President Hakainde Hichilema has said the Patriotic Front (PF) is plotting a comeback and urges citizens to resist dictatorship.
“The opposition PF should feel ashamed as to plot a come back “coming back where ? To come and reintroduce dictatorship? ” President Hichilema said.
He said the former rulling party brought misery upon the people of Zambia and should never be allowed to come back to power.
President Hichilema recounted how he was incarcerated on trumped up charges, spending more than 127 days in remand prison, adding that he was magnimous enough to allow the former leaders to put them behind bars.
“They are moving peacefully despite committing various crimes and today someone is going to church plotting a come back,” he said.
The President said he was disappointed that the former rulling party wanted to disrupt the Youth Day celebrations were he was officiating “kutumpa” (that is very silly).
On the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), President Hichilema said the government will engage officers to help potential beneficiaries of CDF overcome the challenges.
President Hichilema said his government was cognizant of the challenges citizens were going through in accessing CDF .
He said in Kitwe on Monday during the opening of the Copperbelt United Party for National Development (UPND) conference that he was determined to resolve the rigidities relating to CDF.
“We are working on resolving the issue of CDF, we have decided to employ CDF officers to help in filling in the forms, we understand challenges people go through in filling in the forms,” President Hichilema said.
He said his government was working on issues that hinders economic development.
Meanwhile, Copperbelt United Party for National Development (UPND) Chairperson Elisha Matambo says the ruling party is a party of choice.
Matambo claimed that since coming into power, the ruling party has implemented various economic empowerment interventions that would soon put the country on the growth trajectory.
He called on party members to rally behind the leadership of President Hakainde Hichilema as he presides over the affairs of the country.
Matambo said the rulling party seem to have gone to sleep after elections because of alleged failure to admit new members.
Matambo said it was now time to wake up and mobilise the party so that it can continue being relevant to the country’s political discourse.
President Hichilema is on the Copperbelt on the seven-day tour.
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