PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu’s former Special Assistant for press and public relations Amos Chanda has reported to Woodlands Police Station in Lusaka, allegations that he is involved in the alleged abduction of the Hatembo family.

Mr. Chanda, who is being represented by Makebi Zulu and Associates said given the gravity of the offence of abduction being a serious felony, and given that the last 48 hours have had a hell of agony for him and family, he was reassuring friends that he had no involvement whatsoever in the alleged mischief, the reason he had decided to make this public statement that he had since reported the matter to the police for necessary action.

“I fully understand that the political silly season is upon us, and others have casually suggested that I should let this matter slide, but I want to emphasize that the far-reaching extent of the consequences of these publications needs to be dealt with decisively to forestall a recurrence of the same,” Mr. Chanda said.

He said he became aware of very damaging communications on various digital media platforms purporting his nefarious involvement in some underworld operation supposedly with FDD president Ms. Edith Nawakwi, suggesting that he was directing her actions to abduct, and or “terminate” the lives of her “abductees”.

Mr. Chanda said it was often his default position to ignore such online mischief for what it was, but he was aware from public media reports that a highly publicized case of abduction was before the courts of law and that in various media outlets, Ms. Nawakwi had been quoted as having extended details about this case.

He said he neither had any knowledge nor interest in this case, nor had he ever spoke to her on this or indeed any other matter to warrant my introduction into this matter.

“For the record, I last saw Ms. Nawakwi on 29, March 2016 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross during an inter-party political meeting for Presidential candidates. I have reason to believe that the purported digital transcripts may not be from Ms. Nawakwi given the many doggy features around them, but I will leave that to the police and other relevant law enforcement organs before whom I have laid my complaint,” Mr. Chanda said.

He also said he fully understand that the political silly season was upon the nation, and others had casually suggested that he should let this matter slide, but he wanted to emphasize that the far-reaching extent of the consequences of these publications needed to be dealt with decisively to forestall a recurrence of the same.

Mr. Chanda expressed confidence that the Police would apprehend the culprits.

“I am confident that police will apprehend the culprits because they were dumb enough to leave their digital footprint and criminal enough to blatantly assail the reputations of innocent people in the manner they have done. Further, with the enabled capability law enforcement agencies have following the enactment of the new cybercrimes law, it should be fairly easy to bring to an end the widespread decadent behavior by some low lives who appeal to base instincts of the digital followers to besmirch the reputations of others,” said Mr. Chanda.

Geofrey Hambulo drives Nawakwi’s deep hatred towards Hichilema.

By Richard Aaron Ngoma.

That Edith Nawakwi hates Hakainde Hichilema with intensity is no longer a matter for debate. Her insatiable revulsion of the UPND President is not short of being diabolical and wicked but people need to understand that behind every successful hater is a victorious devil. In this particular situation, Nawakwi’s husband Geoffrey Hambulo is the silent operator, cold, calculative and a manipulative man behind Nawakwi’s venomous attacks on Hakainde Hichilema’s character.

Those who know Geoffrey Hambulo trace his dislike for Hichilema from the early UPND days when Mazoka made a gregarious decision to associate more with Hichilema than Hambulo. The reasons why Anderson took that decision remains a mystery perhaps only known to Hambulo and Hichilema.

Hambulo subsequently left UPND in protest and stood on the FDD ticket in a Monze parliamentary election, but got severely whacked, further raising his resentment against Mazoka and Hichilema.

Most Monzenese talk of Hambulo’s long time desire to be the most dominant force in Monze his native District but it hasn’t worked quite that way for him. His hate for anyone more successful than him is well known in the District.

As Minister of Finance under the MMD, Edith Nawakwi facilitated a dubious purchase of a Monze Lima bank building, under the privitization process, to Hambulo. The property currently houses Sky FM Radio station that belongs to her husband.

Hambulo’s former wife Georgina Daka, sister to current Paramount Chief Mpezeni, was a wealthy Lusaka Businesswoman whose businesses Hambulo is said to have plundered leaving her broke and then began to date Edith Nawakwi. He finally married her after a chaotic divorce with Daka in Chelstone local court. Edith Nawakwi is generally blamed for wrecking Hambulo’s marriage with Daka with whom they have a son.

Edith Nawakwi’s businesses are said to be failing amidst credible reports of massive foreclosures of farms and other properties by banks and other lending institutions, while Geoffrey Hambulo is said to be terminally ill with an undisclosed ailment which is said to be pushing their finances to the limit. The sickness of her husband appear not to be slowing down, nor stopping the couple’s evil attempt to ensure Hichilema goes down with them, to the gates of hell but Hakainde stands tall.

FDD president Edith Nawakwi says she has never spoken to former State
House officials Amos Chanda and Kaizer Zulu, in a long while, for her
to be accused of working with them in the alleged abduction of the
Hatembo family.

And Ms. Nawakwi has clarified that she is not keeping the Hatembo’s
children as reported by some sections of the media, but that she is
offering them support in the absence of their mother.
A WhatsApp screenshot has gone viral, in which it is alleging that Ms.
Nawakwi attempted to confess her alleged involvement in the abduction
of the Hatembo family.

It is further alleged that Ms. Nawakwi is working with Mr. Chanda,
President Edgar Lungu’s former special assistant for press and public
relations and his counterpart Mr. Zulu, who was President Edgar
Lungu’s political advisor in the alleged criminality.
But in an exclusive interview with The Watch Zambia, Ms. Nawakwi said
she is not in touch with Mr. Chanda or Mr. Zulu, adding that she does
not even have their numbers in her phone directory.
“Those people (Amos and Kaizer) are not even on my phone directory,”
Ms. Nawakwi said.

