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GBM charged and arrested for unlawful drilling

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Former defence minister Geoffrey Mwamba
Former defence minister Geoffrey Mwamba

Police Spokesperson Charity Muganga Chanda has confirmed the arrest of UPND Vice President Geofrey Mwamba Bwalya for unlawful drilling contrary to the laws of Zambia.

Ms Chanda said Mr Mwamba has been officially charged and arrested for the offence of unlawful drilling contrary to section 66(1)(a) as read with section 21 C and D of the Penal Code.

She said Mr Mwamba who was represented by 8 lawyers is currently in custody and will appear in court soon.

Mr Mwamba was summoned to Woodlands Police Station in connection with the 21 UPND cadres who arrested by police on Saturday. The police also recovered offensive weapons at Mr Mwamba’ s premises in Villa Elizabetha area of Lusaka.

Among the weapons were pangas, a spear, 8 rounds of ammunition and a gun.

Earlier on Friday while in Eastern Province where he went officiate at the N’cwala Traditional Ceremony President Lungu said he had intelligence information that the UPND were training more 250 youths as Militias to cause violence during the forth coming elections in August.

Meanwhile,Forum for Democracy and Development president Edith Nawakwi said that the training of militias by the United Party for National Development is distasteful and should be stopped.

Ms Nawakwi branded UPND as a violent political party following revelations of training militias.

Ms Nawakwi said this at her office when she donated about 2000 chicks worth K65, 000 to different women movement groups in Lusaka.

She said political parties which were violent should never be voted into State House.

Ms Nawakwi, who appealed to UPND to stop training militias, said the money which it was spending on buying weapons, machetes, guns and military regalia should instead have been channelled towards alleviating high poverty levels especially among the youths.

She called on the youths who had been engaged in militia training to consider joining FDD in order for her to transform them into responsible citizens.

“…And you will find that they give them K10s and buy them Chibuku (local brew), you will never find HH has been hit with a panga it is you who is going to shed blood. You will never find Edgar Chagwa Lungu hit with a panga it is you who will go to UTH, it is you who will be condemned forever, it is you who will go to jail,” Ms Nawakwi said.

Ms Nawakwi, who spoke strongly against political violence, also extended the call for peace and unity to the Patriotic Front party urging its youths to stop practising violence.

“We have sent our team out to places such as city market. In fact we are already trying to contact some of these panga welding youths to try and persuade them to come to our secretariat and lay down their arms because it appears to us that there is a very clear divide between PF and UPND. So am asking all my sons who are being recruited to wield guns to come here they can also benefit from the chicks programme we are doing,” she said.

Ms Nawakwi said instead of carrying pangas youth could even be cleaning the city at a fee.

“I prefer that the money used to buy weapons and uniforms is used to buy food,” he said.
Ms Nawakwi said there could only be one President in State House at any given time.

141 COMMENTS

    • Confirmed, this is the end of Chagwa. What kind of nonsense is this. GBM, we are behind you all the way. Who God has richly blessed like yourself no one not even Chagwa can curse.

    • Democracy is DEAD in Zambia under visionless PF of Lungu.
      Wow, democracy is dead in Zambia because it has become a crime to go to the gym under the leadership of PF Bandits. All those doing boxing, Judo, Karate or Taekwondo at the gym, WORRY for your rights as PF means Autocratic Dictatorship of violations of humanities & liberties.
      Where on earth apart from Africa, in Zambia where oppositions are NOT allowed to meet & work with the electorates? PF is used to be the opposition but after 160 days, it will be DEAD. PF will COLLAPSE in May, 2 months left is 60 days & will remain incapacitated until its death on 11th August.
      Meanwhile, hey Pathetic Failures'(PF) primitive police, unconditionally free GBM & leave UPND, so is all opposition parties ALONE. Satan Nation indeed.
      The Skeleton…

    • Well done ZP show him that he is not above the law and he simply a stupid demagogue who is sacred to even stand for election in his constituency

    • Well done ZP show him that he is not above the law and he is simply a stupid demagogue who is sacred to even stand for election in his constituency

    • I told GBM that don’t mess with the Govt……Lungu walks around with a big stick

      BOMA NI BOMA…THIS IS THE END OF GBM

      2016 VOTE PF ( EDGAR )

      I THANK YOU

    • Sad that UPND in its dangerous incompetency has not only continued to misguided itself, but rapidly converted into a fulltime militia outfit panting to maim fellow Zambians for no reason. Domestic violence of GBM and UPND’s mapatizya formula have sadly been inculcated in the UPND alien xenophobic doctrine of shooving on Zambians an era of fear, carnage and death. There is no room for such Groupthink in post independence Zambia. Note, GBM is South African (maternal side) with lineages to violent Durban based Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. Purge the demon soul spirits in him now.

