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HH should put aside his Disappointment and look at the interest of Zambians

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UPND President Hakainde Hichilema
UPND President Hakainde Hichilema

By Dr Tarcisius Mukuka

Open Letter to Hakainde Hichilema

Mwapona nobakwesu

I have never written an open letter to anyone but the gravity of the matter at hand warrants such a course of action. I want to begin on a personal note. My father and mother moved to Mazabuka in 1970 when I was about 12 years old. You were only 8 years old. My father was transferred to Mazabuka to work in the Sugar Refinery. Most of my brothers and sisters were born there.

Today I use them as an example of their hybrid status. In any one day they spoke Nyanja, Bemba, Tonga and Lozi. To this day four of them still live in Mazabuka and consider Mazabuka their home as did my late father. My father is buried at the cemetery near Mazabuka hospital.

I often introduce myself as belonging to the Lamba-Bemba-Tonga hybrid tribe. This personal preamble will help you to appreciate the disquiet and worry I feel at the recent state of affairs after the recent general elections in Zambia.

In all my years of living in Mazabuka I never had the feeling I was a foreigner until now. At least from what I can tell from my brothers and sisters. For the first time they are being discriminated against on tribal grounds. In practice they are not any less Tonga than a Hichilema or Hamusonde.

My sister who speaks Tonga as if she was from Kwa Monze tells me that for the first time as a business woman people are saying, “We cannot buy from a non-Tonga.” Some have had the misfortune of having their businesses and houses ransacked or torched simply because they bear the wrong surname.

My brother Hakainde Hichilema, I am appealing to you as a fellow Tonga and a Christian to put aside your disappointment of losing the general elections and whatever the outcome of your petition may be and put the interests of Zambia first.

As someone living in the Diaspora I have had the honour of boasting that in Southern Africa, Zambia is the only country where the different tribes live side by side in peace.

Please, do not let the contrary be imputed to you as part of your legacy to Zambia. Just as you have managed to rally the people of Southern and Western provinces in particular, together, since 2006 when you entered public politics, it is now within your grasp to prevent Zambia from blotting its copybook.

I urge you to go flat out to rally the people who have supported you to embrace Zambia and peace above everything else.

I urge you as we say in Tonga, “Kulanga chibende” (to look straight). It is the future of your children and children’s children which is at stake here.

People who have suffered genocides like Rwandans and Burundians must be thinking that Zambians are like the proverbial child playing with fire.

Lest you think I am singling you out, I am not. You are simply the focus for many people of what has gone wrong in the country we love. I also think Edgar Lungu also bears some responsibility. He needs to swallow his pride and apologise for his part in the fracas. But this letter is not addressed to him.

I for one thought you would have been a good breathe of fresh air in the current stale environment of Zambian politics of patrimony but if you do not rally your supporters to work for peace, you will have lost my esteem. But if you do the right thing, you will have put down a marker for the next time around.

192 COMMENTS

  1. Against a rashing wind comes billows of regrets. Time is up against HH. He is alone in this extended funeral. He cannot afford to hold the country hostage distrusting citizens’ economic life line. The consequences for such schemes are never generous in politics.

    • “disrupting”

      He cannot afford to hold the country hostage disrupting citizens’ economic life line when he has kept his children in the USA state of Kentucky building their future.

    • @1.1 ISIS.zm, What is that cause??

      Tribal and personal business liabilities to multinational that bankroll elections of useful i.d.i.o.ts signed up to r.a.p.e their country resources are not national causes period. HH has lost it and cartel is exploiting his big ego and paranoia to unwittingly finish himself to render himself immature and unpatriotic so they can take over UPND. Its called robbing without a Gun.

    • @ Senior Citizen

      As you like to end your life as you started it as a SLAVE, stop insulting people which are born FREE, want to live in FREEDOM and end theirs life as FREE.

    • I don’t think it’s HH to lose here, rather it’s the people who voted for him. In the name of transparency and democracy let the ConCourt deal with the petition so that we all know what really happened. 47% of the electorate will not let HH give up.

      On the issue of ‘tribalism’ and regionalism, let’s ask ourselves how all this started. What we are witnessing is the cancer the ruling party caused and are now failing to control. Hard to believe that even leaders in government have been calling and labeling people from other tribes with all sorts of names.

      The government needs to deal with this mess.

    • “I am petitioning for Lungu’s earned votes to be given to me because I want to be president” – HH

    • HH is one selfish loser with no form of esteem. Just give him enough rope to hang himself.
      I blame the current constitution for not being watertight in country’s interest’s sake. 50+1 I support, delay of inauguration until the miserable loser’s petition is determined is a waste kind of constitutional clause an underdeveloped country can wish for. It’s like pushing your luck far far too much. There you have it folks; the miserable timewasting status quo.

    • I think even though the Southerners have reacted in this way as PF we need to tame our caders and stop the isolated attacks that were reported in Kitwe that of torching the UPND offices and show our brothers and sisters in UPND that we mean what we are preaching about peace. Equally our leadership in PF should continue preaching peace and tolerance to us their followers and the same should be said of UPND.

    • HH must handle this defeat with soberness. It’s either he Will be the next president in 2021 or it can be the end of his political career. If I was one of his advisor, I would tell him to move on and I can tell you he will not need 50+1% because he will be guaranteed 70%. Why. 1. Pf will struggle.2. Pf won’t be able to groom ECL successor in 5years. 3. He will have more of (like) compassionate votes in next elections. 4. Still young

    • Mukuka is a typical PF supporter who want HH to slink away and lick his wounds for the good of Zambia. But the problems have not been caused by HH. He is the victim. Why blame the victim who has been robbed and abused? Can’t you see what is wrong with your thinking? Please stop this thieving Bemba attitude of blaming victims of your greed and injustice. Plead with Lungu instead not to hang onto power when nobody wants him.

    • He is too egocentric to worry about Zambians, thats why he even took advantage of his role as overseer during the privatization of state assets to enrich himself at the expense of a lot of Zambians. He is in this presidential thing to enrich himself more. All the government contracts and tenders will be going to his and GBM`s companies. The last thing he can do is putting the interests pf the country before his.

    • Senior Cirtizen, I really find your deliberate remarks to Isolate HH as a ‘loner in the extended funeral’ to really appalling. From statistics, 47% of voters having placed their confidence in him doesn’t and can never make him a loner. This is the mistake that you and your ‘ruling lot’ are making by trying to frown upon the popularity of your rival. For Heavens sake, unless you learn to respect him, those who never voted for you are not going to respect you if you continue trading on the same path!

    • HH has no machinery in comparison to his counterpart. HH is not a problem here. He proposed peace which was turned down. If your pf genuinely won why the panic in the camp? Ask yourself boss.

    • HH does not care even if Zambia is set ablaze. He’s personal agenda comes first above all. It him alone that matters. Poor innocent people are being beaten up and displaced and yet his family remains protected at his home….And whatever he does will never help him…the majority of Zambians have rejected him and they shall never accept him, now or in future!

    • What interest of Zambians is this f00l talking about? Kwacha free falling? Massive unemployment, Zero educational opportunities for the poor bright kids? Delay in paying salaries? Borrowing irresponsibly and stealing all the money? Closures of Universities on stupid baseless grounds? Police Brutality and PF sponsored murders of opposition members? Constitutional breaches and infringement of human rights? the list is endless……….. Are you sure majority sensible Zambians are happy with all this rubbish imposed on them by the evil PF?

      Right now IMF wants a credible government to hand over the money not thieving PF thugs thats why IMF is not releasing the money now.

      All the money that was left was shared during the election period for vote buying to *****s who voted PF in…

    • All the money that was left was shared during the election period for vote buying to *****s who voted PF in exchange for K200 forgetting that when it finishes there will be no more.

      PF over spent in their stronghold bribing voters and dried up all the coffers to the extent that right now there is no money to pay salaries.

      Mwany muzanya manzi for supporting clueless PF which wants $1.5billion at the expense of high prices.

      HH and his team are fighting corruption which discourages investors from investing in Zambia. I am not talking about foreign investors here, but Zambians living abroad. During Mwanawasa, and Banda, before he destroyed what Mwanawasa had left, scores of Zambians quit their jobs abroad and decided to come home and invest, only their investment to be decimated by…

    • During Mwanawasa, and Banda, before he destroyed what Mwanawasa had left, scores of Zambians quit their jobs abroad and decided to come home and invest, only their investment to be decimated by PF’s thieving ,corruption and total disregard of fairness and justice.

