Friday, March 29, 2024

Stop Inciting CBU students, Mangani appeals to politicians

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Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani has appealed to Politicians to desist from inciting Copperbelt University (CBU) students to engage in acts of violence every time they had a problem.

Mr. Mangani said Politicians should instead try hard to restrain students from destroying property and assaulting members of the public when aggrieved.

Speaking when he paid a courtesy call on the Kitwe Distict Commissioner Macdonald Mtine in Kitwe today, Mr. Mangani said the situation at CBU which has since been closed indefinitely was of great concern to government hence the need to take immediate action.

The Minister also disclosed that Government would take disciplinary action against Copperbelt University (CBU) students who assaulted members of the Public and damaged property during a demonstration early this month.

He said it was un Zambian for the students at CBU to have attacked innocent citizens and damaged public and damaged public property during a demonstration to protest the re appointment of Dora Siliya as Education Minister and the shooting of their fellow students by Police during a fracas.

“Government will punish the students who participated in the demos a situation he described as unfortunate as it would deny the students who would be found wanting the opportunity to get educated and participate in the economic development of the Country.” said Mr. Mangani.

He added that Zambians were loosing the traditional norm of living in peace and resolving problems in a sober manner.

He observed that Society currently believes that the use of abusive language and fighting was the smart way of handling problems a situation he described as unfortunate.

And speaking earlier at the same function Kitwe Commissioner Macdonald Mtine said the problems that the students were fighting for were economical which can not be fought with violence but brains.

Mr. Mtine said students at CBU who were intellectuals must use brains to fight their Economic wars instead of destroying infrastructure which was built from Tax payer’s money at a great cost. He also regretted the assault of innocent members of the Community.

The Minister is on the tour of Copperbelt home affairs facilities.
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15 COMMENTS

  1. Mangani should move on and discuss developmental issues.
    The CBU issue is being attended to by the relevant ministry unless there are no issues in your ministry.

  2. IMWE BA Lameck Mangani you think you will last long as minister?dont think that when students speak out then politicians are behind that.what kind of leadership do we have in zambia that cant accept their short-comings?i wonder whether we are on the right course with such mediocre leadership.Mangani you are just a simple party cadre

  3. Why are you all up in the students’ grill? They rioted, it has been closed. Say something else. This is Dora’s job. It was useless comments like yours that made them riot in the first place. We all condemn violence, but lumping this on your opponents is just plain cheap. Students are adults and can make their own decisions, not like those illiterates you use to harrass innocent people by buying them tujilijili

  4. Dont even open it.there some screw wasps who are there for fun.they are dull and never ready for exams.so theyseize every opportunity to cause distubances.if it was amongst themselves it wouldnt have bothered anyone.now these wasps have become vicious.they are now stinging innocent members of the society.so intead of leting them loose mangani dont open play ground called CBU.infact urge members of the public to catch one asshole and sodomise him.no police record.

  5. Am all for the idea of students speaking up, but destroying public and private property is a no, no. So what if Dora is the MOE? And will it make students plight better if she where removed? If students where wholly responsible for their education financially, they would not act like kaponyas every time they have beef with the government (which by the way gives them “free” allowances to buy beer with!). I love the US education system because it teaches students to be responsible at a very young age. 99% of US college students have jobs, petty ones for that matter. So why don’t you for once go cut someones grass, or wash some plates at a restaurant and learn responsibility and finish your school in the intended 4 yrs rather than 8 yrs and give chance to your younger siblings also!

  6. Politicians always accuse opponents for their failures. Why not create an atmosphere conducive for students to learn without resorting to riots for their grievances to be heard.

  7. Give the students whats due to them instead of accusing the opposition for your failures. Infact you people in Govt are the ones that incite the students by holding on to their allowances and others funds due to them

  8. ba Dalitso (no 5) were in Zambia can students cut grass for pay or wash plates in a restaurant.
    Have you really lived in Zambia? Stop hallucinating.
    Zambia has more than 90 % unemployment and which loafer will give a petty job to a student?
    Anyway, pray that you are lucky and in the US.

  9. Its like that anti-Dora demo by CBU and UNZA has really hurt Mangani and Bwezani so much that this Minister is talking about it everywhere he goes.Demonstrations by university students are not new. They are fueled by bad governance and poor economic perfoimance. Read the history of the Americas and Europe. These demos, some even worse than we have seen in Zambia, were there and have just ceased with improved governance and good economic records.So Mangani, tell banda to improve on his leadership skills, ensure good gevernance in Zambia and economic prosperity. This what will guarantee your peaceful sleep.But if what we are witnessing now is anything to go by, I can see more trouble coming to this country. This indisciplined government is indeed creating a fertile for in anarchy in Z.

  10. Students are never incited by politicians either in opposition or ruling party, because they are too intelligent than an average politician in Zambia. I can speak on their behalf having been a CBU student myself before. Look at the qualifications of the people in parliament today, it starts with certificate in cookery ( Cathrine Namugala), Mabenga- Teacher upper primary, same goes for their friends in the oppostion. So Lameck Mangani, please cut the sh***t short!!!

  11. Students are very reasonable and objective people. The way they react to situations is fueled by the way the powers that be behave. These students have seen through the Banda admin. that it is not capable of logical thinking and so they have resorted to use of the language that it can understand. So the way students act is a reflection of the calibre of leaders in power. VIVA monks and mommas n teach these pipo a lesson, they will eventually open the varsity whether they like it or yes.

  12. hopefully if the riotous goons were to puncture your innocent eye and damage your new car you would defend their barbarism. Sometimes I wonder which planets some of the chimps here come from.

  13. University students are universtiy students not instruments of politicians. Let them concentrate on the reason they are in university.

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