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Editorial: CREATING CONFUSION
Friday November 14, 2014
(Editorial Comment)
CREATING CONFUSION
PRESIDENT Michael Sata was correct, maybe he had a premonition.
He may have anticipated the disorder and anarchy we are witnessing and hence his decision to break away from the cartel and repose trust elsewhere, but his effort may have come too late.
That is why we would advise Zambians not to underestimate the capacity of the cartel to create confusion, anarchy and ultimate despondency in the country. From all accounts, the President was a troubled man as he left Lusaka for London.
Our well-being as a nation must have been uppermost in his mind. He knew the dangers we faced and hoped to protect us.
That unfortunately was not to be.
What he feared most is happening. Those who wanted to usurp his power and authority have not given up. They have redoubled their efforts and will stop at nothing to achieve this goal, regardless of the cost to the nation. If it means instability and anarchy they will have no qualms to fan it.
What may appear to be a localized skirmish within the ruling Patriotic Front party will ultimately blossom and affect the rest of the nation. It is a mistaken notion to believe that instability will remain endemic to the ruling party.
What appears endemic could very easily engulf the country, hence the need for all Zambians to take a very special interest in what is happening and more importantly why it is happening.
The confusion is a deliberate ploy to throw us off the real issues facing our country. An invisible hand is at play fanning and promoting division and schisms where none really exist. The aim is to divide and rule and seek the weakest path to power and control.
Attempts will be made to scandalize and besmirch all the strong candidates who may pose the danger of exposing and prosecuting the serious financial crimes committed against the people of Zambia.
For years political favour, fear and sheer intimidation prevented law enforcement agencies from investigating and prosecuting clear cases of crime.
This time round the danger and cause of anxiety and worry is that Zambians may choose a leader with courage and tenacity to pursue financial, professional and moral transgressions to the ultimate end which includes prosecution in courts of law.
They are petrified because they have engineered injustice and are afraid that what they have done to others will be done to them, hence the preoccupation to sabotage and therefore derail the democratic process by abusing the links they created in the system.
Zambians must stand steadfast and call the bluff.
Zambians have every right to know why they are locked in an exploitative fuel price mechanism that is nothing but sheer robbery. Somebody must explain why Trafigura was paid double the world price and why indeed we are still paying above world prices to the detriment of ordinary men and women whose lives have been made unbearable by the high cost of living partly attributed to the high fuel prices in the country.
Zambians will never know the truth about this matter and many others if they allow themselves to be hoodwinked into voting for a compromised candidate who may promise to overlook these serious transgressions.
Zambians have every right to know where the money being splashed around in these elections is coming from. Is this some of the money owed to the Government? Is it the result of corrupt deals for which the ordinary Zambian is paying?
The truth will be known if the right person is placed in the office of the President.
He or she will constitute a commission of inquiry into the matters that have puzzled most Zambians. We shall all know how institutions of governance were corrupted to benefit a few greedy people.
The truth will set us free, but only if we as citizens choose to work together and see the subterfuge for what it is, an attempt to throw us.
(Daily Nation)
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Zambiance
November 14, 2014 at 11:46 am
Yaba! when it is becoming interesting it also ends.Any just be open and say the cartel is at play and if not careful this country will lose its most cherished peace.These people are evil.
Maano
November 14, 2014 at 11:59 am
It is not the Cartel, but the Kola Clique that is causing the confusion that might plunge this nation into chaos.
Beware of the Clique!
Judge Joe Bidden
November 14, 2014 at 12:59 pm
What’s even puzzling we have a lot of cheerleaders among us as Zambians who are blindly propping up the cartel that’s clearly not following the rule of law. There a lot of wolves in sheep skin in PF and if not careful we might start witnessing political assassinations just for them to get the power they desperately want at any cost.
Anderson Chisala
November 14, 2014 at 1:07 pm
Hahaha ba Daily Nation boza, kubeja.
Why did Sata choose Lungu to Act instead of Chikwanda or any of his tribesmen ? The reason was NOT TO BE LOOKED TRIBAL.
1. WHO fired Kabimba ? its not Sata but Luo.
2. God has just decided tht PF shud b off the corridors of Power than the ‘stereotyped’ Cartel thing u r talking about.
ITS YOUR IMAGIBATION cartel doesnt exist.
God is GREATER THAN ANYONE’S THOUGHTS.
Judge Joe Bidden
November 14, 2014 at 1:13 pm
There goes a cheerleader… wait until you start seeing blood in cabinet corridors that’s when you will understand by that time it will be too late to reverse the damage to the peace of this country
kaunda
November 15, 2014 at 3:49 pm
ubufi iwe
Sikiza
November 14, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Plz can some one tel me people involved in a cartel serious i want a list
Judge Joe Bidden
November 14, 2014 at 3:27 pm
People attending a mere meeting at a lodge go with guns. That’s the Zambia you guys want to have there is a cartel from Lungu faction that want to silence anyone opposing their agenda
Sikiza
November 14, 2014 at 6:33 pm
I was thinking it is the other way round .who else list them
xyz
November 14, 2014 at 2:59 pm
pf is for the dead…zambia is for the living.. lets be careful the living
Aloysious kofya
November 14, 2014 at 8:29 pm
Lungu and his power hungry group should respect the party constitution. Otherwise iam appealing to Zambians to say buy to PF. Really PF was Sata and Sata was PF.
Aloysious kofya
November 14, 2014 at 8:30 pm
They just want to steal. Shame ba Lungu ne group lyabula amano.
Sikiza
November 14, 2014 at 9:02 pm
Leave lungu alone he was resently fired withov proper consultation and you saw shame whch was on scot.lets wait for the so callf general conference and see who wil b elected.it appears even scot wants to b the republican president that seat is sweet
kakolwe
November 15, 2014 at 4:31 am
My worry is that these hakaindeans even fail to see that this simple editorial is in support of Edgar Lungu and it has exposed the stupidity of the Mmembe camp which wishes to use Scot as puppet master. We should actually salute the 63 MPs and MCC for bringing Scot down to earth.
Come convention, Indaba or whatever, Lungu is ascending to power. And then, only then, shall shapp have Zambia being led by a Team. Not ifyakweba ati “Only HU, Only Sata, Only Miyanda” that is rubbish.
BEKONDOLA
November 15, 2014 at 8:49 am
gentlemen we all know who the cartel are and how there leadership type is FRED MMEMBE, GUY SCOTT, WYNTER KABIMBA, MUSA MWENYE AND THERE MINIONS there own is to amass themselves with crooked wealth, GUY SCOT is a pony being used by the two giants MMEMBE AND KABIMBA plse Zambians lets wakeup and evoke the power of the LORD JESUS CHRIST that’s wen will conquer these guys are in the dark world and are being used to destabilised the declaration of ZAMBIA IS A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY lets rise to the occasion
Sikiza
November 15, 2014 at 1:35 pm
Thankx for that information i was cönfused when some said it is lungu and othrs who ar in a cartel group.plz up date me more the cartel pipo invold