Chief Government Spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni says the Patriotic Front (PF) government is not bothered by visits by officials from international community who want to ascertain the levels of adherence to the respect of Human rights in the country.
Mr. Sakeni said as far as the PF government is concerned Zambia sustains sufficient tolerance of human rights and that no international organisation to which Zambia is a member would be justified to suspend the countrys membership.
Mr. Sakeni was reacting to concerns that the visit by the Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba a few days after the opposition filed in a supplementary petition to the Commonwealth to seek Zambia’s suspension could inspire fear on how the country is being viewed.
Ms. Masire-Mwamba, who is in Zambia for a three days official visit, is expected to meet senior government officials, leaders of the opposition political parties and the civil society.
Her visit is a follow up to the earlier Commonwealth mission which sent a two man delegation to ascertain Zambia’s human rights situation.
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Why don’t these organisations go to Rwanda which is a dictatorship or even musevenis Uganda that has stifled opposition why Zambia day in and out
So you have admitted that you are abusing human rights like Rwanda and Uganda. What else do you want to copy from these countries, Civil War or what? Stupid excuse!
They coming to check out the new dictator.. if zambia is not under dictatorship, donot need to worry,, It will be cleared after interviewing all people involved.
and I hear the first man to be interview by commonwealth deputy secretary is Father Bwalya
1.1 its the double standards lm moaning about. lt is in their interest to have museveni and kagame in power so they turn a blind eye to their dictatorial tendencies but yet will respond to a hired gun like Amsterdam who has no interest for our nation but his bank account from RB loot
al or ass or whatever you call yourself please use your brain to think, Zambia not neither one or member of the countries you stated nor part and parcel of the war in those countries. So you are busy lobbying for war in Zambia and what are you going to earn from the war?
@1.4 Ba Sad, fullish talk. Al’s using civility with you and you deliberately choose to talk from your sh**t hole…sad indeed!
No one poured Chibuku on Mr. Sata or stopped him from holding rallies when in opposition, you embarasing all of us who supported PF in 2011 and you are just making Chanda Chimba III a hero cause everything he warned against voting Mr. Sata is happening. Its us who vote not those thugs you are hiring.
You are re writing history my friend have you forgotten the state machinery that was un leashed on the opposition by your beloved RB -how the late Bishop Patrick Duffy was threatened with deportation together with father miha and how mongu residents were butchered when they demonstrated for the enactment of the barotse agreement. RB is a thug who must be locked up and the keys thrown away
@al
why are you rantled?, the common wealth deputy secretary just want to interveiw Father Bwalya and hear how he is feeling.
@Al
Atleast they were just threatened or should I say warned, but tell me how many people this government have deported?
A retard… with a brain which is not fully developed fit to be part of the monkey family
I have a lot of sympathy for you ,you sound like a loner more of a serial killer.
@ Engineer, Do you know how insulting it is to civilized individuals when a monkey like you insults Africans…..your family included? Your ancestors, people from whose sperm and eggs you originated, suffered at the hands of the Aryan race chanting kill the monkey, and you’re here glorifying the term. Grow up, please!
why should we bother. do we go to question their policies in their countries? let them come and go. we are not bothered!!!
We are Bothered as Zambians. Zambians in leadership are stifling freedom of expression of fellow Zambians in Zambia.
That is our complaint. The police have become brutal and compromised, hiding from thieves at Manda hill who were robbing a poor Zambian whilst the same fools persecuting HH and Nevers Sekwila on trumped up charges.
Foolish, comment from call boy, Not wasting any pixels on you
A protester in London was beaten by police and died seen live on tv.
Can that be shown on ZNBC??????? PF police killing beating up a person and shown
be honest and answer this question.
At least the media free to point out ills in society. here kaya kaya kaya.
Chi Kasaka wht dictatrship re u talkng jst bcoz yr acomplice Hakahi votela Heka cant match the political industry he thought ws so easy?Its not easy my friend.Its not al abt sch or age.The industry is exceptional.Which human rights re being abused i Zambia?Whn the fight is tough dont cal on spectators fr rescue- the international comunity!Get to the ring butonup yr fist & fight.Evn if u a habitual distant 3rd result earner in an election.U thnk its easy & expect to gain suport on age?Wht mediocrity is tht?Go back to the field & fight.Its not easy & it wil remain like tht .If the fight is tough retire & concetrate elsewhere, do u hear tht?
With only your low IQ otherwise u failed the exam of understand the meaning of the statement carefully.
Anyway what can we expect from you PF evil monkeys when u can not even understand simple arithmetic & stealing things from ivory to money from Zambia Railway.
only the blind cant see the dictatorship going on…no rallies 4 opposition when sata used to hold some in mandevu, pouring of beer on father bwalya, bitting of people in church at Bigoca…..the nonsence must stop…abash donchi kubeba,,,twabeba
Our gallant Zambian soldiers should now arrest this Shushushu & take him to State House where he should be put in a guard room with Sata till they freeze out.
This Moron Chimpanzee AIDS man Sakeni should not push his luck too far!
All Zambian soldiers, their families and their extended families have been negatively affected not only by these subsidies but by the removal of Mealie Meal from them which was given to INCOMPETENT Sata’s criminal government.
