19th February 2015
Mr. Hakainde Hichilema
UPND Secretariat
Lusaka
REF: IN CASE PRESIDENT EDGAR LUNGU DOES NOT REPLY SINCE YOU USED THE WRONG ADDRESS
Dear Mr. Hichilema,
Considering that you addressed your letter purported to have been addressed to His Excellency President Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, in the public domain, as a member of the general public, I have taken the liberty to not only react to your letter but raises one or two issues you may have to deal with as in-house before attempting to acquire moral authority on the question of violence. President of the Republic of Zambia.
I also was of the opinion that as a person seeking the highest office in the land, you cheapened yourself by descending to the levels of Mike Mulongoti and league who have nothing to lose in the endeavour. Mr. Hichilema, you had an opportunity to come out as a statesman and should have left that letter to one of your officials or in a worst case scenario, allowed your Deputy Spokesperson, attached to the Post Newspaper, Cornelius Mweetwa. The feeling I got, and I stand to be corrected, was that you intended to attain some cheap political mileage and transfer the violent tag on PF, and President Lungu would be cheapening his Office if he responded to a letter availed to the public and which was not intended to raise substantive debate. In short, your letter was unpresidential and subtracted as opposed to adding to what you must be.
As a concerned senior citizen, let me avoid being completely dismissive and commend you for waking up from your slumber to realize that violence is bad and negates our democracy in a big way. In the same breathe, I will condemn attacks on your life but also commend President Lungu for acting promptly to the sad development. His swift action must be commended by all of us who want to be sincere. For those who missed the news, the President send the Deputy Inspector of Police to the Copperbelt Province and PF Copperbelt provincial chairman Stephen Kainga and eight others have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack on you as United Party for National Development leader on Wednesday last week. So Mr Kainga was arrested together with PF Copperbelt vice youth chairman Stanley Mulumbwa popularly known as ‘Chandindi’, some jerabos and three other PF members. I must say that such is not easy for an African President to do!
As a senior citizen and a freedom fighter, let me note that Zambians from across the Political divide have called on the UPND to abandon its infamous Mapatizya Formula. This is the formula that your right hand man and confidant, Hon. Garry Nkombo has continued to glorify. I am asking that before you can become a Saint, Mr. Hichilema, begin by asking UPND and Mr. Nkombo to denounce the violent Mapatizya formula. The fact that you have failed to prevail over Mr. Nkombo’s religious belief that there is virtue in the Mapatizya Formula, I am left with no option but to believe that as UPND leader, you are the chief architect and Apostle of the said infamous violent and intolerant formula. Prove me wrong by counselling Mr. Nkombo and cleansing UPND from the filthy Mapatizya formula, a formula which drips with blood of innocent Zambian citizens!
As a senior Citizen, I was in Mufumbwe and I can recount event for you, Mr. Hichilema. You may recall that on May 4, 2005, the UPND held a Press briefing to announce the name of their adopted candidate for the by-elections on June 9, 2005 for Kalulushi on the Copperbelt and Mapatizya in Kalomo, Southern Province. The UPND adopted Ackson Sejani as candidate for Mapatizya. Mr. Sejani was a former minister of Local Government in the Frederick Chiluba government. At this conference, Mr Sejani announced that he had declared what he termed as a ‘’Jihad Political War’’. He alleged that the war was directed against the MMD’s “electoral corruption and rigging”. During the subsequent political campaigns, Mr Sejani’s campaign team organised a ‘militia’ that attacked government vehicles, impounded food supply convoys, held meetings without permits and harassed government ministers and caused wanton mayhem against the MMD camp.
Mr. Hichilema, you may recall that during that time, then Southern Province Minister, Ms. Alice Simango, was forced to transfer certain police officers accusing them of failing to prevent attacks against Government ministers, citizens and MMD members from the UPND. This is the model now infamously known as the “Mapatizya Formula” in the UPND. Mr. Hichilema, you know as much as I do that this formula involves the disregard of the law and the taking of the law in their own hands. The formula also promotes anarchy to ‘’correct and prevent rigging.’’ Mr. Hichilema, you know as much as I do, that this formula also encourages cadres to resort to violent methods every time they suspect electoral malpractice and unfair campaign methods. Mr. Hichilema, you know as much as I do that this formula also encourages officials to disregard the authority of the police, or ECZ officials who are deemed to be part of the ‘’rigging infrastructure’’. This is what UPND, through Mr. Garry Nkombo glorifies as your Party’s election strategy! Deny it!
