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Be honest with each other, Nalubamba tells Sata, HH

Be honest with each other, Nalubamba tells Sata, HH
By Patson Chilemba
Sat 05 Dec. 2009, 04:01 CAT

SENIOR chief Bright Nalubamba of the Ila people of Namwala district has asked Michael Sata and Hakainde Hichilema to be honest to each other over the handling of the UPND-PF pact.

And Sata said chief Nalubamba has taken it upon himself to go round and talk to the other chiefs in order to remove the notion that chiefs should only support the government of the day.

Well-placed sources who attended the closed-door meeting, which was convened by chief Nalubamba, chief Hanjalika of Mazabuka district and chief Chimbuka and was attended by Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata and UPND president Hakainde Hichilema at Lusaka's Blue Nile Lodge on Thursday, chief Nalubamba asked Sata and Hichilema to be transparent to each other.

"There is one key word that he said that the two leaders of the pact must be honest and transparent to each other over the pact. Chief Nalubamba asked them not to be distracted by the MMD who were trying to put pressure on them over who would be president. And the chief said it did not matter who is the president, what the people need is change," the source said.

"He asked them to explain clearly that they were two organisations who were working together to remove MMD."

When contacted for comment over the matter, Sata said what chief Nalubamba said was that it was incumbent upon him and his colleagues to remove from the other chiefs the notion that chiefs should support the government of the day.

"He said working with the government of the day is something else. He said everybody can work with the government of the day, including the opposition, but that does not mean that we should support the government of the day politically," Sata said.

"You see, there are other chiefs that are peddling 'support the government of the day', they have played on their minds to say 'support the government of the day'"

Sata said chief Nalubamba asked him and Hichilema to harmonise the PF and UPND's policies on how they planned to work with the chiefs.

Labels: CHIEF NALUBAMBA, HAKAINDE HICHILEMA, PF-UPND, SATA

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