      The author of this article must have his head examined for psyhosis!

      VIVA UPND and HH team you are championing democracy in Africa.

      By Wanzelu.

    • To Start with I am from Muchinga province BUT Ba Mukuka , write your open letters to Lungu who shut The Post, Muvi TV, Komboni radio. This after he sent his bemba Lieutenants Kambwili, Mumbi Phiri, & Davies Chama on an insulting rampage with the sole aim inciting tribal divisions by insulting Tongas. Why didn’t u write your open letter then when the seeds of tribalism were being sown? Why attempt to lock the door after the horse has bolted? Chiwaminagalu kuluma mbuzi not mbuzi kuluma galu! Let us learn to pick the the LOGS in Eyes before we try to pick the specks in your neighbours’ eyes. NAPWISHA MUKWAI

    • St.tu.pidity at its highest level, Its like you are ready to give away all your rights just for a thief to rule, What kid of thinking is this. As for tribalism, every one knows that PF started this and now they want to people to believe that UPND are the guilt ones. Only a F>OOL can support this.

    • Can someone please give me a statement where HH was quoted to have said that non-Tongas should not live in Southern province. I have never heard such a statement from HH but I have heard strong tribal statement from Kambwili, Mumbi Phiri, Chama, Frank Bwalya. In fact its the PF thats used the CNN message as part of their official campaign in 2016. Dr. Mukuka says his family has lived happily in Mazabuka since 1970 until now. HH has participated in 5 presidential elections but we have never experienced what we are experincing today. Dr. Mukuka are you sure from deep down yoir heart that HH is really the one behind these problems? Dear Zambians one day the truth shall be upon us. By the way my family is cosmopolitan of Namwanga Lenje Swaka and Lozi. patiently awaiting the outcome of the…

    • I have come to the conclusion that self interest is blinding some to the point that they feel they are above the law but pretend otherwise. 100000 is the division point in Zed. Every one on both sides has rights.

      Put Zambia first. We have a constitution that guarantees rights to all not just some. Anything else is just an opinion which one is entitled to.

      Disgraceful show of pseudo patriotism on display. I will say again we need LEADERS not RULERS. The only thing exposing supposedly smart people as dumb is foolish self interest.

    • This so called personal letter to HH is a little patronizing. HH has a constitutional right to challenge presidential results, if he believes the election was not free and fair. And if his claim is found to be true by the ConCourt, he would have helped Zambia’s future presidential elections. And history will thank him for it, and remember him as a man who fought for integrity, transparency and fairness in our electoral process. That would mean, in the future, political parties would have to think twice before they decide to rig the elections. Not saying that PF rigged the election this time around, but if they did, as HH seems to claim, then he would have helped expose the corruption, and that’s good for the country. Otherwise, the whole concept of democracy, and free and fair…

    • (Contnitued)… elections becomes a joke, if the outcome of the election cannot be challenged in court, or guaranteed to be free and fair. If politicians believe they can manipulate the elections and get away with it without a legal challenge, then that would mean we’re back to a one party system of government. So HH is not doing anything wrong. He’s not inciting violence. He’s not calling for war. He’s just following the guidelines of the constitution, and exercising his right to do so. Otherwise, what good is the constitution if you can not use it when needed? Or what good is the constitution if some politicians are not willing to obey it? I believe what this writer should have said is, urge HH to at least peacefully accept whatever the outcome of the ConCourt will be for the good…

    • (Continued)… of the country. And that goes for PF too. They should be ready to peacefully accept the Concourt’s ruling if it goes against them. And above all, both parties must continue reminding their supporters to be tolerant, peaceful, and desist from all form of violence, knowing that we’re all Zambians, brothers and sisters, regardless of what tribe we belong to.

    • Am I missing something here? Zambians wake up! It’s not about HH but about respect of the rule of law and above all, its about respect of the Zambian people who voted for CHANGE. Are Zambians running into a rut about management of this beautiful country? Again I want to ask this question to every living Zambian individuals; “Is ECL the only person in the whole Zambia who can govern?” What about you, and you? You auncle, yourself, your parents, what about that person? My fellow Zambians, do not be brave cowards but instead believe in yourselves and other peoples with the capacity to govern.

      God bless Zambia

    • Mukuka, I forgive you because you claim you are in diaspora. I forgive you because you were not privy to what really took place on 11 August, 2016. For your information, since you are not here, I now would like to inform you factually that HH did not that election but that Lungu stole the victory from HH. Can I give you a juice example? Yes, the government lost the Refurundum because HH was left with a “NO” answer and deliberately Lungu chose “yes”. What happened? The people who voted yes, were certainly many but those who voted No and those who completely shunned it were overwhelming. To you, if you are really a Doctor like you claim to be, what does that mean? Even the election results favoured HH but Lungu stole the results from HH. Your letter therefore is misdirected.

  2. You’re a truly Zambian and truth be told there is nothing like tribe or race. In this world there are only to kinds of people The bad ones and the good ones. Where do you belong Mr HH and Mr GBM.

    • @ Bemba boy
      HH and GBM are exercising theirs CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. Do you and other SLAVES understand PART III of the Constitution of Zambia?

    • Sadly I suspect that this open letter has been crafted by Senior Citizen! Unfortunately, he SC exposes himself as a selfish individual who is only interest with his rights! What about HH’s right to stand and contest and if need be seek legal recourse! Whilst l many not agree with neither Senior Citizen or HH, they have their own rights which I must respect. Content of article pursues a tribal angle. I grew up in same generations as both SC and HH, tribe factor is never in my vocabulary! Let’s all stop this nonsense! Silly open letter-perfect if you were near me, I would have given 10 strokes of my bamboo cane!

    • @SSDP
      That is the problem in Zambia. We have people who don’t read, who know less than nothing parading as leaders. Our institutions are stuffed by people who can’t think. It is very disheartening to have to depend on such frozen skulls for services and development.

      Thinking seems to be a preserve of a tiny minority in Zambia. The rest are just zombies, dragging along for a ride. As Telesphore Mpundu put it, the leadership has failed our Zambia!

  3. why jump the gun wait for the concourt ruling. UPND is just using the provision in the constitution. They are exercising a democratic right. The provision is there to be used.

  4. Dr is right. Hh and Gbm are arrogant fools in our century.Hh and Gbm are arrogant fools in our century.
    Swallow ur pride hh and fly back to south Africa and let our Ecl continue praying for our nation.

  5. For someone who is a doctor it’s sad to see them write a letter without substance. Keep your ignorance in the diaspora if you have no capacity of understanding the fundamentals that have led this nation to be in a state of a Banana Republic.
    Zambia is on a sloppy road as the media gets gagged & all we left with is the propaganda of a tyranny of which your views have been moulded around. What a waste of a doctrate. Shame on you Dr Mukuka!!

    • My friend,

      I think there no need to show what someone has learnt in this matter.

      The message required is very simple, even a person who has not been in class knows it.

      HH needs to tell his people to stop violence, that’s it.

      Do you need to even show that you are a doctor to communicate that msg.

      On Sunday before the final announcement of results, HH held a press conference at 23:00, and called on his supporters to ‘rise up and defend democracy’.

      HH said to his supporters saying, “we have come a long way, we can’t give up now”.

      HH said in that press briefing, ” Zambians you cannot remain docile, rise up and defend democracy”.

      HH said “Zambians, your docility will kill you”.

      Now, tell me. What rising up did HH call for? What docility was he refering…

    • Now, tell me. What rising up did HH call for? What docility was he refering to?

      Let us not shy away from issues, HH has a responsibility to reverse what he told his people. Does someone need to write as a doctor to put that across?

      Come, for once, can we be objective.

  6. Dr. (LOL) Mkuka

    What are the interests of Zambians? To live in a State without rule of law? Be subjected to arbitrary arrests? Not to have right to express themselves? No right to demonstrate? No right to associate?
    Which type of Doctor you are? Like Kambwili?
    Do yourself big favor when you want to crap, next time do it in WC instead of social media.