Mr. Hichilema, you may recall that on June 16, 2005, Civil Society Groupings led by FODEP president then Sam Mulafulafu condemned those elections as not being free and fair owing to the high level of intimidation, violence and corruption. Mr. Mulafulafu stated that the elections defied, violated and breached Regulation 51, and Section 18 of the Electoral Act, Cap 13 of the Laws of Zambia. He had also feared that the level of violence would impact negatively the upcoming 2006 General Elections.
Mr. Hichilema, you may recall that when you took over the UPND from the late Anderson Kambela Mazoka, under very damaging political circumstances bordering on tribe, you promised to bring clean and issue based politics. While your leadership was birthed on a tribal cradle, you attempted as hard as you have tried over the years, to shed off the tribal tag that UPND has adorned for many years. Whether as a result of frustration, you have displayed crude conduct and his speeches have been characterised by threats of violence, and foul language, especially in light of your 20th January 2015 Presidential defeat and the successive six (6) Parliamentary by-elections you have lost as UPND under President Lungu’s Presidency. This is beside the point, but you know that your cadres, indoctrinated by Mapatizya formula launched a Jihad in Mulobezi’s recent by-elections in which your candidate lost and you have not condemned the acts. It is therefore not surprising that to win any Parliamentary seat, UPND has to resort to its discredited template, the Mapatizya Formula, and because Mr. Nkombo tells the nation that this is UPND’s election formula!
But maybe Mr. Hichilema is having a change of heart that will see him depart from his cruder and foul language, from his conduct which has been more thuggish and his ambitions for leadership which have been more diseased. This is possible if you, Mr. Hichilema could denounce the Mapatizya Formula and publicly counsel Mr. Nkombo.
Mr. Hichilema, you are also aware that it was under your leadership that UPND and its National Management Committee decided to adopt the so called Mapatizya Formula as the method of winning the Mufumbwe by-election. Mr. Hichilema, you know too well that the Mufumbwe by-election was very important to the UPND to prove their own analysis that claimed that voters are likely to revert to the 2001 voting patterns with UPND regaining its strength. You and your team thought that the UPND had regained the so called ‘’Mazoka’s Provinces’’ and in order to prepare for the possible split with the PF, UPND had to be seen to have capacity to win the forthcoming 2011 General Elections alone. On this premise, it was important that Mufumbwe was won- at all cost.
Mr. Hichilema, you may recall that during the Mapatizya by-election, you chose to camp in Mufumbwe during the entire campaign period. The UPND, under your leadership, transported known violent cadres from Lusaka and the Copperbelt and formed ‘’crack squads’’ to ‘’match the William Banda Militia’’. When the campaigns were underway, the MMD campaign teams were joined by cadres from Lusaka and the Copperbelt. Due to the critical shortage of accommodation, the MMD cadres found themselves boarding and lodging at a school.
Mr. Hichilema you know that in line with the Mapatizya Formula, the UPND camp, when it learnt of this, decided to ransack and attack the MMD camp claiming that their presence at the school violated electoral laws as the school would be a polling station on Election Day. You will recall that the UPND cadres chose a period when most MMD cadres had accompanied their leaders to political campaigns, attacked the camp, stole cadres food supplies, blankets and beer. Upon return, the MMD cadres found their colleagues beaten and their supplies stolen. They were riled. They planned and later staged a retaliatory attack that saw the then Member of Parliament and UPND vice-president Richard Kapita, now PF Member, injured in the ensuing clashes.
Mr. Hichilema, you will recall how you played innocent victim and stormed the police station demanding Justice. I know you agree that from then on, the violence escalated between the two camps turning our peaceful quiet and serene rural district of Mufumbwe into a place of violence, running battles and all sorts of mayhem. The violence culminated into a violent abduction and brutal beating of a police constable Elijah Chiluba on polling day, who was abducted by a group led by UPND Solwezi MP, Watson Lumba. The officer who was accused of being a former MMD cadre was treated to the Mapatizya Formula guidelines that are ‘’intended to protect the will of the people and prevent electoral malpractice.’’
Finally, Mr. Hichilema, I present to you that gather courage by stopping Mr. Nkombo’s call for Mapatizya Formula and further tell the nation that UPND has departed from this violent formula which drips of innocent citizen’s blood. I know that if you close your eyes and flash back your memory to Mufumbwe, you’ll see those bloody images and then you will agree that there is nothing honourable about the so-called Mapatizya formula. Today, you held a press briefing to discredit the pardoning of General Kanene and ended by inciting an eye for an eye when you declared that you will not be intimidated by recent attacks on your life and went on to call on the youths in Lusaka to be vigilant and protect each other from all forms and intimidation. I have lived long enough to know what you are asking your youths to do. Stop it!
