Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:26:09 +0000 Professor Mwiine Lubemba During a fundraising dinner a week ago in Kitwe on a Saturday night for the construction of the PF convention centre, President Edgar Lungu told party functionaries, sympathisers and some government officials present that “ubomba mwibala alya mwibala…but tabatila kulya nembuto kumo”. I do not admit that a great wrong had been done by the Head of State to warrant a sudden flurry of false graft accusations from the opposition leaders. The latter had deliberately twisted and misconstrued the well-intended advice meant for the party functionaries, sympathisers and some government officials present at the function to insinuate that the former was promoting an element of corruption when in fact not. What perspective gave birth to a Zambian idiom which loosely translates like this: “While a person is expected to be rewarded in a manner they deserve from their labour, they are not permitted to consume the […]
Reaping Political Mileage From The Whirlwind Of False Graft Accusations
