Thursday, March 28, 2024

Attempted abduction of PF’s Lingweshi thwarted

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-PF candidate for Mangango Rogers Lingweshi Lyambai speaking to journalist shortly after succesffully falling in of nomination
-PF candidate for Mangango Rogers Lingweshi Lyambai speaking to journalist shortly after succesffully falling in of nomination

Three UPND cadres were this afternoon arrested by the Police for allegedly wanting to abduct ruling PF Mangango Parliamentary candidate Rodgers Lyambai Lingweshi.

PF Mangango by-election campaign manager Obvious Mwaliteta says the three cadres were arrested around 12:00hrs after some UPND cadres allegedly attacked a PF camp in Mangango ward where Mr. Lingweshi was.

Mr. Mwaliteta has told Qfm news in a telephone interview that amongst the three who have been arrested and detained at Mangango police post is a Mr. Kenny Ndumba whom he says was the leader of the attempted abduction.

He says such politics which the UPND is portraying is allegedly typical of the opposition party and that it has further demonstrated that the UPND is an alleged tribal and violent political party.

The PF Mangango by-election manager, who is also Kafue Member of Parliament (MP) says his party is however happy that people of Mangango have come to the realization of the development that the PF government is taking to their area and that they want to cooperate with it.

He says the ruling party is thus remains committed to abiding to the Electoral Code of Conduct and that it will sustain peaceful campaigns through out the by-election.

Mr. Mwaliteta has since urged the UPND and other political parties taking part in the by-election to stop fighting each other especially that the people of Mangango are peaceful.

But UPND vice president for politics Canisius Banda has told Qfm news in a separate interview that his party has no plans of abducting anyone.

Dr. Banda says all that his party however wants to abduct is poverty, ignorance and disease.

He says it is for this reason that the UPND is calling for peace and harmony as the campaigns for the Mangango by-election continue and that his party urges the ruling PF not to use government resource in its campaigns.

34 COMMENTS

  1. Are you sure that’s the truth? Am requesting you to send a reporter to find out what happened truly. I hope this will help you not to trust anyone regardless of their political post. Please verify you will be surprised.

    • @FTJ
      Take time to research your obsession of Freemanson,, 99 percent if not all world presidents today and other important leaders are freemanson and illuminates,,, find out their places of meetings in Zambia, you will be shocked who you find there your beloved PF leaders, bembas and tongas mixed in freemanson,,, ingorance is posion

    • mwaliteta must be dreaming…. who can adduct poor uncle lingweshi,,, my uncle looks like he doesnt eat at all in hís sun burnt shirt which i sent him 2yrs ago,,,,

      mwaliteta is just a thug,,,,, everywhere he goes people fight people die

    • @Ndobo, ati ignorance is poison. That is the reason UPND what to abduct IGNORANCE, not Ba Lingweshi, what can you do with such a man? Even if abductors demanded a million dollars, Kabimba will not pay like he did in Sudan recently.

    • @ Nando if Others are freemasons,that does make and christian to give power to your fellow agent of the devil.May the Living God Owner of Heaven and earth put you and your party in the demonic position you belong…..Power should be given to a God fearing person

    • PF and UPND are all violent parties. MMD is not an exception either as they have a violent past and have issued statements of self defense. The small parties are peaceful, they could end up ruling. Zambia needs prayers, as for the freemasonry tactics what will be achieved if neither UPND or MMD end up ruling in 2016. Zambia needs issue based politics. God bless Zambia.

    • Apart from the Freemasonry scare tactics, what do those with this distraction bring to the debate of moving Zambia forward. Remember Zambia will still be there even after Politicians have come and gone, we as the Zambian people need to focus on issue based politics . UPND will have to answer to the Zambian people on this violence and will have to remove the tribal tag , MMD also has it’s own issues that they need to work on and be answerable to the people, PF has to be answerable to the people for the years they have been in power. The small parties need to build confidence with the Zambian people. Let all cadres hats be taken off and let us all focus on moving our country forward. At the end of the day the people will decide. God bless Zambia.

    • @Ndobo the responsibility is with Christians to pray for their leaders, the free masonry advocates could even be living in countries where the leaders are into those practices, they have a duty to pray for their leaders. Both UPND and MMD have issues that they need to deal with and the violence tag is not helping UPND in any way, they have many other issues to address.

    • At least if Mwaliteta had accused UPND of trying to abduct a certain patient in the heart of Lusaka, someone might have believed, but trying to abduct old Bo Lingweshi, is probably a dream too far, certainly fueled by utujilijili on part of Mwaliteta!!

  2. Politics of lies without integrity will not help build a better Zambia for all. We need politics of maturity and integrity.