Johnstone Ilunga
Freedom Fighter and Senior Citizen
Mufumbwe
Good attempt. But mark ball not person in future.
We are waiting for the real response from the head of state himself
HH is a purveyor of doom. He has no good intentions for Zambia, to him attaining the presidency is like a business deal, he wants to have it as a possession. Sorry HH not Zambia.
mmmmm 19th February 2015
Dear Mr. Ilunga,
What on earth are you trying to prove?.
Are you trying to prove to yourself you are one clever man, or are you trying to yourself you are more clever than Mr. Hakainde. Your nonsensical string of unintelligibly incoherent babbling and incomprehensibly grunted utterances against HH has made a case against darwinist evolution and all related schools of thought. You do not like Mr Hakainde clearly, it is truly baffling how you can manage to allocate enough mental processing to not only find, but to also wipe your own backside after such a grandiose display of verbal incontinence as a senior citizen
Iam not fan of UPND but you have made an utter mockery of the english language and should stay retired and in obscurity.
You are a disgrace !
Thanks
BB2014
I wonder how much this cadre got paid?
LT, your voting (up/down) system s@cks, fix it!!!!!!!
Every culture develops over time (months, years, centuries, even over millennia.) And the culture of violence being witnessed in Zambian politics today is no different. Now, if you UPND cadres want to discredited Mr. Ilunga for reminding you of what could as well be the genesis of your violent attitudes, you are doing so at your own peril. Violence never rewarded your now ADVISOR to HH, William Tekere Banda when he was MMD “father of mayhem.”
Yes, the writing could be better, but that’s what you expect from a senior citizen whose schooling was probably up to STANDARD FOUR given the limitations imposed on this generation by the colonials. But all in whole, take time to analyze and be self-critical as a party. Political violence usually has no winners—but DEATH only!
Is Johnstone Ilunga looking for a job from the President? Perhaps, he could simply write an application letter to State House, instead of wasting his time on HH.
Dear Mr. Johnstone Ilunga,
PLEASE BEFORE YOU WRITE SUCH LETTERS. PLEASE THINK AND TALK SENSE, ESPECIALLY FROM AN ELDERLY LIKE YOU. THE TRUTH IS HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY LUNGU AND HIS FOLLOWS – THAT IS WHAT HH WAS POINTING OUT AND THAT IS FACT. I AND MANY ZAMBIANS FINDING THAT LUBGU’S IS LEADING THE COUNTRY TO THE DESTRUCTION
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Ati Freedom fighter and senior citizen- full of water in the head and cheap PF propaganda. I couldn’t even read your nonsense up to the end. Fortunately, every normal thinking Zambian knows what Mapatizya formula was all about and how the MMD at the time and today the PF are trying to manipulate its purpose for political mileage. Only useless heads like yours feed and believe in their lies.
Ilunga my brother!!!! How on earth can you write such things? Are you immune to suffering/ I am sure you did not sit down to think before you wrote this article. Maybe you wanted to see if you can provoke criticism from people which to my opinion you have managed to do.
Edgar is just a fool
You cheap Ilunga. U have no shame to even respond mafi yobe
Actually it is your leaders and chiefs who foolish by convening a conference for Chama.
You have failed to refute the points Ilunga raised therefor making him right. Who foolish then? The people who fail to challenge Ilunga by points he raised. It is as simple as that. Another lone man is shaking the entire UNPD and SP.
I hope you will hold another meeting in SP to discuss Ilunga’s letter.
You are a shame indeed!!!!
Deliberate misrepresentation of facts surrounding the so – called Mapatizya Formula. Suit yourselves.
Thank you good citizen and patriot.
I am off for evening worship to thank God for our President Lungu and for His favour upon President Lungu to continue into the next 5 years and beyond as the greatest President Zambia has had.
UPND can doubt the authority I write with, to confirm that President Edgar Chagwa Lungu is favoured to return, but that’s to be expected. They have no time for God in truth and little less time for his Prophets!
So I shall tarry no more.
Mr. Ilunga must just hang himself by the balls. How is he going to pay ALL those he is accusing things? I never read such dirty except from bandits.
I think Mushala’s fighters are regrouping.
Your insults only confirm that Ilunga is right because you are not challenging over what he said. I expect you to give a formidable rebuttal and not insults. When others talk to you in a similar manner, you convene a conference for the entire province.
Do not try insulting me because I cause you to convene a provincial meeting with my response.
What an attitude!!! So childish!!! and you say you have leaders!!!
