Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:23:45 +0000
UPND cadres at it again
Dear Editor,
The UPND leaders and lawyers have a lot to answer for the unruly UPND cadres who heckled, insulted and almost physically manhandled the Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs Godfridah Sumaili at the Magistrates Court where she had been summoned for contempt of court in the on-going matter for treason in which the complainants were the incarcerated UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema and five other accused persons (“Minister attacked”, Daily Nation, June 20, 2017).
In the weeks before this near-riotous incident, both UPND lawyers and the magistrates who have so far presided over the UPND leader’s treason case presented and complained about the heavy presence of police officers as intimidating, not fit for court tranquillity and unnecessary for law and order maintenance in courtrooms and around the court premises.
What do they now say to this heckling and harassing of the government minister?
Going by the heckling and harassing the Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs was subjected to by unruly UPND cadres, doesn’t the absence of police officers around the court grounds smack of déjà vu to the mayhem that took place at the High Court grounds in the recent past?
The UPND cadres were at it again. Wasn’t the UPND cadres’ behaviour an ominous and obvious ploy to intimidate the potential witness?
In the above context, it seems that the moment the unruly UPND cadres are challenged by law enforcement officers for unruly behaviour, they squeal for their constitutional freedoms and accuse the officers for police brutality.
But what about the constitutional freedoms of the individual government minister Godfridah Sumaili?
In essence, the UPND cadres unwittingly attacked the freedom of the individual government minister who was rightfully complying to a court order initiated by their own incarcerated leader.
The unruly conduct of UPND cadres which was in full view of the UPND lawyers at the Magistrate Court was not only embarrassing but obnoxious too.
They failed to self-regulate themselves through their own hierarchical leadership structures that was present at the time.
At the same time, they allowed, if not helped, riotous behaviour to flourish and prevail at court premises.
The UPND indeed overplayed its hand at the Magistrates Court grounds by heckling the Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs willy-nilly.
But, when this obnoxious conduct is being corrected by Zambia Police, the UPND squeals for its constitutional freedoms and accuses the officers for police brutality.
Finally, it seems that there is an agenda promoted with the assistance of the online domestic and international media to weaken the PF through a host of insinuations and accusations, including character assassinations and slanted social media reports.
The goal is to force the PF authorities to prematurely set free the incarcerated UPND leader before the court process is concluded.
This will mean that the PF will be disadvantaged and finally weakened before the 2021 polls.
The architects of these strategies will however not succeed, as the pro-PF voter base remains too large, and the party too popular in the 7 provinces of Zambia.
Mubanga Luchembe,
LUSAKA
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Chingola civic leaders a let down
Dear Editor
I write with a sad heart how civic leaders in Chingola have continued violating their civic responsibility with impunity.
Civic leaders by their nature are supposed to be people’s representatives all the time not only when they need their votes.
It is however sad how most Chingola residents have been taken for granted by those they ushered in offices to be their mouth pieces.
It is so sad that despite reporting a human decomposed body as early as Saturday by Chingola Town Cemetery after the body was discovered in the bush by birds chasing boys, no civic leader had shown his/her face at the scene by Tuesday morning.
One then wonders whether some of these civic leaders know their role in the community.
Why should they associate with the communities only when its elections time yet abandoning them when they are needed most?
It is for this reason that when some of us voice out our grievances, we are “marked’’ their enemies.
But we are not going to keep looking when we know that they are where they are because of us.
Time for using us is long gone.
Wisdom Muyunda
Chingola
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Britain should worry more about its current insecurity not Zambia
Dear Editor,
When I read in the Mast about UK warning its citizens about a possible civil unrest in Zambia I could not but help laughing my lungs out.
Surely if I was a Briton I would be more concerned about the current high levels of insecurity in Britain.
At least 79 people are believed to have died, from the huge fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower in West London recently.
What about those terrorists attacks on the London Bridge, and vehicles killing pedestrians?
Its neighbour Portugal has lost more than 80 lives in strange fires.
Oh I almost forgot about the shootings in the USA capital Washington. These are real issues not what UK thinks may happen in Zambia.
In fact BBC yesterday reported that Policing in England and Wales could be at “significant” risk if resources are diverted to fight terrorism, it quoted UK’s top counter-terrorism officer.
With more than 700 officers and staff dealing with inquiries relating to the London and Manchester attacks, police must find resources for counter-terrorism work from elsewhere.
So is there any reason UK should lose its sleep on imagined wars in Zambia? It is herself already in trouble.
Britain should put its house in order first before pointing accusing fingers because Zambians are not fools.
You see, what many Zambians may not know is that the UPND leadership had promised the West a lot of rubbish including freedom for homosexuality and freemasonry without which Zambia has been deemed a dictatorship. My foot!
But when HH lost, it was a big blow to them and from which they may NEVER recover. So they will be accusing Zambia until 2021 and ECL will again beat them hands down. God you are great!
President Lungu being a Christian has said no to these two evils whose master is Satan hence the negative publicity he is now receiving in the West-sponsored Mast.
But God is already fighting President Lungu’s wars. He has taken the wars to London (the world’s gay capital) and Washington which recently lost 22 sailors.
I want to assure the West that there will be NO civil war in Zambia because the majority of Zambians voted for peace and President Lungu.
I thank you Lord for having taken the wars to the West as you daily protect our Christian nation. With God all is possible.
The West has yet to pay for their sins against God. It is just a matter of time. Mark my words.
Josiah Soko, Salima Road, Matero
