The United Party for National Development (UPND) Secretary-General Stephen Katuka has said that the changes at the Police Service now confirm and is an admission that the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) government, through the Zambia Police, murdered the innocent citizens, hence trying to launder their tattered and reckless image.
In a statement released to the media, Mr. Katula described the changes as as cosmetic and meaningless if the real killers are not brought to book and face justice.
Below is the full statement
PRESS STATEMENT
30th December 2020
CHANGES IN THE POLICE COMMAND MEAN NOTHING IF THE KILLERS ARE NOT ARRESTED
We have taken note of the changes Mr. Edgar Lungu has made in the Zambia Police Service following the brutal murders of Nsama Nsama and Joseph Kaunda last week by the Zambia Police officers.
In the first place, these changes now confirm and is an admission that the PF government through the Zambia Police murdered the innocent citizens, hence trying to launder their tattered and reckless image.
But as UPND, we view these changes as cosmetic and meaningless if the real killers are not brought to book and face justice.
If anything, these changes of merely dropping the deputies while leaving the top commanders such as Inspector General of the Police Kakoma Kanganja, Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo and Mr. Edgar Lungu himself, are a complete joke to the Zambian people.
How could the junior officers have executed instructions of whatever nature without the knowledge and authority of the top commanders who include Mr. Edgar Lungu himself?
In fact, the firing of the top police officers justifies what we have always been warning officers in the security wings; that Mr. Lungu is just using you, but can dump and sacrifice you when things go wrong for him, hence the need to be professional in their day to day work.
The sad part to the serving and dismissed officers and all civil servants is that while Mr. Lungu will use you when it benefits him, he will dump and sacrifice you and be made to live as ordinary citizens facing the same communities that he commanded you to brutalise or abuse.
To us, the real culprit is Mr. Lungu himself who is on record issuing very serious threats on his opponents such as “I will fall on them like a tonne of bricks”.
The dismissed top police officers are mere sacrificial lambs while the main culprits have been left off the hook and there are no signs of bringing justice to the killers of the innocent citizens.
We also note that Mr. Lungu has given Inspector General of the police Kakoma Kanganja six months contract in which he reorganises the police.
We wonder what Mr. Kanganja can do in six months which he could not do in many years at the helm of the Zambia Police service. Even worse, we wonder how Mr. Kanganja will reorganise the police when he is unlikely to get any respect from his juniors who now know he is being fired in six months time.
We take note of the elevation of an overzealous police officer Charity Katanga to the position of Deputy Inspector General of police in charge of operations. To us, we are now convinced Mr. Lungu is not interested in peace, but has basically declared a blood bath on the Zambian citizens.
Ms. Katanga is well known for her open hatred against the opposition UPND President Hakainde Hichilema and his party going by her past conduct.
Zambians should now brace for more brutality under Mr. Lungu and Mr. Kampyongo and their only option as citizens is to unite and remove the brutal regime in 2021.
The levels of idyocy in the UPND is insurmountable. They make statements just for the sake of saying something different. They don’t care what effect their words have on their followers or masses. A leader at the level of Katuka must make statements that are factual, else it’s better not to say anything. These are serious indications of the inadequateness of the so called largest opposition in Zambia. I wonder why their sponsors spend money on such people
@ Ayatollah! You dress down Katuka without sharing your “enlightening” view, at least he has made a statement which invites a diversity of opinions, thus where are we with your intervention if not to observe your irritation at not identifying what aligns with your thoughts in Katuka’s statement? Share your wisdom and advice than ‘strong’ words to build, have the patience of a teacher for slow learners!
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS!!
HE SHOULD HAVE FIRED THE NOW SILENT LUSAMBO,KAMPYONGO AND HE SHOULD HAVE HONORABLY RESIGNED.KAKOMA KANGANJA OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS HAS SHOWN THAT HE IS AN INCOMPETENT F00L.THESE IDYOTS HAVE COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF IDEAS.
AND NOW THEY ARE THREATENIGN TO IMPOUND THE BUSES ATI THEY FERRIED CRIMINALS TO THE POLICE HQ,DO YOU MAKE MAKE SENSE THERE? HONESTLY NOT.
That vile blood thirsty midget from DRC Charity Katanga is in Lusaka, she has been moved all over as she beats then asked questions later…the one who roughed up BUFFOON CK…she is also on record for saying she saw suspects changing into animals during the PF gassing debacle. Anyway nothing surprises me about the daft man Lungu…only a foool would be shocked by his circus antics.
Fellow Zambian’s Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo and Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja
MUST GO, the comrade bellow has put it in plain language.
#StephenKampyongo&Kakoma Kanganja_MUST-GO
Watch “Zambia Police Fired, Diaspora Community say this” on YouTube
This ugly evil animal seems to think that ZP is synonymous to the pf. How can you be both ugly and dull? Talk about a series of unfortunate events. Mubi uyu. Both inside and out. Zp becomes pf whenever it suits upnd for political convenience. Just other day their leader was praising ZP. We all know that HHs arrogance led to the unfortunate deaths. Face the truth for once. Was pf there? U lost dog
Changes – they complain
No changes – they complain
What do they want? Will they ever be satisfied?
If ugliness had a face….
“I will not step down to please HH” – home affairs minister Kampyongo.It seems PF doesn’t know that being accountable to the public is a cardinal requirement.
Nine Chale aka Nenah Cherry- you are truly a gullible docile being even after commenting on LT after all these years even based in Germany you think these are changes..really laughable…maybe you see Charity Katanga as change to reform the police because that’s the way your German muzungu treats you like she has done you a favour marrying you uplifting you from abject poverty from your home village in Zambuda.
