UPND will not stop escorting leaders to police stations- Siakalima

January 20, 2013 | Filed under: Statements | Posted by:

Political Advisor to UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has said UPND cadres will not stop escorting their party leaders to the Police Stations.

Mr. Douglas Siakalima has told the Zambia Watchdog that there is no law in Zambia that prescribes who and when to visit public places.

Mr. Siakalima said Police Stations just like government hospitals are public places and can’t be restricted areas.

He said the announcement by Home Affairs Minister Edgar Lungu was null and void because Zambia was not under a state of emergency.

He said even the time of one party dictatorship under President Kenneth Kaunda, Police stations were open to the public but only taking of photographs was restricted.

“It is a futile move, even the time of Kaunda the only sign you could see on police stations was photographing prohibited” he said.

Mr. Siakalima said the PF government will find its match in the UPND because it will not tolerate political chauvinism.

“Next time these people will be prescribing who and when to go to the hospital because government hospitals are just like police stations.

He also said President Sata as a dictator will end up badly together with his family because history has shown that dictators families also suffer.

He gave an example of  Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Mubarak and the former Tunisian president’s families that are now suffering because of their parents.

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64 Responses to UPND will not stop escorting leaders to police stations- Siakalima

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    Best Backlinking - January 21, 2013
    19:06

  2. Law is about interpretation, Mr advisor Siakalima. Laws will not describe any situation. Association likely to cause a breach of peace is a transgression. But if this is what you can get from an advisor, you wonder what kind of a party the advised run.

    kudu - January 21, 2013
    09:53

    • Can you please put legal interpretation to TRANSGRETION (normaly found in s. 2 or 3 of any Act)

      Kipara Matata - January 22, 2013
      06:23

  3. The arnachist is Sata & not Siakalima! Sata should stop his Police cadres from harassing the Oppositions. That Chines co. which makes Pan bricks along Kabwe road will make money, till 2016 tuma pan bricks chabe…..

    Mzilikazi - January 21, 2013
    09:14

  4. i bet the minister was drunk at the time of pronouncement..his cadres should ve been killed chabe..

    CNP-4U - January 21, 2013
    08:55

  5. AFTER ALLTHIS, THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT BELONG TO STUPID SATA AND HIS IDIOTIC PF CADRES ALONE BUT TO EVERY ZAMBIAN. PEOPLE, DON’ T WORRY REST ASSURED THAT ONE DAY AND I SAY ONE DAY, THIS BUGGER WILL BE ELLIMINATED. TAKE IT OR LEAVE.

    Captain William Haig - January 21, 2013
    05:49

  6. Lekeni tu tambeko Ba Zambia twapapata THE TRUTH WHETHER UPND,PF,MMD,LOZI,TONGA,KAONDE OR WHOEVER YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU ARE THE CHAMPION. so let us speak like champions becouse thats what we are.

    kayula - January 21, 2013
    03:17

  7. I can hear a mosquito saying null and void…….kikikikiki

    kutemba - January 21, 2013
    01:02

  8. its ok because they have nothing tangible to do and they will always be beaten and be nursed by their wives at home!

    Mr. Reason - January 20, 2013
    22:26

  9. shaka i like that one these powerful fools wants to fool us were is democracy those police only favour pf cadre this country belongs to zambians not sata and kabimba why cant we have a say they have failed to run this country what they know reshafle rename rebase fire name calling enemits

    bwaalya - January 20, 2013
    21:49

  10. Zambia needs brave men and women at this time to fight this brutal PF (Pathetic Fools) government. Mr Sykalima you are spot on. Do not give in to dictatorship otherwise we all doomed.

    Jelita Mulenga - January 20, 2013
    20:35

  11. This is a very good response, If PF want to start war in this country then they will be the first ones to die.
    Panbrick Po on pf cader. This is a very good response Siakalima.UPND are not carwards like PF who do not know what to do…..

    Zambian youth - January 20, 2013
    20:17

  12. They should continue escorting their leaders. It’s only right for Wynter to be escorted, to show solidarity, and wrong for UPND cadres, to be barred. No! This is unacceptable. If this continues, you will see more pan bricks. Careful ba police, you will die trying to follow orders when your bosses are safe in their homes.

    Donor - January 20, 2013
    18:27

  13. Some people 4get fast,If we go back u will see that kabimba told the pf cadres to fight back when attacked by mmd now some comments ar suprising up their saying siakalima shud be dealt simply bcoz of what he said what of the kabwimbwaz.

    NAREP - January 20, 2013
    18:15

  14. ONLY UPND CAN BRING SANITY TO THE THAGS IN PA FWAKA…MUZACHIWONA..WINA MPAKA KU HAGUE!!!

    scree - January 20, 2013
    17:54

  15. Lungu your beer balls!

    London - January 20, 2013
    17:39

  16. A fool wl remain as a fool. So us responsible zambians will take care our country,they have alredy blindfolded us,i think its enough. Will never repeat this mistake we made as responsible youths. I hate this government’s ruling toward to us young ones.

