ROGERS KALERO
THE Patriotic Front (PF) remains aggrieved from the wounds of injustices and selective application of the law under the UPND government yet its leadership is pontificating godliness, elected to unite the country, Munalula Moola has said
Mr Moola, the PF Copperbelt media director, says under the UPND government, the country has continued to experience injustices, selective application of the law and other forms of dictatorial tendencies that have continued to divide the country on tribal and regional lines
Mr Moola was reacting to President Hichilema, who declared during a church service at Times of Refreshing International Ministry in Choma that he was elected as a child of God to unite, not to divide the country. He said President Hichilema should not only claim to be a child of God but must be practical and that his actions should show for people to trust and believe in his government or else people will continue to lose confidence in his government.
“If President Hichilema really means what he said that he is a unifier he must not only end at saying it by word of mouth, but his actions must show. Whom has he united? If anything, this country is now more divided than it was under the PF,” Mr Moola said.
“The injustices, the selective application of the law, the persecution of politicians from the PF who are only from certain provinces is that unifying? President Hichilema must not tell us that he is a unifier. Because of the injustices and selective application of the law, most of our leaders in PF are in jail,” he said “When President says he is unifier, we feel more aggrieved because he issued the statement almost the same time when the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kawambwa Nickson Chilangwa lost his wife. Mr Chilangwa is among the PF MPs who have been jailed on trampled up charges,” he said. Mr Moola said the unification must be seen and felt by his political opponents in the way he looks and regards them as partners in the Democratic political space.
“But to the contrary he is seen as the worst political President we have had when it comes to weakening the opposition. It is not only weakening the opposition, but opposition leaders are either in court on political statements or already saving sentences,” he said.
“As we speak what this Government has done to the biggest opposition party PF can’t be said to be unification. PF has been attacked from all angles and it’s only the Ideological belief and Loyalty that our members have to the party and preferred leadership that it still exists,” he said
