It must be very awkward being Fred M’membe these days in the national life of our country Zambia. Even for men without honour there has to be that private moment when you have to face yourself in the mirror and wonder where you lost your soul.
In 2006 M’membe had a field day almost on a daily basis reminding everyone why the United Party for National Development Anderson Mazoka should step down as UPND President on health grounds.
M’membe stood on a moral pedestal pontificating about the virtuousness of his position and eventually Mazoka died.
M’membe sent his venom to Mazoka even to his grave and reminded everyone that Andy may have lived longer if he had heeded his advice.
Even that was not enough as M’membe consummated this hatred by marrying Mazoka’s daughter Mutinta. How it may have hurt her father? Andy wasn’t even a sitting President!
Fast forward to Levy Mwanawasa’s tenure where daily headlines were accorded to then venomous opposition leader Michael Sata having a field day on urging Levy to step down. Was it not routine for Sata to routinely issue his soundtrack of “Zambia may have early polls”?
Did not Sata delight in calling Mwanawasa a cabbage? Was he not chased from accompanying Mwanawasa’s body around the country on account that his hatred for Mwanawasa and wishing him ill was a matter of public record?
With Mwanawasa out of the way and President Sata in office, M’membe had turned his arsenals to then former Vice President George Kunda. Did they not delight in mocking him about his so called red lips? All this was so much fun for M’membe and his heartless lieutenants but albeit in M’membe’s own words ‘it has come back to haunt them’.
Does not M’membe everyday preach about life being a great equalizer? How awkward it must be for M’membe that he has had to swallow his vomit and now seem to stand tall defending the secrecy about President Sata’s illness?
Is it not shameful that their news sense is so compromised that the country has to rely on the BBC and the Jerusalem Post to break the news about the President’s illness?
Surely even in disgrace there is a bit of honour? Is it not a shame that today that M’membe has lost his journalistic compass such that while the international story about Zambia is about the President’s illness he has decided to soak his energies on the drinking habits of women?
Not even his anointed possible successor Wynter Kabimba is a specimen of good health. For now we wish our Republican President a quick recovery or is it a restful holiday as Guy Scott would want us to believe even when we have detailed briefs of his clinical state!
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