By Linda Banks
BanaBaabo: LATEST COURT UPDATE: UNIP President Rt. Rev. Dr Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba and two others are reportedly being released for lack of evidence on treason charges.
Slowly but surely, international pressure is mounting, and the cracks in these treason cases are beginning to show. Praise singers, brace yourselves. The political theatre may be heading for an almighty showdown!
You may find it entertaining to brand fellow citizens “militias” out of sheer political bitterness, but your reckless rhetoric is painting Zambia in the darkest colours, frightening away tourists, undermining investor confidence and dragging the nation’s reputation through the mud.
Zambians, man up! you can’t expect foreigners & ba diaspora to always fight your battles. One day it will be too late for Help to come, use your voices in creative ways. Those currently in government found a country with Freedoms, they should be reminded how to respect those freedoms.
Meanwhile, former PEP President Sean Tembo has been discharged following a nolle prosequi entered by DPP Gilbert Phiri.
The question is no longer how loudly you can shout “treason”, but how convincingly you can prove it in a court of law. Political hysteria is not evidence, and propaganda is not prosecution.
Investigative process.
Not international pressure.