Some PF youths have come out with guns-blazing against the visit of what they called ‘the Congolese unconstitutional President’, Joseph Kabila, who was in the country on a two day State visit.
The youths made their complaints known through a PF whatsapp group by sending voice-notes which were made available to ‘Zambezi Express’.
“So us Zambians, we will only be inviting leaders that are questionable in character or what? We know you [President Lungu] are good hearted but please guard our country jealously. This Kabila we have brought in today, he is not wanted in his country, he will bring us bad luck here in Zambia. Last time it was Mugabe and Zuma, and now they have resigned…what will investors and others say about us?…” said one of the youths.
The youths blamed the earlier road traffic accident on President Lungu’s motorcade to some ‘bad luck’ that President Kabila must be carrying with him from the Congo.
“Kabila should not bring bad luck here, two accidents in two weeks and you put our President in the same car with him…please we beg you, let him go back now!” complained another youth.
President Lungu has often been accused of being tolerant to leaders who many people view as being of questionable reputations in their home countries. Most of them have been accused of being dictators, corrupt and intorelant of dissenting views.
The PF youths cited the ousted Presidents of South Africa and Zimbabwe, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe respectively and the current President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila as being the leaders that Mr Lungu should never have ever entertained because of their unpopularity with their own people in their own countries due to corruption and dictatorship.
President Kabila has stirred so much controversy in the Congo because of his refusal to step aside and give way to a free and fair election, after his constitutional term expired. He is in the seventh year of a five year term and by Congolese law, is constitutionally barred from contesting in the elections again.
Kabila was supposed to call for an election in 2016 but managed to come up with excuses which delayed the election over and over again.
After President Kabila failed to uphold a promise he made to hold elections by the end of last year [2017], Catholic Church protesters took to the streets in the capital Kinshasa and twelve other cities demanding that he allows for a free and fair elections in the vast mineral rich Central African Nation.
President Kabila however responded with an iron fist by unleashing Police who surrounded, teargassed and brutally beat protesting congregants in 134 churches in Kinshasa alone. The Police are also reported to have used live ammunition on the unarmed churchgoers resulting in several fatalities.
Meanwhile, President Kabila’s motorcade was on sunday, involved in an accident along Lusaka’s Leopards Hill road as the Congolese President was on his way to pay a courteousy call on Zambia’s founding President Kenneth Kaunda at his official residence.
In the same PF chat group, Mr Kaizer Zulu, who is President Lungu’s advisor for politics, dismissed the youths’ claims that President Lungu was in the vehicle with President Kabila but that the visiting Head of State was instead with the new Zambian Foreign Affairs Minister.
The unyielding and unconvinced PF youths were however insistent on the theory that President Lungu was in the motorcade.
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