By Kapya Kaoma.
When I heard that Nakacinda was arrested again for defaming the President, I couldn’t help but wonder what was wrong with him! Didn’t his mama tell him that “mwikala patalala mwine apatalalika?” (If you want to live in peace, you have to create it yourself). After hearing UPND Dr. Vernon Mwaanga and Anderson Banda roguishly defend the ongoing onslaught on freedom of expression, the desperation and hypocrisy of the New Dark Regime are apparent–turning the Police into its bullish arm.
I would understand previous Presidents’ persecution of opposition leaders, but honestly, it is incomprehensible why President HH is doing it aside from being heartless. How on Earth would a person of empathy who endured similar political persecutions sleep at night knowing too well that another human being is being tortured for a non-existent crime? Unjust laws don’t change themselves, justice-driven administrations change them. If President Hichilema had an iota of ubuntu, he could’ve directed his AG to stop prosecuting such senseless and repressive legislations aimed at curbing the democratic freedom of expression. After all, didn’t he promise to defend human rights? President HH may tweet his pictures with his White gods, but his human rights record is appalling.
I have lived under all former Zambian Presidents, and we had names for each one of them. KK we called “fonko fonko,” and he joked about it, “naiwe ukafonkoka mumala,” if you vote for Chiluba. And Lord, Super Ken was right! We suffered like pigs under Chiluba’s capitalist policies, the very policies that made HH a billionaire. As for Chiluba, who didn’t call him names? He always said, “we gave you democracy–it is freedom of expression.” Dr. Mwaanga is the witness.
Mwanawasa and Sata, HH called Cabbage and Chimbwi respectively. And how many times did HH demean Sata? Is it not HH’s UPND which celebrated Pilato’s “koswe” and “ALungu Anabwela”? Who said this about President Lungu in April 2017 but President HH, “He is a clueless hyena. Write properly, I am calling him a clueless hyena.”
If it passed then as freedom of expression, why should “teka amatako panshi” land Nakacinda in prison? Why is it now defamatory to call HH a liar in chief? Why is it now defamatory to call him Vasco da Gama? Why was it ok for him to call other Presidents chimbwi or hyenas but now a crime for others to do the same? In short, why ban communicating in euphemisms under the New Dark Regime? Is calling HH a wolf or a hyena punishable simply because HH is President? You cannot promise to promote human rights and then curb freedom of expression, on which all freedoms hang. Is this hypocrisy or political retribution?
Since the Inspector of Police has nothing to do, but to stop freedom of expression, I have advice for the opposition. Don’t defame the President. Praise him as an angel of the almighty White man, at whose bidding he flies across the globe to worship! Praise him as the Emperor, whose pen determines right and wrong. Thank him for the increasing prices in the nation. Thank him for removing subsidies on Fuel and reducing Fuel costs. Is he not a son of a god of oil?
Call him the Lion King, the son of Zeus, who reigns over Pride Lands. Nobody goes to bed with an empty belly! Call him Baal, to be opposed at own risk. If you do all this, you would have pacified his egotistical deception that he is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent–the attributes only the Eternal One possesses. But be warned! He needs more and more! To question him is to sin against the office of the heartless Baal whose ultimate goal is retribution. And this is Nakacinda’s sin–the mighty HH is getting even with the sinful PF regime.
I am afraid. Unless we break this cycle of retribution in our politics, we risk burning our democracy. We are not North Korea where speaking ill of the Supreme Leader is a Capital Offense! We are a democracy! President HH is a public official whose lies should be challenged without intimidation. And if the Regime wants to prosecute every person who calls HH a liar, corrupt, conman, hyena, Chimbwi, etc, then it must build more prisons specifically dedicated to those who defame Zambia’s Supreme Leader, his excellency, the almighty, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, the small god of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema. For once people have tested the freedom of expression, you can’t shut them down!
With these words, I am surely on the cursed list of those to be arrested by faithful prophets of Baal!
Well articulated. You will not be arrested. You have just reminded baal of what he was doing when he was in opposition.
Hakainde has forgotten that he did not even recognise Edgar as president apart from calling Edgar all sorts of names, baal was never arrested.