Every Zambian is suffering & the last thing we Zambians wants is to be suspended from the Commonwealth let alone lose investor confidence.
Sakeni has stolen enough money so before we Zambians parade him in public he should not push his luck too far.
We the Zambian people are watching & waiting impatiently!
Don’t display your ignorance here ! Commonwealth is a club of nations-it does not give the kind of aid you are thinking of and as for investors they have not left Uganda Rwanda angola drc even china which stifle opposition
With all the due respect to the opposition in Zambia, the situation in Zambia is not comparable to the situation of gross intorelance in South Africa. I respect the Zambian government or Dr. Scott when they/he understood up to South Africans and put it to them/us that they/we are backward. As an educated critical individual, one has to understand the context in which Dr Scott/Zambians labelled South Africans as ‘backward’. Majority of South Africans, in a nutshell, are trapped in a reciprocal violent mindset which defeats the very intentions which minority progressive S. Africans put forward as a common point of departure. Typical violent mindsets also destroy recommendations to their problems and, lost debates among S.Africans dominate real solutions. Zambians are correct.
It is not a normal response from any person/country to a neighbour who has no regard for the rights of black foreign nationals. The response African countries are likely to adopt to South Africa’s inhumane treatment of black Africans in South Africa is as follows: African nations are likely to block South Africa’s inward expansion into the rest of the continent in terms of its diversed business interests. South African capital is generating tens of billions of US dollars in returns from African countries where S.A. capital injected billions worth of investments. We are shifting to a phase where Africans are no longer recipients of aid, but people we cannot afford to wish away or argue without or do wothout. Zambians are not junior partners nor underdogs anymore,but economically…
It is not a normal response from any person/country to a neighbour who has no regard for the rights of black foreign nationals. The response African countries are likely to adopt to South Africa’s inhumane treatment of black Africans in South Africa is as follows: African nations are likely to block South Africa’s inward expansion into the rest of the continent in terms of its diversed business interests. South African capital is generating tens of billions of US dollars in returns from African countries where S.A. capital injected billions worth of investments. We are shifting to a phase where Africans are no longer recipients of aid, but people we cannot afford to wish away or argue without or do without. Zambians are not junior partners nor underdogs anymore,but economically…
PF govt is afraid of opposition parties that is why HH and opposition leaders are not allowed to hold political rallies in the country. Is this not against the fundmentals of good democracy. PF is winning by-elections because the campaign is only for them. Shame
Shaka Oz u re a blatant liar & a nicompoop.Has Sakeni stolen?Report hm Police or infom ACC or DEC.Dont yurp carelesly like a possesd shameless imbecile wag.Wht kind tnking is tht?Dont instil shame public jst to alarm ambitions of one person as a result or sufered due to unacceptable self deviant tolerant to acept being surbordinated.Do u hear tht?Hakahi votela Heka faild alon & is biter against ths govt.If u thnk he is gaining checkectoral bye elections he has won so far.And his results.Are they increasng or improvng?Only rational pipo can agree not u.Wht is yr 3rd distant electoral earner going to earn? With tht selfcentered myopic analysis it wil continue heartbreakng til he retirement frm politics.
THEY HAVE DONE WELL TO COME SO THAT THOSE WHO WROTE TO THEM ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IN ZAMBIA CAN BE PROVEN TO JUST BE SYMPATHY SEEKING FOOLS.
THERE IS SO MUCH CHILDISHNESS IN OUR SO CALLED OPPOSITION POLITICIANS THAT THEY DO NOT OFFER ANY ALTERNATIVES DURING ELECTIONS BUT JUST VOTE FOR THE GOVT IN POWER.
EVERY DAY AND NIGHT THEY DREAM ABOUT WHAT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE GOVT AND OPPOSE LITERALLY EVERYTHING THE GOVT DOES.
ONE OF THEM (HH) WAS EVEN SEEN WAVING HIS PARTY SYMBOL DURING THE ZAMBIA vs LESOTHO GAME WHICH ANNOYED SOCCER FANS PROMPTING THEM TO THROW BOTTLES AT HIM. OTHERS JOINED IN NOT KNOWING WHAT HAD TRIGGERED THE MISSILES.
Come 2016 there will be a HALL available for these thugs at the Hague, so enjoy your freedom and abuse whilst you still can. Ask Charles Taylor how he is having ‘the time of his life’.
This is why I love Amsterdam because each time he makes a statement these PF thugs’ legs become like jelly, brains even worse!!!
Today I’m feeling tired of all this.
On days like this I’m glad I’m here in the US away from it all.
Au revoir!
yes Tigress they will trust what Amsterdam is saying because he is a muzungu than
black man. it’s a pity the muzungu we have in government when he speaks it draws
negative response
We have stooges of imperialist id iots of Zambians in Hh and Mumba with their dull and crookered supporters like ici ci Shaka,ci engineer etc.You want to sell our country for yo dirt bellies. Yo thrive on lies.Have a conscience .Demons!
Haha,ato not bothered but when foreign based entities condemn PF’s misrule they are so riled and feel the need to defend the indefensible.Makes no sense.
@Domingo you are such a very foolish person and an ***************