    • ……Key
      ~206~
      In addition, Lungu & PF you’re indeed useless BANDITS & pathetic minions who have NO idea whatsoever to what democracy is all about. Where has a gun now come from? Even yesterday the PF police cadres also claimed that a girl was found in a “car outside”. The perpetuated “weapons” where also said to be have found outside the “premise” (GYM) belonging to the persecuted GBM.
      Hey Lusaka Times, the “premise” you’ve been repeating lacks merit & please, try the gym. Biased LT, shocking!
      The Skeleton Key
      ~206~

    • K32.50 per chick. Does not sound right. Recently I was able to buy free range chickens at $35.

      Am I missing something?

    • Under the law, this is not a case and GBM is a freeman. This case will not even be taken to court becoz there is no case here to answer. The question is, Did they find those weapons in someone’s hands? I bet they were looking for a gun but couldn’t find any. Who gave them a search warrant to enter his premises and under whose authority? Ba Nawakwi its impossible for you to win also. The only alternative of whisk Zambia from poverty at this moment is by voting UPND kwasila. Ulwenu lukesa bwino.

    • @Mr Intelligent (The Realist)

      Correct. Just when I thought she would be rational and condemn PF, the political prostitute in her just couldn’t resist taking a cheap shot. She knows as much as we do, may be much more that PF is on a mission to avoid elections because Chakolwa knows he doesn’t stand a rats arse of getting re-elected.

    • Zambia twasebana. How can GRZ sink so low?? Soon the Kwacha is going to tumble due to instability in the country. This is not the Zambia we fought for in 1964? This is not the leadership, a leadership of vegeance one would like to live! Zambia twasebana. Shifunyenipo imbushi ishi.

    • I thought it was drilling for oil!

      This is how desperate HH and his cronies are. They should be tried for treason!

    • PF you are just worsting courts time. Just address the economic hardships your govt has brought on the Zambians.

    • Thank you. PF are campaigning for UPND. This arrest will bring massive sympathy for GBM in Northern, Luapula and Muchinga provinces especially, not mentioning the whole country. The masses will vote massively for UPND so that GBM is given back his freedom. I wonder whether PF has any strategist? Maybe it is true that Israeli rigging company doesn’t advise them given the continued illogical moves they are making. Caging GBM now yields no fruits for PF. Too late the mouse has already been let loose.

    • Chalwe I like your reasoning it is exactly what I thought.They even take him to woodlands police next to pick and pay where we used to buy mealie meal at k35 before they got into power.Anyway he is not called Chagwa for nothing.He will soon leave up to his name.

    • Very very petty of Ka Lungu and his administration, this kind of pettiness actually reflects badly on us Zambians as a whole.

    • Embarrassing to have such police force. its a shame. Zambia needs to taste al shabab attacks because we don’t appreciate peace.

  1. some pangas, a spear, a gun and 8 rounds of ammunition to train 250 militias and that in the heart of the city? You can easily find these items in most homes in lusaka. What i know is that there is a militia that even bleached Ndola airport security into the runway of an international airport, over powering the poor ZP.

    • hopeless chaps, you 8 rounds of ammunitions and a gun are kids toys! plus ibange (dobo). that’s a joke to you????

    • 2.1 its not a joke. But in no sense does it amount to militia training. The fact that you do not comprehend what constitute a militia and the requisite training does not give you the right to accuse people carrying these items to be militias or engaged in militia training. If this is the way of thinking, then most households are guilty…. Boko Haram, AlShabab etal; these are militias: nobody knew about them until they struck! You can just walk into a yard and arrest the alleged militias without resistance come on!!!!!

  2. So being in possession of more than one panga is a crime in Zambia. These are clearly stupid trump up charges which cannot be justified on any basis. Anyway, its just part of the ongoing State sponsored campaign to vilify the UPND as a violent party. So sad!!

    • It’s a crime when you start drilling thugs in militia training. One gun one spear one panga one bat or golf club is weapon enough for training materials. The real full weaponry is kept at HH premises.

    • HH Tokiluma Your predjudice is screwing up your thought process.

      If “DRILLING” is a crime in Zambia why have this PF Police Force not arrested the owners of all the security companies in Lusaka? And all the malondas that have to learn “DRILLING” before they can be employed on their jobs?

      Use your brains! This is just a ridiculous attempt to intimidate the opposition with trumped up charges! They know these will never stand up in a decent Court of Law! Pure harassment!

