UPND Deputy General Secretary Kuchunga Simusamba has advised ruling Patriotic Front youth national secretary Chishamba Kambwili to remove the log in his eye before trying to help others to remove the stick.
Mr Simusamba observes that Mr Kambwili seems to have deliberately chosen to ignore what has been happening in his party as regards to political violence in the country as youths in the PF are the worst culprits that the nation has ever seen.
He says the party that should be worried of being extinct is the PF as recent by elections have shown that the ruling party is fast losing popularity while the UPND is wining the hearts of many voters countrywide.
“Mr. Kambwili must check his campus again, he is the one who is going in the wrong direction because him and his party into extinction. I think the recent electrol results show that we are on the raise and we can not be distracted by Mr. Kambwili’s cheap propaganda.
There is no record of any UPND cadre who have evaded people’s farmers to go and share land it is only the PF, we don’t have record of UPND cadres moving in the streets with panjas and daring the police its the police so if Mr Kimbwili wants to address the issue of violence he must first remove the log in his eyes before he tries to deal with the stick that is the other part’s eyes,” said Mr. Simusamba.
Mr. Simusamba was reacting to Mr. Kambwili’s attack’s on the UPND during a press briefing on tuesday in which he described his as a tribal party that will never form government because of its violence.
The Minister further likened the opposition party to South Africa’s Inkhata freedom party which he said has gone into extinction because of its violent nature.
Forgive him. His wife is still working as a nurse in the UK
PF sees political violence in UPND and UPND sees it in PF. There’s no denying that the two political parties are guilty of it. Much as pointing fingers at each other may be helpful, it is better to reform that culture and become more civilized. Fifty years after independence, why should any Zambian political party engage in political violence?
Political violence is an established culture in Zambian politics. It is that which politicians resort to when everything else fails. It’s practice dates back to the days of UNIP and Kaunda. PF and UPND are not the ones who started political violence in Zambia. For these two parties, it has been more a matter of: “When you are in Rome do as the Romans.”
But they are now the Romans. These two political parties have an opportunity to craft and leave behind a different political legacy – that of non-violence.
Indeed, Mr. Kambwili will do well to deal with the log in his own eye, before talking about UPND. Similarly, UPND will do better to stop political violence, as a party.
hon kambwili, how about teaching your party cadres to stop violence and you stop blaming the opposition, with you guys it s always the other side that starts the fight, but now a lot of us zambians are wise to your bad behaviour,
You DISASTER HIPPO CLOWN, just stick to the things you know, like naming stadiums!
Leave these other things to people more intelligent that you. You do not have the brains to comment on this.
Please do not take my comment to be personal but, because Lusaka Times is an online publication that is read world-over, articles must be written in correct grammar including correct spellings for all the words used in various contexts. I apologize if this comment will hurt someone but the fact is that both the grammar and some word spellings used in this article are not up to the required standard, particularly if the author is a trained journalist.