Some United Party for National Development (UPND) cadres attending the public rally at Kabwata Basic School grounds in Kabwata constituency in Lusaka have disclosed that police have moved in to control the confusion which erupted between the opposition party and suspected Patriotic Front (PF) cadres.
One of the UPND cadres Lameck Zdikita said police officers have since been deployed to the venue to monitor the situation ahead of the rally that will take place at 14:00 Hours today.
Mr. Zdikita, who is at the venue, told ZANIS in an interview that there was heavy presence of police at the planned UPND rally in Kabwata.
And efforts to get a comment from Inspector General of Police Stella Libongani and Police Spokesperson Elizabeth Kanjela proved futile by press time as their mobile phones went an answered.
The UPND is this afternoon expected to hold a public rally at Kabwata Basic School grounds in Kanyama constituency.
This is after Minister of Home Affairs allowed the opposition political party to go ahead with its planned rally.
ZANIS
Police is for all Zambians, be them UPND,PF,MMD, ULP or non partisans, police will be there for them. I wonder why this should be an issue. What is strange if the police have monitored the Kabwata UPND rally? Zambia is a united nation, and let us not divide it.
@ Edwin, you are slow, drunken Lungu, Libonga & other woman Kasosa said they will not send any officers to the rally.
But real men in the police office have forsaken their bosses, they want to taken care of Zambians. On that note I agree with you.
They should just bring the boys from Lilayi to sort UPND. This is what the pipo voted for. Its dont kubeba.
Are you referring to the underfed skinny policemen from Lilayi?
PF is having diarrhea after failing to deliver none of the campaign promises. It will be Cholera by the end of the year as lies are being exposed by UPND. UPND pulled out of the nonsensical pact with PF because UPND saw the mediocrity of the Pathetic Fools. It is madness to go and throw stones where peopel are meeting. You say HH is under Five, but why get bothered by under 5. Bamunyokola imwe ba Panio Fuseki.
Political partiez are still holding ralliez? Only two ralliez will forever be remarkable; the so called “Pope Square” MMD gathering of 1991, when multitudez voluntarily walked distancez despite a heavy downpour and the Kitwe Freedom Park PF meeting of 2008.
Bo litunga,think twice.lilayi for wat?thers a comon bemba sayin:ukupesha ilungu kweendamo.upnd should be given chance to assemble and reach out to the masses simple. Pf is in govt now and the best thing to do is work hard.
Lovely !!!
Why can’t Tongas and mwasilozi unite to rule this country? Am ready to resign and join u my tribe men. Viva Tongaz viva lozi !!!!
No tribalism iwe, me I support anyone who shows the people of Zambia respect and want to rule in harmony regardless of which part of Zambia they come from…
Lungu & Libongani must simply resign tomorrow, its now getting out of hand that even their subordinates start disobeying them. They said there won’t be any officer on duty on Sunday, so lets see if Libongani will fire those officers with hard balls, who are their to protect citizens.
Why are we so unnecessarily unruly….We seem to lack any common sense and God helps us why fight each other. for what mwebantu…UPND will continue to dream let them talk as loud as they want. What counts are the votes not number of rallies they hold.
Not at the rate PF is going bwana, those votes will be hard to come by. Unless like you are suggesting Zambians won’t vote on issues but on tribal lines. Once beaten…
ITS BECAUSE SATA DID THE SAME FOR MANY YEARS DEAR. YOUR MEMORY IS FAILING YOU DEAR. PLEASE BE ABIT ANALYTICAL EVEN IF THAT IS TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR FROM YOU. DO NOT SUPPORT PF SENSELESSLY. LOOK THEY ARE TRYING TO STIFFLE THE OPPOSITION AND YOU THINK THAT IS A LAUGHING MATTER FOR YOUR TO EXPRESS YOUR TRIBAL LACED SUPPORT.
no one is giving us updates it seems the rally has failed
My view exactly. Of course they are looking for someone to blame!
Katswiri
Zambians voted for MMD on issues. What did they get in the end? Burying money in the ground, ministers giving hammer mills to relatives, president kids flying in chartered planes, the presidents themselves owning apartments or becoming landlords etc. It was free for all – Sangwapo until ba shikulu came along!
What Zambians and Africans in general want are new Railway systems, schools/universities, playgrounds/stadiums, new roads, strong economy, corruption tamed etc NOT issues!
HH indeed is the only way forward for Zambia. I salute HH for pulling out of that useless pact, his reasons can be seen by everyone with eyes & earns & even by the blind. Pf is very selfish & greedy government with no agenda for Zambia. Go HH go