Nawakwi Enjoying Her ‘Big, Lone Voice’

EDITH Nawakwi says the FDD is working tirelessly to ensure the party is well known to Zambians by engaging in mature politics and conducting issue-based campaigns.
Officiating at the election of the Kitwe district committee leadership for the Forum for Democracy and Development on Saturday, Nawakwi said the party was getting popular every day because of the rich ideals on which it was anchored.
Nawakwi said the FDD had committed itself to providing necessary checks and balances to the ruling PF as a significant contribution to the promotion of democracy and good governance in the country.
“Our party is as cool as water. We don’t fight. We have been in office from 2001 to date. It’s almost 14 years. You have never heard that anyone, whether it’s the driver or a party office bearer, has been beaten,” she said.
Nawakwi said other political parties were busy fighting and jostling for positions due to lack of leadership that should genuinely embrace women and youths.
She said FDD had managed to put up district committees in all parts of the Copperbelt and the party was receiving massive support.
“My elder brother, the Vice-President of Zambia Dr Guy Scott, the other day he was saying Nawakwi is a lone voice. This lone voice is very big and I’m enjoying my big voice which is lonely. It’s good that some people are underrating us because even at war, those that lose in the battlefield are those that underrate their enemies,” Nawakwi said.
“I really want my brothers in the UPND, the ruling PF and the MMD to continue thinking. Don’t even wake them up, let them continue thinking this is the lone voice.”
She said the FDD would not allow gatecrashers to choose leaders, hence the exercise of mobilising and strengthening party structures so that it could have genuine leaders at all levels.
Nawakwi further said Zambia was like a country in crisis due to lack of quality leadership.
“The Zambia we have is a country where you look around, everyone is walking in misery 50 years after independence. People want necessary tools that can make this country better. They want a new constitution that would make them feel proud to be Zambians,” said Nawakwi.