YOU can be powerful today but remember that time is more powerful than you; so never devalue or hurt anyone in life, advises Chishimba Kambwili.
On his Facebook page, Kambwili, who fired from his position as information minister by President Edgar Lungu soon after reconstituting his Cabinet following the August 11 elections, warned against the abuse of power, saying time and circumstances could change at any time.
“When a bird is alive, it eats ants but when the bird dies, ants eat it. Time and circumstances can change at any period. Try as much as you can never to devalue or hurt anyone in life,” Kambwili advised.
“You can be powerful today…but remember time is more powerful than you. One tree makes a million match sticks, but when the time comes, only one match stick is needed to burn a million trees.”
Since falling out of favour with President Lungu, Kambwili has taken a critical stance on what was happening in the ruling party, saying hijackers had bought a few stupid people in the PF and vowed to save the party from collapse.
He was recently dragged to the party’s disciplinary committee by Luanshya mayor Natha Chanda over allegations that the Roan member of parliament called him a wizard last year.
The party’s central committee however cleared him and warned him and Chanda against using the party for personal battles.
But sources within the central committee revealed that President Lungu had given instructions that Kambwilii is found with the case and hounded out of the party because of his ambitions for the party’s top leadership.
And speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Kambwili insisted that restrictions on the movement of public service buses was bad decision that must be invalidated.
Making a follow-up question when transport minister Brian Mushimba delivered a ministerial statement, Kambwili wondered whether government had considered some components of travellers’ health when enacting the law.
At the height of the public debate on the ban on movement of public buses at night, Kambwili posted on his Facebook criticising the decision, saying it would impede economic growth.
“The ban on the movement of buses at night is a bad decision and it must be reversed. When you were coming up with this decision, did you take into account things such as public health? For instance, where people are travelling at night [and] they are found at 21:00 hours in the Kafue National Park coming from Western Province, they have to sleep on the bus [where] there are no toilets, there are children who have to change nappies [and] other people have to change sanitary pads. How are you taking care of such issues?” asked Kambwili, amid cheers of approval from other lawmakers, especially those from the opposition.
But in response, Mushimba said the process of banning the movement of public buses at night involved a lot of stakeholder engagements, sensitisation and discussions with operators.
“The idea of those discussions were to make sure that as the law took effect, the schedules that they used to transport people could be adjusted accordingly so that we don’t have people sleeping in national parks when 21:00 hours hits,” said Mushimba.