Zambian DNA warns alarmists

SPREADING falsehoods that President Edgar Lungu is deliberately building two nations where the Bembas and Easterners dominate everything in Zambia is a recipe for anarchy, the Zambian DNA has warned.

Zambian DNA spokesperson, Spuki Mulemwa, said individuals who think that President Lungu was discriminating some ethnic groups, particularly the Tonga were wrong.

Mr Mulemwa was reacting to claims by some opposition UPND sympathizers that President Lungu was creating a nation where Bembas and Easterners dominate.

He said such claims were a recipe for anarchy as they could incite citizens to rise against Government.

Mr Mulemwa said the

Head of State was the first ever Republican President to have visited several times the then little-known Southern Province’s Dundumwezi constituency.

“We detest the dangerous attempts to create an impression that President Lungu is deliberately building two nations where the

Bembas and their cousins Easterners dominate and control everything in Zambia at the exclusion of other tribes.

“This is a tact to influence Zambians to rise against the President and his Government,” he said..

Mr Mulemwa said President Lungu’s Cabinet represents the country’s multi-ethnic society and was alive to the fact that nation-building should promote ethnic inclusiveness at all levels of governance.

“President Lungu is also conscious to the fact that nation-building goes beyond ethnic inclusiveness at Cabinet level. This fact explains why President Lungu has the desire and passion to push the boundaries of ethnicity so as to insulate the nation from its evil poison,” Mr Mulemwa said.