WATCH OUT FOR MORE UPND-INDUCED MARKET FIRES IN OPPOSITION STRONGHOLDS
By Sishuwa Sishuwa
Some of us know a lot about what Hakainde Hichilema is doing to try and retain power. We know the “help” that the president sent to Madam Dictator before he traveled for the bloody coronation and what he expects in return. I know the contents of the meeting that Hichilema held last Friday until about 2am and with whom.
Some of us have already seen the asset declarations that Hichilema (and Edgar Lungu) made to the Electoral Commission of Zambia in May 2021 during their nominations for presidency. At the right time, I will publish them. Zambians would then hopefully understand the extent of the president’s involvement in Zambia’s economy, whether his policies are deliberately designed to benefit companies in which he has an interest, and why the president has repeatedly refused to publish the value of his assets despite being elected a platform of accountability and transparency.
Meanwhile, as a strategy of trying to win support in urban areas where Hichilema has grown extremely unpopular, some officials in government have resolved to be setting ablaze a number of markets in opposition strongholds, mainly the Copperbelt and Lusaka, so that they can later be giving handouts to the victims as a show of care from the presidency, whose leader the marketers should thereafter vote for! In fact, the implementation of this strategy is already underway.
The first induced fire took place on the night of 6 September 2025 when Kapalala Market in Ndola was gutted, leaving one person dead and property worth thousands of Kwacha destroyed. Less than a week later, Vice-president Mutale Nalumango appeared on the scene and announced that the affected traders will each receive a bag of mealie meal, cooking oil, beans, and a one-time payment of K1,000 to help them recover from the devastating loss.
The second induced fire occurred earlier this week, on 4 November, again in the night, in Chingola’s Chiwempala Market. This one also saw goods worth millions of Kwacha destroyed. Like the one in Ndola, the cause of the Chiwempala inferno is yet to be established and will likely not be conclusively established. I do know however that senior UPND government officials, like murderers returning to the scene of the crime, are already lining up to go and pledge assistance to the affected victims as a show of care. This is their playbook: induce the fire, claim ignorance about its cause, turn up on the scene and perform care, and hope that the victims, now poorer than before, will vote for the caring government led by our Dear Leader. It is evil what these people are doing. But it is not new.
Remember the gassing attacks that rocked Zambia’s main urban centers in 2020 – that is the spate of highly suspicious incidents involving unknown people spraying gas on unsuspecting victims? Some officials in the current administration, with the help of a few top figures in the security services, were behind ‘gassing’ incidents. This explains why the UPND will never investigate and prosecute the culprits. I do remain hopeful though that the people responsible will one day be made to answer for these crimes.
Meanwhile, Hichilema will later this week dispatch Minister of Sports and Youths Elvis Nkandu to Muchinga Province for ten days to dish out ‘empowerment goodies’ such as balls, bicycles and many other ‘gifts’ from the loving president whom the recipients – the targeted constituency is youths – should thereafter vote for!
Let there be no doubt: Hichilema is losing the next election and he knows it. The information carrying this reality is on his official desk. The frightening part for him is that he is losing to the candidate who for, now, is simply known as “the alternative” or “someone else.” As a result, he is growing extremely desperate and determined to crush anyone, real or perceived, seen to be standing in his path to retaining power. I will write more on this, later this week, when I analyse why Hichilema faces defeat only five years after his election. Suffice to say that Hichilema knew as far back as June 2023 that he will struggle to retain power in 2026 and consequently devised a worrying plan three years ahead of time, one that you can reread in this article on the link below, and which his co-ethnic apologists in academia disputed at the time:
https://africanarguments.org/2023/06/zambia-president-hichilema-five-point-plan-stay-power/
I have a message to President Hichilema: Zambia is not Tanzania. We have a different and distinct political culture. I recognise your fading political fortunes, but if you want to stand a chance to be re-elected, do the right thing, before it is too late. Instead of wasting $10m of your money to hire a political advisory and campaign services firm that you think can help manufacture a victory for you, just remember why Zambians voted for you and honour their trust. Otherwise, fikapwa!
