Political activist Nason Msoni says it is shocking that the Presidency in Zambia has stooped so low to concern itself with infiltrating individual opposition leaders.
Msoni said the statement by the President’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations George Chellah was shallow and not befitting a national office.
“Arguably it is even more shocking that the Presidency of the country can sink so low as to join in unnecessary political rhetoric of who has in-fact infiltrated more of the other’s political party,” he said.
“It is prudent to advise all political players in the country that bringing-in issues of state security and their covert operations in political matters is a dangerous political expedience and undertaking which can easily compromise and put national security and persons in the intelligence system in a very difficult and vulnerable position as this escalates suspicion amongst themselves and creates dangerous levels of mistrust and suspicion which can easily cost lives.”
He added: “It is in the interest of the country that we elevate the shallow levels of our national political debates to issues that help advance the national agenda of the country for enhanced national development.”
President Michael Sata was quoted to have said that the state intelligence had infiltrated opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND).
President Sata, who was reacting to earlier claims by Hichilema that the intelligence system, including some of the relatives of the head of state where working with the UPND, responded in a statement issued by his personal assistant for press and public relations George Chellah that it was not an easy undertaking to infiltrate an opposition political leader.
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