FODEP Board urged to be alert

Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Emmanuel Mwamba being congratulated by PF deputy Chairman for Media Committee Sunday Chanda

The ruling PF says the allegations by FODEP Executive Director Macdonald Chipenzi that President Edgar Lungu could have breached the constitution when he appointed State House Deputy Minister Mulenga Sata is a dangerous ignorance of the law.

And the ruling party has called on the FODEP Board to come to the organization’s rescue saying it is now a UPND appendage under Mr. Chipenzi’s leadership.

PF Media Committee Vice Chairman Sunday Chanda in a statement to QFM News explains that after being rejected by the people, a losing candidate cannot be forced on the people as a nominated MP behind their back.

Mr. Chanda furthermore explains that logically, it refers to losing candidates because it would be redundant nominating a winning one.

He says Mr. Chipenzi knows too well that State House Deputy Minister Mulenga Sata never stood as a Member of Parliament but that he did stand as a Councillor but the Constitution does not refer to Councilors but MPs.

He adds that if the people accepted him as a Councillor, it follows that they would not have a problem with him being nominated as an MP.

And Mr. Chanda says the PF is aware that President Lungu’s enemies are regrouping as evidenced by remarks from Dr. Guy Scott that there was a contradiction of late President Michael Sata’s vision with the strategic re-alignment of political forces, such as MMD and former President Rupiah Banda.

He insists that President Sata was a larger than life personality and there was no way Zambia’s political order would have remained the same with the passing away of such a colossus.

He says while Dr. Scott would have preferred PF’s extinction, the people were determined to keep Sata’s dream alive.

Mr. Chanda says Dr. Scott does not stand on high moral ground on this matter because he was determined to suffocate and mutilate the Sata vision had he not been defeated by people’s power.

He says Dr. Scott was determined to see that President Lungu never becomes President and PF is kicked out of power.