08/01/2026
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You know Musamba our politicians have a way to mess us up or project their own weaknesses onto the entire community and you. The issue of political victimization and tribe is the case in point.
Yes PF was bad and most of their members largely tribal but I don't think it's the case of beating anyone from Choma. Like you have rightly said, it was more to do with the party of course with tribal yes
In some cases, current party may even be worse. Take case of UNZA which largely is dominated by Zambezi region for both employees and students .Prof Luo as education Minister gave directive to then Vice Chancellor an Easterner to fire then Deputy Dean of Students a Southerner as he was said to be organizing students against the PF. Truly he was doing it ( I am not condoning the directive to fire him). The VC stood up to the Minister and refused to fire him. Instead, he transferred him to teaching without losing his entitlements. Even the health Minister had a lot of southerners he tolerated and even promoted if they sang him praises but of course he was very brutal to those southerners perceived to be UPND.
There were also many staff members who were UPND but none was fired from the institution on tribal grounds. Many who lost jobs 'genuinely ', like the current ICT director at Electoral Commission and many more even appeared before that Committee at Cabinet Office that was looking at those perceived to have been victimized on tribal grounds . UNZA was summoned and presented evidence that clearly showed no tribal victimization and there were no reinstatements.
In UNZA it was the first time under new dawn that people started losing jobs based on change of government. The system would normally let office bearers run their course but hey, they fired even those whose contracts were nearing the end. They ended up losing millions in compensation related to unfair dismissals.
The firings were clearly tribal and yet most of the people fired joined the institution with no tribal favours but simply on merit
