PF Kafue youths want fair adoption system

PATRIOTIC Front youths in Kafue have called for a fair adoption process ahead of the forthcoming council chairperson by-election in the district.

In an interview with the Daily Nation yesterday, PF District youth chairperson Wellingtone Mwansa said youths were displeased with rumours that the party had adopted a non-party member to stand on its ticket.

Mr Mwansa feared that if the rumour turned out to be true, there would be confusion, as most members would not want an outsider to be adopted leaving dedicated members out.

He said the only fair thing the party leadership could do was to adopt someone from within the party structure in the district.

“There is a rumour that somebody has already been picked, who is not within the structure.

They have picked an outsider because he is related to someone who is in the central committee.

Our position as youths is that we want a candidate that we know, we will not entertain a situation whereby we are given a stranger.

“Let the leadership at central committee pick somebody from the section, branch, constituency or district, somebody who is amongst us and we are going to be very happy.

“So this thing of adopting a stranger is going to bring confusion and they shouldn’t blame us,” Mr Mwansa said.

He warned that the issue of adopting strangers in the district was destroying the party, as most of them turn out to be disloyal.

Mr Mwansa gave an example of former Kafue Member of Parliament Obvious Mwaliteta who was adopted to stand on the PF ticket in 2011 and later messed up.

“This issue of bringing outsiders has cost us in the past, for example in the 2011 elections, we were supposed to have Susan Sikaneta to stand as MP, but they picked Mr Mwaliteta from nowhere and you saw what he did.

The person that the people wanted here was Ms Sikaneta, so we are not going to let what had happened in the past happen again,” he said.

The Kafue Council chairperson by-election is set for next month. This follows the resignation of former UPND council chairperson Thomas Zulu from the position, who also defected to the PF last year.