Fr Bwalya must learn to be Frank

Dear editor,
DURING an interview on The Assignment programme hosted by Muvi TV on Sunday, April 28, 2013, Frank Bwalya, who had just resigned from Zesco Limited as board chairman, said he had regretted having supported and campaigned for the Patriotic Front and particularly President Sata in the 2011 general elections.
In the same interview, Father Bwalya claimed that the PF had started behaving like the MMD when it was in power.
Today, Fr Bwalya, who is now president for Alliance for Better Zambia, has decided to go to bed with the former ruling party he so viciously de-campaigned before the 2011 tripartite elections.
It is less than a year when Fr Bwalya claimed the PF had started to behave like the MMD when it was in power. The question I would like to ask him is this:
What has changed about the MMD, which you time and again referred to as “insensitive, corrupt, dictatorial and selfish party”?
I recall how after a court appearance on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Kitwe, where Fr Bwalya pleaded not guilty to the charge of engaging in activities likely to cause the breach of peace, he said in an interview shortly after his release on bail and I quote:
“My arrest is God’s way to continue exposing the intolerance, the corruption and selfishness of our government led by Mr Rupiah Bwezani Banda.”
Fr Bwalya, who likened himself to John the Baptist preparing the people for change, went on to say, “At last when the one who is to come appears, I will point to them so that the people can follow and effect the change they deserve.”
Now, if by his own admission, he misled us into voting PF into power, doesn’t that make him a false prophet? If President Sata is not THE ONE to bring “the change we deserve”, then who is it? Fr Bwalya himself?
It’s treachery for Fr Bwalya to U-turn and form an alliance with the MMD.
Let him be frank and tell the nation why the MMD should be voted back into power come 2016.
From the look of things, Fr Bwalya aspired for a bigger position in the PF government than that of Zesco Limited board chairman.
However, he has shown himself a red card by forming a pact with a party that is yet to cleanse itself.
KAMPA
SENKWE.