    • “raise up and defend Democracy”is not inciting people to take the law in their own hands but it inciting people to defend Democracy through the rule of law.Thats what we have done,the matter is in con court.We managed to catch Chavula and Pre marked ballot papers that is the meaning of rising up to defend democracy.

  7. Spot on, HH should swallow his pride and allow people choice prevail. He should address his supporters and let them know that Zambia is bigger than them. Otherwise things will turn angry if we all start reacting to this violence we have seen in southern province. In Uganda they say ” A child can play with his mom’s breast but not with his father’s testicles.”

    • How do you know the people’s choice if you are against HH’s action to establish that very fact beyond doubt? What is your anxiety all about. Where are you going? Sit down and let the issue be sorted out & then we can all move on.

    • PF do not have exclusivity to violence. Other Zambians will not stand by as Bembas and Nyanjas terrorise Tongas and other tribes. Try coming to my home with this nonsense, and I will clear 20 PF thugs before they get to me and my family. PF should continue with this nonsense if they want Zambia to end up as Somalia. Just know that there will be no country to gloat over by the time we are finished with each other. AK47s are only USD10 on the international black markets.

  8. Dr. Tarcisius Mukuka, you’re also a PF thug,sir. How can you rubber-stamp the under mining of democratic processes and institutions by Edgar? He is not the president of Zambia and should step aside. He had his chance and blew it. It’s now time to give the opportunity to lead to others. I am of the impression that the one party state ended with the dictatorship of Kaunda. EL is now trying open old wounds. Why did you run away from Zambia and hide in the Diaspora if not escape from African leaders who behave like EL?

  9. this is a well-thought article and this is the Zambia I know. Unfortunately, few people want to destroy this country because of the so-called political ambitions.

    • The few people who want to destroy Zambia are Lungu and his PF thugs. They think that rigging and then intimidating the opposition is the way to run a country. Not now nor ever.

  10. What a misguided, Stu.pid and idi.iot of a Doctor from Matero University. How is HH “the focus for many people of what has gone wrong”? Such a disrespectful and insulting statement shows this mother fuc.ker is a Lungu cadre…in fact it is Emmanuel Mamba in disguise as usual. Is HH responsible for load shedding; High youth unemployment levels; Ritual Murders of UPND Supporters like Mapenzi; Retrenchment in mines etc. Fake Dr Tarcisius Mukuka, just go and F.U.C.K your mother. You saw Essau Chulu announcing wrong results without shame and you think we are all as FO.OL.ISH as you are to ignore it? You are an ID.I.OT! Zambia is ours – all of us NOT only for thieves and killers like you. You killed Chiluba and that is not enough for you!! I personally wish you an early death and I leave it…

    • @DISGUSTED AR.SEWHORE:
      Just squeeze that in your Ar.se and some of it in your Grandmother’s Ar.se too!! Who do you blo.ody think you are to be lecturing Tongas as you feed them. We are proud hard working Archivers not a miserable thieving Low Lives like you PF Cadres! You are eking a life from cleaning toilets in the diaspora and have done nothing for our country! Mother fuc.ker!! Koswe!!

    • This letter was first on Facebook. But Dr Mukuka wrote a scathing letter to Lungu too; I hope that letter will also appear in Lusaka times. Dr Mukuka is a very intelligent man, well qualified from reputable universities. Hope the other letter will be in Lusaka times

    • POINT!! I AGREE WITH U 100% @ 10 Chilyata, obviously apart from instructions for this dodgy Dr Mukuka to go & doda his Mum.
      However it is mind boggling that P.F, Cadres, & sympathisers can be SO myopic, not see the wider picture, & go victim blaming the wrong people, for problems of their own making.
      Like You said, loadshedding, high unemployment, closure of mines, state sponsored violence, intolerance, may I add lying, depeciation of the Kwacha, Corruption, neoptism/ family tree appointments to strategic ministerial/ diplomatic appointments all going to one region- Northern, Illegal ministers, + waste of scarce resources, hiring costly aircraft to take dancers, & infected hule’s to a U.N conference, using ZAF aircraft to ferry Cadres, & Wh0res, all P.F, hallmarks.
      Now that the…

  11. Kaponya (HH) is nothing more than a cheap village thug who thinks he can hold 15 millions to ransom. Who does he think he is this cheap Machiavellian crook?
    The sooner he departs from us the better for UPND and Zambia. Let Nevers and GBM take over this Hap Hazard ARRSE Hole

    • Keep dreaming. GBM has no constituency and support base. He cannot take over UPND. Even his daughter could not win in Kasama. It is Lungu who is holding Zambia to ransom for nothing. He is taking Zambia for granted due to his personal greed and ego.

  12. And accept a rigged election by a thief that has admitted he has stolen two million Dollars?

    Wake up and smell the coffee. Our children will have to pay all their lives for Lungus corruption already, should we just say OK to even more?

    Do you think we should be happy to see Zambia head the same way as Zimbabwe?

    Lungu has not won the election, he has tried to steal it. Thank God someone has the bravery to challenge this travesty of democracy!

    • The ConCourt battle by HH/GBM is not for themselves nor is it for these just ended stolen elections. The battle is for a better and certain tomorrow. HH/GBM are fighting to enforce Article 45 of the Constitution – no violence, no bribery, no cheating before, during and after elections.

      To abandon this noble cause will be the greats of all betrayals to Zambia. It will institutionalize Lungu and his criminal cohort’s passport to State power: inveiglement, chicanery, trickery, manipulation, shenanigan, slander, tribalism, thuggery, corruption, theft, calculated deception, dishonesty, dupery, underhandedness, racketeering, deviousness, sanctimoniousness, corruption, intrigue.

      Lungu did it at the PF convention in 2014. He scrapped through in 2015 using same tricks. He…

    • To abandon this noble cause will be the greatest of all betrayals to Zambia and our great, great, great grand children. It will institutionalize Lungu and his criminal cohort’s passport to State power: inveiglement, chicanery, trickery, manipulation, shenanigan, slander, tribalism, thuggery, corruption, theft, calculated deception, dishonesty, dupery, underhandedness, racketeering, deviousness, sanctimoniousness, corruption, intrigue.

      Lungu did it at the PF convention in 2014. He scrapped through in 2015 using same tricks. He has perfected them in 2016. Now is the time to say NO more!!

    • @PAPANIO:
      Just go and clean toilets and make cheeseburgers for a living in the diaspora and leave important things to HH and other more sensible people. You are already a lost cause without a future so it is pointless to say anything to a PF Cadre like you because you are not capable of understanding anything except stealing and lawlessness!! Fuc.k your mother and your PAPA!!

    • It is Lungu who should be arrested for pretending to be president of Zambia,when he is supposed to handover power to speaker .Lungu sneeked to Malawi to be cooked by Sangomas in order to make himself bullet proof to any form of physical gun as well make himself un touchable.Maybe he also want to be witch HH who knows.

    • @Chilyata
      people with limited vocabulary are quick to swear….
      cleaning toilets and making cheeseburgers is called having a job
      just because I’m in the diaspora don’t make me less of a Zambian
      bitter soul….get a life!!!

    • @PAPANIO:
      Yes, cleaning toilets is your job and career – but what kind of a job it? It is for useless and failed people or simply “low life losers” who cant do any better. Imagine people who clean toilets LIKE YOU are called “Namazais”. Nobody would allow their children to eat with a Namazai that is left to eat alone using utensils never ever to be used by anyone else.
      I never said diaspora takes away your Zambian citizenship – it is your birthright which extends to even mad people and Namazais like you! But you Namazais have no single right to call for HH’s arrest when he has not broken any law – that’s point mother fuc.ker? Ar.sew.hore!!

  13. To enjoy your rights does not mean to disrespect the will of the majority, it’s not to burn houses belonging to people you suspect to have voted for another party.

    • The pipo who framed UNIP in black mamba and zero option are all working with PF only pipo without brains can believe that UPND is violent.Violence in our politics has been introduced by PF.B4 pf happened to us nobody fought over wearing party symbols.No tribal campaigns,no insults etc we want our country back.

  14. Interesting did I read someone here call Dr Mukuka a boy and others ‘Slaves’???Who are slaves. very interesting to see how stupid some tribal id..iots think of others. No wonder we are having tribal issues in Zambia. Wether you like it or not Lungu is the president of Zambia. The court proceedings are just academic. The final vedict for any election is ECZ which has been empowered by the same law you are referring to. All monitors said elections were free and fair. The people have spoken. who is this court to decide for the people? Its a done deal.