Wake up from your docility my brother/sister!!
They were saying Charles Milupi has a war crimes report at 95% complete where is it?
The UK based impostor/ Internet troll can swear and use profanity because that’s not his name he has no responsibility of care under that alias …go to KZ’s offical Facebook page very quiet none of this nonsense. Stroll down the page nothing.
Subjects like these the impostor thrives as its about his small mindless parties PF and UPND.
@Ayatolla UPND leadership aren’t largest opposition. They are largest opposition f00ls. Otherwise a man of his standing shouldn’t be making such fuulish comments. Or is it, “the guilty are afraid”?
The UK based impostor/ Internet troll can swear and use profanity because that’s not his name he has no responsibility of care under that alias …go to Facebook or any public record for matter, and you will see that there is no person who exists with the name “tarino orange”
He thrives on calling others imposters to cover his own insecurities of hiding behind a name that does not even exist. He also hates to see anyone other than him getting any attention.
Kapoyongo and the PF police highrachy thought they had a win win plan A and B…….
Plan A was to slap totally bogus charges on HH and keep him locked up until the new year , but he had followers at the police ,
fearing unrest , the PF police activated plan B, which was to execute UPND followers and fill the airwaves with blaming HH for allowing his followers to come to the police…
Unfortunetly the prosecuter was also executed ,
Kapoyongo was well aware of this, just like how he was well aware of the gassings of our people……
All one hears from upnd is hatred and vitroil against Zambia. How can you aspire for national leadership for a country for which you harbour so much hatred?
If ugliness had a name, then it must be Car.Too. Car.
UPND as always speaking nonsense. As messed up as the us is. There are at least those in the Republican Party that actually speak sense from time to time.
The genesis of death of two Zambians is surely because of this man by the name of Hakainde Hichilema. If this man (HH ) had an iota of love for his followers he should have said a word to calm down his followers, but because he is guilty he wants to drag everyone into his filthy dealings. The economy may be bad now but it will surely pick up not because his supporters went to the police headquarters. This is the problem of children who grow up having everything on a silver plate. This man never did any spade work for UPND, but simply for being a Tonga son. Trump is one fresh example, Hichilema is the current one, but the majority of the electorate will not allow this man to ruin our country. Come next year he will be doing more shopping at Cresta mall in Johannesburg because he will not…
If uselessness was a person
Just watch for this video on YouTube…this short Copper Charity Katanga talking about suspects turning into birdmen and Cats…these are senior officer that are going to reform ZP according to our dull President Lazy Lungu ..really laughable.
“Charity Katanga,the embarrassment of the Zambian Police; the case of gassing and phantom cats”
.youtube.com/watch?v=taScT-R_uW8
Zambians know that PF government through Zambia police kills its own citizens. PF party should come up with individual names that killed the two Zambians (MTSP), Zambians have been vindicated that PF is a violent party.
@Tarino, do you own that Utube site, good collection.
Look at that Charity, honestly, what qualities does she posses to be elevated to that position bearing in mind that in 6months time she will be taking over from Kanganja.
The incumbent party was formed and mirrored against the Robert Mugabe party; a party that has turned Zimbabwe from a breadbasket into a basket case! Nothing good was going to come out of such a party. We cannot allow such a party to continue beyond the disastrous 10 years it has had to derail all the good that Zambia had achieved over our very young democracy. The last 5 years of the incumbent tyrannical rule should be a stern warning to our people not make another Zimbabwe out of Zambia. Let the Z be the only similarity between the two most poorest countries of the world. Vote them out!
FORWARD IWE
The command to kill came from Edgar Lungu.
That’s my conclusion
PF must go!
WE WANT CHANGE. PF MUST GO. THEY HAVE FAILED TO PAY RETIREES LUMP SUM. THEY HAVE FAILED TO PAY RETIRED PIPO THEIR REPATRIATION ALLOWANCES SINCE 2013. PAY US WE WANT TO LEAVE GOVERNMENT HOUSES. DONT KILL US WE WANT OUR MONEY.
So that in other words , if they didn’t make any changes it would show that police didn’t kill the two? Wise up katuka. Sometimes keep quiet and let wise chief mukuni speak
Bubi bobe Katuka.na
There is competition of issuing f00lish statements in UP&Down.
this is being dull. who told you to transport these pumpkins there?
PF Up and UPN Down!
Please use your own children as frontline political activists and not ferrying other people’s children in those 32 buses. Mwasuka mwaipaisha abana besu Nsama Nsama na Joseph Kunda mwe filoshi fya bantu mwe. Abash those crocodile tears!
For me UPND expects to benefit in form of sympathetic vote. They are desperate and can even pay a cadre officer to kill. You mean to tell me the the who police hate upnd. Weren’t they celebrating a few months ago when a police officer said takapite. The politics they play is dangerous and I hope zambians will see the for the thugs they are
If you are convinced that police only fired two live bullets and. Accurately killed two people in the head then and am worried for you. My advice is go and have you head checked cause you may be the next surcrifice. Up and down is desperate and they are surcrificing people. Are you ready to die for hertch hercth….
We are now registered voters,see you in the balotfield,we are not damm.sorry to the believed famillies.
So Tarino is KZ, makes sense. Language is the same and using alias to make multiple postings.
This is very dull statement coming from an old man. Ugly as he may be at least he should have brains! Now ugly and no brains, its very rare combination! PF is the party in government and therefore appoints and disappoints public officers! If UPND where in power today, what would they have done. Thanks lord they will never be in power in Zambia! It could entail under 5 leadership! You nicknamed your Hichilema “Trump” in 2016! Is he still Trump?