PRESS STATEMENT
8th September 2020
LUNGU’S AGENTS BACK WITH TRIBAL CAMPAIGNS
We have once again seen video footage of Mr. Edgar Lungu’s agents preaching tribalism in the ongoing bye election campaigns in Lukashya, Northern Province and Mwansabombwe in Luapula Province.
What is troubling us is that these tribalists are preaching messages of hatred even to the young people in these areas that attend their meetings.This is abusive to young minds and therefore completely unacceptable.
We have no doubt these PF campaigners have the blessings of Mr. Lungu himself because they have been doing the same things over and over and yet they are not being reprimanded.
The UPND candidates contesting in these areas do not hail from Southern Province, but are local citizens coming from these same constituencies.
Our citizens across the country face same economic challenges and they need messages of hope in dealing with the current economic crisis, not divisive messages full of ethnic venom.
People from across the country want to hear messages around agriculture, job creation, mining, tourism, and other sectors as opposed to messages of hatred that the PF are preaching which can burn the country like what has happened in other parts of the world.
PF’s desperation must not be allowed to poison the minds of Zambians especially of our younger people. They must stop setting citizen against citizen inorder to win votes so that they remain in power to steal more money from public coffers. Zambians cannot be fooled anymore, they know who is corrupt and who is a thief. Tribal talk will not put food on their table or buy medicine in the hospitals or indeed pay their children’s school fees. What they want is peace and genuine development.
Patrick Mucheleka
UPND Deputy Secretary General