The meeting the Catholic Church Bishops held with President Michael Sata was a failed undertaking because the Head of State did not want to dialogue leaving the Bishops angry.
President Sata opted to intimidate and antagonise the clergy who had gone to address national issues.
“It was not a productive meeting because there was no dialogue because he did not want to listen to the issues raised by bishops.
The bishops expressed disappointment over President Sata’s conduct and fear that Zambians would continue to witness high levels of intolerance from the ruling party because the Head of State was not ready for dialogue with stakeholders.
The sources told the Daily Nation that there is a danger Zambia may not have general elections in 2016 because it was the intention of the PF to use the impasse on the constitution to delay the general elections.
“You know the way he conducts himself and lack of seriousness over national affairs. Even matters of a serious nature, there was confusion as usual and the man was defensive when he was asked to explain certain things and he could not even explain any point,” said the source.
“The issues that the bishops wanted to address were the constitution and the violence by the PF run government.”
The meeting was attended by all the bishops from the 10 provinces of Zambia and two retired bishops.
The Bishops from the ten provinces on Wednesday met President Sata to discuss among other things the constitution making process that has stalled, the abuse of the Public Order Act by the PF and the growing levels of political intolerance.
But President Sata refused to listen to the views of the Catholic Bishops but instead elected to use acrimony and antagonism as his style of dialogue which angered the Bishops.
The Bishops that went to meet President Michael Sata called off the meeting because the Head of State was not willing to listen to their issues.
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