By GIDEON NEYENDWA
WE are going to report President Hakainde Hichilema to the international community on how the democracy of this country is being castrated under his watch, Democratic Party (DP) President Harry Kalaba has said.
Mr Kalaba said that they were going to write to Southern African Development Community (SADC), African Union, and the United States through the ambassadors accredited to Zambia to complain to them on the way the country’s democracy has collapsed under the watch of President Hichilema.
“We are going to report him to every ear that was ready to listen so that he could be exposed,” Mr Kalaba said.
He said that Mr Hichilema wanted to erode the confidence of democracy that the country fought for just because he thinks that he holds the monopoly of wisdom and he cannot be advised on the affairs of the country.
Meanwhile, Media Director and spokesperson to the Ministry of Information Thabo Kawana said that it was folly for a person like Mr Kalaba who once served at the level of Foreign Affairs minister to insinuate that democracy in this country was deteriorating to a level that would want to move the international community by reporting the President.
Mr Kawana said that the tenets of democracy were at the highest in this country because people were experiencing unprecedented freedoms including political parties themselves.
“The international community itself can even laugh at such a report,” he said.
But Mr Kalaba said that the country was at crossroads on whether to continue with the democracy that the forefathers fought for or go back to the one-party repressive system were the rights and privileges of the citizens were trampled upon by those in power.
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