Minister of Home Affairs Edgar Lungu has instructed Lusaka Province Commissioner, Dr. Solomon Jere to institute inquiries into Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) Lusaka District Chairperson’s utterances and threats, and ensure that individual rights of association and movement on the part of Mr. William Banda are protected.
Mr Lungu said this in a statement released to the media. This follows a report in a news bulletin , was yesterday quoted Mr Chilufya to be ininciting violence by giving instructions to MMD cadres to harass and sought out Mr. William Banda for allegedly disorganizing MMD in favour of the United Party for National Development (UPND).
The Minister said that he was alarmed by such utterances from Mr.Donald Chilufya who is a senior member of the MMD more especially that he made his views in the presence of the MMD President, Dr. Nevers Mumba.
” One would have expected the MMD leadership including Dr. Mumba to condemn such utterances intended to incite hostility and aggression instantly, but to the contrary, MMD leadership has opted to remain silent”, Mr Lungu said.
“Law is there to protect every citizen including Mr. Chilufya himself and Mr. Banda. Therefore, no one has the right to advocate for violence by taking law in their own hands because doing so border on the violation of the rights of others whose consequence is punishment by law.”
“My advice to members of the Public is that we should all desist from making such kind of irresponsible utterances which amount to defiance of law.”
“My ministry will not sit idle by seeing the culture of anarchy prevail and become the order of the day in the country because Iam charged with the duty of seeing to it that law and order in the country is maintained”,statement concluded
Well I find nothing wrong for the Police to protect every law abiding citizen, I find it not necessary to protect that murder William Banda, who is not a law abiding citizen. In fact the Police should be ensuring that this Banda William does not continue walking the streets of Lusaka but put behind bars.
Would this guy Lungu have said the same if the threats on William Banda came from PF cadres? I certainly don`t think so!
@Yambezhi Chawamila mbuzi baba!
Let them give this “Malawan” a taste of his own medicine.
Banda does not deserve any sympathy, he is a murderer, why waste the resources to protect him, the best thing Bwana Minister you can do is to put that ***** behind bars. We have a very small and over worked Police force, why even waste your precious time to comment on Banda. Let that animal test his own medicine.
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Mutanikeni william bbando
fun fun funnyyy
William Bandit at it again…
Some people never dig themselves out of the trouble ponds. Infact they like to be in midst of trouble. William Banda is one of them. Old but his mentality is of perpetual trouble fanning. He just waits for opportune time and is back at it. What wisdom will Banda live the young ones? Courting trouble, always.
What a waste of policing resources! On william Banda! Please pay attention to crime ridden Matero/ kanyama etc not William Banda
When are the Zambia Police ever going to do their work without politicians telling them what to do?! This is pathetic.
I hate Malawians, there are witches 90% of them. Malawians give pipo hell at work becoz of muti!
Those are xenophobic utterances. You should always think first before posting such statements.
May God forgive you!
One of these days we will dock one of these hate crimes inciters and Xenophobic imbeciles
You are very evil. Inciting xenophobia is nothing christian. You forget we have zambians living in malawi including my sister who even after her malawian husband came back home to let us know she was going to permanently stay their because her in-laws treats and looks at her as one of them. This hatred of an ***** in the name of william banda will not take you no where. Let the law takes its course if he’s found wanting.
Please Honourable Lungu, don’t interfere. Let William Banda taste his own poison of violence. If MMD have found i tfit to sort out William, they are just joining the masses to ensure that justice is done for William Banda whose DNA tests VIOLENCE POSITIVE.
Leaaaaaaaave BaBanda alone
Total madness.
Lungu is immature for this position of home affairs. Pipo are u seeing what am seeing, he is too excited. We need mature pipo for a serious ministry like home affairs! He comments on irrelevant things that dont add value. This is a police state we are into now!. Leave politics out police work this is not UNIP time!
I think William B is now working 4 pf no wonder he is not imprisoned. He has been employed to cause confusion between the two parties. He is pawn
William is capable of defending himself. He is a commando. Why worry about William. Ba LT you should learn to use correct words. Sought out or sort out? Which is which? Your grammar is pathetic.
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Indeed big brothel! I wonder what glues so many people to that pathetic program.
