UPND’s Chilanga MP Candidate

Charmaine Musonda

Dear Editor,

The UPND must respond to the people’s reaction and explain their decision to adopt Charmaine Musonda for the Chilanga seat, if at all there is any validation. She cannot be disassociated from the murder crime Mukata committed whether she is guilty or innocent. In politics the court’s opinion does not matter, it’s the court of public opinion that counts. This is the unjust reality she has to face for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

With this choice UPND are not offering voters a capable candidate, they are offering voters a murder suspect with a mystery which only herself and Mukata knows. I don’t want to call her a prostitute or a criminal but this is definitely insensitive to the family of the diseased guard. For God’s sake, UPND should be better than PF, who appoint ministers with a record of shooting people.

The best UPND should do is demonstrate leadership and humility by acknowledging their misjudgement and field another candidate. Charmaine Musonda must also read the mood and accept that it is too soon and grossly awkward to replace Mukata. This has a bad taste, because to some extent justice won’t be fully served to Mukata if UPND are suggesting that even in prison Mukata will somehow managed to keep his job through a “surrogate”.

RW