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Chishimba Kambwili
Chishimba Kambwili

UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) cadres this morning harassed Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) and Daily Nation newspapers reporters who went to cover police searching UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema’s house in Lusaka.

The journalists were first ordered not to go inside the yard but remain outside of which they complied.

The cadres later pounced on the journalists from the two media who had ran for their safety though the police rescued them from the agitated UPND cadres.

Information and Broadcasting Services minister Chishimba Kambwili has castigated the UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema for unleashing cadres on the journalists.

“How can HH be president if he can’t control his cadres and claims that he controls the state intelligence, he needs to sober up and show leadership,” Mr Kambwili said.

And the Minister has released the statement below

STATEMENT BY HON. CHISHIMBA KAMBWILI, MP, MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING SERVICES AND CHIEF GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON UPND CADRES BEATING UP ZNBC JOURNALISTS

Government condemns in the strongest terms the beating up of ZNBC journalists by opposition UPND cadres.

This was at UPND leader Mr Hakainde Hichilema’s house in Lusaka where journalists had gone to cover a police search this morning.

The harassment of the journalists is uncivilized, undemocratic and unacceptable.
It is a gross violation of media freedom, a fundamental pre-requisite for a flourishing democracy.

Government calls on all well meaning Zambians to condemn this act as it is incompatible with our democratic dispensation that espouses freedom of the media and freedom of expression.

It is time HH and his party practised mature politics by restraining and condemning his cadres from violence against the media.

Police have every right to question anyone suspected of wrongdoing just as the media equally have every right to report on any issue of public interest.

HH, therefore, has no right to harass journalists who are merely carrying out their role of informing the public.

Journalists are mere messengers of the people who do not deserve to be harassed by Mr Hichilema for his own troubles with the law.

It is clear to us that UPND is a party of extremists who do not have the interest of the people of Zambia at heart going by their undemocratic actions such as today’s beating up of journalists.

Chishimba Kambwili, MP
MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING SERVICES AND CHIEF GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON
3rd March, 2015

39 COMMENTS

    • This is the sort of attention HH sunny Chintombwa did not get as a child, someone give him a hug and a kiss.

    • This Kambwili chap must be the dullest Zambian, how can HH harass the media when he was inside his house assisting the police search his house?

    • Chishimba chimbwili should stop misleading Zambians.No journalist was beaten.We had information that one journalist who was invited by police had a document which he intended to plant in HH’s house as evidence.It was planted in her camera,all she needed to is simply drop it and then picture it after drawing attention of the police.Our people in Police and intelligency thwarted this plan.So too bad for Kambwili and his Lungu your plan has not worked.UPND will never harass any Journalist because it has nothing to hide.Thanks again to all those who a protecting HH from these criminals mascarading as Leaders.

    • Tomorrow things will happen if Lungu decides to do anything fun to HH at woodlands.

      We are ready take on the police more than ever . PF police is killing UPND supporters any way.

      So its better to die fighting than being killed like a lamb is our new UPND moto.

      Lusaka and other cities will burn should Lungu do something stupid tomorrow.

    • KAMBWILI YOU ARE A MORON! HOW DARE YOU EVEN UTTER THOSE REMARKS! ISN’T IT YOUR LUNGU AND YOURSELF AND YOUR JOURNALISTS WHO WENT TO MR. HICHILEMA’S HOME TO LOOK FOR TROUBLE. NOW AFTER FINDING THE TROUBLE YOU WERE LOOKING FOR, YOU START COMPLAINING. WHAT KIND OF AN ANIMAL ARE YOU? PIG? WAKE UP KAMBWILI. UPND IS NOT A PARTY FOR EXTREMISTS, UPND IS A PARTY OF MILLIONS OF ZAMBIANS WHO HAVE BEEN SIDELINED IN RUNNING AND MANAGING THE AFFAIRS OF OUR LAND. UPND IS HERE TO FIGHT INJUSTICE AND POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL DOMINANCE IN OUR COUNTRY, BY A FEW SELFISH INDIVIDUALS, MOST OF WHOM ARE EVEN FOREIGNERS IN OUR LAND.

  1. this hh prefect and entire upnd stupid followers are followers are fools. your god hh will never rule zambia apart from ruling over his mabisi people.

    • Factman, what intelligence information did the gestapo police find after the searches? If nothing and if they are normal, then they must feel stupid and *****ic for thinking intelligence information can only be given through hard copy. That is why I can never have a policeman as a relative. To used and stupid.

  2. and you so called ka democracy, you should just shut up than express your silly loyalty to one hh who will never rule zambia.