source: https://x.com/ssishuwa/status/1986112642763923764
#zambianwhistleblower #ZWB
They tried to blame PF for the market fires and gassing before 2021. They said they would investigate these incidents if we elected them. Hakainde even announced that he had started investigating the gassing. That was in 2022. Up to now, there has been no mention of how that investigation went. Not a single person has been jailed for the fires or gassing. It just makes you wonder who was really responsible for such horrific acts that resulted in so many lives being lost. It just makes you wonder who worships the devil and has unquenchable thirst for blood. When hundreds of Tanzanians got murdered by the dictator president a few days ago, Hakainde could not wait to go and congratulate her on her forced blood acquired return to office. These are the facts, citizens.
REJECT TRIBALISM, CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
UPND kuya bebele in 2026.
What is the beef between Sishuwa and HH. This now looks increasingly like a personal fight!
A mad man fighting himself.Sishua guy smokes a lot
The Zambia Police Service offered a reward of K2,000,000.00 for anyone with information leading to the arrest of Hon Jay Jay Banda when he escaped from Custody in Chipata.
To date no reward has been offered for any one with information concerning gassing and those mysterious fires which rocked Zambia in 2020/2021.
Instead Hon Nixon Chilangwa and Hon Ronald Chitotela are in jail over a very useless case , some electoral Violence involving the PF and UPND where there wasn’t even a loss of Life.
‘ Gassing ‘ was a very serious thing, and people lost lives. Zambia was turned upside down. Why has there been no energy to investigate this case?
If the Zambia Police Service can dangle K2,000,000.00 for Jay Jay Banda, why not try K10,000,000.00 for information leading to the arrest of the suspected Gassers. Mr Hakainde Hichilema talked about Gassing when in Opposition. Why allow the case to become cold as it is, with all the power he has?????
Something is very strange on the Gassing case. It doesn’t add up!
And those Fires which rocked Zambia in 2020/2021. Who really was behind those Fires? People were arrested, and released and have been heftily compensated! But the question remains, who really was behind those Fires????
The Fires are back again!
Can the Zambia Police Service please investigate the causes of these fires!
Thank you Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa for again ‘ provoking ‘ our minds. We will pay attention to these fires , and see the people rushing to give donations…
Could be the Fire Men !
Ba Nkuku, for the gassing, why didn’t PF get to the bottom of the matter? The trail was fresh when PF were in charge. The fires also peaked at the time of PF. Was it an excuse for them to buy the infamous USD1million each fire tenders?
@JMC
mmmh , that’s an interesting comment.
How hot was the Trail of Jay Jay Banda ‘s aggravated robbery case of 2016?
Or those cases of Davies Chama, Nickson Chilangwa, Ronald Chitotela etc?
The UPND claimed the PF were responsible for gassing which happened in 2020. They came into power in 2021. Surely the trail was still hot, than pursuing a stale 2016 Aggravated Robbery case of Jay Jay Banda.
My friend JMC, if the Zambia Police Service could spend 0.001% of energy they have spent on “Why Me” , the Gassing Case can be solved in 24 Hours.
Why they can’t solve it is the Million Dollar Question, and of course People like Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa start feeling in the blanks. Who can blame them?
Typo
Filling in the blanks!
This should be interesting to law enforcement agencies. This guy seems to have information, hence law enforcement should invite him for interview (s ).
Correct! One reason he is doing this is because he is in South Africa and is busy looking for asylum and is using his stupidity to incite government into reacting so he has something concrete to submit as evidence. When people can go to the extent of using a corpse to justify their need, there is nothing out of bounds for them to do.
Why must someone behave like this? He has tried by all means to cause hate. There must be something he wants.He will find it.
This is a lot of garbage. Your uncle can never be the alternate preferred candidate even if HH did not stand.
You trouble yourself with the idea that Zambians believe in you. Actually, they are just amused seeing you in some kind of trance. You don’t seem to know who did what or who was supposed to do what. For GASSING, you know that PF were looking for any opportunity to nail HH and send him to ROT in jail. They had all the machinery, including a parallel intelligence system led by one former OP DG, and you know who.
