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Letters To The Post

Africa and resources
By Jenkins Chisoni
Saturday February 24, 2007 [02:00]

Why is Africa the least developed? Brother Aubrey Chindefu, the answer lies in front of you and yet, like all of us except The Post, you want to go round the truth.

The answer is that our leaders have chosen greed and selfishness against service to the continent and its poor people using the abundant resources you have correctly identified. Blaming the West or East will not help Africa as our leaders have always shown them how gullible we are.

"Come Europe! Come America! Come China! Come India!! We are here for taking. Take our resources, (ifwe tushale no bwakumwinko twalibelela ukucula)", our leaders have been telling the rest of the world continuously. Indeed they have come to Africa and taken the resources with our leaders' approval whilst dressed in their expensive suits. Wouldn't you take advantage as well brother Chindefu if you were the West or East?

History indeed repeats itself, our chiefs fought wars to sell our brothers and sisters to be slaves in the West and East for beads, guns and beer. ‘Why is Africa least developed?’ you ask?


http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=23033

Chiluba’s outcry
By Mkandawire Stein,Kampala - Uganda
Saturday February 24, 2007 [02:00]

Reading the story that Chiluba cried over being deserted by his friends was sad.

Indeed Chiluba as a human being can cry because he seems to have been isolated and the only faithful friends of his that I have noticed are Chitalu Sampa, Peter Machungwa and Michael Chilufya Sata. Chiluba is ailing and he needs close friends that can always encourage him.

I felt very sorry for Chiluba when I saw that picture which showed him being assisted by his wife. All those that were very close to him and benefitted so much from him have indeed abandoned him for greener pastures in President Mwanawasa's government. People should have sympathy and integrity.

However, it does not surprise me so much that Chiluba has been abandoned. First Chiluba brought in this culture by ensuring that all the prominent people that were in UNIP turned against Dr Kaunda. Who knew that Sebastian Zulu would at one point fight Kaunda?

Chiluba engineered that with money. When the late Kebby Musokotwane was the leader of UNIP, Chiluba made sure that Musokotwane spied over his colleagues like the late Cuthbert Ng’uni over the Zero Option saga which was a baby of MMD.

You The Post covered that story very well and in depth. There came a slogan from MMD that each time Dr Kaunda opened his mouth he annoyed many Zambians so Kaunda should not talk. Chiluba embraced that slogan because if he did not agree with the same slogan he should have told his MMD cadres not to use it .

In 2001 when Chiluba mapped his third term campaign, he chased many of his close friends within MMD who genuinely opposed his third term bid.

During a press conference where he fired 21 cabinet and deputy ministers, he was asked: “How are you going to treat these people if you met on the street?” His answer was very casual and teasing: “I would say hello guys.”

Actually this is a fact because it was live on ZNBC television.
So his friends are saying to him ‘hello king Fred”. In Nyanja there is a saying " chaona muzako chapita maba chili pa iwe". This is what is typically happening to Chiluba.

The other thing is that some Christians are not happy with the manner he married the former Mrs Mwanza now Mrs Chiluba. They feel they are condoning that behaviour. So Chiluba should examine all the avenues that have led to his being abandoned.

Crying out in public would not solve matters as we would just listen and forget about it but he should make amends with the people he has wronged especially Mr Mwanza.



http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=23029

Bulaya’s incarceration
By Mwiya Nawa, Lusaka
Saturday February 24, 2007 [02:00]

The sentencing of Kashiwa Bulaya should serve as a lesson to all those who, in the discharge of their duties on behalf of the public, decide to steal from the very people they were appointed to serve. One did not need to be a lawyer to see how much Bulaya abused his authority.

Even his attempt to delay the wheels of justice was in the realisation that he was headed to jail. It was, therefore, shocking that someone who deprived Zambians access to drugs by diverting K3 billion meant for drugs could go scot-free on account of lack of evidence.

Had it not been for The Post, civil society and political parties that objected to the nolle entered in Bulaya’s favour by Mwanawasa and his brigade, Bulaya would be walking free after stealing from Zambians.
The conviction of Bulaya is a huge indictment on Mwanawasa, George Kunda, Chalwe Mchenga, Darlington Mwape and the entire fight against corruption.

In societies where people take responsibility for their conduct of public affairs, all these should have resigned on moral and legal grounds. But this is Zambia, where wrongdoers refuse to acknowledge their wrong and where plunderers are glorified.

Plunderers have no remorse for their actions. How else can one explain Bulaya’s conduct – the man has been jailed but he came out smiling as though he had won an acquittal? The same goes for Samuel Musonda.

I read in your editorial a day after he was sentenced that he was laughing at questions put to him by the prosecutors during the trial.
It appears stealing had gone to their heads so much that it was no longer a strange thing to do – What callousness!
Chiluba's cry should serve as an eye opener to President Mwanawasa.

Labels: CHILUBA, KASHIWA BULAYA, LETTERS, MANUFACTURING

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