Today's letters to the editor

Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:04:48 +0000

What’s wrong with HH?

Dear Editor

AS AN ordinary Zambian I have for the past 10 months struggled to understand the post-election problems of Zambia and where they’ve come from. I have always looked to our Church mother bodies to guide us on this matter but they’ve chosen to take sides or to keep quiet. This is happening in our peaceful Zambia! All because of Hakainde Hichilema!

But Zambia too, where at all does it pick these self-conceited political leaders from? Just imagine, you play football against another team and you lose. But you don’t want to accept the result.

And so you choose to blame and disrespect everybody on the field rather than yield? However,  Zambia doesn’t pick such leaders. These power-hungry politicians merely use Zambia for their egoistic ends.

Strange as it may sound, in a related matter, the incarcerated UPND president Hakainde Hichilema complained about the manner in which a Zambia Police medical officer attached to the prisons, allegedly took over the handling of the UPND leader’s health issues in prison when he already had a private doctor. The inevitable questions on every sensible person’s mind are: “So, was it all necessary, Mr. Hakainde Hichilema? Doesn’t this complaint to the Health Professional Council smack of an addiction to impudence and impunity?” (“HH now takes on prisons medical doctor”, Sunday Nation, July 2, 2017).

For, in the end, Zambians would come to accept that Hakainde Hichilema’s post-election shenanigans were built upon a blatant lie. Like a broken record, he told all UPND sycophants who would listen, “Edgar Lungu was not declared the winner of the 11 August 2016 election by the Constitutional Court, I wasn’t either. But the International Criminal Court (ICC) will reverse the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)’s presidential results.”

But what he fails to disclose is that it was his UPND lawyers who mishandled the presidential election petition in the Constitutional Court with a myriad of preliminary issues and applications to have been handled by the Court within the stipulated constitutionally allowable 14-days window.

Finally, was this legalistic charade worth spilling so much impudence and impunity for? The incarcerated UPND leader will have to answer that question before a Zambian competent court of jurisdiction and not the ICC.

Mubanga Luchembe, LUSAKA

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‘Don’t react when provoked’

Dear Editor

I CONCUR with our PF Lusaka Province Chairlady Honourable Margaret Mumba over her building words on our PF members.

Well-spoken honourable chairlady to discourage all peace loving pf members from any kind of fighting even if provoked by UPND cadres.

It is true our President is a Christian and does not want PF members to engage in fighting with provocative UPND cares because it dents a bad picture to our party.

I urge all PF members to desist from fighting even if provoked by cadres from UPND..

Let us work on recruiting more members for our party not engaging in fighting.

We should work as a team to build our party PF and no infighting should be entertained.

We should speak one language of loving one another like our president who talks about love to develop our country.

Viva PF

Julius Chilufya Kazembe

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Branch chairman Meanwood Ndeke ZEMA should safeguard people’s lives

Dear Editor

I WRITE to appeal to Zambia Environmental Management Agency to always do on spot checks on buildings that need their professional indulgence to safeguard people’s lives.

There is a general outcry that ZEMA is not doing enough in this aspect.

The agency should never allow a building that is partially complete to be open to the general public for it is a healthy hazard.

The opening to public of a shop in incomplete building in Chingola opposite Barclays Bank is a security concern because works are actually still on-going on the top floor.

I therefore implore ZEMA to be carrying periodic spot checks on the building they authorize to be constructed and offer guidance to the property owners on the security concerns at every stage of construction.

Life is so precious that it should not be lost in an expected circumstance of negligence.

Wisdom Muyunda

Chingola