HICHILEMA’S REIGN OF TERROR, VIOLENCE
Mr Hakainde Hichilema is promoting and abetting political violence in this country to retain power. UPND cadres are allowed to attack, harm, or even kill his political opponents with impunity. And the police seem helpless. They neither stop nor arrest violent UPND cadres. Instead, it is their victims who are further brutalised and arrested by the police. This happened to us in Serenje last year. It happens to us in by-elections almost all the time.
The attacks on innocent mourners of the Kambwili brothers in Chingola today tell it all.
Zambians should brace themselves for more and more of this type of violence from Mr Hichilema and his cadres.
With this conduct, with this attitude, it won’t be possible to have free, fair, and peaceful elections in 2026. Even now, we are not able to have peaceful, free, and fair by-elections under Mr Hichilema.
Aba Bemba batila mputi isula taileka. Ilyalemana taibula cilaso.Umuntu wa bufi, no mutima wakwe emo walola.
But ulubuli talwabuka mumana.
But Mr Hichilema doesn’t have the monopoly over political violence. Umupalu wa nsofu, afwa ku nsofu. Icifupa wa minine mu bukangalume, napa kuciluka mu bukangalume. Muteya ciliba cenjela, nga cakufwanta wilila.
Ilyalemana taibula cilaso. Uko muti wasendamina, eko ukawila.
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party