Mundia Warns Westerners

19 May 2011

Lusaka lawyer Christopher Mundia has warned the people of Western Province not to be hoodwinked by Catholic clergy and the Patriotic Front (PF) that the opposition would be an alternative government because it is a tribal party.

He also called upon law enforcement agencies to take appropriate action against people who are in the habit of insulting and ridiculing President Rupiah Banda because it was a crime under section 69 of the penal Code.

He said in a statement in Lusaka yesterday the Catholic clergy did not represent anyone as they had no families to worry about if there was a crisis in the country since they had no children.

Mr Mundia said it was a betrayal of the people of the Western Province to see a person taking up a position in PF because some leaders in PF had an inherent hatred for the people of the province.

“To the people of Western Province, let me appeal to their conscience that PF cannot be an alternative to MMD because it is a tribal party,”he said.

Mr Mundia said it was totally unacceptable for some people to continually insult the president.

He reminded Zambians that the campaign being mounted against President Banda by the clergy, particularly the Catholic Church was also done against the late president Mwanawasa.

“It is not far fetched to believe that our beloved president died as a result of such campaign against him and the same people want to inflict the same damage on the current president who has done wonders in less than three years he has been in office,” he said.

It was totally unacceptable that the country was being turned into a den of hatred, ridicule and contempt for each other abandoning the moral fabric upon which people have existed for many years as one nation.

“It is regrettable also that without any iota of truth the Head of State is being insulted, ridiculed and scandalised every day by characters who behave like graduates of mental asylums.

Some clergy have also joined the band wagon of pseudo political quislings by portraying a picture that hell has broken loose in Zambia simply because the president in office is not someone from their province,”he said.

Mr Mundia said some clergy want their “kith and kin” to take over when in fact they know that unless there is unity based on love all that the country had gained would be lost.

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