OVERLOOKING INSULTS, IS A VIRTUE – APPEAL TO OUR PRESIDENT.
2 November 2022
Last night around 19:00 hours, 1 November 2022, I went to visit Saboi Imboela at Chilenje Police for that is when I learnt of her incarceration. I was allowed to see her for only a few minutes, hand over the water, drinks and some light foodstuffs that I had taken then had to leave.
On my way back, I was rather sad and kept wondering – when did we get to this? Why has our politics become so toxic?
I have found some comments by Saboi Imboela regarding the President, rather provocative to say the least, but should the response to her (and other people’s) provocative comments always be met with heavy handedness?
We know what the law says about the defamation of the President, but which President has not been insulted? All previous Zambian Presidents have been insulted and defamed but they chose to take another path, they opted to overlook those that insulted them.
Other meanings for ‘overlook’ include:
◦ to deliberately ignore
◦ disregard
◦ take no notice of
◦ turn a blind ear to
◦ excuse
◦ pardon
It is always the bigger person – in this case the President – that does the overlooking.
Mr President, these arrests are sending a very wrong signal. Of course there are many that will be in support of this arrest, but there are many as well that are shocked at this action. What do we as a nation gain from this? Are we not providing ourselves with yet another point to be divided over?
Mr President please have the heart of overlooking such. Komulekabo koba achamba – twakomba ba President.
#ZambiaOurHeritage
CHISHALA KATEKA
President – New Heritage Party See less
To me Chishala Kateka is perhaps the most sensible and mature opposition leader that we have at the moment. The lady has a heart of Gold; quite respectable and her advice is really welcome. If I had to join another parry today, it would be the Heritage Party simply becuse of Chishala.
For the sake of Chishala, I hope and I know our President has aleady forgiven Saboi.
The arrest itself is about the law and HH should not start meddling into court affairs because that would be dangerous. He can pardon her after she has gone through the court process but not before.
Saboi’s bitchy behaviour and her insults are provocative and deserve some action otherwise we cannot have double standards where others get prosecuted but Saboi goes scott free!
Well said my man. I was going to say exactly what you said. The only difference is you have done better.
People amaze me, what has HH got to do with your insults. Go ask the police not HH. HH does not even talk about it but you keep bringing him in.
There is too much insults, though I don’t care but there should be civility in those practicing leadership politics.
Misunderstanding democracy and free speech is the cause of all this stupidity being experienced in Zambian politics. Madam Kateka, learn to differentiate politics of providing check and balances and insulting statements being issues by Saboi almost everyday. The other problem is yourself showing sympathy to such people is misleading them to believe that they are being incarcerated for good reasons because of visitations. All the opposition parties are enemies to the party in government because of your jealous. You are want to be in state house at once. Stop paying visits to criminals. The defamation clause should not be repealed but let it be as it is. Zambians will keep insulting even the wife and children of the president due to high level of bitterness. Saboi is very young girl at 45 years she thinks HH is her age because of politics? Mama Kateka, if this is what you women want to do in politics leave it. Saboi is a kid who should have respect for adults than the behavior she has adopted to seek attraction. It seems she does not have parents to advise her. The same way she respects her father and mother she must do so to others not only HH but to all Zambians. Saboi and Nakachinda must learn to practice politic of maturity than foolishness. My appeal to you politicians is to understand what free speech and democracy means.
This is an appeal that augurs well with mutually respecting adults and not in an environment where all opposition party leaders have ganged up against the leader in government to daily disparage and insult and expecting no consequences for their disrespect to even cultural norms! Kateka should have offered some mature advice for Saboi too who thinks ubushilu bulakonkosha!
The problem is not with the republican president but with the people insulting and defaming the president. Our Zambian culture forbids anyone from insulting or demeaning another person with no apparent reason. Even if someone is angered there are better ways to express one’s anger. When people breaks a law and are arrested unprincipled politicians shouldn’t blame the president, because he is not the one who formulated those laws?
All those who lost elections in 2021 are being haunted with bitterness, evny and jealous, hence reacting with slandering statements. People like Saboi, Chilufya Tayali, Emmanuel Mwamba, Winter Kabimba, Fred M’membe, Sean Tembo, Aswell Banda and many more people have a troubled heart filled with bitterness and envy. These people are suffering from feelings of ‘superiority complex’.
All comments are fake. The president of Heritage is 100 per cent right. There is no president who is never insulted globally cos he is a public figure. Let the president control these insults and are mostly from upnd cadres who insult any one especially with different views from upnd. . It is becoming nonsense and without fear just insulting foolishly. The late KK was insulted but he never caged any citizen and late Sata was insulted but never caged any Zambian.
Where are we heading to and if the praise singers are not controlled it will be a disaster in near future
Are you not aware that Father Frank Bwalya was detained and tried in Kasama for defaming Sata? Are you not aware of Sata himself standing in court as a witness against Richard Sakala for defaming him? Are you not aware of GBM being locked up for defaming ECL? Are you not aware of Chishimba Kambwili being tried for defaming ECL? Are you sure you don’t know anything about the numerous convictions of young people for defaming the president during ECL time? In any case, is Saboi in custody for insulting the President or Mr. Haamasaka? Be truthful. Saboi deserves the incarceration.
You are also insulting. What are you people made of ?
You are a foolish liar! Do you think you could call KK ati “Imbwa yaku State House” and live to see the followind day?
You clearly didnt know KK and never lived in the KK era!
