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Zambia Police always look the other way when PF cadres are assaulting political opponents

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By Sean Tembo Pep President

1. As Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP), we are saddened by the recent incident in which a senior Civil Servant was harassed by alleged PF cadres in front of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Works and Supply. We have further taken note of the condemnation and arrest of the perpetrators by the Government and Zambia Police Service respectively. We have also noted the denials from the PF party that the perpetrators are not their cadres. Our view on this matter is that for about 10 years now, the PF and its Government has allowed, tolerated and to a large extent facilitated and encouraged its cadres to break the law and harass innocent citizens with impunity and without consequences.

2. As Patriots for Economic Progress, we wish to remind the PF and its Government that it is PF cadres led by their Lusaka Province Youth Chairman that disrupted a panel discussion and harassed participants at Intercontinental Hotel in Lusaka in full view of armed police officers who did nothing. It is also PF cadres led by its then Lusaka Province Chairman that attacked a PeP procession along Cairo Road and assaulted innocent PeP Members with impunity and again in full view of police officers. The PF and its Government should also be reminded that it is PF cadres that stormed the offices of the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) in Rhodes Park and threatened violence against its then President. The PF and its Government should further be reminded that it is PF cadres led by its Eastern Province Youth Chairman that stormed the Lusaka Central Police Station and assaulted police officers in uniform and got away with only a slap on the wrist by the DPP.

3. As Patriots for Economic Progress, we wish to challenge the PF and its Government to tell the nation what has now changed for them to suddenly start condemning and arresting their cadres when they go on rampage to harass and assault innocent citizens as the case was at the Ministry of Works and Supply. It is important for the PF and its Government to explain to the people of Zambia if they have changed their policy regarding encouraging the lawlessness and impunity of their cadres, because we, the citizens of this nation had gotten used to being harassed and assaulted by PF cadres in full view of the Police.

Most citizens do not even report incidents of lawlessness and violence by PF cadres because there simply is no point in doing so, as no action is ever taken by either the Zambia Police Service or the Government. Therefore, if the PF and its Government have now decided to stop aiding and abetting the lawlessness and impunity of its cadres, then they need to formally inform the Zambia people.

4. As Patriots for Economic Progress, our view is that the PF Government’s policy of using the Zambia Police Service to protect and in some cases facilitate the lawlessness of its cadres in harassing and assaulting innocent citizens is unlikely to have changed.

The actions by the Secretary to Cabinet to condemn the Ministry of Works and Supply incident, as well as the actions by the Zambia Police Service to arrest the perpetrators constitutes mere grandstanding. It is not founded on sincerity and honesty. The only reason why the PF and its Government were compelled to act against the culprits in this particular incident is because they were vividly captured on video and they had no room to deny the occurrence of the incident, as they always do.

5. As Patriots for Economic Progress, we wish to take this opportunity to appeal to President Edgar Lungu, in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, to have a change of heart regarding the use of the Zambia Police Service to facilitate political violence perpetrated by PF cadres against political opponents in the upcoming general elections.

It is a well documented fact that the Police always look the other way when PF cadres are assaulting political opponents, but when the victims defend themselves, the Police quickly arrest them. It must be noted that the facilitation of political violence by a state organ such as the Zambia Police Service constitutes state-sponsored terrorism. It is terrorism against innocent citizens, on the basis of their political affiliation, and is prosecutable as a crime against humanity by the International Criminal Court. The President must take heed now.

Thank You and May God Bless the Good Citizens of the Republic of Zambia and Our Ailing Nation.

15 COMMENTS

  1. Zambia Police have now become a partisan arm of Patriotic Fraudsters.Neutrality and professionalism are alien concepts to them.

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  2. Sean Tembo, you ought to be crystal clear where you stand; you have been supporting the Plunderers to the Fullest, then all of a sudden today you’re throwing them under the bus.

    Consistency ebuntu young man!

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  3. Under ECL Constitutional Democracy is dead. There is no respect for the Constitution, Rule of Law,Good and Human Rights. Zambia is now a Police and PF Cadres State. People are killed, abducted, harassed etc with impunity. The Panga Family has empowered its Cadres to reign Supreme over ZPS and the Public Sector. All this lawlessness is driven from the very top and we know who!

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  4. The international community is closely watching the events in Zambia. These political machinations were used by Adolf Hittler in Germany to kill opponents but ultimately the international national community stopped the madness . Kampyongo is leading this country to flames ! We all know the end of those who persecuted others .

