The government has handed over various modern anti-riot equipment to the Zambia Police Service in order to allow officers to deal with any situation to maintain law and order.
Speaking at the Handover ceremony held at Lilayi Police Training College, Home Affairs Minister Hon Stephen Kampyongo said that only criminal-minded elements should be worried that the government has procured such equipment adding that this should instead make peace-loving Zambians happy.
“We will not be derailed by armchair critics who are hell-bent on condemning every piece of development that President Edgar Chagwa Lungu and his Government initiates in National interest because for us as Home Affairs the Peace and security of this nation is supreme” Hon Kampyongo said.
Hon Kampyongo said that Government will continue to equip and modernize the police service to capacitate them enough to deal with any situation in a quest to preserve peace and security.
The new equipment handed over includes armoured and horse carrier vehicles, water cannons, ambulances, crime scene investigation vehicles, dog carrier, recovery motor vehicles and other assorted specialised equipment.
And on his part Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja has thanked Government and President Edgar Lungu for their continued support to the police service.
Mr Kanganja pledged to reciprocate the government’s commitment by ensuring that law and order prevail during and after the 2021 Presidential and general elections.
These equipments will be used against PF in 2021. That is wonderful thing to do Kampyongo.
PF must go!
Totalitarianism being established brick by brick.
Hey I am worried already why did he say that only criminal-minded elements should be worried that the government has procured such equipment adding that this should instead make peace-loving Zambians happy. These are instruments of oppression and nothing else. He has already said it himself. For these guys its to continue ruling whether Zambians like it or not. So where is that democracy we all fought for????
Disaster!!!
Spending covid money on arming the police force to act against citizens who vote for opposition in 2021 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a sad day.
equipment for police that should be protecting citizens to use against the people of Zambia to ensure elections are won. This is a sad day indeed.
Is this where donors Covid money has gone ?
(HH) should have supported 30 days petition period. He still wants 14 days, failing to support Bill 10.
GOOD PURCHASES FOR THE POLICE. ALLA THOSE WHO CLAIM THE VOTE HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM THEM WITHOUT PROVIDING EVIDENCE SHOULD BE WORRIED. ZAMBIANS ARE PEACE LOVING PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND DEMOCRACY BUT A FEW RIFRAF WHO DO NOT SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO THE FRONT SHOULD BE WORRIED. THE 2021 ELECTION WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST FREE LIKE THE 1991 ELECTION. IF YOU LOSE, JUST KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE DON’T WAMT YOU
Oh so the equipment is for next year’s elections? Some parties know that they cannot win an election without rigging. So this equipment is intended to deal with protesters after possible rigging
They have ordered these equipment in the midst of poverty, non payment of pensions and other emoluments to deserving civil servants all to target the people they will be asking for votes from.
Apartheid South African police equipment. The Edgar Lungu regime is now readying itself to kill Zambians. Since when have there been riots in Zambia that warrant this? Are Edgar Lungu and his minions REAL Zambians? These are signs of a person who has no real relations with the Zambian people and does not care what happens to them.
This militarisation of the police force in Zambia will only come back to bite Chagwa in the backside where it stinks and never shines. The Governor of BOZ says economic indicators are looking very gloomy and yet this follish ***** thinks its the most ideal time to purchase such expensive equipment for a wholly politisised police force, what mahher of stinking excrement is this really!
What makes sad reading is that these equipment are purchased and not manufactured in Zambia. Imagine we had the capacity and capability of producing these equipment how much would have been served? Anyway this is a good gesture but mother Zambia u can do well. Lets invest heavily in research and innovation ? ?
Minister Kampyonyo and Kanganyo will remember the day these tanks stand on Independence Avenue opposite Embassy Square Graveyard firing rounds of shots at their respective offices and up their stinking backsides. They will remember how on March 2, 2009 gallant soldiers of Guinea Bissau cornered President João Bernardo “Nino” Vieira and decapitated him without hesitation for the same foolishness Lungu is dishing out on Zambians, kukaba ukunya!
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They are preparing for war against their own hapless citizens. In the meantime the white collar criminals are getting away with loot state coffers and shady deals including this one. No proper democracy should be investing in such weapons of war against its own people.
