Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Police shoot dead female UPND supporter in Lusaka

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Mapenzi Chibulo, a UPND cadre running for her life moments before she was shot dead by police during the protests in Lusaka
Mapenzi Chibulo, a UPND supporter running for her life moments before she was shot dead by police during the protests in Lusaka

Police in Lusaka on Friday killed one UPND female supporter after they ambushed a group of supporters that were marching on the Central Business District after Police cancelled a planned rally in Chawama.

Mapenzi Chibulu was pronounced dead on arrival at UTH and another male UPND cadre is seriously injured and admitted to UTH.

In a facebook statement UPND president Hakainde Hichilema said Police fired live bullets at UPND supporters in Lusaka yesterday afternoon, injuring and fatally wounding UPND supporters in a tragic incident that will remain a scar on the conscience of our nation for years to come.

That they have been shot for their political opinions reveals the uncomfortable truth we face today that Zambia is no longer a functioning democracy and if we are not careful it will no longer be a functioning state at all.

Our prayers and condolences are with those injured and the families and friends of those who lost their life. We must demand justice. If we do not speak out and if we let ourselves be intimidated further then more of our people will soon suffer the same terrible fate.

We continue to call for peace. Let me be clear, we are fighting for justice through peaceful means not because we lack strength but because we do not want more of our people to suffer at the hands of police officers or PF cadres. If we react in kind then the consequences for our nation would be disastrous.

As we highlighted in our live TV interview yesterday evening, we have written several letters to President Lungu on this subject and have called for meetings with him to resolve these issues. To date we have never had even an acknowledgement, let alone a response, to our calls. We continue to call for a meeting along with other stakeholders.

We met with the Inspector General of the Police yesterday afternoon. We demanded to know why the rally was cancelled so late and on questionable grounds, as if it was a deliberate move to provoke and confuse our supporters. We have also demanded to know why live bullets were being used for crowd control. We are speaking with international media, observers, civil society and many other stakeholders. We will continue to update you.

Sylvia Masebo at the hospital with one of the injured UPND supporters
Sylvia Masebo at the hospital with one of the injured UPND supporters

The sad reality we face is that we have a generation of young people that are hungry, have no jobs and have lost all faith in the state and state institutions. They feel betrayed by the broken promises of the PF Government. The police, rather than protecting them, has become an instrument of attack and intimidation, with no right for self-defence.

We call on President Lungu to quickly condemn the shootings and apologise directly to the families for something that would never have happened under truly democratic and compassionate leadership.

Meanwhile President Edgar Lungu has said his heart is heavy following the loss of life in yesterday’s fracas between the police and the UPND cadres in Lusaka.

“I first and foremost want to express my deepest sorrow to the family and friends of those who lost a life and were injured in the violence today. 50 years ago we fought hard to bring independence, peace and democracy to our nation. For 50 years our nation has lived with peace, stability and freedom. There is no place for this type of violence in our society. I take a firm stance against any sort of violence in our democracy,” President Lungu said in a message posted on his Facebook page.

“Zambians know the kind of leader that I am, and that I am a man of faith that walks with God. I live my life and lead this country with Christian values. In a Christian nation our brother and sisters can never turn to this sort of violence. We cannot let ourselves be led into a crisis by those who wish to instill fear into the hearts of many in hopes of gaining power and control.”
He added, “We are a blessed nation and cannot afford to lose order and take steps back in the progress we have made. I feel for mother Zambia. I pray for peace for all my people, across all provinces. The people of Zambia shall know peace and this shall not escalate further. We will not be led by fear. I call for unity, and end to the violence.”

President Lungu said Police will take stern action against anyone perpetrating to this violence adding that he has faith that the lines of inquiry police have opened will lead to arrest of the culprits.

147 COMMENTS

  1. Lungu please go to hell. Stop killing people. You’re a rabid dog worth putting down. Just let Zambians exercise their freedoms. If you cannot live in a free society step down and go back to your village in Malawi.

    • IT IS SAID: “THOSE THAT LIVE (i.e. earn their living by KILLING) BY THE SWORD, DIE BY THE SWORD!!”
      Lungu & his Rats have CROSSED THAT LINE!!

      ZAMBIAN DEFENCE FORCES, YOU SWORE TO DEFEND THE COUNTRY, & WE PRESUME YOU TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN DOING SO & SHALL FOR A VERY LONG TIME TO COME!! It is NOT LOST ON US THAT YOU TAKE ORDERS – HOWEVER, YOU ARE HUMAN ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT & WHAT IS WRONG!!
      WHEN YOUR COMMANDERS LOSE THEIR HEADS, it DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN’T THINK – GATHER YOUR CONSCIENCES & DO WHAT IS RIGHT – The BLOOD of those you SWORE TO DEFEND IS FILLING THE STREETS, YOU CAN NOT JUST STAND BY & WALK AWAY!!! WE CIVILIANS HAVE VOWED TO SEE THROUGH 11/8/2016!! WE NEED YOU TO WALK WITH US & SEE THAT NO MORE BLOOD IS SHED BY THESE THIEVES Ba PamaFi!!!!

      Lets MAKE PROUD THOSE THAT…

    • Lets MAKE PROUD THOSE THAT HAVE LEFT US, BY USHERING IN A NEW & HUMAN POLITICAL DISPENSATION, that RESPECTS LIFE & DIFFERENT VIEW POINTS, in order to make our society A RICH ONE WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT OPINIONS & IDEAS!!!

      OUR FORE FATHERS ALREADY SHED THEIR BLOOD FOR THIS, WE SHOULDN’T ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIME!!!!!!!

      Vote WISELY 11/8/2016!! VOTE ZAMBIA FORWARD!! VOTE UPND!!

      #Chagwamustfall!! #PFkuyabebele!!!

      I thank you & MTSRIP!!

    • May Mapenzi Chibulo rest in peace. She was unjustly gunned down in cold blood. May retribution fall on those responsible for taking away this innocent soul.