    Neede chimuka - January 20, 2013
    17:01

  17. Keep pan-bricking them if they can’t uphold democratic principles.

    Officer in charge - January 20, 2013
    16:40

  18. Even Ukwa when he was teargassed at DEC he had a full entourage of cadres. Lungu should be pan bricked for saying such nonsense of trying to restrict people’s movement….styoped boy!

    Kays - January 20, 2013
    16:30

  19. Msana wanzili, close uyo eyes for one minute and imagine this: The year is 2011 the home Affairs minister is Mukondo Lungu and RB is ruling. Mr. Sata is answering charges of some unlawful conduct on the C/belt at some mine plant there. Mr. Lungu not Edgar but Mukondo as Home Affairs minister announces that mr.sata should be reporting alone to an MMD compromised Police Force. As a PF die hard yourself,would u be comfortable with that? If our leader has assaulted his spouse, in such a case yes they can solve it as a family and police not these POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ARRESTS! It is political suicide to fail to offer solidarity to your leader summoned by PF Police. We can trust the Army and not these hungry police officers.

    Book worm - January 20, 2013
    15:23

    • Correction. The police force is not hungry, I can attest to that. But that’s a topic for another day. My point is that the current police force is uselessly incompetent since the dawn of zambia’s history. And all because you have a very incompetent police command.

      Centre Back of Democracy - January 20, 2013
      19:28

  20. God loves zambia

    goodman1 - January 20, 2013
    15:10

  21. Simamba Tembo mapolo yako. Have u ever seen a PF cadre being summoned by PF Police frm september 2011. The minister mearnt opposition Party leaders. Mankndyu yako!

    Book worm - January 20, 2013
    15:05

    • You are bad whoa!

      tonto - January 21, 2013
      07:38

  22. Iyo Lungu boi, ni can’t never

    kopala 1 - January 20, 2013
    14:55

  23. Rhetoric and governance are far apart.

    faith of our fathers - January 20, 2013
    14:21

  24. UPND you are spot on very correct escort them leaders there is no law so long cadres are peaceful if police come with force meet them with force

    boss - January 20, 2013
    14:13

  25. how come the police command are not coming to tell us about their fake cop constable adam banda or the post giving us a true picture, journalism of mr mmeembe. we nid k14billion back

    pabwato - January 20, 2013
    13:58

  26. he has the right when his directives are in line with our laws.without the law backing him,he has powers bro

    fairness justice . - January 20, 2013
    13:55

  27. because of

    PF political scientist - January 20, 2013
    13:53

  28. The democracacy buble will soon bust in Zambia because UNPD anarchists like Siakalima. To borrow from engineering termilongy, everything has an elastic limit.

    PF political scientist - January 20, 2013
    13:52

    • Iyee, “elastic limit” or “elasticity limit”? Kwena ba Poor Party (PF).

      Howling Wofl - January 20, 2013
      16:32

    • Which democracy ba PF political scientist. Just keep quite. You guys have destroyed the very word democracy. And if this is the political science you learnt I shudder to think what’s advice you would give to people who may need it. Democracy my foot. You chaps with sata are dictators.

      Solo - January 21, 2013
      07:07

  29. LAWS ARE MADE BY PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE, IF PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE NOT READY TO OBEY THEM WHY MAKING THEM IN FIRST INSTANT! WE CANT FORCE A HORCE TO DRINK WATER!! LET US BE IMPARTIAL ALL THE TIME, FOR THEM BETTERMENT OF MOTHER ZAMBIA. LET US NOT FORWARD OUR INTERESTS ONLY, THERE IS TOMORROW ALSO, WHERE YOUR INTEREST YOU FORWARDED IT FAVOURS THE OTHERS BECAUSE THEY ARE THEN LIKE WHAT YOU WERE. THEN WHERE COULD OUR COUNTRY GO? WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO WILL NEVER LIKE YOU IN THEIR LIVES? GOD FAVOUR OUR COUNTRY!!!!!

    MAANA MAHETA - January 20, 2013
    13:51

  30. If u want 2 lose ur lives continue folowing ur leader where ever he goes.u wil live ur families sufuring just bcoz of tuma k50 which hh is giving u.

    EZRON - January 20, 2013
    13:50

  31. This is realy scaring.the police should be care on how they handle the opposition

    Mr Kiss - January 20, 2013
    13:46

  32. Douglas Siakalima, one of the few guys I respect in Zambia. I always thought, when he was a lecturer at UNZA and as UNZALARU vice-president, that this guy would one day walk the corridors of power. He has had his integrity intact to this day since his days as UNZALARU.

    Yes there is no law that prohibits citizens from assembling and visiting public institutions. Besides the right to assembly is enshrined in the Constitution. LOL at the hospital analogy, so true!

    The problem in Zambia is political leaders always think they own public institutions and property; that they are the most intelligent and the wisest of all the citizens… what a failed state this is!

