Deputy Inspector General of Police, Solomon Jere says he directed the Police Command in Eastern Province to stop the UPND from holding any meetings in areas where there are pending court cases in relation to by-elections out of respect for the judicial process.
This follows revelations by the UPND that Dr. Jere stopped the party from holding rallies in Eastern Province.
Dr. Jere told QFM News in an interview that he arrived at the decision to stop such rallies after receiving facts from the Police Command in Eastern province.
He said it is imperative that the citizenry obey and respect the judicial process.
He said that it is not in the interest of the Police to see the country taking the path of anarchy like other countries in the region.
Dr Jere has since advised the UPND not to start drawing the Police into unnecessary confrontations by disobeying the law.
The Deputy Inspector General of Police has appealed to the UPND to ensure that they lead by example by abiding by the stipulated laws in place.
Dr Jere said the Police will ensure that they uphold the law as stipulated in the constitution.
[QFM]
Dr. jere,Please try to be fair with other opposition parties.We are all Zambians.Let them hold rallies where there are no pending by elections then.
Dr Jere – rather it is you that is try so hard to bring the UPND into unnecessary confrontations.
You are still too young to go into retirement, be partial and you will last beyond this one term government. You still have your Children and a load of relatives who will continue to need your financial support beyond this ONE TERM JOKE of a Party.
Jere you should not just prepare for retirement but for jail as well for aiding and abetting Sata to breach the constitution after 2016.
Impartial policing went with MMD.
How come I never heard of PF applying for a permit to assemble or hold meetings where ever they want?
Sata and Kambwili toured Eastern province and campaigned openly in those areas where by elections are pending. So whats wrong with UPND going there to meet the people?
All the actions taken by Sata and Jere to stop the people from being addressed by UPND and HH, are simply championing HH’s cause by increasing people’s curiosity as to why Sata and the PF fear HH so much. People are starting to think HH is the man to follow because he has something brilliant that Sata and PF do not want the people to hear…
Ba Jere
There comes a time when people or a group of them stake their lives for a cause. If it be the right cause they will agitate for change despite repression and dire consequences. It is the nature of humans. Freedom is great than loss of life and limbs and incaceration.
History has proved this time and time such as:
brutal police repression during the KK one party dictatorship
henious apartheid police and soilder crimes against the blacks
creation of bantustans (now championed by Luapula, Kudos, mume.mbe, s.ata.) by white apartheid regime
savage sudan military campaign which ended with SPLA government in South Sudan
Need I say where even this repression in Zambia will end? The people will ultimately triumph even if it is through death of some.
Freedom is not cheap. There must of necessity be the brave who are willing to lay even their lives for freedom. We need our
Martin Luther Jr
Samora Machael
Steve Biko
Patrice Lumba
Tongogara
Justin Chimba
Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula
Nelson Mandela
Jomo Kenyatta
Mzee Mwalimu Kambarage Nyerere
No retreat despite the shell or bullets and off to paradise with a clean conscience of a fight well fought for the good of posterity. A revolution has to ‘eat’ for it to vomit what people require. Ask Zambia’s freedom fighters of those in Ukraine’s maidan.
Now that people have been beaten and assaulted by the police, we in Eastern province are going to start hunting any one who is PF and teach them a lesson. Muzachiona tu PF supporters in Eastern province.
Sata and all your minions make sure you carry thousands of police protection with you otherwise you will see red when you come here for allowing your police dogs to break my brother ‘s bones. If any one dies out of this police brutality, I swear to god I will not rest until I hunt down any PF who strays in Eastern province.
Sata and your stupid police dogs have just created an invisible enemy. Tiza koanani when you come to campaign here.
Ignore my warning at your peril !
Jere is just a DEPUTY, and how come he now even in-charge of ECZ?
Is it not ECZ to punish UPND if they start campaigning for by-elections? Awe sure, the Zambia we have now?
If any thing happens to HH, Sata should not leave state house at all as his head will have a bounty of his own creation on it.
People we must realize that Jere is not the law and there is not need to reason with a PF cadre dressed in Police uniform. Jere is showing characteristics which are not helpful and pushing citizens into disliking the Sata led government to the bone. This is what will harm this govt, the perception of being unfair. Jere, recall that this is not Zimbabwe, therefore, allow HH to enjoy his rights. Your days in Police with that PF cadre behaviour are numbered.
Police will lose the fight!
They will be digging PFs grave.
Don’t try to stop the unstoppable
Seek advice from KK,
There was a time he confirmed to fearing his own shadow!
