PF REMOVAL PLAN EXPOSED
The same Western imperialist forces that nanced the UPND and a plethora of its surrogates, including some chiefs, church bodies and civil society organisations in 2016 is seriously bankrolling the anti-Bill 10 campaign.
THE sustained campaign against the Constitution (Amendment) Bill number 10 of 2019 is aimed at forcing an alternative process that will produce a tailored constitution intended to make it easy for the United Party for National Development (UPND) and its surrogates to remove the Patriotic Front (PF) from government in 2021, Lusaka lawyer Tutwa Ngulube has said.
Mr Ngulube said the same western imperialist forces that financed the UPND and a plethora of its surrogates, including some chiefs, church bodies and civil society organisations in 2016 is seriously bankrolling the anti-Bill 10 campaign. He said the whole scheme was not about coming up with an inclusive process and achieving consensus, but removing the PF from power so that it was replaced with the imperialists’ stooges. Mr Ngulube, however, said any such schemes by the imperialists and their Zambian fronts would hit a brick wall. “Consensus is merely being used as a smokescreen. It’s a well-planned and funded campaign. What they want to achieve is the suspension or abandoning of the current progressive process so that they come up with a constitution that will weaken the ruling party, the Presidency and the electoral process,” Mr Ngulube said. “Such a constitution will replace the progressive provisions proposed by the National Dialogue Forum [NDF] in the Constitution (Amendment) Bill with a document tailored to hand the UPND and its allies easy victory over the PF in 2021,” he said. “That’s why they have lamentably failed to show the nation what provisions they would like to be in the Constitution which will be acceptable to them and their foreign sponsors.” Mr Ngulube said the imperialists had found Zambia attractive for sponsoring regime change because of its vast natural resources, especially minerals, land and timber. “The governments and organisations that are funding this evil scheme are known, but it will not work because Zambians are solidly behind the current government, which is trying hard to deliver development equitably across the country,” Mr Ngulube said. Last weekend the Daily Nation published an expose about a scheme funded by a known politician to halt the Constitution (Amendment) Bill from being enacted into law by Parliament. The politician allegedly handed over K1.6 million to a prominent Lusaka-based lawyer to be distributed among some economically vulnerable media houses to hold public discussions, influential lawyers, foreign legal advisers and other prominent individuals.