HH refutes claims that he criticized Chieftainess Mwenda for receiving PF SG

UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema

The opposition UPND Leader Hakainde Hichilema has refuted media reports suggesting that he has criticized Chieftainess Mwenda of Chikankata for welcoming and speaking to Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Chama in Bemba.

And the UPND Leader has demanded an immediate retraction of the attributed article in the Times of Zambia within 24 hours failure to which the party will take any remedial action.

Mr. Hichilema has told QFM News that the PF leadership are again back with their usual tribal and unproductive remarks of wanting to divide the united and peaceful people of Zambia using government media.

Mr. Hichilema says it is clear that they are losing the coming elections and the only way they hope to survive is by cheating and promoting hate speech such as old and tired tribal debate, while hoodwinking Zambians that they champion ‘One Zambia One Nation’.

Mr. Hichilema says it is really low thinking and utterly childish to hope to remain in national leadership through dividing the peaceful people using government propaganda through the so called fictitious and imaginary sources.

He has he has not encouraged any Chief from Southern Province or anywhere in the country not to be visited by any people from other ethnic groupings, including Mr. Chama despite having insulted people of other ethnic groupings.

He adds that what Mr. Chama needs know is that people from of all ethnic groupings have homes and investment in Southern Province, while others are even village headmen and that’s how every other province is and must continue to be.

The UPND Leader says it is so shameful that a supposedly professional newspaper such as Times of Zambia and other government media can engage in total and malicious fabrications.

Meanwhile, PF Media Committee and Publicity Vice Chairperson Sunday Chanda says the people of Zambia are not shocked because they understand that Mr. Hichilema’s entry into politics was birthed by tribalism.

Mr. Chanda says to this day, he has failed to condemn the tribal political cradle on which his political career was birthed following the death of UPND founder President late Anderson Mazoka.

He says Zambians are just concerned about who Mr. Hichilema has been trying to fool by camouflaging his top party leadership with people whose tribe he abhors which such disdain.