Hundreds of Monze residents, yesterday, braved the scorching sun to witness the burial of a Patriotic Front(PF) official at Monze cemetery in Southern Province Harrison Chanda who was brutally hacked by suspected United Party for National Development (UPND) cadres in Livingstone on Monday.
And speaking at the burial ceremony, PF Secretary Deputy General Bridget Atanga said the party has lost a great man who he said will be difficult to replace.The late Chanda, 55, was yesterday interred at Monze Cemetery and witnessed by both PF and Monze residents.And speaking during the burial of Mr. Chanda, Defence Minister Geoffrey Mwamba assured Zambians that Government will ensure that the suspects connected to the death are brought to book irrespective of the political inclination.Mr. Mwamba said the investigative wings of Government will leave no stone unturned in bringing culprits to book to deter those who would be the second offenders in such barbaric acts.He stated that it is sad and painful to see some UPND cadres slaughter human beings in such a manner within a short period of time due to political hooliganism of their unresponsible cadres.
The Defence Minister said the PF do not want to take revenge over the death of their cadres but that the party will continue restraining their cadres from involving themselves in political violence in order to maintain peace in the nation.
And Mr. Mwamba has appealed to the people of Southern Province and Zambians at large to desist from political violence and condemn these barbaric acts being perpetuated by some suspected opposition UPND cadres in the nation.Mr. Mwamba expressed that he sympathises with the people of Southern province who have decided to remain in opposition when the rest of the provinces have accepted to work with the government of the day in a bid to develop the nation.
He further advised the people of Southern province to look for a credible leader of the type of late Underson Kambela Mazoka who will be able to embrace and unite Zambians regardless of their tribe and colour as opposed to those ruthless leaders promoting disunity in the nation.
He said President Michael Sata is a president for all Zambians as it can be seen by the recent appointment of two UPND Members of Parliament into the PF Government as deputy Ministers apart from Wilber Simusa and Obvious Mwaliteta who are not Bembas but their own sons.Meanwhile, Mr. Mwamba has disclosed that the PF administration has penetrated Southern Province as evidenced by the party’s scooping local Government by elections in Itezhi-Tezhi, Namwala and Siavonga in Southern province respectively.Mr. Mwamba said the PF is being accepted even in areas where it had no support such as in Mpongwe where it has won the Mpongwe Parliamentary by election held yesterday on the Copperbelt.He said the PF is also confident of scooping the fourth Livingstone Central by election without any difficulties because the people of Southern province have accepted to work with the Government of the day.
And speaking at the burial ceremony, PF Secretary Deputy General Bridget Atanga said the party has lost a great man who will be difficult to replace.
Mr. Atanga said this is the Late Mr. Chanda was a hard working PF official who managed to organise the party not only in Monze district but the rest of Southern province.The PF Secretary Deputy General who spoke in Tonga said in 2008, Mr Chanda was one of the instrumental people in establishing PF structures in Monze district at a difficult time when the province was dominated by the opposition.She said It was difficult to establish PF structures in Monze district in Southern Province but that Mr. Chanda and many other PF officials managed to win support from many people who joined the party.Speaking at the same occasion, Ms Atanga advised youths in the country to heed to President Michael Sata’s advice to desist from engaging themselves in political violence as they are just used by those un principled leaders for their survivor.Ms Atanga said Zambia has been a peaceful nation and that it will not allow some selfish individuals to take their law into their own hands.
And United Church of Zambia Church Reverend Alias Sakala said the brutal murder of Mr Chanda should be condemned by all Christians and the rest of the people of this nation.Reverend Sinkala said it is not biblical to behave in the murder some cadres behaved in the manner they killed the later Mr. Chanda.
He said political parties should learn to exist and working together because Zambia is for all of us and not any other party whether the opposition or the ruling party.
ZANIS
RIP! Sad you joined rascals who turned against you. In opposition they were sacrificing chickens and now that they have power they have turned to human sacrifices. Congratulations to the Zambian Catholic Clergy!
It is a pity people like you just talk rubbish any how. may God deliver you!!
