chief political opponent \u2013 whom they successfully projected to voters as the architect of their misery endured. The inference therein: HH privatised state-owned assets to enrich himself, try giving him levers of power, he will mortgage the country too, was another scaremongering pitch.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, lies have short legs and can barely sustain the weight of truth. Whilst unsustainable, it\u2019s arguable that dividends of such gutter politics largely helped to keep the former ruling party in power but only for a period. And now in opposition, a wounded PF \u2013 still smarting from a humiliating defeat is even more cunning and dangerous. Enter Raphael Nakachinda \u2013 he of the binoculars fame has become the biggest thorn in the UPND flesh.<\/p>\n

Thanks to this brand of politics, Nakachinda and the PF now own and direct Zambia\u2019s socio-economic narrative with the UPND barely managing to keep its head above choppy waters. While true that the PF\u2019s decade-old reign in power drove the economy to ground, HH as the incumbent owns this mess and it\u2019s now his alone to fix. Tellingly, his honeymoon with the youth and unemployed masses that catapulted him to state house is fading fast. This much he acknowledged during his briefing. \u2018While we understand your frustration, these things take time to fix,\u2019 he assured.<\/p>\n

The question remains though. Has he got the mettle to grasp and fix Zambia\u2019s malaise? The answer depends on one\u2019s affiliation, yet Nakachinda and the opposition is brutally dismissive of the notion that the Zambian voter is better off now than he was prior to last year\u2019s Presidential polls. Is he correct? On evidence, from the briefing on Monday, the opposition is proficiently succeeding in their quest to project the President as a bitter, vindictive, and petty politician that hasn\u2019t a clue on how to steer the country out of the current economic morass.<\/p>\n

Yet HH holds a different view. Validating his performance using economic jargons of tangibles and intangibles, one could tell the difficulty he faces in selling his successes thus far to the grassroot. Nonetheless, he has already embarked on a chest beating victory lap. But not so fast Mr President. Tamuna maniya mulimo boss, alimwi kwamba masimpe tamuna talika. The journey ahead is still tough and rough, nchito yeve yikalipo bwana.<\/p>\n

The challenges ahead will require nothing but political tolerance, magnanimity, the courage to dispence with the corrupt and granting autonomy to prosecutorial institutions now ensconced at community house. But does the President have the courage of mind to align with these goals?<\/p>\n

While his briefing was punctuated by repeated calls for unity, his demeanor, and consistent threats to dissent betrayed his sincerity. The fact that he devoted a portion of his briefing discussing Nakachinda \u2013 speaking derisively of the PF\u2019s Information and Publicity strongman is telling of not only the President\u2019s failings but the effectiveness of the PF\u2019s stratagem. And just how Nakachinda has managed to ensnare him in this skullduggery boggles the mind.<\/p>\n

Should he be wasting time unleashing cops on a hapless but loquacious politician? It\u2019s his call but he needs to be reminded that history has a way of sanitising and cleansing rogues. And the poser for the UPND is that it\u2019s becoming a gift that keeps giving \u2013 a danger to itself. HH ought to be reminding himself that he was the target of hate speech serving in the opposition trenches, therefore, click baiting by the opposition was bound to intensify now that he has assumed power.<\/p>\n

Trouble is the ruling party is constantly falling in Nakachinda\u2019s gameplan \u2013 which is to consistently provoke the establishment so his widely publicised incarcerations can grab the attention of both local and international media. The ultimate endgame is for Nakachinda to emerge as a political martyr of sorts. As the adage goes, a stint in jail often serves to embolden a jail bird \u2013 and truth is jail is now synonymous with the PF strongman.<\/p>\n

At this stage, it\u2019s easy to sence HH\u2019s growing sence of paranoia. For argument\u2019s sake, how does one reconcile the fact that the politician who barely eight months ago rode the wave of social media can now begin to demonise the very platforms that propelled him to statehouse? Isn\u2019t the moniker Bally a creation of social media platforms which he is now demonising?<\/p>\n

In the eyes of the opposition, HH seems like a leader who is both on a warpath and a mission to annihilate non-UPND sympathysers. And the sooner he develops a thick skin to criticism, the better. Luckily for him, he still has the sympathy and goodwill of many Zambians to change course. However, goodwill also has an expiry date. Meanwhile, somebody free Nakachinda so he can keep zooming in on the UPND\u2019s excesses.<\/p>\n

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