    • Here’s a nasty trend: KK decimated the Lenshina sect that he thought was usurping his power; RB killed Malozi who were questioning the legitimacy of BA64; and Lungu is now killing UPND supporters who want to replace him with HH. The common theme is that all these leaders or ex-leaders are easterners. Why this love of power and using ruthless means to try and retain it by these people?

    • Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
      Martin Luther King,Jr

    • @1.5 so what is wrong for a Tonga to support UPND?It only matters when Tongas are supporting UPND but when pf leaders go to the extent of telling Kasama and Luapula people ati mwika votela umutonga it is accepted without remorse, tefyo?

    • UPND must compile one fine fine solid political advert now depicting all the deaths and other atrocities the PF thugs have been committing. That will be a plus to deter many sensible people from voting for this pf evil party.

      PF is a party of evil hypocrites starting from Chagwa, Kabwili, Kapyonga, Kalaba, down to the illiterate loser thugs they are taking advantage of from the streets.

      To hell with hypocrite leadership, to hell with satanic evil men pretending to be men of God when their acts clearly points to them being satan followers!!

    • Guy Scott and Silvia Masebo warned Zambians about lungu, but ECZ through ireen mambilima and her friend inonge wina imposed him on Zambia for a position as chief justice and vice president respectively, the blood of this young woman has not been spilled in vain, some people have to pay for this heinous crime.

    • Am I hearing what Lungu said correctly? Is he blaming the dead as the one who committed violence against themselves or that they victims brought it upon themselves? Or is he saying the police were right to kill unarmed civilians? Why hasn’t he condemned the cop who killed this innocent civilian?

      The murderer cop should be brought to book and prosecuted accordingly. I’m afraid we may see incidents like these on a regular basis if nothing is done to deter a repeat.

    • How people forget how the Lazy Bum Lungu stated on a campaign platform somewhere just last month to his dog I.G Kanganja that it was okay for him to use a “bit of force”this is what it translates to the Police…if ZP were using teargas canisters before they simply go a stage up to live ammo. If the Inspector General Kanganja was arrested for abuse of power he will simply state that he was following executive orders from State House.
      Tomorrow morning the selfsame Lazy Bum Edgar will be at a church near you sat in the front row pretending to humble, nursing a hangover and preaching about peace.

    • “Zambians know the kind of leader that I am,…” Yes they do. You are blood-thirsty leader who has declared to bring “Armageddon” to Zambia and this is exactly what is happening. HH, you are busy inciting other people’s children to engage in violence whist your own children remain in the safety and conform of your home…! Curse be upon you and your followers. God will judge all of you harshly. HH, GBM, William Banda, etc want to bring back ANC politics of the 1970s which forced KK to declare a One-Part State. Zambians don’t want to go back to those dark days. Let there be peace in Zambia….

    • Condolences to the family of Mapenzi Chibulu. As Zambians we take no pleasure in the loss of life regardless of circumstance behind it. We can only remind all political players in Zambia to continue working with the state police institutions to foster total security in the country. The absence of which only birth such sad confusion that could have costed human life. If we can understand that democracy doesn’t mean anarchy but rule of law and that freedom in democracy is not absolutely where we engage in all sorts of misconduct, this nascent democracy will be appreciated.
      To all cadres, if you can’t see wives and children of politicians in the front-line of anarchy, back-off because they are only sacrificing you. Don’t be their guinea pigs for reckless political experiments.

    • This is sad and the Police Officer responsible must be brought to the book, as he or she over-reacted.
      However, UPND leaders who are in the forefront of instigating their cadres to be unrully are the real ones to blame. Just looking at this photo of a former Minister of Tourism who is on record of being charged for corrupt practices with a face covered in stinking crocodile tears makes me sick to the stomach.

      The Hungry Hyena/ Halenya Halenya is quick to catch on the misfortune of the poor lady MHSRIP, so sad and this just shows the cowardice of UPND leadership and their online trolls who are instigators of hate and confusion!!!

      THE ONES TO BLAME ARE UPND LEADERSHIP PERIOD!!!!

    • This guy is no longer worth of any respect. He’s just using empty words. The policemen who shot these people should be arrested immediately and charged with murder. Zambia is not NAZI Germany. It’s now turning into a police state. First of, the police canceled the UPND rallies for no good reason, except that they seem to be following someone’s orders, obviously from the ruling party. ECL’s invoking of his Christian faith is nothing but a sham. He knows pretty well that the police are openly obstructing UPND, and he’s not doing anything about it. If he’s serious, he needs to address the nation, and announce that the policemen responsible for the violence have been arrested. Going on FaceBook, pretending like he doesn’t know what’s going on is hypocritical and unacceptable. In a…

    • (Continued)…democratic state, people have a right to protest peacefully, without fear of getting killed. And the Inspector General of Police needs to get on TV too, and explain to the Zambian people as to why they cancelled the rally, and why his police officers killed and wounded innocent people.

  2. He doesnt acknowledge that his cadres fired first as usual HH a hypocrite who is on record that “mp doesnt matter because they dont share their allowances with the people” shame about the deceased but presidential “candidates” will make political capital oit of this

    • Mother fuc.ker! They killed our member Mapenzi, but can you also give us a name of who was killed by UPND cadres if they fired first? Of course none! God bless you and your desperate president!!

    • Iwe SOUL it is this same hatred that you and your tribesmen have for a fellow Zambian HH that is causing all this violence! What is wrong with you people? You disgust me so much. You think the police would have killed just one person if they were fired at! Stop pressing lies and spewing hatred!

    • soul. Am not a cadre for any party and will not vote but truth be told. The police wouldn’t have done what they did if it were pf. And I need to be convinced with evidence that any upnd person had a gun ?. The police were wrong and that’s it.