    • @ uneducated slave above:

      “…Wether you like it or not Lungu is the president of Zambia…”

      Whether you like it or not, until Constitutional Court determine otherwise, Lungu is NOT the president of Zambia.

  15. Mukuka please spares us that’s your opinion. If anyone is attacked from any part of the Country, he or she has a responsibility to report such happenings. So tell your siblings to come to the police station to report now. But since you’re lying I don’t think they will come. HH is fighting for a good cause, it may not be for today.

    • @16 JJ, they have reported, are being sheltered in public buildings bcoz their homes have been torched and are being protect by the Police. In case you missed it, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been alerted and very soon the story may just turn ugly for perpetrators of ethnically based violence. When you see someone (HH) panicking to meet the Catholics that he despised and whose PVT results that agree with ECZ that he keeps disputing… then just know that things may not be as well as some of his supporters are putting them here! He wrote to the EU,UN,SADC,COMESA,AU about human rights in Zambia and now he has met his match in those that have reported him to the ICC. These organisations he wrote to have given a clean bill to ECZ and recent elections and many have congratulated…

  16. Kaponya, SSDP & Jaws…
    Is wrong to ask someone who is influential to ask his followers to stop killing those who are perceived not to be in support him? Are they not the same people you would want to come and govern one day? I am pay a blind eye to what has happened before, we saw this from other political parties. I too grew up in Southern province, my sister and other relatives are living there. She is scared for her life, now we have foreigners after settling there in 1940 to be precise. The next moment you will hear that you to acquire VISA to the Kafue river. For me its not about HH, ECL, PF, UPND, FDD, GBM, IMW, think….

    • Do you know how many times HH has spoken against violence? But then how would you know when the only media left does not report on whatever HH says unless it has a bad twist they can pick up to raise the hype further. Most of the stories on UPND we hear them only when a PF chap is responding to what was said (which was not reported then)

    • Joshua – When did HH speak out against violence? Do you mean against the violence that he himself instigated? Pre-election ECL was there preaching peace and asking traditional leaders to help the nation – HH was quiet

  17. BIGGGER CHUNK OF THE BLAME TARGETS THE CONSTITUTION YOU AND I JUST USHERED IN.
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    Nothing stops ambitious HH from doing what he is doing if you put the current situation under microscope but for his personal conscious. He just found a new way to fight his loss through the “clause limited” and “insecure” easy constitution. We are yet to see more of these disputes as long as we have tight election contests to a point where after a rerun following a successfully petitioned election another petition awaits. So what do we have? A “limited claused” constitution that is not accurate, clear and complete.

    • CONSTITUTIONS PUT COUNTRIES FIRST
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      Civil societies, churches, NGO and Zambians used emotions in the interest of aggrieved election losers in the run up to the new election. Case in point – It took 3 years for Kambela’ s/LPM petition to see a meaningful head way in the case he lost yet we want the concourt to rush this under 15days with the natural way of court adjournments.Wishful thinking folks. There are a lot of indications that the concourt is still in its infancy and adequate capacity is a far fetched dream. We need a patriotic CONSTITUTION folks.

  18. The Dems, please do us all a favor and run like Tarcisius because it seems he is good at that. Leave us to fight for what is right. The current crisis is not about EL or HH but Zambia. They are both not bigger than the country. We need good governance and the rule of law and it’s clear in the time Edgar had to lead us that he is not the best candidate for the job. Our country has been weakened by his thuggery behaviour and is now on it’s knees because of poor leadership. It will struggle to get up and recover lost ground.

    • That’s what campaigns were all about, to win people’s hearts. Even if according to you he is not the best candidate, the majority of voters chose him. The petition is a face saver and a waste of time. Learn to live with the reality that you have a PRESIDENT in ECL. What you and your HH are doing is insulting Zambians for their freedom of choice. I must remind you of the saying: IF YOU CAN’T WIN THEM, JOIN THEM. Come on, do not be overcome with pride. Do the right thing and accept that Zambia chose Edgar over hapless HH.

    • @Disgusted, democracy means that we do not have to agree. That’s what aggrieves you, Lungu and PF – that other Zambians do not agree with you. We don’t have to join PF and your crooked ways.

  19. HH doesn’t listen to anyone apart from himself. He needs Jesus in his life to convert his heart. He thinks of himself only, but pretending to want serve Zambians as if it’s a person project. He is the DONALD TRUMP of Zambia. He can even learn from young leaders like Obama. HH’s mandate as President of UPND expired a long time ago, no convention in UPND since he came in, but he is claiming democracy, what a hypocrite. Let him change for the better, he is danger to our harmony as a country.

    • “Being defeated is only a temporary condition…….giving up is what makes it permanent!” Why do you want others to forfeit their rights when you are enjoying yours to the fullest. Let the opposition be heard by the Con Court……….after the outcome your advise is welcome.

  20. LT for God sake stop taking us backwards. It’s mediamond houses like yours on the true individuals being these useless articles that are taking this country backwards. Your spend all night up pushing your propaganda think of what good it is to the nation in the long run and stop looking at your benefits in the short-term. Why not just wait for the petition to be addressed by concourt?

  21. Lawyers representing him have already done their budgets for free money knowing the case was lost the moment the petition was filed. Imagine mushipe an elderly woman who wears a Gstring rushing to accept that job. She doesn’t even have to think or research on anything because the petition is baseless in nature.

  22. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke.
    Lungu has very fast brought us back to the dictatorship that Zambians fought hard to get rid of. The author of this article must be a vicious PF cadre with the same ruthless and conscienceless mind that characterise the evil party now in power.

  23. There is nothing wrong with the constitution – it adds checks and balances to prevent those who manipulate democratic processes from leading. The problem is the greed of our leaders for power and self-enrichment. In our entire political history, I have never seen leaders loot Zambia at the rate of PF.

    • When were you born for you to say such a dumb thing?

      HH himself benefited immensely from one of the waste period when CROOKS PERFECTED THE ART OF LOOTING. He helped strip this Country to the bone and walked away a millionair. And you want to come up on here and start talking like we are Country without a history. And I mean REAL HISTORY, not just CONVENIENTLY MADE UP HALF-TRUTHS to suite your skewed view. If you don’t remember, well, plenty of us do!

      So again, when were you born for you to say such a dumb thing?

    • Thank you JAWS, you have hit the nail squarely on the head!

      Even the three billion dollars PF found in the bank in 2011 was not enough for these thieves. They had to BORROW another SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS to steal even more!

      And generations of our children not born yet will suffer all because of the selfish greed of this bunch of thieves!

  24. Mkuka has misdirected his letter. HH is not in govt ,Lungu is. U should hold Lungu to account after all it was the tribalists and regionalists in PF who were urging Bembas and Nyanjas to vote for Lungu on a “Wako niwako” or “kumodzi kumaawa”basis. Kabwili has always attacked the Tongas.HH’s votes are more National than Lungu’s votes. It was Lungu who said he would only develop areas which vote for him. The mess that Zambia finds itself in should be blamed on Lungu squarely. Instead of blaming the Aggressor Mkuka is blaming the victim. There is no doubt that the current crisis in Zambia is Lungu and PF’s making. Lungu is lawless and right now he is breaking the law by refusing to handover power to Dr Matibini following the UPND Petetion. The law was clear on the illegal Ministers…

  25. Why can both parties wait for the rule of law take its course. If any of you is scared of the outcome of the con court kindly say so than just insulting and wasting time on this blog.

  26. Senior citizen is a foolish integrity lacking twat. When mmd was in power he supported them. When pf won he supported them . Now watch what happens when upnd are ruled to have won.

  27. HH will fix it. Already those who rigged the election are fixed. What is happening in constitutional court is not academic just wait for verdict. People can insult and call the petitioners names but this is the beginning of clean elections in Zambia. I do not understand why bembas are crying so loud.

    • There you go again; Bembas , Bembas, Bembas, …! You people really have a bone to chew with Bembas, don’t you? And you wonder why you keep losing elections, right? Even having GBM in your midst hasn’t helped change your BIGOTRY towards Bembas. What a waste of effort by GBM, Sampa, ‘NeverNever’ Mumba, Sata Jr, ect.