We are praying that PF get organised and settle internal differences and kick out the s@t@n1st in 2026. I wish Hakainde was killed when he interferred with Edgar’s presidential motorcade in Mongu.
For misled souls, freedom of speech does not entail insults on any day anywhere in the world. Basic common sense
I repeat -if insulting a sitting president was right in the past, it’s right even now.
If insulting a sitting president was wrong in the past, it’s wrong even now. Take your pick.
The most unfortunate part is that those who whined whenever Lungu just scratched an opposition member are quite. There’s that media called Bloomberg for it now everything is sweet. Sempe in excreta.
Kapaya AKA Saulosi on LT………
Me saying “you can go to hell…”
And saying ” fu.ck you….”
To someone in authority is two different things………..
You are very du.ll indeed……..
This government has zero ethics. Look at how they are employing wives to ministers! despicable!
We were with Nakachinda in MMD, the man is a proper loose canon, we are so happy that he left, these insults are not new, he used to insult our own leaders even in MMD, every body can now now see the character, he is insulting people and disguising the insults as idioms. But a sharp mind can see that these are plain insults, when he is cornered, he cries foul and says Freedom of speech
And that ***** UPND Liswaniso is threatening blood on anyone who advises Vasco to take it easy- Teka amatako panshi!! Liswaniso should Teka amatako panshi. Very foolish cadre!!
Author again mistakenly thinking UPND is working like PF that was giving instructions to Police. not awake to the reality that August 12 brought to Zambia – Freedom
Why did MMD donate this thug to our party. Even in PF we don’t want Nakachinda, ask the majority of PF members. we don’t want people who insult in our party , we want to really rebrand
HH maybe the head of the state Zambia but kwapa tachila kubeya nokubeya its us the people of Zambia we are just quite but he don’t know what we are all think am telling people are mad over his government and his rulling this is why if he won’t change we will rise and protest for presidential by election am telling you we don’t want a cruel president who just care about himself and his family nooo people voted for change and not for slavery and safuring trust me he will not finish his 5 years period if he continue like this twalamufumyapo pamupando pro talaonawilako our buitful nation and rights.
HH does not tell the Police who to go and arrest, HH is very busy trying to sort out the economic mess left by the PF, right now he is in Dubai marketing Zambia. The fact that under PF , Police was a wing of the PF is not the same now, that is why you saw a passenger called HH being arrested for a traffic offence in Mongu, where in the world does a passenger get arrested for an over speeding driving offence by the driver, weired things PF did in this country.
Police are operating independently now. Neither HH nor Jack Mwimbu is giving instructions, Police believe Nakachinda broke the law, they have handled the issue in the universally accepted civilized way by arresting him, taken him to court and the court will decide. So stop misleading yourselves over a simple and straight forward issue
@Shamboko, you are naive.
Zambia is not the same. We are more divided than before. The writing on the hall is clear, a divided nation. Northerners and Easterners branded together as thieves and calling them all sorts of names. What president HH should know is that the same Bembas and Easterners he is calling all sorts of names voted for him. 2026 is very near. God help us.
#10 Shamboko give us an incident where Edgar gave police instructions to arrest those ” defaming” him? The point is when cadres ordered the police to arrest Nakachinda, we never heard the president stop them (cadres). So we take it he’s happy with the cadres after all they say Voci populi, Voci dei.
And Liswaniso has threatened violence and the police are quiet and you say RULE OF LAW HAS RETURNED?
Needless to say we told you so. How heartless! Baal bally promised heaven on earth, a free media including social media, a corrupt free country, lower prices, lower exchange rate, medicine in hospitals, civil liberties, a less traveling president. He gave formulae to solve Zambian problems. The binoculars man caught him coercing judges, police extrajudicially landed him a 48hours jail term without a charge. Baal was told to sit them down, police pounced again. Now we hear his own are siphoning tax payers money; his excuse is that they are actively getting training from the ousted administration. Now baal bally is getting fixed by his own. The theories he had cannot get practical. You have a sad man in state house.
Kapya Kaoma at it again
Freedom of speech is the main pillar for transparency and a foundation for incorruptable Government. UPND businessmen cannot allow freedom of speech. Their companies have to grow.
Nakachinda can only get recognition from insults and wrong controversial headings in the news……..