This Lungu is playing cheap divide and rule brand of politics. The relocation of William Banda from MMD to UPND has not created any rift between MMD and UPND. The two oppopsition parties cooperated well leading to the successful wining of the Livingstone and Muchinga parliamentary seats by UPHD and MMD respectively. William Banda could have played positive roles that cemented good working strategic relations for MMD and UPND. Therefore Lungu is lamenting on his imaginery illusions on the safety of Mr. Banda. If Lungu was linked to Army ranks, then he is a hopeless field tactician.
That is the problem when educated police officers become cadres. William Banda has not asked for police protection so why waste valiable polices resources on cheap political games? Bwana Lunga, you are better offf sending those police offices to crime infected compounds where people are crying for police protection. It’s seems like PF has lost ideas on how do divide the opposition parties and are now resolting to thuggish behaviour. It seems like PF is now feeling the impact of William Banda’s organisational abilities.
This Lungu is really a confused Minister who has become drunk with power less than a month on the post. Can he explain the PF thugs that went to follow Willaim Banda in Chipata got him from there to Lusaka to answer charges of harassment during the elections? Today he wants to champion leadership of appeasement in order to divide MMD and UPND? Guys come on this is the KGB style of governance. PF would like to dwell on anything that seems to divide the opposition. Kulibe muzaciona in 2016 ngati muzafikako
So this guy William is so cleaver that he has alos sweet talked the fat guys of Poor Fellows (PF) Whats so special about this thug called William to desearve Police protection!
Clever way of dividing!
These are the same guys fighting for duo citizenship. Awe twakna okey!
Very dull Minister we have here. Who the heck does he think that thug is? The only good William Banda is a dead one.
WILLUIM BANDA SHOULD RESIGN FROM POLITICS. HE IS OLD IN THE GAME THERE IS COMPLETELY NO BETTER DIFFERENCE HE CAN BRING TO UPND.
Chiwamila galu kuluma mbuzi but ngati mbuzi yaluma galu ati nimaloza. Let me sort him out just like he sorted out the Chongwe residents. Its merely a comic of comedy for William Banda to be protected by PF just because he is in UPND and not MMD a clear indication that govt is after seeing to it that the two parties are real enemies of each other and thereby gain popularity and political mileage. Iam afraid to say there is smell of a rat in this whole issue
I love your reasoning.
The minister has shown how immature he is. He could not make a statement on the murder of a student yet he finds it fit to make a statement on a known thug with court cases pending. The minister should have just kept quite.
BA MINISTER BALEKENI BA MMD NA UPND BAIPONONE TUMONE UMUKALI
I thought UPND and MMD are dinning together…………………………………………
Bwana minister we are anciously waiting for a deservedly quick action over the death of the two inocent women who were cruelly mudered in matero township.From the two cases metioned above that is where we will see how hard working you are Bana mukubwa.Not just protecting you fellow mwana wakwitu.
Big brother has neither christian nor African value.This can only suppoted by those who believe in norms such homo something.muster b something etc
Wanu Ngwee there is no pride in winning Big Brother or Big Brothel as a retort here puts it. Your priorities must be revisited because you are focussing on the wrong things to spur your personal pride. If it makes Zambia proud to win this thingamiggica then Zambians have no goals in life
WILLIAM TEKERE SHOULD BE FORCED TO LEAVE POLITICS AND SHOULD BE SENT BACK TO HIS VILLAGE NKOTA NKOTA MALAWI WHERE HE WAS BORN .WHY SHOULD MR JERE ACCORD SECURITY TO A FOREIGNER WHO HAD TERRORISED PEOPLE FROM 1964 DAYS DURING UNIP TIME AND UPTO 2011 WITH LATE MWANAWASA AND RUPIA. LET THE MMD CADRED PANALBEAT HIM NICELY.
Bwana minister before you address those trivialities please share your plans on how you will address the rampant community and domestic bred violence. Should respect that office, its too big to award such attention too an individual disgruntled carder.
PF double standards at work! I can’t believe that the minister is protecting a criminal who by now should have been caged if the PF were walking their talk.
SHAME BAKAPONDO!!1
Minister should start by arresting all PF cadres including Masebo that have been calling for William Banda’s head. I see the begining of the migration of William Banda to PF. Soon he’ll be giving excuses for being in a “tribal” UPND gaining mileage enough for a valid PF membership
Edgar Lungu is trying to get at Donald Chilufya who was his opponent in Chawama Constituency in the last elections. Very cheap.
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How can a minister be making statements regarding security of an individual or mere citizen just utterly ludicrous!!