PATRIOTIC Front national mobilization committee chairperson Richard Musukwa says President Edgar Lungu is disturbed by the recent public display and dispensing of volumes of cash by some PF members during mobilisation engagements.

In a statement, Monday, Musukwa banned all PF members and aspiring candidates from disbursing cash at public gatherings.

“President Edgar Lungu is disturbed by the recent public display and dispensing of volumes of cash by some PF members during Mobilisation engagements. The Patriotic Front has with immediate effect banned its members and aspiring candidates from disbursing cash at public gatherings as a means of mobilising the electorates. All forms of public display of cash during meetings is against the ideological foundations of PF as a pro-poor party. All forms of support to churches, marketeers and other interest groups should be in the form of projects and welfare programmes,” stated Musukwa.

“All PF members should take a lead in advancing practices that promote a free and fair political environment ahead of the August 2021 general election. PF members are bound by the directive adding that erring individuals will face consequences for their actions. The PF won the 2011 and 2016 general elections without resorting to public cash disbursements. Public cash disbursement only fuels unwarranted allegations of corruption regardless of one’s source of money.”