Ilunga has done a good thing. He ha presented what he considers facts to prove that UPND has used violent methods to prevent rigging which methods include suspected corruption. The senior citizen has not traded insults to get his point across as many so-called “defenders” of the ruling party do. Ilunga has demonstrated high levels of integrity, respect for HH and UPND by sticking to what he considers issues the biggest opposition should address in order to reduce or even eradicate political violence. It now remains for HH and UPND to respond and bring out facts and evidence that compelled them to adopt the so-called Mapatizya formula. Merely denying it will not suffice. UPND must respond with substance. Remember that this is an opportunity for a lively debate to 2016. SERIOUS.
Mr Ilunga, I doubt you very much ,if at all you wrote this article”impossible” your president ready it and apologized . Dont worry, he reads all the papers including watchdog, before jumping of the bed.
Are you looking for promotion?
HH , 2016, chabe.
Long winded with no substance if you ask me? All the points in this article, of which there is only one, could have been covered in one paragraph!
Therefore, you lie to yourself because you got that point from the long winded treat in one paragraph!
So there is some points!!! So Ilunga is right.
Thanks Ilunga. Your comments still go unchallenged!!!! CONGRATULATIONS. You have no opponents against your comments. You hit the nail on the head and that head is HH and UPND. OUCH!!!!!
This article writer has good points, but, wrong timing, wrong audience, wrong/no objective. Please, avoid writing and sending everything you dream at night, to the public domain!
Freedom Fighter!,,very good analysis of History of Political Conflicts between
UPND,MMD and PF…
“May I request in your long life how much you have given today just to not denounce
1.Davies Chama-“For introducing Cow Boy “Duels” in Mulobezi,two people shot and wounded.
-“Insulting a whole Pupulation of Tongas-I think Here Davies Chama has incited,or sowed more division in the country!
3.”Steven Kampyongo-A Minister who lead Panga Family in Shiwangandu to attack a Helicopter…Have ever imagined what could have happened had that Helicopter crashed…
4.”Mumbi Phiri who calls HH ati Kachema.
With all due respect after you recieve a Bribe,,,”What did you do when you termed your struggle “Cha Cha Cha”…Education must be on both sides not where you are oiled..Any lets…
some senior citizens just grow in years but lack brains hence no wisdom.How can the whole senior citizen become a vuvuzela of bad behaviour.Ilunga Johnstone please just be ready with the undertakers and leave the issues of the future of our country because you may not be there.What HH said is for him and Lungu to provide leadership and end violence by their cadres including you since you are an old cadre.
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
Harlan Ellison
“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
Milan Kundera
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
Walter Cronkite
please tell this cadre we are interested in the fight free future and not the bloody past
John Ilunga there is practically no substance in what you have written. Am PF but come 2016 am giving HH my vote, only fools like you can be cheated. Ati senior citizen, ma rubbish.
who cares with your vote?
As long as UPND bloggers/supporters continue trashing every piece of good advice from well-meaning senior citizens like Mr. Ilunga, they can forget about my vote in 2016.
You are not the sum total of Zambia. If you prefer dictatorship and economic strangulation keep voting for PF.
As the masses suffer, one day even if it is 27 years from now they will rise, like happened in the MMD revolution, to say NO to:
…violence
…corruption
…massive borrowing (HIPC)
…unemployment
…failure of health system
…wako-ni-wako wamuvumo (EL specialty)
…bribing of chiefs
…tenderprenuership
…lack of vision
…icu economics
Keep your dirty vote to yourself. A good leader does not need myopic and senseless votes. Why are PF cadres arrested in Kitwe if they did nothing g wrong.
Ilunga is a sponsored ***** who can sell his soul to the devil. The country is bigger than any individual.
Thank you Ilunga for at least enlightening me on what the so-called Mapatizya is. None of the cadres both from the ruling party or UPND have attempted to do so. They are only doing what they are good at: insults and worshipping the leaders of their respective political parties. Insulting ilunga for expressing his views does not help an analytical voter to decide who to vote for. My advice to both HH and President Lungu is that they should reflect on Ilunga’s letter. The UPND had reasons for adopting some survival strategy against the ruling MMD and now PF. History cannot be buried if we are to better the future. Rwanda did not bury the bones of those slain in the genocide lest their children repeat actions that led to it. MMD did a lot of rigging and both PF and UPND were victims.
This senior citizen is old and unwise! He has very little time to learn wisdom since he is already old, possibly close to the grave!! Nonetheless Mr senior citizen, god and get your envelope of cancer money from those who sent you to write the letter. Remember, corruption is evil and comes with acurse
Just like your childish HH, you never learn nor listen. that is why you continue to make useless political mistakes that make your party unattractive and uninteresting.
