UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has called on the country to remain prayerful and peaceful no matter the provocation by the ruling PF and state police and security agencies.
Speaking to UPND supporters at Lusaka Central Police, where he went to offer solidarity to arrested UPND Vice-President for Administration Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM), Mr. Hichilema said the politics of suppression, intimidation, and oppression have never worked in Zambia and the will of the people will always emerge victorious.
The UPND leader said the country faces numerous economic challenges and that hoped that those in leadership would pay more attention to fixing those challenges than fixing their political opponents.
Mr. Hichilema, who was accompanied by UPND Vice-President for Politics Canisius Banda, lawyers and other leaders, wondered why President Edgar Lungu and his leadership were abusing state police to persecute those with divergent and alternative views on how best the country should be governed.
GBM has been arrested and charged with conduct likely to cause breach of peace.
The UPND legal team is now busy negotiating for a Police bond.
Meanwhile, UPND President Hakainde Hichilema today met with Catholic Archbishop of Zambia Telesphore Mpundu.
Below is the statement and pictures released by UPND to the media
OFFICIAL STATEMENT & PHOTOS
We continue to undertake consultative engagements with local and international partners on many critical issues affecting our country.
This morning we sought counselling and consultation with the Catholic Archbishop of Zambia Telesphore Mpundu, and had successful engagement on many issues we think are of great help and benefit for our great nation.
As we all know the Church is a critical partner, especially in matters of national healing and the maintenance of peace and unity in the country as we head towards general elections.
We sincerely thank the Archbishop Mpundu for the great opportunity to consult with him, as well as the entire Catholic community for the commendable work they do in Zambia.
Hakainde Hichilema
UPND President
Great Mr President! Be assured of our continue solidarity and support. PF and their failed leaders knows their day are numbered! Brave incoming HE Republican President
Arch Bishop was happy with HH in the first picture, then Mabenga jumps then Banda. He’s thinking lets get on with this parading.
Use your OWN names
Archbishop Telesphore mpundu mulamu wa kwa Sata agreed to meet UPND Leader not PF leader,,,, awe shuwa the government is changing in Zambia
WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DRIVE..BUT WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE STIPULATED LAW, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASSOCIATION..BUT WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LAW, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO WORSHIP FREELY BUT DOES NOT MEAN GO PROVOKE THE GRZ. ETC. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH/EXPRESSIONS, BUT THOSE EXPRESSIONS MUST BE CHECKED AND UTTERED WITH ABSOLUTE RESPECT, IT DOESN’T MEAN GO AROUND ANNOYING YOUR NEIGHBORS WITH HURT SPEECHES JUST COZ U ARE FREE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH.THERE’S NOTHING LIKE “ABSOLUTE FREEDOM”. FREEDOM SHOULD NOT BE ABUSED, WHEN WE ABUSE ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO OWN, WE RISK LOSING IT. FREEDOM IS NOT AN EXCEPTION- ABUSE IT AND YOU LOSE IT.
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HH be honest to yourself for once. GBM has been caught pants down. You know very well that you miscalculated bringing GBM to the choice of Vice President. Your executive team said NO. If you want a Bemba, please find someone else. But you..HH, You are the Alpha and Omega of UPND.
Those youths were hired by GBM. Has it not crossed to your mind that the same youth tipped the Intelligence System or OP to review why they were there.
You guys sometimes don’t just properly. It appears you have no proper strategy to beat PF. You are jumping from one tree to another.
No doubt it must be hurting to see Lungu in State House when you have tried 5 times. Even to the extent of ignoring the UPND Constitution which says a candidate shall relinquish to stand after 2 attempts.
HH was not invited but took himself to the bishop, and the bishop has not said anything cause he just popped up in his grace office
I miss ba Sata
Thank you Mr incoming President HH
Yaba! Ni Under 5 zoona … elyo balefyaya ukupepa nomba. Ilyo ba kateka batwitile bonse ku mapepo tabalefyaya no ku ponta sana. Lelo baitwala kuli bashimapepo ati mpepeleniko!!
Yaba … Ala bwafya bane!!!
Hypocritical PF want to abuse God’s name by pretending to call for Peace and reconciliation prayers and then do the opposite. The truth always stand.
By looking at the name of the son or part of it, at least you can tell who the father is. Can you identify and match the words below?
YAhWEh LUngu
LUcifer hh
Don’t judge your brother upon mere allegations. Names also speak volumes.
THE TRUTH HURTS. What GBM said was utterly the truth whether or not you see it as bullying. He did heavily fund the current stup!d party. Words really break the bones, PF has physically broken some of the opposition bones but to no avail and now they re exposing their stupidity. Days re numbered. We re watching closely dare the state of emergency……Wapya iwe…
I commend the police for acting professionally. .. bullying must not be tolarated. HH and GBM would have run the ICC had lungu said what GBM said…that he would got for his neck. In most countries thus is a treasonable offence.
