Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Political clashes spreads to a Lusaka School, pupils beaten up

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A school bus that was smashed
A school bus that was smashed

Pupils of Lady Diana Education Centre in Misisi compound in Kanyama in Lusaka this morning scampered for safety after unruly PF cadres stormed the school and attacked UPND area parliamentary candidate Samuel Mwale.

Mr Mwale is the proprietor of the school and was caught up in the fracas.
The PF cadres smashed windows of the campaign truck that was carrying loud speakers which were stolen during the attack.

The school also served as the campaign centre for the UPND in the area
The cadres also smashed the windows of Mr Mwale’s Toyota Prado which he was packed in the school premises.

Some of the pupils who were attending classes were severely beaten severely and where seen scampering for safety.
There has been no immediate response from the Zambia Police Service.

Part of the damaged school infrastructure
Part of the damaged school infrastructure
Smashed windows to one of the classrooms
Smashed windows to one of the classrooms
Some of the shocked pupils being assured of their safety by the teacher
Some of the shocked pupils being assured of their safety by the teacher
A classroom door broken down
A classroom door broken down

30 COMMENTS

    • PF are vandals and thieves. All this violence has been instigated by Chakolwa Chagwa. Now PF wants to beat Zambians into voting for Chakolwa. Chakolwa has made Zambia into a failed state. The violence that started with ritual murders, then xenophobic attacks and now attacks against school children, has spiralled out of control. Zambia is on fire. And Chakolwa is busy saying that Zambia is doing fine!

  1. Lungu can end this PF savagery with one phone call.

    If not he is a weak leader who has no authority over the security wings of the country and is thus a danger to the cohesiveness of zambia and must be replaced by someone who the security wings can listen to.

    Time foe change.

    • HOW CAN HE END IT WHEN HE IS THE ONE INSTINGATING AND COMMANDEERING HIS MILITIA TO ATTACK MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITION? HE IS ON THE RECORD THAT HE WOULDN’T HESITATE TO CALL ON HIS CADRES IF THE POLICE REFUSED TO CARRY OUT HIS ORDERS TO HARASS THE OPPOSITION. THE MAN SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE ICC.

  2. But why would you go for innocent children? Something is wrong in the minds of these thugs. I don’t know why Police are not doing enough to curb violence by arresting perpetrators.

  3. These boys who are being used must know that the rich people who are giving them money won’t be there to defend them. The justice system in Zambia favours the rich. If you’re a poor man from Kanyama and you get arrested, you won’t afford bail, you will rot in remand prison and it will take 7 years for the case to be disposed of.

  4. if ECZ is serious about banning violent political parties, that is clear evidence for you. But i know ECZ does not have any teeth to bite, it can only bite HH and GBM

  5. Now we have children dying and getting injured under this clueless and vision-less dictator’s rule. Anytime children come under-fire means this president has to go because in the future he will kill all our young. So much turmoil and bloodshed under one evil man all in the name of a piece of property and that is State House. Is there is an island where we can put Edgar Changwa Lungu, his family, relatives and every PF cadre so they can finish each other off? This is the only way to bring sanity back to Zambia. PF has to gooooooooooo!

  6. Any civilised and objective person would out rightly condemn this senseless thuggery. But where are bloggers like Kudos, Saulosi and the like when such a story breaks out? Its time all reasonable people stood for what is right and said no to regimes that have no place in the 21st century.

  7. Lungu has to say and now something now otherwise ill be 100%convinced he is a thug just like his cadres

  8. Country men why are u troubling your self saying maybe it is lungu sending his thugs. It’s a known fact that lungu is the one sending them. But whatever he is doing is all in vain come 11/8/2016 he will be history. And he will spend his millions at the Hague. God protect your children what have we done to be treated like this.

  9. Can Mr President say something, I love PF but this, honestly speaking is an heard of let campaign peacefully mwe banthu

  10. All schools whether private or public owned should not be used as political campaign centers because they are learning institutions. Also be mindful that everything is possible in politics so the safety of our children at these school is the sole responsibility of those who run these schools.

    As a matter of urgency let the Govt issue an instrument burning the use of learning institutions as political campaign centers.

  11. How do you put a campaign centre at school honestly. Am not in any way saying it was good but people should be able to read the situation politically.

  12. Its UPND who are behaving like Hitler destroying their own property to gain public sympathy, then why take a school to be a campaign centre.

  13. Polical violence can be stopped if ONLY PF cadres can be arrested and prosecuted. The police should carry out thorough investigations and suspects made to account. Once PF thugs get massage that they can be prosecuted will they begin to respect the police and their leadership.

  14. Ba Lungu ba Lungu, you surprise neon your lack of basic understanding of economic principles known as ECO 101. You don’t direct companies to buy local products even when they are expensive. HH will call non competitive. You buy where it cheapest and sell where it fetches more money (most expensive). Simple economics.

    A president does not go around formulating policy directives that are not clearly thought through properly.

    Jacob Zuma of South Africa replaced a very competent Minister of finance on a Friday last with an unknown chap. This wiped out over $5 billion worthy of shares on the JSE.

    Policy pronouncements are articulated properly by technocrats in the offices and not on campaign road shows.

    If Zambian products are going to be protected by presidential directives,…

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