In today’s Post newspaper editorial, of today 9th March 2013, Fred Mmembe has again found it prudent to castigate and insult our President. That does not come as a surprise. We shall give you a little story. During the run up to the 2011 elections this is what happened. One of the EIU reports said that Sata was likely to win the elections. Fred Mmembe went to town with that. In the same year the EIU came back and said Sata was having difficulties, Mmembe called them names, this is how inconsistent Fred Mmembe is.
This is a man who thinks he has all the knowledge in the world and his opinion is as good as the bible. That is called being obnoxious. That combined with an inferiority complex are what defines such a character.
Mmembe and his company owes the people of Zambia a colossal sum of money, he is fighting everyone and anyone who is likely to make him pay back. Mmembe failed to run Zambian Airways and he and his Zambian Airways have to pay what they borrowed. He vouched for his preferred candidates in 2008 and 2011. All that was a scheme to give Zambian Airways a lifeline. When RB told us that Mmembe was owing us money the man (Mmembe) declared war against Rupiah. On HH the personal hatred is well documented. HH is the business advisor to the Mazoka’s who have shares in the Post.
Mmembe wants us to believe that this country is absolved of ANY human rights abuses. Mmembe wants us to believe his phantom source that the country has been cleared of ANY human rights abuses. Mmembe is trying to rally his useful idiots even before the team of investigators from the commonwealth have started compiling the report, let alone brief the secretariat that commissioned the team, that the Commonwealth has cleared Zambia. In their own wisdom, the Commonwealth team has not issued any statements because they know doing so will jeopardise anything they have done. Unlike Mmembe they have no interest in the outcome of this investigation. His phantom source in Government says the country has been cleared and a few useful idiots are already celebrating and calling HH and Nevers names before the entire process concludes. Mmembe cleared Wynter and GBM of corruption before the ACC could say anything yet Mmembe claimed that his newspaper had documentary evidence on GBM to the contrary.
Let Mmembe and his cohorts wait for the commonwealth to finish the process, which goes this way, investigate, compile a report with recommendations, then brief the secretariat with those recommendations, then the secretariat will determine what happens next. That does not happen even before the team of investigators leaves the country they were investigating. This is what Mmembe wants us to believe, that the process can be short circuited just for his selfish ends.
Advice to our followers, be very careful with the media. If something is not in quotation marks (“…..”) treat it as hear say. A good journalist will quote a source word for word. That gives the reader the opportunity to form their own opinion on the story, the rest of the story are the journalists own words. This is the journalism at Post Newspaper, write words, attribute them to a phantom source and the useful idiots fall for the scheme.
Mmembe has found fertile ground for his schemes because some or most of us have no idea how the media works. Mmembe is trying to force us to reject a report we have not read. Mmembe is trying to make us question an institution such as Commonwealth that has been in existence for so many years and believe a phantom source from the same government being investigated. We might look stupid and foolish but we know when someone is fooling us. All followers of this page, take heed. You might not like us but stay on the course of truth and not lies because you don’t like us.
Source: UPND Media Liaison Directorate
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