CHANGALA, SISHUWA BEHIND OCIDA LETTER – SOURCES
Impeccable sources within the Catholic Church have revealed the events surrounding the alleged Our Civic Duty Association (OCiDA) letter, exposing human rights activist Brebner Changala and South Africa-based lecturer Sishuwa Sishuwa as being allegedly behind the controversial petition to the American embassy.
Last week, the petition, purportedly written by former Lusaka Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu, requested the United States (US) government to place sanctions against some top Government officials.
The source said Bishop Mpundu was reportedly on a private visit to the US when the letter, advocating for sanctions against President Hakainde Hichilema and others, surfaced.
They also doubt whether Archbishop Mpundu was aware or consented to the statement addressed to American Ambassador to Zambia Michael Gonzales.
“Further insights from sources reveal that the alleged authors of the controversial statement are Mr Changala and Dr Sishuwa, the latter known for his vocal criticism of President Hichilema,” the sources said.
Efforts to get Dr Sishuwa failed while Mr Changala said he did not want to participate in the ongoing debate about the letter.
“I don’t want to participate in this. I would rather the bishop himself come and answer, he is not a child, he is the voice that has been available,” Mr Changala said.
source: Zambia Daily Mail
As usual, who else can do that? No surprise at all. Even this photo which is appearing, the Archbishop denied it. From his own mouth, this what he said and I quote, “I admit having met the former president Lungu but I never got so close to him as shown in the photo” off quote. So the doctoring of photos and information has been going on for a long time by these same people, the paparazzis of Zambia.
It is the UPND propaganda machine telling lies.
It will backfire for them.
Vote wisely in 2026.
You have a problem with your inferiority complex.You are like some who steals from someone and accuses the victim as being the culprit.Just change your attitude towards the UPND, the way most people tolerated the brutal PF and Lungu for seven years of hell .
2026 PF and UKA will be buried for good. Go UPND go
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For me I see a need to help Mr Changala to get into the main stream politics. He has a desire to be a political leader, but alas he has somewhat not managed. I have been reading most of his articles, yes the are those of a political leader and equally the contents of his articles are good. But he must join a party of his choice so that his grievances are properly analysed. As for Mr or Dr Sishuwa, he operates on impulse. He does not seem to know exactly what he wants. I would rather ask him to search his mind on his inclination regarding Zambian Politics.
Sishuwa Sishuwa? I doubt it. The prose in the said letter was below his standard.
Cool + for the post
The points raised in that letter are a true reflection of the situation Zambia has found it self in under the UPND. I support the points 100%…and the USA knows the status of Governance in Zambia. The US Ambassador, as all other western Ambassadors are here in Zambia.They are seeing what is happening in the Country..the executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary in the pocket of one man.
The abuse of state institutions, the situation at the Registrar of Societies, daily arrests of opposition leaders, no space for political parties to mobilize their parties, inertia of the Judiciary to make any rulings on PF cases, the Hakainde – Miles Sampa Project, Nellie Mutti’s breaches and conduct in Parliament , the ECZ and the sham elections it has been conducting from the time the UPND came into Power.. Kabwata ,Kafubu ,Kwacha and the ward bye elections..and on and on…abuse and misrule.
Read the pastoral letter of last year from the Catholic Bishops..The points raised in Arch Bishop Telesphore Mpundu’s Letter are a mirror of what the Bishops earlier said. The only addition was to call for sanctions against the people who have been blatantly abusing state institutions without any regard to the law. And as state counsel Sangwa said on Nellie Mutti, she might be the first former speaker to be jailed in Zambia…
And Arch Bishop Telesphore Mpundu cannot be cowed into silence, he stands on firm grounds and is supported by facts….and regardless of what the Praise Thugs can say, Zambia is on a dangerous path to a fully fledged dictatorship. WE HAVE EYES AND CAN SEE.
Left to his whims, Hakainde can’t manage a Presidential and General Election. He is failing to handle a simple Ward bye Election, what more of a General Election??? The Civil Society, political parties and the International Community will have to be more visible to ensure that the descent to dictatorship is arrested. Thank you Arch Bishop Telesphore Mpundu. Iam with you.
Hallucinating Hypocrite; you have nothing to do that’s why you are even wasting times on this useless write up. You compare with your PF! You were busy killing innocent Zambians in bloody day light and gassing; why didn’t you report yourselves to USA, the same people you refer to as imperialists?
What do these people want and why are they so blind to see the changes upnd has brought in the country Zambia. We all know and feel the economic hardship Zambian are going through, but which good to be beaten everyday by cadres and killed by the
so called cadres flashing fake money which has devastated our economy. Please learn to accept change for a better future and that’s what upnd stands for. Let the those blind see.
You can write a good article for a chongololo club.