THE letter authored by the clandestine group calling itself ‘Tongas Under Oath’ is what police were looking for last week on Tuesday when they searched the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) offices.

And President Sata has said some UPND officials handed to the state the seditious material that police were looking for at the party’s offices.

According to highly placed sources, the seditious material that police were looking for was the letter carrying tribal sentiments to the effect that the clandestine group was targeting Bembas for assassination.
The source also said a UPND member of Parliament, who could not be named, eventually availed the letter to security personnel.

“It is the same material that police were looking for but they drew a blank until a UPND MP made it available.

It was authored in Lusaka not Mazabuka as stated in the letter,” he said.

Senior UPND officials, including party president Hakainde Hichilema, last week complained that the government was instilling fear in the opposition and turning Zambia into a police state.

But President Sata yesterday said, “The police were searching for seditious material but some of their people brought us the material.”

The President said at State House that he believes the document was drafted in Lusaka and not Southern Province.He also disclosed that some UPND members tipped the police about the reported seditious materials at the party secretariat.

“When the Zambia Police searched UPND headquarters, we (government) were accused of turning the country into a police state. It was in fact some UPND officials who alerted police that there were seditious articles at the party secretariat.

“We are grateful to the police that they were not trying to turn Zambia into a police state,” he said.

The letter, declaring war on Bembas and demanding that all Bembas should leave Southern Province, was copied to President Sata, Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu and Inspector-General of Police Stella Libongani.

The head of state said he trusts that “Tongas are innocent” in the matter, adding that some malicious individuals are trying to implicate them.

Mr Sata said government is aware of the people behind the document and they will soon be exposed as they are Lusaka-based.

“What you do in the dark will be exposed in no time,” President Sata warned. “There are no ‘Tongas on Oath’. We have already gone further and you have to go further than this.”

“I love Tongas,” President Sata said, “…we have Tongas married to people from other tribes and we have other tribes married to Tongas. They are peaceful and innocent people,” Mr. Sata said.
The President believes the malicious individuals who authored the letter are trying to smudge the image of Tonga-speaking people by accusing them of spearheading the clandestine group.
The President expressed disappointment that some malicious individuals would deliberately embark on a plan to smear a peace-loving tribe.

[Daily Mail]

President Michael Sata has said that he was surprised that some politicians earn more than people who have worked in formal employment for a long time.

This follows the alleged revelations by some United Party for National Development (UPND) members who leaked a document detailing the source of wealth of their party president Hakainde Hichilema who is worth over K360 billion.

The head of State said he was shocked that some politicians who have never been in formal employment are worth billions of Kwacha.

He said this at State House yesterday when the document about Mr Hichilema’s wealth was circulated to journalists.

“You have worked for a long time but you are not as rich as some politicians. Surprisingly in Zambia, some politicians are richer than workers in formal employment,” Mr Sata said.

And according to the documentation on Mr Hichilema’s wealth, the opposition leader has various business ventures, companies and properties, both locally and abroad, which is the main source of funding for the UPND.

The documentation alleges that ranches have helped Mr Hichilema to emerge as one of the leading suppliers of beef to Zambeef Plc.

Mr Hichilema has ranches holding over 90,000 cattle in Central and Southern provinces valued at over K360 billion.

The UPND leader has four ranches in Choma operating as HH farm and Blukes farm which has 20,000 animals and another three ranches in Kalola, Chibombo district, property numbers F/1604/A, F/2270/A and F/9184 with a total 35 animals among other ranches.

Mr Hichilema has shares in various private companies including Zambezi Sun International Hotels in Livingstone, Pick N Pay, Game Stores, ALS Capital, a bureau de change based in Lusaka, Manda Hill Centre, More Beef Limited, Anglo-American Corporation and Delloitte and Touche.
He has three in South Africa, two in England, three in Lusaka and an office block in Choma.

The UPND leader has four accounts with ZANACO with balances of US$ 820,411.58, K45 million, K9 million and K135 million.

Mr Hichilema is also believed to be associates with Costain Chilala, a prominent commercial farmer of Mkushi, and Boyd Hamusonde, proprietor of BH Diesel Motors.

The UPND is also believed to have received funding from the Liberal Party of Norway, which is under the leadership of Erick Ringes, a personal friend of Mr Hichilema.

[Zambia Daily Mail]

President Michael Sata has said that the purported letter by a shadow group calling itself “Tongas under Oath” was drafted in Lusaka and not Southern province.

President Sata said that the group is just using the good people of Southern Province to propagate ethnic hatred.

He was speaking at State House when he swore in newly appointed Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba and Southern Province Permanent Secretary Chileshe Mulenga.

Mr Sata has emphasised that the Tonga speaking people have always been peaceful.

And Mr Sata has told the newly appointed Justice Minister and Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu not to interfere with the judiciary and the police.

President Sata directed Mr Kabimba to ensure justice is accessed by all Zambians regardless of their social status.

And speaking to ZNBC news after being sworn in, Mr Kabimba said he wants to see a people-driven judicial reforms process.

He said that it will not be possible for reforms to be spearheaded internally or by the judiciary itself.

Meanwhile Police in Southern Province have made headways in pursuing members of a shadow group calling itself ‘Tongas under oath.

Southern Province Police Commissioner CHARITY KATANGA said that her officers have closed in on the suspects believed to be Mazabuka residents.

The undercover group is demanding that Chirundu and Itezhi Tezhi be re-aligned back to Southern Province.

And Kalomo UPND Member of Parliament Request Muntanga has urged all the security wings to bring to book the individuals trying to divide Zambians on ethnic lines.

Mr Muntanga was speaking with ZNBC news in a walk in interview at Mass Media Complex in Lusaka on Wednesday.

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The opposition UPND says reports linking it to a clandestine group calling itself Tonga’s under Oath are part of a grand government scheme to arrest its leader Hakainde Hichilema.

Reports in pro government newspapers have alleged that a grouping known as Tongas under Oath has threatened to continue killing Bembas if government does not rescind its decision to take Chirundu district to Lusaka Province.

But UPND Spokesman Charles Kakoma said in an interview this afternoon that government is desperate to arrest Mr. Hichilema and has since resorted to concocting false stories to implicate him and other opposition leaders.

Mr. Kakoma charged that the UPND has not information on the existence of such a grouping and wondered why government officials have been so quick to accuse the UPND.

[pullquote]“This is nothing new, we saw this during the Chiluba era when the Zero option was in full effect and we remember some of the key architects of such moves and they are still serving in this government,” Mr. Kakoma said.[/pullquote]

He said the party is not however surprised adding that the PF government merely wants to prepare the people’s minds to the anticipated arrest of opposition leaders.

“This is nothing new, we saw this during the Chiluba era when the Zero option was in full effect and we remember some of the key architects of such moves and they are still serving in this government,” Mr. Kakoma said.

Mr. Kakoma has since challenged law enforcement agencies to arrest individuals and organisations that appear to have so much information about the Tongas under Oath.

“Some appear to be well informed on this issue but why hasn’t the police arrested them to help them with investigations?”

He said the UPND is not aware of the existence of the Tongas under Oath and that it would fully condemn such activities if they existed.

Some senior government and PF officials have moved to quickly link the groupings to the UPND.