He earns a living from controversies…….
In the Workspace he is nothing and offers Zambians nothing…….
So glad PF have him…….thats where he belongs….
@4 akaps Ouch!
Spaka is hurting. But on this one like many others UPND kapya has nailed it.
We need some Love..we need some peace and love in this country!!
This is truly now animal farm were some animals are more superio than others, the only President who may be 100 names most hated president, one who was defamed so many times,one who remained silent even when insulted hooo ohhhh what a man what a legacy that he as left.Let us learn something from this man.We cant stop using idioms why they have been there since memorial unless one says we change our culture which again is not posible.DONT BE FUNNY YOU GUYS HAVE SOME AND STOP THE CIRCUS.
And Fr. Frank Bwalya called HE Sata Chumbu Minshololwa. The court throw case out in furhter of the Fr. right?
The court threw it out because there was no anatomy of the fellow mentioned but for Nakachinda whose insults anybody can see even before he opens his mouth, it is different
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Mr Kaoma you fail in your article to recognise the fact that our country lacks a culture of Constitutionalism. The precedents suggest a severe lack of understanding of governance and what the tenets of democracy are. All institutions of governance are broken, and it happened long before HH came along. You can’t expect him to stop what has been a tradition now for the Police to become partisan. I urge you and every Zambian to support the removal and replacement of the not fit for purpose Constitution. Everything has to go, including the fake Christianity brought in by Chiluba. It’s time reset and it’ll need all of us.
The author has reminded us readers how HH used to refer to the former Presidents when he was in opposition like calling Sata Chimbwi NO PLAN.
As a matter of fact nobody has called HH NAMES.Remember that President Mwanawasa was being called Cabbage but no body was arrested for this including HH.
So the stage was already set by HH AND ALL IT REQUIRES IS FOR HIM to just watch silently as the actors compete on the stage of democracy.
Division of labour, HH is serious and busy doing the work he was elected for. Nakachinda is busy issuing insulting idioms. The Police are busy taking to court those abusing freedom of speech with insults.
The bemba elders were very clear last week when they issued a statement that idioms that contained strong or insulting language were never used anyhow but in a very controlled manner in the past . What is difficult to understand here
Iwe Nakachinda, stop insulting, shaa. Grow up
There is no room for insults disguised as idioms in this Christian nation. I hope the court can fyanta this guy, so that other loose canons learn a lesson or two
And the fact that other Presidents were not locking up way ward chaps in the past calling former heads of state all sorts of names does not mean that culture which was not corrected then must continue now. This country is undergoing transformation in all sectors and everything wrong will be checked. Normalcy which had eluded this country for many years has to return
Why doesn’t PF just put up departments – Information and publicity to be handled by sober minded guys like Chalikosa and Mushimba, Insults and vulgarities to be headed by Nakachinda and Mushanga, and propaganda and lies to be headed by Kambwili and GBM. Just a suggestion
Why has Zambian observer referred to this guy as Rachel Nakachinda. Si Raphaelo wamene uyu? Na tu ma binoculars. Let him express himself and perform on the entertainment stage that is Zed politics.
Go where there is freedom of speech of insult and democracy which allows insult not in our mother Zambia, if HH is not your right president you are free to leave us sir and your followers before you land into prison for defaming our president…
YAKIKOSA…………………MWE
HH does not arrest, the Police do. HH is busy with his work , the Police are also busy with their work, the less busy and idle ones are busy insulting using idioms
Hachilema is our servant. Now this servant sounds so arrogant and messy and chicky.
Remind him of servant servitude.
It’s extremely difficult to understand the level of stupidity honestly how one earth does one say that investigative wings are independent when they operate and function under someone’s pocket!
Vasco and his Liutenants are alamingly shallow that even people that had little or no interest in politics are laughing at this bunch of egocentric, uncoordinated souls. The articles lays their shallowness bare.
#20 This Thorn in the Flesh
January 19, 2022 At 11:18 am
“@4 akaps Ouch!
Spaka is hurting. But on this one like many others UPND kapya has nailed it…”
Hurting what ………?
We are GRZ………..we just harass and arrest noise makers.
Being in opposition is what hurts……..ask ST……
Hehehehe……….