IF KAUNDA AND SIMON MWANSA KAPWEPWE WERE THE WAY WE ARE TODAY
…Zambia would still be colonized – Gabriel Elias Banda
Lusaka, Monday, October 9, 2023 (Smart Eagles)
Socialist Party (SP) National Youth Secretary Gabriel Elias Banda has wondered if the country would have been liberated if the first Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda and other freedom fighters were the way Zambians of today are.
Mr Banda said this over the conduct of the police service after SP notified the police that they would hold a rally in Kitwe.
The rally was requested for by residents in the mining town who are wallowing in poverty under the leadership of the President Hakainde Hichilema and they are yearning for a message of hope from the SP president.
The residents appressed their concerns and disclosed that they were fed up with the lies from the incumbent administration.
And Mr Banda asked President Hichilema why he hasn’t repealed the Public Order Act as he promised prior to the 2021 elections.
“Zambia will be celebrating 59 years of independence on the 24th of October. President Hakainde Hichilema, when you were in opposition you promised Zambians that immediately you win you will repeal the Public Order Act. Have you fulfilled the promise?” he said.
“Youths voted because they believed that the Public Order Act was being used by colonial masters to abuse citizens. President Hakainde Hichilema said he was going to repeal the Act, today he is still using it. Lies. SP wrote to the police notifying them of the intentions to hold a rally. We wanted to speak about the problems people are facing on the Copperbelt. People on the Copperbelt are hit hard with high cost of living because the mines are closed.”
The young vibrant leader slammed UPND for abusing the application of the Public Order Act.
“This is an unfair application of the Public Order Act. The world is watching. The entire country is watching what is happening. If Kaunda and Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe were the way we are today, would they have liberated the country?” he said.
He also accused President Hichilema of not caring about the welfare of the poor Zambians.
“President Hakainde Hichilema said when he was in opposition that he wouldn’t bring Vedanta back because he was not paying contractors… today he has brought him back. He doesn’t feel the suffering of the youths, women, the sufferings of our parents on the Copperbelt,” he said.
“They don’t want us to speak to the people on the Copperbelt. They told us they didn’t have enough officers to police the rally, how many officers did they send on the day the rally was supposed to take place? Wasn’t it more than 200…where did the police come from?”
The story of Zambias independence needs to be written correctly. Zambia never had a liberation movement to fight for her independence and her smooth road to independence wàs within a peaceful 10 year period of federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Show me the graves of our liberation heroes, which military wing of UNIP and ANC Brigade fought for our independence? Where was this Military wing trained, who were it’s commanders. Pleas let’s have a correct history of our independence. We have hero worshipped wrong people for a long time. Truth be told , BRITAIN after second world war was in economic mess and did not have any interest in non profitable territories like Zambia. That’s how the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland came about. The path to independence wlas mutual and was devoid of bloodshed and war. Contrast this with Zimbabwe or Kenya where to heir were liberation movements with full fledged military wings , well trained and armed to the hilt. LETS RE TELL OUR STORY PROPERLY. We are now in the information age . The story we have been told for a long time was a lie . Browse the internet and see if you will collaborate this fake story.
I wish we were still colonized. We would have had the strongest economy is southern Africa.