      Baba, it is all people of goodwill and conscious who are worried about the XENOPHOBIC and GENOCIDAL attacks on fellow Citizens going on in Southern Province. Not just Bembas. He is appealing to the GOOD ANGELS in all of us (especially HH as a Leader) to seriously contemplate the ugliness and consequences of FRATERNIZING WITH THE DEVIL’S PROJECT. What implications this has on us as Country now and on generations yet unborn. But simple minds only sees a “Bemba” talking…

    • continue…

      … When the Dr. has categorically said he considers himself to be of Lamba-Bemba-Tonga persuasion. God help us!

  28. Mr Mukuka,,where is your open letter to Edgar Lungu,,is it because he is your mbuya?

    Stop beiing used and be objective. We all dont like this mess we are in as a country but cal a Spade a Spade. Just like u have stated ,there is no tribalism in zambia except tat we have greedy, corrupt,shameless,inept leaders in PF government with selfish motive. If u were a genuine zambian ,u would knw tat HH is merely trying to put things in order unlike u who is blinded by Tribalism of Chishimba Kambwili,Jean Kapata,Mumbi Phiri ,Edgar Lungu etc. Dont fool pipo of SP. The knw what is good for country.

  29. Laws can be changed from lessons learned.We cannot change our country simply because we messed up our own. These are words of wisdom, lets not tinker and experiment with violence. The police just like the army need to be disciplined and be above politics. Competing for public office should never be about getting there at all costs but about serving the people. PF and UPND are planting the seeds of hate in Zambia and this situation should never be allowed by peace loving Zambians.

  30. The writer is insane and need to be ignored completely because he is speaking from without. He has a wonderful move but with a very wrong target!

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    HH should put aside his Disappointment and look at the interest of Zambians
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    UPND President Hakainde Hichilema
    UPND President Hakainde Hichilema
    By Dr Tarcisius Mukuka

    Open Letter to Hakainde Hichilema

    Mwapona nobakwesu

    I have never written an open letter to anyone but the gravity of the matter at hand warrants such a course of action. I want to begin on a personal note. My father and mother moved to Mazabuka in 1970 when I was about 12 years old. You were only 8 years old. My father was transferred to Mazabuka to work in the Sugar Refinery. Most of my brothers and sisters were born there.

    Today I use them as an example of their hybrid status. In any one day they spoke Nyanja, Bemba, Tonga and Lozi. To this…

    • WEIRD YEAH? BUT HH PREPARED YOU FOR THIS
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      He categorically said he would not accept the results. He will seek international help should the concourt fail him. We call it not leaving a stone unturned. So give him enough rope to hung himself folks. For now this is his form of victory. Yeah! Holding the country at ransom in a more legal way. Absolutely exercising his right but for his motive and conscious. Every man has some form of ego but for our conscious. Whoops, does he have a conscious?

  32. We have told you before here that we have just tolerated this HH and his UPND for far too long, and the question is why?
    Yes we all know that he has nothing to lose but want the victors to be in his position, but let’s be firm and very firm with this chap. We can be deadly and very swift on HH if he pushes us beyond what’s acceptable.
    Do you remember the Maibuye days? I guess HH doesn’t know what the fire is mishandling. We are deadly more than what you see in other parts of the world and more reason other a countries in Southern Africa sought refuge in Zambian.

    • You are so much smoke and noise. You do not have exclusivity to violence. Harm HH and see if Zambia will ever rise again. Zambia will be leveled below Somalia.

  33. I am compiling a list of dull Doctors, congratulations!

    Personally, i feel it’s not an issue of winning or losing but were the elections free and fair? Was the rule of law followed according to the electoral process mandated by the constitution. Let’s not create a precedent for anarchy that will haunt us in the subsequent elections. Please Doctor, don’t stress. It is not your problem but the University you graduated from.

    We are more concerned in addressing the outcome of rigging that rigging itself. Politician should understand that there are Zambian people who value integrity than riches. As Zambian, we are by nature sworn to protect the constitution and our motherland.

    Zambia for all Zambian.

    • Chuckles!
      Kindly put Neo Simutanyi top of the list; then VJ; then NSM; then this guy Guy! Pwahahaha!
      You’re crazy! You made my day!

  34. For those saying Lungu should hand over power to Matibini , I don’t think the petition has already been determined or established as something that stands as petition so it can heard hence Lungu can not stand down for now until it is established in court

    • @Shimwanio:
      You are thinking using your Ar.se NOT your brains! The law is already there and what you are saying is just bull.sh.it you mother fuc.ker!!

  35. Part of the gang of theives.

    Lungu stole this election. Everyone knows more than half of the population rejected him. If it were not for using state machinary and vote stealing he would be in the dustbin by now.

    Let the courts decide.

  36. What value has Mukuka added to the country’s democracy.When our education is infringing on another persons rights then it is not Education.Prof saasa,Prof mvunga ,Dr Mukuka ,Prof Chirwa and alike have been a let down to our economy,to democracy and justice in our country.What we need now is not a figure head as president but we need a president who can chatter or make a way(path) for our country to be great again.We need a govt that will deal with our economy as you may aware fellow country men and women that our companies(firms) and household (kumanyumba ) things are not ok because govt is taxing us much while the taxed monies and borrowed monies are given to the chinese through infrastructure development leaving no money to eject or stimulate the economy.Hence Edgar Lungu should go and…

  37. Tarcisius, what baffles me is that you allege to have a PHD but do not know how to conduct research! Here is a bit of background on how we got here. Edgar is a seriously Politically Exposed Person (PEP). He became one when he decided to turn to Mugabe ( Zimbabwean President ) and Mseveni (Ugandan President) for assistance to fight his internal PF political battles. These guys gave him financial assistance and in return they are using him (Zambia ) as a front to get loans for critical projects in their countries so that is why Zambians have suffered so hard in a short period of time and will continue to suffer in the near future. When you visit the Kariba Hydro-electric Power station, you will discover that there is more construction activity on Zimbabwe’s side of the border and none…

  38. Masons think that salvation refers to being brought from the material to the spiritual; i.e., when man returns to “his forgotten inherent spirituality.” Masons believe that the degree of Master Mason is symbolical of old age, which allows a person to happily reflect on a well-spent life and to “die in the hope of a glorious immortality.” Because they deny the reality of sin, Masons see no need of salvation in the Biblical sense. They see salvation as a step-by-step enlightenment, which comes through initiation into the Masonic degrees and their mysteries…..

    HH will be defeated in court but he wants to have his 50 minutes of fame

    • What a tired story! If you support Lungu, clearly masonism is not your beef. It is all about tribe and the your sense of entitlement. And you cannot accept that another Zambian can be richer than you.

  39. LET THE COURTS DECIDE THEN WE CAN MOVE ON.PF IF THEY CONTINUE IN POWER SHOULD CLEAN UP THIS MESS THEY HAVE CREATED.OTHERWISE THEY SEEM TO BE ON A SLEF DESTRUCTION MISSION.TOO MANY PF SUPPORTERS ARE NOT OBJECTIVE.THEY ARE JUST CONDEMNING WHAT THE OPPOSITION ARE DOING AND SUPPORTING THE TYRANNY OF OUR PRESIDENT.I FOR ONE CAMPAIGNED FOR MR.SATA AND I AM MORE PF THAN SOME NEW CHAPS HERE WHO THINK THEY ARE PF.I CANNOT ENCOURAGE THE BIASED REPORTING BY ALL THE MEDIA INCLUDING ZNBC,TIMES AND DAILY MAIL.AND THAT HEADLINE BY TIMES OF ZAMBIA WAS IRRESPONSIBLE, POLITICIANS ESPECIALLY FORM THE PF SHOULD CONDEMN IT.IT IS ALSO IRRESPONSIBLE FOR THE WRITER OF THIS LETTER AT THIS STAGE TO ASK HH TO LOOK AT NATIONAL INTEREST.THE MATTER IS IN COURT.LET THE COURTS DECIDE AND THEN WE MOVE ON.WHAT REMAINS…

  40. …none on Zambia’s side. Therefore, there is a big question mark on Edgar’s integrity and ability to make independent decisions about the future of Zambia. We never knew the concept of rigging elections until his association with Mugabe and Mseveni. We’ve said no to EL’s bid for the position of CEO of Zambia (Pty ) Ltd and Chikwanda’s for Financial Directorship.