    • Many people never thought that Sata would win but God has a way of silencing the proud and stupid characters. Avoid foolish talk fellow Zambians

  3. What hypocrisy is this? Just because it is HH and UPND the pathetic foo.ls are talking about freedom of the press. This is laughable because the PF themselves never appreciate that we are in a democratic state. Kambwili must just shut up. When has the PF respected freedom of the press? Are they not currently harassing the Post and Muvi Tv? Isnt it Kambwili who said he will do everything and anything to close down the ZWD? Isn’t it Kambwili who together with other hoodlums stormed the ZNBC newsroom to have some statements retracted? So what is he telling us now? Journalists are only important if they are reporting something negative about the opposition. Zambians are not stu.pid; they are able to see beyond their noses and rate the statement accordingly – just a piece of trash.

  4. even people like you , yes i mean you who think hh is a.god.please advise him to even visit barber shop may be he can start thinking properly. so you mean his religion forbids cuting of hair???????

    • Factman stop smoking Dagga before commenting.Go and work on Lungus dental formula before you talk of HH’s health black hair not Lungu’s poor hair due HIV/AIDS.

  5. Kambwili the hypocrite should just let his big balls hang in shame after the search his useless boss ordered yielded nothing. They should not focus on minor things. Pathetic failures.

    • @Voice, are you sure Kambwili has big balls? Many girls who have slept with him have confessed he has tiny ones. They are all sucked in into his belly fat.

    • Your prediction is just about correct. I can not believe people who claim to be rich can be so bitter in their comments.
      If people like SIDO MARK, Wanzelu and Skeleton are waiting for Mr.HH to be president for them to live a happy life, they might as well die today because that day might never come.

  6. This is a cheap statement from a minister of information. Such a statement would be thrown into a trash can in the western country. I felt like throwing up after reading it. It spoiled my good breakfast.

  7. Kambwili you should be the last person in this country to comment on harassment of journalists. Who doesn’t know what Kambwili and Masebo did to the same ZNBC journalist recently forcing the ZNBC board chair to hold a press meeting to reprimand the duo on air. Kambwili, violence and vulgar language are inseparable. You can not talk about violence and unpalatable language in govt without mentioning this Kambwili. Kambwili stay out of this and let clean sober people speak

  8. where is sido mark and wanzelu. The two appeared to challenge the police and now that they have searched hh’s house what are the two going to do? My bet is NOTHING.

  9. ZNBC need to free themselves. They will never be free for as long as they think the way they do. Even if you gave them the best media laws they will still practice ‘muzungu wanga’ journalism. It is inherent in them & by extension most zambians. By the way all of us (apart from tongas) are descendants of cowards who ran away from wars in the region.

  10. Kambwili waba ululenge . when you stormed ZNBC insulted workers , was it done in the name of rebuilding ZNBC ? you think Zambians are fools because they forget easily ? What ever is done by PF is constitutional unlike what is done by the opposition is always unconstitutional. tulemilolekesha bane umwaiche alyaimo ashika nobuchinga . any way we know it is only 8 months in which to do every thing . God is watching . tukamimweshe mapul …..yenu

  11. How sad for mother Zambia, that our only option for leadership comes from the corrupt MMD, Thuggy PF and equally violent and delusional UPND.

    Viva President Nawakwi.

  12. Chi ka…… dont force sober Zambian condemn HH on things he did not do. Ifact the President was with OP & ZP in his house those who were outside were protecting the house & family.
    kambwili, HH will be a good Head of State than what we have seen for the past 4 yrs now even RB was much better than your so called chakolwa.
    Let God add more days to you so that you come & enjoy good leadership of HH not kill him twapapata kuno kopala.

  13. Kabwili you are just a useless minister who thought he can be president but discovered that you do not count and ran back to Lungu to beg for a job, shameless ugly f.o.o.l.

  14. kamwili the foolish government spokes person can you learn to talk sense or are you also a drunk like your boss kaminamisa. classified documents dont move anyhow ,so its lungu who is selling the information or faking it as he was told by mugabe to create an excuse.

  15. These stupid journalist need to be sorted out.
    Why cover the search but fail to cover important events HH has had b4.
    All peace loving Zambians should condem the whole saga Lungu is doing!!

  16. They did well to chase them. When H.H is hokding a rally, thry dont come to cover him. What is good about H.H today that they want to cover him. *****S OF JANALISTS.

  17. HH father was busy stealing cattle as a result women brought him up and he behaves like a woman ,ever seeking attention.
    He had no one to teach him to be wise.

  18. mr kambwiri is not a bublic finger he only defend foolish pf instead of all zambian as he is a minister for all.wether mad or not time for him is coming .we need leaders who can work for all not only pf .it is sad to such leaders in poor country like zambia

  19. BA KAMWILI PAMENSO UBUBI.WHY DID YOU KEEP QUITE WHEN YOUR PF CARDERS BEAT UP THAT LADY AT THE MARKET IN LUSAKA.STOP BEING STUPID.YOU DEVIL
    IFYO WABIPA PAMENSO NOMUTIMA WOBE IFYO WABIPA.

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