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Those insulting Banda have an agenda based on jealousy – Zulu

Those insulting Banda have an agenda based on jealousy – Zulu
Written by Christopher Miti in Chipata
Monday, March 30, 2009 7:03:05 AM

PEOPLE insulting President Rupiah Banda have a different agenda based on jealousy, Eastern Province MMD chairperson Kennedy Zulu has charged. And Zulu said it is surprising that expelled Katuba member of parliament Jonas Shakafuswa and his Mpulungu counterpart, Lameck Chibombamilimo, are trying to challenge their expulsion but did not care when they where insulting the party.

In an interview last Saturday, Zulu said President Banda had done nothing wrong.

“We don’t understand some people that can wake up and start to insult the President but in my opinion, it’s very wrong to do that, I can only suspect that maybe some of them expected to be appointed...or others were frustrated because at one time, they were not adopted as members of parliament. You know jealousy creeps in politics just like anything. Others, it’s just jealous that this old man is now our leader. It’s just jealous,” Zulu said.

He said President Banda was trying his best under very difficult economic situations that were not only affecting Zambia.

And Zulu said it was very funny that Shakafuswa and Chibombamilimo were fighting to get back into MMD.

“What surprises me is that these people at one time, they were insulting the party like they didn’t care to belong to MMD, like they didn’t care to be disciplined, they didn’t care that maybe they might lose even their parliamentary seats, but now the party disciplines them, it gives them the freedom to do what they want but they are fighting to get back into MMD. It’s very funny, am very surprised myself. The best thing for them was to say okay since you have set us free, either we join another political party or we stay out of politics that’s what I can comment over those two gentlemen,” Zulu said.

He said the best that Shakafuswa and Chibombamilimo could do was to apologise to the people of Zambia over the bad comments they made about the MMD and President Banda.

“There is no need for them to fight because they will be losing their money to pay for lawyers and so on. If anything, what they are supposed to do is to say we are sorry for the bad comments against the President, against the party, against the people of Zambia because you see, to be President is God’s choice at the bottom of it. There are others who have been fighting to be presidents since 1964. It shows that God plays a part in the choosing of a leader at a certain time so if you start insulting that person, what you are saying is that God made a mistake which is not possible,” said Zulu.

Labels: KENNEDY ZULU, MMD, RUPIAH BANDA

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