You think they could have let that opportunity slip through?
You don’t see beyond your small cacoon.
Stop the rot and you will probably remember to shave.
Sishuwa Sishuwa is just a very incoherent stupid man full of bitterness and hatred towards our beloved incumbent President HH.
What motive would UPND have to burn markets?
This looks more like Lungu’s desperate plan B to destabilise the nation out of bitterness and malice. Notice how quickly the haters jump to blame UPND when it doesn’t even make sense to advance this type of activity. Havong failed to come up with better alternative plans to the challenges citizens are facing, the plan is to sow discontent and say UPND is failing to secure the nation.
This man is already a very lonely man yet he continues to work very hard to create more enemies. He is a sick man who needs help. He pretends to be patriotic by painting his own country black. Anyway, he is lucky because people in Zambia like to believe lies and propaganda instead of truth. In our country if someone said they saw a pig flying, that news would circulate the country faster than the message of asking people to stop littering.
No wonder the name sishwashwa already a walking dead man . Please police get this man and investigate what is articulating from his dead bearded mouth. South Africa is Zambia’s enemy for accepting all these radicals who plunge thief own countries into war . Zambian government should reallly take South Africa to ICJ for truth concerning lungu ‘s whereabout and why they are entertaining Zambians to seek asylum when there is peace and serenity in the country
Let the Zambia Police Service investigate the Causes of the Fires in our Markets, with the latest being in Ndola and Chingola.
And as a proactive measure let security be beefed up at these facilities so that if these are cases of Arson the people involved can be caught in the midst of their evil and despicable acts. Let Intelligence gathering in markets be enhanced.
And may we know who were behind the Fires and Gassing which rocked Zambia in 2020 . Over 43 people were killed mainly on suspicions of being ” Gassers”.
Surely these cases can’t be allowed to become cold . WE NEED TO KNOW so that the people involved can be brought to book.
May we see the same energy which was used on Hon Nixon Chilangwa and Hon Ronald Chitotela on the Kawambwa issue, or that on Jay Jay Banda, Hon Davies Chama be applied to these Gassing Cases.
The Zambia Police Service can’t fall to solve these Cases.. A national wide campaign of Terror like that of gassing should have many weak links who can expose the whole network of ” Terrorists”. The Planners and the operatives. We are not a Cosa Nostra Country with sealed mouths. Zambians can talk, and walls and Trees have ears and eyes. The Zambia Police Service can easily solve the Gassing and Market Fire Cases.
Is this asking too much from our government?
Lets not mislead ourselves. The relevant persons are down on the ground sniffing. Lets wait
Yes, this man must be a very sick one and he just dreams things. Our special persons are on the ground.
In the first place, it will be commendable if Dr. Shishuwa can publish the assets and liabilities as declared to the Electoral Commission of Zambia by BOTH the incumbent President and his immediate predecessor Messrs Hakainde Hichilema and Edgar Lungu respectively. You will be doing the nation a great service and this will be greatly appreciated. It is long overdue.
As for the market fires, these have been a common feature in all administrations starting from the UNIP era. In actual fact the fires peaked during the PF days. A walk through the market places will reveal that they are loaded with fire hazards. There is a lot of fuel (paper, timber, plastics, charcoal, paraffin and all you need is heat and oxygen (air) to start a fire. There is a lot of cooking in the markets and air is in abundance. You dont need politics to start a fire in such a conducive environment. The electrical wiring also poses a fire hazard. To claim that these fires are political might be stretching things a little far.
I would expect Dr. Sishuwa to be a little more objective over the fires considering his academic stature but no, he seems to have fallen victim to the toxic politics bug.
I won’t be surprised if Stellenbosch University separate with Sishuwa in the near future.Surely, how can a researcher be churning out garbage day in and out like a junky.Sishuwa must be on something illicit
These are the so called educated people, adding no value to anything. Wasted years zoona.