WE are going in the wrong political direction.Nursing and nurturing a broken political system that thrives on mob psychology instead of valuing political substance, let alone tenets of integrity and purposefulness will only lead this country into further political disarray.What happened in Monze last week is typical of a broken political system.An organised group of opposition youngsters was strategically positioned to boo and generally embarrass President Edgar Lungu while he was visiting the district.This is exactly why we have opposed the establishment of the so-called Organisation of retired eminent persons, or OCIDA – Our Civic Duty organisation whose “number four” aim is to fund tribalism allegedly targeted against Tonga-Lozi and North-Westerners, which would seem to support their ethos. They now find themselves in the invidious position we predicted.Our political system that has produced this polarisation is truly dysfunctional and no amount of tinkering around it will cure the ills and if indeed we go into the 2021 elections with the same mindset the […]
MISSING INTEGRITY TEST