If the majority of policemen and soldiers are happy with your regime, rejoice! If on the other hand they are not happy, you will regret you procured them.
Good leadership prevents protests not riot vehicles. Only a cornered rat would waste tax payers money on protecting himself instead of using money to develop schools & hospitals. 2021 is around the corner.
I just read that the ECZ has not received the funding needed for the voter registration scheduled 19 October to 20 November 2020. Meanwhile the PF government uses money to buy anti-riot equipment to suppress freedom of expression from people. This shows where the priorities of this PF regime are!!
Wht sort of retirement packages do police officers get?
If at every turn you run to the roads to cause havoc, then you need to worry. Otherwise why worry. The young Zambian generation has taken the Police for granted. It is time the Police showed their teeth. Use that equipment without fear or favor – that is all that us peace loving Zambians demand.
So PF, on what day will riot start?
Ngoma everything is budgeted for. Our security is more important than an election. If anything no one said ecz won’t receive the shortfall. 2021 is next year.
Hon.Kampyongo.The police equipment you displaying are not meant to fight criminals and protesters in a democratic country like ours are never criminals.It is actually state terrorism to try to induce fear in the minds of your own people by parading armored vehicles with mounted heavy machine guns
There are many within your police rank and file in the picture who strongly disapproved with what you said.
WHY WHY WHY???!!!
When people are hungry this is your priority!
You have no shame displaying junk as modern anti rioting equipment. Instead of investing in training the police force bottom up on how to be professional, you decide to loot someone else’s rubbish and think that the Zambian people will sing and dance? If you paid much attention to the economy of Zambia, we would have been exporting much superior equipment to some of our neighbors who enjoy fighting. Our equipment would be full of food and love not to hate. The behavior or our government truly reflects the caliber of ministers we have in our country. If this is a joint effort of the cabinet then we have no hope. Now, wait and see how the untrained Police officers make a f00l of themselves. We have already seen how the firefighters embarrass themselves with the so-called million-dollar…
Bring some more so that criminals of democracy are dealt with, they have machetes but reciprocate with some more modern equipment so as to arrest these mangwamus,infact you would have just kept them without showcasing just to bring them during elections in 2021. well done PF we need peace and not disorder viva ECL.
viva PF viva ECL
Congratulations Govt for equipping the police with latest equipment. There is too much indiscipline in Zambia today. Forget these useless opposition voices. They complain over everything including purchase of ambulances
Yes this is important, but is it a priority for now?
its a pity that under this current regime there are criminal voters who are expected to bring troubles by expressing their democratic rights . sorry to wonder about this, may the lord who never slumbers ariase and protect the people of the land. we can see blood of the inoncent people flowing on the ground
Police is scared of PF cadres so you know who is targeted. We pray for God’s intervention by any means. Please God help us against these People.
In Jesus name Amen.
38 views 27 comments so far… so whatever we discuss here including lunacy related and insults dont have an impact. So you guys can both UPND and PF lunatics can insult each other as much as you like….= NO IMPACT. Its normal to EQUIP the POLICE. As long as the Police is not used to abuse citizens. Citizens have the capacity to overpower oppressors as can be seen from other countries BUT i dont think we have reached there yet. BUT PF BE WARNED. ANY ATTEMPT TO RIG ELECTIONS IN 2021 WILL BE MET WITH EQUAL BRUTAL FORCE AND RESISTANCE. Already we are seeing bad signs from ECZ… ZAMBIA is for ALL not KZ only. KZ We know you just like HH knows KBF
this is what foolish leadership does , you see first Bill 10 shall go no where
and not that no wise police shall use this on its people friends and relatives
and we shall instead use it against yourselves wait and see .
THIS IS A LESSON TO ALL ZAMBIANS. BACK GROUND OF LEADERS YOU CHOOSE MATTERS. SOMEONE STOLE A WINDOW’S MONEY AND U THINK HE WILL GIVE UP POWER EASLY – FORGET
I thought Zambia is a peaceful country . So why this and what is under the hood for us peace loving people.
I thought Police is part of Government. The way the article is written is like Police is outside the realm of Government framework and it is just assisting the police.