  41. Mugabe can’t leave power because the army generals won’t allow him and neither can HH give up because the Cartel have invested so much in his election.

  42. Dr Tarcisius Mukuka, with due respect to you my elder brother, DO NOT blame HH, instead blame Electoral Commission of Zambia for failing to manage a free, fair, transparent and credible election. The people of Zambia, especially those that supported HH, feel they have been cheated by ECZ. A lot of evidence is available in the public domain that points to a deliberate mutilation of the electoral process against HH.

    Since you are in the diaspora, I don’t know how much of this information you have been able to read. Do not be cheated that there is tribalism at play. It is the selfish politicians that are whipping the tribal feeling for their own selfish interests.

    HH’s supporters have been victimized in their business places especially around Lusaka. UPND offices were burnt down on…

  43. Those who are talking tribe are the ones who promoting divisions that don’t exist. This tribe talk is merely political rhetoric perpetuated by PF in order to rally some tribes to the party. They lost support around the country and only remained with a strategy of emotional tribal campaigns. Therefore it is PF who are responsible for all this confusion. We would not have this petition if the PF had allowed the ECZ to conduct the elections in a truly efficient and transparent manner. If state institutions and power were not abused for benefit of PF.

  44. Ignore this character who wants to show tantrums and attract attention of peace loving zambians with his evil ways. marubbish

  45. This colonialist oppressed and abused the Africans. And yet the same colonialists condemned the africa when they for for what rightly belonged to them and called all sorts of names like terrorists. When people seek the court’s intervention they should not be called names. It’s their constitutional right and all fair minded people will not condemn that. If you don’t allow people to use legal means to express their dissatisfaction with something, you are then promoting dictatorship. Let all be sober minded.

  46. UPND in my view are time wasters to Zambia’s development and progress ! Any way lets wait for the Courts to conclude the due process of law.

  47. The colonialist oppressed and abused the Africans. And yet the same colonialists condemned the africans when they fought for what rightly belonged to them and called them all sorts of names like terrorists. When people seek the court’s intervention they should not be called names. It’s their constitutional right and all fair minded people will not condemn that. If you don’t allow people to use legal means to express their dissatisfaction with something, you are then promoting dictatorship. Let all be sober minded.

  48. I wont say much but i feel insulted if someone who is a Dr can be thinking like this (probably because he is paid by the PF). It’s very unfortunate!

  49. This letter is highly misplaced. Are you saying the rigging should just be accepted as normal. The rigging is killing Zambia and the writer is not an honest person because he is accusing someone who has been terribly mistreated to be the cause of the problems in Zambia. Sir if you are a just person address your message to people who rigged the election.

  50. This article is useless and I will tell you why. This so called Dr is in a hurry to ask HH to give up and let Lungu rule without really analysing the issues at hand. In a democracy, people have a constitutional right to be heard when there are infringements on their democratic entitlements. Do you want HH to just surrender like that without the myriad of electoral fraud being addressed?
    Do you not see the incendiary propaganda by the PF and deliberate hatred campaign they have been pursuing, which could destroy our great land? Are you blind to Lungu’s pathetic dictatorial tendencies whereby he wants to silence everyone with a dissenting voice? Are you happy to live in a country where the police, army all security wings and the entire civil service belong to PF? And Lungu is your…

  51. Sad article . A true depiction of the warped conscience of many so called peace loving citizens who wish to bury their proverbial heads in quick sand to avoid coming to terms with truth and justice .

  52. I strongly feel HH means well and is not a tribalist. The forces and powers that be have been working flat out to give him that label including the fact that he is a man of violence. All the reporting on ZNBC has been against him with the aim of painting a devil in him. But the truth is cream will always come to the top. Even if the constitution court will rule otherwise i think the results of the elections entail that some level of respect must be accorded to him being leader of the largest opposition in the Country. Even his opinions and comments made by him must be taken seriously because the fact is a commands a large following across the political landscape of Zambia. Yes he managed to get votes even in the least expected places. This means he is known and appreciated by many…

  53. Hero? It’s due to pseudo intellectuals like yourself that Zambia is destined to be a failed state. We should collectively say NO to Lungu’s increasing dictatorship regardless of your political affiliation . Can’t you honestly see that Zambia is on a precipice of disaster. Please say NO to dictatorship . Zambia is gone! Give Lungu the advice first.. His oppression is alarming and Iam depressed at how naive we Zambians have become Celebrating dictatorship? This is definitely political self harm. Absolutely pathetic!!! Indescribably shameful!!!

  54. I wonder how a Dr can be such a dunderhead, why should HH allow illegality to prevail over legality? ECZ colluded with PF to favour it, then, you conveniently say HH must accept the fake defeat! Assuming ECL goes ahead and become president, how will govt take theft – legal or illegal? Obviously, theft will be treated as legal in Zambia because PF and ECZ acted to ensure that PF is purported to win elections. In the image of the international community, Zambians will looked down upon besides the economy will terribly slow down to detriment of citizens!

  55. I TRY BY ALL MEANS TO LOOK AT ISSUES OBJECTIVELY. I SEE NO REASON WHY WE SHOULD CALL HH NAMES FOR SIMPLY EXERCISING HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. WE CHOSE DEMOCRACY AND ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF DEMOCRACY IS THAT THE AGGRIEVED PARTY HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE THE SAME ROUTE HH HAS TAKEN. LET THE DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW REACH ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION. CONDEMNING HH OVER PETITION IS ACTUAL TANTAMOUNT TO ENCOURAGING LAWLESSNESS & CRIMINALITY IN THIS COUNTRY

  56. I am fine with it so long as everything is with in the law..don’t expect everyone to be cowards like you Tarcisius Mukuka – this is a litmus test to our democracy and our constitutions. We paid a lot of money to draft this constitution we might as well test it to its limits. There is no sweeping issues under the carpet for the next generation like has been happening in the past.

  57. this is the first time in the history of zambia to be ruled by someone who has lost we will see how lungu s votes will b gigiven to hh

  58. PIPO OF ZAMBIA VOTED WITHOUT THE ARTICLE SHANI,PARAGRAPHY SHANI,FRIENDS TO THE SHANI AND NOW WHY SHOULD LAWYERS DECIDE FOR US?BA LAZ WHOSE FRIEND ARE YOU?SASHI SISTER TO MUTEMBO,KASONDE FORMER WORKER FOR MUTEMBO ALL OF YOU CARTELS,HONESTLY HOW COULD SOME ONE WIN WItH 40 MPs?does that make sense and those ballot papers have been tempered with either in favour of the petioners or otherwise cant you guys.umo mu court files get lost so what is going to make the ballot papers safe any way.Ngachashupa lets just go back and vote again otherwise to re-count the ballot papers will be very un fair.

  59. I don’t know why Zambians like beating about the bush.

    HH needs to tell his people to stop violence, that’s it.

    Do you need to even show that you are a doctor to communicate that msg.

    On Sunday before the final announcement of results, HH held a press conference at 23:00, and called on his supporters to ‘rise up and defend democracy’.

    HH said to his supporters saying, “we have come a long way, we can’t give up now”.

    HH said in that press briefing, ” Zambians you cannot remain docile, rise up and defend democracy”.

    HH said “Zambians, your docility will kill you”.

    Now, tell me. What rising up did HH call for? What docility was he refering to?

    Let us not shy away from issues, HH has a responsibility to reverse what he told his people. Does someone need to…

  60. You are adressing the wrong person. The violence is perpetuated by PF. All they are doing is failing to demonstrate national leadership and think they can profit from maligning HH and the people of southern Province. They have failed to manage the economy and hence the presence of IMF. Unemployment, poverty levels and debt, burden are quickly increasing. The nation is far much worse than it was in 2011 before PF came on the scene. Illegatlities, lawlessness and disregard to constitutionalism is the order of the day. Freedom of information has been trampled upon and hence closure of private responsible media houses. Shimwana enagnge the govt of the day limbi iwe kuti bakumfwa ala niba cumbu munshololwa! Ichalo calaonaika inga twabaleka fye.

