United Party for National Development (UPND) National Chairperson, Mutale Nalumango has said that President Edgar Lungu shouldn’t think that he has the right to kill president Hakainde Hichilema and those that he deems to be political threats, at will.
In an apparent response to President Lungu’s recent statement that he would have eliminated Mr. Hichilema at will if he had wanted, Ms. Nalumango stated that being at the helm of the country’s leadership didn’t give him a leeway to kill those that he wished dead.
The former Deputy Speaker of National Assembly also wondered why President Lungu has been insisting that Mr. Hichilema will not appear on the 2021 presidential ballot, adding that such reckless statements must not come from political leaders holding the highest office in the land.
“We hear President Lungu himself says that if he had wanted, he would have killed president Hakainde Hichilema a long time. Has he got the right to kill? To say, ‘if I wanted?’ Is it about you wanting…to kill a person? Is it about you having authority to kill?” wondered Ms. Nalumango.
Ms. Nalumango stated that such irresponsible statements weren’t expected to come from those who hold sensitive positions of leadership in the country, especially the Head of State.
“Such statements should never come from leaders of the nation. People are listening; you don’t say that! This is the tragedy of our nation, that the very top leadership of our country can declare such things. One death is one too many. We have lost Lawrence Banda; we have lost Mapenzi Chibulo, Frank Mugala, and many more. It’s not about what you want as ECL. It is God’s will and your time is up,” she charged.
And Chirundu Member of Parliament, Douglas Syakalima said that President Lungu must take a leaf from the most brutal of dictators in Africa whose tenure came to an abrupt end when the people chose to elect new leaders.
He wondered where the PF got the impetus to wish people dead at will, stating that the PF must start negotiating and making friemds as they prepared for their way out of power soon.
“Who tells them that they have powers to just tell anyone that, ‘today, you are dying’? Who tells them that? We had worse dictators in this world. Where are they today? Dictators move out badly! Start making friends; start negotiating for you are on your way out. You will hear that people’s power is real. You can bring your military, you can bring your police when people have decided, they have decided. You will go!” he said.
Meanwhile, Ms. Nalumango said that the UPND would not be congratulating the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) for its victory in the 9 of the 14 by elections that were held across the country yesterday because they were not conducted in a free and fair manner.
Asked to comment on the elections results margins between the PF and the UPND in the just-ended local and Parliamentary by-elections, Ms. Nalumango stated that people shouldn’t expect her to congratulate the ruling party because the political playing field was not leveled enough to allow the opposition to campaign freely.
“We are in a situation where the ground [political] is marred with a lot of irregularities. Don’t ask me, media guys to congratulate PF. I could have done so ’cause they have won many…in blackets. But did they really win…when many of our people are in incarceration on trumped up charges and you expect me to be here and say, ‘well done to PF’? No! We could have congratulated them if they won properly,” she said.
Nalumango has since congratulated the UPND members who campaigned in the 14 by-elections, stating that they tried their best to convince electorates that the party was the solution to the economic malaise that the country was grappling with.
“Allow me to congratulate our gallant men and women that went into the campaigns for the elections that were held yesterday. They worked very hard to try and convince our people that the way out of our economic malaise is UPND,” she said.
UPND National Trustee, Andrew Banda reiterated that the political gains that the UPND made in 2016 when she and the PF shared 98 percent of the political spoils between them after UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema got 1, 760, 347 votes against the PF’s Edgar Lungu who got 1, 860, 877 was a sign that the party had acquired a national character.
And President Hichilema’s political advisor, Douglas Siakalima observed that the party had made tremendous political gains in the Northern circuit considering that in 2011 the party got 2,000 from the entire Muchinga and Northen Provinces combined, but today the 2, 600 against the PF’s 13, 000 votes in the just one constituency (Lukashya) was the testimony of continued growth and strength of the party.
Cry my beloved Zambia, is this the opposition you’ve been cursed with???
Who is killing who and for what, now? This woman is a dreamer. Keep dreaming.
Immaturity is trying to comment on a reckless statement with yet a more reckless one. It does not make the situation better. It only generates complications. Even the scripture tells us that “a soft answer turneth away wrath but a harsh word stirs up anger” Proverbs 15.
It looks like UPND are obsessed with killing each other…how and why Lungu kill HH for…this is careless talk….am non partisan but now i know why UPND keeps losing elections..
