By NATION REPORTER
THE UPND is in government not because it had been a popular political party but purely got an accidental victory in 2021 and that is why it has failed to run the country in all the sectors as it was not ready to govern, former Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Davis Mwila has said.
Mr Mwila said it was heart-breaking to see the UPND destroy a country that was healthy in all sectors in less than two years.
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He said, even if the PF was failing in some areas, the former ruling party made sure that the citizenry was cushioned from harsh economic conditions.
Mr Mwila said the country was in economic and social pain by facing the rising cost of living, shortage of mealie meal and expensive fuel at the same time but all the people in power were saying that there was sabotage.
He said the UPND had been blaming the PF for all their failures from the time they took over government to an extent where they started getting rid of all civil servants that they suspected to be PF on grounds that they were sabotaging government’s efforts.
“There is no sabotage anywhere they have just failed, they were only ready to petition the 2021 elections and not to govern hence when they accidentally won they don’t know where to start from, they are stuck, they never had a plan” Mr Mwila said.
Mr Mwila said the UPND should dissolve itself on moral grounds before it could plunge the country to complete ruin and destruction because the rate at which things were moving Zambia could be on its way to collapse.
He said what was more painful was that the people surrounding President Hakainde Hichilema did not seem to care about what the country was going through apart from being consistent in blaming the PF for their failures.
Mr Mwila said the mealie-meal shortages that the country was experiencing was a result of UPND trying to portray themselves as better business managers and they ended up selling all the maize outside the country.
He said regardless of whether the supply of fertilizer for the 2021-2022 farming season was erratic or not, the PF left sufficient maize reserves enough to cover the 2023-2024 farming season but today there was nothing.
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