´Tormenting Ex President Edgar Lungu will just set Zambia ablaze´
…Baptist Pastor Ian Ndlovu warns
25.07.22
A leading clergy has asked the UPND leadership under President Hakainde Hichilema to ´stop tormenting former President Edgar Lungu´ and family because doing so will only further divide the country and spawn violence.
Dr Ian Ndlovu , a leading Zimbabwean clergy cautioned the UPND to remember that the sixth President did not ascend to office on his own accord, he was voted into office twice by my many Zambians.
“Stop tormenting that man (President Edgar Lungu) because that will only create violence, animosity, and divisions which you Zambia do not need,” Dr Ndlovu said, “you have enough problems as it is right now without needing to create more.”
The fire brand soft-spoken clergy warned Zambians whom he considers as brothers and sisters to “not fall into the same problems as we did in Zimbabwe” where divisions abound.
Dr Ndlovu said Zambia under Hichilema perhaps stood a chance of recording prosperity that could benefit not only Zambia but even Zimbabwe once Hichilema´s people stopped being “petty and vindictive” against the former President.
Recent weeks have seen what analysts local and foreign are calling a deliberate ´witch hunt´ and persecution of the immediate past First family, which is worrisome.
This has sucked in President Lungu´s wife the former Lady Esther Lungu, daughter Tasila and son Daliso while several party officials from the previous administration are facing trial on allegations of graft or are in detention.
“What I have seen is that man (President Edgar Lungu), they (UPND) must leave him alone,” Dr Njovu said, “the spirit of od tells me that they will create violence and animosity if continue tormenting him and that will be the end of progress in Zambia.”
The pastor said there cannot be economic progress in the neighbourig sister country if those in the Hichilema government are trying to build while the angry sympathisers of Edgar Lungu are pulling down what is being built.
The clergy´s caution could have not come at a better time according to the clergy as the Drug Enforcement Commission of Zambia (DEC) expects the wife of the former President to appear before them for interrogations tomorrow 26th July on ´flimsy´ grounds of graft, angering thousands of Zambians.
On Sunday, the normal calm and collected acting president of the former ruling party PF Given Lubinda rallied Zambians across the capital Lusaka to march en masse in solidarity of the former First Lady when she reports to the DEC in a move unprecedented in the history of Zambia.
The sixth President of Zambia who has said publicly that the persecution of his wife is aimed at him is expected to march along with her tomorrow at 09:00hrs in the morning of 26th July 2022.
The state on the other hand, under President Hichilema has threatened to arrest anyone who will give solidarity to the former first family.
Battlelines have been drawn in the sand with analysts calling the stand off the ´calm before the storm´ and perhaps the UPND governments first even test of democracy.
The question many analysts are asking is, will the Hichilema government violently, through tear gas or rubber bullets shoot at the unarmed sympathisers tomorrow or let them march in peaceful solidarity as they have indicated they will do?
Source: Divine Kingdom TV, Divinity Time, available on YouTube.