Stop lies, HH told
… lies wont win Hichilema the leadership he craves.
UPND president, Hakainde Hichilema has been advised to embrace truth and avoid lies if he wants to win leadership of the country. Former UPND vice president for politics Canisius Banda said Mr Hichilema must change from telling lies to embracing the truth if he was to achieve his dream of leading this country. Mr Banda maintained that the accusations from some quarters that Mr Hichilema may have incited the citizens in Kitwe to riot were not disputable. Dr Banda was reacting to recent riots and looting in Kitwe which has led to the summoning of Mr Hichilema by the police on the Copperbelt. He said that the UPND leader lied because ZAFFICO had not been sold neither to Zambians or the Chinese and that it was not yet listed on the Lusaka Stock Exchange. He reiterated that the UPND leader’s utterances on a radio station on the material day were deliberately intended to infuriate the listeners to rise against the government and Chinese. “His utterances on a radio station on that material day was deliberately intended to infuriate the listeners to rise against the government, the purported seller of ZAFFICO in this case, a development which was expected to be beneficial to him and his party,” said Dr Banda. And Dr Banda said that it was wrong for Mr Hichilema to suggest that selling, if this were actually the case, a Zambian public company to the Chinese was wrong or offensive in itself. He said that there was nothing wrong with selling public companies to the Chinese, British, Americans or Zambians themselves if such a process or decision was sanctioned by the citizens themselves and met all the legal provisions governing such a sale. Dr Banda reiterated that Mr Hichilema had now shot himself in the foot because he himself, still under questionable circumstances, facilitated or participated in the sale of many publicly owned companies in Zambia. He said that listing a public company was the recommended prudence in its management and that it was normal business practice. “It is different from full privatisation which Hakainde Hichilema himself is an advocate of and complicit in, which privatisation leads to loss of ownership, “Also worth noting is that the matter of ZAFFICO and the Chinese dates as far back as the era of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy,” said Dr Banda.