Letters

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:05:49 +0000

Bishop Mambo exposed his ignorance

Dear Editor,

The letter entitled “sure ba Bishop John Mambo” that appeared in your Monday edition of the Daily Nation newspaper made very interesting reading.

I salute the writer for his down to earth critic of Bishop Mambo’s challenge to the President to re-open the Post newspaper if he was a true democrat.

Does it mean that if he doesn’t then he is not a true democrat and would have failed Bishop Mambo’s challenge?

I see that the issue of paying taxes and proving oneself to be a true democrat are not related in any way.

Clergy men should do their research and consult widely before running to the press. Otherwise, they risk embarrassing themselves.

Bishop Mambo is known to comment on issues without taking deep reflection on the subject matter. This tends to put him at odds with people.

In his church, he is known as someone who brings divisions and in the political arena as someone politically unstable.

The church he goes to has seen a lot of infighting all because of him. He is so troublesome and full of negative energy that affects those who draw closer to him.

He is always threatening the leaders of the Church (missionaries) with deportation, cancellation of their work permits and jail sentences to members who don’t agree with him.

He brags that he is well connected in Government circles and that he could do anything.

But he keeps on attacking the President. Whilst the rest of the church members love the current President and its leadership so much.

He has been intimidating people in his church to the level that they look at him as a god and literary freeze in his presence.

Clergymen of this nature must be investigated by the Government to ascertain their sources of income and their socio-religious activities.

Zambia, which is a Christian nation needs sober-minded clergymen who can be good examples to the nation and relied upon to act as spiritual advisors to those walking the corridors of power.

Concerned citizen

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Stop fooling your electorates

Dear Editor,

I write to urge and appeal to our civic leaders to stop fooling the electorates who are their bosses with impunity.

How on earth can all but one UPND MPs fall sick at the same time to justify their absence from national address by the Republican President on 17th March, 2017?

And the Parliament Clinic should be cited to show authenticity of those sick notes which the MPs now have submitted as their reason to abscond the address.

Civic leaders should stop dancing ‘pelete’ at any slightest instruction of their party leaders when their allegiance is with the electorates who need representation immediately they are ushered into office.

Zambians should know that eight months down the line, surely there is no possibility of the election of President Lungu to be overturned as the Republican President of Zambia.

Those who still feel otherwise will have themselves to blame when 2021 which is around the corner will find them without much preparation.

Wisdom Muyunda,

CHINGOLA

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UPND MPs’ chronic cheating chutzpah

Dear Editor,

What could be more shameful than the malingering made by UPND members of Parliament, fearing to be severely punished by the National Assembly Speaker Patrick Matibini over their boycott of President Edgar Lungu’s State of the nation address on March 17, 2017 suspiciously obtained sick notes from the Parliament clinic in order to justify their planned absence from the Head of State’s parliamentary address? 

This action aptly reinforces their morally reprehensible behaviour and irremediable chronic cheating chutzpah on their constituencies’ underdevelopment situation (Daily Nation, March 28, 2017).

And they do not have an answer either to the question of age-cheating by UPND child voters in their strongholds during the 2016 polls.

There is much information in the public domain, generally, about the age-cheating through which the UPND parliamentary aspirants and die-hard supporters would take seemingly 16-year old adolescents to mobile registration centres to obtain their National Registration Cards (NRCs).

And how the underage teenagers were then transported across to the voter registration centres in oxen-drawn and tractor-drawn trailers, truckloads and busloads, with many not even attaining the first-time voting age of 18-years.

There is much to be found about UPND MPs’ irremediable chronic cheating chutzpah at National Registration and Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) offices about how the underage first-time voters were put to vote en masse for the UPND presidential and parliamentary aspirants in Southern, Western and North-Western provinces, and the 2016 election results in these regions tellingly speak for themselves.

This morally reprehensible behaviour was what UPND’s members of Parliament made public in their act of malingering – knowing full well that the cost of doing so might be to the self-inflicted risk of the National Assembly Speaker Patrick Matibini’s parliamentary disciplinary sanctions.

Little do UPND MPs realise that their constituencies’ development starts with President Edgar Lungu’s state of the nation address in Parliament. They boycott it at their own risk and that of the constituencies’ developmental agenda.

Mubanga Luchembe,

LUSAKA

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Bravo Bahati MP Kalaba!

Dear Editor,

I write to congratulate and actually commend Bahati member of Parliament, who is also Zambia’s Foreign Minister, Mr Kalaba for showing exemplary civic leadership to his voters.