In the same vein that I noticed people around Lusaka on that night walking practically on FOOT from as far flung areas as Chalala singing Donchi Kubeba all through to Mulungushi Conference Centre, do I envisage to see the same but in reverse in 2016.
Key – leaders need to leave by there word……. We will continue voting them out until we get another Mwanawasa..
Masebo and Guy Scott breached the law by holding rallies and meetings at the nominations stations. Where was Solomon Jere and what was he doing at the time? Obviously nothing because he is there protecting his appointing authorities and not protecting Zambian against law breakers like Masebo and Scott. Instead he decides to use a silly argument like this one to selectively deny the opposition their much deserved freedom of speech and assembly.
Such acts do bear “DICTATORSHIP” marks written all them and people should not sit and watch this clueless and cruel government kill the democracy while paying themselves huge sums of tax payers money.
Its not what Sata instructs the Police that will change the presidency in 2016, its the Pipo’s wish, the pipo’s choice that gonna work, so no amounts of brutality will stop the pipo’s choice..don’t forget that, if u use brutality then pipo will do a donchi kubeba for U ba mudala.
Well said Jere.You are doing a commendable job.Keep it up.
JERE……..If they continue disobeying you must beat the hell of of the fellows!
@Yamba
You think the people will just run away seeing their friends being beaten? These actions by the police are weakening the police force.
The fact that the police have become increasingly perceived as partial is strengthening people’s resolve to fight back at what is currently perceived as police brutality.
Ask Jere what happened in Kabwe today. The police were threatened with massive violence if they attempted to arrest MAN SHAKAFUSWA .
3 years back you called him MMD Policeman today he is PF Policeman in 2036 you likely might call him NAREP Policeman in 2046 UPND Policeman, You never cease to surprise me, he is just a neutral civil servant doing his work professionally and within the law, just wait for your longest term and time to come.
Implyin….
Filha da puta!!!
yu are indeed a suprised Zambian but i want yu to believe that Zambia is changing fast and 2016 is surely coming fast.Realchange for economic inmancipation is coming the train as started to move .Keeping on bieng suprised the signs have been writen on the wall.its clear for everyone to see.
dream on you I.M.B.E.C.I.L.E. Ati narep 2036????????? no wonder you are the people who put cnp in plot 1
solomon jere is a hardcore witch like kabimba who fears no one because of his satanic evil worshipping.
puta que ti naisceu!
This is staggering hypocrisy on the part of Jere and his disgraced, compromised pathetic police force. Why is it disrespect of the judicial process when it is the opposition parties visiting the areas and not the ruling party? Nyere your hypocrisy has been exposed and your partisan stance exposed!! Shame on you.
SO SOLOMON IS A DOCTOR NOT KNOWING WHICH FIELD NOW
He has a PHD in law
DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, SOLOMON JERE SAYS, “he directed the Police in Eastern Province to stop the UPND from holding meetings in areas where there are pending court cases ONLY in relation to by-elections out of respect for the judicial process.”
Surely, this message could be loud and clear. Only i.dio.ts like @Wanzelu could be aggrieved.
Really? And which authority given him such judicial powers?
Definitely not current Constitution, neither Public Order Act.
As you call others “*****s”, please learned jack-ass, inform the “*****s” under which law Jere is acting?
I think this site has cadre infestation.. People cant literally see sense in something very straight forward. Hence am now assuming that most bloggers here are either:
1) Immigrants from the dog site
2) kids
3)cadres
4) people with nothing to do
5) arm chair critics
6) frustrated individuals
I am a senior executive who has ‘made it’ and perhaps you could even call me wealthy. But I am concerned about the future of this great country and what it holds for my children and their children if things are not corrected.
I would have been more than happy to have continued supporting PF and Sata if they had ensured continued prosperity and fulfilled their campaign promises. For which sane person cannot but love those hefty promises we were given.
But things are going wrong and unless we speak we might find ourselves in deep trouble. That is why I blog. It is costly time wise but I need to add my voice to hopefully one day get the message across to PF leadership to change course for the better of us all.
@ The Matrix. All of the above and add to that 1di0cy and bitterness
Things are not as bad as they are made to look, and PF is suffering from its over promise and dubiuos deals they entered into when trying to go to plot 1. But when people try to start disobeying simple and straight forward laws it becomes another issue to me. Anarchy has no place in Zambia. UPND can hold meetings in many other provinces and any skilled political analyst can tell that UPND wants nothing in this case other than to make some noise and gather attention. its just how politics work. Dont think these individuals realy care more about you than the lust for power. its just the same way some people thought that PF will literaly put cash in their pockets and give them coupons to go and drink tujilijili. ask yourself, wats special about eastern province now?
matrix iam happy yu also feeling the heat.
