IN the wake of reports that youths in Southern Province are planning to protest the realignment of districts, over 100 police officers have been deployed to the province to maintain order during Youth Day celebrations tomorrow.
Inspector- General of Police Stella Libongani said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the officers will ensure that peace and harmony prevail during the celebrations.
President Sata recently annexed Chirundu to Lusaka and Itezhi-tezhi to Central Province as part of the Patriotic Front government’s decentralisation policy.
But some sectors of communities in Southern Province have viciously opposed the move, which they feel is intended to disadvantage them economically and politically.
The authorities have, however, insisted that the re-alignment is intended to enhance development and devolution of power.
It is believed that some people want to take advantage of Youth Day celebrations to mount a demonstration against the government.
Ms Libongani urged officers to be professional in their operations, adding that the police condemn any form of violence which can cause instability in the country.
She warned that anyone found wanting will be dealt with by the law.
Meanwhile, Ms Libongani has encouraged women to work hard and occupy their rightful places in their communities.
She said this during a working breakfast hosted by Standard Chartered Bank at Lusaka’s Southern Sun Hotel. She said women must be focused and become exactly who they want to be.
“Women should not be afraid to work with men, but persevere all the time,” Ms Libongani said.
And Standard Chartered Bank chief executive officer Mizinga Melu advised women to interact with people who will help them to build their lives. Ms Melu said women should aspire for higher position the same way men day
[Zambia Daily Mail]
May SP prosper even in times of darkness…
Yahh!!!
Sort those found wanting out! Whether rumor or not; intelligence and hence precaution should be ensured. Why should some people be excited over simple realignment of the districts. After all every Zambian should have an equal share and access to land and resources that make up our mother land. So, it doesn’t matter where I am, or where my village gets realigned to … as long as I’m within Zambia, I have the right to be free. If re-aligniing the districts will make him deliver what he promised, why know support this call???
why send 100 police officers when there’s alot of crime on the copperbelt and lusaka..?wasting our resources..let the people demonstrate .its their right!!
kill at least two
whats with ka phone? posing in a phone ba Inspetor sure? mwaba imyona ubukulu kwati nine.
How many rounds of live ammunition and what kind of training have these police officers been sent with?
Please maintain law and order during Youth day celebration. Those big guys have no day there is womens day and youth day and there is NO mens day. Hence youth take advantage and celebrate our day in peace and not in pieces please. Police is there to maintain law and order and not persecute youths. If those men come to tell them they should demonstrate on their days. HAPPY YOUTH DAY GUYS
No “men’s” day? Try 365 days a year.
Why take what is theirs let them demonstrate its their right
Tongas and Lozis are very selfish peoeple. grow up Zambia is made up of 73 tribes
the president should act his age, Sata has not come out to condemn the tribal talk. as a president he should unite the country.
Let people vent out their painful emotions by peacefully demonstrating. It is by suppressing and oppressing people that lead to violence. It is not a question of how many armed police officers you will send but dialogue with the concerned parties. Dont kill your own brother/sister over selfish politicians who feel everything best should belong to themselves.
Zambia uprising…!!
Ms Libongani, I pray you’ll be sober minded and ensure your buju’s use rubber bullets in the event of any disorderly behavior. Our tonga brethren have every right to protest your ill conceived ‘realignment’ of districts so pls don’t kill any innocent souls like your predecessors did in Mongu.
waboza ndiwe waboza, amafi yobe. Mnyero kukula, shiti
Use negotiating powers and not imaginary hard power. But alas, hanging regimes are insecure. They take no counsel but gambling dangerously. What we are seeing are not only acts of hopelessness but misplaced priorities driven by delusions.
Since when and where did guns and threats of tyrannies against a free minded democratic people ever prevail which is now motivating Sata wrongly? Is it the tyrannical era of protégé like executed Romanian Dictator Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu, Central African Republic’s Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Ugandan Dada Idi Amin, Ethiopia’s Mengistu Haile Mariam, Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, Chad’s Hissene Habre, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak or the much revered by Sata then Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga. These were too powerful yet people power prevailed.
Libongani, Just use live ammunition and kill as many as you see on the street. After all, Zambia is for us Bembas. These evaders must be eliminated!
100 only? come on Libongani. Take some recruits from Kamfinsa to deal with these tribalists
waboza..you are a kolwestan..you chaps are just thieves..
Sata need to be educated that he is not dealing with UNZA,CBU,E-Hone or NRDC demonstrating students.He is dealing with a section of society which has a right for self-rule.
