Makebi keeps heat on HH
… as more bash Lower Zambezi mining project
AS LAWYER Makebi Zulu continues to challenge businessman and UPND president, Hakainde Hichilema to come clean on his role in the now controversial Lower Zambezi National Park mining project, more organisations have joined in condemning the project.
Mr Hichilema has chosen to speak through social media where trolls have turned the heat on Mr Zulu by invading his Facebook and hurling insults when his posts challenge Mr Hichilema to explain the $14 million he allegedly received for a stake in the mine.
In the latest post, Mr Zulu has once again challenged Mr Hichilema to come clean over the matter instead of sending trolls to insult him. ”You see Mr. Hakainde Hichilema,
I have been trying to administer information in smaller doses for ease of assimilation by your followers who are only responding by insults as they await your confirmation. I thought you may explain to them how the shell companies; afnat, Zambezi resources, Mwembeshi resources among others, are connected and share the same address in Bermuda... and how that you are the ONLY ZAMBIAN CONNECTING LINK. In case you may not remember, The link below may refresh your memory.”
The mining project has been roundly condemned as an attempt by the rich to get richer while destroying the environment.
A petition launched recently has garnered international attention with more people from Zambia, Zimbabwe and
Mozambique demanding that their presidents halt this project.
The petition against the three presidents was launched following a High Court ruling that allowed the mining project to proceed following five years of court battle by the owners and some environmentalists and concerned citizens.
Now more organisations have joined in calling on Government to halt the planed mining operations in the lower Zambezi National Park.
Civil Society Organisation Environmental Hub (CSOEH) representing other Civil Society Organisations in the environment and natural resource management, stated that there should be no mining in the ecologically sensitive Lower Zambezi National Park.
CSOEH National coordinator, Godfrey Phiri, said the proposed open pit copper mining in the Lower Zambezi National Park should not be allowed, considering the long term environmental and habitat consequences the project could cause.
Mr Phiri said this in a statement to the Daily Nation yesterday.