Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:11:44 +0000
By MUKOSELA KASALWE
THE Catholic Church has been asked to intervene and stop intemperate and provocative language used by UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema.
In a letter to the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC), Zambia Youths Association in the Fight against Corruption, chief executive officer, Maurice Malambo said Mr Hichilema’s engagements with the public were not only inflammatory but also prosecutable at law.
Mr Malambo feared that Mr Hichilema’s inflammatory and political aggressive engagements could lead the country into political turmoil.
He bemoaned Mr Hichilema’s perpetual and historical inflammatory type of politics expressing worry that it could generate tension.
The letter is also copied to the UPND secretariat, former Heads of State – Dr Kenneth Kaunda and Mr Rupiah Banda, the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia, Zambia Centre for Interparty Dialogue, SACCORD and FODEP.
“As a matter of fact some of his engagements with the public are not just inflammatory but also prosecutable at law. We therefore sincerely hope and pray that the Conference and other like minds will find propriety in preventing the systematic generation of tension in the country,” he said.
Mr Malambo observed that Mr Hichilema’s well calculated aggression and mischief was not a product of the alleged misgivings regards the 2016 general election and the subsequent judgment in the Presidential petition.
He said Mr Hichilema was on record on numerous occasions having engaged in dangerous discourse such as in 2012, during the tenure of late Michael Sata when the opposition leader said he received daily intelligence briefs before the Head of State does.
Recently, the UPND leader in Chibombo, urged citizens not to be cowards but to take power in their own hands.
