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Pact presidency must be resolved now - CARITAS

Pact presidency must be resolved now - CARITAS
By George Chellah
Wed 06 Oct. 2010, 04:30 CAT

CARITAS Zambia executive director Sam Mulafulafu yesterday said the pact presidency must be resolved immediately so that all hidden feelings and agendas can be exposed.

And Lusaka Province PF women’s league has warned UPND not to interpret their silence on a number of careless and uncalled for statements being issued against PF leader Michael Sata as a sign of weakness. In an interview, Mulafulafu urged the pact to resolve the issue of the presidential candidate.

“The presidency is a cardinal issue that will open up very clearly where everybody stands. Once the pronouncement is made on who is going to lead the pact we are going to have a final position on where both parties stand,” Mulafulafu said.

“All hidden feelings and agendas will be exposed. The pact presidency has to be resolved now because it will clarify a lot of things because people will be speaking out.”

He maintained that the presidency must be dealt with to avoid innuendoes and people speaking in tongues.

On Katombora UPND member of parliament Regina Musokotwane’s statement that UPND should consider forming government on its own rather than working with the PF, Mulafulafu said the pact issue are confusing people.

“This pact issue now puts us in a quandary in terms of what the positions is.

In that, from the top leadership they are insisting that the pact is intact and it’s going ahead but from the subordinates they don’t seem to be speaking the same language,” Mulafulafu said.

“They are contradictory statements coming from the rank and file. This keeps worrying us in terms of whether the pact will really work.”

He called on the two pact leaders to manage the public pronouncements being made by the rank and file.

“There is clear evidence from the statements coming from members of both parties. The party presidents have not given leadership that would generate committement to this idea of the pact,” Mulafulafu said.

“That’s why we are having individuals issuing statements that seem to be contradictory.”

And in a statement signed by PF Lusaka province women’s league chairperson, Margaret Mumba and other members of the executive, the Lusaka Province PF women’s league expressed displeasure with Musokotwane’s remarks.

“The Lusaka Province women’s committee is very disappointment with Hon. Regina Musokotwane, MP, Katombola constituency for her careless and uncalled for language against our president Mr. Michael Sata in today’s Post newspaper dated 5th October 2010. Your language does not depict the Tonga speaking people of Southern Province because they are known to be people of high morals who respect elders,” they stated.

“From your statement, it is very clear that you are a hired mercenary of the MMD to bring confusion in the pact. If you push us too far, you are opening a jar of worms, which you will not control. The Patriotic Front women’s league in Lusaka Province has not been responding to a number of careless and uncalled for statements being issued against our president in the press…this is not a sign of weakness but of strength because we are disciplined people.”

They warned Musokotwane to be mindful of her language because they were capable of taking the law in their own hands.

“We wish also to appeal to the president of UPND Mr Hakainde Hichilema to discipline Mrs Musokotwane as he did to disgruntled MP for Namwala major Chizyuka,” they stated.

“We also extend this warning to President Rupiah Banda for his uncalled for insults in today’s Post against our party president for calling him “silly”. As a republican President he should learn to use suitable language befitting the head of state.”

They women have given President Banda a 48-hour ultimatum in which to retract and apologise to Sata and the nation for his careless remarks.

Labels: CARITAS, PF-UPND, REGINA MUSOKOTWANE, SAM MULAFULAFU

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