HH and UPND have a record of insulting and disrespecting senior citizens. You used to say we should vote for a youthful HH but now that age has caught up with him what are you going to say? You so short-sighted political armatures.
What a shame. You will lose again in 2016 if you do not rebrand your party.
Ba Freedom Fighter…I am organising “Clement Dimba”aka as “General Kanini”…educate him on your useless undocumented struggle for freedom..
I am sure he will compose a song for you free of charge ,all you have to do let is let loose in the evenings,,,by the way he is a freind of ECL if you have seen his video..
I wish well now that you have recieved money for your seeds and fertiliser,,dont waste time on the internet…Its for Other Freedom Fighters like “Henry Kanyanta Sosala”,,The Chitimukulu…I enjoy his articles!
“You may recall”
“You may recall”
“You may recall”
“You may recall”
That’s how I stopped reading the article
Sure dwelling on outdated issues in this era! In this cadre freedom fighter holds true that he has chosen wisdom as an option with age.
Every culture develops over time (months, years, centuries, even over millennia.) And the culture of violence being witnessed in Zambian politics today is no different. Now, if you UPND cadres want to discredited Mr. Ilunga for reminding you of what could as well be the genesis of your violent attitudes, you are doing so at your own peril. Violence never rewarded your now ADVISOR to HH, William Tekere Banda when he was MMD “father of mayhem.”
Yes, the writing could be better, but that’s what you expect from a senior citizen whose schooling was probably up to STANDARD FOUR given the limitations imposed on this generation by the colonials. But all in whole, take time to analyze and be self-critical as a party. Political violence usually has no winners—but DEATH only!
Yes @Chosen one! You did well to stop at “you may recall” because that is where upnd failed. Though you may choose to ignore it, you may recall that that is where mistrust for the upnd in the nation stems from. You are annoyed at the pardon Kanene received coz his recent past stinks. Yet, you may recall, that Hakainde has a stinking past too!!! MAY YOU RECALL? Coz we do recall!
In the first place, how do you respond to a letter not addressed to you? Secondly the only issue talked about in this article is Mapatizya formula, why not respond to the issues addressed in HH’s letter. Thirdly, in case ECL apologies for the occurrences to HH, which in my mind I expect to be done considering that HH was very civil and honestly respected his excellence in his letter, how will you feel. You are not even a freedom fighter because if you were, you would not tolerate cadres of any part hacking fellow human being. Let posterity judge you freedom fighter. My judgement is YOU ARE FAKE.
The truth hurts
Useless and archaic analysis. Davis Chama just shot somebody and the president is protecting him. The president should not be involved in the police work. The police supposed to be indepedent. PF has done more damage to this country through violence which was never started by UPND. PF even fight among themselves. Mapatizya formula means defending the constitution of Zambia, period!
He has told you the truth. Tell HH to tame Nkombo.
This is rubbish
Useless iilunga aka ‘freedom fighter’,very useless indeed,such trashes belongs to morons & cronies of PF-useless article!
A very good reminder to HH. HH must also tell Nkombo to stop his Mapatizya formula he uses always when there is an election in the UPND-stong hold. It stuns me seeing violence whenever an election is taking place in the UPND-strong hold. When an election is in the PF-strong hold there is no violence. I now get it that its coz of Nkombo’s Mapatizya formula. Shame on HH and Nkombo.
The reason is simple, there can never be violence in PF stronghold because there are no aggressors. There is violence in UPND stronghold because PF uses intimidation and violence to win the sit. I wonder why some educated people limit there thinking and analysis of issues
A useless letter. I regret spending time reading it. For clarity, I am PF but I belong to the logical group.
This guy is better off writing a proposal on alternative sources of energy to alleviate the load shedding than this junk. UPND, just organise yourselves and eject these clear failures. Wasn’t mealie meal 35k three years ago. How much is it now? Instead of writing something to advise the current government to pull up their socks, somebody has time to waste by writing to HH
It is madness to continue doing the same thing and expect different results.
Do not waste time advising UPND, they are now used to losing. Afterall it is the only time HH shares his money with the poor.
We wish him long stay in the opposition and keep sharing his cash with the poor followers.
This is a display of utter ignorance by the most backward PF Cadre still living in 2005 in the MMD Admnstration era!
The problem is that even Idi.ots and imb.eciles like Ilunga who dont know what they are doing in life have a right to expose their ignorance!! What an Ar.se Ilunga is!!