  3. Fact: there was no security concern of any nature to warrant cancellation of the UPND rally. How come it is only UPND rallies which are either cancelled or never ‘permitted’.PF, even if you want to hold on to power, win clean and not by disadvantaging other competitors

    • UPND rallies get cancelled because the party is a very well known violent grouping. Very sad for the loss of life. Imagine if the UPND leadership had listened to the police, this wasn’t going to happen.

    • @Nikambeko, you’re a very low education individual. And remember, I’m not even a UPND cadre, just a concerned Zambian who wants to see peace in our country, and people to have a right to choose their preferred candidate without fear of intimidation. I see by the flag on your profile that you’re in America. So, have you seen police behaving like this in the USA? You’re a complete disgrace.

    • @ Nikambeko you have a huge problem UPND has held several peaceful rallies including the most recent in Bauleni..also it doesn’t make sense that the police were available to control the crowd after cancellation but not available to ensure a peaceful rally. By the way if shooting was the only reaction to an alleged UPND cadre having a gun Max Chongo the PF cadres would have been long dead

    • A christian indeed. Lest we forget, Mr Lungu as Home Affairs minister deported a Roman Catholic Priest from Lundazi, for speaking for his poor congregants.

    • Open letter to UN, USA, EU, AU, ICC

      How can there be free and fair elections when political campaigns are cancelled, frustrated and curtailed with opposition supporters maimed, brutalised and murdered by PF Lungu Police Force?

      Please save us from Lungu brutality and killings.

    • Iwe Jouito Chalipi nawe nzelu zako ni dot maningi. Bantu bapayana mu Lusaka weve ufuna kupilizha nkhondo. Think before you react to issues.

  4. A female young woman was a danger that she had to be shot dead surely? How sad. A saddist regime in power!

    • This is to cause terror in the opposition and is a preview of what may happen after elections. All rational Zambians need to protect the freedom that Zambia gained in 1964 and 1991.

  5. If the UPND rally went ahead, there was not going to be any loss of life. The lie by Police that there was unforeseen security issue and that they could not allow the rally to go ahead is a SHAME. Police don’t have any powers whatsoever to stop a rally, the law is very clear. There will be a truth commission at some point even if it’s after 10 years. Was the young lady shot dead a threat. Some body Will have to account for the innocent lives being lost at some point. He is a living God

    • @Mutale Bowa: You speak the truth.
      The Police were clearly bent on stopping the UPND from holding the rally at whatever cost and sadly it is at the cost of an innocent young woman’s life. Pictures have come out of a young woman running for her life with no weapon but a party Beret in her hand, proving that she was no threat to anyone. But someone saw it fit to shoot her IN THE HEAD with a clear intention to kill.
      That shooter and the one who gave the order should be made to account for their deed.

  6. I am just shocked. Yes it has been more than 50 years of relative peace. Kaunda faced elections and lost but he did not murder, Chiluba (MYSRP) faced the third term and was rejected but he did not murder, Mwanawasa (MHSRP) was called cabbage but he did not murder, Rupiah Banda was called Nyamasoya and lost elections but he did not murder and even Michael Sata was strongly opposed and called names, but he did not murder. Why now?. If Mr Lungu is exonerating himself, who then is the commanding these killings?. Let the outcome of the investigation be quick and public. This must stop.

    • I agree with your view but remember under Chiluba saw the brutal murders Wezi Kaunda,Cuthbert Nguni,Baldwin Nkumbula,Paul Tembo etc. Under RB,the police shot and killed unarmed protesters in Western Province.Actually ECL,RB and FTJ are the most violent leaders Zambia has ever had.

      Lungu stands as the most violent.

  7. Why does UPND still go on the street marching when their rally was cancelled? Why was UPND seen transporting bus loads of students from UNZA around 17hours? UNZA security needs to be tightened up to ensure politicians do not enter campus at will!!!

    • Whatever you have to say does not justify killing Zambians. Your PF govt is a fascist one that kills its citizens at will. Zambia is not supposed to be a police state where people need to ask Lungu to do anything, even attending a meeting at a private home. This PF govt is beginning to equal the Boer apartheid govt in repressing innocent people.

  8. its sad that the statement from Lungu sounds like he has no control over what is happening,he sounds like he is in the opposition and not the commander in chief……

    • That is proof to you that he is the one behind the violence and proof enough to him that it will help him to rig elections by intimidating Zambians

    • Lungu always does the opposite of what he says. His statement is full of double-speak and threats.

      STOP KILLING ZAMBIANS. WE HAVE NO OTHER COUNTRY TO GO TO.

    • Lungu says “We cannot let ourselves be led into a crisis by those who wish to instill fear into the hearts of many in hopes of gaining power and control.”

      Lungu THAT IS YOU!

      And that is why 11 August you are OUT!

      From your OWN MOUTH you have condemned yourself!

    • You killed Zambians, not cadres!
      Sir, your heart is not heavy, maybe your lips. I’m sorry your talk is just talk! You talk Christian and peace, but you do the opposite. You mr. Commander in chief ordered those foolish men to pull the trigger, how then is your heart heavy? You sir do not deserve to be my president! You are ready to silence me for your personal gain. You are ready to kill me when I want to express my thoughts. The people that died are not careers, there are Zambians! My blood is red too. I am. Zambian! I deserve to live in peace, without fear and intimidation from men in uniform who are supposed to protect me! She was a Zambian. She was a mother and a sister. Your heavy heart ordered to fire live bullets into the very people you swore to protect and defend. You sir are…

  9. The girl was running for dear life so why was she shot and killed with a live bullet? Why would the Police use live bullets for crowd control?These PF trained thugs in Police uniform and armed by ZRP are under the direction of the powers that be. Lungu is just shedding crocodile tears otherwise he is very happy with the execution of his rigging plans which are based on the use of violence and actual election rigging. Lungu is not campaigning becoz he believes his election rigging strategies will make him win and retain power. What is SADC,AU,UN and other Election Observers doing about this blatant use of violence and election rigging using state terrorism?Lungu needs to be restrained if these elections are going to be peaceful.