Under 5 comments from madam Nalumango and Siakalima. Heads deeply stuck in the sand.
The president was simply responding to HH who said Lungu wants to arrest him and the kill him. UPND are very good at starting a fire and the play victim. They started tribalism and other provinces are responding. Election violence started withe Mapatizya formula. They call PF corrupt day in day out and all Nawakwi asked HH is to account for his involvement in privatization and subsequently his wealth. The privatization, only a Tonga, Freemasonry, UPND wamuyayaya presidency, “nowChikal4” demons needs to be cast out before 2021 for HH to enter state house.
IF He was not hid hiding as a president of a political party using the pastors wife nalumango covering himself from failed and fraudulent privatization of Zambian assets he could have been arrested and behind bars since 2005 He hids also in playing victim and abuse of court process
There seems to be a very deep problem in upnd. It seems their leadership have contracted the deadly head-to-yourmatak0-lysis syndrome where one’s brain is replaced by his butt0cks. Thinking from the backside. This very ugly woman is forgetting that it was on the British hard talk program where hh was told that if the president wanted to kill him then he would have done so easily. This was after hh claimed we wanted to kill him. Even the whltes he runs to laughed at him and saw how much of a drama queen he is. Hh or upnd are losing elections so what reason can we have to eliminate them.? They are slowly killing themselves Haha.
Trying to divert attention.
UPND are good at starting a fire and the cry victim. Who started the killing talk, who started the Mapatizya formula, who said only a tonga, who recently said the C word. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
During Edith Nawakwi”s privatisation stories in the recent past, Hakainde Hichilema (HH) gave a response. He said the Patriotic Front (PF) government wants to take advantage of the confusion to imprison him. PF will then poison HH while in incarceration. It will be a slow puncture that will eventually kill himself when ultimately released.
Edgar Chagwa Lungu (ECL) then responds that he has no interest in taking the life of HH. If ECL wanted, he would have killed him a long time ago. He is in fact rubbishing the thought of ever eliminating his political opponent in cold blood from behind, but beating him through the ballot face to face.
Therefore, madame Mutale Nalumango is daydreaming by implying foul play when it is maliciously propagated to solicit calculated public sympathetic…
Ladies and gentlemen watch out if UPND comes into power! People will be disappearing and possibly murdered mysteriously. These men and women in Upnd seem to be blood thirsty. Why do they always talk about political killing?
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…Therefore, madame Mutale Nalumango is daydreaming by implying foul play when it is maliciously propagated to solicit calculated public sympathetic attention.
BA MUTALE YOUR RECKLESS UTTERANCES WILL NOT HELP YOUR CRASH HH. HALELUSA
If such complaints are to reduce PF authorities should allow their opponents to campaign and mobilize freely. Otherwise these PF victories will never be accepted. I very much doubt if PF can win a free and fair election. This is a killer party. It is those backward villagers whom they manage to entice with relief food and social cash funds
Emotional blackmail will not buy you votes. Listen musimbi Hamutale, the boy Hachilema was thinking in venacular . He imagined he was going to be bewitched as he is a believer in wichcraft. Your assertion of an assassination is clearly a mistranslation of Hakainde’s accusation.
IF He was not hid hiding as a president of a political party using the pastors wife nalumango covering himself from failed and fraudulent privatization of Zambian assets he could have been arrested and behind bars since 2005 He hids also in playing victim and abuse of court process
@Truth, Under 5,and crew campaigned and insulted freely in Lukashya and Mwansabombwe and drew massive crowds, penetrated the PF bedroom according to their narrative. Ngamwalusa stop these cheap excuses. If people want Under 5 to rule nothing will stop it, ninshi efyo balefwaya.
He is a criminal who need to be exposed. Please let the whole nation know the he stole money from a poor widow in 2009 by the name of Ms Kanyanta
I will support Nalumango at this point. Ba Lungu thinks he’s now a king who can do anything to his subjects? He’s just leader who will one day have be out of the office and answerable to his war crimes. In addition, people like judge Chuulu, Kaiser, Lusambo, Tasila and then will have to explain their current actions. Remember, this is all our country.
Pretty low-level stuff from these representatives of upnd. Neither inspiring nor lofty. Nothing exciting to any one seeking meaningful change. Mere tantrums. We need better approach. Not this use of the stale and already-troadden hyperbole.