  3. Come on you are better than this, you decide to also post the one sided story from the Daily Nation, Nawakwi condemned both the PF and UPND. And on the alleged training of militia this is one of those stories aimed at dividing the nation, why did the police react only after the president said something.

    • I told you PF was training militia in Sudan – HH, Zambianwatchdog, Nov 12, 2013…!

      It’s Zambia vs Sudan, cracking game this, as always…

  4. Baane, it’s not necessary! we just make GBM popular for nothing. which Militia in the world over was trained with one gun, panga & Golf club. UPND should also refrain from provocative tendencies to avoid false accusation. Or is it that they have seen no chance of winning this coming election? In golf we say “Eyes on the ball”. I am a Golfer and i carry my golf bag in my car with 16 clubs. Does this make me a militia?

    • What do you need all those GOLF STICKS for? SIXTEEN OF THEM!!!!!! You must be a serious INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST! What did you say your name was? OSAMA BIN LADEN?

  5. Comment:Nawakwi is right now you will hear cadres calling her all sort of names. HH will never be hacked with a panga its you who wll go to UTH and be jailed. If only the other leaders can emulate Nawakwi.

    • Keep this thug under key and lock. After all he’s used to these cells. He went in some time back after battering his wife. Let the inmates turn him into a punch back after drilling his backside.Sha!!

    • You cursed yourselves some of you! No wonder youn live very unfulfilled lives. She is much older than you and has never been a prostitute. Insulting one woman is insulting all women including your mother and sisters!

  6. How many pangas? 250 or more? UPND training 250 militias but you only arrest 19?…… Please ba Zabwino Palibe, do intellectually sound plans if you want people to believe your propaganda… The UPND you’re black mailing would turn to be your employers… Mark my words, this is free campain you’re doing for UPND

  7. who don’t have those things in their home ? some have more than that panga is something you can use on cutting relish garden stick etc so now what happened this pure intimidating to mwamba & UPND .pipo need a change all police will go come 11 Aug .

  8. let us not not support violence, whens things are bad they are bad. let us not take this peace we are enjoying for granted.

  9. Am ready to die for GBM all those called by the name of Lungu leave copperbelt in 24hours or we will cutt your neck……I swear upon the dead

    • @ mwape nkole
      You are nothing, please humble yourself before Jesus Christ Who died for you so that you should not go to hell fire. Why dying for GBM when GBM can`t die for you? Please reject the spirit of satanissmm, i believe the gracious God will help you.

    • Mwape Nkole what you have blogged here is absolute rubbish from the pit of hell where Lucifer your father awaits you!!!
      Zambians supporting PF or UPND will live wherever they choose. I heard one woman talking the same rubbish of, if HH doesn’t win Zambians will rise and their will be a revolution. What kind of marijuana are these HH syncophants smoking?

  10. Am ready to die for GBM all those called by the name of Lungu leave copperbelt in 24hours or we will cutt your neck……I swear upon the dead…….coz people from eastern province think they own Zambia

    • GBM can NEVER NEVER , SHALL NEVER EVER DIE for you or ANYONE. GBM is aware that JESUS CHRIST died for him. so as for you, i pity you. may GOD help you indeed; you need deliverance Nkole, am telling you. the sooner the better . remember out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks. life and death lies in the power of the tongue. before its too late, REVERSE what yu have said because you are in danger yourself.
      nakweba kobe panti niwebo cousin, otherwise abanobe balalipila.

    • Very Useless GBM does not even know the dirty compound you’re keeping your wife and your poor kids. Grow up man GBM is the same like you

    • Mwape Nkole, are you serious? You want to die for GBM? The truth of the matter is that GBM cannot die for you. If GBM was to become Vice President or President, he will forget about you. I feel sorry for Zambians like Mwape who want to die for a politician. You should never trust a politician. Just do your best to build your life man. GBM is not your God. I cannot waste my life on politician. If you want to be disappointed, just put all your faith in politician.

  11. WHAT A HUGE FREE RALLY CREATED BY CHAGWA HE THINKS BY DOING HE WILL DESTRACT PEOPLE ATTENTION TO HIS FAILURES,WHETHER YOU LIKE IT NOT 11/08/2016,KUYABEBELE.

  12. Boma ni Boma ba upnd!!nobody is above the law!!YES U CAN MAKE NOISE AT FAR BUT ONCE U HAVE A CASE,U GET MUDEDE!!GBM DARED THE POLICE BUT WHERE IS HE NOW?INSIDE AND NOT EVEN TRIBAL HH CAN FREE HIM!!politics of violence do not pay ba upnd!!PLUS UPND ADVERTISED ONLINE THAT THEY WILL BE A HUGE RALLY AT WOODLANDS POLICE,SHOCKINGLY ONLY A FEW LUSAKA BASED TONGAS TURNED UP THERE!!I PASSED THROUGH AND I CAN CONFIRM THAT ONLY A FEW UPND CADRES WERE THERE AND FAR AWAY FROM THE POLICE!!”IFINTU NI LUNGU-2016!!”

