Eject UPND or suffer more, Silumbe urges Zambians
By Mast Reporter
IF ZAMBIANS do not vote out the United Party for National Development (UPND) in August, they will continue living in excruciating pain for the next five years and even beyond, says Leadership Movement (LM) president Dr Richard Silumbe.
In an unsolicited interview yesterday, Dr Silumbe warned that the crisis the country was facing was real and visible, urging the people of Zambia to either choose to live in pain or not.
“We have a crisis we need to deal with now. This crisis is real and visible. The only way to address it is by kicking out the UPND from government. And this is the choice the people of Zambia need to make. They can either choose to keep suffering by voting for the UPND or change the way they live by voting for this gruesome regime in August,” he said.
He said Zambians had a choice to either continue suffering of make things better by acting prudently against anything that brought misery into their lives.
“At the moment our people are lost, they are not sure about where the UPND and its leader, Hakainde Hichilema, is taking them. Zambians will not eat or survive on promises that are never fulfilled,” he said.
Dr Silumbe said the UPND had led the nation into deeper poverty, unemployment and unfair distribution of public resources, focusing mainly in their stronghold, leaving out other regions.
He said the country’s democracy too, was at a crossroads under the leadership of President Hakainde Hichilema.
Dr Silumbe said the consistent interference of institutions of governance such as the Police, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) and the Registrar of Societies was a clear indication that Zambia was heading to its grave.
“This is serious and troubling for all Zambians. The tricks the UPND is playing will ruin this country. This time, they are using their surrogates to grab political parties, to create confusion in opposition political parties, while they are pushing institutions of democracy, such as the ECZ and the National Assembly, to enact laws that are anti-democratic in nature.
We have ECZ that despite the people of Zambia rejecting the change to the electoral act, ECZ is pushing it in the interest of those in power,” he said.
Dr Silumbe said Zambians had a chance to correct and protect their democratic rights by removing the UPND, warning that if the ruling party gave Hichilema a second term of office, the nation would be doomed.
“This country is busy building a dictatorship, with these maneuvers, schemes to change laws that administer elections in Zambia, we are creating a dictator at a fast rate. Please, Zambians, wake up and let’s fight a monster together. This is not the Zambia we want. The UPND is driving us in hell, we shall gnash our teeth,” he said.
