The Civil Society Organisation, NGOCC, has criticised the decision by the PF to instruct its members to use violence against people that provoke them. NGOCC Chairperson Beatrice Grillo says it is unfortunate and wrong for the PF to instruct its members to hit back when they are provoked.
Mrs Grillo told ZNBC News in an interview that it is important for political parties to exercise tolerance as the country goes to the polls. She says the directive by the Patriotic Front to its members to fight back whenever they are provoked by political opponents will only create more problems.
On Sunday, the Patriotic Front-PF instructed its party members to fight back whenever they are provoked by their political opponents. PF Secretary General Wynter Kabimba told a rally in Lusaka that he did not want to hear reports of PF members complaining that they had been harassed as if they had no hands.
The rally was aimed at introducing candidates for the local government elections in Lusaka District. Mr. Kabimba further directed that the PF members should hit back hard because they were dealing with criminals. He accused the Zambia Police Service of doing nothing to protect political party members who are harassed by cadres from the ruling party.
And PF Lusaka Provincial Secretary Grace Ngulube challenged the Zambia Police Service to take action against MMD cadres who allegedly removed PF Leader Michael Sata’s campaign posters in Lusaka’s Kanyama Township. The PF rally was characterised by machete wielding cadres who kept vigil on Independence Avenue near the freedom stature the venue of the rally. The youths were also armed with catapults.
And Forum for Leadership Search Executive Director Edwin Lifwekelo says it is important for politicians to understand that Zambia does not expire after the elections. Mr. Lifwekelo says politicians should avail their party manifestos instead of inciting violence. He has urged the Zambia Police Service to arrest anybody brandishing catapults and machetes at public rallies.
And Leadership in Development Executive Director Moses Kalonde says his organisation is disappointed that Mr. Kabimba who is a lawyer by profession can be inciting violence in the country. Mr. Kalonde says political parties should preach love and peace as the country goes to the polls.
ZNBC
if they take one of ours to the hospital we will take one of theirs to the mortuary-viva pf
Clearly these are not words of politicians who are prepared for elections. Shame on pf.
PF is just another service pack for UNIP, Guy Scot himself told the nation that the source code used to compile PF are exactly the some that were used in building UNIT v8.1
In sort all Programmers will agree with me that PF vs UNIP is like Windows 7 vs Windows Vista
Windows 7 was supposed to be called Windows Vista SP3
And PF was supposed to be called UNIP SP10!!!!!!!
You can even see they way they talk, things bordering of Nationalization, Cha.Cha Cha,,,,, complete the list for me
When some one is attacking you, are pipo suggesting that PF should give the other cheek? The issue hear is to hit back.
In the same vain they should also tell the MMD thugs to dismantle their resolutions to defend them selves. Suddenly William “Tekere” Banda is a saint.
ba PF are thugs and shud be controlled
The provocative words uttered by Lubinda are telling. Now that the chance of ever making government are clearly slipping from them, they turn to agitating violence. While such acts might be a way of diverting attention from their now inconspicuous leader, Sata, it is however, an irresponsible way of conducting politics. What is expected of Lubinda is that he should condemn violence and not promote it as he does in this reckless statement of his. PF by such a reckless statement are taking away support from from them than adding.
PF are the devil. To be honest I would not mourn any PF leader if he or she died. PF are acting as if they are not Zambians. Can someone just gas them so we wipe them of the face of this earth. They are scum of the earth…together with The Post newspaper.
PF is saying when offended. people do u what PF to go to the compromised ZP service lead by one Francis Kabonde? U must be out of your mind. Kabonde though of late has gone quite can only arrest MMD cadres when RB & William Banda say so a feet they cannot do in the first place. So what do u people that are complaining and castigating PF. So what do u want PF to do? Already Kambwili was attacked in Luanshya by MMD thugs. The MMD candidate Goodward Mulubwa cant win in Luanshya.
If the mmd want to panga PF, we should be ready to panga them to bits and give them a taste of their own medicine.MMD is a party of thugs such as one William Banda a foreigner from Malawi. Willian needs to be pangaed to bits before he pangas any one!
Self-defence is a human right. This female is deranged.
A few days ago William Banda was publicly telling people that MMD cadres should fight back when attacked. No comment was made by the so called NGOCC. Today they are at PF’s neck. It’s so suprising. And people calling PF thugs.
