Reject unpatriotic HH

Dear Editor,

AS we go to cast our votes in the presidential, parliamentary and local government elections, let us look at the way some political party leaders like Mr Hakainde Hichilema have conducted themselves towards the plight of the Zambian people.

One would have expected Mr Hichilema to show remorse after that disastrous privatisation in which he himself benefitted more than the Zambian people who had mandated him to spearhead and supervise the whole process but 30 years after, he is still the same egotistic and unpatriotic guy he was back then.

Behold how he has singlehandedly tarnished the image of our otherwise beautiful country to the international community.

Those who have not been to this peaceful nation would never want to come whether as tourists or investors thinking that our country is not a safe haven.

Does Mr Hichilema realise that the negative sentiments he sends to the international community hurts the same Zambians that he is aspiring to serve as president? I hope our people are looking at these issues as they prepare vote.

You cannot have one person calling the democratically elected president as Lungu, next he says there will be Armageddon after the election.

He then goes on to accuse the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) of being PF cadres, he calls judges corrupt, calls civil servants and the police as cadres.

I’m sure civil servants and men and women in uniform are aware what would happen if by chance Mr Hichilema won the election.

He would dismiss them on the false basis of them being PF cadres. Is this the kind of change the Zambian people would want effected after the elections?

When we voted for change in 2011, we knew that PF had a plan of action for the Zambian people in their manifesto and that such a change would be positive and we were right, the men and women that were appointed to run the affairs of the country on our behalf did not depart from the manifesto and delivered accordingly.

Unlike the UPND which is promising change based on 12-point plan only understood by Mr Hichilema alone, can one person be everything? It will be a real scandal if he is voted into power.

We all have the responsibility of protecting our country from wolves in sheep skins who stole from Zambians during privatisation, and are today pretending to be our messiahs.

Zambia is on the right track in terms of development and does not need to change the working government. God bless us all and God bless our land.

ENOCK KAPITOLO CHULU,

Lusaka.