You won’t shut Kambwili up that easily, NDC youth tell Lungu
| By Staff Reporter
NATIONAL Democratic Congress youths have told President Edgar Lungu to just explain how he amassed wealth within a few years because his attempts to silence Chishimba Kambwili have failed. The opposition party’s national youth chairperson Charles Kabwita, stated in a press release on Monday that the NDC was concerned that President Lungu had amassed wealth within such a short space of time when the nation knew how much he had declared during the presidential by-election in 2015. He said if President Lungu’s wealth was legitimately acquired, he ought to demonstrate to the Zambians how he did it so that people could be motivated on how to become rich in the shortest possible time. “If the government feels offended, let them give answers to the many unanswered questions Kambwili is raising. We expect the President to hold a press conference and respond to the alleged misconduct and corruption, unlike giving unsatisfactory responses that are neither here nor there and speaking with anger at the airport whenever confronted with the many thorny issues affecting the masses,” Kabwita stated. He also asked President Lungu to tell the nation how much he has made from his trips abroad. Meanwhile, Kabwita has raised concern at the alarming manner at which the police, State House and its sponsored propagandists are operating whenever they reacted to Kambwili’s checks and balances on them. “One wonders whether Kambwili is a fire tender or an ambulance or perhaps an Auditor General’s Report which needs critical attention by those entrusted with the authority to administer public resources and justice,” he wondered. “The country is faced with serious scandals, starting from the US$273 million Top Star-gate; US$42 million fire-tenders; US$1.2 billion road gate, and US$288,000 ambulance gate which up to date nothing has been answered.” Kabwita indicated that these were the issues that those in the security and defence forces should be dealing with rather than concentrating all their efforts on trying to intimate the NDC’s consultant, Kambwili. “We further asked why the ACC stayed mute when the pieces of evidence by the Auditor General are right before their eyes and noses. Why can’t they summon the culprits and all the public officers who have been cited? Why have the police not shown any sign of investigating the white-collar thieves?” he asked. “We in the NDC will not allow private citizens to be persecuted or abused by the powers that be for having divergent views. We will fight for our citizens to exercise their freedoms of speech and assembly, which is their fundamental human right. Allow Kambwili to do checks and balances as this is his democratic right. You won’t shut him up very easily.”
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