This is very strange!,,,, how does surely PF take a 55years old man from monze to livingstone to go and throws stones and trade punches with hot blooded youths,,,, kaya, i donot understand this one
LT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! chizungu chikuvutani maningi
Nama spellings……………..ati Underson Mazoka instead of Anderson
i have no sympathy with this chanda his intentions were to harm others in the end he harmed himself. he correctly deserves what he got. Don’t RIP. hell awaits you. your friend menyani zulu is waiting to welcome you in hell. well done whoever did it because many lives could have been lost if this fellow was allowed to go on rampage harming innocent citizens with his fellow cadres..
You are not Bwalya u ***** Tonga Lozi full of rubish thinking, no wonder your wife she has been taken away and have an affair with your so called good friend.
BWALYA you are a heartless man,may God visit your hart so you dont burn in hell.grow up man you are so childish.
#one love kwasila you are such hopeless person. who tells u that if you are bemba you have to be PF? and when you are lozi or tonga you have to be UPND? shallow thinking will take you no where but just expose your little education.
You’re a callous animal to celebrate a loss of a human-being. You deserve no further comment.
Your very foolish, ulichiyanga yebo
WE, THE UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS, HAVE BEEN ORGANIZED BY AN INDIVIDUAL WITH MONEY TO START SOMETHING WHICH WE HAVE CALLED THE ZWD ONLINE PUBLICATION JUST TO PRE-OCCUPY OURSELVES LIKE OUR PAY MASTER, WITH INSULTING THE PRESIDENT IN THE NAME OF FREE SPEECH!
LAST MONTH YOU MIGHT HAVE COME ACROSS THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WHICH WAS POSTED IN OUR PUBLICATION:
“Mr. Kabimba has advised President Sata to recall or reshuffle Zambia’s High Commissioner to the UK, Col. Bizwayo Nkunika because he does not trust Mr. Nkunika & some Easteners as the President will be expected to visit UK almost every two months for medication, a situation that may result in too much leakages”.
WE ARE STILL TO MAKE A FOLLOW UP REPORT ON THE PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO A UK HOSPITAL!
MAY HIS SOUL HAUNT THE PF, JUST LIKE THE RUFUNSA DEATH, THIS MAN WAS KILLED BY HIS FELLOWS BECAUSE HE DID SHARE THE MONEY HE WAS GIVEN ACCORDINGLY. OUR POLICE ARE REALLY A LET DOWN, THEY KNOW THIS YET THEY ARE COVERING THE TRUTH. YOU HAVE ALREADY HEAD HOW THE STORY OF HIS DEATH IS CHARGING EVERY DAY, MORE IS COMING.
Noko ichinyo
LT… WHAT IS THIS PF BEMBA INSULT SEEN ABOVE DOING?… WHY YOU ARE KEEPING IT ? SO YOU ONLY DELETE UPND TONGA INSULTS AND OTHER LANGUAGES.. NOT BEMBA??!
HE DID NOT SHARE THE MONEY ACCORDINGLY.
U SADISTS,DEMONS STOP YO SATANIC RANT HERE. GOING BY THE WAY U ARE GOING IT WON’T B LONG B 4 PF RETELIETES WITH HEAVE BLOWS. MWELITETA WHY DIDN’T U FINISH OFF NKOMBO THAT COWARD? @CHIBWALYA,U ARE LUCIFA’S COUSIN.YO CONSCIENCE IS DEAD.
LUSAKA, Thursday, November 8, 2012 – His Excellency Mr Michael Chilufya Sata, President of the Republic of Zambia, is saddened by the death of Mr. Crispin Menyani Zulu, a member of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) who was killed in Rufunsa today by a combined group of opposition UPND and MMD cadres.
The Head of State described the death of Mr. Zulu as disheartening.
(ARE THESE MERE COINCIDENCES)
Menyani Zulu Killed on the eve of the by -election on 7/11/ 2012 and was killed in Rufunsa a cadre from Lusaka. Harrison Chanda also killed on 25/02/2013, two days before the by-election voting date and was killed in Livingstone as a cadre imported from monze. Johan Lyakoko of House number 10/52 Kafue district was allegedly in Livingstone to help his brother-in-law was killed on 1/02/2013.