His going down on knees to thank his electorates for giving him another mandate is a sure ingenuity of a leader who has respect for those that voted for him.

This type of leadership is what the general citizenry want to see from their civic leaders and not the bullish behaviour being exhibited by some immediately they get their votes.

Our votes come with a lot of benefits to you in form of salaries, allowances and even government Vehicles etc to warrant any amount of disrespect when you get to those positions.

We therefore demand soberness, humility and loyalty to us and not otherwise.

Alas, others don’t see the importance of taking such a gesture and will be shocked that time actually flies too fast and it will be too late to do so when next elections will be in the offing and will be made to account for their behaviour.

Voter

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De-register the UPND 

Editor,

De-register the UPND now or it will be too late to arrest the situation. Do not condone any stupidity, illegality and criminality from the UPND. Do you fear these failures? The best way to end this criminality is by uprooting the savage party from the Registrar of Societies through the Minister of Home Affairs, Stephen Kampyongo in order to stop this headless monster from growing foolish horns against innocent law abiding citizens. Please, avoid another Rwanda ‘genocide’ situation by those who declare hate, eat and drink hate. What a destroyer! Arrest the demagogues!

Citizen

Fr. Luonde insincere  

Editor,

I write to also condemn the Anglican Priest Fr Luonde who has blamed President Edgar Lungu and the Government for the Post’s closure in yesterday’s Mast (“Post”). One tends to wonder what kind of reasoning is that when the closure of the Post is not something to blame on anyone else but Fred M’membe himself because he thought he owned Zambia and untouchable. M’membe should be the one to be very guilty since he has made many souls suffer by losing jobs because he never paid tax to ZRA. If a civil servant such as a teacher pays tax, who is he not to? I am disappointed with Fr. Luonde’s dishonesty.

Katangwe Chanda, Lusaka

HH seeking cheap popularity

Editor,

Why is everyone worried about UPND? Easy does it! HH thinks he is creating popularity but he is finishing himself. Zambians, let’s have dangerous prayers in the morning to protect our land, our sweet people. God bless our land.

Citizen

Letting fresh wisdom rule, a merit move

Editor,

The current Government is doing a good thing to involve young men and women in national development but we need those old minds to retire. Some have been MPs since independence. They started with Dr. Kaunda, partnered with Chiluba and Mwanawasa as ministers. They fooled and swindled us during Rupiah’s time and they want to continue swindling us in this Government? Let them retire!

RL, Chongwe

Chelstone clinic nurse and clinical officer heartless 

Editor,

The clinical officer and nurse who attended to me in the afternoon on Saturday 18th March, 2017 at Chelstone clinic are without a doubt Satanists, they neither looked at my sore, injection nor give me a bandage. The nurse just gave me Panadol even after pleading with her cover the wound. Later that evening, I went back to the same clinic and was attended to by a caring medical officer and a nurse. The Ministry of Health should look into this matter seriously before lives are lost. If people don’t want to save lives, they should not be on Government payroll.

Disappointed patient CM, Lusaka

Advice to the DEBS at Shiwang’andu 

Editor,

I wish to advise the DEBS at Shiwang’andu to mind her language. The Ministry of Education is not her company! Let her open up her own company where she can be insulting her workers!

Citizen

AU should honour Aliko Dangote

Editor,

Aliko Dangote should be honored for the work he is investing in Africa. He should also invest in milling plants in Zambia. These are rich people we want in Africa. Keep it up Aliko!

A.Lungu, Ndola

Directed to the UPND

Editor,

Stop campaigning for ICC! The UPND, HH and GBM should stop campaigning for the International Criminal Court in Africa. Some educated people are trouble makers! You should just say what your party wants to do for Zambia.

Concerned citizen, Ndola

Is a defilement case bailable?

Editor,

Is a defilement case bailable? I ask because my daughter who is nine was defiled and the suspect is on bail.

Citizen

ZESCO tariff increase

Editor,

It was sad to read in your paper dated 28th March 2017 that ZESCO management has insisted to apply to the ERB for cost reflective tariffs despite complaints from the public. Let them remember that the last time the tariffs were increased, prices went up and some companies closed. For instance here. in Kabwe where a metal plant was closed and workers were sent away due to cost reflective tariffs. The negative effects were eliminated by our listening Government when they reversed the increase hence any investor who joins the power generation industry has to follow the current tariffs and not giving conditions to increase tariffs.

Citizen