    • My friend, what do you mean wrong person? May be this is why UPND has always lost. Leadership envolves accepting responsibility where necessary. UPND never accepts responsibility, that is why people can’t entrust you with responsibility.

      HH needs to tell his people to stop violence, that’s it.

      On Sunday before the final announcement of results, HH held a press conference at 23:00, and called on his supporters to ‘rise up and defend democracy’.

      HH said to his supporters , “we have come a long way, we can’t give up now”.

      HH said, ” Zambians you cannot remain docile, rise up and defend democracy”.

      HH told his people, “Zambians, your docility will kill you”.

      Now, tell me. What rising up did HH call for? What docility was he refering to?

      Let us not shy away from…

    • Let us not shy away from issues, HH has a responsibility to reverse what he told his people. Come on, for once, can we be objective.

    • In fact, when the lawyers who have taken HH and GBM to the hagge, say they have sufficient grounds to link him to what happened in southern province, do be amazed. Part of it is HH’s careless words that may have fueled up the situation in his stronghold.

    • Don’t be shocked if the Hagge tells HH that he ordered his supporters to carry out what they did.

      Calling people to rise is calling them to do anything, as that leaves it as an open cheque.

  61. ‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
    Leviticus 26:6?-?8 NIV

  62. I support HH because It’s better to follow some who is not using the church to deceive people when he is cause division on the other hand. PF didn’t win but used wicked ways to gain power.

  63. Still I’m not clear of this 50+1% of this total votes 3.781.505 what is lungu’s total votes is it still standing at 1.8 60.877 -8.000= 1.852.877 … please help me did figure change or every thing is still the same?

  64. Dr Tarcisius Mukuka you have spoken like a true human being who has empathy for others.. Please continue to advice these leaders to deal with their failures like grown up respected leaders, as opposed to throwing tantrums and applying self pity with a huge cocktail of victim mentality. Us Zambians need to get our GROUP-THINK and the POWER OF SUGGESTION IN CHECK.

  65. Dr Tarcisius Mukuka, you don’t even have a tonga middle name and you want to call yourself a tonga? HH will not accept you or your advice, forget about him the law will deal with him appropriately.
    As for this tonga thing, the genesis is the election of HH as leader of UPND, the insistance that only a tinga should be president of UPND. What people overlook is that HH has refused to clarify or deny that alk these yesrs, suggesting that he embraces it wholeheartedly. Actually he does not even hide when he is in a comfort zone, i.e. when he thinks that he is winning. Look at his last by election rally in Choma last year in January. Munkombwe repeated the tonga for president mantra and HH gives him a warm embrace and a standing ovation! Leave Lungu out of this, he has restrained his…

  66. Groupthink, a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis (1972), occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment” (p. 9). Groups affected by groupthink ignore alternatives and tend to take irrational actions that dehumanize other groups. A group is especially vulnerable to groupthink when its members are similar in background, when the group is insulated from outside opinions, and when there are no clear rules for decision making..

  67. All peace loving Zambians should stop responding to bad evil bloggers who support HH for their own evils and tribalism. They have forgotten that they are a lot of non tongas who voted for HH who are being beaten and insulted. Do you think they will ever support any tonga in future? Please, only uneducated and young people do not know that HH is part of masebos, VJs, Mumba, GBM who made Zambia poor by stealing and can not be caught because of the cartel they are in. Who finished Zed if Not HH? Please, do not let other good tongas be brushed where ever they are because of aka muntu fye kamo ka hh. We know you some of you bad tongas because we live with you. Your grudge is evil. Can not even understand why you mention HE ECL has if he is Bemba? What has a Bemba done to you?

  68. EVEN IF YOU TALK AND TALK AND TALK, UPND WILL NOT LISTEN. THE MATTER IS BEFORE THE CON-COURT AND LETS WAIT. LET UPND PROVE THAT THE VOTES WERE RIGGED. PERIOD. THEY HAVE ABOUT 8 DAYS REMAINING TO PROVE THIS. IF THEY FAIL, THEN THEY SHOULD NOT DENY THE 50% + 13,000 VOTERS THE CHANCE TO HAVE THEIR CHOICE LEADER IN STATE HOUSE. IF THE OPPOSITE HAPPENS THEN THE SAME SHOULD APPLY.

  69. I don’t agree with the ‘open’ letter… In what field is the writer a doctor? Not that it matters but he should have given his full background and not a half-baked one.

    What I don’t understand is why the majority of PF sympathisers are condemning UPND and it’s leaders for going to court and seek redress. Did they want them to pick up arms and go to the bush to wage a war? If anything they should be praised for taking a civilized route.

    They feel these elections were rigged and from a neutral vintage point, they may have a point. I think PF and Lungu are the ones who be addressed for the breakdown of law.

  70. Zambia Main Opposition Welcomes Calls for ICC Inquiry Into Post-election Violence. News VOA.
    Zambia’s main opposition party, the United Party for National Development (UPND), has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to send a team to the Southern African country to investigate ongoing post-election violence. The party took the action after UPND leaders, including presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema and his vice presidential candidate Geoffrey Mwamba, were accused of several human rights violations after the August 11 general election and referendum. The Zambian-based law firm Lewis Nathan Advocates contacted the office of the prosecutor at the ICC, accusing the two UPND leaders of failing to stop their supporters from attacking partisans of the ruling Patriotic Front…

  71. Watch out for Lazy Bum Edgar at a “Catholic” church near you tomorrow pretending to be humble, holy, God fearing..he even removes his Rolex watch just to perform this mesmerizing act every Sunday….the Lazy Bum was warned by wise men to thoroughly study the draft before signing it but the Chawama Lawyer chose to sign at Hero’s Stadium for Political mileage.
    Now the selfsame blind cadre who were celebrating are crying foe..this is the same way they will be crying when the IMF – SAP kicks in…

  72. UPND GOONS, BE FORTHCOMING WITH THE TRUTH- I CAN’T UNDERSTAND Uyu musakwa
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    Will losing HH be allowed to contest the forthcoming 2021 election?
    If not;
    1) isn’t it clear now? Isn’t it the reason he is holding the nation to ransom under normal reasoning?
    2) Trash the 47% attributed to him because under the problematic constitution and elections results at hand he did not achieve the 50% + 1. What cause then, is he fighting for?
    3) Don’t you think HH has run bankrupt and he is now looking for ways to recover his moneys considering the fact that he borrowed to much to fund his campaigns?
    If yes;
    Can he just succumb to the loss and try next time(2021)
    Did he think that he was going to win at all costs?
    UPND please keep beatable HH for the 2021…

  73. Divisions in Zambia were not started by HH. If your memory is not failing you, then you will remember how the PF leadership went on rampage calling the Tongas all sorts of names (kachema or Tongas must marry women and start multiplying so that in a hundred years they can have a president, let teach the Tongas, waki niwako). While this was going on Lungu stayed mute and offered no leadership and guidance. This is Lungu’s brand of politics. A good leader and unifier would called everyone to order and disciplined those found wanting. The selective use and application of government institutions to target and silence the opposition borders on persecution of a certain ethic group in the country. It is not HH doing all these things: Lungu is. So it is rather surprising when people start…

  74. Fake Dr Tarcisius Mukuka, muna punzila chanyi mwamene imwe. A doc aliye inzelu. What are the courts for? I dont think he knows.

  75. Tongas will never accept their shortfalls and get advised. Whereas people from other provinces have been brutalised and their properties destroyed in Southern Province, we have not heard of any Tonga losing property in PF strongholds. This picture explains it.

  76. It’s people like peace for Zambia who whether out of ignorance or something else who cause confusion by deliberately misleading people. When some one calls on people not to docile but rise up and defend democracy, it does not mean violence. It means people should at least people should speak out, use legal means to demonstrate,support legal actions and give moral support to those who fight against something which may be understand democratic.

