We in the UPND campaign team for the Batoka By elections in the Southern Province would like to condemn in the strongest terms the violence that was orchestrated by the PF cadres mostly imported from Choma`s Compounds to Batoka by election scheduled for 19th August, 2014,where four Patriotic Front (PF) officials were injured.
Our campaign team did not start the fight as we were attacked by our colleagues who were retiring back from their failed campaign trials
As stated people who were involved in this clash or injured were cadres which our colleagues(PF) ferried from Choma to Batoka to cause harm to us but it was people of Batoka who rejected them and did not want to see them in the area as they were not obeying the electoral code of conduct and regulations as their motivates was to harm anyone in their way
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PF are only interested in winning elections at the cost of intimidations and threats and not infrastructure development
[/pullquote]As the UPND and some marketeers who were attacked in Batoka to be specific at Batoka Market would not only view what happened as political violence but criminal and barbaric.
To this effect it is well established that PF are only interested in winning elections at the cost of intimidations and threats and not infrastructure development, the people of Batoka mainly depend on agriculture and needs answers to resuscitate the dying agriculture sector.
The UPND wish to distance its youths from the violence that left four PF thugs at Batoka`s Market seriously wounded
No UPND cadres participated in the beating of the named PF cadres who were imported from Choma to Batoka for the purpose of causing violence. Our hands are very clean as our mission to Batoka is to speak to the people what the UPND is able to do for them now and for 2016
The Party further explains why the local people decided to beat them because they realized that their action was not in line with electoral code of conducts
We want to caution the PF and other parties to desist from importing cadres from others towns to an area where elections were being held and pushing us into a tight corner.
We are being attacked in almost every by-election, just on the Copperbelt our ward official was beaten and stripped naked by the PF. confirming that the PF is a very violent party that intimidates and threatens its partners such as the opposition political parties.
As much as we sympathise with the PF cadre currently nursing injuries from beatings from local people, we demand that ECZ to caution the ruling PF from importing cadres from Choma to Batoka to cause violence
The UPND Party says that its wrong for the Ruling PF to import thugs from Choma to Batoka on the sole purpose of causing violence. The Police release on the names of those that were injured states that the PF Cadres were all from Choma and residing in the compounds in Choma town thereby making us wonder as why the PF Party had to import cadres from Choma to Batoka and for what motivate
The UPND Team in Batoka shall remain committed to conduct peaceful campaigns in Batoka and we want to thank the general citizenry for showing confidence in the UPND party and leadership.
The UPND under President Hichilema Hakainde would like to state that it does not believe in violence campaigns but instead believe in issue based campaigns that are going to collectively kick out the PF in 2016 and bring peace and prosperity to this Country.
And 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.
Recently four Patriotic Front(PF) officials who were imported from Choma to Batoka by the ruling PF were seriously injured in a clash with local residents in Batoka after being suspected of causing violence in Batoka
By Jackson Makwamba
Former Choma mayor and member of the campaign team in Batoka
What’s wrong with these ones of Lucifer?
Whom can you cheat moono? Zambians have come to know you( UPND ) as a party which has resorted to violence when ever bye elections are taking place in your strong holds. This is not the first time it is happening but now it has become a trend. UPND be warned that Zambians are taking note of your violence in your strong hold. Please stop this backward politics.
@TruthHates.
Let me jog your memory a bit you useless , illiterate , uneducated PF cadre as your Kabimba and Sata calls you.
Zambians actually know that PF is a violent party starting with its president Sata who was caught wielding pangas in Chawama in 2008.
In Rufunsa, Lusaka, and Livingstone, PF cadres where killed by fellow cadres. But up to now no one has been brought to book for these crimes.In CB PF thugs wanted to kill HH when they ambushed the radio station. No arrests have been effected.In magongo Mwaliteta imported PF thugs who wanted to destroy the villagers’s bridge.
For your info some junior officers out there are keeping records and know exactly who the culprits are. When UPND gets into government these officers will give the evidence and get promotions for it…
WHAT ABOUT THEY ARE PEACEFUL?
@Wanzulu,
Sir insults will not help you. I receive your insults with both hands of mine sir. But the truth is that as Zambians we are taking note of the trend of violence in the UPND stronghold. In Katuba bye elections it was the same sir. Please stop this backward type of politics.
Let me remind you again sir, please this time insult me in every manner , I will receive them coz I like when people insult me sir.
Iwe Truth Hates with your fake humility, am assuming your failure to dispute all the violence perpetrated by your party as listed by Wanzelu is a sign that you do agree that your party is the genesis of violence in this country. UPND defends itself and to do that they have to be violent because you cannot reason with a PF cadre high on drugs and chibuku. Your party is full of uncouth and uneducated people who thrive on violence. What do you want UPND to do? Have you heard as many stories about UPND starting violence as opposed to your PF? You are exactly like those Moslem leaders who insist Islam is a peaceful religion but they never condemn violence done in the name of Islam. Be objective.
Mapatizya formula is swarting PF’s violence. Well done UPND, We want sanity in our country. You cant have these illiterates run around and cause mayhem for no reason.
@Tuth Hates
Upnd is simply beating PF to their game. Pf has brought politics of violence in Zambia and as upnd we shall take them on. If pf wants peace they will find it with us, but if they want war they will got it too.
personaly i dont like violence
and it doesnt mata who the perpatretor is violence is violence and it must be stoped without fail and it is folish whether PF,MMD.UPND to justfy this vilence just becoz it was started by your oponent,lets do clean politics not this backward politics.and iam caling on the police to be vigilant in curbing this act before it gets out of hand,take actions agaist perpatrators if posible disqualify them.
we only av one zambian.
I am sorry but I am finding Zambian politics very hilarious with all these claims and counter claims. As for the cadres or bakaponya ( and there are kaponyas in both PF and UPND), you will kill yourselves for nothing while those who are inciting you are laughing all the way to the bank. Mwanya mulinkulungwe mwalya umwaka umo!
Northern,luapula and muchinga are watching,how will mapatizya fellas campaingn there.
weldone to the people that beat up the pf cadres, more people should do that as the pf cadres are like the ebola virus
Keep on defending UPND but remember we have elections in luapula where Bembas have allowed Tongas to campaign freely BUT TONGAS CANT ALLOW A BEMBA PERCEIVED PARTY TO ENTER THEIR LAND. In one ward a non Bemba is a candidate supported by Bembas GOd is watching
@Kubweka
indeed u are kubweka chabe nothing serious about you.
looking at the justfication of violence but dont be so dull becoz u dont need violence to win election and if any anthing arises from this violence u wont live here in zambiam but u will be runing up down insearch for peace.
there is the police where someone can go for protection if atall his/her rights is being infringed on.