Lusaka Civil Rights activist Brebner Changala has said that Zambia Police has no right to be asking citizens to obtain Police Permits for whatever activity they hold as the action was not supported by any law.
Speaking in an interview, Mr. Changala said that Zambia Police was only supposed to be notified 7 days before an event and “that was settled in Christine Mulundika and others versus the Attorney General.”
Mr Changala who accused Zambia Police of abusing the people of Zambia challenged the Inspector General of Police, Kakoma Kanganja, to say very clearly whether or not Zambians needed a police permit in to congregate, associate and celebrate whatever achievements in their lives.
“The people of Zambia are being abused by the police under the command of Mr. Kanganja. It is now an acceptable norm that for people to assemble and associate to communicate, they need a police permit,” he noted.
“The opposition has failed to assemble, associate and communicate to their followers because of this issue of a police permit requirement. But there is nowhere in the Constitution where anybody needs a police permit to assemble and associate. This is clearly an abuse of political power by the PF and it has been tolerated because nobody interrogated this, including the media.”
“If there is no provision in the law, Kanganja must be held to account in his personal capacity,” he said.
“It is high time we started prosecuting public officers without any loss of money on the public treasury because of their conduct borders on criminality. When they take up office, they swear to uphold and protect the Constitution. But this is the very Constitution that they have risen against and they are abusing the people of Zambia in their docility. So, I ask the media to speak to the government, through the Attorney General and the chief government spokesperson to get their position on the matter of this police permit.”
Changala regretted that Zambia was sliding into a dictatorship with citizens’ eyes wide open.
“The country is becoming a police state,” he noted.
“We want to know the position of the government on the issue of the police permit and where the term of permits came from. Who gave the police powers to issue police permits?”
So when Government says, let’s review the Constitution via an NDF quacks go, quack, quack, quack with little understanding of what it entails. Because double h says it doesn’t favour him and it favours ECL, all, especially UPNDEAD misleaders become whitewashed and blind to the obvious.
See how ignorant the writer is about police permits.
Read the POA kid. You are laboring with the write up in the POA.
For your own information even Church overnight prayers are subject to the POA clause 7. Police needs to know what you’re up to. Or what is going down. So the POA gave police powers to allow or disallow meetings, assembly and or processions.
Get your facts straight.
Indeed Mr. Kanganja’s ZP is abusing the constitution. But they are under duress. They fear for their jobs. That does not exonerate their cowardly behavior though.
We need people who are courageous enough to say “no” to what is wrong. Instead we have people who will sell their children’s future for a morsel of bread!
They are given a position in foreign service and they become little trumpets of defending what is clearly wrong! Anyway, our country is full of unprincipled, greedy, corrupt people. The leadership is just a reflection of the society.
@Journeyman-you are still trying to finish your bestseller with kainde… Kwekwekwekwekwe… Ati the are under duress…. Kwekwekwekwekwe..
@Journeyman
That’s a typical example of the quacking alluded to.
Misleaders. Fake information proponents. You and Changala gotta be reading. Arguing from an ignorant stand point is extremely dangerous.
@Zambian Citizen,
Nah mate am not a fan of HH. just an objective mind. I call it as I see it. Not really interested in low IQ squabbles so I will leave it there. I usually dont respond to petty comments, but I previously thought I could have meaningful convo with you, but clearly we operate at a different level.
@Thorn in the flesh…Yawn…. You bore me mate.. Just enjoy the petty crumbs you are enjoying from corruption. You may gain a few houses and a few cars from it, but I have my integrity which is worth its price in gold. Lets talk again in 10, 20 years time and see how it goes with you.
Stick to your lane mate and I’ll stick to mine. Not interested in soiling my hands by squabbling with cadres. Unlike you, I dont survive of being a cadre.
@Journeyman-low level alarmist statements sound like jokes. Just as Thorn put it, even church overnights require police notifications, how can upnd (with a full horde of violent cadres) assemblies go without ZP notice??
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But that was the purpose of the NDF. Making statements in the media will not help matters. These civic leaders need to understand that they will never have powers to change Zambian laws-that is the exclusive right of our legislators and Parliament.
