🇿🇲 BRIEFING | Mundubile Promises Freedom to Jailed PF Bigwigs After Govt Change
Brian Mundubile has escalated opposition criticism against the United Party for National Development government, declaring that jailed opposition figures such as Raphael Nakachinda, Bowman Lusambo, and others will only regain their freedom through a change of government.
Speaking Monday after what he described as a failed attempt to visit Nakachinda at a correctional facility, Mundubile said he and his legal team were allegedly denied access to their client despite waiting for more than an hour.
The opposition leader, who is also a practising lawyer, accused authorities of frustrating legal access to detained opposition figures, arguing that access to legal counsel is a constitutional right that should not depend on political considerations.
“It’s very, very sad indeed. We have been here for the past hour and a half and we have been giving one excuse after another,” Mundubile said, claiming officers at the facility insisted on obtaining clearance from senior authorities before allowing the meeting.
But it was his political conclusion that carried the sharpest implications.
“The freedom that you are looking for, the freedom for Nakachinda, for Lusambo, for Malanji, for Bowman and everybody else who is behind bars, will only come when government changes,” he stated.
The remarks reflect a growing opposition narrative that increasingly frames ongoing arrests, prosecutions, and incarcerations of former PF-linked figures as politically connected rather than purely legal processes.
Opposition leaders argue that the criminal justice system is being weaponised against rivals of the ruling party, while government maintains that law enforcement institutions are merely enforcing accountability regardless of political affiliation.
The issue remains politically sensitive because many of the individuals currently facing legal troubles are prominent figures from the former Patriotic Front administration, a government that itself faced criticism during its time in power over alleged political intolerance, abuse of state institutions, and shrinking democratic space.
That historical context continues to complicate the current debate.
For the opposition, the detentions are increasingly being used to reinforce broader claims about governance and democratic freedoms ahead of the August elections.
For the ruling party, however, backing away from high-profile prosecutions risks undermining its long-standing anti-corruption and accountability messaging that formed a major part of its rise to power in 2021.
The result is a political environment where courtrooms, correctional facilities, and legal processes are becoming deeply intertwined with campaign narratives as Zambia moves closer to one of its most polarised elections in recent years.
© The People’s Brief | Ollus R. Ndomu
Just pardoning your incarcerated friends. No clear roadmap for the country. Your whole agenda is to remove HH, not UPND, from power, and then? What a manifesto!
Reason enough not to win these elections.He knows very well that they were eating the Eurobond money…He survived on government contracts and tenders.
Release all criminals then, why been selective?
To those, who doubted, the real agenda of Mundubile & Makebi,
Today ,this has been,,laid bare and has been revealed to you all
This is ,for all intent and purpose, meant to restore ,PF,,& ECL,style of governance
To return to cadreism,,in markets ,bus stops, markets etc,
Its about coming to release, all and anyone ,lawfully jailed by our Courts of Law ,as long as ,he’s a PF,member,
Malanji,,despite,his overwhelmingly evidence of looting, Mundubile, will release him and hand over to him,
All those proceeds of crime,including the Helicopters, the barber, who killed Lawrence Banda, in cold blood, will too be released,,etc..
Makebi ,also, with his agenda, especially with his obsession of the Lungu familly,
The 15, flats issue, Daliso Lungu’s properties..the list is endless
The challenge,is to you all voters ,if this is the future you can waste your votes on
To those, who doubted, the real agenda of Mundubile & Makebi,
Today ,this has been,,laid bare and has been revealed to you all
This is ,for all intent and purpose, meant to restore ,PF,,& ECL,style of governance
To return to cadreism,,in markets ,bus stops, markets etc,
Its about coming to release, all and anyone ,lawfully jailed by our Courts of Law ,as long as ,he’s a PF,member,
Malanji,,despite,his overwhelmingly evidence of looting, Mundubile, will release him and hand over to him,
All those proceeds of crime,including the Helicopters, the barber, who killed Lawrence Banda, in cold blood, will too be released,,etc..
Makebi ,also, with his agenda, especially with his obsession of the Lungu familly,
The 15, flats issue, Daliso Lungu’s properties..the list is endless
The challenge,is to you all voters ,if this is the future you can waste your votes on
Clearly Mundubile and his running mate are a thugs. Releasing criminals like Malanji and Lusambo should be a national message. These thugs are taking Zambians for fools. Who in his/her right state of mind would vote for these thugs? We cry for peace and orderliness in governance of our country. You unleash those criminals into society before doing their full time in penitentiary. What are talking about? Rubbish.
Typo error; what are you talking about?
People who looted this country’s money to be released by fellow looters.God forbid
Which country leader campaigns on releasing criminals that the courts of law convicted?
I wonder what Zambia would be. Mundubile says he will rule like ECL, surely who admires ECL tenure apart from themselves who had freedom to plunder our economy.
Let’s say NO to these PF thugs again on 13th August 2026 and completely send them into oblivion.
Because of such agenda. God cannot allow it….I bet!