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PROF Clive Chirwa Says HH and UPND Are Selfish And That He Has Been Vindicted
HAKAINDE Hichilema and the UPND are selfish and that is why they are still in opposition, says UK-based UPND party member Professor Clive Chirwa.
Professor Clive Chirwa
In a telephone interview from Chongqing in China, Prof Chirwa said the UPND and Hichilema had made a terrible mistake by not listening to his advice that they merge with Michael Sata and the PF ahead of the elections.
He said Hichilema refused to take up the vice-presidency of the PF-UPND pact because he deceived himself that he was more popular than Sata.
President Sata was elected in the September 20 elections after beating incumbent Rupiah Banda.
“I was extremely disappointed that Hichilema didn’t get my advice. In fact, I told him before the elections that he was not talking and doing the right thing when he refused to bring UPND together with PF. I told him that PF has popularity,” Prof Chirwa said. “I told Hichilema in his eyes in his office that, ‘no, Mr Sata is more popular. The figures which you have are completely wrong’. This was the selfishness of Mr Hichilema and the people who surrounded him. Those are the people who ruined the pact. He would have taken it on board but the people who were advising him completely misled him, thinking he was more popular than Mr Sata.”
He said he predicted that the PF and Sata would win.
“The week before the election, on the 15th of September, I wrote a letter to the PF leaders to say that ‘next week all the Zambians will be celebrating Mr Sata’s victory’ and it’s true when 20th came, he had victory, because I could see that,” Prof Chirwa said. “UPND made a terrible mistake by not listening to me and now what I was predicting has actually happened.”
He said some top members of the UPND opposed the pact with the PF because they were selfish and did not want to relinquish their responsibilities and powers to competent people.
He said now many senior members of the UPND were regretting after the PF victory.
“I have spoken to a few of them, who are within UPND and they have regretted their decisions. I have received nearly seven emails from the people within the UPND national management committee telling me that ‘Professor, you were right. Why didn’t we listen to you?” Prof Chirwa said. “I told them that, ‘you did not listen to me because you had different agenda. You were not for the nation. If you were for the nation you would have actually taken the offer which was put on the table by PF and everybody else’.”
He said selfishness had landed the UPND in enormous disaster.
“It has ended up in enormous disaster because it’s inconceivable for the UPND to be actually talking to MMD. The MMD government ruined the country and I was telling them UPND before that ‘these MMD people are corrupt. You cannot get in bed with them. It’s virtually impossible. You must change your tact and start moving away from them’,” Prof Chirwa said. “I even wrote a letter to the secretary general of UPND, of course I might not disclose the content of the letter, but I was so displeased.”
He observed that in the past the UPND was more progressive than the PF, but now the tables had been turned upside down.
Prof Chirwa said he supported President Sata’s agenda and his speech to Parliament.
“The speech in the Parliament was the speech which I could have written but I didn’t write, it was his Excellency Sata who wrote it. That speech gave everything that I wanted to move Zambia into the new century,” he said.
Prof Chirwa said President Sata’s speech gave Zambians opportunities for employment and change of the constitution to eradicate poverty.
He said President Sata’s agenda was progressive and urged Zambians to support his Presidency.
“The government of progressive thinking has come on board and the agenda they have put forward is progressive and I want to contribute to that agenda. So far, I am extremely pleased with the government. President Sata has chosen ministers who are adequate in their intellectuality to bring real change to the Zambian people,” Prof Chirwa said. “It’s extremely important that now Zambia moves forward in a real way, not all those things we were hearing from MMD with their corrupt tendencies. Time now is to say, ‘congratulations PF’.”
Prof Chirwa said he would come to Zambia in December to present lectures in Lusaka and Ndola about technology transfer and national development.
He said he wants to help the Sata-led government to achieve its goals.
“I will be putting real figures and opportunities for Zambians to build the industries, the infrastructure, the medical care and every single part of society so that everybody has a house, food, etc,” said Prof Chirwa.
“I will bring all the technology to Zambia to help Zambia develop. I will be looking forward to the government to help me in this to eradicate poverty.”
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Ngombe Ilede
October 31, 2011 at 8:22 am
HH mulembwe wachipuba!
Mubita
October 31, 2011 at 9:40 am
HH is very selfish.
serenje
October 31, 2011 at 9:57 am
MR CLIVE START WORKING WITH HIS EXELLENCE ANGEL MC SATA U R THE NEXT PRESIDENT
Truth teller
October 31, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Nakabemba….prof. chirwa is not bemba…..his from eastern province…dont make statements before you have your facts right…
pjmc
October 31, 2011 at 1:02 pm
nga abena Kapita and Kakoma wat do they do in UPND? I dont see any value they add to the party. Are they on HH pay roll?. These old men just parrot wat HH says in the party. Parroting apo mupelele?
chikwelete
October 31, 2011 at 1:15 pm
the bantunstan are the worst tribe we have. look at the voting patern. continue with your trends and we wii see if your hh will rule
jeffano4
October 31, 2011 at 1:19 pm
****** comment chikwelete
love
October 31, 2011 at 1:57 pm
i think all tongas are just selfish…..i have a tonga boss and the departmnt is allocated talktime of k1,500,000.00….he uses k1,000,000.00 and gives us k500,000 to share among 4 of us……
kat
October 31, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Look into the privatisation of mosi-o-tunya hotel and see if you will say that again
pabwato
October 31, 2011 at 2:26 pm
spot on ,proof of hh’s selfishness,
Drug Trafficker
October 31, 2011 at 3:05 pm
I must disclose here that I once had an opportunity to have a drink with ba Proffessor Chirwa at a local hide out tarven in Chilenje. He is an inspiring down to earth man. God bless this man
ALERT COP
October 31, 2011 at 5:00 pm
These guys (tongas)are just too arrogant and dont want to view the world through other people’s eyes..i have never have a good tonga friend myself..if i have a tonga later i will realise that he is just milking me.if i talk about beer..they drink too much but never go to the counter to buy..too selfish..they will never rule ZAMBIA.peace be upon mazoka father of UPND.HE WAS DIFERENT.