She added that she did not even recall the last time she spoke to Mr. Chanda.
And the FDD president has disclosed that she has reported the creators
of the fake message to the Zambia Police Force Headquarters for
investigation.

She said she has reported some suspected UPND cadres to the police for
abusing her contact and that very soon, they will face the wrath of
the law.
“I have reported that matter to the police because the UPND are
abusing my WhatsApp to the cyber team at police headquarters. And for
all I know there is chart group I know called ‘Hottest Seat’ run by
UPND members which I know circulated my number,” she said. “And the
names are already in the hands of the police so they will just receive
callouts. One of them in the chart group circulated my number and said
this is Nawakwi’s number and they were celebrating. Nawakwi the FDD
president. But one of them actually told them it’s a criminal offence
to circulate someone’s number on the chart. And that communication, I
have it and I have handed it over to the police.”
Asked under what circumstances she was keeping the Hatembos’ children,
Ms. Nawakwi said the media misinterpreted her interview.
She said she told the media organisation that she was supporting them
which she was still doing.

“They just misinterpreted that. I do support them. I have said to
you. Even as late as yesterday, I was with one of the children. I am
the only pillar in the absence of their mother. So I have cleared
that. I am saying I am the only support to those people and thanks to
other people that are contributing. There are people who will call me
and say look, is there anything we can do to support these people? And
they drop food there, they drop some hampers.
Even when one of her children was sick, I made arrangements for people
in Choma to take her to the hospital,” said Nawakwi. – The Watch Zambia

AMB. MWAMBA REPORTS SISHUWA SISHUWA TO POLICE FOR SEDITION

Lusaka- Monday April 26,2021

Zambia’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union, His Excellency Emmanuel Mwamba has reported University of Zambia Lecturer, Dr. Sishuwa Sishuwa to the Police for writing and publishing seditious material.

In his letter dated 26th April 2021 written to the Inspector General of Police, Ambassador Mwamba contended that the article written by Dr. Sishuwa Sishuwa and published by the Mail & Guardian of South Africa was seditious as it portrayed Zambia as a country at the verge of a civil war and widespread political unrest.
He said Sishuwa’s article also painted a picture that all State and Democratic institutions in Zambia had collapsed or were about to.

Mr. Mwamba said the newspaper enjoys wide coverage across Africa and the assertions by Sishuwa in the article was meant to scandalise the country and its leadership.

He also stated that Dr. Sishuwa’s assertions that institutions such as the Judiciary and the Electoral Commission had lost public faith were dangerous and had capacity to instigate a public uprising.

He said Dr. Sishuwa’s assertions that the international community had conspired with the Zambian Government to remain silence on the alleged extensive human rights abuses and what he termed as murderous attacks against democratic institutions, portrayed a country suffering a collapse of democracy.

Mr. Mwamba said, Dr. Sishuwa as a political analyst and academic acted with treachery against his country when he published assertions he knew were false.

Mr Mwamba said Sishuwa peddled the dangerous lies to scandalise the government of President Edgar Lungu internationally and to harm the good and democratic standing that Zambia has enjoyed for over 56 years in Africa and the rest of the world.

Mr. Mwamba gave an example of thriving state and democratic institutions by citing the the Electoral Commission of Zambia which recently conducted a voter registration where over seven million Zambians turned up to register as voters.

He said the act to maliciously attack and scandalise democratic and state institutions by Sishuwa was an act of sedition

Below is the full letter by Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba

The Inspector General of Police,
Corner of Independence Avenue Road and Government Road,

Lusaka

RE; REPORTING MR. SISHUWA SISHUWA FOR THE CRIME OF SEDITION

I am Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba.

I am a patriotic citizen and currently serving as Zambia’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union and to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

While I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a fellow Ambassador forwarded to me an article that appeared in the South African Mail and Guardian Newspaper online version, published on 22nd March 2021.

My colleague expressed alarm and wondered about the article.

He feared that the article made assertions that Zambia was at the verge of a civilian war or widespread political unrest.

When I took time to read the article, I understand the concerns by my colleague and I was also deeply disturbed by its contents.

This article was published by an academic, currently employed at the University of Zambia, Dr. Sishuwa Sishuwa.

Dr. Sishuwa was writing the article in his capacity, as a historian and a political commentator.

Reading the article, one comes to a conclusion that Zambia was a country waiting to explode.

In the article Mr. Sishuwa alleges that Zambia’s democratic institutions such as the Electoral Commission, the Judiciary, the Police, and Parliament had collapsed and lost their autonomy, direction and function.

The article alleges that because of “intolerable levels of unemployment, extreme inequalities, restless and violent party cadres with a desperate political elite, the country may burn after the August 12 General Elections”.

Mr. Sishuwa also claims that there is lack of public trust and outright contempt to formal institutions such as the Electoral Commission, and the Zambia Police.

The article also claims that the ruling Patriotic Front was clinging to power unconstitutionally and was keen to perpetuate its stay to allegedly continue to accumulate public resources and escape possible prosecution and imprisonment.

The article also claimed that Western institutions and actors had engaged in incriminating silence against alleged widespread human rights violations and murderous attacks against democratic institutions.

The article further claims that factors that may alleged make Zambia suffer widespread political and civil unrest have been shaped by what Sishuwa called “the reprehensible actions of President Edgar Lungu’s authoritarian regime”!

He also made dangerous assertions that President Lungu had effectively eliminated constitutional and lawful means of political competition for the occupation of government.

