Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:11:46 +0000
By Bennie Mundando
IT IS hypocritical for Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba and his UPND friends to continue branding Zambia as tyrannical and expect law enforcers to remain mute and watch them break the law with impunity in the name of democracy, the PF has charged.
Lusaka province information and publicity chairperson Christopher Shakafuswa told the Daily Nation that the fuss that Mr. Mwamba was creating to the outside world over the incarceration of UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema would not help the party in any way.
Mr. Shakafuswa said while Zambia was a democratic and multi-party State where citizens had freedoms of speech and association, such freedoms came with responsibilities and that there was no single country that would promote lawlessness by being selective in the application of the same law that put Mr. Hichilema behind the bars.
He said Mr. Mwamba’s call to the international community to intervene in the incarceration of Mr. Hichilema was useless because the same international community upheld the election of President Edgar Lungu, which the UPND was disputing, as free and fair.
“Being a democracy does not provide for lawlessness and irresponsibility and if Mr. Mwamba thinks that he will compel the international community to be swayed into ascribing to lawlessness, then he is mistaken because these people recognise the election of President Lungu.
“There is no one who is above the law and therefore, people should not when they are found wanting because if the law is going to be selective, where some people are let scot-free even when they are wrong, then there will be chaos in this country and no Zambian wants that to happen,” Mr. Shakafuswa said.
He said if Zambia was embroiled in tyranny, the UPND would no longer exist as a political party.