Fable
October 31, 2011 at 5:16 pm
If a Tonga will never RULE ZAMBIA then we tongas must secede from the rest of Zambia. My fellow tongas don’t let anyone disparage you. We are a great people with abundant wealth. The rest of Zambia needs us more than we need it!
Quindy
October 31, 2011 at 5:19 pm
HH did well not to continue with the pact. unless the was a provision for a presidential running mate then he would have stayed. otherwise mr Sata would have fired him unceremoniously and it would have been worse. Chirwa is just an opportunist aswell.
Papa G
October 31, 2011 at 6:24 pm
dream on….
Akaume
October 31, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Chirwa is an opportunist who now hopes to ride on the PF boat. Only those with short memories will get excited about what the man is saying. first, he came to Zambia wanting to be president of MMD and to ‘help’ them; he was rejected by Mwanawasa who said people like Chirwa who had been in the diaspora for a long time think other Zambians are fools. He failed to fit into MMD and they drove him out. From then on he tried to find an alternative, and found it in UPND. Now that PF have won, he wants to join the madding crowd. shameless turn-coat. Of what benefit will his lectures be, and who nees them? Does he think Sata will lick his lips in admiration of his ideas and appoint him? He is wasting his time; the man, Chirwa, is a great professor, but a poor politician. It will not be long, though, before he realises that he cannot fit in Kolwestan! He should first change his name to Chileshe or something to that effect.
Hahaha
October 31, 2011 at 11:57 pm
All you chaps insulting Tongas actually know they are not selfish. If you have come across a selfish Tonga is does not mean all are selfish, just like there are selfish people in every tribe. Whatever you choose to say, anyway, does not matter. Which one is better, a tribe of ‘selfish’ people who are intellectually brilliant and love to work hard rather than beg, or a tribe of corrupt thieves who are too lazy to work. Go to the streets of Lusaka or anywhere and find out how many of those beggars are from Tongaland. (We all know where most of those lazy beggars come from!!) Go to any higher institution of learning such as UNZA and find out who the best brains are among the intellectuals, you monmkey-eating tribalists. Keep your insults within Kolwestan, southerners are not interested!
shimaini
November 1, 2011 at 10:38 am
I hate this tribal stuff and generalising that this tribe is so and so….its very retrogressive for national development. some traits may be common between some people but we can not generalise that. we need each other to move this nation forward. if HH and his clique failed to read between the lines and interpret the political dispensation of this country before and after elections, its because of their political immaturity and they hope they are learning from that. its not because they are tongas…no! but they need to restrategise and get what the core values of our politics are today and what they will be tommorrow otherwise they will rot in oppossition and risk running bankrupt.serious blunders were made definately and HH and group[ should accept such and apologise to their supporters and pick up the broken pieces and move on on the progressive course
JAY
November 1, 2011 at 10:40 am
LET US NOT BRAME OR SAY THIS TRIBE IS LKE THIS OR THAT LET US NOT GENERALISE THE MIS DEEDS ON ONE MAN OR MEN TO SAY ALL THEIR TRIBE IS LIKE THIS WE ARE ONE PEOPLE. ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION ANE ONE PEOPLE. FOR ZAMBIA TO DEVELOP WE NEED ALL ZAMBIAN TO PARTICIPATE IN DEVELOPING THIS BEAUTIFUL AND RICH COUNTRY. PUT ASIDE OUR POLITICAL, TRIBLE DIFFERENCES AND LETS BELONG TO ONE TRBE WHICH IS ZAMBIA.
hungry tonto
November 1, 2011 at 8:20 pm
all ******
tribalism is still so vital
you need to realize that it doesn’t matter what tribe someone comes from that shapes him/her
people need to grow up and accept that.
It’s this kind of thinking that keeps us behind in life
Child of the Universe
November 6, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Sata would have definetly sacked HH.Kolwestan is a difficult arena!
mamush
November 14, 2011 at 12:50 pm
HH is not for the people but for himself.let just go back to his business.UPND need a presindent for all zambians not for 1 province.Get Magande u will see.
Lynne
November 17, 2011 at 12:46 pm
The only tribe causing backwardness and poverty in our Country I know are Bembas, CHIRWA must be Bembe, most of them are not learned to speak English. He is Jealous of HH, I know most of Bembas do not accept other tribes, they are the worst tribalist in Zambia. Dont be ignorant we need HH as a man in the opposition. Go HH, Go HH!
mwa
November 18, 2011 at 8:25 am
Dot generalise,true that one rotten groundnut makes the rest rotten! but people lets be more objective.