@ matrix
In which group of six you belong?
Who should advise: is it Electoral Commission of Zambia or ZP? ECZ has not commented so far. Why? Is it not ECZ’s baby to deal with campaign period?
Tell this tribal Hallucinating Hutu (HH) to stop this mischief. This chap wants to be a hero from zero. I feel for your poor herd who follow you blindly out of poverty and hunger. Who will you blame when we start a major clamp down and lock you up in jail like cows in a kraal?
Behave yourself you bovine Hasunda Hainyelawila (HH)
kudos its high we blog with a sence of civility.Which HUTU are yu refering this is Zambia my dear with more 73 groups of pipo.Istead of preaching peace yu chi kudos yu are preaching hatred .No one shall torelate intimidation in highly civilised country like Zambia.Kudos yu are disgreace
what sickens me is the impunity with which this crooked chap (HH) walks around thinking he’s clever. and these UPND cadres vomit all sorts of verbal rubbish against this deputy police chief who’s simply doing his job. the ZP dull and stupid as you may call them can only go as far as supporting the government of the day. So if ZP catch (HH) defiling male oxen the law of the day says defilement is punishable up to 25 years we will arrest the chap.
If your Useless People Naughty Dikcs (UPND) party will ever form government in 2031 and beyond, the ZP of that time will support them. Keep waiting but dont disobey the Zambian laws of today
Iwe Kudos, i am one who has referred to you as a hutu extremist for practising apartheid against the people hh represents. YOU ARE HUTU apartheid for labelling bantu botatwe as bantustan. You are chapter and verse of apartheid. You believe in tribal hegemony with Luapula. I said it and I still say it; both luapula and northern gave hh (bantu botatwe) less than 0.00001%. That is the level of apartheid in you. Not satisfied you hope to genocide hh and his ethnicity. The Hague awaits you.
What really buffles my mind is how people like you and other cadres on this blog have short memories.
Brief Historical facts;
1.We had UNIP vigilantes,where are they
2.Zambia was once a one party state,Now
3.Sata campaigned freely and openly during MMD era without intimidation,what has changed.
Just explain ,where in the Zambian laws atre you reqiured to obtain a police permit,to the exyent wher you can not have meetings even in doors?In doors ,how?
As for Kudos….
People of God or any deity that represents peace and civility, could anyone who knows this person known as Kudos, please expose his/her true identity to save Zambians from his/her Nazi-against-Jew type of campaign. Please expose him/her. He is dangerous, not only to HH but to other Zambians. Some people might believe his malicious assertions against this innocent humble Zambian whose only crime is to lead an opposition political party at a time PF is in power. Please do Zambia a favour b4 we all regret what his/her poisonous hatred may cause us. And LT and ZWD, these are the types to black out not innocent bloggers. We love blogging becoz it is the only opportunity we have to express our views on issues. We all blog but we do not incite hatred and violence. KUDOs WHO?
There is no law which says you can only hold rallies if a bye election has been called. Jere is totally out of order. If the court process has been disrespected (which it has not) it is for the lawyers for the other side to apply for contempt of court. Jere is not a court. We have freedom of assembly and speech which must be respected.
PF has just lamentably failed to govern so there are using Jere to intimidate pipo.
DR Jere is creating uncalled for confusion in this country. Ever since he was appointed he is very excited and will do the wrong things to please or draw the attenion of Plot one. Yet himself is breaking the law by having an escort vehicle when ever he is travelling is from hometo work. Only the President and Vice president are allowed. So what law, is he talking about. Please dont bring war to our country, retire this man in public interest.
Pay more attention to the crime levels and corruption amongest your police offices then political affairs.
Jere Mike…..
You have hit the nail on the head. Any peace-loving Zambian should call for the retirement of this man. The PF may enjoy this short-term “support” but it is making the ruling party unpopular. There is no doubt about that. Of course there are dangerous elements like Kudos who may enjoy this. We are not surprised. They are weeds growing together with the crop, the Lord Jesus said in Mathew 13:30. But let it be identified from the start so that it can be separated from the good crop. Dr Jere is known but who is Kudos?
This is a headless thing.
People like Kudos were cheering on when MCS toured and campaigned in the same areas which Jere says are out of bounds. This guy [kudos] thinks he is a champion on insults and yet he easily gets sickened by UPND cadres talk. What hypocrisy! Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you. Learn to respect people and they will in turn do the same. How can you call someone a Hutu when you are in the same country with them, are there any Hutus in Zambia? Kudos, tone down on your choice of words. We would like to listen to you, get ideas from your blogging, but not in the manner you are currently going about it.