No man , Ilunga has told HH the truth. HH and Nkombo must throw away the Mapatizya formula period.
Whoever wrote this is a very f.o.o.i.s.l duo I.d.i.o.t we have no time for useless cadres here.
No man , Ilunga has told you the truth.
@Zambia where is here? You seem stunned by hearing the genesis of your demigod? I mean, such are the truths hakainde would NEVER love being revealed to you, his goons! Be thankful to Ilunga coz he has opened your .ar.ses or eyes!
From the majority of responses here, one can tell that UPND supporters cannot take any advice/criticism, they are very self-centered, and think they know it all. These are the traits that the Zambian voter will punish heavily next year.
@Observer not everyone who blogs against EL belongs to opposition. We see things as right or wrong only! What is right can not be wrong and vice versa. I am a moralist and true believe if we all followed (including EL and HH) we would have a better country where people would trade in the right places and people would willingly pay taxes because it shows!
Wonders will never cease to amaze us. Obviously this cadre did not read HH’s letter. Had he done so, he would have realized that HH is calling for all political party leaders without exception to control their cadres and condemn violence, uphold peace and peaceful association of all citizens within the confines of our beautiful Zambia. Any logical person will find nothing wrong with HH’s letter infact that is a call that has been long overdue.
Digging for old issues on which to try and pin HH will not help Zambia. We all know that senior citizen was paid handsomely to write that response or he might as well be “Katondo boys.” The impotent mapatizya formular of 1945 is history and very irrelevant. The issue is stopping the current gun wielding cadres who are firing guns…
In your annoyed state, you believe Garry Nkombo hatched the formular at the end of world war II?
They are busy writing to HH now. Meanwhile economy is in the doldrums. Will these chaps ever learn. And I agree,mealie meal was 30kwacha a couple of years ago, and it is now 80 kwacha and you call that, improving the economy, address what you were mandated to do and stop this letter business
LT Dont Remove again,
“Freedom Fighter!,,very good analysis of History of Political Conflicts between
UPND,MMD and PF…
“May I request in your long life how much you have given today just to not denounce
1.Davies Chama-“For introducing Cow Boy “Duels” in Mulobezi,two people shot and wounded.
-“Insulting a whole Pupulation of Tongas-I think Here Davies Chama has incited,or sowed more division in the country!
3.”Steven Kampyongo-A Minister who lead Panga Family in Shiwangandu to attack a Helicopter…Have ever imagined what could have happened had that Helicopter crashed…
4.”Mumbi Phiri who calls HH ati Kachema.
With all due respect after you recieve a Bribe,,,”What did you do when you termed your struggle “Cha Cha Cha”…Education must be on both sides not where you are oiled..Any…
PF best six – Exchange rate, Fail, Price stability – Fail, Violence – Pass, Wage freeze – Pass, Fuel prices – fail, Power Supply – Fail
Maxwell, you have hit the nail on the head. Also distinction in insults and tribalism, that’s PF
HH’s letter is very logical.its what leaders should be encouraging. Living together in harmony
Look chaps, zambia had chachacha campaign when there was need, Mapatizya formula when there was need( it’s no longer there now), let’s move on. HH has set the good tone
I am neither PF no UPND, but at the end of the day I am a Zambian and I care a lot about Zambia.
My point is let us stop being partisan in dealing with issues affecting us whether directly or indirectly. The so called senior citizen is fake and is being very partisan because he is not really saying anything tangible apart from trying to prove so hard that UPND is a violent party also, which in reality is not.
HH’s call for all to stop violence is/has been applauded by all well meaning Zambians including Lungu himself. As such it is really hard to find meaning in the senior citizen’s letter.
Let us love Zambia for Zambia and we should be able to call a spade as such if we are to take Zambia forward.
You are dull coward UPND cadre iwe. Whom can you cheat that your not UPND nor PF ….ooo my nose!!! And yet you come out as a staunch UPND cadre.
Total failure by PF. Economy both on its knees and ICU
Ilunga the name sounds like he is congole. You are hopeless and visionary myopic. Brain smashed
Have you considered rebutting what he said? If you cannot, then Ilunga is right. His brian is working pretty well because no one from UPND is opposing the points he made. All you are doing is insult him.
He has hit you where it hurts with the truth. We have always said HH is not a politician. He is naive.
It seems on here now to get some ticks up, one ought to be pro-hh… I won’t say anything anti-hh for now. ..
But were hh to lose in 2016, could the upnd pilizii give us (provide Zambia) with a winner and a formidable opposition for the 2021 general elections!!
