STATEMENT BY HON. MWANSA KAPEYA, MP, MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING SERVICES AND CHIEF GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON ON UPND LEADER’S CONTINUED OUTBURTS ON PRESIDENT SATA’S HEALTH Government finds as extremely ‘irresponsible’ UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s continued utterances against His Excellency President Michael Chilufya Sata each time the head of state travels abroad. Contrary to Mr. Hichilema’s assertions that the President had flown to India for medical treatment, President Michael Sata is well and is in London on a working holiday wooing investors to come and invest in Zambia. Mr. Hichilema knows very well the importance of the President’s foreign engagements which are meant to attract more investments for the growth of the economy of which Mr. Hichilema himself is a beneficiary as a businessman. It is therefore misleading and mischievous for the UPND leader to suggest that the head of state is unwell and had secretly flown out of the country. When a head of state takes a working holiday, it means he is available and on call when and as need arises. Government expects Mr. Hichilema as a politician who carries himself as a popular and political genius to be the last person failing to understand and appreciate a clearly worded statement issued by state house to announce the President’s departure for a working holiday. Apparently Mr. Hichilema chose to ignore the statement and instead of checking the facts before him, he, in his usual style called a press briefing to misinform and mislead the nation. This type of behavior only shows that the UPND leader is desperate to ascend to the highest office in the land and would use every available opportunity to satisfy his insatiable appetite to become head of state. Government further wishes to put on record its unhappiness with Mr. Hichilema’s apparent excitement and immature outbursts whenever the Head of State either travels out on official duty or delegates such duties to his Ministers. If a Head of State falls sick, a Government will not hesitate to inform the nation on the same. Government wishes to strongly urge members of the public to ignore Mr. Hichilema’s alarmist, unsubstantiated and irresponsible statements especially that state House cared to issue a statement to inform the nation on the President’s departure for a working holiday. Hon. Mwansa Kapeya, MP MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING SERVICES AND CHIEF GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON 4th February, 2014
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:34:49 +0000
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