MEDIA STATEMENT BY SUNDAY CHANDA
Chongwe MP Silvia Masebo, in her desperate attempts to throw dirt at the person of PF President Hon. Edgar Lungu, says Zambians are tired of State funerals as though the two sitting Presidents Zambia has lost died out of their own volition. Masebo wrongfully believes PF President Edgar Lungu is not enjoying good health and on that premise must not be elected to office. Interestingly, Zambians know that Silvia Masebo and PF President Edgar Lungu are not and will never be in the same league. What is more interesting is what Masebo is not telling Zambians. Zambians know who health is and sick between Masebo and PF President Lungu and that is not even a matter for public debate. Masebo should be the last person to discuss anyone’s health status and if she is wise, this line alone is enough for her.
Masebo speaks of being tired of state funerals in what should be direct reference to two late sitting Presidents, namely President Levy Mwanawasa (MHSRIP) and President Michael Chilufya Sata (MHSRIP). Zambians know too well that both these men gave Masebo a political life and now that they are no more, she can have courage to indirectly attack them in their graves. She is indirectly telling Zambians that the two were unfit as they assumed office and as a consequence, they died in office. That is the literal interpretation of her remarks. It is now clear who had wished late President Mwanawasa and Sata dead.
Masebo is has not begun such ranting today, that has been her way of doing politics. Zambians recall how she demeaned the late Benjamin Yoram Mwila (BY). Zambians recall how she threw different sorts of insults at late President Michael Sata. She was fired for unceremoniously and it appears she is still bitter and can have the audacity of attacking late President Sata indirectly. Masebo knows that both the young and old have an appointment with death. The two sitting Presidents Zambia has lost never chose to die at such a time they died. Let Masebo tell Zambians what illness the two suffered from before dying.
Zambians must condemn with impunity such fruitless politics from the likes of Silvia Masebo and her publicists. Zambians recall how Masebo called late President Sata all sorts of names before but he forgave her and she was appointed to his Cabinet before he unceremoniously fired her. Masebo has poured scorn and demeaning statements at the person of Hakainde Hichilema, the man she desperately supports today for her political survival.