What kind of people do we have around. Can’t the media also look for some news that are constructive and unbiased? We are tired. Be professional
This is why the Americans have issued a warning message to its citizens. We really need peace people! We should not at any level advocate violence and this applies to all political parties.
If you are provoked, HAMMER!!!!
You can slaughter yourselves who cares? After all you are paid for that.When your kind is annihilated,we could end up with decent cadres.
What we need are fair campaigns. Why should others provoke there friends hoping that they won’t fight back? Everybody should just behave and not provoke the other.
This is what happens when the POLICE FORCE is not acting professionally.As for me I BLAME the police.
These pf chaps and the post newspaper will bring war to zed if we leave them unchecked…lets think of our children, old relatives and friends and indeed our neighbour. war is a very unproductive thing worse stil if its internal
ciwamila galu, if its the MMD threatening violence no one criticizes, but PF it becomes an issue
#16,
Well said. When the police seem to take a side as per orders from “above”, what do you expect?
All of you agitating violence have no idea what you are on about. Noone who has crossed that line ever thinks they took the right choice even if they were aparent victims. Lubinda and Kabimba are sounding like terrorists. Are these the people that will ran the great country of Zambia. Where is the wisdom? If you preach violence now how will you stop it IF you get into power. Use brains imwemebantu. Violence is not an option. You remind me of the UNIP vigilantes. No wonder you are still on the UNIP constitution. I dont wish to be partisan but some empty tins should not be allowed in leadership. There are no leadership values in such behavior. Dont damage our Zambia. It does not belong to the few of you with empty heads ba PF.
i can’t wait for 9/20 when pf wil be deleted from the list of political parties in zambia.
@ #3,5,7,17. THINK BEFORE YOU SQUASH YOUR BALLS ON A KEY BOARD BA FINYO.
All you motha fu.ckers saying PF are thugs you are really have serious mental problems,this is a year were have seen how faking useless ZNBC is,every allegation against PF is newsworthy,if you tell them they are biased they say nyo..!!and that ugly fat bi.tch is saying its not good that PF defend themselves when they are attacked?? so what are they supposed to do?sit back and watch these malawians slaughter them?instead of condemning the causer of violence you want to condemn the victim what kind of stupidity is this kansi..That country zambia is a disgrace really.
Ba #20,
Are we saying people should allow themselves to be bitten up by MMD hooligans without defending themselves? The police should do the defending, but if they don’t? let’s be very objective here. Are we giving the MMD hooligans a “blank cheque” to do as they please? I have witnessed first-hand what MMD cares are capable of and don’t tell me the police do anything to deter them!
NGOCC, you want PF members to just watch as they are massacred by MMD. Beatrice, tell me what you would do if MMD cadres attacked you or your family? just watch and cry? I hope not!
Why is there no condemnation of violent MMD cadres that provoke PF members from your NGOCC?
Why are you condemning instructions to defend victims (PF) of unwarranted and unprovoked attack? What is your motive for condemning victims while being silent on criminals?
It is within the ambit of natural justice for PF members to defend themselves if attacked by MMD and Kabimba is right because more often than not PF members have retrained themselves from hitting back and MMD has taken this as a sign of weakness, as its leadership has in fact encouraged its violent cadres to continue with its barbaric behaviour
This is a surprise from Kabimba. Who can beat the kaponyaz in PF? Fighting is a typical kaponya behaviour, a kaponya knows no compromise no does he understand the importance of tolerance all he knows is to settle any dispute by fighting. This is typical PF behaviour. There are however some kaponyaz in MMD, like william Banda and his team of thugs and MMD should not tolerate them.
#25,
Your point is????
SINCE MMD HAS ALL THE RESOURCES AT THEIR DISPOSAL, DONT TOUCH THEM IMWE PA PF. WE DONT WANT TO LOSE ANY SOUL DURING THIS ELECTIONS.
Madam, just eat the fruits of your corruption and shut the f.uck up…
Can we condemn any aterance of violence no matter the source. The truth is that our police are intimidated by the crones. Can PF just watch and pray when they are attacked. William Banda said he will use any means posible including juju.
Politics has always been and must always be a battle of brains for brains and not of stones and machetes on human bodies. The PF formula is out of sync!