Buulsheet! It is a metaphorical expression in common use in the English language!
Get educated and learn to speak chizungu you dodo!
Treasonable offense my foot!
I guess with your thought process Reverend Jesse Jackson should have waited for Obama to be prez before whispering on national TV how he would like to kick him right square in the nuts. That would have had Jesse locked up for ‘treason’, huh? Um. No. All politicians are cut throat and love to ‘go for the jugular’ and kick each other in the nuts. Dirty game.
Shockingly, one of the judges will take take GBM’s words literally like the police have done, meaning that, “…will go for Lungu’s throat” GBM is an attempted murderer of Lungu. How id!otic can a nation of people get?
Its darkest just before dawn. HH and team, stay the course and do not waver or falter. There are perilous and beguiling rocks before you but with prayer from us and the Holy Spirit, God shall save Zambia.
I believe God to deliver Zambia from the current gridlock of corruption, theft and banditry.
the big question is ” pray to God or shonozi? ” i personally dont want to sell my soul by kneeling before shonozi.
It is wrong for Bembas to share the same room with Tongas. Zambia is for Bembas that’s where ever you go in Zambia, if one can’t speak english they must speak in Bemba. No matter they Tongas do, they will never rule Zambia.
Pleas bloggers don’t fall for this PF operative. He is trying to plant tribal hatred between us.
You must know right now hard working honest northerners and Easterners have had enough of PF looting and ineptitude in running the country and want change. Pipo like this chap are hoping for votes on tribal lines.
This most foolish I ‘ve seen , am wondering whether you are adult or teenage. How could you even think , like the way you are doing? Your diabolical thoughts have no place in Zambia. The country is founded on principle of unitary, bringing all the 73 ethnic groups or tribes together. For 51 years , Zambia have enjoyed the love and the peace among peoples, so don’t bring madness.
Zambia is for Bembas whether you like it or not.
No One Is Being Persecuted, Jus Operate Within The Law.
A golf club and boxing gloves ati weaponry??
Just a fake pretender Under5 serpent. We can see through your pretence.
(HH) don’t twist words to suit yourself. How is the government fixing opponents with opposing views? You call GBM’s weaponry and militia training, opposing views? That is violence and chaos in the making. We dont want lawlessness and disorder in this country.
A golf club and boxing gloves ati weaponry
Fake elder Pole Pole, you shower your violent clan with praises and heroism. Then you come to the media with fake calls for peace? Repent of your satamic ways, first shave your overgrown Afro and reveal to Zambians what you hide on your scalp. Shave your children and both of you get circumcized
This is Politics…it’s not for the faint hearted….
HH…you can’t go against God’s will…if God said one day you will be President,then wait for that moment and if God said you will never be President…you can try and try and try and you will just die in opposition
Anyway
2016 vote PF ( Edgar )
I thank you
this morning when i warned bloggers that they should not be surprised to see hh receiving holy communion from one of the catholic churches, some tongas thought i was lying. now look at this, just look at this. like i said earlier, “light and darkness do not mix.”
this is how desperate hh has become. he will do anything, i mean anything to go to state house.
the good thing here is his abusive supporters. not long ago they called our bishop all kinds of names including hh himself. now they are swallowing their own vomit.
tongas, stop being abusive if you want to rule and dont forget that bembas are king makers.
So Nevers Mumba will say I have met more Bishops than any other politician and then the PF will organise a ka March to the New Apostolic church to show solidarity for not being seen meeting HH. Zambian politicians are so base. Do your own marketing as well instead of complaining. Especially Nevers!!!
We are with you UPND. Even sata faced these battles.
Zambia shall be free.
Since when this shonongo repented of being a shetanist stop hiding in the name of prayers we know what happened on October 18 u refused to pray & called the day 666
@ Kudos Katondo boys, those who abuse the law would one day be prosecuted by the same law. If your good for nothing Lungu is a good leader, why is he afraid? He is even afraid of his own shadow. He will surely account for his actions soon or later. He will definitely not prevail.
PEACE AND PRAYER CAN NEVER BE ACHIEVED WHEN YOU ARE TRIBAL, REGIONAL, RACIST AND YOU ARE TRAINING MILITIA. START ALL THOSE THINGS FROM YOUR UPND. SWEEP IT CLEAN AND THEN COME AND TALK ABOUT THE SAME INSTEAD OF PRE-EMPTYING YOU EVIL INTENTIONS. ZAMBIA IS A PEACEFUL COUNTRY AND WE WANT TO REMAIN AS SUCH.