I don’t agree with you. I am very neutral, but I get ticks up all the time because what I am say make sense to fellow bloggers.
Meant to write “what I say”
This man was paid to publish this article
Definitely he was and he has a responsibility to prove that he is fulfilling the agreement. Otherwise there is no way he couldn’t have written such a winding senseless letter.
This so called letter could have been written in no more than five paragraphs. That’s the problem with some retirees trying to prove their relevance in a fast changing world but with myopic outdated strategies. When you have people like Ilunga in a poor country, politicians get even moe confused.
We have tried UNIP, MMD and PF and now try UPND come 2016.
Kaunda tried wamuyaya and failed. Zambia is for all. Next is 2016 for HHS and UPND
My advise to you is not to pacify yourself with dreams of HH winning in 2016 coz you will collapse dead now. your HH will lose terribly man.
Dear Mr. Johnstone Ilunga,
PLEASE BEFORE YOU WRITE SUCH LETTERS. PLEASE THINK AND TALK SENSE, ESPECIALLY FROM AN ELDERLY LIKE YOU. THE TRUTH IS HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY LUNGU AND HIS FOLLOWS – THAT IS WHAT HH WAS POINTING OUT AND THAT IS FACT. I AND MANY ZAMBIANS FINDING THAT LUNGU’S IS LEADING THE COUNTRY TO THE DESTRUCTION. ITS ACTUALLY A SHAME THAT A SENIOR CITIZEN IS TRYING TO JUSTIFY WHAT PF THUGS ARE DOING.
…please lets not take advantage of presidential pardon….I hv just been told that this Illunga guy actually wrote this article from a prison cell…..
Have Met The Enemy And It Is Tribalism
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To start to think people from another group or region are “wrong by default”. It’s the great-granddaddy of racism and sexism.
It is so disheartening to stand witness to the tribal battles and hurt messages that are going on in the country. What breaks my heart more is that most of the people perpetrating this evil are young people. Its unfortunate that members of the same country can turn on each other like a bunch of animals. In the last few weeks it has been raining heavily in Zambia, rains of tribalism but I have fervent hope that the sun will soon shine.
Let’s all remember that all of us wake up every day, with very similar ambitions and goals. I’ve moved across our beautiful country Zambia and I’ve never met a single…
This is clearly RED card for Mr Ilunga vis-à-vis mundane norms. He is definitely trying to get a General Kanene treatment from ECL & who knows, he may just get it – looking at the way things are done these days in Zambia.
IF INDEED YOU ARE A SENIOR CITIZENAND THIS IS THE LEVEL OF LOGIC YOU CHOOSE TO SHARE THEN YOU CLEARLY MUST NOT BE APPLYING THE WISEDOM THAT IS ATTAINED BY AGE. YOUR ARTICLE MR ILLUNGA IS A CHEAP AATEMPT TO SMEAR THE UPND AS WELL AS TO TAKE ATTENTION OFF THE VERY EMBARRASSING BEHAVIOUR OF THE PF CADRES IN KITWE. WE HAVE TO TO LEARN THAT THE ONLY REASON GOVERNMENT RESPONDED AND LUNGU APOLOGISED IS BECAUSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION THE STORY GOT AND LUNGU AND THE PF ARE TRYING TRYING TO BORROW MORE MONEY AND HAVE BEEN WARNED BY WESTERN DEMOCRACIES ABOUT OPPOSITION HARASSMENT. MR ILLUNGA KEEP YOUR BRAIN WASH PHILOSOPHY TO YOURSELF.
@Loadist, is it also expensive, under PF, to read through your article before you post it? Some people are allergic to simple childish mistakes in literature. Be fare to all. STOP! GO BACK AND CHECK YOUR WORK! Remember grade 7 exams?
Illunga cannot, CAN NEVER, keep it to himself, seeing you to be hoodwinked by whitewashed tombs whose presidency was birthed in violence & intimidation. Believe me, boy, I am in continuous contact with Saki & Patrick Chisanga. See them shake their heads every time your hh pretends to come out as statesman!! Subject him to a vote within the party, you’ll see him and know him for what he really is.
Senior citizen would have done better to condemn the last Wednesday’s thuggery behavior and then counsel HH. A REAL SENIOR CITIZEN DOES NOT TAKE SIDES he advises the junior citizenry for a better tomorrow. I just hope Ilunga and not Kapita wrote this lengthy article.
hahaha ati ba senior citizen. Does the senior citizen ever read or watch the news to verify his facts than coming up with ancient biased news. EL has apologized to your own embarrassment. The carders have been arrested. Whenever there is violence the party in power takes the bigger blames. Donors and lenders are keen about violence, they don’t want to be sponsoring violence. PF needs to tame its carders.
