When sadists like Patriotic Front Secretary General Wynter Kabimba and Western province permanent secretary Amos Malupenga meet their waterloo, it’s difficult to sympathise with them.
These are people who have spent a better part of their lives despising others. Destroying the lives of others.
To them, their perceived enemies’ sorrow is their cup of tea. Getting to the top, irrespective of the wake of terror they leave in other people’s lives, is what matters most.
The writing is on the wall that his own party, the PF, has rejected Wynter. The grassroots don’t want him. His shadow has become the most abhored among the rank and file of the PF.
For a man who started out as a town clerk of Lusaka before flirting with the defunct Zambia Republican Party as well as the MMD and later UPND, Wynter’s political fall has been quicker than a built up of a thunderstorm.
Only a few months ago, the Patriotic Front secretary general and Justice Minister stood in parliament and laid a charge sheet for the removal of fourth president Rupiah Banda’s immunity.
Wynter was the star of the moment. He postured in parliament like this saint Zambia was waiting for to fix president Banda. He could not even leave that hefty responsibility to his boss – President Michael Sata.
The little power, extremely little Wynter was enjoying got to his head. He thought he was Rupiah’s match and should be the one to table an evil scheme all aimed, not at fight corruption, but embarrassing the widely respected statesman.
Kabimba went to the extent of presenting falsehoods before Parliament in his hate for former president Rupiah Banda claiming they were done with investigations all in the name of embarrassing the fourth Head of State.
The nation was made to believe that Rupiah Banda was a thief. But if one follows court proceedings, the indictment Wynter read out is very different from what Banda is appearing in court for.
One by one, cases are slowly falling apart as Zambians and the international community bear witness. President Michael Sata is being embarrassed.
Foolishly, when Wynter stood in parliament that day, he was supported by another treacherous character and turncoat, Given Lubinda, whom Wynter poisoned to Sata until he was fired as minister and dropped from his position as PF central committee member.
At this moment, Wynter was untouchable. He could even storm the Anti Corruption Commission offices with the same cadres that have turned him and demanded to be investigated on corruption cases in the full glare of the public.
Soon, he began to think he can actually become Zambia’s president not knowing that by so doing, he was actually beginning to write his own political obituary.
How things quickly change in PF…Today, Lubinda is believed to be in GBM’s camp and it’s him the cadres now want to replace Wynter as secretary general.
It’s actually astonishing that Wynter can today say “PF is the most indisciplined” party in the history of Zambia and that the PF is now more “tribal in their thinking, in their action, in their attitude, in their deeds, than the UPND.”
Together with their comprised media alliances, they attempted to convince us the UPND was tribal when we all know PF harbours more tribalists than any grouping in the country.
Is this not the same Wynter who a few months ago claimed PF were the most civilised party and called the UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema and Rupiah Banda tribalists…?
Amos on the other hand started out as a cab reporter at the defunct Chronicle newspaper alongside the likes of Lwendo Hamusankwa.
The devout Jehovah Witness member, who has never voted for the PF in its 12 years of existence, was soon to join The Post where he rose through the ranks until he became suspiciously very close to late president Frederick Chiluba during the third term debate before swapping his allegiance with Levy Mwanawasa (MHSRIP) on whose life he authored a book.
At one point, the bond between Amos and Mwanawasa was so strong that no one would ever imagine that the Western province PS would be dining with the PF five years after Mwanawasa’s demise.
It was Amos who once prevailed upon Post owner Fred M’membe to ban President Sata from being covered by the paper.
Amos even once badly differed with his successor at the Ministry of Information, Emmanuel Mwamba, that the two even have a pending court case where Amos is supposed to be the star witness testifying against Mwamba. But as they say, the rest is history.
Amos, throwing all the tenets of professional journalism, even recorded his ‘brotherly’ conversation with Mwamba and published it in the newspapers to please M’membe. That’s as far Amos can go when it comes to bootlicking.
Since Mwamba took over from Amos, it’s clear that Amos was at the centre of corruption at the ministry where the Digital Migration tender is concerned. This is the same Amos who spent close to 20 years claiming to be fighting corruption. Just two years of public office, his career is dodged with serious corruption allegations. And you think
he was a corrupt free journalist?
Should it not ring a bell that Amos’ accomplice in this tender is a known crook called Kelvin Sampa who is also at the centre of a case where former president Banda is appearing in court over the nine trucks?
This is the same Sampa who was once very close to jailed criminal Mathew Mohan and former First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa all for purposes of convenience.
The right thing should be done. Amos should be suspended or fired pending investigations on this multi-billion kwacha scandal. The same should apply to Wynter over his Trafigura oil scandal.
President Sata should now know that some people that show him their teeth are actually deadly people after his position. Their intentions are as evil as the gathering of serpents. Infact, they are deadly serpents waiting to strike the moment he dozes off.
But at least there is still some pride to be left with Amos and Wynter because they still have something in common—Sylvia Masebo.
Sadly though, even there, Amos and Wynter can’t claim to have the monopoly of knowing her naked bodily detail. Many, many others do…how sad!
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