Anything that adds to President Hichilema’s personal political ambitions, even if it goes against our national values and principles, such as being disrespectful to our women, is heroic.
Lusaka, Oct. 21 – Before you judge me for sharing my views on the Chellah Tukuta appointment that should not have happened in the first place, allow me to share with you my approach to journalism!
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Through Woodpecker’s Digest, I wish to address both our leaders and their followers using a very versatile but factual approach to putting news into some perspective that is easier to relate to in the context of our day to day struggles to make ends meet.
The fundamental principle of objective journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable not to write what they want to read. I know that all progressive leaders are readers so we reach out to them through our well selected stories reflecting what’s truly obtaining on the ground!
Following Chellah Tukuta’s disrespectful video against the Head of State, the former diplomat has finally thanked his appointing authority…
“Thank You Bally! I am grateful and thankful for everything. I am proud that I defended you out of love and I am grateful that I was part of your team. Gratitude is key and am so grateful. Even as I start a new page and journey I feel proud that I worked with you and was privileged to learn a lot from you!”
I am not interested in what Chellah Tukuta said in the video preceding his latest found wisdom or what has pumped sense in him but in what qualified him to be one of Zambia’s Freedom Fighters by President Hichilema’s standards!
This is because, in my opinion, leadership, that Hichilema has failed to exhibit, is the ability to identify and put those with the technical know-how and ability in key positions needing such expertise.
Did Hichilema use leadership when he saw Chellah Tukuta as a Freedom Fighter for repeatedly disrespecting women, just because it worked in his personal favour to become Head of State?
According to Hichilema, Chellah Tukuta was the definition of a true Zambian Freedom Fighter. What an insult to the really true Freedom Fighters who gave us the political freedom that has been handed over back to our colonisers in the name of special Advisory Units at State House!
Talking about puppetry and the re-emergence of neo-colonialism in Zambia, just in case you are not aware, Hichilema has allowed foreign entities to have advisory units inside the Presidency. Here are the two units operating from State House:
1◾Brenthurst Foundation.
a. Greg Mills.
b. Hulme Scholes.
c. Ms. Chipokota Mwanawasa.
2◾Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
a. Tony Blair
b. Maria Mkandawire.
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Is Hichilema the best man for the Office of President? Under his leadership, it’s like everyday, the LGBTQ community, with its coordinated sponsors, is daring the law and the value sense of Zambians and are openly flaunting the practice of homosexuality and testing the seams of the law.
And yet homosexuality remains illegal in Zambia and offends not just the law, but Zambia’s traditional, cultural and religious values. This is despite what the known national values and principles state in both the Constitution and the penal code.
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The issue of upholding and promoting national values and principles has become so cardinal that the Constitution places this burden on the President of the Republic of Zambia. So when I question some of these decisions, it’s not my intention to insult the Head of State. I just want an explanation.
You may be aware that once every year, the Constitution, under Article 9(2), directs the President to address the nation through Parliament, to show progress that his Government has made in the upholding and promotion of national values and principles.
I, once again, wish to ask President Hakainde Hichilema, what made him see Chellah Tukuta as a Freedom Fighter in line with the fundamental principle of objective journalism which is to hold people in positions of power accountable!
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