Fake NGOS slammed
Mr Mwanza said it was hypocrisy of the highest order for NGOs to keep quiet over the missing Hatembos when it was the first time for Zambia to experience such an abduction.
He said NGOs were only there to discredit efforts Government was making in uplifting standards of living for citizens while ignoring serious national matters.
“Our NGOs only speak out when an issue is against government, but where the opposition is implicated, they keep quiet,” said Mr Mwanza.
And Mr Mulemwa challenged the Non- Governmental Organisation Coordinating Committee (NGOCC) to speak out over the abduction of the Pheluna Hatembo who has been seperated from her 35 year old cerebral palsy daughter.
He said NGOCC should have been in the forefront demanding the release of the Choma family especially that they left behind a sick daughter.
Mr Mulemwa said the lack of patriotism by some NGOs was a big blow to national unity as citizens were denied fair representations.
It is almost two months since Pheluna Hatembo and her brother, Milton, disappeared and now her cerebral palsy afflicted 35-year-old daughter is ill, vomiting blood and pus.
The daughter, Nasilele Nyambe, was last week escorted to the Choma General Hospital by her elder sister Abigail who pleaded with the abductors to release their mother.
The last time they saw their mother was when she was bundled to Lusaka where she signed a statement condemning her lawyers for indicating an intention to appeal against a ruling that dispossessed them of their 200 hectare farm to Mr Hakainde Hichililema.
The family has since disputed the “withdrawal” of the appeal, stating that they had sat and decided to appeal against the High Court judgment.