Melody Mwala
5 November 2009
THE Church has castigated former vice-president Enoch Kavindele for his unjustified personal attacks on President Rupiah Banda and his family.
Independent Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) board chairperson, David Masupha said yesterday that it was sad that Mr Kavindele could choose to wage war against the president just because of his failed attempt to have the head of State intervene in his personal business.
Reverend Masupha urged politicians to mean well when issuing statements and not to settle scores.
"Mr Kavindele has been in Government before and he should be well placed to know that what he was asking for was beyond the president as an individual. The president rightly told him that he could not go ahead and help him without consulting," Rev Masupha said.
He said Zambia did not need politics of hate that had taken root in the country and advised politicians to desist from swaying the minds of the public by issuing misleading statements meant to portray a negative picture about the country.
Rev Masupha said the criticism, which had been extended to the president's sons, did not mean well because the whole issue now seemed to be personal.
"I want to agree with President Banda that his children were already successful businessmen long before he got back into political limelight and what the politicians are trying to do by issuing such statements is not healthy," he said.
Those who wanted to judge the president should do that based on issues concerning governance and not his relatives.
"As Zambians, we can only judge the president based on issues of governance because by doing that we can come up with a good judgment and not what the politicians have resorted to doing today," he said.
And Evangelical Church in Zambia (ECZ) Paul Mususu described as unfortunate the decision by politicians to attack each other in the media.
Bishop Mususu, who is also former Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) director advised politicians to embrace dialogue whenever there was a problem, instead resorting to attacking each other in the media.
Meanwhile, the Authentic Advocates for Justice and Democracy (AAJD) has condemned Mr Kavindele's unsubstantiated claims that the president's family was receiving favours in some business transactions.
In a statement jointly signed by AAJD general secretary Laiford Mwanza and his information and publicity secretary Josephat Changwe, the organisation said that Mr Kavindele should be the last person to attack the first family.
The AAJD said Mr Kavindele had deliberately opted to attack President Banda's family in the hope that he could rekindle his diminished political career, especially after falling into political slumber.
"We would like to appeal to all well-meaning Zambians not to take seriously such wild outbursts from disgruntled dilettantes like Mr Kavindele who are nothing but shameless publicity seekers and self political lame ducks," read the Statement.
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