He also alleged that this government had destroyed all vestiges of autonomy in all state institutions for the purposes of establishing an authoritarian government.

He also alleged that President Edgar Lungu had loaded the courts with “Judges loyal to the regime”.

MY COMPLAINT

From the above,it is clear that Mr. Sishuwa, despite being an academic, historian and political commentator, had chosen to peddle dangerous lies to scandalise the government of President Edgar Lungu, State and democratic Institutions and the good reputation of Zambia.

Further, Mr. Sishuwa has chosen to write and falsify assertions that Zambia’s democratic and state institutions have collapsed or are about to, and have lost all autonomy and public faith.

The Electoral Commission recently conducted a voter registration were over seven million Zambians enthusiastically turned up to register as voters.

This is a high measure of confidence and trust by Zambians that they can exercise their demovratic right to choose leaders of their choice through a democratic process carried out by the Electoral Commission of Zambia.

The Judiciary has seen cases by the State against personalities of the Opposition dismissed.

This demonstrates the fact that cases are determined by their own merit and not by the direction of those outside the Judiciary or as an instigation by certain political interests.

Mr. Sishuwa himself has rushed to the Lusaka Court to pursue a case of alleged defamation demonstrating the faith and public confidence such democratic institutions enjoy in Zambia.

Mr. Sishuwa neglected to explain that the appointment of Judges is a constitutionally defined process and adhered to both by the Executive, Judiciary and Parliament wings of government.

This and other numerous examples can be given to show that this write up, masquerading as political analysis, is criminal mischief against government and the country.

The write-up is intended and designed to elicit a certain negative outcome against the country.

Of deep concern is Mr. Sishuwa’s claim that Government was holding onto power unconstitutionally.

This government was legitimately elected by the people of Zambia in 2015 and 2016 and is widely recognised and accepted by Zambians and by all governments and institutions across the world.

Therefore the false assertions that this government was holding unto power unconstitutionally is dangerous as it can incite people to rise against it.

This write up is therefore seditious as it is designed to incite people to rebel against the authority of the State and its democratic institutions.

This is so especially that Zambia will hold General Elections where institutions that Mr. Sishuwa has chosen to maliciously attack, such as the Electoral Commission, the Judiciary and the Police, who are at the center of the democratic process as independent arbiters, will play a crucial role.

Attached hereto is the article by Mr. Sishuwa Sishuwa published by the Mail & Guardian dated 22nd March 2021.

Thank you

Ambassador & Permanent Representative

PRESS STATEMENT

26 TH APRIL 2021

IT’S NOT A CRIME TO REFUSE CHURCH EMPOWERMENT FUNDS FROM PF

When did it become a crime to refuse church empowerment fund from PF? PF must leave alone those that have refused to take part in looting this Country, don’t take them to task. Those that have refused have stated their reasons. PF was clearly told to channel that money to the needy areas such as buying of medicines for hospitals and other critical areas. PF was also politely asked to explain the source of money when the Country is clearly broke. The source of empowerment funds remains unknown to all Zambians. Will it be wrong for Zambians to speculate that PF is forcing churches to receive stolen money? Why should PF drag the clergy into committing a sin? Even Judas Iscariot took back the pieces of silver after realizing that was bloody money

We see the Minister of Religious Affairs going round the Country persuading the clergy to accept the church empowerment funds. We leave it to individual men and women of the collar to talk to their conscious and decide whether it’s morally right in the eyes of the Lord to betray Zambians that are dying out of simple ailments due to non availability of medicines in hospitals.

Our Men and Women of the collar should also consciously decide whether its morally right for them to receive heavy envelops from PF when their congregants are killing each other over a plate of nshima due to high poverty levels. Our Men and Women of the collar should ask themselves if our youths will forever live on handouts.

We have said it before that poverty in this Country was designed by PF in order to control Zambians politically. The church should provide leadership by telling Zambians the truth that PF has destroyed this country. How many of our Men and Women of the collar know the source of money PF is giving them? On earth it’s a crime to receive something that you suspect to be from the proceeds of crime. We believe it’s the same with our Holy Father in heaven. The church should serve mankind using the word of God with integrity not selfishness and crookedness. PF should use churches to repent their sins not showing off stolen wealth.

Percy Chanda

UPND – Chairman for Mines and Freedom Fighter

The 93rd Annual Academy Awards which celebrates the achievements in television and film over the previous year, held on Sunday night, April 25.

The award ceremony was broadcast from two locations in Los Angeles: The Dolby Theatre and Union Station. Once again, there was no host for the third time following the 2019 controversy which forced Kevin Hart to step down from hosting the previous gig over his homophobic tweets.

David Fincher’s Netflix film Mank led the nominations with 10 in total, while The Father, Judas And The Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, South Of Metal, and The Trial Of The Chicago 7 all followed with six nods apiece.

The big winner on the night was Nomadland, which won three prizes in Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for Frances McDormand.

Six films managed two awards, with The Father, Mank, Sound of Metal, Soul, Judas and the Black Messiah all managing a pair of prizes.

Frances McDormand won her third best actress Oscar for her role in “Nomadland” and Anthony Hopkins notched his second-best actor win for “The Father.”

See the full list of winners below.