  10. The cancellation of the UPND rally in Chawama at the 11th hour was just a deliberate move by Edgar Lungu with his PF regime to frustrate UPND supporters and make them react and then brand them that UPND supporters are violent. You will surely kill ALL you want but be mindful that you will NOT be in that office the whole of your life surely one day you will pay for the blood you are spilling of the innocent citizens.

  11. Zambians are so docile and very stupid! They saw that this started in Kabwe by the way was forcibly chosen as PF President using the same violent tactics – now Lungu is using the same tactic on a nationwide scale!
    Why should we let him do this? We need an armed struggle now – elections will not do! This mother fuc,king president Lungu does not own our country, Zambia. We can only value peace after seeing the other side of war otherwise other incoming idi.ots like Lungu will do the same.
    Lungu, Rupiah, etc will go and live and die in exile when war starts – but that is not a bad thing because that is when we will have peace!!

    • Useless lamentations, evil reasoning, extraordinary, wild and spooky rants you brainless rat.

  12. If the rally was cancelled, what was this match for? Sad as it is that an innocent life has been lost, we as citizens should also learn to respect our security men and women. If you act with impunity, this is where it may end.
    MHSRIP.

    • STOP KILLING ZAMBIANS.
      Why should Zambians be killed for congregating or matching together? Why is your boma so important that Zambians should be killed just because they are doing something else that you do not agreed with? How is that provocation? And even if it is provocation, why should people be killed just for their provocation? Shooting Zambians just for joining a demonstration is worse than the shooting of young black men in America for driving cars with broken tail lights.

  13. Lungu is the worst President in the history of Zambia. He should be removed on 11 August 2016 for the sake of our country!

  14. Indeed this last minute cancellation was a premeditated plan to kill innocent upnd carders. Why cancel an approved campaign at the 11th hour? Make no mistake, nobody gets away with spilling human blood; you might feel more powerful than God today but just know that your day of reckoning is coming! Even sadam hussein and Gaddafi thought they were invisible, where are they today??? Stoned to death by the same vigilantes they created. Your day of reckoning is coming. The Lord says “vengeance is mine”. Today you have spilled a young lady’s blood, remember that the tears of her children are right now knocking hastely on heaven’s doors. Your day of reckoning is coming.

  15. Condolence to Mapenzi’s family!

    Nonetheless, this should be a lesson to all political leaders to turn down the “CONFRONTATIONAL TEMPERATURE” that seems to have been cranked up for reasons only they can appreciate. If you have leaders promising MAYHEM, AMAGEDON, NON-ADHERENCE TO LAW AND ORDER, and the like, what you end up with is exactly what is going on now—citizens dying unnecessary!

    This MISPLACED ‘BRAVADO’ from leaders should STOP. It benefits no one to demonize everybody, including the Police, at the time when our Police should be supported in their efforts to prevent even worse incidences of violence which could easily lead to a more serious National Security situation. No election or leader is Worth shading the blood of even a single citizen’s blood over

    PLEASE…

    • Continue….

      PLEASE CADRES, REFUSE TO BE USED! You may end up dead yourself while the so called leaders who are encouraging this F@@LISHNESS of INGORING LAW AND ORDER will live on to dine and sip expensive wine with the very people they are telling you are your enemies.

      Surely, they must have been some very seriously security concerns which prompted the Police and ECZ to counsel this rally. For the UPND leadership to ignore such warnings from security Wings and try to press on with rally is a bit careless and misplaced, to say the least. Because other news sources are reporting that there was some intelligence indicating certain groups in Chasms were planning to confront these marchers. The reason the so called UPND SECURITY fimo fimo was armed. And you can just imagine the mayhem…

    • Yambayayamba it’s seems Zambia is now only safe for you and your tribesmen, right? Why should issues of confrontation even come up when ECZ has officially declared this period CAMPAIGN PERIOD and upnd followed the procedure of get police permits? Don’t support blindly, easterner say chaona muzako chapita mmawa chili pa iwe. So don’t celebrate too much even if you are happy that someone was killed. God is for us all

    • There’s nothing that can justify KILLING OF ZAMBIANS by its own govt. This incidence smacks of the 1976 killings by the Boer apartheid police in the Soweto uprising.

    • @chilyata: You rant is simply TOO CHEAP to deserve a signified response. Go F@&K YOURSELF YOU INBRED BAB@@N!

      @Impinge: Trust me, my TRIBE IS ZAMBIAN. Sorry to say, but it is your same kind of r@bbish TRIBAL TALK that’s contributing to the kind of POLARIZATION now being in Zambia than at any point in our Country’s recent memory. Did the BULLET that killed this young lady have TRIBE WRITTEN ON IT?

    • @ 1mbecile # 16

      You are NOT Zambian. Just paid up turd masquerading as humanoid. Go to hell with your murderous buck teeth thief

    • @chilyata: Your rant is simply TOO CHEAP to deserve a dignified response. Go F@&K YOURSELF YOU INBRED BAB@@N!

      @Inonge: Trust me, my TRIBE IS ZAMBIAN! Sorry to say, but it is your same kind of r@bbish TRIBAL TALK that’s contributing to the kind of POLARIZATION now being witnessed in Zambia than at any point in our Country’s recent memory. Did the BULLET that killed this young lady have TRIBE WRITTEN ON IT?

    • And who are you, ka @Truth, to tell me who I AM or should be? I Really don’t give a sh!t what you feel about other blogger’s views. You can go hang, for all I care!!

    • @truth, @born free, same !D!OT using different identities to hide who they are and you have EVEN THE SHRIVELED UP LITTLE B@LLS to tell me who I am not?

      And please stop TROLLING me. Too uncivilized for my taste!!!