Let PF and MMD kill themselves so that we remain with a decent party and leader UPND and HH. Go HH go.
PF has run out of ideas.We are now seeing the last kicks of a dieing horse. Sata has nothing to offer now after RB has touched every corner of Zambia with development. Honestly, I have never felt as bad as I did yersterday when I saw the sata cadres wielding pangas and catapults. Remember those sceins you were seeing on TV from DRC where people were shooting each other. The scene yesterday has made me decide to vote for MMD and reject Satan.
I once more I say that Kaponyas are inbreds of MMD’s leadership for 20 years without any meaningful development to give the so called Kaponyas work to do. PF or other oposition political perties have never ruled Zambia but MMD has been in power for 20 years and Kaponyas are increasing, who is be blamed. If boma is boma can we see these Kaponyas off our streets.
A NGO dedicated to fighting PF, that’s great. I predict your deregistration shortly madam
Ala bola nomba yawama pantu abantu elyo bailuka at pf takuli oko baleya nabapona kale a ma elections 20th September. That is why they are threatening and resorting to violence to cover up for their shame.
its just typical of pf and most of its members its like violence is there middle name anyway after 20th all this will be over sata is going to the farm were he belongs
And when William Banda announces “last warning for PF cadres” nobody says he is a terrorist. Useless police and NGOs
Exactly, that is the point
Iwe chi # 24 kasunde mukashi obe chi-color.We want peace in this country please.VIVA RB MAN OF PEACE.NAFUTI NAFUTI.
STOP CENSORSHIP LT, I MEANT; # 31,35,37.. jane nafuti nafuti, I RARELY INSULT BUT YOU ARE SUCH A CRIMINAL 1MBECILE THAT YOU NEED TO BE REMINDED THAT NO PF CADRE HAS EVER THREATENED TO RAPE DEAR EDITH NAWAKWI! NEITHER DO PF CADRES HAVE A 14 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, BUT MMD SYCOPHANTS HAVE AND HAVE DONE THE THREATENING OF RAPE! RESPECT YOURSELF YOU HALF BRAINED DIMWIT
STOP CENSORSHIP LT, I MEANT; # 31,35,37.. jane nafuti nafuti, I RARELY INSULT BUT YOU ARE SUCH A CRIMINAL 1MBECILE THAT YOU NEED TO BE REMINDED THAT NO PF CADRE HAS EVER THREATENED TO RAPE DEAR EDITH NAWAKWI! NEITHER DO PF CADRES HAVE A 14 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, BUT MMD SYCOPHANTS HAVE AND HAVE DONE THE THREATENING OF RAPE! RESPECT YOURSELF YOU HALF BRAINED DIMWIT
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Tell them #39 Ba kitwe…MMD VUVUZELAS HAVE A SHORT MEMORY…LESS THAN ONE SECOND..THEY HAVE FORGOTEN……
Ngocc are cowareds or its either they are inorant or they have no direction.open ur mind and deal with the root cause,tel police to protect all and not man men and dogs only.
WE NEED LEADERSHIP; NOT CADRE-SHIP!
BUT DO U JST SIT BACK WHILE U ARE CLOBBERED?
lets remember mufumbwe by election what happened lets love each other
arrest all those PF maggots..why waste our time..?
how do you arrest a person who is being beaten by MMD
Some people did not undertand what PF was but now they are begining to see the true colours of PF.
I have heard people fight over football here in Zambia when, say MAN-U vs Arsenal.
They injure themselves and end up in hospital without the socre leaders at Man-U as well as Arsenal knowing anything. The players themselves can never urge these unknown supporters to fight their opposing funs.
The same goes for politics especially in africa; these cadres are not even in books of membership.
they are not known by the parties they support and do not in anyway represent party positions when they pick quarels. How then can a party leader tell his supporters to be fighting back when the provoker may be just an individual based on personal behavior, and now a party PF they back violency???
I don’t know why this matter is being complicated FOR NOTHING!! This is simple LOGIC..if you come to my house and attack me and i have the ability to HIT BACK, i WILL HIT BACK USING WHATEVER MEANS AT MY DISPOSAL.
It does not matter whether i am PF,MMD,NEW GENERATION PARTY,NAREP etc..
