A Picture Summarising the State of Zambia
Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba Wrote;
President Hakainde Hichilema has chosen to celebrate International Womens Day in Kasama Northern Province. This is a day celebrated annually to give focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and to fight violence and abuse against women.
Kasama Central Member of Parliament, Hon.Sibongile Mwamba was on hand to receive the President.
Her father, former Minister of Defence, former Vice President to UPND, and former Running Mate to President Hakainde Hichilema (2016), PF Member of the Central Committee and Chairperson for Mobilisation, Hon. Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba popularly known as GBM is in prison for a suspicious case of failing to declare business interests.
Since October 2024, GBM is in Mwembeshi Prison and is battling a serious medical condition.
They have denied him bail, pending appeal and have denied him access to specialised medical treatment.
GBM is not alone in this suffering. Others such as PF Deputy Secretary General, Hon. Nixon Chilangwa, Hon. Ronald Chitotela, Hon. Bowman Lusambo, Kawambwa Town Council chairperson, Kalumba Chifumbe, Francis Muchemwa and many other leaders belonging to the former ruling party, the Patriotic Front, have been convicted on disputable charges and denied, a matter of right, bail pending appeal.
Sibongile had to probably battle hard and bury all those feelings and forced to display a beaming smile to receive President Hakainde Hichilema and “happily” walk hand-in-hand, with the persecutor of her father.
Hichilema’s supporters may be persuaded to say; “It’s not President Hichilema, he is not ACC, he is not the courts!”
But everyone knows who is fiercely controling the ACC, the Police, the Judiciary, Parliament, the Electoral Commission of Zambia and other democratic institutions.
Hichilema is presiding over the most tyranical and autocratic government after the dictatorship of President Kenneth Kaunda (1973-1991).
Besides the cost of living crisis and the poor economy he has fostered, Hichilema has shrunk the democratic space, he has weaponised Law Enforcement Agencies against his critics and political opponents, he disregards the Constitution with impunity and his government especially the police frequently abuse human rights as catalogued and documented by the Human Rights Commission, United Nations Human Rights Council Report, USA Country Report, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch International and others.
So under this regime, its in black and white; you work with us and eat the carrot or face the Sjambok!
I’m however inspired. Every autocracy, every dictatorship and every tyranny falls and the will of the people wins and freedom comes, freedom reigns!
Today, on March 8, 1917 in Russia, factory women workers of the city launched a strike protesting bread shortages.
Men soon joined in solidarity with slogans of “Bread!” and “Down with the Tsar!”
Before long,100,000 women were marching down the streets of the Russian capital Petrograd, demanding bread, improved working conditions, and an end to the rule of the Tsar.
Their march, on March 8, triggered a chain of events that resulted in the Russian Revolution and, later on, created International Women’s Day.
Mwamba is so bitter. This bitterness is worse than witchcraft and it appears to be getting worse by the day.
Mwamba was slapped with false charges of assaulting a policeman. Do you really think that is what happened? Or it does not matter as long as it is your messiah arresting innocent people?
Reject tribalism, corruption and oppression.
God bless Captain Ibrahim Traore, a true leader of his nation, and a beacon of hope for the entire Africa!
Vote wisely in 2026.
P@nyo pako go and work.It will never work bwana.They did very well to adjust Zambian education to form 6. Infact it was supposed to be 14 yrs before college/university.You are not wise boss
You are next to go to jail,rule of law at play,actually those numbers are not enough they should be more, its not HH jailing them but the law
You’re on the run and you’re surprised that Sibongile is HH7? Jealous will eat you young. Hope You made a lot of money when you were selling with ECL.
Jealous will kill you .
UNLIKE THE WAY YOU TREATED HH, HE HAS EVEN ALLOWED YOU TO SPEAK FREELY WITHOUT BEING PURSUED WITH BLAZING GUNS.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU WANT PEOPLE THAT ERRED TO BE SET FREE.
THAT IS THE MENTALITY OF A THIEF.
S GETS.
THIS GOVERNMENT HAS A VISION TO RULE WITH INTEGRITY AND A RESPECT FOR HUMANITY..
IF YOU COMMIT AN OFFENCE BE READY TO GO TO JAIL.
MWAMBA YOU ARE A FREE PERSON FOR NOW, BUT JAIL AWAITS YOU AS LONG AS YOU GO AGAINST THE LAW, SUCH AS THAT ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER.
The convictions are a good lesson to our politicians, without these convictions, politicians where going to be encouraged to have a field day with national resources. Imagine what could have happened if HH also encouraged his politicians to help themselves to national finances like ECL, we were not going to have a country, imagine some presidents daughters even going to the extent of fencing off part of the country as hers for the taking, and still coming back with a straight face without shame and still calling herself a leader. Pure hipocricy.
Sibongile is above you, she has a breathing head and knows HH is the president of Zambia and she has a duty to be with him at that moment. The case with the father should not define government engagements, government is government it’s not a family grouping we’re you can set your own rules.
She has a wise head and with that gesture she may lobby from the president to use his mercy on special days and pardon the father. HH is not the law and can only use his power were the law permits him.
Well spoken Mr Bean!