A Senior Member of the ruling PF’s Central Committee has charged that Lusaka Province Minister Bowman Lusambo’s unshaken loyalty to President Edgar Lungu has unsettled some cabinet Ministers.
The Member who opted to have his identity withheld for the interview stated that a number of cabinet colleagues are unhappy with Mr Lusambo’s loyalty to President Lungu.
He said Mr Lusambo has always declared his unwavering loyalty for President Lungu which has unsettled some fellow Ministers.
The MCC said there is a cartel around President Lungu bent on fighting everyone defending his leadership.
“What we fear is that if these people who are disloyal to President Lungu have their way, people like Lusambo who are very loyal to His Excellency will be pushed aside so that the President is exposed,” the MCC said.
He added, “ my prayer is that the President can quickly wake up and see which people around him are helping him. What we know is that people like Lusambo are key as we go into the elections because the majority around the President are not helping him at all.”
The Member cited the issue were some cabinet Ministers openly opposed Mr Lusambo’s approach to the fight against Covid-19 only to go and back the same strategy in a cabinet meeting.
“These people don’t mean well for the President. Hon. Lusambo was all out fighting Covid-19 and they were busy disparaging his tactics but now they turn around and start implementing the same strategies in tacking Covid-19. This just confirms what some of us in the Central Committee have always suspected that some people are just fighting the Boss (President Lungu) himself and so they will fight anyone who is helping the Boss.”
He said Mr Lusambo has now been vindicated over the fight against Covid-19.
“The same thing happened during the gassing period, all the activities Hon. Lusambo initiated as Lusaka Province Minister we’re opposed. On the Copperbelt when he served as Minister, there were people fighting him and for me these fights are about his loyalty to President Lungu.”
The Member said it would be prudent for President Lungu to quickly shake up his cabinet saying it would be suicidal to go to an election with this kind of disloyalty people sitting close to the President.
“Most of us in the Central Commiter believe that Hon. Lusambo forms a key pillar to President Lungu because he is the only one able to defend the President and take on his enemies. If we only had even 10 of such Ministers, the President would be well protected,” the Member said.
Point of correction, that’s not loyalty BUPUBA
IT SHOWS THA HE KNOWS THAT HE IS NOT MINISTERIAL MATERIAL, SO HE CAN’T IMPRESS WITH REAL MINISTERIAL WORK BUT ONLY BOOTLICKING. BUT THINGS ONLY FALL APART WHEN THE CENTRE (IN THIS CASE LUNG) CANNOT HOLD.
THIS REBUKE OF LUSAMBO’S BEHAVIOUR BY OTHER MINISTERS IS ALSO A RESOUNDING REBUKE FOR THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY – WHO, UNFORTUNATELY, CAN’T SEE IT THAT WAY!!! GOD HELP ZAMBIA
That’s not loyalty bupuba
LOYALTY FOOLISHNESS = LUNACY….. Lusambo is not loyal to anyone but his TUMMY….
LOYALTY FOOLISHNESS = LUNACY….. Lusambo is not loyal to anyone but his TUMMY….
Lusambo uses Ba Edgar as door-mat. I bet he has picture of his PF boss in his toilet too, he put PF chitenge as mat to soak droppings of his urine from is uncircumcised …..
Did you see how it displayed Ba Edgar on bill-board with wrong face mask? He makes Ba Edgar look idyotic as itself Lusambo.
Here we go again. Fake news at its best. Anything that starts with chose to be anonymous is worthless. Even I can wake up today and publish an article alleging all sorts. This stinks of upnd. There is nothing wrong with being loyal to your boss. It shows that people have confidence in EC Lungus leadership. Amen
So, you who hide your identity is approving the arrogance of Lusambo, beating people, putting up personal bill boards, insulting KK family that they are suffering now because they did not steal while in government. Mocking Zambians that what is K2 million as pocket money when millions of Zambians are suffering. You even wish 10 such people would protect the lazy president well. In contrast, Zambians wanted Lusambo dead when he got sick as there was peace briefly during his sickness. Read Zambians mood well to write true stories.
This is an article of Lusambo by Lusambo and for Lusambo ….. Period!
Only foolishness that prevails in a country that once was great. I can never come back to such a SH!Thole country!
Clearly the source of this article is out to being division and confusion within the party but unfortunately the majority can see that it’s all fake. Sorry but this article is a sheer waste of time and thankfully the author chose anonymity otherwise their lack of “facts”would have been exposed. Let’s write sensible articles worth debating not these fictitious child play stories.
That kind of loyalty is for tyrants. In democracies people are supposed to be loyal to the nation not to Individuals. Turning a person into an idol is for autocrats
Lungu is so corrupted by the loyalty he can’t act against Lusambo. Lusambo beats up people in the name of loyalty to Lungu and he does n’t get arrested.
He insults people and Lungu is toothless. Lusambo told the Kaundas they were dull for not stealing Zambia’s taxes when KK was president and Lungu who subscribes to eating from the farm you work in was deafeningly silent.
In condemning the Kaundas Lusambo admitted to Zambians that he himself was busy eating from the farn and the ACC aren’t acting
It is not loyalty. It is bootlicking
Look at the rats bootlicking their ka god alpha and omega of PF
This god worshiping a president is why Africa is so backwards , and always will be.
@ Shameless I do agree with u. This article was written by either Lusambo or his bill board advisers. To me it is an indication that there is infighting in PF and Lusambo is beginning to position himself.
There is nothing wrong with being loyal but Lusambo simply needs to understand on how much loyalty he has to have for the president. I think loyal people are also honest and can tell their boss the truth and reality. It is not being loyal to simply saying yes. Lusambo also has a constitutional duty which he swore to be loyal to the people of his constituency and the Zambians at large. His behaviour is petty and tantamount to discrediting the presidency and making the work of the president especially difficult. It should never be a competition to who is more loyal and who is less, that simply brings division amongst the people involved. Lusambo alikwata amano ayabi saana!
Lusambo aleibumba umwine. This news was posted by lusambo to mislead ECL.
Indeed the boss surrounded by wrong and disloyal ministers
This article is usless. Its just rumour / conspiracy by the writer
There is no loyalty among thieves
Thats the calibre of Lungus cabinet. Full of bootlickers. The bigger your tongue the better your position.
Tangible jokes – Doesn’t any sane person know that there is a difference between bootlicking and loyalty. bootlicking is actually very dangerous because you start hobbling when you are supposed to be walking. In Mwanawasa’s government you declare yourself a bootlicker, the next day you are out, real objective President that one was.
What’s this article about? Lazy Lungu stood by his lapdog whatever he says…please such articles should be published in PF Konponya magazine
True There is no loyalty among thieves. Lusambo’s loyalty is to Theft
There it goes again, I wonder if here in Zambia we will ever gonna practice true tenants of Journalism, why in the first place should the editor of this publication allow such a propaganda to be published? where are our ethics mwe bantu? are we going to manage listening to fabricated news everyday? if it is ZNBC worse than the poverty we are experiencing in the country.
Mediocrity at the highest level, now busy with it, even putting it in news publications ati loyotie!!! Loyalty yakuni amudala. bantu putting their own family billboards for the purpose of gaining popularity. mocking Zambians that K2 million is nothing well for us if u find k1 in a day we call it lucky. write about struggling marketeers, barber men and bar owners to have a true picture of the suffering masses at the expense of loyalty.