‘Let your work speak for you,’ NDC leader, Imboela, urges President Hichilema to desist from self-praise

President Hakainde Hichilema should desist from self-praise on alleged delivering of campaign promises and allow citizens judge for themselves.

This is according to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) president, Saboi Imboela, who said Hichilema must let Zambians appreciate his work if he was scoring on his campaign promises rather than the path of self-praise.

Reacting to the statement by Hichilema that he had over delivered on his campaign process was a sign of pride, Imboela said in an interview on Friday that the duty of government was to make the people happy.

She emphasised that it was the people who had the right to measure Hichilema’s scores, not himself.

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“The President’s arrogance and stubbornness will not only be a downfall of the UPND, but it was the source of unhappiness for many people in his own party, the opposition and general populace,” Imboela warned.

She said one thing many Zambian politicians did not realise was that one of the main duties of government was to make people happy.

“That is why you hear of the pursuit for happiness in American politics. The whole American Constitution is premised on this pursuit of happiness. You cannot separate the American Constitution from Happiness,” she said.

Imboela said politics were all about happiness and not the bitterness exhibited by the current administration.

Bitterness, she alleged, to the point of wanting to arrest and jail anyone who has a divergent view and dividing the very people that they were supposed to unite and govern.

“Government has to ensure they provide good quality health services and education, make the cost of living affordable, distribute farming inputs in good time and enough bags, provide employment and empowerment opportunities, respect human rights, reduce the cost of fuel and give the 20 percent NAPSA withdraws among other things,” she said.

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