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Lusaka in sporadic fire outbreaks as PF blames UPND

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Aerial view of Kamwala Market on fire
Aerial view of Kamwala Market on fire

Lusaka City on Sunday experienced outbreaks of fire in two different locations in strange circumstances.

The first fire broke out at Chalimbana University in Chongwe where part of the university was razed to ashes.

The store room section where the school keeps items such as mattresses was burnt as well as some hostels.

The fire started around 15:30 and was spreading until 17:00 Hours when fire fighters managed to put  it out.

Another inferno happened around 19 Hours at Kamwala Market, one of the biggest trading areas of the capital city.

Shops mostly in an area called the Orange Shops were affected with goods worth millions of Kwacha destroyed.

Some youths took advantage of the fire outbreak to loot from the affected shops.

Fire fighters from the Zambia Air Force were called in to help quench the fire which they managed to do three hours later.

In both cases, the cause of the fire has not been established.

But the ruling PF through its Media Director Sunday Chanda was quick to blame the opposition UPND for the fire outbreaks in the city.

Mr Chanda alleged that “UPND MPs met and planned for violent protests over the arrest of their leader. This evening UPND has set some part of Kamwala market on fire,” he said.

Fire men trying to put out the fire
Fire men trying to put out the fire
Chalimbana University up in flames
Chalimbana University up in flames
Part of Kamwala Market on fire
Part of Kamwala Market on fire
People watch as Chalimbana University burns
People watch as Chalimbana University burns

102 COMMENTS

    • Lungu with the help of Kennedy Kamba and Kaiser are behind these fires.

      They have resorted to burning people s property to tunr people against UPND to strengthen their case of treason against HH because what they currently have can not stand a legal credibility.

      We know PF s desperation as the heat is being amplified on them.

      UPND are not dull to embark on such primitive ways of fighting the PF. If UPND wants to fight PF they use legal channels not thuggery.

      This is pure PF thuggery manifesting in form of fires. Look at the way PF robbed HH s house. These fires are just another way PF cadres have been told to make money because PF has no money to pay them. So they set fire and loot.

      So please leave UPND out of this.

    • This morning I woke up in a curfew;
      O God, I was a prisoner, too – yeah!
      Could not recognize the faces standing over me;
      They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality. Eh!
      (That’s why we gonna be)
      Burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight;
      (Say we gonna burn and loot)
      Burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight;
      (One more thing)
      Burnin’ all pollution tonight;
      (Oh, yeah, yeah)
      Burnin’ all illusion tonight.

    • Larry Mweetwa, the UPND cadre living in the UK as an economic refugee, has claimed in his whatsup posting that UPND is responsible for the arson attacks. It is about time government thought of de-registering UPND. What UPND does not seem to realise is that what they are doing goes to affect the most poor people trading in markets. One wonders how they can win support from them. Even the burning of part of Chalimbana University is a thoughtless act as there are more students from Southern Province at Chalimbana university.

    • Sunday Chanda, are you sure its UPND that has done that? The PF could as well have done it and shift the blame on UPND! After all, this is the game the PF has been playing – the blame game on the UPND. By the way, didn’t Mumbi Phiri accuse SOME PF members sympathizing with the arrested HH and she mentioned their names? What can stop them from committing that act? You cannot conclude without making a thorough investigation Chanda! You are being stupid and trivial but poking your dirty fingers into Police work Chanda. Leave it to your Police Forçe to investigate, fool!

    • Please get Sunday Chanda to help with investigations. He seem to know the people who did that. He doesn’t bring them forth, let’s burn him as away of ride dirty *****.

    • Guys prepare to hear an audio involving Amos, Kaiser and Kennedy Kamba advising Lungu on burn and loot strategy and then blame UPND to be published soon.

      What these guys don’t know is that some international embassies that want peace to prevail in Zambia are using soft power such as spying on the evil schemes of Lungu and his stooges against HH and UPND.They are listening to their conversation day in day out.

      If Lungu thinks he can intimidate the international community by talking tough against them then he has some nasties coming his way.

      Lungu should ask Kalaba why he is concerned and wants HH released urgently.

      Lungu and his stooges will soon seat on two hot stones if he does release HH on Tuesday.

