The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is deeply saddened by instruction of the President Sata to the police to have demonstrating young people arrested for conducting peaceful demonstration over the failure by the PF to clearly provide leadership to challenges the poor majority face as a result of the his governments failure to protect them from hardships that will result from removal of subsidies on fuel and staple food such as mealie meal and maize.
The people have spoken against the stupid by-elections being induced by the ruling PF and his uncoordinated style of leadership. The arrest of some students from UNZA is an act of cowardice and shows President Sata is not able to listen to the masses, especially the Youth, that sent him to State House. The instruction to the police to arrest peaceful young persons demonstrating against his poor policies is dictatorship of the worst kind and ought to be roundly condemned by all well meaning Zambians.
YALI is not intimidated and will not be swayed from speaking on behalf of our fellow young people and we have since instructed lawyers to ensure arrested young leaders get justice. Government’s unbecoming behavior of trying to intimidate and getting everyone to submit to tyrannical rule will not work and we would like to ask to stop President Sata from living in his own separate world that can be compared to an era where KK turned the police into his Gestapo to stop citizens from exercising their fundamental political rights. YALI demands the immediate release of innocent young people whose arrest is unlawful. Since when did demonstrating peacefully become a crime? Which law is he applying for arresting young people who are demonstrating as this is a fundamental aspect of any democracy?
YALI would like to remind the president that we are not under any state of emergency and the people of this country have a right to expression guaranteed under the constitution which he swore to uphold. Why is the president so afraid to meet and talk to his people who are merely seeking answers to the so many pressing national matters?
Signed
ANDREW NTEWEWE
PRESIDENT
YOUNG AFRICA LEADERS INITIATIVE (YALI)
akatanshi takalisha
He was right.No government in the world tolerates disobedience.You think it is funny when those kids block innocent motorists ? What about those two shops they looted at arcades is that called for too ?
The most on-the spot, kumutima wakwa Dictator Sata, i have read in a long time. This man does not deserve to be where he is, he lied his way to state house…….and he has now shown his true colours…..
‘She took me outside to the churchyard
Showed me graves on the ground
and she said;
There lies a man who fought for equality
There lies a boy who died in his struggle
Can all these heroes die in vain
While we slaughter and kill our own brothers
Knowing that already they are the
Victims of the situation
Still licking wounds from brutality
Still licking wounds from humiliation
….injustice and dictatorship round the world have had shown ugly faces, but have never lasted
Lucky Dube .. ” Victims “
‘John chinena, waba indofu. I think that’s the language you understand! Bloody’ell can’t you see or read the sentiments contained in that YALI statement? Your SATA instructed police to arrest the students just at hearing that they were planning a demonstration. That should have been an opportunity for any meaningful government to welcome the demonstrations and pave dialogue with some of the ‘brains’ this country has rather than meet them with brutality. Shut the fuc5K up. Blocking motorists was means of getting the docile motorists to join in order to force government to rescind its decision. Most of these students do not drive but they sure know the implications of such drastic measures by government and their effect on the extremely poor who are among the majority. Unchecked…..
@John Chinena, refrain from being the first to comment with your low input values on issues that adversly affect this country going forward. You haven’t got the brains to understand what’s at stake and we haven’t got the time to explain it exclusively to you. You are spoiling the mood, do you get me? Rascal, bomberkrat. Everything is still everything you hear? I see you open ya mouth again and will stuff that mouth with gasoline and light a match.
Confused.com,
Do you think forcing innocent motorists to join the chaos is what you call democracy? You are really confused! Protesting everyday at university is outdated, people go to higher institutions to learn not to practice politics or to cause anarchy in the streets. A student is no different from any Zambian and the same laws should apply. A few months ago a UNZA union leader was arrested for corruption and people were writing that he should be given a second chance. That guy is a rotten apple, his corruption will not end at UNZA it will continue even in his working life, he should be prosecuted like any corrupt individual and sent to prison. The future leaders at UNZA will learn something from his disgrace and that will discourage them from engaging in corruption.
Tranquility must prevail…
Unless you have never been a student before. Demos are always there whether at a secondary school level, college or university. They are normal. Our independence was acquired thr demos, VIVA data.
So, you are busy condemning demos, I think it is better to allocate your energy somewhere else. 12 where not students ie about 25%
May this serve as a reminder to students that it is unwise to bit the hand that is feeding you. While you have every right to have a peaceful demonstration, first check yourselves. You are at a heavily subsidized institution. If government was to take away your BC (huge subsidy), how many of your can afford to even be at UNZA or CBU. Be thankful for what the government does for you. Your parents sent you to UNZA to learn, get some form of education, and here you are, on the verge of being expelled.
***Not to call you cowards, but sometimes, cowards live longer****
subsidies are OK but i doubt if they will be utilize properly.This money will be spent on 2016 election.
Removal of subsidies are OK but i doubt if they will be utilize properly.This money will be spent on 2016 election.
Removal of subsidies are OK but i doubt if the money will be utilize properly.This money will be spent on 2016 election.
Kay, I hear you. Blocking motorists is an overstatement it’s more like engaging with them. Zambia’s illiterate levels are unbelievable in country with only 13/14 million people. The majority have not attained an education that would warrant them to understand issues of great importance like the economy. Inputs that fuel growth or gross mistakes that stagnate or dips growth. The past rainy season was dismal and as such there is gonna be real shortage of grain for the nation and therefore the timing and manner in which the this policy has been conducted is brutal and wrong. You do not need draconian methods to correct situations, you need to prepare the people and phase out these subsidies in a gradual decline. Zambian are docile in nature but cannot be taken for fools all the time.
Kay, I hear you. Blocking motorists is an overstatement it’s more like engaging with them. Zambia’s illiterate levels are unbelievable in country with only 13/14 million people. The majority have not attained an education that would warrant them to understand issues of great importance like the economy. Inputs that fuel growth or gross mistakes that stagnate or dips growth are not easy to pin-point by a layman. Engage with students and have meaningful debate. Past rainy season was dismal and as such there is gonna be real shortage of grain for the nation and therefore the timing and manner in which the this policy has been conducted is brutal and wrong. You do not need draconian methods to correct situations.
The problem with students of nowadays is they don’t reason at all. All what is required is give them packets of Chibuku and ask them to go to the streets and stone cars in the name of demonstration. Their vuvuzela paymaster is waiting patiently for them to be lynched and thrown into cells before he goes before the camreas to demand for their release. His children are in exepensive private schools and he can never allow even his distant nephews to take part in demonstrations. Free advise, read your books, pass exams, graduate and contribute to mother Zambia effectively
The criminal mind can be cunningly brilliant—or stunningly foolish. You can safely put Sata’s broad day light instruction squarely into that second category. Whether he likes it or not, unless he kicks the bucket in power, there will be consequences for such foolish instructions. Such demonic “Bokassaring” ways belong to the past, not the future!
Cet alors nous vous prions tous d’avoir la maturité politique avant d’agir ou de ne pas agir dans des grandes décisions ou petites décisions. Merci de la part de votre ami JEAN RENEE LOBANGA.