Zambia Police in Lusaka has recorded a warn and caution statement from Raphael Mangani Nakachinda aged 43 of farm number 1794 Kafue district for the offense of Defamation of the President contrary to section 69 of the penal code chapter 87 of the laws of Zambia.
This is in regard to the statement he issued at High Court grounds on December 13, 2021 and the interview he had on one of the radio stations in Lusaka and is currently detained in Police custody.
While Mr. Nakacinda was being interrogated by officers at Chelstone Police Post, unruly UPND cadres attacked Chelstone Police Station damaging property and causing injuries to individuals.
The said cadres caused a commotion at the Police station as they threw stones at the PF officials, leaving some with injures and some vehicles broken.
Police however managed to contain the situation and apprehended some perpetrators of the illegality.
And PF vice President Given Lubinda bemoaned the illegality. He said the maintenance of democracy in Zambia is dependent on the strength of the Patriotic Front.
“And this small gathering here is proving that we are going to defend democracy. There is no reason why we are going to allow that Police protect culprits at the expense of victims,” he said.
“The Patriotic Front is a peaceful Party and we are demonstrating that even under extreme provocation, we will only run away and run to the police. It is the duty of the police to protect victims and here we are innocent victims.
“A number of our people have been injured, a number of our vehicles have been broken because of hooligans who cannot tolerate democracy. If our man committed an offense let the police investigate. Let the courts of the law adjudicate. It is not up to UPND cadres, UPND thugs to come and dispense justice by throwing stones at peaceful people like this.”
Hon Lubinda said President Hichilema promised to rule the country by the rule of law and wondered whether “this is governance through the rule of law where cadres just come to the police without fear and start throwing stones at the police station.”
THIRD WORLD MINDSETS KEEP THE COUNTRY STAGNATED. UBUPUBA BWEKA BWEKA.
Where do these cadres have the energy and motivation to do these things? Please arrest them and throw away the keys
HH is a man of lies hidden in his stealthy speeches. He acts opposite of what he says. Sad state of affairs. Zambians are watching .
HH is an hypocrite!!
Yeah that is why from now onwards he is known as HHH. Hypocrite Hakainde Hichilema
Can’t put it past the PF to organize their own chaos brigade and label them UPND. The PF thrive on random chaos and random statements from a cast of deplorable characters. Till you earn back our credibility, anything you say is suspect and questionable the more you repeat and emphasize it.
Put whatever label you want on the stone throwers. So long as you lock them up.
When we warned you that upnd was a violent party, you called us liars and you insulted us. When we told you that they won the election through violent means, you called us sore losers. Now what have you arseholes got to say?
LUBINDA SHUT YOUR MOUTH
PF ISNT A PEACEFUL HASNT BEEN WILL NEVER BE
THE PRESIDENT STATED FREEDOM OF SPEECH
SO WHAT ARE THESE COPS DOING
VILLAGE LAW ???
Nakacinda caused all this -blame the pf media dunderhead,,,he’s opening his mouth anyhow.
Where is that book by George Orwell? Its an Animal farm over and over and over. I thought the New Dawn was about a sun rising to shine on different people but exactly what Lungu used to do is now happening. Why do we vote?
Where is that book by George Orwell? Its an Animal farm over and over and over. I thought the New Dawn was about a sun rising to shine on different people but exactly what Lungu used to do is now happening. Why do we vote?
IF ANYTHING, WE WANT PF TO BE A STRONG OPPOSITION TO UPND. UNFORTUNATELY, PF HAS NOT LEARNED A LESSON, THEY ARE STILL LEADING THE OLD TYPE OF POLITICS, THE SAME THAT MADE THEM LOSE. POLITICS OF TRIBAL (KAMBWILI), POLITICS OF ARROGANCE(LUBINDA), POLITICS OF LIES (NAKACINDA), the list goes ON. NO SIGN OF REBRANDING ! WE HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHING COME OUT OF REBRANDING, BUT WE SEE THAT, THE STRATEGY IS :1) COUNTER ANY UPND EFFORT ON CORRUPTION BY FALSELY IMPLICATING UPND MINISTERS AND BLAME/TAG SUCH EFFORTS ON A TRIBAL BASIS. 2) DISCREDIT UPND GOVERNMENT FOR NOT FULFILLING 5YEAR CAMPAIGN PROMISES WITHIN 3MONTHS.AS SUCH PF, YOU CANT BE BETTER THAN UPND.