      RELEASE HH NOW .

    • LUNGU HAS A TROUBLED CONSCIENCE UNLESS HE DOES NOT HAVE A HUMAN MIND. HE IS A HAUNTED MAN AND HE IS HAVING NIGHTMARES. HE IS A FRIGHTED COWARD AND A RISK TO NATIONAL SECURITY.

    • So LCC Fire Fighters fail to stop a fire in the market and call in ZAF Fire Fighters who leave the airbase or barracks unprotected….this is what I mean when I say there is a lack of priorities with this reckless govt who would rather spend $200m on useless Solar Hammer Mills instead of investing in front line services.

    • It’s PF causing these fires so that they can ban UPND & impose a state of emergency. Then there’ll be a curfew, detention of suspects without charging them, clampdown on media & then they can pass 3rd term/no limit for chakolwa.

      The HH incident was a set-up. Lungu was supposed to fly by chopper to Limulunga but chose to trap HH.

      This is another evil trap by chakolwa. Provocation, after provocation for bloodshed. It’s like a drunkard who keeps hitting you & provoking you into a fight just because he’s friends with the door bouncer.

      Larry Mweetwa pls come & use your marksmanship to insert brass between lungu’s eyes before innocent lives are lost.

    • THE POLICE SHOULD EXPECT SUCH INCIDENTS BUT SHOULD NOW BE MORE ALERT, STRATEGIC, PREVENTITIVE RATHER THAN REACTIVE IN THEIR POLICING. TO HELP THE POLICE ACHIEVE LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES THE COURTS MUST BE SWIFT AND STERN IN HANDLING ARSONISTS AND OTHER POLITICALLY MOTIVATED CRIMINAL DAMAGES AND SABOTAGE. YOU MUST BE AWARE THAT HH AND UPND HAVE EATEN HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM CAPITALIST FINANCIERS WHOM HE WANTS TO SALE THE COUNTRY TO IF ELECTED PRESIDENT. THE FINANCIERS ARE NOW WONDERING WHEN OR IF EVER HH WILL BECOME PRESIDENT TO REPAY THEM IN TERMS OF MORE PRIVATISATION TO THEIR ADVANTAGE.

    • Why do poor uneducated sods resort to property damage?

      Answer – They have nothing to lose. Poverty is a sin!

    • REAL REASON WHY LUNGU WANTS TO KILL HH:

      HH is an experienced Auditor who worked for Cooper & Lybrands.

      HH will track Lungu’s every ill-gotten kwach, dollar & property in Lusaka, Virgin Islands, China, Dubai, Mauritius, Singapore, RSA.

    • WATCH GBM! HE IS A RECKLESS FAT FREAK
      =========================
      Don’t waste you time police, watch GBM. The kid is not only a reckless wreck, he is highly unstable too. No doubt, UPND is behind the suspicious fires.
      Police should step up patrols and arrest any suspicious UPND goons!

    • Will Lungu have enough prisons for half of Zambia that support UPND? That’s why PF is planning genocide. That’s why Lungu wants to leave the ICC jurisdiction.

  1. Sunday Chanda,there are people who are old enough to remember UNIP days and tactics.UPND has no capacity as they are watched day and night. You yourself are putting the house on fire by inflammatory statements and lies. UPND has protested yes but can’t do this. HE HSS been threatening UPND ,everyone is threatening UPND these were UNIP methods before declaring state of emergency. NO PROOF but inflammatory statements. Let’s strive for peace. Zambia belongs to everyone no one wants Zambia destroyed.

  2. Chanda ifiwulechitaaaa! wuleke. What if something else started the 2 fires are you gonna retract your words? are you gonna apologize for accusing opposition? I know you want to find a way of imprisoning opposition, but remember all powers belong to God. If you do bad just know your time will come, either on earth or in hell. What does it profit you to gain and control Zambia but loose your soul?

    • Typical of PF goons. Without investigations, Stunted Chanda is already pointing at UPND. The UPND MPs have the right to meet among themselves. They cannot be intimidated. And they have clarified the sequence of events in Mongu and how the treason charges are false and trumped up. PF is now afraid of their own evil shadows.

    • LUNGU can put a stop to this RIGHT NOW!

