WINA WARNS AGAINST CARELESS TALK
VICEPresident Inonge Wina has warned that alarming statements from leaders in the ruling party and the opposition will cause mayhem as the country is going towards elections.
Ms Wina said that it was important that all the leaders from the ruling and opposition tamed their tongues in order to preserve peace in the country.
She said that carless statements from the leaders would cause harm to innocent Zambians which should not be the case.
Ms Wina told Parliament yesterday: “There will be serious conflict in the country if the leaders do not tame their tongue.”
The Vice President said in 2016 there were pronouncements of the ‘Mapatizya formula’ and in recent past there had been issue of ‘Armageddon’ and such should not be the type of language from leaders.
She was responding to Kabompo Member of Parliament (MP), Ambrose Lufuma, who wanted to know whether the equipment being bought for the police were intended to instil fear in Zambians.
This was during the President’s question time.
He said that some PF members and Ministers had many times said that there woule be war in the country because the ruling party was not ready to hand over power to any opposition political party.
But Ms Wina said: “I don’t recall any PF official saying that there will be war in 2021, I have not heard that and I have not read that.”
She however said if any party official found wanting, would be asked to retract the statement because the party does not condone lawlessness.
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Ms Wina said PF was in Government and could not be in forefront to cause havoc.
Meanwhile, the Vice-President informed the House that the ECZ would be informing the nation weekly about the number of voters captured ahead of 2021 general elections.
She said that the voter registration exercise was being done in phases and the ECZ would be updating the nation on the progress made during that period.
Ms Wina said that recently the ECZ released the number of voters captured for phase one, and Government was now awaiting the update for phase two which was underway.
She said additional staff had been deployed while the number of kits had been increased from 1,000 to 3,000 and they would soon be dispatched to highly populated areas.
Ms Wina said this would enable the ECZ reach the target.