Fri, 23 Dec 2016 09:26:31 +0000 It is time that UPND President Hakainde Hichilema realizes that his utterances are increasingly becoming odious and highly irresponsible. The suggestion that government intended to assassinate him in the confusion that ensued in the premises of the Supreme Court is so profoundly obtuse as to deserve censure. This country has no history of political assassination. HH cannot be the first leader to be assassinated because such an eventuality has absolutely no political value. Zambia’s political lexicon and mentality abhor any form of non-political manipulation. Zambia boasts of a long and documented history of peaceful elections in which political leaders have risen or fallen at the ballot box. Election are long gone, HH lost the election, a reality that he and his supporters must come to terms with instead of heightening the political temperature with utterances that have no basis in fact or logic. Time has come for constructive […]