      He must immediately suspend all those involved in trashing and looting HHs house, and convene an investigation into the events of that night.

      Failure to do so will imply that he was complicit and condoned these barbaric actions.

      Has he got enough brains to do this?

  3. Just lock up there leaders for good coz giving in to there silly demands will bring problems to this country .
    Will surely get one or two persons behind this fire outbreaks and the law will carry it’s day .
    We have 5 years as mandated by Constitution and another 5years after 2021 so let them behave foolish but will catch them one day . Will lock you up if you found wanting but if you innocent you won’t

  4. Sue him for defamation so that he proves his allegations. These are tactics that brutal regimes do. I think its PF doing it so that they blame on UPND.

  5. Good,
    Let the war begin.
    Ndola, Kitwe and Chingola next.
    Make the ONCE-PEACEFUL nation, ungovernable.
    In the mean time, KK and RB remain quiet!

    • That will prove the false assumption PF have that they can rule Zambia by intimidating and killing the opposition. Wars these days are not fought by conventional means. Suicide bombers, assassination squads, saboteurs, IEDs etc can cause more harm than machine guns that the PF Police are running around with. Ask the Americans and their failure to defeat the Taliban and Islamic State. Or their “Blackhawk Down” disaster in Somali. PF should not start a war they will never win. Zambia can be finished as a country and would end up like Syria.

  6. There is nothing making sense in this country any more. Neither the ruling nor the opposition parties are making sense any more. A nation full of confusion.

    • Not making sense,one doesn’t know what to say,for all over 60 its the 1970’s replayed.Omela Mawa a popular band in 70’s was petrol bombed and opposition UPP members arrested and detained under state of emergency that existed for a generation. All were later acquitted. Emotions are being whipped to wipe out a perceived enemy,many are playing into it knowingly some unknowingly, that’s what is happening. UPND MP’s are alleged to have held a phantom meeting to destabilize Zambia. They can’t do that,they are not morons.

    • The meeting is not a phantom. It’s intentionally misinterpreted. WP MPs met to explain what happened in Mongu. They concluded that the PF Police incompetence cannot be blamed on HH for him to be granted with trumped up charges of treason. Lungu and PF want UPND to stop thinking about the mess PF is desperately trying to entangle them in. However, the cultures where UPND is strong are cultures steeped in order and discipline. They will not fall into chaos and despair.

  7. All their tails will be clipped wait and see and calm will come to Zambia sooner than later. The majority of Zambians are peace loving. Only a few demagogues are causing this mayhem. They will soon learn the hard way watch my words.

    • Nothing of that sort will happen. Zambians are not docile. They are peaceful but not sttupid. PF cannot rule by intimidation and killing (Mapenzi, Choongwa) the opposition. During PF’s rule, Zambia suddenly has political prisoners (Barotseland activists). Zambians with a different opinion have to run and hide (Mmembe, Saviour Chishimba) or are imprisoned without appearing in court (HH, Mwaliteta, Tayali and many more). PF cannot be allowed to get away with this behaviour.

  8. The history of this nation is clear, Mushala tried this for a few years but what was his end? HH talked of Armageddon in his dreams only. He does not know the depth of Zambian peace. This six times loser thinks he can galvanize our country into violence? NEVER. all those thugs he has organised will fall at the hands of God. Satanic forces cannot be everywhere never.

    • Times have moved on. Mushala kept Unip occupied for a long time. But modern times do not need a conventional civil war. Arabs have shown that war has to be taken to the enemy. If Zambia shall have a civil war, it will not be fought in the bushes but in Lusaka, Copperbelt and towns where PF operates from. There’s nothing more devastating than not knowing where the next bomb or bullet will come from.

    • Mr fake banda you come and fight the war but I am sure you are one of those cowards hiding behind the key boards

  9. Hope these are accidents and not sabotage. How can one destroy the same infrastructure that you promise to improve once in power. Hope Chanda is only hallucinating.

  10. This why Mothers you should not name your children Sunday. This chap’s name should Saturday or confusion. Can he prove UPND did this (video footage and that the person is a UPND member). Why accuse the MPs? These failures and their Lungu have seen that their arrest of an innocent man has back fired. Anyhow, Sunday keep yourself well. You will also face jail when your illegitimate president leaves office.