Best Picture

• “Nomadland” — Winner
• “The Father”
• “Judas and the Black Messiah”
• “Mank”
• “Minari”
• “Promising Young Woman”
• “Sound of Metal”
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Director

• Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland” — Winner
• Thomas Vinterberg, “Another Round”
• David Fincher, “Mank”
• Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”

Actress in a Leading Role

• Frances McDormand, “Nomadland” — Winner
• Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• Andra Day, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
• Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”
• Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”

Actor in a Leading Role

• Anthony Hopkins, “The Father” — Winner
• Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
• Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• Gary Oldman, “Mank”
• Steven Yeun, “Minari”

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Yuh-jung Youn, “Minari” — Winner
• Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
• Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
• Olivia Colman, “The Father”
• Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah” — Winner
• Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
• Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami…”
• Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
• LaKeith Stanfield, “Judas and the Black Messiah”

Original Song

• “Fight For You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah” — Winner
• “Hear My Voice” from “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
• “Husavik” from “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga”
• “lo Sì (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)”
• “Speak Now” from “One Night in Miami…”

Animated Feature Film

• “Soul” — Winner
• “Onward”
• “Over the Moon”
• “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon”
• “Wolfwalkers”

Makeup and Hairstyling

• “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Winner
• “Emma.”
• “Hillbilly Elegy”
• “Mank”
• “Pinocchio”

Visual Effects

• “Tenet” — Winner
• “Love and Monsters”
• “The Midnight Sky”
• “Mulan”
• “The One and Only Ivan”

Cinematography

• “Mank” — Winner
• “Judas and the Black Messiah”
• “News of the World”
• “Nomadland”
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Film Editing

• “Sound of Metal” — Winner
• “The Father”
• “Nomadland”
• “Promising Young Woman”
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Production Design

• “Mank” — Winner
• “The Father”
• “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• “News of the World”
• “Tenet”

Sound

• “Sound of Metal” — Winner
• “Greyhound”
• “Mank”
• “News of the World”
• “Soul”

International Feature Film

• Denmark, “Another Round” — Winner
• Hong Kong, “Better Days”
• Romania, “Collective”
• Tunisia, “The Man Who Sold His Skin”
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Quo Vadis, Aida?”

Documentary Short Subject

• “Colette” — Winner
• “A Concerto Is a Conversation”
• “Do Not Split”
• “Hunger Ward”
• “A Love Song for Latasha”

Documentary Feature

• “My Octopus Teacher” — Winner
• “Collective”
• “Crip Camp”
• “The Mole Agent”
• “Time”

Live Action Short Film

• “Two Distant Strangers” — Winner
• “Feeling Through”
• “The Letter Room”
• “The Present”
• “White Eye”

Animated Short Film

• “If Anything Happens I Love You” — Winner
• “Burrow”
• “Genius Loci”
• “Opera”
• “Yes-People”

Original Screenplay

• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman” — Winner
• Screenplay by Will Berson and Shaka King; story by Will Berson, Shaka King, Kenny Lucas and Keith Lucas, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
• Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
• Screenplay by Darius Marder and Abraham Marder; story by Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance, “Sound of Metal”
• Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Adapted Screenplay

• Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller, “The Father” — Winner
• Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman and Lee Kern; story by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer and Nina Pedrad, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
• Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
• Kemp Powers, “One Night in Miami…”
• Ramin Bahrani, “The White Tiger”

Original Score

• “Soul” — Winner
• “Da 5 Bloods”
• “Mank”
• “Minari”
• “News of the World”

Costume Design

• “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Winner
• “Emma.”
• “Mank”
• “Mulan”
• “Pinocchio”

DEFECTIONS OF THOSE THAT HAVE GONE TO PF IS A SELF CLEANSING PROCESS AND ARE OF NO EFFECT.

The past few weeks we have watched the fake euphoria that has characterised the PF each time they have received a solitary individual that was once our member but has now chosen to trade his principles on the altar of expediency and selfishness. These have been defections of our former members that have sold out and decided to join the opulent feasting at the table of looters that have driven our once vibrant economy into junk status at the expense of advancing the poor people’s revolution to reclaim back our country and fix our economy.

While as UPND it is our long held principle never to talk ill of our former members whenever they choose to abandon the noble task to liberate our country from PF misrule and plunder of our economy, it is an open secret that those that are defecting to PF are either frustrated people that have been rejected by the grassroots and as such would not have been adopted to stand in the coming elections or are our former MP’s who are sold out for a few pieces of silver and took the side of the oppressors during debates and the voting on the rejected Bill 10.

Non of the so-called defectors has left solely based on principle. This is self cleansing and has no effect on our party. They have all left after realizing that we have rejected them after learning of their treacherous conduct whilst in the party. Our structures and general membership around the country are intact and solid as ever, so no one must be fooled. This coming election is about the people of Zambia and not about the dictates of the stomachs of a few selfish individuals who only care about themselves.

This election is not even about UPND or HH, but it is about the unemployed graduates that currently have no hope of ever finding a job, it’s about the bus owner and driver who is constantly harassed and extorted of money by PF cadres at bus stations, it’s about the many poor people that can’t afford to send their children to school, it’s about the poor farmers who can’t afford to buy farming inputs, it’s about a family with a sick relative who upon going to the hospital are given no medicine and are told to go home and wait for their loved one to die.

Those therefore that have chosen to join the wining and dining with the plunders at the expense of fighting for a noble cause, we can only wish them well. Their names shall be recorded on the wrong side of history. Come elections time the Zambian people shall resoundingly reject their lot and vote into government President HH and his alliance partners.

ISSUED BY;

OTIS BWALYA.
INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY,
UPND LUSAKA PROVINCE.

