IT IS THIS KAVINDELE TYPE OF HYPOCRISY THAT IS MAKING IT HARD FOR PEOPLE TO ACCEPT GOVT CONDOLENCES
People such as former Vice President Enoch Kavindele would do well to shut their mouths about mourning late Edgar Lungu with dignity.
Where was Kavindele when former President Lungu was being blocked from travelling to seek medical attention by President Hakainde Hichilema’s government?
It is a fact that Former President Lungu sought clearance to travel abroad for his treatment for a condition that was known by all, including the State itself, and was prevented from doing so. Not once but several times.
Why did Kavindele not speak up then?
By simple inference, former President Lungu’s condition could have been prevented from worsening had he been allowed to travel.
Therefore, the annoyance over former President Lungu’s early death was avoidable.
As noted by the Lungu family legal representative, in the first two instances that clearance was sought, the former President was not in active politics and there was no conceivable reason for the government of President Hichilema to stop him from accessing the treatment he sought abroad, which was his retirement entitlement. But, the State instead chose to flex its muscle by denying him exit.
Not only that, they went so far as to send a horde of United Party for National Development (UPND) hoodlums to his neighbourhood in a show of force,and insults, meant to stop former President Lungu from making his early morning fitness runs!
President Hichilema saw all this going on and did nothing to extend his colleague the dignity he deserved as former President. Not once did he tell his horde of hooligans to leave Lungu alone. He and his fellow UPND leaders instead continued their tirade of incentives aimed at making Lungu the target of public loathing.
Now in his death, mouthpieces such as Enoch Kavindele would want to tell the Zambian public that they want to mourn Edgar Lungu with dignity. They now want to cast members of the Patriotic Front (PF) leadership as seeking to politicise his funeral. This is disgusting, to say the least.
Members of the PF have just cause to be angry because of the injustice they feel has been visited upon their leader Edgar Lungu after his peaceful handover of power. And everyone, Kavindele and any other, who now want to add insult to their injury, is engaging in abominable hypocrisy.
No amount of pretended mourning can hide the fact that the UPND government have used State power and machinery to perpetuate evil on a citizen who once served the country in the highest office of President. They are collectively guilty.
And such people as Enoch Kavindele bear a measure of that guilt by failing to speak out at the time Lungu was being denied clearance to go and seek medical treatment.
This group have no right to talk about mourning Lungu with dignity.
Goodnight.
Note: The convoluted statement by Chief Government Spokesperson will get a specific response tomorrow.
John 8:32 “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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