HH’S FOREIGN DEBT ADVISORY OFFER HYPOCRITICAL

Dear Editor

WE

are shocked that the UPND has suddenly offered themselves to participate in the foreign debt restructuring by providing free services.

We still believe there is an ulterior motive which had been attached to the sudden announcement.

It is difficult to take the five-time losing Presidential candidate Hakainde Sammy Hichilema seriously on national issues owing to his untamed mouth.

We have made relentless efforts to plead with him to bring any tenable economic idea to the government through relevant authorities. His ego and pride has let him not to approach the government with the practical problem solving approach. His ideas are misinformed and based of illusion and hearsay.

HH’s preoccupation is to use any available opportunity to plant the seed of discord and as well as discontent against the government of President Edgar Lungu.

There have been several opportunities availed to patriotic Zambians to help and he has constantly turned down the offers. For instance, last year, the Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) organised the first ever economic “indaba” which was hosted at Avani Victoria Resort in Livingstone.

All economic intellectual think tanks were part of the meeting and they presented their ideas. Mr Hichilema instead opted out.

However, Mr Hichilema, a renowned armchair critic stormed the cyber space to mislead the unsuspecting public.

Before, we can take him seriously, we demand an answer from him to tell the nation why he missed the economic “indaba” which was a golden , opportunity for him to share his thoughts about the economy.

Why didn’t he engage the UPND research team to give their professional advice regarding how the economic fortunes can be restored to past glory?

Mr Hichilema is very well informed about our debt crisis and if he cared he would have offered his free consultancy services way before the French firm came into the picture.

We have not forgotten that the UPND leader has a well-documented history of betraying the confidence of the Zambian people whenever he is given an opportunity to offer professional services.

The privatisation history is self-explanatory in so far as it relates to the gesture that has been expressed by Mr Hichilema.