CIC PRESS TEAM

ADAMSON MUSHALA, Zambia’s MOST NOTORIOUS DISSENTER In HISTORY “He Gave Kenneth Kaunda Sleepless NIGHTS”
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Perhaps the most notorious dissenter in the history of Zambia is the late Adamson Mushala, whose rebellion lasted from 1975 to 1982. He was initially a “UNIPist” and prior to Zambia’s independence was sent to China for guerrilla training with a view to coming back to overthrow the colonial government. But upon his return, Zambia was already independent. He then asked to be given the job of chief warden, but was turned down by the UNIP government. Mashala then joined the opposition UP out of frustration. But when the party was banned, he decided to go into exile in South Africa with a band of his followers.
His wishful dreams were diminished and he became disgruntled. He later become inspired by Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA’s activities in the pre and post independence Angola . He waged “war” against the Government of Kenneth Kaunda and actually agitated for the secession of North-Western province.

Mushala carried out terrorist activities in mostly rural areas; he burnt villages, abducted women and children and “enlisted” child soldiers. He was particularly known for his magical prowess; he evaded
detection by Kaunda’s soldiers when sought for, by “disappearing in thin air”. There is even a story about him having flirted Kaunda at State house several times in his invisible state. But his days were numbered! He was tracked and gunned down by a young Zambian corporal after a tip off from one of his “wives”. The secret was for his pursuers to strip their clothes naked to find and hit their target which had turned out to be true. The “Terrorist” had gone on his routine daily activity of hunting and bee honey collecting. His body was displayed for the nation to see. There were suggestions from some members of the public to have his body cremated so that the ash remains are put in museums. The group of young soldiers who had been sent for this almost impossible mission (for such missions were normally futile, ending up in heavy casualties on the side of the Army) were honoured for having achieved this feat.

In 1975, he transformed his group into a combat force and returned to Zambia to wage a guerrilla war, which ended when he was gunned down by Zambia Army soldiers on November 26, 1982. His second-in-command, Alexander Saimbwende, took over the reins and continued the terror campaign until September 25, 1990, when he surrendered to the late Alexander Kamalondo, then a member of the Central Committee for North Western Province, and was flown to Lusaka where he was later pardoned by President Kaunda.

By the late 1980s, historic and economic forces had seriously undermined the legitimacy of Zambia’s one-party state. All the countries in the sub-continent had become independent. Namibia was free and there were signs that apartheid in South Africa would eventually come to an end. Democracy was equally taking root in Eastern Europe and communism had crumbled in the Soviet Union. The economic situation in Zambia was also deteriorating: low standards of living, lack of basic food stuffs, rising unemployment, poor social infrastructure and the rapid depreciation of the Zambian Kwacha.

On October 31, 1980, a “Mister Cheese” informed the then Director of Intelligence Services that some people at a farm in Chilanga, a few kilometres south of the capital, Lusaka, were plotting to overthrow the Zambian government. The second battalion of the Zambia Army was ordered to raid the farm. After exchanging gun-fire, eight suspects were arrested. They included State Counsel Edward Shamwana, the late Valentine Musakanya, Godwin Yoram Mumba, Anderson Kabwili Mporokoso, Thomas Mpanga Mulewa, former vice president in the Third Republic Lieutenant General Godfrey Miyanda and some Zairean citizens — Deogratis Symba, Albert Chimbalile and Laurent Kanyembu.

After a trial which lasted 11 months, trial Judge Dennis Chirwa, acquitted Lt. Gen. Miyanda and found the rest guilty. But this did nothing to change the depressing situation. The economy continued to slump while the standard of living spiralled downward. Also, the acute shortage of essential commodities, glaring nepotism and corruption continued. The price of the staple diet, mealie meal, also continued to increase steadily, while workers’ salaries stagnated.

On October 5, 1988, another group of 16 men were picked up for allegedly trying to unseat the Kaunda government. The group included late former Vice President Christon Tembo, Ex-energy minister Benjamin Mwila, High Commissioner to South Africa Colonel Bizwayo Nkunika, former ministers Bob Litana and Wilfred Wonani and former Zambia Railways managing director Emmanuel Hachipuka. Others were Peter Vundamina, Harrington Kayela Chishimba, Major Patrick Shula, Major Knight Mulenga, Major Nixon Zulu and Captain Wamulume Maimbolwa. The late John Kalenga, Donald Sadoki and Matiya Ngalande were also part of the group. Warrant Officer Christopher Chawinga and others were also picked up days later, accused of trying to rescue the group.

In May 1990, government increased the price of mealie meal, triggering a wave of riots in Lusaka and the Copperbelt. These riots seriously undermined the political atmosphere and an army lieutenant, Mwamba Luchembe, took advantage of the opportunity and announced on July 29, 1990, that the army had taken over. Three hours later, the attempted coup was crushed and Luchembe and a number of his alleged accomplices were detained. An outspoken politician, Chiko Bwalya, was also arrested for celebrating Luchembe’s coup attempt. But they were all released months later following a presidential pardon.

This coup attempt, coupled with growing public pressure, and pressure within the UNIP for democratisation somewhat rattled Kaunda, who immediately set October 17, 1990, as a referendum date to decide on whether to return to multi-party democracy or to maintain the one-party system.
At about the same time, a new political force was born. The national interim committee of the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) was formed to mobilise public opinion to support the return to plural politics. In July 1990, advocates for plural politics met at the Garden House Motel, in Lusaka, to press the government to return to multi-party democracy. This saw the birth of the MMD, which comprised mostly disaffected members of the UNIP government, some trade unionists, academics and other professionals, and aimed to sensitise people on the need for a return to “full” democracy.

