HON MABONGA, A VICTIM OF A UPND CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY OPPOSITION- HON CHISANGA
………..says her Jailing is a clear example of lynching dissenting voices.
Lusaka………….17th May, 2025 (Smart Eagles)
Lukashya Member of Parliament Hon George Chisanga has condemned the Jailing of Mfuwe Member of Parliament Maureen Mabonga describing it as a dark day for Constitutional democracy.
Hon Mabonga was sentenced to 8 months imprisonment for alleged Seditious Practices.
Speaking at a Media briefing in Lusaka today, Hon Chisanga said what the country saw yesterday was not justice but a systematic lynching of descending voices.
He said Hon Mobonga is an innocent Victim by a wider campaign of the UPND to destroy the opposition while stamping its authority in the nation to create a defacto one party state.
Hon Chisanga is of the view that the timing of the sentencing amid constitutional amendment discussions, is aimed at skewing the debate in favor of the UPND because numbers for opposition begin to reduce.
He said the UPND want to push for Constitutional Amendments despite majority of the Stakeholders saying no to this hasty process.
“The opposition cannot divorce the jailing of Mabonga and Munir Zulu to this arrangement in making sure that they reduce capacity of the opposition to oppose the constitutional amendment process.
We are surprised that for a country that is limping economically, we can be so irresponsibly allow people to lose their positions as MPs and instigate by elections. The case of Emmanuel Jay Banda is another perfect example where his alleged abductors have never been called for questioning. The words used by Hon Mabonga if anybody subjected them, the words could not possibly be considered seditious. It was more surprising when the magistrate wanted to draw a comparison what Ms Mabonga said and the genòcide in Rwanda,” he said.
Hon Chisanga said it is clear that the UPND has proceeded with speed on it’s part of National distruction because the majority of the Citizens have sat back.
“At the rate the country is moving, many of the opposition who wish to exercise their rights, guaranteed for Citizens by the constitution will end up being jailed by this authoritative regime. The country faces a leadership that has quickly transformed into an authoritative regime,” he said.
The nation is aware that Hon. Mabonga joins a long queue of opposition leaders who have been victims of injustice since the UPND came into power. It is a very clear fact that Hon Mabonga was merely responding to a provocative statement that has become an order of the day by the UPND officials and cadres targeting the PF. Nothing has happened to the UPND officials who have been reported for various offences but have not been arrested,” he said.
And Hon Chisanga said the UPND have lost the moral right to rule the country as they have destroyed just about everything that exists in Zambia.
“It is time for Zambians to make a decision in 2026. Our call is to provide leadership in the opposition. We have the opportunity to redesign opposition politics.
We as members of Parliament for the PF we have to call the opposition to Unity. We need to restore the nation to its past glory. What we are going through is Gangsterism. We have replaced the Constitution and rule of law by the rule of savages,” Hon Chisanga explained.
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Mfuwe MP Maureen Mabonga’s jailing is no doubt one of the big stories of the week ending today, 17th May 2025. I consider the words she uttered which later led to her prosecution and conviction as one of the contours of a post-colonial state trying to be a nation. To me it means that the schooling system needs to come up with topics to teach pupils some things that can make people realise the commonalities in some of our local languages. These commonalities point to a common origin somewhere in the not-too-distant African past. Take the name ” “Zambezi” which is Tonga or Toka-Leya, Luvales say ” Yambeji” for the same river. The Bembas call the biggest river that flows through their area “Chambeshi”. This is just an adaptation of the same name. Isn’t this evidence of a common origin of all the languages of the three tribes which are not even neighbours as it happens? The schooling system should be teaching some of these things in local language lessons to help promote a sense of oneness. No doubt those fluent in more than one Zambian language can come up with other commonalities.
I do recognise that language and tribe are not the same thing, but in Zambia the two are often treated the same.
Gunner, you bring out a very important observation and I appreciate it.
You are absolutely right, ignorance and a false sense of superiority and in some cases deliberate exploitation of this ignorance for personal and political gain is at the center of these utterances which are hurtful and divisive.
You look at the Lundas and Bembas, they have names that are common and are all from the Lunda- Luba kingdom and yet you will find an ignorant politician who stupidly thinks one is better than the other and uses language that divides.
I personally have no time for discrimination of anyone based on colour, tribe, or ethnicity.
When we realise we are all children of God and that it’s not race, tribe or ethnicity of a person that makes the character of the person, then we can begin to be better human beings too.
Mabonga, as a leader, needs to know that contorting truth and agitating war are not part of the job description. She knew what she was doing and she deserves timeout for reflection in a penitentiary. Job well done, judiciary.
Chisanga, responsibility demands accountability. Your utterances are irresponsible and childish. We know that you are knowledgeable, but knowledge is not wisdom. I wish you could aspire to attain wisdom. Counsel your headless members to act responsibly. I would recommend the same to any political party, ruling or not.
It is better to destroy the useless opposition neocomps than to complicitely allow the creation of Rwanda-like genocide conditions, all in the name of “opposition.” Lawyer Chisanga is paid to utter stupidity garbed in irresponsible arguments.
Lest you forget, There must have been more intelligent lawyers in Rwanda, but did not prevent the death of many people. The aftermath trauma will linger to the end of time.
ALL THAT YOU ARE SAYING HERE IS TRUE OF PF AND NOT UPND MR CHISANGA. IT IS EVEN HEAVY TO CALL THE UTTERER OF THESE WORDS AS HONOURABLE BECAUSE WHAT IS COMING OUT HERE IS THAT HE SUPPORTS NONSESICAL EXPRESSIONS FROM PEOPLE ARE CLEARLY ADVOCATES OF TRIBAL WAR AND SEGREGATION OF TRIBES.
THOSE PEOPLE WHO PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM’S WAY SHOULD FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS AND IF YOU SOARE THE ROD, YOU SPOIL THE CHILD.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WHEN THOSE TWO COME OUT OF JAIL, THEY SHALL KNOW WHAT NOT TO SAY OR ADVOCATE FOR. ZAMBIA HAS BEEN AT PEACE AT PF STARTED THIS GANGSTERISM THROUGH CADERS. ZAMBIA DOES NOT NEED TRIBALISM ADVOCATES.
SEARCH THE ARCHIVES AT CENTRAL STATISTICS AND PUBLISH WHICH CABINET REVEALED THE MOST TRIBAL APPOUNTMENTS IN THIS COUNTRY.
UPND HAS COME AS A UNIFIER AND NOT A SEGREGATION TAINTED LEADERSHIP.
UPND HAS SANITIZED THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SPACE BY REJECTING ABUSE OF CITIZENS IN THE NAME OF SOCIAL MEDIA FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
VIVA HH AND ALUTA CONTINUA!
The shocking part is that an entire former Head of LAZ is supporting criminality. Who would go to such a man for legal advice if its clear that who he supports has been found guilty of a crime? What kind of lawyer peddles criminality and says a criminal is right?
She is a victim of her own remarks of which UPND has no part.
In case all of you bloggers above are not Zambians,please be informed that here in Zambia criminals are sent to jail by courts of competent jurisdiction and NOT by political parties.So criminal Mabonga could not have been sent to jail by the UPND