That’s why we say the Supreme leader HH of the UPND who has hidden the privatisation loot in the paradise papers because of his greedy and bitterness has managed to put his supporters into group think mentality because they don’t and cannot think independently and stopped them from attending the NDF where the said amendment Bill was discussed… So continue barking as usual…
NDF will Never work becoz it was forced. U don’t force People to Dialogue. That’s why NDF Resolutions are not supported by Opposition Parties, Churches, NGOs and most Zambians who believe in Constitutional Democracy. Bill 10 is designed to mutilate the Current Zambian Constitution and transforming Zambia into a PF Dictatorship. They want to Rig 2021 Election thru a Rigged Constitution. The idea is to turn Zambia into a Police State and a One Man One Party Dictatorship. Without Bill 10 Lungu and PF know that they can’t win a Popular Vote in 2021. That is why Lungu and PF are desperate to have Bill 10 passed into Law.# Stop Bill No.10 at all costs.
“… Opposition Parties, Churches, NGOs…” opposition parties only account for 51 mps out of a 160 member Parliament. Churches and NGOs have absolutely No power to stop bill no. 10 and no business in parliament. Changala is just barking to please his funders, otherwise Bill no. 10 is at committee stage and is going to first reading. Don’t cry after 2021…
Blatant ignorant and misinformed quack. Quacking as usual with an original stance from a skewed upnded stand point.
Progressive Zambians who attended the NDF will shame you devils.
The POA did not start with PF, the Police did not start with PF.
I sense and take it that the police is being very efficient and effective.
I love the POA in it’s current state; I have alway said this.
Thanks Brebner Changala na Mwele for reminding us about that grand judgement
Someone is traveling aimlessly like a stray dog and cretins are busy clapping and praising the quack. Docility is a contagious disease indeed. Meanwhile it’s 8hrs of load shading. Kikikikiki. Muleelapila bamakaka
It’s amazing to know that some PF Cadres don’t know that for Bill 10 to be passed into Law in Parliament u need a 2/3 Majority Vote. PF doesn’t have a 2/3 Majority in Parliament so they need at least 3 UPND MPs to vote for the Bill. PF and it’s Cadre Matibini are trying some Mafia tricks on how to steal a 2/3 Majority Vote for the Bill to be passed into Law. The problem for PF is that the Vote is done by Secret Ballot and so PF run a danger that some Progressive PF MPs might vote against Bill 10. When Lungu and PF were not sure that Lungu would survive Impeachment they parked the Bill in Court. To make matters worse for PF B4 the Vote is done in Parliament they have to fight Petitions over Bill 10 In Concourt. The Constitutionality of Bill 10 is in doubt. That is why they are so far…
You are right man, where have you been all this time. We need ama tompwe like you
Democracy is a very funny thing. In the USA, you let any jim and jack to be free to have a fire arm in the name of fredom of whatever you call it. Guess how many mass shootings in public places have happened in the last 10 years. inocent people dead.
There just has to be order in the country. Whenever you as a public figure, but not in direct governance, you just need to inform the police Imagine some thugs ambush you from nowhere and lives are lost, who would you blame?
So sometimes its not just talking for the sake of it. Put just a litle thought b4
Another Kaboyi awe mwe takwaba
Ba Changala be serious are you sure there is no such a law which quads the POA?
1.4 journeyman, brilliant response bro. I loved it. Really cool. I agree with you 100%.
That is why we need to go through and the laws of Zambia.When you are holding a any function be it church overnight,weddings that are conducted at night any gathering you need a permit.Its a pit that some people are ignorant on this matter or is it they are just pretending inoder to be heard.No No be serious you people,this is the only Zambia we have don’t cheated iweeeee changala kuli ba change.
Ladies and gentlemen, a police permit is inevitable where assemblies of people are likely
This is a common sense matter.. Such gathering have potential of unruly behaviors:fighting,provacations,theft and other forms of public misconduct.
The police need to be notified and permission granted to enable them to be vigilant of any potential crimes and vices
I do not see where the commander is going wrong with PF or any other political party in government They need to maintain peace in communities.
There is a difference between permit and notification.The Christine mulundika case settles it all.