Opinion: M’membe’s Cartel Mirrors the Yoruba’s “Diseased Genitals” There is a very popular saying by the Yoruba people of Nigeria that diseased genitals must keep to themselves. One may never really know why the Yoruba speaking people came up with such a saying. But perhaps it is because of the nature of the stench such genitals produce and the risk of them polluting the very environment they exist in. In the context of today’s Zambian politics, the cartel comprising Post Newspaper owner Fred M’membe, acting President Guy Scott, Finance Bank owner Rajan Mahtani and others may do well to accurately read the nation’s temperature because their “diseased genitals” have polluted the environment enough and Patriotic Front cadres have started preparing their pangas to cut off the genitals’ shaft to avoid being urinated upon. The cadres may not stop with the shaft but they seem to be targeting the actual to kill off the stench completely. Fred M’membe, Guy Scott, Rajan Mahtani, Wynter Kabimba and others herein mirror those “diseased genitals.” To imagine that Scott has fired the PF general secretary Edgar Lungu from his post in this period is hard enough but Scott must be feeling a real hard kick in his teeth because Davis Mwila, the man he chose to succeed Lungu, has rejected the appointment only to settle for a desperate Nixon Chilangwa. When people that know M’membe well have been advising what type of character he is, some Zambians have felt he has been unfairly judged but the writing is now clearly on the wall – he is pushing his own succession roadmap. Perhaps M’membe himself thinks he means well but he is just a modern day ‘Ananiah the Nuisance’ who if you remember the Grade 6 ‘reader’ of years gone-by, was a story about a character who thought he was pleasing his fellow pupils through his actions but ended up annoying them further until he was expelled from school. It was clear from M’membe’s editorial of November 1, 2014 in the Post Newspaper entitled “Everything Has Time” that one thing was confirmed one thing – the infamous cartel is determined to take absolute control of the instruments of power using whatever means at their disposal. And that includes, sadly so, shedding blood. The country was short of shedding blood last night when news broke Scott had made a unilateral decision to fire Lungu. The Post Newspaper owner in league with Finance Bank owner Mahtani, that former town clerk Kabimba, Scott started preparing the minds of Zambians for the anarchy they’ve created first in the ruling Patriotic Front and later the country. Make no mistake. Zambians are in for some acrimonious politics thanks to Fred M’membe who wants to interpret both the Patriotic Front and national constitution to suit his interest. M’membe thinks being a lawyer gives him authority to publish editorials interpreting the law that should guide Zambians and his unpopular ideologies. One moment! Is M’membe even qualified to authoritatively interpret the law in isolation and believing we should take his lamentations as gospel truth? Countrymen and women, the revelation by M’membe that acting President Guy Scott can “do or undo” what President Sata did was the beginning of of anarchy. In one breath M’membe is calling Zambians to peace and unity but in the other he is telling Dr Scott to unilaterally revoke (UNDO) the appointment of Edgar Lungu as PF Secretary General and restore (DO) Wynter Kabimba to the same position Sata fired him. Isn’t this the worst form of absurdity? While he tells Scott to fire Edgar Lungu as party secretary general, their fingers are tied on removing him from Cabinet because that’s what they can’t do as its expressly stated in the Zambian Constitution that someone acting can’t carry out such action. And is this same Edgar Lungu the PF disciplinary chairman? M’membe wants to come out as the most brilliant lawyer when the charlatan needed leakages to pull through – as a third time repeater – at the Zambia Legal of Advanced Studies (ZIALE) and UNZA night school. He boosts of a distinction in constitutional law but forgets that his assignments including his dissertation were not his own intellectual property but those of his reporters he poorly pays. Ask him to do basic footnotes for any paper then you will wonder how the hell such a scatter brain completed his law school. This is the character that wants to school us on matters of law when he has no record of winning a single case since he was admitted to the bar nearly five years ago. Anyway, his credentials at law is subject for another day. What is important today is for Zambian to see beyond the agenda M’membe is pushing. And last night’s reaction to Edgar Lungu’s firing by Scott in the midst of the national mourning should give M’membe a hint that his group is going nowhere. For now, the cartel must do well to remember that the same sun that hardens clay also melts butter. Lungu maybe be melted today but reading by the reaction of the PF cadres after his dismissal, he may indeed come out harder. The cartel are nothing but a bull in a China shop. Or maybe we are being unfair here. The buck must stop at the person Zambia is mourning today for having not come up with a smooth succession plan when he was alive. After all they say the way a person is mourned speaks volumes about the kind of life he led. zambiareports/2014/11/04/opinion-mmembe-authority-law/
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:05:41 +0000
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