PF with Lungu is at the verge of making history in Zambia as the party with the shortest time in power. This is a fact.
Those who who have continued to support Lungu and the PF are like a sturbbon fly which follows the corpse the grave. They will soon be forgotten after the 11 August.
Useless opposition leader so u want to misbehave thinking police will fear to arrest u because of money primitive way of thinking.
Do not blame the president blame yo selves u want to defeat police go ahead we shall help police. U beat policemen,undress them u thick they wait for command.
Why run to the catholic bishop and not to the seventhde one u always denounce them today u want them to talk to lungu after wrong just change we love u but we hate the way u handle things.
U can run even rush to the pope but if u dont change we shall lose pipo bcos of yo stance please change
Comment:Criminals should be caged
The problem is that even criminals will bow
down and pray before they comit crime. So does hh.
Your party is Alternative and Divergent enough to be Facist.
HH stop using the church to cover your Satanic Agenda for Zambia. To erode the image of Christ in the eyes of His people. To pitch one against the other and while they bleed from tribal spear wounds you set up a govt of your chosen elite by tribe and association.
Who are you posturing yourself before….all the UPND bloggers on this column that spend every breath cursing God Almighty every time His name is mentioned in justification? My,…. my.
The Lord bless and keep HH from satanic devils and agents of hell aka kudos, patriot , bootlicker ,xfctor
lungu met meets pope HH meets Bishop. lungu goes christian, HH attends sabbath svhool. HH saw Obama he gave himself that name. When American economy became bad he changed to mosses. when he realised mosses didnt go to canan he changed to kachema. Realizd that he cant be kachema becoz he chased lubinda and others….
Yaaa tulu. How can a free.manson pretend to be a christian just becoz elections are around the corner?? We know yo character sir u cant hide sorry its too late. Leave the issues of prayer, peace with Lungu.
Yaaa its tulu. This is a wrong person to talk about prayer. How can a free.manson pretend to be a christian just becoz elections are around the corner?? We know yo character sir u cant hide sorry its too late. Leave the issues of prayer, peace with Lungu. We know where u belong……
Mmmm purpoted satanist talking about prayer and peace? This is desperation at its best. This chap ran away from prayers when H.E ECL the chosen one called for prayers and he has bn busy supporting lawlessness by his cadre gbm. So is he telling us that he has now repented or what??
Mmmm the purpoted sata.nist talking about prayer and peace? This is desperation at its best. This chap ran away from prayers when H.E ECL the chosen one called for prayers and he has bn busy supporting lawlessness by his cadre gbm. So is he telling us that he has now repented or what??
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Yaaa its tulu. This baga is a wrong person to talk about prayer. How can a free.manson pretend to be a christian just becoz elections are around the corner?? We know yo character sir u cant hide sorry its too late. Leave the issues of prayer, peace with Lungu.
Now you will hear Frank Bwalya and team wanting to Milingo in the veil of giving solideri ty.
From s neutral point of view GBM’s arrest is politically motivated. How many people, including PF cadres, have Pangas in their homes? Who did those youths found training in the gym, attack? If the Police had intelligence information why did it take the President to issue an instruction to arrest GBM and HH? The way things are going in Zambia, we are not far off from what was happening in Zim (arresting opposition on trampled up charges) and the recent happenings in Uganda.
Do not deispare pipo, Come August,
Zambia shall be free
very right pipo, come august, zambia shall be free from tongas. and free masons.
should we even pray for that which is obvious?
nay…..
Its this kind of desperation by HH which make him look very childish in the eyes of many voters!!WHATS SO SPECIAL HERE BY MEETING ONLY ONE BISHOP MPUNDU WHO NEVER SAID A SINGLE WORD TO THE PUBLIC?now i have proved beyond any doubts that it pains HH a lot seeing president Edgar Lungu in state house after several losses since 2006!!!HH WENT TO MPUNDU’S OFFICE AFTER REQUESTING TO HIM!BUT SEE WHAT HH HAS DONE?HE IS TRYING TO IMPLICATE THIS MAN OF GOD INTO HIS DIRTY POLITICS LIKE HE DID TO THE 15 DIPLOMATS WHO ARE NOW HATED BY PF LOVERS!!very soon prominent people in Zambia will stop agreeing to meet HH because of his desperation for power!!MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE NONE PARTSAN BECAUSE THEY LEAD A LOT CHRISTIANS WHO BELONG TO DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES!!!ANYWAY,THE GOOD NEWS TODAY IS THAT…
The good news is that GBM who dared the police shall spend the whole weeknd in police cells!!BOMA NI BOMA AND NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW!!IF UPND DO NOT CHANGE THEIR CURRENT VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR,THEIR LEADERS WILL SPEND A LOT OF TIME BEFORE 11/08/2016 GOING TO COURTS INSTEAD OF CAMPAIGNING!!THEY HAVE ONLY THEMSELVES TO BLAME AS NO WISE MAN CAN DARE THE POLICE AND THREATEN TO GO FOR A THROAT OF AN ELECTED PRESIDENT!!GBM IS INDEED A G6 DROP OUT!!GO PF GO AND BRAVO TO EDGAR LUNGU FOR PROTECTING OUR PEACE!!