    • @ 1mbecile yambayamba

      You are pathetic little puff. I would not f@ck you because you will taste pleasure. You are just a paid-up turd supporting bunch of thieving parasites. You do not like your medicine? More to come follower of Antichrist.

  16. For the sake of peace ECL my be retired come August. The man has no grip, he cant discipline his cadres, allowing police to use live ammunition and he is just quite. Time has come for you boss to retire.

  17. Looks like PF wants to declare Lusaka a no-go area for the opposition by paying thugs and using the police to intimidate people! Well our vote is secret, we won’t vote for pipo who kill others!! Meanwhile I’m waiting to see if PF will be allowed to campaign in these same compounds, in which case I’ll know for sure that we are officially a failed state, a police state. Kanshi zambia watchdog were right when they warned us of operation 777! Sad

    • Insults don’t help, better to speak clearly and seek to address this growing concern.

      How could the Police not see what is happening in the USA because of Police criminality?

  18. The Police in Zambia are rubbish!

    What harm is a female cadre on the run for her life?

    Police gun laws need to change so that only certain officers must carry guns.

    Too sad for the deceased and those wounded.

    • Lungu’s brutal regime is a disgrace. Confrontation or provocation is not good enough reason to kill Zambians.
      STOP KILLING ZAMBIANS.

  19. In America when a black man was killed by police, blacks, whites, Latinos joined hands and held peacful protests. In Zambia a young innocent women is shot in the back by police for exercising her right to support a party of her choice during this campaign period and people are busy justifying the killing because she doesn’t belong to the party you support, because she comes from the tribe you hate? And you call yourselves Christians? Christian nation my a*s! We should be ashamed of ourselves as a nation! And where is the so called church mother bodies?

  20. Zambians please read something about the South African Bisho killings before the transition to black rule. The militant wing of ANC thought it could win the war against the minority white regime by military struggle. But it took the killings of ANC members during a political event in Bisho for there to be realisation that ANC leaders of the struggle against apartheid were going to sacrifice more ANC members by turning more to arms. Therefore, the moderate wing of the ANC had to prevail over extremist elements so that the negotiated settlement had to be brought about. Why am I using this example? I feel there is need for learning on the part of the UPND membership that intransigence and belligerence on the part of UPND leaders is not what will get them into office. Let the UPND leaders…

    • @Zedoc, you fascist! Thats how you want to hang onto power by blaming the victims after killing them. Does Zambia only belong to your tribe? Why do you want to cow others into submission because you control “boma”? You are worse than the colonialists and it is telling that your reference is the racist and fascist Boer apartheid regime.

    • But you forget to say the ANC went on to form umkhonto we Sizwe an armed wing and more blood shed followed. So selective is your citing of history

  21. Let the UPND leaders stop sacrificing the innocent lives of their cadres by sending them to fight police whilst their lives are safe. There was an order from the police that was issued in consultation with the ECZ that the planned rally by UPND in Chawama not go ahead due to security concerns. The law is clear on this. UPND should have asked the police to provide for an alternative time when their cancelled rallies should have gone ahead. But then what did the UPND leadership do? They decided to mobilise their members to defy the police and put the lives of their members in danger. But are such leaders who abrogate the law worth dying for? Bus loads of UNZA students were on Friday the 8th of July seen being transported into town by the UPND around 17hours.

    • @Zedoc: you are a fascist that uses state resources to illegally stay into power. That’s how Hitler consolidated power by using his fascist militants like Lungu’s black shirts to cow people into doing his wishes. A boma that KILLS ZAMBIANS is not legitimate and deserves to be overthrown.

  22. We condemn Inonge Wina. She is the one that connived with Lungu at Mulungushi to violently impose Lungu as PF leader and the violence has now spread nationwide.
    That OLD Ar.sewhore Wina is the mother of this violence!!

    • Lungu is shouting that Zambians should not “experiment” with a change of Government. He IS RIGHT!

      Clearly, the PF experiment HAS FAILED the people of Zambia.

      Lungu, Inonge Wina, Kambwili and company have shown they are criminals that have hijacked the country for their own selfish and greedy gains. And are prepared to kill to stay in power.

      Enough of this failed PF experiment! We want a peaceful and united Zambia FOR ALL ZAMBIANS.

      11 August Lungu and his fellow criminals MUST GO!

  23. This still raises questions about the security situation at UNZA where politicians are able to walk into campus at will despite measures that have been put in place. The question still remains as to why UPND leaders are not using their own children but the children of others to defy police. Where do UPND leaders get authority to be using the children of others in UNZA to fight their political battles whilst their own children enjoy the safety of their homes? How responsible are these UPND leaders in what they do?

    • It’s Fascists like you who started the politicisation of Unza a long time ago. You and PF were campaigning at unza in 2011. You only raise this when students disagree with PF policies and support another party. Who says that young adults are slaves to their families? What hypocrites!

  24. Muleke ukusamwa ba upnd. The police were clear – no utuma rally twabupupa. Now u & yo corrupt leaders defy them. Lwenu, boma Ni boma. Next they shld shoot directly at hh & gbv

    • If your boma KILLS ZAMBIANS then it should be overthrown. PF are Fascists who use state resources to stay in power.

  25. OBAMA COMMENTED ON AND CONDEMNED DALLAS KILLINGS.
    ONE WOULD EXPECT THIS pf president TO COME FORWARD AND CONDEMN THIS ACT. ACT AS A ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT, ALAS, AS EXPECTED NI ZIIIII CHABE. ONCE HE HAS TIME TO OPEN HIS MOUTH, IT WILL BE ALL BLAME ON UPND. PEOPLE, REALIZE THAT A HUMAN LIFE HAS BEEN LOST, THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. REGARDLESS, OF POLITICAL AFFILIATION, ALL NORMAL AND PEACE LOVING ZAMBIANS SHOULD CONDEMN THIS ACT. ITS SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE AND UNPRECEDENTED. SLOWLY ZAMBIA IS GETTING ON FIRE. IAM AMAZED BY THESE PF CADRES HERE,EVEN THE LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE DOES MAKE THEM TO REFLECT, THEY ARE SO POLITICALLY BLINDED, ITS UNBELIEVABLE. SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE

  26. Im wondering what the match was for? The woman that lost her life is very innocent. The leaders that organised this match should be blamed. Im so sure a reason was given by the police for cancelling the rally. The truth will be told why the police pulled the triger. Stop it you people you are costing our peace all because you want to prove that you are being victimised. They is also a possibility that people that are not particpating in whatever you are doing get caught up in the confusion. STOP it all in the name of allowing one person & his family to go into state house???

