By Dr. Cosmas Musumali, General Secretary on behalf of the Socialist Party’s Politburo
The Socialist Party wishes to convey its condolences to the families, relatives and friends of the late MP for Mwansabombwe, Hon. Rogers Mwewa, as well as to those for the late Lukashya MP, Hon. Mwenya Munkonge.
Their death is a great loss to the affected families and communities. Zambia has also lost two serving legislatures shortly before completing their term of office. This entails more by-elections in the coming months. It is tragic and costly.
The Socialist Party had previously warned about the lukewarm, incompetent and seemingly arrogant manner in which the COVID 19 pandemic was being managed in this country. The Party had specifically pointed to the management of human traffic at the border areas, the need for a more systematic contact tracing system, the enhancing of the health workforce, adequate PPEs for frontline staff and above all an intensive public messaging and a socialised behaviour monitoring. We also pointed to the substantial financial requirements and the strict use and accountability of these resources.
With hindsight today, the management of the pandemic is a national disaster. Many more Zambians will pay with their dear lives. In the midst of a global pandemic, the President of the country is burning a lot of aviation fuel moving from one constituency to another dishing out slush funds to traditional leaders and party cadres. The serving Minister of Health is caught up in a huge corruption scandal and is mobilising sections of the ruling party for political support. From a distant, this would be a typical lousy comedy of failed and greedy tinpot dictatorship. But when thousands of innocent lives are about to be sacrificed, then we have to come back to reality and stop the calamity from destroying our homeland.
Before the onset of COVID 19, the Zambian health system was already pathetic and characterised by low, erratic funding. Accountability has been zero for decades now. With the emergency of COVID 19 plus by all standards the most incompetent and corrupt government since political independence in 1964, the decay is open and painful to watch. The death of 2 legislatures in a single day is about a failed state of the health system and entire political system of the country.
Neo-liberal capitalism anchored on individualism, greed, unbridled competition and consumerism is the ultimate cause of death of the 2 members of parliament. It’s a system that has given rise to a breed of politicians that are self-serving, arrogant and yet find joy in sheer ignorance. May more Zambians will continue dying avoidable deaths over the years to come if capitalism is not stopped and a more humane, socialist order put in a place.
Result of clueless F.ool called a president. Just wait you will die like flies
sad indeed
Need I forget a walking dead Vice President
Surely it’s legislators not legislatures. We hv only one legislature and we hv not lost it. I hv had to say it because the mistake appears twice. On a serious note, yes the response to covid-19 crisis has not been the best. But wht else could hv been done given the crisis we were in even before the coronavirus crisis had hit us? There are socialist countries in this world. Let Musumali tell us hw well they’re doing compared to others? Corruption is corruption. There’s no such thing as capitalist corruption.
I have a problem with politicians that can not use their own words and do not say when the a quoting some world failed socialist leaders. In the same breathe one does not convey condolences and say these people died of carelessness.
@TheEngineer the vice president has been called walking dead even when during the time your parents were in diapers. Have some respect.
Well I think South Africa, India and Singapore have all closed their borders so it is inevitable we will see many of these politicians die at home like the rest of us. They should be very afraid!
Death is the ultimate social and economic equalizer!
Well I think South Africa, India and Singapore have all closed their borders so it is inevitable we will see many of these politicians d!e at home like the rest of us. They should be very afraid!
De@th is the ultimate social and economic equalizer!
Where has socialism ever stopped death on earth? For the record capitalism is the only proven system that has spurred human progress and lifted millions of people from poverty. Meanwhile you can continue reading your outdated socialist literature and enjoy the utopia ???
Dr Musumali , where has socialism ever stopped death on earth? All capitalism has been the driver of all human progress since the industrial revolution centuries ago . Socialism experiments never got anywhere except on ideological books for lazy politicians like…. you know who.
A socialist in 2020 hahaha. Why waste your time? Better you even go back to your village and take up farming. If the socialist party win the next election I will eat my own faeces. I promise
A socialist in 2020 hahaha. Why waste your time? Better you even go back to your village and take up farming. If the socialist party win the next election I will eat my own faeces. I promise.Elo lusakatimes you are annoying with your useless website. Sort it out !
What a promise from KZ. Really, that’s what mad people do, drink their urine – like Lenshinas
Dont even wait for socialist party to win the election, just ” eat my own faeces” now. It will be the most wise decision.
Condolences to the two families of the 2 late MPs. May the Souls of the 2 MPs Rest in Peace. To avoid further loss of life among the MPs and Parliamentary Staff the Speaker of Parliament should adjourn Parliament sine die now. Lives of our MPs is more important than Bill 10. Parliament should be closed urgently to save lives.
The problem with Zambia is that most people are Shallow. The VP GOGO is shallow, Kaizar Zulu above is shallow, PF and it’s disciples are shallow. What do you expect? Good points are raised in the article but we can go further. More Zambian people were killed by gassing and has simply been forgotten? !diots.
To be honest, I don’t care about what ism is on the ground. China has always had communism at the heart of its agenda but has used capitalism to move its economic programs. We all know that Mmembe is not a Socialist per se. Fred given a chance to be at the helm, he won’t use the socialist agenda to run the affairs of the country! I would actually rather join him than be with the evil corrupt cronies leading to country into oblivion.Wake up!
@Kaizer Zulu, you would better get used to the taste of your faeces, so that when your time is up and you are in jail your faeces will be your menu. What a bumpot this Zulu impi!
Sad. Losing two Legislators in a single day. Its unheard of.
Almost all comments am seeing here do not address the grief we should be showing.
The people we have lost, Like the other 108, were human and had loved ones.
I dont expect politics to be eulorized here.
We have lost, and are going to lose, many more peoppe because we didn’t handle the cpvid issue well, not just zambia, but the world as whole.
It s a lesson for the world to he truthful in dealing with science and biology, and not mix it with politics.
But if politics should take part, it should be done to support science and biology, as in this case
Sad. Losing two Legislators in a single day. Its unheard of.
Almost all comments am seeing here do not address the grief we should be showing.
The people we have lost, Like the other 108, were human and had loved ones.
I dont expect politics to be eulorized here.
We have lost, and are going to lose, many more peoppe because we didn’t handle the cpvid issue well, not just zambia, but the world as whole.
It s a lesson for the world to he truthful in dealing with science and biology, and not mix it with politics.
But if politics should take part, it should be done to support science and biology, as in this case
SAD NEWS.MAY THE GOD OF ABRAHAM,ISAAC,JACOB AND THE ONE WHO SEPARATED HH FROM HIS MOTHERS WOMB COMFORT THERE FAMILIES.
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