With clear public support in favour of the restoration of multi-party democracy, President Kaunda cancelled the referendum and instead announced constitutional changes for a return to multi-party politics. Kaunda also set October 31, 1991, as the date for multi-party elections. The MMD, led by trade unionist Frederick Chiluba, won the elections and Kaunda, in a rare act of benefaction, handed over power..

By Florence Muyunda cic Private Reporter.
SOUTHERN ~Kazungula.
IT WAS MY FIRST TIME SLEEPING IN CELLS AND IT WAS VERY HUMILIATING QUEEN MUKUNI TELLS CIC.
The famous happening name of the moment going by details as Queen Mukuni the wife to the Zambia’s famous chief told CIC that it was a very traumatic experience for her being the first in her life and being very humiliating. CIC paid a courtesy visit together with UPND officials led by Kantombola UPND MP Hon Derick Livune, Kazungula Aspiring Council Chairperson Ms Mbozi Tatila with many officials.

The ever smiling Queen has been the trending name on social media when her arrest sent the media storm into alwe. She was co accused and charged together with Choma Mayor, Mazabuka Mayor and two others over Abduction of the alleged Hantembos a situation she described as baseless and not making sense.

She narrated off camera how the situation was like and said for the first time she never knew what Zambians of other types of lives than her used to go through until that experience came on her unaware and very humiliating. She has however said that as innocent as she is it was nothing to her because being accused in an absurd case like that she left everything to God.

And palace staffs warned the government not to drag the chiefdom into petty partisan battles because the palace has sensitive matters and standards that gets disturbed at the moment an embarrassment like that occurs. She said from the moment the queen was taken the palace was not the same things where going to go bad to worse that political battles should be done outside palace business because the chiefdom was not involved in any political battles.

And Kantombola UPND member of parliament Hon Derick Livune has questioned where are other chiefs in the country the likes of Chitimukulus, the Mpezenis, Gawa undis etc for them to allow government to humiliate chief MUKUNI like that. He stressed that it wasn’t a good thing because when Chitimukulu was under trouble from late Sata it was Mukuni who took care of Chitimukulu therefore it was shocking that the queen of the palace would go through such while the so called big chiefs of Zambia folds hands to watch. Hon Livune reminded the chiefs saying being silent when one chief is under unfair humiliation for political reasons next would be another one and the trend could go on. He said he is very disappointed that no single chief conderned what is happening to Chief MUKUNI in a country that proclaims as the Christian Nation.

And Kazungula UPND youth Chairperson has said the humiliation that the Queen went through was the first and last because Kazungula District youths would die defending her and the entire chiefdom the police would have to go through them before getting to her.

Ms Mbozi Tatila Mulako the Aspiring Council Chairperson for Kazungula District which Mukuni Chiefdom falls under said that it was so traumatic experience as the news of her arrest brought alot of things to a standstill it shouldn’t repeat itself. Ms Mulako said that the government’s provocation against the people of Kazungula was getting out of hand and at an alarming level with the potential to disturbilize the peace of the nation because chiefs are not politicians.
CIC PRESS TEAM

By MacDonald Chipenzi
ADVICE TO PF ON ITS 2021-2026 MANIFESTO.

It will be wrong for a married man for 10 years who has failed to have children with his lovely wife of 10 years to compete with the unmarried men in strategies in resolving his impotency problem.

The Man must pursue the route of undergoing a fertility treatment or go to a traditional healer for some administration of some herbs not MAKING PROMISSORY NOTES FOR 10 YEARS and beyond.

The woman is desperate for a child in shortest time possible or else divorce is eminent and then out of desperation the man start making difficult-to-fulfil promises?

Buying a woman lipsticks, lighting cream, Brazilian hair, cars, houses and other cosmetics and nice dresses will not make her not want for a child.

We, Zambians, have been waiting for solutions from the PF for the past 10 years to resolve the skyrocketing commodity prices, runaway exhange rate, non-repeal of the archaic laws, non-conducting continuous registration of voters, non-decentralisation of judicial and electoral services, ineffective fight against corruption and public resources abuses, youth and adult unemployment, police partiality on enforcing political issues and poor governance in general among others.

Instead of finding solution, the PF (husband) is busy making new mega promises that, if the Zambian people (wife) do not divorce PF in search of a potent man, PF will abolition road tax, adequately fund the ACC, ECZ and other governance institutions and make them effective conduct their statutory business, in the next 5 years.

Currently, the PF controls the legislature, judiciary and executive arms of Government. It controls the national treasury that contain all our revenues from various taxes and appreciates hugeness of the debt it has accumulated for the country in the last 10 years.

Why is PF failing to abolition the road tax, fund adequately the ECZ, ACC, decentralised the National Prosecutions Authority (NPA) to provinces, employ all unemployed adults and youth, stock hospitals with essential drugs?

What miracle will.be performed after the August 12 General Election to enable an impotent husband to now start promising for indiscriminately impregnate his wife of 10 years with twins when pregnating for just a single child had been a nightmare?

If this is not just a tool for canvass for votes and fear of losing the wife (Zambians) to another man during the August 12 General Election, what would it be?

Remember to read Rev 21v 8 on what the bibles says about liars and the destinations.

Ngomwa ni Ngomwa (An impotent man is just impotent) no amount of promises will make him impregnate a woman.

I submit

The Economic Association of Zambia president Dr. Lubinda Habazoka says the proposed 24 hours economy enshrined in the 2021/ 2026 PF Manifesto is very important and it will create jobs for Zambians.

Speaking when he featured on the PF Interactive Forum in Lusaka, Dr. Habaazoka said national development is what the country need for it to survive.

Dr. Habaazoka said running a 24 hours economy is what is required to stir economic growth.

