This is Zambia’s darkest moment – Muhabi
By Tony Nkhoma
ZAMBIA is going through its darkest period in its history following the death of sixth president Edgar Lungu, which has exposed the desperation of the United Party for National Development (UPND) government, the Zambia We Want (ZWW) party has said.
ZWW spokesperson Muhabi Lungu said Zambians were shocked by the insistence by the government to get Lungu’s body from South Africa.
Lungu said in an interview with The Mast Tuesday the whole world had now known that President Hakainde Hichilema was an enemy of democracy.
He was shocked by a leaked audio in which a UPND government minister and one of State House’s emissaries could be heard discussing how Hichilema’s public image was going to be cleansed by attending Lungu’s funeral.
“The two of his ministers were heard saying HH should preside over the funeral for him to be cleansed. Cleanse him from what? I think the death of Edgar Chagwa Lungu has exposed dirty tricks,” Lungu said.
He said Lungu’s death was suspicious because he had never seen such insistence by a government for a dead body to the point of intending to bribe a judge of South African court.
“The leaked bribery mission audio involving Mafinga Member of Parliament Robert Chabinga is the worst and darkest moment in the history of the country,” Lungu said.
He said the audio ws also an admission of how Hichilema and the UPND were responsible for attempts to kill the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) party.
“The admission of Chabinga having received over 42 missed calls from his boss is a clear admission of how ill-intent the UPND government has become. The missed calls are also absolute proof that HH and UPND want to completely kill the PF,” Lungu said.
He said Hichilema did not want any opposition in the country and should not claim that he ws a democrat.
“The whole world has now known that HH is an enemy of democracy. The UPND does not believe in Democracy. All global stakeholders should now know that HH is not a democrat,” Lungu said.
He said the admittance that the judge handling the case of Lungu’s burial should be bribed in another country spoke volumes of how the local judicial system could easily be abused by the Executive.
“Bribing the judge of another country. That is bravery of interference in another country’s judicial system,” Lungu said.
“The country is rotten to the core. Churches, civil society organisations must rise to condemn the levels of rottenness in the country,” Lungu said.