Eddy you are a “lying sack of sheet”-LSOS. Your agreements are baseless. The reasons for GBM’s detention are petty
HH how about praying for Zambia’s sickly economy that is being run by PF like a roadside kantemba?
Comment: ze lukalibona kolia
tayali(2016) if HH realized that many Zambians eat monkeys and not beef, he would take pictures of himself eating a head of a monkey.
Just because HH has realized that 87% of Zambians are Christians, coupled with the criticisms he got for shunning the National day of prayer, he goes to Radio Christian Voice (RCV) and start quoting Bible verses and making wild pronouncements on Christianity
Prophet Tayali(2016) If HH wants to preach good deeds, justice and fairness, let him do what Zacchaeus did in the Bible after he met Jesus (Luke 19:1-10). Zacchaeus did, to give half of his wealth back to the people other than holding on to it.
I have no doubt in my mind that HHSC took advantage of the Zambians in a clever way such that the law can’t catch up with him, but on Christian Principles we can still admonish fornication even if it is not enshrined in the code.
Prophet Tayali(2016) PRIVATIZATION KILLED SOME ZAMBIANS WHILE HH GOT RICH
No matter how HHSC tries to justify his participation and what he was paid, he is still dented on moral principles together with all those he worked with.
Unfortunately, I for one, know no one else who benefited as much as HH did vying for public office. I AM GENUINELY SCARED THAT HHSC WILL COME AND LOOT THIS COUNTRY WORSE THAN BEFORE.
carefull with this man.he is more dangerous.why support a person who says he will go for the throat of the president?we cant tolerate that in the name of politics.and when you are called for questioning you claim that you are being persecuted.change your attitude ba shi Nono.money can buy material things but can never buy wisdom.
Good HH, that is what we want in Zambia and that is what President Lungu’s talks about day in day out. I just hope that you agreed to pray before your consultations with the Bishop started?
Except your statements and proud cements are full of hatred. You tend to apportion blame to others while looking at yourself as faultless, which you are definitely not. Just look at that statement of yours, pointing fingers and politicking as usual, no change same HH. And thereafter you drive to see Archbishop to talk about peace reconciliation and all the good things just for the camera, the TV and the print media.
As an imitator of Mr Sata you are doing a very bad job of it for Sata was truly reconciliatory when he wanted to do it no pretence. You could have seen more reconciliation from Mr Sata if the cartel did not hold him hostage, as you have also agreed to be held by Mmembe.
leave our bishop alone, don’t mix him with your issues, you owez blame catholics that are political, who cheated you that you will get sympathy from us catholics. takana ba chimpempe
The right place for criminals is prison. Good lesson to GBM.
We do very much agree and accept archbishop as our bishop as long as he does not become UPND or PF or indeed side openly with any other party. Recently one priest was caught sniffing “the powder” and me as a catholic can not associate with this type of priest, bishop or any individual with questionable standing. I am sure he is aware that Catholics are a “mixed cut”of the christian with regard to politics. So NO mistake ba Archbishop kuti mwasebana. Remember that Jesus was tempted by the Devil to jump from a cliff but he did not jump for certain reasons even when he could have successfully done it.
Ndeloleshafyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
THE STRONG WIND OF CHANGE IS SWEEPING ACROSS ZAMBIA. CHANGE IS WHAT WE ALL NEED IN ZAMBIA. EDGAR LUNGU HAS FAILED US. WE CAN’T CONTINUE TO HAVE SUCH A CORRUPT PERSON AT STATE HOUSE AS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT. LUNGU HAS OVER STRAINED OUR ECONOMY BECAUSE HIM AND HIS MINIONS ARE BUSY LOOTING THE MEAGER RESOURCES THAT OUR COUNTRY HAS, ON DAILY BASIS. LUNGU IS A BIG NUISANCE AT STATE HOUSE. IT ONLY TAKES LUNGU’S PRONOUNCEMENT TO HAVE THE TWO UNIVERSITIES OPENED. BUT SINCE HE DOESN’T LOVE US THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE, HE IS BUSY MAKING FUN OF OUR CHILDREN FOR LANGUISHING IN STREETS. ABASH LUNGU! ABASH LOOTERS! ABASH PF!