@Henry 4 Yes That is why he is from now HHH standing for Hypocrite Hakainde Hichilema.
Man this really breaks my heart. I thought this n0nsense and violence went away with Lungu and the PF. Unbelievable! Are these the same PF thngs now dressed as UPND?
And this n0nsense of Defamation of the President… oh my god, UPND is doing exactly what PF did. Is this the reason they don’t to get rid of the POA?
Giving this Nakachinda guy more airtime and publicity than he deserves… this is what the PF wants to stay relevant. Issuing unsubstantiated eild statements to make you react with state power. You ignore him at govt level (send your paid trolls to rebut his wild statements on social media) and it ends there. If UPND ignored PF sycophants, they would drive themselves into oblivion and obscurity… now you are breathing air into them. Poor strategy!
That act needs to change. It was inherited from the British; Kaunda found it too sweet to repeal.
The main reason one of my young cousins voted for Upnd was because of violence by PF members especially at the market where he operates.
Nothing has changed. POLICE instructed by CADRES to arrest Nakachinda. Wow
I earlier mentioned that PF is inviting problems upon itself by provoking the situation a bigger section of our society are still angry with the suffering they inflicted on the Zambians. Instead of reorganizing itself to offer constructive criticism to UPND there are busy spreading falsehood. The majority of our UPND cadres have not recovered the suffering they went under PF nd some hardliners still think there is some unfinished business. Losing candidates from both UPND and PF including some independents petitioned the various seats and rulings have been made in courts of law and we expected people to follow the rule of law but here is some one who is not even an elected MP causing problems. WE have here in Lusaka our members petitions being dismissed like Chawama, Matero, Mandevu,…
The reason why cadres behave like this is lack of employment. After many years without jobs these people have morphed into a body that moves in any direction that will have some financial reward at the end of the day. Believe it or not, their families wait for dad to come home in the evening with goodies for them just like any normal working man. It’s become a trade in its own right.
Firstly, the police must wake up. They seem not to have learnt enough lessons and that whenever a senior political thug in the name of a political party senior member is summoned by them (police) these same senior CARDERS organize, actually pay some little money to their rank and file militant carders to intimidate the police and the general government system.
And when their opposite colleagues see that, they also organize themselves to show that they are equal to the dirty task!
Who is to blame? The police are too relaxed.
ADVICE TO POLICE FROM IG DOWN
Mr IG, your honour Mr Kajoba, Sir, tell your police officers to be PROACTIVE, NOT REACTIVE.
Tell them to be circling any police station where these politicians are summoned for queries. But keep on summoning these…
The British, whose constitution you keep amending, have long done away with such archaic laws. In fact most recently the word and penalty of and for “Insult” was expunged from the British constitution. The Irish have even banned blasphemy. The world is moving along. Catch up you fellas. Mukuti New Dawn. Show us. A mambala.
New Dawn govt please use the cyber law so many Pf *****S insulting and calling the President un palatable names on LT. LT HAS TURNED INTO a Graffiti Site by PF Cadres.
Here we go again. Same book different page. What will it take for us to rid ourselves from situation where cadres can instruct the police to arrest same as it was in PF now this, you might be tempted to regret the way one voted .
The curse of cadreism runs deep!
#plant a tree now please!
Same thugs, different colour.
A bad tree can never bear good fruit… Hichilema MUST apology to the people of Zambia for liars, fake problems…
It’s PF 2.0 all over again. Same thuggery, different clothing. Also the archaic law, “Defamation of the President,” should be done away with. It’s a colonial law that has no place in a democratic society. By UPND entertaining the arresting of people for defaming HH only shows that they’re not any different from the previous regime. If they continue down this path, they’ll be a one term party. I was hopeful that under UPND, sanity will prevail and things will change for the better in Zambia. It seems not. Disappointed.