    • You are a crypto fascist who supports the use of state resources to suppress Zambians. What is wrong with replacing Lungu and his band of thieves with competent people? What is democracy but the ability to choose alternative leadership?

  27. That girl is not armed. Why did police use extreme force on her? Am extremely saddened. The president statement doesn’t make sense at all. In this instance its the police who were violent. Using live bullets to shoot civilians.

  28. ECL will never be retired in August as he only best presidential candidate who will win the coming elections. Others are just time wasters the like of HH. EN,WK. VIVA PF. HH will never rule Zambia and never step a foot plot 1. GBM will take over UPND in August after HH looses

  29. Sad day for both UPND and the Police.

    When rally is cancelled, it is the Party leaders to negotiate at table level… not street protests
    When uninformed protestors line the streets, the Police need to restrain them with minimum force to restrain/disperse them.

    The death of our dear girl leaves us with many lessons to learn.
    Let this be the firs and last. We surely do not need more deaths of this kind.

    • There can never be a good reason to justify the killing of unarmed Zambians.
      STOP KILLING ZAMBIANS.

  30. This is a lesson to UPND Idio.ts to stop daring the police, they have been daring the police for a long time now and that a life has been lost they are now crying victims. Please cadres dont follow these politicians blindly consider your precious life first, nevertheless condolonces to the family and not satanic HH.

  31. The problem is that Edgar Chakolwa Kaloba Wrungu was ushered into state house using pangas and machetes. Ati I live a christian life tea car ra iwe who are you trying to deceive.

  32. You see the evil silence from that old drug dealing evil woman called inonge wina ? Ati mother of the nation, she is evil and imposed lungu on zambians.

    Her silence at the murder of a young woman by the police is anger at being ignored in w province.

  33. Lungu and Inonge cursed are you two for damaging this Country. Sata could not have been doing what you are doing. God is watching you killers just to clingy to power. You will soon reap what you are sowing. Why can’t you accept that Zambia is a democratic Country? Even if you win by rigging you will not enjoy, the innocent citizens you are killing everyday God will avenge. The tongue is a powerful weapon of distruction. Cursed are you in the land of Zambia we will cry to our God daily.

  34. Somebody sent me the following;
    THAT LADY WAS KILLED BY UPND
    am very upset because a life was lost yesterday. Like I have always maintained, no politician is worthy dying for.

    My condolences to the family of the lady who was killed. As someone who has read over 600 novels. I have a few questions…..

    1. The lady who was killed was well captured with UPND party regalia. Who had the time to capture her when everyone was running?

    2. She is captured in an area where it appears there are few cadres. Was it news worthy to take that picture in an area where there were only about 2 people leaving the other parts where many cadres were scampering for safety?

    3. After she was killed, was it necessary to go to the mortuary and take the pictures of her dead body?

    4. When the police…

    • Are you telling us all that footage and pictures we see on tv of accidents happening or about to happen are planned and staged ??

      Don’t be naive, murder by PF police as instructed by lungu..

  35. Nothing justifies shooting down of an unarmed citizen by law enforcement agents. Something and someone is getting out of hand here but remember, it may take time but all brutal regimes get stopped one way or the other. God is Great! He never forsakes his people and He detests those who abuse the authority that He placed on them to lead His people.

    • Remember she was shot and was the other UPND supporter…THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAD GUNS WERE THE POLICE.How can you blame UPND.

  36. How can a rally be cancelled by Police when Police have no powers to do so. Police have no powers WHATSOEVER to cancel a rally. And due to our sociality as Zambians we are condoning this n0nsense.

  37. A life is lost, a young Zambian lady, whilst expressing her political preference, running for her life, but killed to prove a point that ‘don’t play with police!’ The IG of police insists that rubber and not live bullets were used. But this statement is issued even before a postmortem is conducted! Only the UPND are meted with such extreme force constantly. Mapenzi, our lovely young beautiful young lady, may your soul find eternal peace from the troubles of this world. May you obtain eternal comfort and joy in the arms of your Maker and God. Father God, we come against the spirit of tribal hatred for our innocent and hardworking fellow Tonga brothers and sisters. We love them and are proud to vote for HH and his wining team this August.

  38. And note that dictators will appear humble, but give stern instructions in the back ground. They will control the media, gag press freedom, and show their brutality through state institutions like the Police. And sometimes people only open their eyes once the dictator has left power

  39. As the results of the elections are being announced, all passports must be confiscated from government leaders with all borders closed. The international court must start being sensitized now. Some evidence, like the name of the guy who pulled the trigger, who he reports to. Who was commander in chief at the time. The day, the time with clear witnesses that the lady gunned down did not posses any weapon. That work must start now

  40. What do you expect from Docile “cants” like Zambians.Nothing.these embeciles.An innocent childs life has been taken and yet no single firm action from anybondy,whatsoever.I cant believe this insanity!Really.And all you gonna do,all of you,is sit on yo dirty bums and yap online on Lusaka Times.When are you going to go out there and Boycott?when?just when?Can somebody explain to me how possible it is,that 14million people,with 5 brains each,they wud just sit back and watch when their family and friends are being slaughtered for political gain.Lungu kill all of them,i think they deserve to die,mwanya,next it ll you or yo daughter.

