Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:29:05 +0000
By Bennie Mundando
BEHAVE yourself and don’t get carried away by your new appointment by the UPND to start insulting people unnecessarily because others may not be kind on you but may decide to drag you back to prison, PF in the Northern Province have warned Obvious Mwaliteta.
Speaking soon after his appointment as Lusaka Province UPND chairperson, Mr. Mwaliteta said the challenges the country was going through were as a result of corrupt people running its affairs.
He said Zambia had been invaded by corrupt, selfish and cruel leaders and that the civil service had been infiltrated by cadres who were allegedly frustrating hard working civil servants.
Mr. Mwaliteta said it was up to the Zambians to say no to visionless leaders by voting for the UPND or take the current situation as business as usual and continue suffering as the choice to change the current state of affairs lay in their hands.
But speaking to the Daily Nation yesterday, Northern Province deputy elections chairperson Chibwaya Muma warned Mr. Mwaliteta not to get carried away by his new appointment as other people he was insulting may not take it kindly on him but decide to take him back to jail where he spent some time this year.
Mr. Muma said he expected Mr. Mwaliteta to take deep introspection and reflect on his political career especially that it was his alleged truant political behaviour which had landed him in serious problems last year.
“I expect Mr. Mwaliteta to take a deep introspection and realise that making political enemies unnecessarily is not the best thing but it looks like he came out of jail without learning anything. This is why he even has the audacity to call those in Government corrupt, hours after his appointment but he must not push his luck too far because he will return to prison if he is not careful.
“Politicians must learn to be responsible for what they say. If we ask him to point at the people he is calling corrupt, can he point at them and substantiate his claims? “We need issue-based politics and not just wild allegations devoid of truth because if that is the path he is going to take, then he will add no value to the development of UPND because that is the mistake that party has perpetually been making,” Mr. Muma said.
He said PF had not forgotten how Mr. Mwaliteta left the party after realising that the constitution barred him from standing as an MP because he did not have a Grade 12 certificate but never expected him to maintain his bitterness to this end.
“Bitterness is not good in politics. We all understand that Mr. Mwaliteta felt betrayed by the constitution but this piece of legislature is not for the PF but for Zambians and so, it was them who prevented him from contesting and not us.
“The best Mr. Mwaliteta could have done was to go back to school, get a Grade 12 certificate and by 2021, he would have been eligible to stand. Being antagonistic will just land him into more serious problems than what befell him previously,” Mr Muma said.