So its up to the the PARTY LEADERS to control their CADRES and the ECZ and POLICE must be impartial. Otherwise the call for PF TO PROTECT THEMSELVES IS SIMPLE LOGIC just as MMD cadres must also PROTECT THEMSELVES!!!
ZNBC at it again with OPINION POLLS!!
These elections are useless because the top two contenders are not fit to foster real changes that we need to develop this country. Most voters in this country are POOR and VULNERABLE to manipulation. Actually they think POVERTY is normal…i would have loved to see the following contesting:
–MMD-MUTATI
–PF-GIVEN LUBINDA
–UPND-HH
Then i was going to vote…OTHERWISE GOOD LUCK TO YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO VOTE….ZAMBIANS WILL SURELY GET THE GOVERNMENT THAT THEY DESERVE..
GOODBYE AND SEE YOU IN 2016 WHEN REAL ELECTIONS DEVOID OF FOSSILS and ZINJANTHROPUS will take place!!!!!!!!!!
You useless NGOCC leader, you mean if criminals come to your bedroom and threaten to rape you, would you spread your legs or defend yourself? Be real and dont play to the political gallery of the MMD.
HAHA HAHA HAHA……I THINK SHE CAN SPREAD HER LEGS SO THAT THE THUGS CAN HAMMER
Kwena napapa sana! What Kabimba said is no different from what MMD said in their “Rules of Engagement” why is everyone trying to make capital out of it? Kubobana finish!
William Banda violence,its ok. We try 2 defend ourselves, ati oyo! Pan your panu ba fi colour!
Nadabwa ba NGOCC. Have you also been bought? Why are you not condemning the inaction of Kabonde, that is the cause of the problem. Instead you are looking at the symptoms of the problem. Is that why at the last minute you decided to back a female presidential candidate? If you were serious you could have made it known a long time ago. Hope someone has not been paid to split the opposition vote in the name of promoting women!!!! We live in a funny world
because SENTENCE against an evil work is not excuted speedly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.)
So please let the police service , the ACC, THE courts e.t.c work independently without any interferance
Finally I got it. Zambia is a Christian Nation and PF cadres are faithful disciples of Jesus who shout turn the other cheek when attacked! This teaching can only make sense in Zambia; across the Zambezi we defend ourselves! Is it not time for MMD to turn another cheek!
Damme good strategy Kabimba!
An eye for two eyes as a deterent.
UPnd formular is called MAPATIZYA formular and it was repeated in MUFUMBWE and it worked!
Was PF in Mufumbwe?
U will a taste of your RULES OF ENGAGEMENT!
Fellow pure Zambians, MMD thugs should realise that they cant continue violeting our peace without retaliation from anyone. I will not support anybody or thing encouraging violence in this country full of mediocre citizen. We have rushed so quick to condemn Winter rather look at the devils at ACC,ECZ and DEC. A very serious warning to P Isaacs and Mambilima at ECZ if violence erupted due to your mediocrit tendencies you be the first to be matcheted.
Bo Mambilima watch whats happening n Libya and tell me how many women you see running battles. This shows that women suffer most and we do not desire libya situ.The generals at AB,ZNS and ZAF would not protect u president or cadres before most of the juniors take such opportunity as the quickest promotion path hence
I always get surprised how NGOCC, Lifwekelo and other biased persons or organizations are in a hurry to condemn when its PF issuing such statements.But I did not see anyone of these people on ZNBC condemning William Banda when he said they are ready to use any means possible and even guns to protect Rubiah. Come on people the problem is that our president has no authoritative voice to instruct his violent supporters to behave.Zambia police also they are taking sides,so who will protect who?Ba Rupiah please help us to have peaceful elections don’t just preach on rallies but address your supporters firmly against violence.
ONLY A FULL WILL NOT DEFEND HIMSELF WHEN ATTACKED. I WILL TAKE IT ALL THAT THINK THE STATEMENT BY WYNTER WAS MISPLACED ARE FOOLS
I can’t sit back and allow another person harm me. Indeed its common sense to defend one self. What PF is saying is that, please, lets not provoke each other, otherwise, we may not sit back or give you the other cheek if you start us. PF is saying, they will not provoke others because others may also hit back.
PF has no leadership style, viva HH
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