Change is coming-Nakacinda

Change is coming-Nakacinda

By George Zulu

ZAMBIA is ready for a change of government next year, Raphael Nakacinda has said.

In an interview with the Mast yesterday, Nakacinda, the Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General,  said Zambians had suffered enough at the hands of the United Party for National Development (UPND) administration, and it was time to correct the mistakes made in 2021.

He said Zambians were looking forward to a new and fresh start after four years of disaster, disappointment, and betrayal.

“Most Zambians feel betrayed by this government. Zambians want change, and that change is coming not too long from now. Next year will be a different period, and I am sure even President Hakainde Hichilema is not sleeping, looking at the insurmountable lies his government has made, he has no chance to win next year,” he said.

Nakacinda said it would be unwise for the UPND to think that Zambians were not clever enough to contrast life now and before they took over government.

He said Zambians had persevered enough, adding that next year would be a period of reckoning.

“Signs are clear that these guys in government have gone; they are just visitors. The biggest opposition is not the party but the people’s movement. Zambians are hungry and angry, and you cannot say you have delivered when the very people you are telling that you have delivered are saying there is nothing done,” he said.

Nakacinda said the time for change was ripe.

All People’s Congress (APC) president Nason Msoni said no amount of lies, deception, and manipulation would save the UPND from being kicked out of power next year.

Msoni said the UPND and President Hakainde Hichilema, in particular, had failed the people of Zambia.

“There is nothing more or less that will stop the change of government next year, the wind is blowing against President Hichilema and his friends. Zambians are determined to remove this brutal government. Zambians want a change from a criminal cartel to a leadership that will respond to the immediate needs of the people,” he said.

Msoni said poverty levels were unimaginably rife under Hichilema, while constitutionalism had suffered to protect allies.

“What is much more troubling under the UPND and Hichilema’s regime is the deep-rooted divisions he has brought. The selective application of the rule of law, hunger, and lack of opportunities for our young people. Hichilema’s style of leadership is diabolical,” he said.

Msoni urged Zambians to push for a people’s movement for a better Zambia rather than clinging to a dead agenda of division.