THEY PROMISED YOU MINING LICENCES AND CAPITAL, BUT THEY HAVE DELIVERED YOU DEATH
This is time for mourning and meditation. I am pained to the core by the killings of the young men in Mufumbwe District of North Western Province.
I know I share this pain with all the compassionate people of this country. This is truly a national loss of incomprehensible proportion.
We mourn their loss as a nation together. For the families of the young people, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this act of Mr Hakainde Hichilema’s government. But we strongly feel the loss, and we’re thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were neither thieves nor crooks; they were not lazy but hard working, daring and brave young men trying to fend for their loved ones. They were simply trying to get their share of God’s mineral gifts to us all.
They were following on the promises and commitments that were made to them by Mr Hichilema when he was seeking their votes and support as an opposition presidential candidate in the run-up to the 2021 elections:
“We are going to introduce a change in the law. All extractive industries, mines, timber, mukula. Licenses will be given to Zambians and Zambian companies. Licenses – all new licenses – will be given to Zambians and Zambian companies. You don’t have to be a rich person to own a mine. The UPND will facilitate you owning a mine and give you a license. If you don’t have the money, then you can find a joint venture partner to bring the money, to bring the technology, then you become partners in the mining, become partners and you can become partners in the trading of mukula, that’s all, that’s all. So, stop being cheated around the black mountain. We will not just do that, we will be able to give credit as a government … we will be able to support technically so that those who are mining, abanesu who are mining there do not die because of accidents because they are not given support to mine in an area like that. Every now and then, tuleshika abana besu, tulelosha because they are dying looking for money to feed their children, that will be a thing of the past.”
Mr Hichilema promised you mining licences and capital, among other things, but he has instead delivered you death.
It is so painful that instead of delivering on his promises to these young men, Mr Hichilema has delivered death to them. They’ve cut short the vibrant lives of the young men. They have destroyed families and those who depended on them in a flash. How cruel and heartbreaking to see this happening in our country today.
Again, what type of government is Mr Hichilema running?
Any leader worth his salt knows that these are not times of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we can give the millions of our people who suffer and are humiliated a dignified and happy life.
It means working very, very hard to end poverty and ignorance, and disease and inequality of opportunity. We need to work very, very hard to wipe every tear from every eye.
To you, the people of our homeland, we make appeal to join us with faith and confidence in this great work to remove Mr Hichilema and his tyrannical, deceptive, lying and corrupt regime.
We have to build a noble nation in which all our people can live dignified and happy lives.
It’s time to break out of this and break through with a clear and revolutionary vision for Zambia. We must do it together. We must work for it together. We must plan for it together because it can only be done together. Leaders lead, but in the end, the people must govern.
Either we struggle together, or we are defeated alone.
NO SURRENDER, NO RETREAT!
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
Murdering defenseless citizens – kwenyu.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
It is reported they were also armed and charging towards the police, ignoring even rubber bullets and not running away from the police, Sir. Unless both the video clips seen and the Reports are fake? Mobs sometimes can be unruly and dangerous. Either the Policemen were going to be killed by the Mob or in this case, unfortunately some Mob members lost their lives. Both the Lives of the Police and the Mob are precious, unfortunate event.
Don’t waste your time with this one by trying to explain the situation; he will not accept anything that does not make President HH look bad. He will quickly believe anything as long as it paints the president bad, for him, it is true. I’m sure he does not know that a few months ago, POLICE officers were badly injured by the illegal miners at the same mine, but for him, police lives do not matter him since they are part of the government of president HH.
Some people who want to rule us,their thinking is questionable, those people sir where given notice to vacant on their own but they couldn’t, what did you want the government through the police to do,let’s not support lawlessness, illegal miners can result into militia, not only that think of the damage to the environment, whats so difficult to have ZNS do the mining and employ the local youths and other zambians, then the rest if zambians can benefit when the minerals are sold by government.
That is all Mr. Fred M’membe can do, write, write and write. He will never win an election with that attitude. And by the way, we no longer read.
Forgive this old man.He is slowly developing dementia
You even wonder how some people think, imagine how difficult it can be to control a mob of more than 25 to 50 thousand people. Initially the eviction was peaceful and progressing well but when the mob learnt that the Police had run out of rubber bullets, they started coming back and police officers started running away and in the process one female officer fell down. The angry chasing mob trampled upon the officer and possibly killed her. That’s the situation which prompted the police to resort to live amo because they didn’t have rubber bullets any more, otherwise all the police officers risked being killed if they never fought back with live bullets. There is no government that can just wake up one morning and start shooting at its unarmed citizens killing them in cold blood. UPND is not a trigger happy government like the one we had in the past.
Oh God spare us from Mmembe’s madness. Fred people have lost lives say something reasonable. Don’t capitalize on anything you come across. You are not impressing anyone. Be mature.
There is no justification for taking another person’s life no matter how stu9id. This is why death penalty was abolished. The more praise singers try to justify f00lishness, the more the whole thing is annoying.
Tribalists who are still very bitter for losing 2021 elections using this unfortunate situation to insult. It will not work but keep on lamenting we don’t care what Idiots say
Praise Idiots are a pain.
Surely even in matters of death,they can support. Better to just keep quiet.