Offensive piece of equipment! Where did they get these?….and for what??…there is no civil unrest in Zambia. Are we expecting riots??
The hunt for Rambo the cow boy starts
Where does it say that the security equipment has been bought for use during elections? Opposition supporters please exercise some caution and desist from accusations. Mr Kanganja only said that they’d ensure peace prevails during and after elections. Honourable Kampyongo did not mention elections at any point. Why are you opposition supporters so insecure if you believe in that leader of yours? Meanwhile Viva ECL and thank you for equipping our security wings for now and the future. Indeed our Government sees beyond tomorrow.
Kaizar, I read in Lusaka Times that government released about half the money needed for the voter registration to ECZ. According to ECZ, voter registration is scheduled to take place between 19 October and 20 November 2020 which is this year. You comment that “Our security is more important than an election. If anything no one said ecz won’t receive the shortfall. 2021 is next year”. What fears does the PF regime you support have to invest lots of money for anti-riot equipment and gear? Does the PF regime fear the citizens who elected them into leadership positions?
It’s a done deal… PF is winning. Opposition won’t have a say but oblige.
Kaizar, I read in Lusaka Times that government released about half the money needed for the voter registration to ECZ. I hope you know that voter registration is scheduled to take place between 19 October and 20 November 2020 which is this year. You comment that “Our security is more important than an election. If anything no one said ecz won’t receive the shortfall. 2021 is next year”. What fears does the PF regime you support have to invest lots of money for anti-riot equipment and gear? Does the PF regime fear the citizens who elected them into leadership positions?
This is all the reason to turn up in large numbers and vote these PF criminals out of office next year. Corrupt regimes like what we have mismanaging our country today, usually know that without illegal maneuvers, they can never win the election. The only way for them to “win” the election is either by outright voter suppression, or by rigging. Rigging is mainly possible if there’s only a small marginal difference between the competing candidates. To prevent them from rigging the election, you have to make sure that you turn up in large numbers, and make them lose by a wide margin. If they lose by say 80% of the vote, it’s virtually impossible to cook up the numbers and make it appear like it’s them who won the election. That’s how MMD got rid of UNIP in 1991, when they took…
let them bring plenty like it was in south africa
This is a clear sign of admission of failure. and who has failed: the nyanjas and bembas have failed to run the country. wats the cause of their failure. laziness and greed. laziness, they don’t want to work hard but they want to have a lot of money. greed-they want to enjoy the resources of the country only themselves, excluding other tribes. only them bembas and nyanjays only. so shameless.
Kasonso, dont be emotionally dragged into the emerging PF pandemic of tribalism. It is not wise to say Nyanjas and Bembas have failed to run the country. Lets us direct the failure to run the country to the few Lungu (PF) appointed leaders who happen to be mostly either Nyanjas or Bembas. I am Tonga who has many Nyanja and Bemba colleagues who dont fit into your description of Nyanjas and Bembas being lazy and greed. Just as not all Tongas are UPND members, so also not all Nyanjas and Bembas are PF members. Lets us keep hitting at the leaders within PF who have and continue contributing to the failures the country is experiencing. I dont have any evidence that when Lungu appoints mostly Nyanjas and Bembas in leadership positions, he does this with the express agreement from all Nyanjas…
Is this the best way to spend our scarce forex at a time we have no medicines in our Hospitals? How can the Govt budget for putting down demonstrations? So they have made up their minds that they are going to rig the 2021 Elections and if People demonostrate against rigged Elections the Police will be ordered to crush the Protests? Zambians must prepare for a very violent Election next year. Shame on this Govt.
The PF Govt’s priorities are upside down. How can this Govt justify spending Millions of USD importing modern Anti-riot Equipment instead of importing life saving medicines? Anti Riot equipment or not People will always express their grievances by Demonstrating. This equipment will not take away Peoples Rights to protest. Its their Constitutional Right to do so. Besides “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never happened and never will”.
Up to Now No Answer has been provided for GASING that happened to Zambians. Now this
FOOLS No priorities, when hospitals are straggling with COVID. No medicine for the sick these jokers must Go
Kuya bebele regardless
Modern such a simple word. But LT cant spell it