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Mangani says police must be respected by politicians

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Lameck Mangan
Lameck Mangan
FORMER Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani has said police must be given time to manage the country properly.

Mr Mangani said when he paid a courtesy call on Senior Chief Nzamane of th Ngoni People at his palace in Chipata yesterday that police had a duty to manage the affairs of the country in which must be respected by all the well meaning Zambians.

He explained that politicians must not entangle with the police because the police had a duty to protect all the citizens.

“As former home affairs,i know that the police had a mammoth task of managing the country and in this case police must be given time to manage the country properly,”he said.

Mr Mangani who is campaigning for President Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front said the major assignment was to go round and boost up the campaigns ahead of the general elections.

He said it was good that the campaigns have been peaceful because no major violence had been reported in the province.

He appealed to various political parties to continue with the promotion of peace during the campaigns.
He urged the the traditional leadership to help mobilising the people in voting for the referendum which was going along with the general elections.

And Chief Nzamane said it was pleasing that after the lifting of the campaigns in Lusaka and Namwala by the Electoral Commission of Zambia(ECZ),the United Party for National Development (UPND) conducted its first rally in Kanyama.

Chief Nzamane said Zambians do not want the country to be turn into political turmoil after the elections but people should continue to co-exist.

He also said chiefs had a duty to talk about politics because there was no law in the Constitution which was banning chiefs commenting about politics.

Chief Nzamane said issues such as the need to have clean water and other services was which traditional leaders were talking was all about politics.

He urged the young cadres should take a leaf from the seasoned politicians who had done politics of no violence.

Chief Nzamane has since appealed to Government to complete the construction of Chikando secondary school which he said had stalled.

9 COMMENTS

  1. Any one who has had police training and shoots an unarmed civilian who is running away with live bullets in the head and stomach is a MORON I repeat a MORON. A bigger MORON is the one who issues/d the command to do so.

  2. All those who disobey lawful orders risk being caught by the law, including stray bullets fired by their colleagues

  3. if they act professionallly yes they will repsect them not the way they’ve been acting..total pf cadres..

  4. Iwe’ Nkoko -Mangani.
    Kaizer is known for disrespecting, & verbally abusing Zambia Police Force officers – (Its on Video), though your boss still keeps him in a job.
    You will die hungry Belly Politician, coz you have backed the wrong horse in P.F.
    For now, kalale!!

  5. Is this correct, I thought Mangani was UPND? When did he leave UPND to start campaigning for PF? This man has been a rolling stone. I hope he has finally now found a home.

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