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The ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) must stop shielding its cadres who are busy harassing innocent citizens in markets, bus stations and selected residential areas of Lusaka.
Patriotic Front (PF) Lusaka Province Chairperson, Christopher Shakafuswa, made the call in a statement issued in Lusaka on Wednesday.
Shakafuswa said this should be done instead of merely apportioning blame on the PF which has nothing to do with the new form of cadre-ism in the ‘party of angels’ the UPND.
He was responding to UPND Lusaka Province chieftain, Obvious Mwaliteta’s accusation that PF cadres are back in the market and extorting money and mounting road blocks.
Shakafuswa said the ruling party must swiftly work towards protecting the general citizenry from these acts of lawlessness.
“I wish to challenge Mr. Mwaliteta to tell the nation what his party is doing to fight cadre-ism since it is one thing that they have been singing about.
Now that UPND has disowned its own cadres, we implore them to demonstrate their seriousness in fighting cadre-ism by arresting those that are masquerading as cadres of this inconsistent party,” Shakafuswa said.
He condemned the lawlessness promoted by Mr. Mwaliteta in the video circulating on social media where he was erroneously instructing his youth chairman to go out and harass people in markets and bus stations.
Shakafuswa said Mr. Mwaliteta should let the police do their work by restoring order in these public places for the good of all citizens.
“UPND needs to accept that they have failed to fight cadre-ism within the rank and file of their party because already, they are busy demarcating land close to the flyover bridge near Kamwala area and along Lumumba road, near Lumumba Bus Station,” he said.
Shakafuswa accused Mr. Mwaliteta of encouraging the named cadres to be extorting money from Marketeers and bus stations in defiance of the Presidential directive against this vice because of his appetite to become the UPND Secretary General.
He further called on the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to show leadership by swinging into action to curtail this vice and bring back sanity in markets and bus stations within the city.
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