Yesterday, the Implementers Team dropped an interesting write up, ” Why do majority ministers fail to defend the President?”
For the uninitiated, the Implementers Team is a UPND aligned social media platform that seeks to analyze political political issues, advise and recommend accordingly without fear or favour.
In the same offering, they observed that the current cabinet is made up of 25 ministers. In addition to this, there are 10 provincial ministers, bringing the total to 35. Alongside these, there are Permanent Secretaries, Deputy Permanent Secretaries and District Commissioners, among others. Simply put, the President has a ‘bigger Army’ that should be able to defend him 24/7.
“Since the coming of the UPND New Dawn Administration, we have observed so many attacks on the President from the bitter Opposition, some Civil Society Organisations, some Churches and some bitter individuals. However, very few ministers have bothered to defend the President!” stated the article in part.
What do we make of this?
The issues the Implementers Team is raising is exactly what a Copperbelt based senior Bishop shared with us a couple of months ago.
“The President is being attacked left, right and center, evey day! Not a single day passes without haters or detractors accusing him of this and that…..” he agonised. “Where are the ministers and Permanent Secretaries…..DCs? Are they so afraid of jumping to the President’s defense because they’ve eaten too much, hence remaining mute for fear of being pursued in case of a change of government?”
Some UPND leaders are indeed a let down. We can in fact add on something more to the list….. they are not ready to eat with the people, sheer selfishness and greediness is part of their DNA! Do you have Penguin hands? Come on guys, you can do better!
Since we are not in the habit of speaking from without, we shall give a practical example. When our National Chairman, Kevin Soper transitioned to the land of the dead, may his soul rest in peace, we sent “SOS” to a number of government officials – Presidential aides, Cabinet Ministers and Permanent Secretaries.
Out of all these, only 3 Presidential aides responded positively; and yet, this was a man who voluntarily put his neck on the chopping board for a President that he so dearly loved and believed in! Even as others chickened out or were too scared to do so, this was a man who could willingly take the stand in court as a state witness when the name of the President was viciously impugned and brought into contempt and total disrepute without expecting any single reward! And whenever anyone scandalized the head of state on social media, he came out with guns blazing defending him.
We wish to sincerely thank the said 3 Presidential advisors for their kindness and generosity. We won’t disclose their identities for now as we don’t have their permission to do so.
We hope other UPND leaders can pick one or two lessons from this, moving forward. You shouldn’t always be expecting the President to be doing everything for you; what happened to synergy?
Prince Bill M. Kaping’a
HH Mpaka 2031
National Coordinator
This Implementers team is very narrow minded and ignorant. They are crying over what they don’t know and want all of us to join in their ignorance and cheer them on in their efforts at pilfering public finances.
The British system of rule we inherited employs permanent secretaries as civil servants. They aren’t supposed to be political appointees because they are paid from the civil service budget not the party’s. They are professionals within their ministries not cadres like Thabo Kawana.
PSs are not employed to politically defend the president but to technically or professionally lead their various departments. Our presidents have so far been misusing permanent secretaries because there’s noone to challenge this theft of public funds for political goals. The opposition isn’t interested in what it also aspires for: misuse of public funds.
Not likely to start at this late stage
It’s time to consolidate and distribute
What can they defend if there is nothing to defend. Most of the accusations on the presidency are true which have no defence.
Spot on
How do you defend somebody who found mealie meal at K130 and takes it to K400 and this was even before the drought?
Bill Kapinga and his endless pursuit of a Presidential appointment. Try standing for MP in Zambezi
“Eat with the people” is a Zambian corruption lingua franca otherwise known as “nichekeleko” This group of corruption pushing UPND members wants presidential appointees to drop them something from the high table
But Kapinga is a corrupt mind. No ethics whatsoever!