Respect Presidency, clergyman tells politicians

By SANDRA MACHIMA THE Christian Coalition has advised politicians, especially those intending to contest in 2021 to differentiate between the Presidency as an institution and the person occupying the office of the President.

Coalition president Bishop Godwin Musonda demanded that the office of the President be respected and protected by all Zambians regardless of the person who was currently in that office.

Bishop Musonda said calling President Edgar Chagwa Lungu corrupt leader without providing evidence was not acceptable and must be stopped as politics of bitterness and insults had no place in a democratic society.

The clergyman vowed that no politician would be voted into office based on politics of insults and not respecting the office of the President. As Christian Coalition wish to commend President Lungu for exhibiting maturity and humble leadership despite corruption accusations by Dr. Kambwili.

And as a coalition, we demand that any serving minister or leader in President Lungu’s administration who does not agree with his administration to resign now as we shall not accept calling of President name or accusing him of corruption after being fired or dropped because it’s not possible that all serving ministers or leaders in the Patriotic Front will be there until 2021,” he said.

Bishop Musonda advised political parties in Zambia to provide serious checks and balances in the governance of the nation to ensure that PF government was made accountable to the Zambian people as opposed to politics of insults.

“It is saddening to note that instead of opposition political parties as governments in waiting to provide alternative policies to Government, they have t fellow leaders at the expense of being a united voice on economic issues affecting Zambians,” Bishop Musonda said.