CARRY YOUR BIBLE AND CONSTITUTION, NDOLA BASED CLERGY SUPPORTS CITIZENS FIRST CALL FOR COUNTRYWIDE PEACEFUL PROTESTS
Fellow Zambians, Children of God,
We speak to you today with a heavy heart not as those in partizan politics, but as servants of the people and of God.
The Citizens First party has called for countrywide peaceful protests. We support this call, because two great dangers 🚨 now stand before our beloved Nation.
1. There are clear threats to the electoral process ahead of the 13th August, 2026 general election. When voters’ registers are tampered with, when opposition is blocked from campaigning, when the playing field is not leveled — then democracy itself is in the ICU and an emergency.
2. We have noted with concern the secret recruitment of over 3000 police officers. A police service built in darkness cannot protect citizens in daylight. We refuse for our children to be policed by cadres in uniforms.
Fellow citizens, our Republican Constitution, under Article 21, gives us the citizens the right to assemble and speak freely. We shall use it, but hear this – we come and march in peace.
Brothers and sisters, fellow citizens, the matters of concern raised and issues affecting our people are not for the faint hearted. We will not fix Zambia with stones or fire. We must fix it with truth, with law, and with courage.
Therefore we urge all who protest to strictly observe the following:
1. No violence. Your hymn is your placard. Your discipline is your victory.
2. No insults. We rebuke sin, not sinners.
3. Carry your Bible and your Constitution. Both command us to love justice.
To the Zambia Police Service: The men and women being recruited in secret may one day take orders to harm you too. Stand with the law and protect the people you swore to serve.
To the Electoral Commission of Zambia: Open the doors. Let all political stakeholders be served fairly. An election stolen is a Nation stolen.
🧭 We protest because we love Zambia.
🧭 We protest because silence is complicity.
🧭 We protest in peace because God is not the author of confusion.
May the LORD guide our feet as we prepare to peacefully march for justice and a better Zambia for all to the glory of God. Zambia is a Christian Nation.
Mic 6:8
“He has made it clear to you, mortal man, what is good and what the LORD is requiring from you — to act with justice, to treasure the LORD’s gracious love, and to walk humbly in the company of your God”
Thank you.
✍🏾 Issued by:
Rev. Chilekwa Mulenga
Clergy and Advocate
for good Governance
(Advocating for good governance involves promoting transparency, accountability, and citizen participation to ensure public institutions serve the people effectively)
Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia 🇿🇲.
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Ba Rev Chilekwa Mulenga we know that your loyalty is with PF. However, I agree with your concerns over the secret recruitment in the police force. This is wrong. Infusing cadres through such recruitment can have catastrophic consequences. It creates serious indiscipline in the police force.
Your call for protests has its own dangers. Such gatherings can easily spin out of control and result in loss of life. Once a mob runs amok, it is difficult to restore order.
As for campaigns, the ECZ that you are appealing to has not declared the campaign period open. If I recall correctly, the window for campaigns is three months before the date of elections, that is from May to August. So it doesnot make sense to say political parties must be allowed to campaign any time. There are critical requirements for these campaign meetings, especially security logistics. If campaigns were conducted any time, it would mean that the police will have to spend a significant portion of their time providing security for such gatherings.
It would be to the detriment of the nation if we were to be in continuous campaign mode for five years, from one election to the next. That is why the ECZ designates a certain period just before elections for campaigns wether general elections or bye elections.
I hope Ba Rev Chilekwa Mulenga will be at the forefront of these protests, at least in Ndola. When bulllests start flying, hold your ground.
I really don’t understand what is happening in Hakainde Zambia.
How honestly can you come up with a Bill which seeks to remove the authenticity stamp on a Ballot Paper??
How honestly can you seek to remove the 3 month Campaign period from the Electoral Act and instead give Mwangala Zaloumis the power of discretion to determine when Election Campaigns can start?
How honestly can you reduce the verification of the Voters Register from 90 days to 14 days?
Hakainde ‘s Zambia has completely lost it.
For 5 years Opposition Political Parties have had no space to mobilise their parties. Locked up in a closet ,suffocating from oppression from 2021. Talk of the abuse of state Institutions to obliterate the Opposition Parties.
The only time at the disposal of Political Parties to interact with the people, to sell their manifestos is also under threat.
Takwaba.
This Zambia Hakainde is creating should be stopped. We are a Constitutional Multi Party Democracy, and should live as one.
A person who has a phobia for Elections shouldn’t be on the Ballot. His calling is not for Public Service in a Democracy…Let him be a Chief some where, not a leader of a Constitutional Democracy.
Protest for what? Anarchist always arise when it is elections time, careful, the law will get you
PF often recruited police officers in secret. Remember how officer cadets were recruited without appearing before the Officers’ Recruitment Board? Were you aware of this, and why were you silent? Stop using the pulpit for your political ambitions. Did you hear our Lord Jesus tell his disciples to demonstrate against the Roman rulers? You are even using scriptures to justify your disobedience.