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Sakeni challenges critics to wait for PF-drawn budget

Sakeni challenges critics to wait for PF-drawn budget
By Ndinawe Simpelwe
Wed 10 Oct. 2012, 15:00 CAT

CHIEF government spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni says the PF will have no excuses if it fails to implement its own budget. In an interview yesterday, Sakeni said the government was being treated unfairly by the opposition.

He said it did not make sense for the opposition to judge the performance of the PF just after one year in power, especially that it was using an adopted budget.

"Let him (MMD president Nevers Mumba) wait for our budget and see what the people of Zambia will comment after we present it. This coming budget is purely our own PF budget and we will have no excuses. All this criticism is coming from frustrated political young men whom we are not even worried about," Sakeni said.

"Honestly speaking, even judging the performance of the government in one year is not right. You can't surely give a judgment within one year. I think our beginning so far has been good. We are on the ground and I think we are moving at a faster rate than our colleagues in the MMD did."

Sakeni said even during the late Levy Mwanawasa's rule, there was nothing to talk about in the first year as the economy started improving in the second year.

He advised members of the PF to ignore criticism that was not offering solutions from the opposition political parties.

"Let us just concentrate of performing for the people of Zambia according to the mandate they gave us. We need to guide the ship so that Zambia becomes the bread basket of Africa," said Sakeni.

Sakeni said the government would not waste time listening to frustrated politicians like Mumba as they had no solutions to offer to the Zambian people.

Mumba on Monday said "no reasonable and genuine person can honestly give a passing grade on the performance of the PF in their one year of governance" and that they had been a "great disappointment and had lamentably failed to live up to the expectations which they themselves created in the minds of the electorate".

"We all have come to the conclusion that one year later the Patriotic Front is like a ship desperately trying to sail on yesterday's wind," Mumba said.
Mumba pleged the opposition would play its part to ensure the PF government succeed in honouring the many promises they made to Zambians.

"Success by them and any other party is good for our country and means a better life for us all. A disastrous failure by the PF government will mean a disaster for our country and for us all. We, therefore, all have a stake in ensuring that this disastrous failure does not occur," said Mumba.

Labels: KENNEDY SAKENI, PF

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