  11. UPND must sue this chap. People need to become more responsible for their utterances. This is a sensitive period & he is inflating tempers! Loose cannons must be caged.

    • Problem in Zambia, people just spit out whatever comes in their minds… words don’t mean anything in that country, people can accuse, insult, lie with impunity and no one would make them accountable which is a shocker.

      You know all this docile and timid behaviour will one day come to an end and so called ‘peace’ will turn to uncontrollable entropy and chaos. I reckon the Tongas, Lozis and Luvales and Kaondes, they are just kept in check by their wise elders but once these elders say enough is enough and tell their youths to go out on the street and protest, there will be real fire. This Lungu must not start something he wouldn’t be able to stop, all because of his uncontrollable appetite for power.

  12. Thats why i hate UNPD regional and tribal party. Its such a violent party. Even the color red, itself speaks volume that its a devils party. Come 2021 ni ba Lungu chabe. Let their violent and arrogant leader remain in jail until 2022

  13. Whatever you and yo god can do it’s too late yo boss will be convicted no chance in 2021.stop mischief there you might not see dundumwezi again

  14. @18.1 Jake Bunda, if HH is jailed for 27 years, he would be dead within three months, we can’t even dream of him ruling Zambia can we?
    Look here you donkeys, please do not demean the revered Mandela, it’s an insult to compare the great man with your little poodle. Mandela fought apartheid and the white oppressor, he did not burn his people’s markets or universities, which white oppressor goes to Chalimbana university or sells in Kampala market? Such acts will only ensure that HH remains behind bars, to be joined by GBM and their MPS…….kikikikiki….ati fighting for freedom, trying to destroy your own country all because you cannot be president of Zambia?

  15. Sunday (aka Saturday due to his evil behaviour). Please tell your illegitimate president that his actions of sending thugs and criminals to HH’s will not prove that he won and is the legimate president. Only through an impartial hearing and law. Using force to gain recognition is not the right thing to do. Everyone saw and knows those elections were rigged. This is not about HH but the truth. Let Lungu face the truth and tell the Zambian people

  16. The police should pick Sunday Chanda. He has alarmed the nation enough and he can cause a genocide. Kapyongo is a wrong minister of home affairs. Dr Malama can do better. Put a mature person Mr. President.

    • Yep good point… if such utterances and unsubstantiated allegations came from an opposition party member, they would be in jail by now for ‘alarming the country’… this is how unfair the so called ‘law’ is applied in Zambia. The whole thing is a mockery.

  17. Sunday Chande is going the way of Chanda Chimbwi! LT this is not news and amounts to irresponsible reporting. Stop fueling the fires and make a difference for peace! Know that you are safe behind social media for now but when the sh!t hits he ceiling fan, we are all in sh!t.

  18. We should all be responsible and help heal our nation. I will always stand on the side of the truth. My introspection as a PF member tells me the way we picked Hichilema from his home to the Police station was inappropriate, despite the suspected gravity of the offence. It is the courts to decide the punishment not Police. We should treat one another with respect, if we are in church every Sunday then we should know that two wrongs don’t commit a right. This President we have also, he can’t continue saying I won’t interfere with Police and Judiciary, if he sees excesses, like the way the Police behaved, he is supposed to intervene, giving lame weak excuses does not help. PF for life

    • That’s true dear respect is really needed in every human kind, that was so embarrassing the way the police behaved breaking someones house

  19. Govnt must not treat upnd and hh with kid gloves.these people lead a terror group as they have vowed never to rest until a tonga (hh) becomes president by all means!!let ZP and Zambia Army increase patrols on our streets across Zambia and tell them to kill (not arrest) any enemy.hh predicted war in Zambia if upnd lost 2016 elections.this is what upnd is doing now.i keep on reminding you people that in western world hh could have been cleared because its better to get rid of one or a few dangerous persons than risk the security of the whole nation!!PLEASE GOVNT GET SOME DEFENCE EXPERTS FROM RUSSIA TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY!!WE NEED PEACE IN ZAMBIA!!