Mazoka was liberal and very Patriotic Zambian and he was eliminated by fellow UPND leaders who wanted leadership so bad and they took over….so it looks like killing each other is always on the agenda in UPND…noticed how they staged the damaging of a non runner car during the just ended by elections….am not PF but UPND is now scaring me more than PF bandits….and does Nalumango even have a normal 9 to 5 paying job or she just relies on handouts from HH…..
Late Mazoka a very noble man was the victim UPND HH witchcraft killing….if he was alive he should have easily become the next President of Zambia…unlike HH….Mazoka was very Patriotic and am sure all Zambians liked him…..UPND needs new leadership otherwise its going into extinct next year…where does Nalumango work?…how does she earn a living…paying bills etc
Those are just imagination mama. UPND is a bigger political party if only you can change the way you do politics. You can take advantage of the global situation and convince the Zambians on supporting yòu. Don’t be deceived by the number of people attending your gatherings cause most of the people know that HH is rich and he may decide to splush his money during campaign. In actual sense, they don’t like him.The best is to have internal elections in order to choose a neutral leader whom people are going to support whole heartedly. We do not mind which party of Zambia that leader may come from though it is highly expected that he/she may come from the region you all know. That may give an opportunity for others leaders from Southern province like hon. Mwimbu, hon. Nkombo and many others…
It’s not about HH or UPND, it’s about the zambian people. Some of you commenting and insulting HH you can’t even afford to have breakfast, lunch and super, but you are busy insulting. Please tell me if you have shops where you buy as PF. Lwenu umakfwa mulechula pamulandu na pf ninshi KZ alinakafue aleshoka nemichopo.
@Chembe, what is the connection between HH and having breakfast? HH will never feed you. If you need to have enough meals a day just work hard not hoping that one day HH will win and by some miracle provide food. Hicilema wakaso. His track record is that of greed thieving as can be seen how treats his workers and with privatization. UPND has never been in power but it has had the highest number of vice presidents more than UNIP that was in power for 27 years.
If Katuka and Nalumango could get married, they would probably give birth to a baboon. These two are ugly.
Kci ah wansekesha mune. Hahahahaha. I have laughed. Nomba God made us in his own image. Arr you saying katuka and nalumango are not made in his image?
Ok katuka mubi. I know I am not the most handsome man out there but katuka patali
When the u5 narrative become more vivid.
Yes FTJ used to murder.
Kleptoh² is nothing but like a greedy fly in the eyes of the elite people of this great land.
What a useless life to take.
In short, grow up.
@Kaizar Zulu kulibonesha….handsomenerian from the east…just your nose bro…..and those ears monga ni kat bat
Upnd don’t have the message for zambians. There campign messages depend on the errors of PF .thus they keep on pointing out pf mistakes. I never heard any Sense from there utterances. They a very cheap…message is corruption, fire truck, heasers, 48 houses, want to kill me, hate us etc.. nothing beyond this..
Upnd has got no message for zambia. They don’t have campign message.. everytime they speak is corruption fire truck heasers 48 houses want to kill me. So shallow and cheap a message that cannot convince a baby to give you candy. So far I have never heard any plan they have when they come into power. Their campign messages wait for the errors from pf.
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Paul Tembo apologized to the nation over the mistakes he made while in MMD.
Announcing his resignation from the MMD to join the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD), at a press conference at the Mulungushi village in Lusaka, Tembo said:
“To the church, especially through the three mother bodies: the ZEC, CCZ and EFZ, to the labour movement and civil society at large. To all, I seek your forgiveness and kind understanding for what I may have wrongly done and failed to do in the course of my duty.” (The Post, No. 1756-Monday June 18, 200, Paul Tembo asks for forgiveness)
Among the reasons he gave for his resignation was that the “MMD was finished beyond redemption as it had destroyed the very fundamental values on which it was founded and in its present form was moving…
On July 6, 2001 Zambians woke up to the news of a grisly assassination of Paul Tembo. The Brutal Journal brings and follows this story that happened exactly 12 years ago today, looking at how dishonest in the hands of political power does not flinch, not even a moment, to kill in order to protect their stay in power.
It started between June 15 and 18, Paul Tembo took quick steps out of politics of deceit to join the ranksthat had broken away from the MMD to defend the country’s democracy and constitution.
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