UPND IS HYPOCRITICAL- TUTWA

THE UPND is being hypocritical by shooting down Bill 10 when it proposed the holding of the National Dialogue Forum (NDF) deputy Parliamentary Government Chief Whip Tutwa Ngulube has said.

Mr Ngulube said UPND also proposed the reintroduction of Deputy Ministers in the Constitution (amendment) Bill 10 of 2019 but the dictatorial tendencies of their party president, Hakainde Hichilema were making them shy away.

Mr Ngulube said the UPND were the ones who actually proposed the holding of NDF and later boycotted it on Mr Hichilema’s directive.

He said in an interview that UPND were pretending to be against Bill 10 because they were the ones who made most of the proposals.

Mr Ngulube said even the way they cleverly proposed the NDF and later boycotted it showed that they were hypocritical.

“The UPND cannot be trusted because even the way they proposed the NDF and later boycotted it shows that they are hypocritical,” he said.

Mr Ngulube said the dictatorial tendencies of Mr Hichilema had made it very difficult for the P to operate as a political party.

He observed that party members as well as parliamentarians were failing to do what was patriotically required of them.

Mr Ngulube said Mr Hichilema had even failed to replace his vice party presidents many months down the line because he does not have confidence in members.

He challenged the UPND to deny if they were not the ones who proposed the holding of the NDF and reintroduction of deputy ministers in Bill 10.

Earlier, nominated MP Raphael Nakacinda also said the UPND were the one who proposed the reintroduction of deputy ministers.

Mr Nakacinda said the UPND were hypocrites and wanted to deceive the citizenry in the manner they were handling the proposed amendments to the constitution because they were playing double standards.

He said in Lusaka that all political parties including the UPND met at the PF secretariat in 2018 requesting the president to halt the process of taking the draft Bill to Parliament because they wanted to have an input themselves.

Mr Nakacinda said all political party Secretary Generals went to Siavonga and participated in making proposals to the Constitution amendments.

He stated that the UPND was in the forefront in making some of the proposals in the Amendment Bill 10 which it now calls controversial.

e UPND cannot be trusted because even the way they proposed the NDF and later boycotted it shows that they are hypocritical.