Turncoats misleading  SA union-State House

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:49:11 +0000

By AARON CHIYANZO

SPECIAL Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda yesterday said National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) is a non-descript organization that has been misled by a disgruntled Zambian politician who cowardly camped in South Africa on pretext that he was being pursued by the Zambian government.

Mr Chanda said President Edgar Lungu was acting to preserve the image of the country against turncoats bent on moving a politically motivated mischief.

And Mr Chanda charged that NUMSA was a disgruntled union in South Africa whose chief architects were actually

Zambians. He said during a radio programme ‘Red Hot Breakfast’ on Hot FM that one disgruntled Zambian politician cowardly went to South Africa to spread lies that he was being pursued by the Government but that he had returned several times without being incarcerated. Mr Chanda said the disgruntled opposition politician was trying to create a platform on foreign soil that there was political tension in Zambia.

The presidential aide wondered why NUMSA was so concerned about politics in Zambia at the expense of the welfare of the people of South Africa under who they were mandated to represent.

Mr Chanda said that NUMSA was a non-descript union in South Africa that the Zambian government was not going to pay attention to.

“NUMSA is a non-descript union whose chief architects are actually Zambians. We know that one disgruntled Zambian went to that country, lying that the Zambian government was pursuing him. He has since returned several times to the country but the police are not looking for him” he said.

He explained that there was prima facie evidence that showed clearly that the recent calamities that had befallen the nation were politically motivated.

Mr Chanda pointed out that some politicians had predicted Armageddon in Zambia, and that the country was now in a situation similar to the vice.

He also however emphasized that there was currently no state of emergency in Zambia, but that law enforcement officers had just been given more powers to speedily carry out their duties.