He said in a country where the resources are scarce, introducing shifts among workers is a good idea saying this will help the country continue making wealth round the clock.

He said restricting working hours to a particular time is tantamount to limiting the economic activities in the country.

” Converting an economy to a 24 hours economy, will create jobs for citizens and it will enable those who have the capacity to work at night to do so,” he said.

Meanwhile Dr. Habaazoka has welcomed the latest Fitch rating because it shows the positive economic outlook of the country.

Dr. Habaazoka said one of the conditions used for rating was the stability of the local kwacha.

He said Zambia did not default its debt liability and this provided confidence among the creditors.

Meanwhile, Patriotic Front media director Sunday Chanda has condemned the Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) for questioning why the Patriotic Frong (PF) has launched another manifesto for the period 2021-2026.

Mr Chanda has described FODEP’S position as undemocratic adding that it is a well known fact that every political party has to renew their social contract with the Zambian people.

“We find the reasoning very erratic and worrying for an organization meant to champion democratic processes and tendencies in this country” he said and emphasized that every political party should have a manifesto as they go into an election.

He has since invited FODEP to track the promises PF made in every sector and mark it based on the successes which have been achieved so far.

Mr Chanda who has described the manifesto as homegrown said it is worrying and strange for FODEP to question why a manifesto should be launched when they know its importance.

As he acknowledged that the PF’s 2016-2021 has had setbacks and challenges, Mr Chanda, therefore, challenged FODEP and other stakeholders to have a ‘sense of responsibility and be objective in their criticism and give credit were it is due.

“Where we stand, ours is a balanced scorecard, we can go to the Zambian people and say this we promised and this we failed to deliver.We will be courageous enough, magnanimous enough to acknowledge our shortcomings” he said.

He said the PF has done very well in many sectors based on the manifesto but has unfortunately not been appreciated or acknowledged.

“Mr. Chanda cited the recent upgrade of Zambia by FITCH as not having received any commendation or even appreciation from stakeholders like FODEP, other civil society organizations, and even from the UPND.

He however recalled that when Zambia was downgraded, the same stakeholders who said a lot even against the economy and President Edgar Lungu are quiet now and want to pretend that there has not been an upgrade.

By Edward Roy Makayi.

TONGAS ARE HURTING, CRYING AND BLEEDING INSIDE QUIETLY THEY ARE THE MOST PROVOKED TRIBE IN ZAMBIA FOR TOO LONG BECAUSE OF DOING NOTHING BUT WHO THEY ARE BUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF TOUCHING THE LION KING’S WIFE SHALL FOLLOW HON STEPHEN KAMPYONGO WHEN HE LEAST EXPECTS THEM THIS IS HOW KAMPYONGO HAS DECAMPAIGNED LUNGU IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE.

….Does president Lungu have loyal Intelligence officers telling him the truth what this move Hon Kampyongo did on chief mukuni means to the political presidency of him and PF image? Well as if I care though his lucky chief mukuni gave him 48 hours messing with any Northwestern chief he can’t even have an hour without having his entire generation burnt to ashes instantly….

Well nobody is idolizing Senior Chief Mukuni or may I add high respect by calling him Paramount Chief Mukuni but all we are saying is that when the Bible said touch not my anointed I think chiefs are inclusive. Yes that is it but truth be said someone by the name of Stephen Kampyongo is under a heavy curse and various consequences ahead of him for messing around with sacred people with his political foolishness. It’s fit to tell him in advance that R.I.P already because when I look at him or imagine his life it’s already done he is a moving mummy it’s just a matter of time. Hon Kampyongo has provoked and dared both heavenly Gods supremacy authority bestowed onto chiefs who have been custodial rulers for generations and earthly ancestral lineage of respect embarrassed in that manner either way he is gonna pay a heaviest price of his life.

Where I come from traditional affairs, regulations, rules, conditions or anything that governs the well being of chiefs and traditions is fell safe as sacred.

In a practical example in my culture for instance there are certain instructions we are told as boys not to do and no one is allowed to question why or what happens when one does them. These are instructions from generations to generations nobody knows what the full explanations are but everyone is just taught this is this it should be this nothing like why. Am to tell my son that this is this and it should go on like that. In 2003 one of my relative questioned that instruction against the traditional norm and regulations he was abit older than all of us and well educated than little toddlers some of us where , I was in grade 6 by then and this guy was in grade 10 academically he was more learned than all of us. He vowed to break the instruction and questioned that if someone doesn’t tell him what it means then it’s a foolish metaphor he is not ready to obey. He was warned that going against that was as good as him challenging the authority of the ancestral setup because no one alive can explain anything and get away with it he never listened.