  13. Now they have replaced the golf club with a gun. Just to confirm, all those mentioned military weapons were found in private cars, nothing was found in the building this is because the building has cctv and they could not plant anything.

  14. Nawakwi instead of showing sympathy to his fellow opposition leader, she is trying to politicise. Those few weapons discovered are nothing compared to the ones PF cadres carry in a single day. Kaizer Zulu was not arrested for similar offences and other PF cadres who were beating marketeers on Copperbelt.

    • Wait until it happens to her then you will her singing a different tune, dictator te munobe ask Nevers

  15. ” I will come after you and whip you with a big stick…i might look very small but I walk around with a big stick ”
    2016 vote PF ( Edgar )

    I thank you

  16. GBM will not participate in these elections with a criminal offence as charged. The sad thing is that youths were truly found training on his premises training in military tactics and there is no denial that they were preparing to engage themselves in violence…He has up to 11th Aug to prove himself innocent. The truth is that this case will drag on…on 2 fronts GBM will not stand: G12 Qualification requirement (he has to prove he is a G12) and the new charge (He has to prove his innocence).
    Whether it is a tramped up charge or not the courts must be convinced the charge is false otherwise, Edgar is stamping is authority as Command-In-Chief….that is what we need…decisiveness in matters that border on compromising national security.

    • All pipo training in any gym can now be arrested as training in illegal military skills.
      Truly amazing.

  17. Hehehehehehehehehehe…….. Chagua,u ar the next…. Do not expect mercy from GBM at all. U will pay back for what u ar doing now and the same officers will arrest u. Power comes and goes.

  18. i watched Muvi Tv and didnt see any gun, what i saw is a few pangas nothing much to write home about. its a pity we continually do this to ourselves. if at all the state had information about this militia they could have found much more than they found. in saying so i am also telling both PF and UPND to desist from setting this country on fire. better be defenseless than go to fight Nawakwi went to a police station to get her people without a fight she just confronted a policeman at the front desk and the guy had no choice but tp release the guys. we dont need to fight to get our demands across. i see this sea of either green or red clad *****s and i am saying to myself this is how a country degenerates into chaos. slowly slowly the police is losing it by being used by the party in…

  19. Excellent, there needs to be a message sent to citizens engaged in violence at the behest of character like HH and GBM. Nawakwi is right but perhaps she perhaps did not mean to take advantage to start a recruitment for voters! All politicians should be dutiful to the state and support the disbanding of Youth Militia by violent Parties like UPND. We have known how violent UPND is by the media propaganda which does not stop at inciting violence for power. Put this fat mocker in hard labour jail for threatening our peace and the lives of our youngsters. In Greece philosopher Sophocles or some chap (pardon)was given hemlock to drink for corrupting young men…!

  20. We do not want nepotism and genocide here. T0ngas are natural sadists, they don’t want to see others succeed or make various achievements. That is part of their DNA. When you are surrounded by them, you should consider yourself to be in danger even if they show you their fake teeth. They have natural hatred.
    Most people from other tribes who have had this experience I bring to you will definately agree with what I talking about.

    It itches them so badly to see other tribes making progress in what they do. when people say Zambians want to see their frnds fail or they stab each others back; I totally disagree with this saying. Let us see who is behind the devilish acts and make a correct conclusion. Have you seen a tonga betraying or hit the fellow tonga like most tribes do?

    • I will mote resort to tribal bashing like you today but Not only tongas, Even bembas and Easterners are fed up with your stealing in PF. Instead of trying to incite tribal hatred can you shed some light the runaway inflation, cholera outbreaks, and rampant corruption and looting in PF.

    • The tribal trump card you are trying to foist on us just shows the extent to which you are totally out of touch with reality. Continue Hallucinating……..

  21. Chicks?, where are they from. Hope they are beautiful. Anyway Namwangas have got beautiful chicks.

    Please extend the donations to areas where there are more men so that they get married soon.

  22. Let us not support these cadres as lady nawakwi has said, they are just given chibuku and then they go and kill someone, who will go to jail? gbm, hh, this is nonsense. We need our peace please.

