By Mast Reporter
STATE House chief communications specialist Clayson Hamasaka has described as a reflection of “corrosive hatred” the warning by Patriotic Front (PF) vice president Given Lubinda that the former ruling party will grab Community House, the private residence of President Hakainde Hichilema, if former president Edgar Lungu wins the presidency in 2026.
And Hamasaka says the United Party for National Development (UPND) government will only hand over Community House to the PF after 60 years.
In a statement yesterday, Hamasaka said Community House was built long before Hichilema became president of Zambia.
He said it was frightening that PF was still harbouring corrosive hatred against the current head of state to the extent of fantasying about grabbing the property that had nothing to do with their defeat in 2021.
Hamasaka said Lubinda’s remarks were an indication that the former ruling party was failing to heal from its defeat in the 2021 general election.
In his statement, Lubinda said Community House was going to be converted into a state property because of the expensive security installations done in and around it using public resources, yet it was a personal house.
But Hamasaka said the presidency was not surprised that the former ruling party’s agenda of taking back power was for vengeance and not to govern.
“We will willingly give Community House to the PF after 60 years if ever they will come back to power. Their [PF] preoccupation is nothing but personal attacks on President Hichilema. Instead of telling Zambians how they will improve and change people’s lives, they are ever talking about the head of state who is busy working for the best interest of Zambians. So maybe after the next 60 years, we will give them Community House,” he said.
Hamasaka said Zambians were not interested in what the PF would grab from President Hichilema but wanted to hear its alternative solutions to the challenges Zambia was facing.
He advised that the PF should find time to heal instead of ever spewing malice and propaganda against the presidency.
