STATE HOUSE REGRETS APPOINTING KAMBWILI

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 10:46:09 +0000

By NATION REPORTER

STATE House has regretted ever appointing Roan Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili as minister because he was an embarrassment who lacks the basic qualities of leadership.  

Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda said Mr Kambwili lacked basic qualities of leadership and that it was a tragedy to have given him (Kambwili) an opportunity to serve as minister in the first place.

Mr Chanda said Mr Kambwili was an embarrassment and a regret who lacks the basic qualities of leadership.

He said an interview that Mr Kambwili represented everything that was wrong about today’s politics.

Mr Chanda was responding to Mr Kambwili’s insistence that President Edgar Lungu should be made to pay back the money that ministers and their deputies earned during their illegal stay in office because they were working under his instruction.

Mr Kambwili also demanded to be paid the four months gratuity he accrued using the four months illegal extension in the office as minister.

But Mr Chanda said Mr Kambwili was exhibiting the highest levels of hypocrisy and double standards over the issue.

He said Mr Kambwili’s insistency that President Lungu pays back the money because he was in the office illegally but goes ahead and demands to be paid gratuity for illegal stay in office was appalling.

Mr Chanda hoped that Zambians could now see that Mr Kambwili was an egocentric hypocrite who could not be trusted.

“Zambians have now seen through his statements over this issue. He keeps changing goal posts, not long ago, he said he will not pay, now he is saying President Lungu must pay and now he is even demanding for gratuity. How does he expect to get gratuity for working illegally? That is hypocrisy and it is a tragedy that he even became a minister in this country,” said Mr Chanda.