MADAM NAWAKWI OUGHT TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A BETTER WAY TO CHALLENGE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES , NOT USING UNCIVILIZED LANGUAGE AGAINST INNOCENT CITIZENS
By Mark Simuuwe
It is sad that Madam Edith Nawakwi has decided to use unpalatable language against President Hakainde Hichilema as a way of resolving her personal matter with law enforcement agencies , instead of using the court as she has done before .
It is this kind of talk which puts her in bad standing with other citizens. You cannot win sympathy by insulting others .
In a video circulating on social media , Ms Nawakwi sent scathing attacks at HH stating that ,she is “, not Hakainde’s cow to be kept in a kraal by stopping me from travelling out of the country”.
If she is pronounced a flight risk , she has to resolve that with law enforcement agencies without dragging the name of the President into disrepute.
This is a straightforward matter which can be handled by the courts of law , not through insults .
Instead of insulting the persona of the President to paint a picture that the President is the one issuing instructions, let her use legal means to settle her scores .
Crying out to the public is not the answer ; the answer lies in herself .It is her own mouth which landed her in problems .
Remedies are there for her to challenge the decision of enforcement egencies by way of litigation , than abusing each other outside the court .
Many of us know that she is in court on a matter she started herself and when things don’t go well , she must must not blame others.
The rule on flight risks, assuming it is relied upon , is a matter of law and simply requires an application to court to seek and order , which order can be granted if unchallenged.
It should also be noted that desparaging remarks would only degenerate the situation and drag in people not involved.
I recall , when the PF were in leadership , Madam Nawakwi was very active with court matters ; in the same manner , it would be important that she does not abandon the court process .
For some unknown reason Ms. Nawakwi appears to have unparalleled hate for President HH.
Interesting to note first what she’s not to HH7. Ati am not his “cow”. Just look at the heifer and think, this woman must be a nut!
Ms. Nawakwi takes every opportunity available to vilify President HH. Sometimes, she creates such opportunities.
It would be interesting to know what drives her to such incomprehensible lengths to demean the President.
Clearly the animosity is deep rooted and all consuming to the extent she appears like she has taken leave of her senses. Listening to the video clip and the intensity of her anger makes you wonder, just what is going on with her?
By the way, in some respect, we are all cattle in the President’s kraal and he is the herdsman . Otherwise, why didn’t Ms. Nawakwi just walk away to wherever she wanted to go?
Likewise u could be his dog in his dog house. Me I am not.
Little advise to our opposition.
As a patriotic Zambian that wants the best for Zambia am deeply concerned with the trajectory being taken by our opposition parties in the current dispensation. My worry is that our current opposition is about to be recorded as the worst and most useless opposition the country has ever had since independence due to their one direction focus when it comes to their checks and balances of the upnd government. Their focus is entirely on their imagined reduction in the democratic space and illusioned dictatorship of the current leadership. They have totally neglected to talk about the real issues that affect the ordinary voter on the street. My first question is how many of our citizens that are still struggling to meet their daily food, shelter, medical, education and employment needs care about the so called freedom of expression which the opposition alleged is being taken away by the current leadership ? Let’s turn to those of us in middle class that care about freedom of expression, human rights etc how many of us actually believe that the space for freedom of expression or human rights is shrinking as alleged by our opposition especially when we compare the current political environment to the previous environment where opposers of the government were forcefully hounded out of radio by political cadres, opposition parties cadres were maimed by rulling caders for merely comparing for their party, police were shooting to death citizens utilizing their democratic right to assembly, citizens killed through gassing and markets burnt in the name of politics and marketeers and bus drivers deprived of their daily earning by political cadres unlawfully leaving them bin the name of the chipani. Comparing that to the current environment where opposition have the freedom to insult, ridicule and mock the president, the speaker of the national assembly and other government and upnd leaders freely with no intimidation from political cadres, marketeers and bus drivers no longer need to pay party caders illegal levies, no citizens are being killed by police brutality, political violence or gassing, no markets are being burnt in the name of politics, politicians and cadres no longer parade looted wealth on social media to mock hard working professionals and businessmen. With the foregoing in mind how can we really believe that the democratic space is shrinking in the country?