    • Such hatred is uncalled for.Government of Zambia jailing opponents on trumped up charges has happened before with same results before the courts.Chiluba later to become president was detained. Nkumbula was mistreated accounts frozen. Kaunda lived to reap with detention on Christmas day and declared stateless.HH lost by the narrowest of margins by official counts…not all Zambians hate him .I never voted for him but injustice and brutality is wrong and unlawful, prove the claims..

  20. Zambia is a failed state and it does not come as a surprise when you have a stubborn illegal president. Where are the law enforcement agencies responsible for carrying out investigation into such occurrences. They are ndweeeee quiet because they are waiting to be told who who to blame for this by the dictator lungu. Now we have thugs like this monkeys munyel0 Sunday chanda giving statements on issues they have no clue about. Accept you have failed to govern

  21. Fire knows no Political affiliation. When it rages, it won’t choose which political party you belong to. Its absurd for anyone to burn shop or market to punish political opponents because the markets are occupied by people from different political backgrounds. These fires are merely due to negligence of marketeers/traders themselves and poor planning.

  22. Terrible you obviously old enough to remember the days of mandela so ypu must remember the aberration of the era introduced by the egoist KK. .The silence of the old man shows tacit approval of what is happenning in zambia now.
    This is the last stand of an aged former president who didnt achieve the power over zambia that his fellow freedom fighter MUGABE did over the failed statevof zimbabwe.
    If KK really cared for his beloved zambia he wou.d nlw be calling for calm. But no not this frustrated old politician, all he wants to see is HIS dream of a one party state to continue and bring zambia to its knees. Old pipo lose logic.
    Do want our children grandchildren to suffer like those in Zim because of pipos egos. Solid economics us the snswer
    KK speak if you can.Am not direspectful…

  23. This is most unfortunate especially if these fires were willfully caused. The trader in Kamwala has Capital in flames. The investment in the Unversity is in ashes. We only have one Zambia to live in. Let’s protect this country. If it comes to saving preservation of the nolmacy of the peoples, all options including curfew and state of emergency should be considered. Zambia is greater than each one of us.

  24. Burn Lungu, Burn! The Lungu thug MUST BURN!! We have nothing to lose, Lungu has already trashed our country. We burn it down, and start afresh with LUNGU burnt to ashes with his despots!

    • Hatred breeds death, no,let the President reconsider the direction of the country.As articulated before unjust actions reap unjust actions years later.The onslaught to vilify UPND have it banned may succeed BUT without doubt will bring negative results years later for President Lungu just from the law “You shall reap what you sow”

  25. Phase one has already been established by Pf strategic team for anarchy by the incarceration of HH and phase two is too solidify the blame game and start random fires and blame the opposition to justify the State of Emergency. This is written all over. And the twat from Glasgow keeps puking nonsense as usual.

  26. Phase one has already been established by Pf strategic team for anarchy by the incarceration of HH and phase two is to solidify the blame game and start random fires and blame the opposition to justify the State of Emergency. This is written all over. And the twat from Glasgow keeps puking nonsense as usual.

  27. It’s the only solution for Zambia.
    We need to start from scratch.
    We will value development more.
    We will rebuild with our own hands.
    We can take pride in our achievements.

  28. LT Why are you not reporting the latest news. I just read that ……

    “Lungu’s Driver Could Have Been Deliberately Killed In The Presidential Motorcade Accident For Refusing To Be State Witness”

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    Sergeant Mulenga, the cop who has been killed in Edgar Lungu’s motorcade is the cop who was driving Lungu’s vehicle in Mongu, security sources have revealed.

    As you can see from the photo that’s the same presidential controversial vehicle Lungu was using in Mongu during the Kuomboka ceremony incident that has seen the UPND President Hakainde Hichilema charged with treason which carries a death sentence.

    Central Province police commissioner Lombe Kamukoshi revealed that Mulenga died in fatal road accident involving the presidential convoy while several of the…

    • Yes there has been incidents the presidential motorcade has been involved in some accident but that normally involved them bashing and killing pedestrians.

      Kamukoshi said the fatal accident occurred about 145 kilometres from Mpika in the direction of Serenje.

      Kamukoshi said the car overturned due to a tyre burst.

      But parallel information received show that Mulenga could have been deliberately killed as he was refusing to be a statement witness in the case involving the UPND President Hakainde Hichilema’s treason case.