@12, Senior Citizen,
Ba senior citizen muli chipuba. when is your foolishness going to end? You openly preached on this site that PF will never be in power and it was your slogan last year. PF came into power and you went under, I believe you were mourning. Now you are busy preaching that PF has failed and it is a hanging regime. Have you forgotten how your RB butchered innocent citizens in Western province and you where busy supporting him? I can now see that you are not principled at all and you just condemn without reasoning. Grow up. I encourage you to behalf like MMD chiefbootliker, I have come to like the man because he at times give advise to the government and not just condemning blindly.
Demonstrations is a democratic right iwe chi sata. Satana iwe imbwa,what kind of a dog are you kansi?That is why I will never go back to Zambia with this mediocre of a leader. Zambians as intelligent as you are, how were you tricked into voting for this pathetic thing kansi?Ugly, slow in thinking, uneducated, komboni manners, lacking sence of humour, womaniser, dull, colonial police mentality, tribalist, liar, all the negative qualities you can find in a human being and take him to state house, eish!
ulichipuba chikala
MUCHINGA SHOULD HAVE BEEN AMPUTATED & ADDED TO EASTERN PROVINCE. KOLWESTAN LEADER MIKE SATA WOULD BE WA-KUMAWA. NOW CHIRUNDU WILL BE FLOODED WITH BEMBAS & CRIME WILL INCREASE. IN LUSAKA, POPULATION OF BEMBAS IS 3 TIME OF THE OWNERS, THE SOLIS. ON COPPERBELT, ITS WORSE. POPULATION OF BEMBAS IS 20 TIMES OF LAMBAS. BEMBAS R NOT PRODUCTIVE, CANT EVEN PLOUGH WITH AN OX. LETS STOP THE SPREAD OF THIS VIRUS CALLED BEMBA
@ 18 Marie-Anne
Go on and preach your stupidity. Only those who are stupid like you will take you comments seriously. Tribalism will not take you anywhere but I can assure you it will affect your life in one way or another. While thinking a tribe is a virus, its you who is a virus spreading tribalism.
IG is also a full time stooge of PF. Malama was better and not the bit.ch who is there now. What youth want is employment and not sending them a shit load of policemen.. useless and senseless IG LIBONGANYO.
Zambians are ugly. That Policewoman is scary man.. No wonder she is still a Ms.
Posing with phone, what a phonting.
Do not bother about Ba Annie Marie the sister/brother whichever is the case displays some form of mental disability this is not the first time she is spewing rubbish.There must be some screw missing in between her /his ears for all we know She/He could be in a mental institution.
Poor Libongani, deceived and used in typical village girl fashion.
Maybe that is why it is better to consult first. If the PF govt had firstly consulted all stakeholders in Soutern province, i don’t think the situation ws going to come to this. Now it looks like the decision to realign the districts was done unilaterally without the knowledge of stakeholders. The stakeholders, i believe, just came to know about that when the announcement was made. You can’t blame them because all it needed was to first consult them and come to some form of agreement. And really, is realignment surely on the top of priorities right now when there is a huge task ahead of economic emancipation as promised by the PF through their election campaigns last year? I think not.
be careful nt 2 kill ma cousins zr.sata ur dealin wth human ryts here.kano nga homosexual ryts.all zoz against z demonstrations a stupid foolz imbwa.ataa ifiko mumatako.pwahaaa.
Shut up your Big mouth,Zambia is for the tongas and the Chewas, Kenneth Kaunda and Lupia Banda both of them from Tukombo area in Nkhatabay district thats northern region of Malawi.
demonstrating is a right but it must remain peaceful.the police shud endeavor to be professional.no two ways abt it.lets keep peace,tel that bantustan under5 to behave!
Tonga’s need to Arm themselves and fight for their God Given Land. Don’t be abused by these Kolwestans. We need a Gorila war in Zambia. Tomorrow bring your Spears and and Machetees and lets fight these Kolwe’s Monkeys and push them Back to Congo where they come from.
We need to tread very carefully, lest we start an uprising. The south and the west may want to shed blood. We need a more amicable solution.
This is where a COI would make sense.
continue working hard madam Libongani, we love you mum
Southern province belongs to hardworking Tongas. The province is rich becouse of hardwork.Look at Northern and Luapula provinves, there have all aboudant rivers and lakes yet theres nothing to be proud of. they are lazy ppl who believe in handout and stealing. Bembas cant survive alone. thats why i will never marry a bemba theyare dull and lazy ppl