DANGEROUS TIMES: ARISE AND DEFEND DEMOCRACY
There has never been a time in our country’s history that natural life has been so unstable, irritating, and tense for the citizens.
Never have citizens been so desperate and abandoned in the face of hardship. Never have citizens encountered a government and leadership that is so deceitful, self-serving, and absolutely disconnected to the reality facing the masses.
Indeed, never have citizens seen our country driven to the cliff-hanger, with people distracted expediently by brazen political, economic, and ethnic bias. There is no leader or administration that has desecrated our patriotism and existence as a nation like Mr Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND have done today.
We have never faced a shameless regime that is resolved to govern through intimidation, persecution, vindictiveness, and fear. A regime that uses the police and law enforcement to abuse, pursue, and mistreat political competitors and private citizens under the guise of safeguarding peace, national security, and order.
As we have said before, under Mr Hichilema and the UPND, authoritarianism has returned to Zambia with vengeance.
Certainly, we have a regime that has calculated to suppress free political expression to prevent opponents and private citizens from holding them to account. And they’re increasingly getting desperate because they have seen that multitudes of citizens are frustrated and disgruntled and have no faith, trust, and confidence in our country’s processes and systems.
Mr Hichilema and the UPND’s many failures have exposed them as incompetent and incapable of fulfilling the vast campaign promises they made to the Zambian people. And now that they can no longer manipulate and deceive the people, they want to dodge responsibility by silencing political rivals and citizens through repression, victimization, and draconian laws. Even Mr Hichilema’s once upon a time, well-manicured speeches and commitments about democracy and governance have all ended up in the political graveyard of forgotten and never to be spoken about dreams.
This government poses the greatest danger to our rights, freedoms, and existence.
Indeed, these are dangerous times!
As Mr Hichilema and his league’s grip on power keep getting tighter and tighter. They’re mercilessly choking everybody and everything that dares to stand in their way. They’ve even stopped pretending about their brutal style of governance. They now wear tyranny as a badge of pride and honour.
To them, it’s either their way or no way. They’re determined to entrench themselves without hesitation through manipulation of the law, legislative mischief, malicious abuse of governance systems, and exercise of physical violence and force. They’re resolved to leave the young and tender bodies of the future of this country – the young people – with mental and physical wounds and scars. If this is what it will take for Mr Hichilema and his league to keep power momentarily.
But this new way of life – democracy and style of governance – which Mr Hichilema and his friends in the European Union and the United States are trying to shove down our throats must be defied. It must be fearlessly challenged and fought against. If the US and the EU are proud and therefore approve Mr Hichilema’s numerous human rights violations, constitutional breaches, and undemocratic tendencies, Zambians must show them that they abhor these abuses by rising and defending democracy. We must all be psychologically charged and cocked to sacrifice for our country, which is our intrinsic duty as citizens.
The truth is, Mr Hichilema and his government are not with the people. Logically, the people are also not with them. And we are the people who wield the real power and form the majority. So, we have a whole lot of what it takes to command the direction of our country.
We must not allow Mr Hichilema and his league to alter our lives in any form. Let us be peaceful in resistance, but at the same time, we should not allow ourselves to be domesticated by a leadership that has failed by all standards.
The country is definitely ripe for regime change. And so be that change by resisting the illegal and improper measures Mr Hichilema and the UPND want to impose on us.
This is the bigger and ultimate sacrifice that we should all make in order for our country to continue being the way we have always known it to be.
2026 Aleya!
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
We should defend democracy against Meembe. Meembe is indeed very dangerous!
I concur with your observations 100%.
For fred mmembe, since he is pretending not to see what the President of the Republic of Zambia, President HAKAINDE Hichilema and tgthe e UPND government and it’s Alliance partners has done among other campaign promises so far,
1. He promised free education – He and they have dobe it.
2. I increase CDF – He and they have done it from K1,600,000.00 to now K30,000,000.00+ ( they have done it )
3. Employment especially in public service / civil service more than 50,000. Jobs created in their 2 years in govt. ( they have done it and still doing so)
4. Restoration of rule of law – (a) Removing edga and kapyongos cadres from bus stops and markets where they were
Collecting / getting the revenue that was supppsed to be collected by local councils
(a) Beating and harassing people, passengers and marketeers. ( they have done it and still improving by eleminating the rebels who have infiltreted in the camp and system, are being sorted out)
( c) Caders wearing military artires and always moving with guns at times with pangas to maim the citizens – they have done it.
(d) PF cadres moving caresly on the road oncluding check points with vehicles with ECL 2021 as number plates – ( they have done it.
5. Resotallation of meal allowances for UNZA and CBU University students which was abomished ny lungu and nkandu luo – ( they have done it )
6. Increasing the number of students at public universities receiving bursaries and loans and also extending the facility to more than 5 public universities. ( they have done it )
7. Buying local especially the desks for schools that pf was largly importing from China- ( they have done it).
8. Building more svhools clinics and mothers shelters in most rural areas of Zambia using CDF – ( He and they have done ut and still doing so )
9. Inclusive cabinet – ( He and they have done it )
10. Freedom of speech – ( He and they have done it and still doing so)
This is just afew numbering 10 but the line is long and reaching more than 20
Comparison with your ecl and PIEF
1. Rule of law – there was total break down
2. Cadrism- was at it’s worst even civil servants were not spared others were nearly burnt to ashes in their offices
3. Not inclusive cabinet and at the line of PSs.
4. Day light killings – students like simujila, civil servants like nsama nsama, youths like joseph kaunda and lawrence banda to mention but afew
5. Getting / collecting and pockerting money that belongs to the people through the state in markerts and bus stops
6. Promoting regionism and tribalism
7. Promoting and highly involved in corruption, gassing people etc
8. Segregation in disbursing CDF
9. Clossing media houses with diversion views like PRIME TV, MUVI TV including your own post news paper which you were even evading tax because of your pompus and. Also
Lack of employment
10. Removing meal allowances for university students and also replacing bursaries with loans and with 15% interest to students when they themslves were educated freely by KKs UNIP government and even now their chilsred by pauf for by the government
Babblings from a disgruntled, bitter person and would-be terrorist. He doesn’t mean well for this country. The earlier he is caged the better for the peace loving people of Zambia…
A terrorist in a sheepskin. A selfish person who doesn’t mean well for mother Zambia. May the Lord God almighty put him in his rightful place and position for the good of our beloved country, Zambia.
Uyu angena mundende
Your bitterness will soon kill you. Fred you will never appreciate anything as you are always complaining. Unfortunately you are not a “republican president material”. Condolences my dear.
Keep on yapping bwana fuledi mmembe, personally I consider you as agent for devil.How many people dead because of hunger fuledi mmembe?
HH, HH HH HH HH HH……….. all the time. Kwakutuba kumatako mulombwana.
Dr. M’membe is truly an assassin. His incessant attacks on HH reminds me of his Post Newspaper editorials on Mr. FJT Chiluba.
Was Dr. M’membe an adult during the later days of the UNIP regime? Or maybe he was a toddler. If he was an adult, has he conviniently forgotten about the shortages of everything that plagued the nation?
This man’s ability to exergerated the current hardships is amazing. Yes, the economy is biting but it I not the worst we have ever experienced. Personally, the hardships of the UNIP days top the list and we are nowhere near those days.
Dr. M’membe can mislead the younger generation but not those of us who are older.
Anya nafuti Mmembe. Ninaona ati kapena aleka va matuvi matuvi kansi aba jaila si anga siye. Anya nafuti!!
How come he is talking of democracy? Is he not a socialist?