Daily Nation Newspaper

ZDDM condemns opposition leaders

- By BENNIE MUNDANDO

SOME opposition elements are painting a gloomy picture of Zambia to the rest of the world because of their inability to critically analyse issues, the Zambia Direct Democracy Movement (ZDDM) has said.

The movement said the propensity by some opposition leaders to paint the country negatively with a view to destroy it was disappoint­ing.

ZDDM president Edwin Sakala said Zambians had been drawn into wasting time and energy on fighting and faultfindi­ng at the expense of national developmen­t.

Even Listening to radio phone in programmes in Zambia has become sad experience because members of particular opposition party are evn on stanndby to shower insults

“This indeed maybe due to our inability to critically analyze issues and what seem to be our natural tendency of getting satisfacti­on in negativity and destructio­n.

“As a nation, we waste time and energy on fighting and faultfindi­ng each other at the expense of the people’s welfare. It is this negative and destructiv­e spirit which some foreign entities are capitalisi­ng on to breed political confusion and division.

“It is indeed by God’s grace that the “passionate hate” for each other has not driven us into tribal war in Zambia due to systematic visions on tribal and regional grounds perpetuate­d by cynical-minded Zambian savages who claim to be educated.

“Even listening to radio phone in programmes in Zambia has become a sad experience because members of one particular opposition party are ever on standby to shower political insults and unfounded at tacks on other people,” Mr. Sakala said.

He said the satanic force destroying Zambia was the same one which captured its forefather­s like animals and sold them to slavery and later led to colonisati­on.

“As one of the oldest and most exposed and experience­d opposition political parties in the country we want to appeal to President Edgar Lungu and indeed all Zambians to realise with a sense of urgency that the future of Zambia is in very serious danger for as long as the huge amounts of money coming from outside and some local business communitie­s of foreign origin is not checked,” he said.

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