No unity Govt- Lungu

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 10:49:46 +0000

By OSCAR MALIPENGA

 AGGRESSIVE foreign monopoly capital is agitating for regime change in Zambia, South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe to regain their lost business empires, President Edgar Lungu has revealed.

Their strategy, he said, employed local political parties which they funded and supported.

Having failed to gain power in the last elections, their efforts were now directed at gaining power by forcing a government of national unity.

“There is no room for it Zambia because we won the elections in 50%+1 contest,” he said.

President Lungu said his administration could not form a party of national unity with the opposition UPND and he will not be persuaded by anybody to do.

Speaking during a press conference at State House yesterday, he revealed that the scheme started soon after the elections.

The Namwala ethnic cleansing campaign in which non-southerners were targeted was a deliberate strategy by the UPND to force to the PF to a round table to form a government of national unity.

He said they would stamped the Patriotic Front into talks for power sharing.

“There is a crusade by the rich people in the international community, they are good for nothing… they want to take over the regime in Zambia, South Africa and in Kenya.

“They have hired thinks tanks to speak ill about Zambia. As journalists you can judge for yourself whether we have a dictator in State House,” President Lungu said.

President Lungu revealed that he actually directed his special assistant for press and public relations Amos Chanda to embargo a report from Namwala because he did not want the nation to respond to the “ethnic cleansing”.

The Head of State said he had to call some traditional leaders from Southern province to actually stop their subjects harassing non speaking Tongas leaving in South province.

“We have shared power with the MMD because they helped us to form government,” President Lungu said.

The Head of State also charged that he had tolerate a lot of nonsense in the name of press freedom and some human rights.

Meanwhile, President Lungu if some investors thought the Zambian government was not capable of sustaining their investments they were free to go.

He said people should do due diligence on Zambia as much as they were reading online stories on Zambia.

“If want to invest money in a country is like you want lend money to a person you do what is called due diligence. All those people who are affected by my pronouncement are free to come to Zambia and do the due diligence and if they find that the country is unsafe they can go but for me I am making it safer for them and their money and for our people to continue living free.

“This pronouncement is intended to win the confidence of those people who might have been living in Zambia already who are investors getting worried about the sporadic fires that we encountered and the breaking down of infrastructure and so on.

I am sure, they were saying what is happening? Is there a government in place? Today we hear there is no power because electricity pylons have been brought down that shop is on fire. I am sure Zambian investors including foreign ones where getting worried about the relaxity on part in taking these issues seriously,” President Lungu said.

He said he believed that his administration was on course, adding every investor who meant well for Zambia were expected to do due diligence by verifying facts on the ground.

“There is a lot of propaganda out there so it is a personal decision if you are lending money to somebody and you know he will not pay back the money you do not lend him the money. So those people who want to invest in our country should have confidence in our system,” he said.