CIVIL Society Organizations and political parties planning to counter resolutions of the National Dialogue Forum (NDF) are enemies of progress and are insensitive, Edwin Lifwekelo has said.

Mr Lifwekelo said they lost the opportunity to refine the deficiencies in the Republican Constitution when they chose to be enemies of progress and went against the wishes of their electorate by absconding the meeting.

He said it was unfortunate that opposition and its surrogate partners had continued to peddle lies and propaganda against the forum.

“Today they want to behave as champions of democracy and good governance yet they are betrayers and traitors who in the first place wanted to sabotage the dialogue forum good cause and intentions,” he said.

“The three Church mother bodies and some civil society organizations who discouraged participation in the National Dialogue Forum have been put to shame because the forum was credible and a success,” he said.

Mr Lifwekelo described Mr Hakainde Hichilema as a loner, selfish and divisive figure who could not be entrusted to govern Zambia.

He said Mr Hichilema was a hypocrite and self-centered leader incapable of uniting Zambians.

He said those accusing President Edgar Lungu of having manipulated the outcome of the NDF were pathological liars, who worked as surrogates of the opposition political party.

He said, “Zambians cannot be duped, who doesn’t know that some of these so called civil society leaders are also sympathizers of UPND, some of them even filed as aspiring candidates on the UPND ticket in the 2016 parliamentary elections.”

He reiterated that President Lungu had been very clear on some the resolutions passed, such as on the re-introduction of deputy ministers, and the government of national unity, which would be subjected to parliament for further scrutiny.

Mr Lifwekelo said however that stakeholders who still wanted to be part of the refining process will have an opportunity to do so at the Parliamentary Committee stage.