With this in mind our it is clear that when our opposition are focusing on alleged shrinking of democratic space and dictatorship they are only talking for themselves only not the citizens because to us that is not what is important right now. The opposition must know that the story of dictatorship and shrinking democratic space is an old story that is sold by the opposition all the time in the world be it in America, Britain, south Africa etc. no one buys it easily without physical evidence. during the pf it was easy for people to buy it because physical evidence was allover. E.g political violence by cadres, police shooting of innocent citizens, gassing of citizenships, intimidation of political opponents by pf cadres, etc was allover in the news. Videos of such incidences are still available online. No one could doubt the claim of corruption, violence, dictatorship etc because physical evidence was there. But presently those claiming these things have no physical evidence and even us the citizens that are suppose to believe these claims we are not experiencing them. Infact if anything we are seeing a great improvement compared to the past resume. How then does our opposition hope to win our support by solely focusing on shrinking of democratic space, dictatorship and insulting and ridicule of the president and up d leaders. As citizens we want a strong opposition so that the upnd can deliver the best to the citizens, we want the opposition to focus on the needs of the people that affect their daily lives which the upnd are fairly to address. I have just realized that the mmd, pf and upnd were the best opposition parties
the country has ever had. I.e the mmd faught for democratization of the country which they achieved, the pf under sata held the mmd accountable insuring that whatever the government did was somewhat inline with the interest of the citizens e.g constitutional reforms and the upnd advocated for delivery of development in their strong holds e.g kafue mazabuka road. Upnd mps talked about this road all the time in parliament until the pf had to fix it even when it was in an opposition strong hold leaving roads like nchelenge chiengi road, chinsali nakonde road etc that were in their strong hold unattended to. What is our current opposition advocating for that affects the citizens directly. I recently used the nchelenge chiengi road. Truth be told it’s non existent. There is simply no road. Then one must wonder are those living in chelenge and chiengi not Zambians, is it not our politicians both rulling and opposition that should speak for them? Why are we not hearing our opposition talk about the challenges the people of chiengi are facing? Do these people care about freedom of expression more than the luck of road network that is hampering their economic and social development? Chitalu chilufya, Ronald chitotela and nickson chilangwa you have not only been mps for the people of luapula province but have held very influential position both in government and pf party what have you done about nchelenge chiengi road. You are now opposition mps why are you not talking about this road? Is it not you to speak for the people of chiengi and nchelenge? But your focus is only democracy, freedom of expression and dictatorship, how do you hope your focus of these three things will address the luck of road network between chiengi and nchelenge? This is merely an example of the numerous issues affecting our citizens that our opposition has neglected to talk about in preference to one focus on freedom, democracy and dictatorship. What our opposition needs to know is that few people are actually reading or listening to their messages because they don’t address their immediate needs. While the opposition are selling this stale message the upnd are using cdf to address the things that affects citizen daily lives. It’s about time our opposition realizes that their current message is falling on deaf ears. It’s about time they begin to offer real checks and balances regarding delivery of development that address the needs of the people. It our desire as citizens that we continue to have a thriving opposition in the country at all times but unfortunately that’s not the case currently. Please heed while there is still time otherwise we may end up having upnd for the next 20 years.
Very good observations indeed.
What an essay. Some people have time to waffle!
If she were not harrassed, there would have been no reason to say what she said. Why is it that opposition politicians have to be treated shabbily likely they are not free citizens but subjects who are at the beck and call of a king? Surely, why do we live in the 21st century like people lived before the French Revolution or like they live under a totalitarian state? Or, like they are under Putin’s rule? There is a limit to harassment of people who may not share the same views as ourselves. Did our forefathers fight for independence so our fellow Africans could become the new colonisers and come to trample on our freedoms?
Matero Dr you don’t get tired churning out ifisushi whenever you want to say something? What harassment is there when some idiots think they’re above the law? Grow up you stupid pfidiots.
Go and say that to your Dad. He would be disappointed to know he has a coackroach for a child. Coackroaches belong to the sewer. Go back to the sewer manhole and get yourself a life. Remove that fecal stench from here.
It’s only Edith Nawakwi who turns into a cow if she is prevented from leaving the country. I have never heard of any other person. ECL was prevented from going to South Korea but he never turned into HH’s bull or an ox, don’t abuse God’s creation, he created you into his image and not in the cow’s image. Moreover no one has ever called you a cow for HH, it’s yourself who wants to be one.
She is a bitter cow in the ukwa kraal without hay.
Wait and see how she is going to upset the UKA arrangements if she doesn’t get what she is confidently expecting.
What happened in presidential suite which you confessed to keeping the keys Nawakwi? Tell us more than just asking if we know who kept the keys? We know you did because you told us, next ….
Bottom line she is most likely to end up in prison.