PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has expressed displeasure at the conduct of four dismissed UPND MPs whom he says did not vote for Bill 7 as the ruling party had dictated. He named the MPs as Gary Nkombo, Elias Mubanga, Elijah Muchima and Newton Samakayi. He said he doesn’t want such MPs who go against the party position. His latest remarks in Solwezi raise two very important issues. The first is the tone of intolerance that appears to be creeping into the ruling party’s handling of internal dissent. The second is the glaring contradiction between what the President has now told the nation and what the official record of Parliament showed when Bill 7 passed. We do understand that when a political...