It’s wrong for BM, MZ to promise to release their jailed friends – Kalaba … this is the same power HH is abusing
Citizens First (CF) leader Harry Kalaba says it is wrong for NRPUP presidential candidates Brian Mundubile and his running-mate Makebi Zulu to have in their manifesto that they will release their imprisoned friends from jail.
Featuring on Radio Icengelo, Kalaba said someone seeking the presidency should not be promising to release people to release their friends from prison. He said even the prerogative of mercy entitled to a President to free prisoners should be done in consideration of the many other prisoners who have been behind bars as opposed to just focussing on friends.
Kalaba said this was the same mistake President Hakainde Hichilema was making as he was focussed more on fulfilling his personal wishes against his opponents.
“It can’t be a manifesto surely to say ‘when we come we shall release our friends from prison.’ Can that surely be a manifesto? Some who have been arrested it’s out of spite by UPND because of the hatred between PF and UPND,” Kalaba said. “If the PF managed to win elections, these same ones you are calling Tonse, a lot in the UPND would be arrested as revenge.”
He said the UPND had imprisoned innocent people who should never even be in jail because of revenge.
“Of course some are not innocent. So if you say you will come and release them then that is wrong. Maybe the right thing to say is that you will grant them judicial passage like my friends (Nixon) Chilangwa and (Ronald) Chitotela. They have even just failed to give them chance for bail, it’s part of the judicial process,” Kalaba said.
“But I can’t say me who wants the presidency that I will come and release them. A president doesn’t release people from prison. He can use the prerogative of mercy … When saying you will release them when you win elections, take it easy. It’s not like that. That is not how governance works because it’s not just about wanting to fulfil our wishes. That’s the mistake HH is making.”
He said when President Hichilema came he thought he was a starring, and that’s why most things had gone wrong in the country .
He said time to beat him next week had come because of his bad ways.
“Balakumana nenshiku (He will meet his days),” he said…https://dailyrevelationzambia.com/its-wrong-for-bm-mz-to-promise-to-release-their-jailed-friends-kalaba-this-is-the-same-power-hh-is-abusing/
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Was HH there when these chaps committed these crimes??
Was HH the one who sent them to go and commit the crimes ???
Very wrong thinking.
This is why such misleaders should never come anywhere near a position of national leadership. Kalaba and people like him do not understand the simple concept of separation of powers. And therefore given the opportunity to lead, he will interfere in matters belonging to the judiciary.
In short, these are expired politicians who are now wandering aimlessly in the political wilderness.
Zambia deserves better than these selfish and ignorant fools.