MILES SAMPA CONTENT WITH ROLE HE PLAYED IN ENSURING UPND DOES NOT WIN CHAWAMA SEAT
By Joseph Kaputula
Patriotic Front (PF) Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa says he is content with the role he played in ensuring the UPND did not scoop the Chawama seat.
And Mr. Sampa has told Phoenix News in an interview that he is ready to pay the price for defending the legacy of late former President Edgar Lungu, even if it means being sent to prison.
This follows the decision by the Republican Progressive Party (RPP) to report Mr. Sampa to police over a misleading statement he made during the just-ended Chawama by-elections regarding the existence of a fake polling station, citing his comments as capable of causing public tension, despite him apologizing to the Electoral Commission of Zambia earlier over the claim.
Mr. Sampa has accused the UPND of sponsoring the RPP, alleging a lack of acceptance by the ruling party that they lost the Chawama seat.
He has since urged the UPND to accept the loss and stop politicizing the police service by reporting him over an issue he already issued an apology for.
Meanwhile, the Zambia Police Service has confirmed receiving a report against Mr. Sampa, lodged at Lusaka Central Police Station yesterday by ECZ Corporate Affairs Officer Raphael Phiri.
Police spokesperson Godfrey Chilabi says the report alleges that Mr. Sampa transmitted false information about a fake polling station along Ring Road in Lusaka during the Chawama by-elections.
Mr. Chilabi says police have since opened a docket for transmission of unsolicited or deceptive communication, contrary to Section 19 of the Cyber Crimes Act No. 4 of 2025, and investigations are underway.
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Was it an objective basis or out of malice?
Clearly this kind of politics is what our polticians want to prevade or exist. The kind where truth and honest is thrown away and subject us to half truths and lies.
Sadly, Miles Sampa will do anything to stay relevant at the cost of the well being of his family. What a self serving individual as PF didnt win this election. FDD did. It says alot about its leader than the rest of the opposition.
The upnd already congratulated winner in Chawama elections. Now its about the law you broke, you’ve to answer for that, you knew exactly what you were doing. You need to be charged. You alarmed the nation, armed him
…arrest him!
Sampa should know that a crime does not go or end with an apology, if that is what he thought, he was very mistaken. A crime has its own consequences which are enshrined in the law, an apology avails nothing as it can not satisfy Justice. Imagine how crime rate could suddenly shoot up, if one can commit a crime in the morning then apologize in the afternoon and is let free. Aikona mani, in Zambia we want law and order that befit the name of our Christian nation. I also don’t understand. Mr. Sampa when he says that he is ready to pay the price for defending the legacy of late former President Edgar Lungu, even if it means being sent to prison. Is the fabrication of false and alarming information defending the legacy former president Lungu? What has falsehood to do with the legacy of ECL? Miles Sampa transmitted false information about a fake polling station along Ring Road in Lusaka during the Chawama by-elections and according to him, he was defending the legacy of ECL. In what way was he defending Lungu’s legacy and in what way was Lungu’s legacy threatened? And if at all it was, is he the right and only person to defend it? Some people have just become careless and have stopped to choose what to say because of the wide democratic space which they are busy abusing everyday.
Where does this leave Mr. Sampa’s apology to the ECZ? Clearly this man is actively courting trouble. He has absolutely no remorse for the falsehoods he spread and regards it as part of defending Mr. Lungu’s legacy (whatever that means).
He is desperately trying to launder himself after singlehandedly delivering a fatal blow to PF. What I can’t understand is that PF were willing to accept him back in their midst and even reward him with the post of assistant secretary general(?). But then, PF are a very strange species of homo sapien. In their eyes, right is wrong and wrong is right.