George Mpombo Counter-Attacks HH over scandalous Mobile Hospitals-Gate

Mpombo swings his bat at HH

The Zambian Defence Minister, Hon. George Mpombo, has come out "smoking and swinging his bat" at UPND president's remarks that someone was out to profit from the scandalous plan to import Mobile Hospitals for rural areas. The Minister has asserted that president HH's remarks were an assault on the president's integrity and bordered on character defamation. He went on to say that the words were offensive, malicious and irresponsible. What Hon. Mpombo needs to realize, rather fast, is that Zambia is a democracy and also a country that is riddled by corruption. History and experience has made Zambians wary about the scourge. Zambians do not expect the MMD leadership and its masquerading stalwarts to whistle-blow their own shortcomings. Therefore, someone else has to do it! And that's where HH and other opposition parties come in. Having said that, the Hon. Mpombo must realize that the opposition which act like they have the interest of the poor, are not going to let Zambia slip into a free-for-all type of situation when it comes to procurement and other matters of significance and national interest. Whether the president should get involved in making procurement decisions is another matter. The best the President can do is avoid getting bogged down by procurement issues and let the officials and institutions responsible do their job.

Taking Issue personal

It's amazing how MMD condones the situation where anyone who is anybody in their ranks can wake up and open their mouths and go to bat in defense of the president over an issue that is surely brewing into a Mobile Hospitals-Gate. Their is no human-being that is capable of thinking for another, let alone read minds and thoughts. However, Hon. Mpombo is on record that the president had the rural masses in mind when he made a statement to the effect that Mobile Hospitals for rural areas would be procured from "friendly" China. Maybe Hon. Mpombo is blessed with the gift of a mind reader. Let him spare the people of such a gift. The Hon. Mpombo should stop acting as if hes is a Minister of Denials and Misinformation. 

The Attack on HH

It's clear that remarks by HH have extremely insensed Hon. Mpombo to the extent where he feels that, for a good measure, he must give some back to HH. Hon. Mpombo has lunged at HH by stating that HH has a injured conscience and one who made his entry into politics through the the back door by a mere annointment. He has called HH an "unexperienced" politician. But who has experience in Zambian politics and has the experience translated into anything?

Some of Hon. Mpombo's veiled comments against HH give an impression that he knows alot about HH's past. He has insinuated that HH has cobwebs in his closet that tie him back to the time of privatization. That's interesting and I'm sure Zambians would like to know what it is that he is point to. Therefore, it goes without saying that, if Hon. Mpombo has reliable and bankable information about HH's illegal activities during privatization, he must expose it now so that the due process of the law can take it 's course.