      ‘Where have you ever heard of a tyre burst in the presidential motorcade?’ asked a senior police officer. “Tyres are tyres and can burst but not anyhow and not so easily on the presidential motorcade because they are properly checked each time before raving off,’…

  29. THEY TRIED THESE TACTICS EVEN WHEN THEY LOST THE ELECTIONS. IT WONT AMOUNT TO ANYTHING. ITS JUST A MATTER OF TIME. THEY ALSO TRIED TALKING ABOUT GOING TO ICC. UP TO NOW THEY THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING. THE ONLY RESOLUTION IS TO START SOME FIRES HERE AND THERE. BUT NO SYMPATHY FROM ZAMBIANS AND FROM 6.5 PROVINCE. KIKIKIKKI…. SOON THE POLICE WILL MAKE THE ARRESTS.

  30. Such incidents only remind Zambians of the infamous ZERO OPTION,a scheme which was fully state-sponsored. HH is being held at Lilayi,and how does it benefit his party, to burn colleges and markets,miles away?I think it’s everyone’s guess as to who is really behind this.

  31. This is very serious every human kind in Zambia is corrupted with politics, we can’t think positively apart from involving politics.

  32. People must know that war has no winners, and the victims end up usurping power! We have eyes but we cannot see…some of us who have been through civil wars know that war is the worst that can happen to a human being because right now few people are enjoying themselves and see others as animals because of race.

  33. These are drone missiles from trump in an attempt to rescue hh…chalimbana was mistaken for lilayi and the market for the cells….so next we expect a visit by medical doctors to see how teargassed hh is doing

  34. If you can’t win an election, just force them by violence. Deregister UPND, it’s not the only opposition party in Zambia. They are too big for their boots. They have no love for Zambia and Zambians, just open wide greed.

    We will not fear nor cower under our beds in the face of these provocations.

  35. This is the problem when the country is driven by cadres. A non-issue on the voices of illiterates becomes treason & incompetent & dull Kanganja acts on their voices. Now their fires at a market & a university, before an investigation is done, an illiterate issues an unfounded opinion, ati arson, I don’t need to guess what Kanganja will do. Eish I think this country is beyond mediocrity.

  36. Pro. Nkandu Luo ably put it yesterday at a book fair and she said, “this country is full of illiterates and if this was where they play music and alcohol it would have been packed. That’s why this country will never develop with these illiterates.” These are the words of Professor and clearly points to such. May be that’s why her appointment took long to materialise. She could one of the few odd-ones out.

  37. Investigative wings have moved flat out on the ground and I assure you it will only take a few days and the perpetrators of these diabolical activities shall be brought to book.

  38. Lungu the Satan and Wina the witch are hand in hand in ceating this serious trouble in the country. There are more to come, because:
    1) Zambia has a huge external debt
    2) Copper industry is not doing well and Zambia does not have anything significant else to export other than copper.
    3) Foreign currency reserve is low since the PF has looted the exchequer to fill up their own pockets and in this Lungu and Wina are the biggest thieves.

    So, they have to divert the attention of the country to something else. Hence they enacted this drama of treason by HH and now this fire in the city.

    When would we Zambian know how to differentiate between a Satan and a Witch and few good men who want to develop Zambia into a strong country? But again, there are no any more good leaders are left…

    • No matter how aggrieved one is insults don’t help matters.That makes the situation worse for HH and UPND members. The way to go is to remind those in power that we’ve been this way before in KK’s time and the ending wasn’t good. Kaunda having mistreated Kapwepwe many times Kapwepwe survived a beating at Luburma Market from UNIP cadres(his specs were broken)He Kaunda was arrested on Christmas day 11 years after Kapwepwe’s premature death in 1980.He was later declared stateless by a country he was born in and held the highest office. Don’t insult allow the laws of the universe to run “You shall reap what you sow”.

  39. Lungu is behaving this way because he knows he wont be there 10 years from now. HE WILL BE DEAD BY THEN, HIS AIDS WILL HAVE CLAIMED HIM!

  40. Sad indeed…Now they are blaming UPND, and yet these places have pf flags…Someone not doing thier job again

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