  23. Let the UPND realize we are not at war. This Mapatizya Formula is sheer Primitivity. Convince the people of Zambia on why they should vote for you. Not the useless Hate , Bitterness and violence we are being subjected to. When HH and GBM came to the Copperbelt the imporrted UPND Tonga thugs wanted to take over all Roads with no respect for other users. We need to continue with our lives. Elections do not mean we stop everything. People have seen the difference in the way Edgar Lungu is governing the country. The man is simply the best. Let the Jailer even throw the keys so that the big bag of Mealie can realize that we treasure our Peaceful Zambia.

    • This outdated Tonga thing will not help PF.UPND now belongs to all Zambians.Iam not Tonga but iam UPND the earlier the PF accepts that this revolution is not tribal the better.They will be shocked that Northern province will vote for UPND in big numbers.Lungu has failed to control the economy.2016 is about the economy.

  24. You Poor Failures, the lawlessness and intolerant culture you’re creating will corrode the little democratic ideals we have gained so far until PF came into power. Once this backward culture become entrenched into our systems of governance, no single person will be exempted from being a victim. What the Police and President Lungu should know is that whatever evil political culture they’re planting now will germinate later when they are no more and their children and great grandchildren will taste and enjoy the fruits of their evil deeds.

  25. Drilling with 21 youths, three pangas, golf stick and 8 bullets!
    Security Guards should also be careful. They like matching and other drills.

  26. imwee bafikala bamu upnd mulampesha amano…we all knw that being in possession of guns, pangas and ammunitions is a crime if u do not have the necessary documents….i wonder why bcoz hes one of yo donors then u think he can go freely ?????…..not in our beloved land…..chikakeni and am shouting on top of my voice muchikake ba chimbwi baleke ubupuba……no one is above the law……#ECL

    • Stop all cars, taxis and buses and you will find 80% of them have a defensive weapon of some sort. Do they need a licence to carry a panga or golf club?? this is desperation by PF. How can 3 pangas, one spear, one golf club challenge our security wings?? At first there was no mention of a gun now they have replaced the golf club with a gun.
      Pipo are losing respect for this PF. Instead of dealing with and explaining to the electorate solutions to the countries problems, they resort to this?? Cholera will finish pipo while you harrassing citizens ka.

  27. IWE KA EDDY,THAT HUGE CLOUD OF PEOPLE THAT ESCORT GBM WAS MADE UP OF TONGAS ONLY? I DIDNT KNOW TONGAS ARE SO MANY IN THIS COUNTRY.

  28. The only crime that GBM has committed is to belong to Zambia’s biggest opposition party which is poised to take over the reins of government on 12 August 2016. These baseless unlawful drilling charges are just a throwback to the black mamba scheme which FTJ hatched in the early 1990s to eliminate the political threat which UNIP mounted against his corrupt edifice.

  29. Can we be civilized for once. When it is said Nobody is above the Law, the interpretation is that no individual, entity, organisation, firm, government etc. is above the law. In this case PF, Police, Lungu and including GRZ is not above the law. Don’t mislead yourselves by yapping Boma mi Boma. There are wars all over the world because of tyrant regimes, and in some cases like Libya, Iraq etc., the dictators including their families and top lieutenants had to pay by death. Zambia is not a closed system, it is a signatory to many conventions on human rights and will never be above any law. Police and Lungu have abused the law and need to be punished.

    • Yes Human Rights that allow citizens to insult their President without arrest. But Treasonous attempt to overthrow gov t and it’s authority is not a Human Right !

  30. Technically this is Treason, and should carry a hanging sentence ( if they can find long enough rope…otherwise line him up against the wall……..and …?). Training Malitia to overthrow gov’t is serious enough to lock this man indefinitely. This should put the whole of UP D on trial. to just Mwamba. They should be laughing out loud through gnashing teeth.

  31. Okey, what about the pangas and guns that were found with PF cadres and Kaizer Zulu some time last year. There is even a video showing a van loaded with these weapons and Zulu trying to defend his cadres. Is the law just being applied to the opposition?

  32. This looks like a heavy handed decision and one likely to stifle debate and association. Why have the police not arrested the PF cadres who recently caused confusion in Kalulushi market.

  33. HH OUT, GARRY IN.
    That is the game plan. We cant allow thieves to take over the party and bring shame through criminal elements gotten from their forefathers. GBM come from criminals and he is making our party dirty. Let him leave with his compatriot HH. We are winning in August, but with another leader not HH. What is the value in bringing into UPND a person at the level of vice president who has character of a thief and outright criminal. Does it mean we have been envying the violence in PF which we have always condemned. It is this same GBM in January 2015 who insulted our ancestors at an EL rally at Makululu grounds in kabwe. HH has brought shame to the party. Garry in please. time up. Anti-HH campaigner. BB

    • Have you found it to be a Marriage of ‘inconvenience?’

