You have been cheated enough-M’membe
By Charles Musonda
WAKE up and govern yourselves because you have been cheated enough, People’s Pact Movement presidential candidate Dr. Fred M’membe has told Zambians.
Dr. M’membe warned that unless there was a change in the governance syle, people’s living standards would not improve.
Speaking on Flava FM in Kitwe on Thursday, Dr M’membe said Zambians continued to suffer poverty as a result of poor leadership.
“This poverty we are in will not end; jobs will not be found, those who are ruling us, those who are benefiting from mining, will not give up so easily. They will fight back, they will have their own people in the political arena, whom they are going to give money to come and protect their interests,” Dr M’membe said.
He said Zambians should fight for their second independence, which was fighting poverty, injustices, tribalism and regionalism brought by those in power.
Dr M’membe said the fight for the second independence was a fight for economic emancipation.
“We are in the second Chachacha [freedom struggle]. What is needed is to reclaim Zambia from imperialists who are enriching themselves. We can’t continue with these high levels of unemployment, but to change this, a politician alone can’t manage; a politician alone is not the only leader who is in this country. There are other leaders, there are clergymen, there are chiefs, there are business leaders, there are trade union leaders, we also have professional leaders, all these, if they are not involved, we are not going anywhere,” Dr M’membe said.
Dr M’membe said the responsibility to change the governance system rested with everyone, not only politicians in the People’s Pact Movement.
“Even you journalists if you are not involved in changing the governance system forget about living well, otherwise you will be getting paid K500 per month, you will not have adverts on radio stations because all these small businesses are collapsing, wake up time to govern yourselves has come, time to work for yourselves has come,” he said.
Dr M’membe said Zambians had been cheated and dribbled enough and it was time for them to wake up.
He said no one was going to liberate Zambians from poverty if citizens did not join the liberation struggle.
“What you can’t do for yourself, forget it, nobody will do it for you. These investors you are bringing here they are not coming to work for us, they are coming to work for themselves for their own benefit and they will defend the benefits they are gaining from this country today.
“They will even sponsor politicians and you start praising them and voting for their people because they have put in so much money and advertising on television, on radio, social media in the newspapers, they give them money and they are the ones you vote for. Your leaders who care for you, your true leaders you have neglected them, wake up, you have been cheated enough,” said Dr M’membe.
