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Suspected UPND cadres attack PF officials in Choma

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Choma Location in Souther Province
Choma Location in Souther Province

Four Patriotic Front(PF) officials have been injured, one seriously, in clashes with suspected United Party for National Development (UPND) cadres in Choma.

ZANIS reports that the PF officials were allegedly attacked last evening in the ongoing Batoka ward by election campaigns .

One of a the seriously injured female PF official was last night admitted to Choma general hospital after being evacuated by District Commissioner Bernadette Hamweemba from Batoka rural health centre where the four had initially been admitted to.

A ZANIS news crew that rushed to Batoka last night found Ms Hamweemba making frantic arrangement to transfer the victims to Choma general hospital due to security concerns in Batoka as only two policeofficers had been deployed to the area.

Ms Hweemba confirmed that four PF members were seriously injured while others also suffered multiple body injuries in the attack.

According to Provincial Political Secretary Siamalonga Siachoona the PF cadres who were travelling in a truck were ambushed after attending a public meeting addressed in the area by Labour minister Fackson Shamenda and Home Affairs Deputy minister Stephen Kampyongo.

Mr Siachoona told ZANIS last night that some senior UPND officials commandeered the attack in which missiles, iron bars and sjamboks were used to assault the PF cadres many of them women.

He has described the action by the suspected UPND members to attack the PF members as barbaric and unacceptable urging the police to bring all the culprits to book.

A check at Choma general hospital at 22.00 hours last night found medical personnel busy attending to the injured PF officials while Southern Province police commissioner Mary Chikwanda and a team of senior police was also present to assess the injuries and get first hand information on the situation.
Ms Chikwanda could not immediately comment on the situation.

But UPND campaign manager for the Batoka ward by election Cornelius Mweetwa said he was not at the scene of the attack as claimed by some PF members who charged that the land cruiser for the Choma central member of parliament was used to launch the attack.

17 COMMENTS

    • PF thugs attacked fellow PF senior officers because they felt used without any pay or Shake shake.

      Soon we shall hear its the PF thugs who attacked their bosses for failure to fulfil their promise to give these guys tokens of thanks for their hard work campaigning for the PF candiddate.

      This pure PF on PF violence.

    • You’re liars. It is foo.lish to not be able to identify the people who attacked you. I wouldn’t be surprised if these uneducated PF thugs were not fighting amongst themselves for money.

  1. This is time for HH to publicly condemn these acts from his party and show he is above regional politics. He has to start showing unifying tendancies to stand a chance of leading Zambia

  2. This time around PF blood will not spill in vain in Southern Province. HH must account for the violence. This shows that UPND has lost grip of the Boptatonga Bantustan it has held hostage for a long time. People in Southern province have seen through the lies of UPND and have also seen the mammoth development PF government has embarked on. Cornelious Mweetwa ayenelo pita kundende mosachedwa.

    • You are absolutely right UmuBemba-nkonko (I am correcting you in your in language); these UPND animals should be taught a lesson. Do you remember when our innocent, honest, beloved, and all-loving leader, Michael Chilufya Sata-n, was coming out of high court, where the ruling UPND government had dragged him to court on flimsy charges, and one of these tribalist Tonga drove a car into the crowd of peaceful PF supporters of Sata, injuring 8 of them. This tells you what is in the hearts of these evil, thieving, lazy, and violent Tongas… And that happened in the Lusaka, which historically has been Bemba-land, a fact you can verify by driving 10 km in any direction from the city center

    • @ Zimba, what was your comment when PF cadres armed with all sorts of weapons were fighting each other resulting in a death? Or when PF cadres attacked a church in Matero?

    • These UPND cadres have the appetite to kill even when it is just a ward election. One only needs to recall the brutal campaign they unleashed during a bye election in mufumbwe prior to 2011 elections to know them better . UPND need to discard the violent ANC mentality to win national support.

  3. this is an obvious case of Obvious Mwaliteta; a gimmick to call off the by elections, the stoey does not ring true;

  4. Very Bad, though too many lies and propaganda during elections- Livingstone and Rufunsa tragedies. Not easy to know what is true. Next you will hear it was actually an ordinary car accident.

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