Miles Sampa warns Kambwili, Musenge to humble themselves

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:16:55 +0000

By SIMON MUNTEMBA
CHISHIMBA Kambwili and Mwenya Musenge are headed for doom if they don’t reconcile with the Patriotic Front (PF), former Matero Member of Parliament, Miles Sampa has warned.

Mr. Sampa, who is also former Deputy Commerce Minister told the Daily Nation yesterday that the alternative routes the two have embarked on were hardly ideal and not worth venturing into.

He has advised Mr Chishimba Kambwili and Mr Mwenya Musenge to be remorseful and seek reconciliation with the PF and President Lungu to avoid the mistakes he made.

The former Matero law maker charged that if the two expelled PF members became big headed like he did when he resigned from his position as Commerce deputy minister in October 2015 and formed his political party, they were headed for doom.

“My take on the unfortunate subject of my brothers Hon. Chishimba Kambwili and Mwenya Musenge is that they should pause, take time and reflect. As history may have it, the two were about the most vicious advising me a few years ago to remain in PF after I had made some emotional and irrational decisions against the party.

“Armed with their counselling then, I genuinely wish to reciprocate and give them similar advice… I speak from experience…I submit to them that they be remorseful, meek and seek reconciliation with PF and President Edgar Chagwa Lungu,” he stated.

And Mr. Sampa noted that President Lungu was a loving and forgiving man who is Head of State because of his historic loyalty, patience and discipline, adding that the President was a democrat and not a dictator.

“I have also come to learn from experience that President Lungu is a loving, forgiving man and is the President of PF and Zambia because of his historic loyalty, patience and discipline

“My first central committee meeting under President Lungu as chairman took over eight hours as he allowed everyone to talk and express their opinion before taking a consensus position on a matter. My immediate impression then and still now is that he is a democrat and not a dictator. His decisions are a summation of the majority in a group of authority,” Mr. Sampa stated. He said that chances were that they ( Kambwili and Musenge) may too be given a three years leave of absence if they humbled themselves, in which there was much to learn from one in isolation.