PF thugs killed a fellow thug. You can even see PF priests are also thugs. Remember that hoodlum who killed a red chicken in broad daylight? That’s PF for you. There are now 8 different accounts of how the thug died. He is now in hell waiting for Sata(n)
GBM Concentrate on PF and your stomach don’t talk about things that u don’t know in UPND , MUKOSE because God is watching U with your lies on how The gods soul Chand died
Which doctor conducted the postmortem and what was the cause? Was it Dr Winter Kabimba?
THE LOSS OF THE LIFE IS REGRETTABLE.HOWEVER AVOID MAKING POLITICAL SPEECHES AT FUNERALS WHICH ARE AIMED AT FUELING TENSION IN THE PROVINCE.FURTHER MORE THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN PROVINCE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE THEIR POLITICAL DIRECTION JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE OF NORTHERN PROVINCE OR LUAPULA.PF WILL ONLY CHANGE THE HEARTS OF THE TONGAS BY RESPECTING THEIR VIEWS AND NOT BELITTLING THEM LIKE CHILDREN.THE TONGAS DON’T BELIEVE IN HERO WORSHIP AND THAT IS THE REASON WHY THEY HAVE NO PARAMOUNT CHIEF.WORK CULTURE IS WHAT DRIVES THEM.IF PF CAN MEET THEM IN THAT AREA,THEN COME 2016,THEY WILL VOTE FOR PF AS THEY DID FOR MMD IN 1996.GOD BLESS ZAMBIA
The Law is being raped severely in Zambia,I thought threre was innocence before courts of Laws! Zambia is finished, Leadership crisis for sure!
A loss of human life is regretable however ThIs is a leason to all cadres not to matters personal. At the end of the day its your family that will suffer the. Lose
others wil just shed crocdile tears they family is entact
Those who kill by the sword……..if Chanda did not persue violence, he would have been alive today. Sad indeed.
GBM & Atanga, stop your patronage on the people of southern province. We know u are a “Tonga under oath” author and this was meant to alienate and label the people of SP as violent. U failed! And now u want to “counsel” them as though there are all politicians voters and as though they all belong to Livingstone constituent. SP is bigger than u think and so is the Republic. Take off your blinders and look up and see how encompassing our people are in Zambia, then u will desist from your small agendas of bringing strife and confusion among our people. Leave the law take its course, don’t pre
empt
Fatherless children because dad was a f.oolish pawn in a power game. F.oolishness is always costly. Anyway, RIP!
Secretary Deputy General! That is a classic! Anyhow, that useless typo aside, I still maintain as I always do: Nothing justifies the taking of anyone’s life. Nothing. May the soul of our departed rest in peace.
Chanda , koya balakwiita balya nsozi, that what you wanted, a good way of dying for racscals. Only Criminals will sympathise wit you. Those cadres are justthere for free beer and nonko shapamalilo.
Sadly the many comments here are lack insight and reflection. If these reflect the Zambian psyche, no wonder the country is finding it hard to move on. Little mindedness, bigotry, lack of insight and downright stupidity seem to have taken root at a time we need serious reflection and commitment. How can one celebrate death and enthuse in language intended to inflame another tribe? It beggars belief! There is never a time when political differences, or antithetical isms, become a good justification for killing. We ought to be careful, otherwise we will face the consequences seen in Ruanda, Congo and other similar countries!
who can answer these questions for meaa? what was he doing in livingstone? Was Gbm at a political rally or Burial.What prof do these guys have that it was Upnd Cants that killed the stranger in livingstone elections? why dont they also suspect Pf chaps he was fighting with to share the money which was given to them by the pf officialls and then him as a stige man decides to sneak from friends to have a bigger share? Before burial did they get the finger prints to prove the accused?Finally now that chanda died during operation for the
betterment of PF wat will pf do the the family of the deceased?
So this deputy secretary general Bridget Atanga is a man not a woman?
We have better things to do than this killing,bad politics ,bad grammatical articles etc.I cant die for Pf or any party doing political thuggery.Lets not use human life for selfish political ends.
bwalya u r so foolish you r worse than a devil.m veri disapointd wit your foolish coments,u r shalow mindd