      Support change of Leader. HH has lost his purpose. He used to be beautiful when he started, we thought a new prophet for Zambia, but his unrequited ambition has gotten the better of him.

    • UPND can see through PF cheap tricks.
      When PF realised UPND was popular on social media, they instructed caders at zambia embassies abroad and in Zambia to try to counter this popularity. But instead those caders are peddling hate speech bordering on tribal incitement and cheap lies which zambians of all tribes laugh at.

      Try to explain the 22 % inflation, job losses, load shedding, cholera causing havoc in Lusaka

    • you’ve not understood the Poor failures amended constitution… GBM under the current constitution can never stand, but that is not enough for PF to beat UPND. You’ve felt his heat everywhere he goes for party mobilization that now you want him charged of treason, then link Zambia’s visionary president HH, to the fabricated scheme so that UPND wont be as real as it stand to capture the Zambians…. You want KOLOPA, but under normal circumstance you’ve lost credibility on load shedding, job loses, reckless borrowing, policy in consistence, unpaid retirement packages to civil servants, poor health social services, high cost of living, failled economy, plundered euro bonds and other loans contracted yet you fail to raise money for your projects

  34. Comment:Maddam Nawaki the moment somebody announces that they wld consinder a female running mate u have quickly develomped a soft spot.Where were u when Grazier Matapa was killed?We didnt hear yo voice when pf thugs besiged simon Mwansa intl airport in ambush of Comrade Miles Sampa?

  35. GBM and 8 lawyers failed to convince the cops over cases gbm was slapped with and kindies here think they can defend him but merely saying it’s not illegal to possess a panga and a gun. The !diot was deformed and lost about 25kg trying to prove his innocence. Am told by my reliable sources that he even denied having known those people who were at his premises. That’s why they cuffed his hands. Bafyanta gbm and online bloggers your insults won’t save him.

    • zambians only want to know what you are doing about the 22 %inflation, job losses, load shedding, cholera causing havoc in Lusaka, PF officials now resorting to trying to steal GRZ vehicles by buying them at knockdown prices, the AG recent report on rampant theft at RDA, the recent report that tourism is declining ?
      Can you try to counter these allegations instead of cheering on this unlawfulness by PF

  36. I once loved UPND, I idolized its leaders and worshiped their ideology but it has dawned on me that my energy was misplaced and all the hope I had for a better Zambia lost. I now look at their leaders as violent, barbaric, greedy with a vision for themselves and not the country’s progression. I ask myself every morning this same question, ‘who is my redeemer in this political confusion Zambia is going through?’ I had a glimmer of hope in this, once a young man called HH, but he is not young anymore and the less wiser he becomes these days now that he has surrounded himself with dimwits’. I thought he was my Zambian Obama, what has happened? No, I wont follow the crowds blindly in order to peddle one’s selfish motive.

    • UPND can see through PF cheap tricks.
      When PF realised UPND was popular on social media, they instructed caders at zambia embassies abroad and in Zambia to try to counter this popularity. But instead those caders are peddling hate speech bordering on tribal incitement and cheap lies which zambians of all tribes laugh at.

      Try to explain the 22 % inflation, job losses, load shedding, cholera causing havoc in Lusaka

  37. Changwa is a u-Se-less president that Zambia has ever had. Chama and Kaizer shoot people and no one touches them. Youths train in a gym and are given trumped up charges and political prostitute Nawakwi supports these use-less govt? Zambians legally acquire guns and you can’t expect GBM to have nothing. Sata had 8 guns while in opposition. Kaiser and Chama have guns. Where is Lungu taking Zambia. Kanganja, Karanga and other PF police cadres will cry after August 11. Lungu will one day taste prison for these abuses. We warn Nevers not to go to bed with Changwa.

  38. Comment:Let the law take its course.. Whese have u heard of a gym with pangas, spears, drugs and members engaged in military drills! Of course only at gbm premises!

  39. Nawakwi is consistently inconsistent! She neglects to menntion that the curent atmosphere of violence has been nurtured and fostered by her bed-fellows the PF. Everyone knows she’s currently in bed with Edgar thus her hesitance to condemn PF violence, incompetence and provocation in the failed hope of being given the running mate position. At some point she had began scoring points for appearing to be the only sane politician left in Zambia but alas she has also sold her soul for a morsel of bread.