  41. This is not the Zambia we want. Someone is responsible for maintaining peace and stability, ensuring a decent living for citizenry etc. That someone seems to be failing in their duties.

  42. And your brother,or your father.This applies to all of you.Dont think you are PF and you are safe,When Lungu wins these Elections(in each & every war,there is always an aftermath),so after the elections,Lungu will go ahead to do a national cleansing.He will get rid of all you PF sponsored dunderheads becos he only needed u to help him win an election.He will make sure he erases all the evidence.Most sponsored PF cadres will be slaughtered so that they dont rise against him in the future.Thats how dictatorship works.There will be an elimination method when Lungu wins.People like Kambwili will all be erased from the Zambian landscape.Pls go ahead & give LUNGU yo votes.

  43. After this comment,i dont want to hear any embecile opening their dirty stinking mouth here,lets go out there and formulate plans to attack statehouse or burn the national assembly,block roads,national strike or directing plan how we can assasinate Lungu.This is an emergency,We need to act like now!before its too late.Stop being docile.Lets shed 1 more gallon of blood,and that will be Lungu’s blood.Cos his intents are now very very clear for all to see.He wants blood and he wants it so much.His statement says it all::””my heart is heavy””.what does this mean,a heart is pumped by blood,so he means that he is receiving so much blood in his heart.as a result that blood is making his heart heavy.

    • Mweba bola nimwebo ba Redbull. I can imagine how your deformed head looks like especially that there was a big struggle during birth as doctors pulled you out using pliers. You want to set the country on fire with your stupid thinking. Go to hell mother– fu–ker.

  44. President Lungu, why are you so defensive? Each time there’s violence or someone gets murdered, you behave as if you are not the Head of State. Your response is always one expected from a party president in opposition. You are always coming to the defence of your party activists. You are the ruler of all Zambians, you are therefore expected to be impartial. Condemn violence without coming to the defence of your party members, whom everyone knows (ofcourse except you) that they have committed crimes that should have been investigated if the IG was professional and impartial. So please condemn violence, let the police make their investigations and report back to us your employers.

  45. UPND and cadres have a right to March and assembly. Whatever happened it’s the police to blame. Where on earth is it lawful for police to shoot and kill harmless citizens for unlawful marching and assembly? The president is to blame for issuing orders to police to use force a few days back. All those who are justifying are not patriotic Zambians.

  46. If the rally had gone ahead, mapenzi would be alive, because the eminent threat the pf thugs would have just come and kept 150m from the rally ground, they would have just hailed insults and as usual would have been blaring their evil dandy songs, and the day would have passed without any fatalities, but Zambia police unethical response has messed up everything, God Jehovah smote their sons too.

  47. if not for the UPND thugs who atacked and beat up an innocent traffic officer this death would have been avoided.why blame ECL when it was the UPND who started that war,i witnessed it how it started.11 august is approaching bane lets silence the bantustans through our votes so we see nomore violence.

  48. Kanganja should resign he is a pf cadre wants to please his master at the expense of taking someone’s life. Bane nothing stays forever pf will be gone soon. Ask yourselves this question, Is pf the first party to be in power? If not why are you so desperate. This shows Inonga and Lungu are evil. What will it profit you to gain the whole world and lose your own soul? Jesus is coming again you will be judged.

  49. @ Red bull you are the people inciting violence. Read what you have posted. May you be delivered you have such evil mind. Burn state house for what?? I wonder why the peaceful protesters were wearing masks if they had no intentions of being lawlessness. Anyway as someone has shared i am equally suprisred why the deceased was photographed alone running. We need the truth we refuse the handful of people to portray a wrong picture all in a bid of one person going into state house. Alot of gymnastics are being used so that the ruling party maybe viewed as voilet party. From carrying cadres to go and protest against the closure of the post to killing. What else can these people do. People stop allowing yourselves to be used. I ask again why wear masks for peaceful protest?

    • Who was wearing masks?? Stop listening to ZNBC.

      Then those wondering how the victim was caught in a photo before she was murdered by the PF police should ask them selves if all those pictures footage of accidents caught on camera are planned.

  50. THE BLOOD OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IS ON LUNGU AND ZAMBIA POLICE HANDS. THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA WILL NOT LET LET THIS GO WITH NO JUSTICE. WE DEMAND AN INDEPENDENT INQUIRY TO BE CONDUCTED BY AN INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL BODY AND WHOSE RECOMMENDATIONS AND FINDINGS WILL BE OFFICIAL PUBLIC RECORD AND WILL BE USED IN DETERMINING WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE ORDERS AND WHO SHOULD BE PROSECUTED. WE HAVE BLOOD ON OUR STREETS AND WE WILL NOT JUST LET IT WASH AWAY. CHIBE CHIBE THE RED REVOLUTION GOES ON AND JUSTICE SHALL COME!!! LET ALL THAT ARE COMMITTING THESE ATROCITIES KNOW THAT THE DAY OF JUSTICE IS SOON COMING AND WE WILL ASK FOR NOTHING LESS THAN THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT. JUSTICE FOR MAPENZI!!! RAIN NO RAIN PF ALEYA!!!!!!

  51. The blood of that sister is on the dinner plate of HH. HH has the power to stop.the bloodletting by restraining his cadres from violent and unruly behaviour. HH should learn that there are many.more innocent lives out there that he is putting at risk, not just that poor cadre whose life he has sacrificed. HH tells his cadrws to stop being unrulyband violent and the violence stops. Unfortunately HH is now a robot under the control of GBM, Scot, Sampa, Mulenga Sata, and and and of course the so calked PastorMumba, all reporting to the churf satanist Mmembe. Is it not Mmenbe himself who commanded HH to engage in riots against the police? Rememver that editorial? And to UPND you will die like mosquitoes sprayed with Munkombwe target all in a vain effort to escort HH to state house. Rsther you…

  52. Rememver that editorial? And to UPND cadres, you will die like mosquitoes sprayed with Munkombwe target all in a vain effort to escort HH to state house. Rsther you lived to see that HH will not go to state house after all, so dont die in vain. I do.not think you sre aware that actually you are sacrificing for president GBM, the incoming president of UPND when HH makes his final exit loss from zambian politics in August. If you dont alliw GBM to.be your president then you go.back to a chuundu party, sorry Bantustan minority party as Mmembe has told you before. No state house for HH or UPND in any form in the next fifty years
    Sorry about that.

