GLORIFYING COUPS UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY – MWEETWA
By Justine Akakulubelwa
Chief Government Spokesperson CORNELIUS MWEETWA has called on peace-loving Zambians to reprimand Socialist Party President FRED M’MEMBE for celebrating, through his Facebook post, the military ousting of Madagascar’s President.
Mr. MWEETWA, who is also Information and Media Minister, says it is regrettable that a political leader aspiring to govern Zambia can glorify a coup, warning that such conduct undermines democracy and the rule of law.
He says Zambia remains a constitutional democracy where leadership is attained through peaceful elections, and not military takeovers.
Meanwhile, Mr. MWEETWA has condemned the lawlessness exhibited by Patriotic Front – PF members who blocked the party’s acting President GIVEN LUBINDA from featuring on a Radio Phoenix programme.
Mr. MWEETWA dismissed claims that the cadres were sponsored by the UPND, saying the incident reflected the PF’s own legacy of lawlessness.
He urged the PF to handle its internal wrangles at its secretariat and warned that such disruptions should never be allowed to recur.
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Membe is a desperate and senile old man.He has no time in front of him,so he wants power by any means possible.
Please, make it impossible
If this is true, Dr. M’membe has sunk to a record low level. Coups bring nothing but misery for the ordinary citizen.
Let’s see how the military will address the electricity and water shortages in Madagascar. They will probably just wave a magical wand and all issues will disappear. Good luck.
Fred M’membe considers himself so clever that if violence erupted in Zambia he would not be affected.
For Madagascar, a country surrounded by plenty of water (Indian Ocean) to be experiencing load shedding and shortages of water is devastating indeed. It shows how complex the supply of electricity is in our modern day Africa especially sub Saharan Africa. I’m positive for Zambia though that this issue will be sorted much sooner rather than later by President HH.
Mmembe wants to turn zambia into a North Korea, Venezuela or Cuban type dictatorship. This will eventually turn the country into an economic basket case