Two opposition political parties has observed that it is difficult to archive unity in the country due to the current political and social atmosphere obtaining in the country.
Opposition Forum Democracy and Development FDD has observed that unity can not exist without ensuring that parameters and factors are put in place for its existence.
And opposition National Restoration Party NAREP National Secretary Jevan Kamanga says the country’s democracy should be a uniting platform people as opposed to using it to fight one another.
Speaking when the duo featured on a special program on Muvi tv this morning FDD spokesperson Antonio Mwanza said unity can not exist in a vacuum hence the need to put up measures that will ensure its existence and sustenance.
He noted that there is need to ensure that the national cake is shared equitably something he said can only be guaranteed by having a constitution that guarantees people their rights.
“You can not have unity of purpose when you are still using a constitution that was left behind by foreigners. How can you have unity of purpose when 50 years after independence you are still using a non-Zambian generated constitution; you can never have unity when the laws that bind you as a nation are imposed on you by foreigners.
” You can not have unity when there is no proper sharing of the national cake. The constitution that we are fighting for right now is the constitution that will guarantee the rights to food, right to shelter, right to education and right health.
They can never be unity if our children go to different schools; some children go to schools that well equipped, they have books and teachers are there while for some of us that came from the compounds our children go to schools that have no teachers and have outdated materials, therefore making my son who comes from the compound and yours coming from ‘Mayard’ to different sets of access to health education access to basic necessities such as food and shelter that is why we need a new constitution that will ensure that social and economic rights are equal in the country,” Mr. Mwanza noted.
He noted that politician are dividing the nation instead of building it.
He added, “we cannot have unity in the country when we are being divided on political, regional and tribal lines and all these things are being done by the politicians. You cannot unity in the country when HH is forced out of a radio station through the roof, you cannot have unity when president Nawakwi is harassed by the police when she wants to have a meeting at her offices, there can never be unity when Dr. Mumba is forced out Vubwi by the police.”
Mr. Mwanza however said the nation should define what it wants to unity for as opposed to people just saying the nation should unity on a common purpose.
And NAREP National Secretary Jevan Kamanga unity should not be misconstrued to lack of divergent views from the opposition.
Mr. Kamanga said in democracy people are suppose to express themselves with the government intimidating them.
He said the opposition should be at liberty to express themselves if they feel the government of the day is not doing things right as that does not bring dis- unity but instead be part of the uniting force of the nation.
The opposition leaders further wondered how the nation when the president keeps refusing to meet opposition leaders to dialogue over national issues.
The discussants forgot to mention that there can never be unity when the opposition spend most of their time opposing even the good things government is doing, opposing for the sake of opposing, dismissing MP’s who are working with government
@” You can not have unity when there is no proper sharing of the national cake. The constitution that we are fighting for right now is the constitution that will guarantee the rights to food, right to shelter, right to education and right health”.
IN THE TRUE NUTSHELL, I WOULD SAY PF HAS DISTORTED ALL THINGS. IT IS NOT TRUSTED NOW. NO WONDER THIS CEREMONIAL MUZUNGU CAN GO ON INSULTING ALL BECAUSE HE FEELS THAT HE IS STILL IN CONTROL OF HIS FOREFATHER’S RULE OF LAW. HE IS LAUGHING AT US THAT ZAMBIAN BLACKS HAVE NO BRAINS SEE HOW THEY HAVE FAILED TO COME UP WITH THEIR OWN CONSTITUTION. HE IS LOOSE AND HAS A BIG MOUTH. WHEN I BECOME THE PRESIDENT IN 2016, HE WILL ALONE FLEE WITH HIS IDOLS OF BOAST TO BRITAIN.