United Party For National Development UPND National Headquarters P.O Box 38032 Lusaka, Zambia No.83A Provident Street Press Statement for immediate release 21 st October, 2019 FRED M’MEMBE’S BASLESS ATTACKS AGAINST PRESIDENT HICHILEMA We have noted with despondency a statement coming from our colleagues in the Socialist Party (SP) castigating our President Hakainde Hichilema. Never at any point has anyone in the United Party for National Development (UPND) ever spoken about the Socialist Party or its members and leader Dr. Fred M’membe.We are left wondering what exactly the SP want from us, by labeling President Hichilema as someone with “an infinite lust for power, glory and fame accompanied by a ferocious appetite for material wealth driven by unbridled greed and an inexhaustible crave for corruption” and that he is a dealer and not a leader. First of all, Dr. M’membe must differentiate UPND which has well established structures across the country and enjoys the support of majority Zambians with his party SP which has no record of structures anywhere. There is no normal person who can begin to compare UPND with small insignificant parties. I want to state too that M’membe is not a strange person to Zambians. Zambians know him and how he ran his infamous defunct newspaper The Post that was specialized in championing tribalism, hate speech and malicious articles. This is someone who was busy asking the morality of others yet himself was busy evading taxes. We in UPND are not in the business of discussing other parties but when pushed we shall not fail to defend ourselves. Our advice to M’membe and his makeshift party is that let them concentrate on their so-called Socialism having failed to run the same project under the banner Rainbow Party. Stephen Katuka Secretary General.