By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE –

. MWAMBA

GOVERNMENT has advised United Party or National Development (UPND) vice-president for administration, Geoffrey Mwamba to apply serious self-introspection to save the little that has remained of his discredited political career.
And Government says the remarks attributed to Mr Mwamba that once his party forms government, it would strip President Edgar Lungu of his immunity and jail him once again buttress the point that the man the opposition party thought would gain them points is causing them irreparable damage each time he opens his mouth.
Acting Government spokesperson, Vincent Mwale said the ambivalent political posturing exhibited by Mr Mwamba of wanting to be both UPND and a PF Member of Parliament (MP) exposes him as a politician lacking principles and substance.
Mr Mwale, who is Youth and Sports minister, said in a statement yesterday that if Mr Mwamba has any integrity left in him, he would avoid the ambivalence surrounding his political identity and seek a clearer defined personality.
Mr Mwamba was quoted in The Post newspaper of yesterday as having said that the first thing UPND would do if it came into power would be to remove Mr Lungu’s immunity, prosecute and jail him together with Daily Nation proprietor Richard Sakala.
The minister said although Government was no longer surprised by Mr Mwamba’s uncoordinated utterances, it wondered whether the UPND administration, if at all they would form Government, would be that of the judge, the jury, and executioner.
Mr Mwale said that going by such remarks, Mr Mwamba was warning that the UPND government would arrest, prosecute, and jail people they dislike with little regard for the due process of the law.
He said that to the contrary, President Lungu’s administration had brought a new lease of life in the governance of the country by respecting the spirit of separation of powers, in which the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary would not interfere in each other’s operations.
Mr Mwale said that Government was also not surprised that Mr Mwamba does not differentiate between personal and national issues as could be inferred from the accusations in which he claims to have loaned Mr Sakala, a private citizen, money to buy vehicles for the Daily Nation.
“Government wonders how an alleged personal transaction with Mr Sakala becomes a national issue,” Mr Mwale said.
He said it was disheartening that a person with high ambitions like Mr Mwamba could sink so low as to make public his private transactions with another person.
“Throughout his empty threats, Mr Mwamba does not pinpoint any substantive issue of corruption President Lungu is allegedly engaged in apart from his petty politics,” Mr Mwale said.