@Kakolwe
MCS formed PF not because he was fair but thought MMD should have been led by Bemba Speaking People….In their private talks Kafupi realised that MCS’s agenda never meant sense and thats why he went to pick up a person who was “asleep in Mwanawasa”..
FTJ the thief as a statesman,,,the man was truely never a tribalist..
Didnt MCS openly Say this to Chiefs from N/Western “Dont Ask me to appoint people based on tribal Balancing !When appointing People in government I look at Brains..
MCS never regretted this statement and thats how he sowed hatred in N/Western for PF..I believe HH-UPND has made Mistakes in Life,,So has his best Partners GBM,Mutati,Nalumango,The Western Indunas and Masheke and others who have teamed up with UPND..MCS died,His Left a tribal Forest…
Ilunga is not even from Mufumbwe. He is an id!ot squatting somewhere in Marapodi.
Your article sir lacks the basic tenets of a senior citizen. As far as am concerned you are just a PF cadre just like those who you claim were arrested for violence on the Copperbelt. Simply, there is no wisdom to decipher from your article. Sorry, I cannot buy it
I miss MCS at least he called a spade and didn”t use others to speak for him in this manner! Iam not UPND but guys this is low even for you Lusaka times. Wrong address and the letter goes to a fellow in Mufumbwe on 25th Feb a letter dated… lol
This whole article is nonsense, rubbish.
I have noticed bloggers for PF and UPND:-
PF Supporters call UPND supporters Dull,Cry Babies ,trybalist etc!
UPND Supporters call PF Supporters Trybalist,Panga Family..
Freedom Fighter Ilunga is looking for Burial at Heroes Park!
The facts are :-
Economy is in shambles,Inflation on the rise,Exchange rate affecting SME’s,Electricity-Zesco replaced low quality turbines-Change Balilya bafikamba,mines have reduced production,so less dollars coming in,Indeni Bafikamba they buy cheap but very wrong Crude oil-More repairs…The cost of living is unbearable,Politics its violence,gun trotting,
A Jerabo gangster dies we eulogise him a hero and even send a Chief Government Spokesman representing the Head of State(I can assure you Shawi Fawazi will have state funeral)..
Ba Edgar…
Hello there, does anyone honestly believe and is convinced that HH is their best leader? Do these people if they exist honestly believe the same HH is a Presidential material?
I know for sure that and without doubt that this man called Hichilema will and shall not be president of Zambia. I have already analysed the barometer of our great nation and no matter what he says, propagates or lobbies, HE WILL NEVER EVER BE ZAMABIS PRESIDENT. Its simple, the man doesn’t just know what politics are and what people look for in their leader.
Edgar Chagwa Lungu made only ONE attempt at Presidency and the rest is history. H.E. Mr. Lungu is too sharp for this HH and the opposition and now I really understand why Mr. Sata had so much confidence in him, so are the majority Zambians and voters.
Viva…
HH did not condemn his cadres who attached Davies Chama in Mulobezi. HH is a violent cadre.
@ Mushota 1.4
Undoubtedly has put up an appropriate response that deserve praising to untrustworthy articles on the blog stage.
Weldone Mushota, truly BB2014.
Peace be to all. Please our presidents. The only authorised weapon is a ballot paper.
Vote wisely, freely, peacefully and lovingly.
UPND cadres, if you think that the article is rubbish why do you even respond to it? It is known that there are cadres who are employed full time and paid to watch the online media and make running commentaries about each and every issue, it’s like they have been programmed to latch on anything carrying the tags “HH” or “UPND” in its content, much like the “find” function in computers. But these are human computers! The trouble is that by allowing them free and unedited reign, they are actually damaging the very cause for which they have been paid. Sometimes there is honour in silence.
By the way, didn’t HH denounce the attention that we give to trivia? I end there.
Very stupid Freedom Fighter – so called. You do not even have a scar and you call yourself a Freed Fighter and yet you are just a cadre wishing to garner some attention from the powers that be
MOSHOTA MUSHOTA…. BUSHE ICHISUNGU U LEMBA WASAMBILILE KWISA.ECHISUNGU MWAKWATILAPO AMA DEGREES NAMA PHD ICHO.YOU SHOULD IMPROVE YOU ENGLISH OR MAY BE YOU ARE GOOD AS A SPEAKER,HOW EVER I SUPPORT MR ILUNGA,S REMARKS.