PF Continues Attempts to Offer Payments to Encourage Defectors

The Patriotic Front (PF) have been seen to continue their pitiful efforts to encourage opposition political party members to defect in a bid to win the August elections.

Speaking on Thursday during a radio interview, the Socialist Party General Secretary and First Vice-President, Dr Musumali, said that the PF had approached 25 of his party members to encourage them to pull out of the party. 

Dr Musumali described the scenario as “pathetic” and a “whole joke”.

“It’s a mockery of the basic tenets of democracy in this country. The issue of corrupting and giving money to people has not stopped. It’s actually intensifying.”  

He continued in commenting that democratic decisions should not involve cash incentives.  

“If democracy is about choice, choices are not made by buying off people.”

In the radio interview, Dr Musumali questioned why the PF felt such corruption necessary.  

“So, where is this fear coming from? Why this desperation?” He asked.

The documentation of such corruption within the Political Front adds to previous similar accounts made by the UPND. The party’s spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa was offered cash incentives alongside a Land Cruiser worth K6 million by the PF if he defected. The offer was declined.

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