  77. When are you writing another letter to ECL? Its like HH is the commander in chief of the armed forces hey, Tongas have told that they will never rule this country unless they bear Children and fill this country what sort of nonsense is that coming from Chama PF secretary General. We on the copperbelt associated with UPND have been beaten many times but nobody is willing to report about that, my family was scattered, my Children in riverside and my wife in Wusakile and I had no permanent residence as if I don’t own a house just because I belong to a party not in Government, guys let’s wake up and defend democracy. We have only this country to live in and by the way, we shall no go anywhere like the guy in diaspora trying to be armchair political analysts. Almost half of Zambia is for HH…

  78. Iam not an HH supporter but he is doing nothing wrong by chalenging the result. It is provided for in our cosntitution. Leave it to the courts the constitution provides to rule

  79. Leave Tongas alone. PF and ECZ you stole HH votes depriving innocent Zambians who voted for UPND. You may think you’re clever but stealing votes is a curse on your side. God cannot be mocked he will definitely punish you PF thugs. The Country doesn’t belong to you alone it is for all Zambians. Any tribe can rule and not only certain tribes are entitled for President. Mwilamona imitundu yaba nenu Kwati fipuba.

  80. The problem with you bloggers is that you want to be judges…..please wait for the ConCourt to settle the matter properly without prejudice…………..i promise you, this will be a good judgement ever from your loved Judges.

    In Mabumbu, Kobia, Nalisila, Kapulanga, Ni fa Simulilo, Opposite nifa Church ya Nzila bo Mutaipi, bo Mandalena,Namuyowa just below Mabumbu primary Schoool where my father come from, we agree that people have spoken, it is just ECL only fa Zambia! All the best

    From your friends in Livingstone 2016

    Viva ECL 2016

  81. It is quiet interesting for some blogger blogger from UPND camp to start accusing PF as the causer of Tribalism…how? very interesting. maybe am lost on this issue can some 1 explain to me how PF brought tribalism.
    Secondly, its very interesting to see how the Bemba are being victimized and beaten in southern province and yet, let me repeat and yet its not a Bemba in power or its vice president, now why of all the people Bemba’s are being targeted. These are the questions we are asking ourselves in the Bemba land. Its the daily rejections that Bembas face in the other parts of the country

    Thank you so much

    • Imagine even when they picked a Bemba as their vice president they still hobour so much hatred against Bembas. Meanwhile the Devil is enjoying this circus

  82. HH is just trying to correct the mess Edgar Lungu has brought to this great nation. ECL has abrogated the constitution ie by keeping ministers on govt payroll illegally when parliament was dissolved. This is pure public theft and Maxwell Mwale once lost his MP seat when PF came to power on the basis that he used govt resources and this is where we are now. Technically ECL must stand trial.

    • What mess has ECL brought to this country in the one year that he has been President? Some times let’s think before we parrot meaningless statements.

  83. To all UPND supporters I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news this election spelt the end of HH’s political career he is heading the same way as the. Mbala mafia.If you remember they came with a bang but sadly went with a whisper and not even their degrees could save them. The biggest problem was their tribal affiliations, selfishness’ arrogance and the know it all attitude (fwebasambilila) The I can fix it attitude I do not understand why people deceive others lets be honest with ourselves do we control our own economies to some extent yes and a greater part no because we do not price our own commodities if the price of copper drops on the international market that’s it not even. HH can fix it.We can diversify with agriculture but the infrastructure is weak it needs huge investments…

  84. Guys, Guys! HH is Arrogant, Selfish, Overrated and Mr. I can Fix it alone. Remember very well in 2010, MCS MHSRIP offered HH to be a PACT, What did he do? he over rated himself that he is popular and can`t be Vice President but President to MCS. Then the Pact failed. MCS won in 2011 and he became bitter- insulting MCS to the grave. If at all he accepted that Offer, this time would have been the President. But what has done? He has come to hate ECL for nothing but Selfishness, Greedy, Pompous, Arrogance etc thinking ECL cant rule but himself.

  85. you people, a looser is a looser with his supporters, ECL is a winner together with us! The likes in this report are adding up negatively for PF, what is the problem with you programmers?? ConCourt should through out the Petition so we go back to our usual business after Inauguration of ECL. Southerners stop what you are doing before we reciprocate?????

  86. please, tell me of anyone from UPND who is ready for free advice? UPND do not want to be corrected hence, they will continue losing. Now they are frustrated, building hate in their hearts as self defence,

  87. Unfortunate suggestion bamukuka wesu, are you a witch doctor or what doc?you must read the new constitution before you comend/coment on any issues regarding the 11/08/2016 elections results.zambia is bigger than what you thought and people deserve better crop of leaders to take forward.

  88. He is just another hired assassin. How do you expect HH to do that? He has followed the constitution by petitioning.
    They should just counsel Lungu to accept defeat. He is the one holding Zambia hostage.

  89. Mr.Mukuka you should go through the posts of HH on Facebook you will see the tens of goodwill messages he has been posting since the day they announced the final results,so whoever is committing violence in the name of HH doesn’t really represent the will of HH.Your suggestion that HH should give up the petition makes me wonder what you stand for because there is nothing wrong in that.HH strongly suspects that there was foul play in the election and as a law abiding citizen,he has decided to appeal his case through the legal channels.HH is standing and fighting for what great men through the ages have fought for,which is;justice.We cannot blame him for what the co-boys and the marketeers are doing.

  90. Who is this ka Dr Mukuka? Why do we have courts? All the PF cadres are lumpens wreaking havoc to freedom of belief and conscience. Please, let HH,he has fundamental right to go to any court if agrieved? Why are you all scared. Foolish kaponyas.

  91. This letter is very very fake.i t was not written by the indicated author but emanuel mwamba frnk bwalya and other pf cadres in Lusaka.hy do I say so.he has lied that a persons shop was ransacked in mazbka its a lie u can ask the police in mazbka. Pf thinks they can only survive on tribal division which is myopic.they have better points to propel their survival than tribal division

  92. UPND u lost t
    Because u don’t ask God seek God fest and ask him for u People so that one day u can be president fest did HH paying tithing and tow this time HH use alot of money to campeny it’s other way to return the money that he lob Zambia years ago HH repent and ask God to change u acts 2:38

  93. DR Mukuka plese know where to address your letter. How do you ask someone who has never, never incited his cadres to be violent yet you know that violence has mostly been perpetuated by leaders in PF. Can you tell mention to me any person or cadre who have been reported that they were killed by UPND cadres? Then be realistic and tell me those cadres of UPND who have been killed by PF then you sum it all by yourself.

  94. Kanshi abantu with Phd’s nabo fipuba sana ka. How one can sink so low just to kiss Lungu’s ass is in itself a cancer. Ba Mukuka mwafeluka apa pena…learned people like yourself should be championing democracy and not degrading it by covering up thieves like ECL and PF. I would have been pleased to read your open letter to HH if it were directed to PF and ECL but because you didn’t you have lost me my brother and I pity you for having wasted your precious time and effort to write such nonsense aimed only at diverting the attention from issues at hand. Let me state here that this is the 21st century and this will never be UNIP days again where the majority of our people are not free to air their views and to call a spade a spade where you see one. PF have themselves to blame for…

  95. That’s y u people from UPND u can never win Zambian election because u are full of insult ren to respect elders u don’t have respect every day insulting lungu ife masele do u think God is happy and u can’t win by force just wirt for your time and repent coz when u are insulting u are causing your self repent acts 2:38

  96. We patiently waited for August 11 ballot day to decide who could carry the day. The results came and we are still not happy. You pro HH’s ,you even argue when you play LOTO and results are not in your favour. Take LOTO company to CONCOURT for not winnining the game. Don’t you wait for another draw day to see your fortune?Don’t foot ball matches repeat events on return legs? Do we still blame our lecturers for failing to pass set exams? How many times does chrismas day repeat in 1 year? Why don’t you patiently wait for another 5 years and and vote even more than your did. Mind you,you are not the only voters and a vote is a secret personal agenda. Who knows, may be your vote is among the rejected ones and you are busy trying to attribute your failure to rigging. Just be wise and learn…

  97. HH is a hard working man all what he has is from the his harding working , HH can not not get rope and hang himself of Lungu and his thirves . It is you the citizen of zambia who will suffer after accepting lungu who has NOT vision to govern this nation. There is not measuring stick over any tribe in zambia. let us wait and see . each one for his life and his children .

  98. Good governance is the will of the people and that is HH as President. Serious citizens are going ahead with their lives unless you are waiting for an appointment from Lungu which will never come.

  99. How can HH just give up like that when we voted for him overwhelmingly and he won but ECZ and PF decided to rob him daylight of his victory. You must be one of those who rigged mambala. What is your fear when HH rules Zambia?

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