  40. THIS CHI DEVIL needs TO KNOW THAT POLITICS IS NOT A PASSPORT TO MISBEHAVE CLEAN HIS TAMMY MUFUMYENI DOBO ALEMONA KWATI PA POLICE NI PA COMPANY YAKWE.
    DARKROOM STOPPED TAKE THIS CHI USELESS CHAP
    TAKE HIM KU REMND PRISON HE WILL APPEAR IN COURT ON MONDAY 6/3/16
    I checked the case is un bailable let him answer all charges including daga case dec be swifty.

  41. these are the same bastards who attacked my sister in chalala,they stole a phone and her handbag two weeks ago they were wearing worksuits and red t/shirts,let them be caged with the fat full

  42. GBM thought because he has tu money then he can challenge govt, why 8 lawyers when the case has not even started! The bustard is dead scared! Instead of concetrating on his business he is busy enganging himself in useless motives let him rot in jail.

    • That is hatred and you have no reason to feel like that. Especially when you know deep down your heart that all is trumped up and nobody in Zambia can engage in subversive activities other than members of the ruling party. this is just causing unnecessary nerves in the international community that there are rebels in Zambia when none. Lets not take people who do not support our parties as enemies because that is not what multiparty democracy means. Typical Africans, don’t adopt Governance ideologies that you don’t understand especially with deep rooted inclination to despotic dictatorships.

  43. PF, You can cadge all opposition leaders but you will never silence the majority. Zambians want answers to….

    22 % inflation, job losses, load shedding, cholera causing havoc in Lusaka the dirtiest city in Southern Africa, PF officials now resorting to trying to steal GRZ vehicles by buying them at knockdown prices, the AG recent report on rampant theft at RDA, the recent report that tourism is declining when it should be a major economic contribute , manufacturing is at zero with PF only opening shopping malls. ?

  44. Gbm mupuba sana his thinking was if i go the Bembas will follow me.. Shame on him because no SANA Bemba can not.do that. Last time he pulled his Chigayo from Kasama he insulted bembas un kasama and called us thieves. Shame on you *****

  45. We have told you before that UPND and HH has not agenda for Zambia and now that it is dawned that they have lost the elections, they think sponsoring thugs to move with pangas and arms is a way of getting some sympathy.
    Arrest and charge HH and GBM for treason.

  46. GBM is just a violent person. Beating wife! Beating driver! Beating guard! the list is endless. You remember him wielding guns in the previous by-election in Livingstone? Suddenly, because he’s UPND, you want us to believe he’s a saint? GBM is violent and corrupt too. Don’t forget ZESCO saga! So you think UPND could make a clean Govt? NO.

  47. IF YOU DO NOT DROP THE “ALL TIME LOSER”, HH, BYE
    If you don’t drop HH I will forget about politics because I can’t afford to support an “All time loser” . It is better to join the “Apathy Party” which does not vote at all, without any registration nor physical address. My heart is bleeding to see this Fat crook paraded as a Veep for UPND. What sin have we committed to receive such a “curse”. This nonentity, uncivilized human flesh wrecked havoc in PF, was ejected, alas the HH so it fit to have his busy big body dumped on us! What heartache! I would rather stay home with my children and concentrate on my business. “Mucaale kabotu”…BB

  48. @Spaka which majority zambians! the majority are in PF and minority in UPND thats why you have only 28 MPs out of 158. Let GBM be taught a lesson he will not forget.

    • If PF are the majority, why the panic and harassment of UPND ? as i said, You can cadge all opposition leaders but you will never silence the majority. Zambians want answers to….

      22 % inflation, job losses, load shedding, cholera causing havoc in Lusaka the dirtiest city in Southern Africa, PF officials now resorting to trying to steal GRZ vehicles by buying them at knockdown prices, the AG recent report on rampant theft at RDA, the recent report that tourism is declining when it should be a major economic contribute , manufacturing is at zero with PF only opening shopping malls. ?

  49. This is why u some of us original UPND members still disagree with HHs decision to bring in a person who we very know Was the Chief architect of Violence at Intercity whilst with PF. So this guy cant change overnight !! He has just brought confusion to UPND and moreover he is not even sure which party to stand on if at all he will even stand ! The style of politics GBM has brought will cost HH sn election again. Muzakaniuza !

  50. A sensible person cannot support militia training in Zambia. Things like that start small but the end is fatal. Let us get a leaf from our neighbours where fighting has been going on. It is through such behaviour that degenerate into chaos! Any rich person, or anybody who thinks that he/she has wealth should use it to help the poor in society and not to disturb peace in the nation. Young men and ladies have your country Zambia at heart. Whoever is enticing you to join the militia group does not love you because the consequences once caught will be too bad for you.