Is it the president who orders their arrest or the law? The president is not responsible for their arrest but the law. So when you speak let the brain control your mouth . Let no one speak just because God gave one a mouth.
Bufi ubo my brother
DO NOT BE CHEATED. SABOI’S ISSUES HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING OF TODAY. IT IS BITTERNESS FOR HAVING BEEN REMOVED FROM UPND. SHE THINKS SHE HAS A BONE TO CRACK WITH THE PRESIDENT. LET HER FACE THE MUSIC. KATEKA, YOU WERE NOT THERE. LET US SEE HOW SHE BEHAVES WHEN SHE COMES OUT. YOU HAVE TO CREDIT UPND FOR NOT GETTING AT SABOI. IT SHOWS HOW DISCIPLINED UPND IS, GIVEN WHAT SABOI HAS BEEN ABLE TO UTTER AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.
Saboi is arrested for insulting Hamasaka and not the President.
What justice is that Madam Kateka. The victim becomes the wrong doer..Is this something that we should really embrace going forward – Insult the President because it is Democracy ?
Double standards Madam. We condemned Mr William Banda when he insinuated about your bedroom hunger. Let us not praise Saboi because she insulted someone we dislike.
Wise words
KATEKA, YOU WERE NOT THERE. LET US SEE HOW SHE BEHAVES WHEN SHE COMES OUT. YOU HAVE TO CREDIT UPND FOR NOT GETTING AT SABOI. IT SHOWS HOW DISCIPLINED UPND IS, GIVEN WHAT SABOI HAS BEEN ABLE TO UTTER AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.THEREFORE BA KATEKA KINDLY ORIENT SABOI HOW SHE SHOULD BE CONDUCTING HER SELF .PLEASE TAKE HER THROUGH LESSONS.LET HER EMULATE YOU .HOW MANY TIMES HAS THE LAW ENFORCERS WARNED YOU AND MR JACKSON SILAVWA THE ANSWER IS NO WHY BECAUSE YOU AND MR JACKSON CONDUCT ISSUE BASED POLITICES .
Exactly madam what do us all as a nation gain from these politicians trading insult instead of offering solutions and advice. Why do you have to blame the later than the causer of the situation. Agitator becomes a victim foolish thinking, you opposition political party is about time you started offering economic relevance issues than what you are doing. Everyone bwamba mmainbe, tembo, tayali, cold season all we hear from you is HH, not Zambia, no solution to high fuel price, in the interim your relative have formed and are members of cooperative gaining HHs increased CDF. Lets learn to condemn the offender than the retaliation of the offended. Saboi deserves were she is like any other idiot who want to test if fire burn by touch the red core.
A bad law is still… LAW. Why is she blaming the President for the consequences of Saboi’s actions? Come on!!! These politicians clearly didn’t learn from the 2021 elections – Zambians demand and want a better calibre of politicians who are focused on issues and not gutter politics. Let Saboi marinate in there.
Instead of going there to give her advice which she is lucking, you start talking about the things you bought for her. You do not do that. you think other people don’t take items to people who are in cells? When you give, you don’t have to announce.
I am disappointed to say the least. President Chishala, why are you expecting HH to interfere in criminal charges against anyone? If she gets convicted and is serving her well deserved punishment, she may be recommended for presidential pardon; that’s the only time president HH may interfere. Are you asking him to pre empt the outcomes of her case? Only ECL could do that and he did it blindly;the case of him pardoning Kambwili.
There is NO past president that has been insulted to the extent that HH has been insulted. The reason for this is that this is the only party in govt that has allowed “freedom” of speech. We have heard little boys insult him, frustrated good for nothing opposition political leaders use insults on HH to vent their anger at not having any govt positions or for their party’s loss of government governance authority.
Saboi must face the Law that she has violated. Laws are there to guide us and help us live in harmony; that is why they are there. I pray she is found guilty and gets locked up and the key to that cell thrown away and not found for a long time. You do not insult, Mundubile, Kampyongo, that MP from Hamududu party, Miles, Sunday Chanda, Chitalu Chilufya etc do not insult the presidency. But these frustrated politically handcapped “opposition” political leaders and leadership’s have been abusing the newly found freedom of speech. I wish she could be kept in prison longer while awaiting a court hearing the way it was under PF.
Madam president, politics has not become toxic. Highly intoxicated persons have taken up opposition politics. Can someone tell me who pays these insulting without substance opposition political party leaders? They have no following to talk about so they must be receiving heavy payments from somewhere. I want to join so that I can benefit and become rich quickly also, but I will not insult anyone. I will just make a lot of noise in the political arena
Kateka do not ask the president to overlook insults to him. He has always disregarded stupid people. HH is not the one that reported Saboi. You instead should be teaching your fellow women politicians to practise proper politics not like what saboi does. She behaves like a scorned woman. What is being practiced in Zambia now is not politics. It is slander evil personal.
Ba Kateka, the complainant in this case is one Clayson Hamasaka presumably relating to something Saboi posted about him on her Facebook page.
The President should not interfere with the work of the Police or Judiciary like was the case in the last administration.
What you should be advocating is for the law to be repealed not for the police to ignore it.
Insults became the preferred mode of communication under the PF administration. I pray we can quickly move away from this dispicable practice where people vent their frustration through insults or sarcastic and demeaning language.
However, genuine criticism should not be confused with insulting.
So madam Kateka, all previous presidents have been insulted, so insulting the current and future presidents should ignored. Why did you stop short of recommending to UNZA to introduce a course on insulting?