‘UPND FLAUNTING DIRTY MONEY’
UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) is using dirty money from its financiers to fight Bill 10 and Parliament should not withdraw it because the 2016 amended Constitution needs refinement, Change Life Zambia has said.
Board chairperson John Kasongo said the UPND should never be taken seriously because all it wanted was to punish Zambians to satisfy its interests and its financiers.
He said in an interview yesterday Parliament should go ahead with Bill 10 as planned and no amount of threats from the UPND and its surrogates should stop it.
Mr Kasongo said the UPND wanted the bill to be withdrawn so as to champion its gay rights agenda.
“The nation must be careful with the opposition political parties’ schemes using dirty money from their financiers with a ‘‘Parliament should debate appropriately what has been submitted by stakeholders.’’
background. Those who call for this country to be in a state of Armageddon have nothing to offer other than praying for it to be destroyed completely by what they believe in against Christian values. Hence the call to withdraw Bill 10,” Mr Kasongo said.
He said those fighting the bill knew that if they stopped
it their plans to promote and legalise homosexuality would have room, in their own view.
“We want Christianity to continue to be enshrined in our Constitution. A lot of money has been spent on the people driven Constitution. It is time for Parliament to polish it up and enact it into law,” Mr Kasongo said. He said
Parliament should debate appropriately what had been submitted by stakeholders.
“No more time to waste. Time is now to amend the Constitution,” he said.
The UPND and its allies in the Church, civil society and media have mounted a spirited campaign to stop Bill 10 from being enacted into law.