HAKAINDE HICHILEMA SHOULD TAME HIS LOOSE TONGUE SAYS BOWMAN LUSAMBO AS MMD YOUTHS, we have spent the last few days restraining ourselves from commenting on statements attributed to UPND President Hakainde Hichilema in which he derides the MMD membership. Mr Hichilema refers to the MMD membership as a bunch of people out of their minds. As far as we are concerned, the attacks on our membership by Mr Hichilema were unsolicited. Recent media reports will show that none of our senior members has launched an attack on the UPND and its leadership. As the MMD, we have withheld ourselves from commenting on the suitability of Mr Hichilema as a leader of the UPND or indeed why we think the UPND should always stay far away from the echelons of power. But the recent attacks on the MMD by Mr Hichilema should not pass without comment. We feel compelled to respond and defend our image as the country’s largest political party. We feel the need to comment because we want to set the record straight and dismiss some innuendos that Mr Hichilema attempts to create but miserably fails. The MMD is a party with millions of members countrywide. We are the only political party with active structures in all the wards of Zambia. When one insinuates that people staying in the MMD or even defecting to the MMD are out of their mind, that statement can be interpreted to mean that our entire political establishment is of unstable mind and should have checked in into Chainama Hills Hospital. We therefore submit that since Mr Hichilema is now a psychiatrist, his diagnosis on the state of mind of the MMD membership is so inaccurate that it might warrant that the psychiatrist himself should have his head examined. We cannot in our right sense of mind accept statements that lack wisdom, basic tact and are targeted at an aimless target. By choosing to issue that statement, Mr Hichilema is shooting aimlessly. He is shooting in the dark. He is shooting with his eyes closed. Our advice to Mr Hichilema and the UPND is noble and gentlemanly. Tame your tongue and practice mature politics. Zambians have moved on from your type of Ingombe Ilede politics where you pick your targets aimlessly and hoping to shot. Zambians want solution based politics. Zambians want politicians that will offer solutions to the many challenges that young Zambians are facing. By attacking the MMD, Mr Hichilema confirms what most Zambians have always suspected. The UPND leader’s insatiable appetite for power and his willingness to decimate anything or anyone that stands in the way. There is nothing wrong with ambition, unlike in the business world where Mr Hichilema seems to have had some decent levels of success, politics is a different ball game where the mandate to serve is delegated from the public. In politics, people choose who will serve them. There is no bull dozing and aimless shooting. Mr Hichilema’s style of hostile cooperate takeovers to grow his business empire which has been well documented cannot be used in politics. In politics, one has to go out and lobby for support. In a democracy like ours, Mr Hichilema cannot buy support from Zambians as if he is buying shares in a rundown security firm in Livingstone. Going forward, we would like Mr Hichilema to realize that the MMD and its leadership under Dr Nevers Sekwila Mumba is busy touring all parts of Zambia, galvanizing our membership and welcoming new ones that have realized that the MMD is the only political organisation with the blue print for Zambia’s social and economic transformation. With that agenda, it will become very difficult for the MMD leadership to constantly respond to Mr Hichilema’s Ingombe Ilede politics. Our leadership is preoccupied with finding solutions to Zambia’s problems and sharing those solutions with Zambians across the country. We will not engage in catfights with Mr Hichilema and his UPND. We wish he could allocate some of the adrenaline he exhibits when attacking the MMD to growing his party beyond Monze, Namwala and Choma. In conclusion, Mr Hichilema and the UPND should realize that the MMD youth wing has enough in the arsenal to encounter any misdirected attacks on the MMD. As much as we are restrained, we will not take attacks on our good party sitting down. We will respond. We will fight back. We will protect the good image of our mighty MMD. Issued by: Bowman Lusambo-MMD Die Hard National Youth Coordinator
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:20:46 +0000
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