By LUCY PHIRI
The Lusaka Magistrate Court has ordered all the Patriotic Front (PF) bus drivers who were chased from Kulima Tower Bus Station to start operating without any interference.
The cadres who turned up in numbers to support their friends yesterday at the courts, celebrated as the Court ordered them back to work at the station without hindrance from the ruling United Party for Nation Development (UPND) cadres.
This is a matter in which Felix Mumba, Ernest Chansa, David Sikapizya and Charles Mbulo sued Nicholas Banda, Charles Musonda, Friday Kawimbi, Steven Mwale and others for restricting them from carrying out any activities at the station and further harassing, threatening and interfering in their enjoyment of peace.
And Kulima Tower acting station Manager Lisa Tembo said she never received any complaints of the ruling UPND chasing the Patriotic Front cadres from operating at the station.
“ I did not receive any reports of the UPND cadres chasing the opposition PF at the station, but if that’s the case then let them go back to the station and no one should chase them,’’ she said.
She also said UPND members are not supposed to chase anyone from the station, and if they have a problem let them report to the Lusaka City Council.
Meanwhile, magistrate Alice Walusiku said the matter should come to an end, because the court will not manage handling cadres being chased from the station every now and then.
Magistrate Walusiku then ordered the drivers to start operating without any interference unless the council wants to come in.
She said politics should not divide the country, and urged everyone to maintain the one Zambia one nation slogan, as every Zambian wants peace.