Well against any advise you can think of our colleague never adhered to anything and went ahead to challenge the Luvale traditional setup embarrassed the tradition in public same way Hon Kampyongo has done to the Toka-Leya royal establishment and called himself educated and civilized. Some of us got so shocked and frightened on his behalf because we where taught nobody does that and goes free. There are certain fundamental rules, standards and regulations that are meant to be followed without questioning. A week after breaking the record the guy was okay and moved on like nothing happened, it was a month and another month in the 4th month we all forgot it, it was shocking the sudden turn of events that started happening to our colleague. The guy could shit himself and say he is ok, he can urinate in his trousers and says it’s fine, he would eat without washing hands, at times goes outside naked and says he doesn’t want to dress up. The shocking of them all was after he was making love to his woman he went outside naked and started explaining what happened inside the house. The situation was getting out of hand taken to hospital nothing was found wrong as all body functionally organs where okay including the brain system. He was put under extreme observation to no avail. He was taken to the witch doctor who just said the man died long time ago there was nothing he could do ati he did something very big wrongly and he was killed for it. By the time elders got a clue of what exactly was happening it was about 5 months later and all of us where summoned to witness what daring traditional customs mean. One day he woke up very normal told everyone he was going somewhere all his senses got back to normal and nobody could doubt it. He went to Zambezi river highly infested with crocodiles and threw himself in the river and was eaten like a sandwich cake within a very short time and the story of him ended. Elders gathered us to tell us it was beyond them because he was warned but never listened. Luvale tradition is different from Tonga tradition, Bemba tradition, Ngoni tradition and so on but one thing in common is that tradition of any kind has it’s own heritage that defines it. In my life at whatever level I will never disrespect any traditional leader of any tribe both in Zambia and beyond because where I come from it’s my sacred duty to respect these norms. Hon Kampyongo is uncultured street kid who has no regard because where he is he has no clue what value or importance are traditional rulers in this country beyond politics you should all understand why I take this man because he is useless and has no governance manners at all befitting the status of a Minister he is simply a very useless human being I hope when PF gets zeros in Southern province they should ask their campaign manager Hon Stephen Kampyongo and am urging all Southerners not to give even a single vote to PF for what Kampyongo has done to our respected chief unless one Southerner is a fool beyond repair.

There is literally nothing wrong the Queen of Tonga speaking people did to deserve that embarrassing humiliation from a kapyopyo of a person called Kampyongo could today order the arrest of MUKUNI’S highly respected ruler. The consequences are coming not today, tomorrow or that day but surely they are coming and it won’t be a nice show.

Former late president Micheal Sata’s driver was ordered to hand over the keys to a nice vehicle at the palace of Paramount Chief Mpezeni in Chipata. The chief liked the car in the presidential entourage he just told the driver to hand him over the keys and go because that car was now the chief’s car the driver tried to protest he was chased. And when the news reached state house President Sata blasted the driver for trying to protest saying my dear chiefs are not your friends you really think you can do anything against them?.

Back to our short story. President Edgar Chagwa Lungu must be very careful with Hon Kampyongo. The man is decampaigning PF so much and when PF get zeros in Southern province don’t complain or call them tribal these people are hurting too much and have been provoked for so long without mercy. One day they will rise and it won’t be good at all.

As of yesterday in Choma and Livingstone no one is speaking good of PF, their image is at their lowest level ever in history thanks to Hon Kampyongo. And if president Lungu has any aorta of remorse for his image politically he wouldn’t keep damaging kapyopyo of a Minister called Kampyongo as home affairs Minister beyond this point unless Lungu has no intelligence officers telling him the truth how Kampyongo has decampaigned PF successfully in Southern province and the entire Zambezi region because no one is happy at all. Let him try that foolishness elsewhere eg Northwestern province and see applied science he has never heard of that bold head of his will be our International airport.

Nakambako che ine….

Edward Roy Makayi

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By Sean Tembo

1. As Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP), we have noted the manifesto that was launched by the ruling Patriotic Front Party this week. Our view is that the sudden unveiling of a manifesto by the PF is an act of desperation that is designed to misled naive voters.

As a ruling party, the PF is not entitled to make grandiose promises to Zambians of what it will do in future, through a manifesto. Given the fact that the ruling PF have had the instruments of power for the past 10 years, they should concentrate on explaining to Zambians why they have failed to deliver in this period, and it is up to Zambians to decide whether to accept such explanations or not.

2. As Patriots for Economic Progress, we wish to challenge President Lungu to explain to the nation why more Zambians are sleeping hungry today than in 2011 when the PF took over the instruments of power.

The President should further explain to Zambians why the country has contracted more than US$20 billon in external and domestic debt in the past 10 years, and yet the total value of infrastructure built over the same period is less than US$5 billion? President Lungu should further explain to Zambians why only businesses owned by PF ministers and senior officials are booming while the rest of the economy is in a steep decline? The President should also explain to the nation why, during his tenure of office, members of his PF party have become so lawless to the extent that they can walk into a police station, beat up police officers and walk scot free with only a slap on the hand?

3. It is only after President Lungu has answered the above questions to the satisfaction of the citizens of this Republic that we can begin to discuss his new set of grandiose promises contained in the PF manifesto that was launched this week.

4. As Patriots for Economic Progress, we are confident that the amount of hunger and anger which the Zambian people are suffering from today cannot be quenched with a set of empty promises in the PF manifesto. The Zambian people were gracious enough to give President Lungu a mandate to manage the affairs of the nation in 2015. The following year in 2016, his mandate was renewed because the period was too short to properly assess whether the President and his PF party had delivered or not.

Five years later, the period is now adequate for Zambians to see clearly that President Lungu is not equal to the task of properly managing the affairs of this Republic, and must therefore be retired in the national interest. The President failed to grow the economy. The President failed create jobs for Zambians. The President failed to protect Zambians from the perpetual harassment of his party members. The President has embarrassed the nation to our regional peers by over borrowing and then defaulting without shame.

There is literally nothing which President Lungu can claim that he will do in the next five years which he failed to do in the past 6 years. At this point, instead of making fresh attempts to hoodwink Zambians using a shallow PF manifesto, President Lungu is supposed to be apologizing to the citizens for his evidently failed leadership over the past 6 years. No Zambian has any energy left to start perusing through another set of empty PF promises contained in the PF manifesto at this point. The only energy which Zambians are left with is for casting their vote on 12th August in order to retire President Lungu and his PF party so that we can turn a new page in the journey of our beloved nation.