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It is shameful that past and present Presidents have resorted to insulting themselves in public, setting a very bad example to the young people.
This is according to Emeritus Arch Bishop Telesphore Mpundu who has condemned the behaviour of the President, Hakainde Hichilema, and his predecessor, Edgar Lungu, for insulting each other in public.
Mpundu said in an interview on Friday that it was shameful that words such as “kutumpa” could be used in public by leaders against each other which the children in the communities had picked and were telling each other.
He observed that Zambians had taken politics as a war and that Hichilema and Lungu had taken each other as enemies which was not supposed to be the case.
“This is a historical problem that they inherited because this country branded political opponents as enemies but certain sentiments that are made should be adhered to and not making reckless statements in public,” he said.
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Mpundu also condemned the political violence that was being perpetrated by cadres and suggested that Zambia needed a law that would completely ban caderism and criminalise it.
Meanwhile, Mpundu said the shortage of mealie meal that was being experienced in the country was a sign of failure by the United Party for National Development (UPND) government.
Mpundu said it was the duty of the people that had been elected in leadership to provide food and make sure it was available and affordable.
“Food is life, food is life and if there is no food then it means that those in leadership have failed miserably. The time food riots began in the time of Kenneth Kaunda, it was the beginning of the end of UNIP and it never came back,” he said.
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