By Bwembya Mutale
Zambians had 10 years of unabated destruction under a matrix of Sata-Nawakwi-Chitala-Sondashi-Chongwe-Mulongoti Groupthink disdained by every Zambian patriot. It is now amusing that the same without apology for their sins are reconstituting themselves into an assembly of revisionism to continue from where Zambians stopped them. Sadly, the PF is emerging as a party of failed and frustrated politicians, who seem to believe that Zambia owes them more for plunder. To borrow from US President Bill Clinton’s most popular question for the sake of debate, ‘Is it ‘the economy, stupid’ Is Zambia to fall on this revisionism?
Maybe this Groupthink believes Zambians have “selective amnesia” to forget so soon years of impunity the same clique perpetuated with passion and callous arrogance against Zambians. And their regrouping is happening at a time when this country is recording unprecedented national development under incumbent President Rupiah Banda who is tenaciously undoing historic social-economic injustice the matrix inflicted.
This is why it will be interesting to hear their scripts on the campaign trail against a pro-development President armed with a record of innumerable gains in the 2 years of his Presidency. A comparative look at the last 2 years to their 10 from the point of overall living standards as measured by GDP per capita at purchasing power parity reveals a challenge for them.
Today’s economic factors indicate that hardworking citizens are on their way to some real economic breakthrough. Though high, there is evidence that the challenges of unemployment and poverty are being fought by a spirited leadership with pro-poor and growth socioeconomic policies. We are seeing price stabilization with incomes levels exponentially improving in the formal and informal sectors across the country. These gains have come with more political freedom and many uninhibited liberating force of modern communications tools democracy brings.
On this premise, many Zambian don’t know where this insinuation that Derrick Chitala could be a political factor and potential nightmare against MMD is coming from. It is simply evidence of incompetent political Groupthink. Some of us that know Chitala at a personal level laugh on reading this off balance view.
A factor in what way, and where? In all appointments Chitala was fired 100 percent on basis of his own natural incompetency, laziness and borderline disconnection with reality. At state house and Finance as deputy minister, his assignments were ever 6 months behind and incomplete until fired a fact the likes of Hon Muteteke can attest. He always solicited for help on his assignments even on sensitive Presidential ones. He may have clammed Marxist political theories for his thesis but he is an authentic incompetent idealist with shallow knowledge and zero sense of realism.
Chitala is just an overzealous self seeking Marxist without political influence other than some blind alley of utopia world theories. Do you know that the plunder of over 255 Zambian parastatals put in the privatization portfolio some of which were viable profit making entities left by UNIP were sold for songs on the scripts of Chitala, Penza, Nawakwi and Roger Chongwe? These revisionists were motivated by their utopia world economic theories they little understand. They left thousands of Zambians dead in abject poverty without benefits due to them. Families were broken and children thrown out of schools indiscreetly. They had no sense of responsibility or moral guide to say the least. I challenge any smart mind in the media to engage Chitala on public and economic policies, then you will understand his deficiency mooted with Marxist utopia he little understands.
This is a man that has moved from MMD to other parties before yet MMD has remained strong and in power. He joined Mung’omba’s defunct Zambian Democratic Congress-ZDC which failed with him as Secretary General then started reporting on every Zambia and friends to MMD. Late Dean Namulya Mung’ombaforced into his Graveyard is a victim of Chital. Since then the spirit of innocent Mung’omba has kept haunting and cursing Chitala hence all bad decisions.
It’s no surprise that wherever Chitala goes and touches, the spirit of innocent Mung’omba is crying loud on his head while the widow and orphans are asking why Dean Mung’omba was flamed into death. The man is unprincipled desperate politician, whose maneuvers are always immoral. In this vein many Zambians today concur with Mr Charles Chimumbwa and Edwin Lifwekelo when they say “Derick Chitala had plunged into political backwardness which was now making him jump from political party to another”.
Derrick Chitala’s desperation has prompted him to go back to his vomit by supporting the Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata whom on records he has always classified as a demented comedian too risky for state power to gamble with. He has called him all sorts of names.
Thank God for the technology of file management still hold testimonies such as the revelation of Mr Sata in the Times of Zambia of January30, 2004 when disclosed in the Lusaka High Court that Dr Chitala informed the State on the alleged involvement of politicians Dean Mung’omba and Princess Nakatindi Wina in the 1997 coup attempt. This testimony of Derrick Chitala betrayal habit against his friend, the late Mung’omba reveals about his character.
Zambians are saying no to any revisionism regardless of the hue in assemblies used. The Sata-Nawakwi-Chitala-Sondashi-Chongwe-Mulongoti Groupthink is a no choice for a progressive Zambia because enough lives have been lost from their plunder years.