    • You seem drunk with the blood of zambians.

      If it is so easy for lungu why is he resorting to murdering zambians of opposing views ??

  53. IG Kanganja you are now working. You have my fullest support, continue the hard but good work. The syrrets of Lusaka do not belong to UPND cadres or HH. Pump sense into them wven at the expense of a few more UPND cadres shedding blood for HH, they are getting the message so dont relent unril.they realise that HH cannot protect them but you the police.

    • Supporting murder of innocents to protect your looting in PF will not work.

      Zambians now know they have to pay with their blood for their freedom from your looting.

  54. WHERE IS “YOUR” PRESIDENT, HAS HE EVEN EXPRESS HIS SORROW AT THE LOSS OF A HUMAN LIFE? TO SAY THE LEAST.

  55. If you sign your name in the luciferous HH’s log book as a goon, HH’s unreasonable violent nature will subconsciously sign you up as a sacrificial horned goat, for police, it’s collateral damage to maintain law and order.To UPND thugs, goons, pundits and stooges you are in the line of fire if you choose the Armageddon route. Can’t you choose a natural way of dying. Why do you choose to be used by Satan. I hope HH pays for the funeral expenses. What a way to die.. RIH! Observe established and gazzeted public procession laws.

    • It seems lungu and PF will not let go of the looting of zambians coffers without killing…..

    • Useless comment, low energy comment, spooky ideas,cursed pundit. Get off my back devil’s agent.

  56. How dare he takes the Lord’s name in vain!?! A life has been lost. If he is even half a Christian as he claims, heads should be rolling!

  57. LOOKING AT THAT PHOTO OF MAPENZI CHIBULO THE CAPTION IS MISLEADING AS IT DOESN’T SEEM CONVINCING WITH WHAT IS BEING SEEN:

    1) IF SHE IS RUNNING FR HER LIFE WHY ARE OTHER CADRES LOOKING FORWARD AND NOT BACKWARD FROM WHERE THEIR RUNNING TO, IT IS NOT THE NORM TO RUN TOWARDS WHAT MAY BE PERCEIVED AS DANGER IN THIS CASE THE POLICE

    2)OTHER PEOPLE IN THE PHOTO INCLUDING MAPENZI APPEAR RELAXED
    30WHY AREN’T THERE MORE PEOPLE SCATTERING AROUND IF AT ALL THIS WAS A SITUATION WHERE ONE WOULD BE ‘RUNNING FOR THEIR LIFE’

    3)THE MINIBUSES CAPTURED IN THE PICTURE ARE ALL MOVING AT A SLOW SPEED AS IT SEEMS THE OTHER CADRES ARE RUNNING AHEAD OF THESE BUSES- HAD THERE BEEN AN URGENT NEED TO LEAVE THE SCENE THOSE BUSES WOULD’VE BEEN AHEAD OF THE RUNNING UPND CADRES

    Ba LSK Times please be…

  58. GO OUT AND VOTE PF IN MASSES AND DONOT FALL INTO THIS UPND SYMPATHY STRATERGY PROPAGATING VIOLENCE TO EFFECT FAVOURABLY THE VOTER TURNOUT IN FAVOUR OF UPND THATS THE UPND STRATERGY TO SKEW THE VOTERS SO THE ADVISE IS TO GO OUT IN MASSES AND VOTE IN NUMBERS IN THOSE REGIONS A SLUMP IN VOTER TURNOUT OF ABOUT 38% PERCENT AND NORTHWESTERN AND SOUTHERN PROVINCES AS SWING PROVINCES FOR UPND VOTING ABOVE 30% AND 45% RESPECTIVELY WILL BE ENOUGH FOR UPND TO REGISTER A SLIGHT MAJORITY WIN

    REMEMBER SOUTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN IF LUSAKA AND OTHER PROVINCES FELLS TO VOTE ABOVE 38% IN THOSE PF STRONG HOLDS CAN OFFSET THE MARGINS IN THOSE…

  59. VOTES THERE BY ALMOST 159854 VOTES

    SO MY ADVISE FOR PF SUPPORTERS IS TO IGNORE THE UPND VIOLENCE STARTEGY AND GO AND VOTE IN NUMBERS IN THOSE REGIONS ABOVE 40 % TO 50 %

    THIS VIOLENCE STRATERGY IS WELL THOUGHT OUT BY UPND AND ITS CHEAF AIM IS TO SKEW THE VOTES SIMPLY BY AFFECTING THE VOTERS TURNOUT ESPECIALLY IN LUSAKA AND PF THERE FORE MUST URGUE ITS MEMBERS IN STRONGHOLD AND IN MASSIVE NUMBERS TO VOTE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT SIT HOME OKAY

  60. What will sway voters like me is jobs for the youth, prices of goods, cost of living, levels of corruption and theft.

  61. Where and who is this policeman or policewoman? Very unfortunate incident. So many people have died in this forth coming election.

  62. IT is a plan move by UPND, to frustrate in PF strong holds instead of people to go and vote they want where PF is strong they bring such fear so that they do not wake up to go vote. because of steering in these areas its a lie. we shall steal go and vote PF VIVA

  63. PF should know that if you happen to start going, the strong the devil also follows, and life become more of stiffer because the devil is never happy with people who speak about God. God will be with PF and Edgar Chagwa Lungu. Let God control everything.

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