Kabimba:There Is Need To Recruit Descent People Into PF

Addressing party officials in Katete district on Tuesday during his continued tour of Eastern Province, Kabimba, who is justice minister and PF secretary general, told Katete district chairman Duna Makukula to recruit decent people into the party.
He said the party must win the confidence of the people for it to stand with pride and survive.
Kabimba said in 2016, the party, and not the government, would be answerable to the electorate.
“The police in Katete, immigration officer, medical officer here and everybody in government here in Katete as government official, is subordinate to the party because the party is the principal and sends instructions to the government,” he said.
Kabimba said party officials were senior to government officials, hence the need for them to be men and women of integrity.
He called for order and discipline in the party.
“There’s a culture that’s growing in this party of sidelining old members just because they don’t have positions… because of the democratic process, they have become outsiders to this party. They must be respected because without them, this party would have not come this far. There’s nothing you lose by inviting old members to sit in your meetings. You’ll be adding value to your decisions,” said Kabimba.
He said with discipline, there was a reward at the end.
Kabimba said the discipline seen in him was a result of Katete district commissioner (Colonel Kaizer), who was his instructor at Zambia National Service.
He said party officials should be role models for the people.
Kabimba said the issue of leadership could not be trivialised because it was important.
He said one of the reasons UNIP lost elections was embracing hooliganism.
Kabimba said UPND presidential advisor William Banda in 1990 sent a group of youths to airlift an UNZA lecturer from a classroom for speaking against UNIP then.
He said after that, Banda was promoted as Lundazi district governor and destroyed people’s fields.
Kabimba said in 2011, after Banda was brought close to former president Rupiah Banda, he (Kabimba) told his wife that Rupiah would be lucky to win the elections.
“So those Komaki’s have nothing to lose if this government comes down. They have nothing to lose at all. They are indisciplined. That’s their character, that’s their nature. There’s no way HH, with William Banda close to him, can win an election as long as people of Zambia still remember his vices,” he said.
He said there was a conspiracy by criminals to remove him from the PF because of his strong stance against corruption.
“We are seeing now some kind of indiscipline creeping into the party, especially in Lusaka, and this indiscipline, I can tell you as secretary general of the party, is not coming from ordinary members of the party. It is coming from newcomers, from MMD youths who are steeped into doing wrong things such as selling plots, extorting money from transporters, extorting money from marketeers, really steeped into criminality. And the conspiracy is that if you removed Wynter Kabimba from secretary generalship, then we can go ahead with these activities; that’s the conspiracy. There’s nobody that you’ve heard that I am a corrupt person because I am not that. I am not committed to this party because I am corrupt. The conspiracy is that I stand to defend the Zambian people. That’s my duty to this country. I can’t allow, as secretary general of this party, to see a group of youths extorting money from transporters, extorting money from marketeers and I sit back because I want to be popular in this party. Noways!” he said.
Kabimba said he was saddened when he found a group of youths demarcating plots, in the name of the PF, on private land.
He said after noticing the indiscipline, he reported to President Michael Sata and all those involved were locked up.
“To those of us using the party, thinking we can get rewarded through indiscipline, you are wasting your time. It won’t happen. You can only get punished. You may be tolerated up to a point but beyond a certain point, there will be a Rubicon. We’ll have to stop you because you are a bad seed in the party and in this country,” he said.
Kabimba said the days were numbered for lawless elements in the party.
“A few days ago, two of the most notorious youths (Julius Komaki and Benjamin Siwila) were expelled from the party by His Excellency the President. They have been expelled and I was present myself (in the meeting at State House), and I was not alone. Vice-President Dr Guy Scott was there, our national chairperson Mrs Inonge Wina was there and other senior members of the party, and those two young men were present, and the President said ‘You’re expelled from this party with immediate effect. SG, go and write letters’. They had adopted a culture of impunity that they continued exhibiting high levels of indiscipline and that they will be left scot-free but a point had to come that we had to choose who is more important between two notorious youths or this country and the choice was obvious that this country is larger than two notorious youths,” he said.
Kabimba urged PF members to be disciplined.