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  5. Sean Tembo has now returned to himself.
    I may add: It was known PF cadres sent from Lusaka to go all to Luanshya to r@pe Kambwili’s mother.
    I am sorry Kambwili, but PF need apologize to you, not you apologizing to them.
    Today Sean looks more wiser than Kambwili and GBM.

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  6. It’s because the cadres have been given more power than the police. This is simply satanic.

    How can cadres be beating up men in uniforms and get away without prosecutions?

    This is one area PF need to be called what they are. And the buck stops at President Lungu’s bedroom door step.

  7. The police officers are working under very difficult and frustrating circumstances. You head it loud and clear when the Service Public Relations officer/Spokesperson stated that the police are scared to deal firmly with cards for fear of losing their jobs. If you want to prove this just hang around the major roads when the PF has a function or funeral for cadre. That is when you see cadres hanging on mini bus windows, driving at break neck speed in short they have disregard for traffic rules. They threaten to deal with police officers who get in their ways. Given the current situation where parents are keeping college and university graduates without jobs who can blame looking the other way. The cadres they taken it upon themselves that they propelled the current govt through their hard…

  8. LET’S NOT BIT ABOUT THE BUSH, THIS THE PF POLICE BEING RUN LIKE KATONDO STREET ENTERPRISE. WHO MASTER MINDED THE GASSING GENOCIDE, NOW THEY ARE ARRESTING PEOPLE ON THE BASED OF THEIR TRIBE.
    Watch “Where are the Hatembos? Elias Munshya digs deep into this scandal!” on YouTube

  9. wanzelu May 4, 2017
    Kambwili is on Lungu ‘s hit list for posing a threat to Lungu ‘s presidential ambitions to rule forever.
    All his accidents have the hall marks of Zim mugabe style of clean elimination. The fact that a car rammed into vehicle shows that Lungu ‘s men under Kaiser’s supervision want Kambwili out .
    Kambwili is also to blame for his misery thats why some of us have little sympathy to his situation. When he was PF info minister he spewed a lot of rubbish against HH.
    I can imagine what he would have said about HH ‘s case if he was still info minister!
    I have constantly warned PF stooges like Mmmembe including Kaiser that propping up a dictator has very short lived benefits because a dictator can suddenly change against you when his fear of being overthrown or killed by…

  10. At last Sean Tembo has woken from a deep slumber and is now smelling the Coffee. The ECL Govt has politicised ZPS, Civil Service, Public Sector etc. Since the violent PF Convention in 2014 PF Cadres are operating above the law. When u see PF Cadres invading the Central Police Station and beating Policemen on duty without being arrested then u know that Rule of Law is dead in Zambia. Should ECL and PF steal another 5 years Term then u can expect these PF Cadres and thugs to be more arrogant and vicious. Zambia will become a One Man Party State Dictatorship where these PF Cadres and thugs will reign Supreme. The writing is on the wall.

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    wanzelu May 4, 2017
    I have constantly warned PF stooges like Mmmembe including Kaiser that propping up a dictator has very short lived benefits because a dictator can suddenly change against you when his fear of being overthrown or killed by his close allies grips him. Every dictator has from time time to time eliminated those close to him.
    So RB, Kaiser, Amos, Kapyongo, Mumbi, Kamba, and all those who think they have Lungu under their control have not got much longer to enjoy their glory under Dictator Lungu.
    I want all those I mentioned above to think about what would stop Lungu from killing them or arresting on trumped up charges to have them locked away so that no one can blackmail him any more.
    Right now Lungu is tasting his power on his opponents with the help of his…

  12. Hi Sean, a question for you. If ACC is investigating somebody for having 48 houses, what are they then waiting for to investigate Kambwili’s self declared 70 properties

  13. One day these same cadres will turn on them. We all must condemn violence. When KK condemned violence and coup de tar the MMD thought he was joking. They even paraded Mwamba Luchembe as a national hero at their rallies. In October 1998 they also danced chikokoshi when Captain Solo took over for some hours and that’s when they realized that violence isn’t good. The PF shouldn’t think those cadres are with them, they do what they do to anybody as long as they’re paid.

  14. BREAKING NEWS!! President of Chad has been killed by his nations army after he announced that he won the elections he rigged! Who’s next!?

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