Thu, 06 Apr 2017 09:41:27 +0000 Ailing UPND and the ICC Dear Editor, I refer to UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s recent press briefing held at his residence where he claimed that he was routinely talking to United States of America President Donald Trump and that the US president would soon deal with some African countries that he claimed were festering with dictatorship tendencies. The UPND leader further said that his party would take legal action if Zambia followed through its intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. Undoubtedly, as a party, the UPND may have so far succeeded in remaining a whole in the 2016 post-election period, but it is ailing in all its parts. UPND’s intra-party dictatorial, parliamentary and presidential political chutzpah have failed to deliver any panacea. The prognosis is not good, as the party sits on a volatile tripod of fallacious, judicial and ethnic monotony. Thus, there is an innate concession […]