    • A sensible person cannot believe that in Lusaka, on Luanshya road be trained a militia group of 250 members, yet you find a register with less than 170 names, arrest 19, find 8 machetes, 1 fire arm, and 8 rounds or amunitions, 1 golf club.. All these in private vehicles parked, and not in GBM’s premises which has CCTV surveillance…

  51. Guys, legal brains, is it “contrary to…” Or “in contravention of the law that states…”? What is contrary here: 66. (1) Any person who- Unlawful drilling
    (a) without the permission of the President, trains or drills any other person to the use of arms or the practice of military exercises, movements, or evolutions; or…
    Did GBM drill with the permission of the president?

  52. Not surprised, that’s how despots and governments of third world countries behave. They spend most of their energies fighting their political enemies while their people continue to live in abject poverty. We were cursed like that I guess, what can we do but seat back and watch these uncivilized thugs run our country.

  53. Just when I was beginning to have a little respect for “Ka Lungu”
    Just when I thought he might be a wise man and alas, he proves me wrong.

  54. Classic dictator tactics. Create imaginary threats and hope the hungry masses refocus their attention onto that new problem and maybe forget they are hungry.

  55. MILITIALEADERS SHUD BE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH TREASON……GBM #1 TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON……….#ECL and police wel done this fool must root in jail infact he shud treated the lilayi way……infact such cases are not bailable….so fat albert lets see yo high sirit of facing the police as u said….uzachiona idot

  56. That’s the problem with the opposition PhD (pull him down). Nawakwi is now jealousy of UPND simply because she knows they are likely to win inAugust.

  57. THIS CONFIRMS THAT HH,WILLIAM BANDA,TRADITIONAL DR BANDA AND GBM ARE DAGA SMOKERS POSSIBLY EVEN GROWS IT.THOSE ARRESTED ARE DAGA FARMERS OR SUPPLIERS MAY BE THEY EVEN EXPORT.
    WAONEKELA GBM UTULO HAVE SEEN HH,BANDA,OR THOSE BIG MOUTHED T~G- MPS THEY EVEN WISH U BAD ISUKULU LISUMA IT BUILDS CAPACITY.

  58. WHY TRAIN THEM IN A HOME GYM AND NOT SPONSOR THEM AT A PUBLIC GYM? AND WHY KEEP ALL THOSE WEAPONS? I KEEP WRITING TO SAY HH IS NOWHERE NEAR THE RIGHT CHAP FOR PRESIDENT. HE IS JUST A BITTER AND HATEFUL BLOCK WHO SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM POLITICS. CLEARLY, HIS AMBITION IS NOT TO DEVELOP ZAMBIA BUT TO SELL ZAMBIA AND AMASS MORE WEALTH. HH IS A KABILA IN WAITING. ZAMBIANS, DON’T COME AND SAY YOU WEREN’T WARNED.

  59. UPND PRESIDENT HASN’T GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO -WHY ESCORT GBM TO POLICE THAT IS THE WIFE AND FAMILY ROLE. AS MUCH AS I DETASTE THE CURRENT ECONOMIC SITUATION AND STATE OF AFFAIRS IN ZAMBIA AND FEEL FOR THE SUFFERING MASSES UPND IS NOT THE SOLUTION. EL SHOULD BE GIVEN ANOTHER FULL TERM TO PROVE HIS WORTH

  60. Comment:I would rather be a dead lion than a barkin dog,no fair judgment on earth sam are arrested sam are seat free.Corrupt judge where did they get wisdom from am sory for your time is comin.

  61. Peace loving Zambians, lets not sit idle as the oppressors plan to slap GBM with treason case, then falsibly find connection HH to this fabricated “unlawful drilling”.. Mind you PF has all the mechanism it needs so as not to have UPND participate in this year’s elections. Hence PF is working day in day out with other agents who wants to have their jobs and business protected, starting with some media personnel somewhere, some corrupt top members in public service including the defense force, beneficiaries of misappropriated pubblic funds such us the euro bonds and other KALOBA contracted in the sweet name of loans… THIS IS JUST PART OF A PROVOCATIVE IDEA AIMED AT PAINTING UPND as the cause of national strife…. I’M not a prophet but this is what EL intends. ARRIVING at elections…

    • cont.. Arriving at elections without UPND… By the way, why did GVT call upon the IMF to intervene? Has HH and other serious and well meaning sons of Zambia in economics given the solutions that you in your insolent pride ignored? Now you prove that Zambia has no capacity to solve its own problems, coz the GVT is impotent to the level that it does not even know how to appreciate the much intellectual capacity from Zambians that other countries are proud of. How many Zambian graduates in various fields are happily earning a fortune abroad and contributing to the well being of other countries because at home we’ve a bunch of fools who cannot withstand being challenged?

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