Ba Police be fair. Have you forgotten about ba Sata campaigning in the same areas during Mandela’s funeral?
@Siamanengo and Tribalism
PLEASE ITS NOT ME OR CHIBWE AT UPND BUT
1. MADYENKUKU WHO IN 2006 PROCLAIMED THAT AFTER ANDY’S DEMISE (MHSRP), THE NEXT PARTY PRESIDENT MUST BE A TONGA.
2. HH WHO IN 2009 ADVISED HIS KITH & KIN AS THUS: “WE PEOPLE FROM NORTH WESTERN RHODESIA SHOULD UNITE. IF WE GIVE POWER TO THESE BEMBAS, WE’LL NEVER GET IT BACK?”
SO DON’T EVER ASSOCIATE THIS PERSON TO TRIBALISM & THAT IS WHY I WILL ALWAYS NOT RESPECT THE 3 CHARACTERS, SIKAFUSWA, HH & MADYENKUKU.
BY the way Kudos sex with a cow or a bull is not defilement but bestiality. Please check your english before you click on post comment.
LUAPULA PREMIER……
In the same manner, the PF promised to give Zambians a new constitution but are now saying they did not mean what they said as Zambia already has a constitution. Should the Zambians continue to trust the PF and its leadership, if they are to go by your reasons for not trusting the three. By the way, people change for the better and we must forgive them for their past when they do and embrace them for their courage to repent. Otherwise, Christianity becomes a mere religion and not a way of life as it is supposed to be. I rest my case.
Salamat , Wanzelu it’s hard to swallow a simple thing. The law states no campaign or rallies in constituencies pending bye elections. So what is so special about UPND to go and have rallies in the named constituencies ? The only way to summarise this type of action is driven by provocation, inferiority complex, anarchy, unlawful assemblies, bullying the law enforcing agents with the view Hurry Hyena and his minions are the victims of PF when they are the architect of law breaking and source of concern . Their appetite for confusion and anarchy will not achieve them sympathy as this too far fetched approach. One day their approach of confrontational and hatred will backfire and create one of the worse response from those who have ignored them. If You can’t reconcile with yourself
But ur so called president the chumbu the munshololwa was in malambo and vubwi campaigning during mandelas funeral and it was right then but fowhhhhr upnd it is wrong. What kind of double standerd is this where u r not even ashamed of urselves surely. Mind u we are watching u be careful.
There is not such a law in Zambia. Please give a cap and section number to prove your self.
PAFWENAMWINE…….
State the law and section where it says so or you are just being an anarchist, period. Quote the law and no one will raise their voice against Dr. Jere. Be useful to society.
Sata’s days are numbered is it a curse to have this mudala in state house or what? Y. do I ask it was this same sata who went through so much suffering under mmd and us the people felt pity for this man; and we gave him a vote for him to where he is with his family. But it buffles me to see that mr sata is a monister that he can be treating hh in a brutal manner like he was mistreated by the mmd and for now rupiah banda looks holier than this devil called sata I. Regret voting for him next my president is hh not this quack called sata
Aaah Jere, too much “I” and “I” in your speech. You are so self centred. Replace “I” with “We” and you shall move mountains. Further, it is easier to isolate an “I” from an entire Zambia Police Service Team. Or is it that this man wants to be the IG?
Jere is preparing himself to be chief Kaili in Chimbwakaila not IG.
I recall that on the night the ECZ was dillydallying about announcing the winner ZNBC TV denied Zambians results but instead continuously “entertained” themselves (i mean ECZ) with Dr. Jere’s music. We thank God for MUVI TV for those of us who were in Lusaka.
Who took the initiative to publicly demand for the results to be released, even when they knew they had lost and PF and Mr Sata had won? It was leaders of the opposition incl. HH, who is now labelled as bitter. Even colleagues like Chipimo and distant Nawakwi (in terms of friendship to HH) later called him bitter just for speaking as an opposition leader. Bro Chipimo did not wait to long swallow his words against HH. Interesting how short-sighted intelligent guys can be. No hard feelings brother Chipimo. You are forgiven.
Sanity was returning to our police under Dr. Malama
There is no law that prohibits visiting places where elections had been nullified until ECZ has announced the dates for by electiont. HH is in order as sata was when he visited the same. Jere and others are feeding us with pf bigotry that must never be allowed in zambia democracy.