  3. TRIBALISM ,REGIONALISM MEANING THESE PF REALY HAVE NOTHING TO DENT THE UPND.TRIBALISM IN WESTERN PROVINCE WHICH TRIBE NOW MR MWALITETA?

  4. It’s the same *****ic claim Sata made in Livingstone that the UPND wanted to abduct him, atase! Anyway, who would vote for an old cow whose name means “Zambezi Tiger Fishes”?

  5. HOW CAN UPND ABDUCT THIS OLD MAN WHO WAS IN THE CAMP OF PF PANGER WEILDING,THIS IS TRUELY A BLUE LIE.LOOK AT THE TIME @ 12HRS ABDUCTING THIS MAN FROM THE CAMP WERE PF CAMPED.I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS LIE .MWALITETA IS JUST LOOKING WAYS OF COVERING DE LAW HE BREACHED BY USING GRZ PROPERTY FOR CAMPAIGN.

  6. PF should once more be serous. is this a candidate or what? The man is already spent. What do you expect from such a monument.

    • Witches and wizards are not necessarily old and looking scary. They are mostly young and charminh. Mr Lingweshi looks that way because of the hardships of rural life. There is no tap water and body lotions are rare, expensive and even when aaiable are not a priority. Campaigners should focus on issuez. Why disrupt each other’s rallies? Do not let the kaponyasof Lusaka do what they know best – law breaking.

    • am also wondering who can waste time kidnapping bo kuku.even the looks doubt integrity.this is really a miss by PF.i wish MCS was fit,he could have finished bo kuku and told the campagn PF team to be dreamers

  7. i think its geting out hand now for this UPND cadres where is the ECZ and the POLICE? disqualify these DEVILS these THUGS from participating in,before we lose lifes.we dont av another country where to run to if anythn arises from this devilish acts. whoever the perpetrator is,whether PF,MMD,UPND violence shouldnt be entertained by anyone and it is folish to justfy this actions.

  8. It does not make sense. Abducting a candidate for what? PF are really in trouble. Where is the Barotse agreement? People of western province and Mangago were promised Barotse agreement and PF are talking of development? How about those people which the PF put in prison? THERE IS NO WAY PF CAN WIN. This will be a litmus paper for 2016..

  9. President Sata was purported to have said, that people were trying to abduct him, and papers made fun. Well it has come to be. We have dangerous politics in the land.

  10. POLITICS FOR THOSE WITH NO HOPE TO STEP INTO PLOT 1. SOME OF YOU GUYS WILL JUST DIE IN OPPOSITION. BE REMINDED THAT NO PARTY CAN WIN GENERAL ELECTIONS ON ONE OR TWO PROVINCES. I SAW “PART of the Mbala-Nakonde Road being tarred.” . FRIENDS IN OPPOSITION YOU HAVE TO WORK EXTRA HARD TO DEFEAT THE RULING PARTY IN 2016. NO SANE PERSON WILL VOTE AGAINST PF WITH THESE ROADS THEY ARE CONSTRUCTING. EVEN WHEN BEING TAKEN TO CHAINAMA HOSPITAL I THINK A MENTAL PATIENT WILL NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE ON THE ROAD BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN HE LAST TRAVELED ON IT WHEN IT WAS BUMPY. AND WHEN VOTING COMES HE/SHE WILL KNOW WHERE TO VOTE.

  11. Is this PF candidate able to debate policy issues in Parliament? I doubt if he even understands the word ‘tax’ or import duty? This poor man if he wins, God willing will be sleeping in parliament and stand ready to receive the hefty gratuity at the end of his term. This is development in Zambia.

    • I actually heard him talk and he speaks pretty good English. Most Lozis, no matter appearance, are educated. The only problem is the province is extremely neglected so that is why you find even intellectuals looking like this. He won’t win though.

  12. Surely couldn’t PF find a suitable candidate in that part of Zambia? Why choosing this man of all PF members in that part of the country? I am sure the PF intention in Mangango is not to win this election but to use this election to misaapropriate funds. I have arrived at this conclusion based on their choice of candidate. This is how our money is being looted.

  13. the candidate is fine. PF needs to source for image builders. Dress up the man, find him some nice three piece suits. Take him to Nandos for two weeks and introduce him to chlorinated water. buy him a bottle of Nivea for men. You see how he former headmaster will appear. Everyone will be calling up honourable. Not now he’s a representative of poverty pa ZED. One wonders were his pension went.

  14. The man is okay and very capable of articulating issues. He is far more educated and popular than the UPND candidate who cannot speak English and whose livelihood depended on illegal timber business

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