LT GENERAL SITALI ALIBUZWI SHOULD NOT DISAPPEAR, HE IS LEADERSHIP MATERIAL
LT General Sitali Alibuzwi’s farewell speech as outgoing Zambia Army Commander explains why he was removed.
He was serving a Commander in Chief with an inferiority complex, and a fear of working with people who exhibit intelligence and stand up for the integrity of their institutions.
In his continued strategy of weakening and destroying State Institutions, a misguided Hichilema wanted to diminish the integrity and stature of the Zambia Army, and Lt Gen Alibuzwi stood up to him.
Hichilema mistakes his manipulative ways for intelligence, and thought his calculated acts will not be seen for what they are – undermining the integrity and place of the Zambia Army. First he gave the rank of Lt General to Zambia National Service Commandant and Zanbia Airforce, equating them to the rank at the head of the Zambia Army. Second, he removed the Army Commander from the traditional role as Chairman of the Joint Security Committee.
These and other actions must have signaled to Lt Gen Alibuzwi that this egotistical President did not mean well regarding the integrity of the position of the Zambia Army. He made known this trend was wrong.
The coward that he is, he used his rogue online outlet run from State House to carry on a vile attack on a serving Zambia Army Commander, while he, as President, maintained silence. But nobody was fooled. We knew he was using those attacks to prepare the Army to accept the removal of Lt Gen Alibuzwi which he had already determined.
That is why it’s good that Lt Gen Alibuzwi has spoken out. This is a man Zambians should not allow to go into oblivion. He is leadership material.