UNIP senior member Mwansa Musunte has advised the Patriotic Front that Zambians do not tolerate a one-party system.
In an interview with The Post, Musunte said the government was using wrong justification for its failure to develop certain areas of the country.
“Let me advise my colleagues in the PF that Zambians don’t tolerate one party system. Maybe some of them don’t know that what made my party to be dethroned from the government was the same one-party state system which the PF is trying to create,” he said.
Musunte said he was disappointed that the PF was applying wrong techniques like blackmailing people with threats of not taking development to their areas if they do not vote for the PF.
“The PF is now threatening people of not developing some areas where the party is not gaining momentum. This is violating human rights by not giving an opportunity to people to belong or vote for the political party of their choice,” he said. “It is the mandate of any government in power to develop the whole country but what we are seeing now is that if you don’t support the PF, your area will not be developed. That is why most of the recent by-elections countrywide have been scooped by the PF because people were scared that if they didn’t vote for PF candidates their areas were not going to record any meaningful development.”
Musunte said Southern Province minister Daniel Munkombwe was a wrong politician who practiced politics of the belly.
“Munkombwe has made it clear that he joined the PF government for his personal gain. Of course, we all want to eat but what about the issue of the integrity? Politics of belly will not bring development to this country both politically and economically. Munkombwe was serving in the same position during the MMD administration and if at all he gave the people of Southern Province the development they needed, then so be it because in the end, it will be the people of Southern Province to judge him based on what he did for them,” Musunte explained.
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