    SATA_KADOBI_NAKAWALA_ARE_CHAWAMA_THUGS - January 20, 2013
    13:41

  33. nujou you are gay idiot raped at your lilayi gay camp eat dog shit and die you think you and your homo group of pie suit dressing faggots can stand the people watch even the zambian army is against you idiots you ll leave those uniforms with your dirty mothers

    wat rubbish - January 20, 2013
    13:33

  34. The problem is with our justice system its too rigid. In countries where people use brains characters like Siakalima instigating violence and anarchy are dealt with swiftly. I have always advocated for fast track courts to deal with political criminals. Courts should be flexible to even have night sessions to prosecute cadres arrested escorting their leaders and it should be quick.

    msana wanzili - January 20, 2013
    13:19

    • that can only happen in your house bro.every citizen has rights.we are governed by laws not men.gude

      fairness justice . - January 20, 2013
      13:47

    • Umh! Republican vice president? Honestly I trust you not to join them this far. I am dissapointed in you bwana muzungu.

      silu ni silu - January 20, 2013
      13:55

    • Can you enlighten us on what offence cadres escorting their leaders in solidarity to Police stations and courts would be charged with? I hope you are not suggesting that whatever the Minister of Home Affairs or the President say becomes law.

      Eagle - January 21, 2013
      14:45

  35. Douglas, you have made a mistake to say Zambia is not under a state of emergency. You have reminded Ukwa about the state of emergency and he may just invoke it now.

    Bob - January 20, 2013
    12:22

  36. WAT U MAY NOT KNOW IS THAT EVEN AMONG THE POLICE. THERE ARE ALOT WHO ARE NOT HAPPY WTH TH WAY THEY ARE BEING USED LIKE condoms TO HARRAS INNOCENT CITIZENS.. I HAV TALKED TO SOME OF THEM

    gigantic - January 20, 2013
    12:14

  37. Pf wil oneday pay for al these. Rubbish.

    UNIQUE MAN - January 20, 2013
    12:13

  38. Yes, Sata will be in problems when he leaves power!

    Mubanga - January 20, 2013
    12:10

  39. Ba United Party for Dreamers Come with your cadres at your own risks.
    Lilayi police reserves are ready to put
    into practice what they learn!!
    Shamboko! Kikikikiki..

    Nojou - January 20, 2013
    12:08

    • at lilayi there a subject to do human rights te? thats the point the. interntional community is looking at when looking at the democracy of zambia. by the way does lilayi police belong to patriotic front???

      mr. labish chishala. -senior pf cadre incharge of confusion. - January 20, 2013
      12:32

    • my brother whenever you’re making an arguments you should be rational not emotional. the person to blame is the masquerader not the powerful upnd

      The Great Intellectual - January 20, 2013
      12:57

  40. What goes round comes round.

    UNIQUE MAN - January 20, 2013
    12:08

  41. Just keep on pushing. We re togather. The problem with these guyz is that. They do not liarise that these laws of make on head, wil oneday tun againest them. Mark these words. Siakalima is light.

    UNIQUE MAN - January 20, 2013
    12:04

  42. spot on ba Dougy.

    By the way. the valnerable monister of de fens did not stated as ti wheaher even at the acc premises leaders should be cadres less. remember, the other tonga bull, winter kabimba promised the acc team to brace themselves for a larger herd of carders next time.

    valley ps - January 20, 2013
    12:01

  43. Simamba Tembo+Honest are blank slates.You need to be civilised and need to be up to date.If anything u are very dull and very backward.A dead person is better than u two!

    zokole - January 20, 2013
    11:56

  44. I totally support you on this idea of escorting political leaders to police stations because if left in the hands of these pf police officers,anything can happen. They are all out to sort out opposition leaders instead of controlling the crime rate in the country. For sure dictators end up badly.

    Jamela - January 20, 2013
    11:55

  45. Very simple. Stop summoning political leaders to the police for flimsy and cooked up accusations. As long as the safety of their leaders is not guaranteed then supporters will always escort their leaders to show solidarity. What’s next? Family members will be banned from escorting their relatives to the police station?

    Smooth Rebel - January 20, 2013
    11:53

  46. Mr. Siakalima is very dull, the Minister has a right to make an directive in the interest of peace and tranquility in this nation. He did not single out UPND but all political parties PF inclusive. So let UPND disobey the directive and face the police, I can assure you there will be no public symphaphy if you are bitten by the police.

    Simamba Tembo - January 20, 2013
    11:40

    • Oh man! there is no law barring anyone visiting Public istitutions. Please read the constitution or law of the land. Do not follow blindly!1

      Dick Chalwe - January 20, 2013
      11:54

    • tell your minister to take his directive to the toilet,zambia is a free state!

      Politics - January 20, 2013
      12:26

    • Simamba Tembo you are really dull, Mr.Siakalima is on behalf of UPND, why should he bother himself with the other parties. Secondly he is just education the Minister of Home Affairs about what the law says on these things…..

      ToxicMatter - January 20, 2013
      12:36

    • U thnk the carders wont hit back? Umbi akafwilamo fye if uar jokng wth peace.

      Dr S. - January 20, 2013
      13:37

    • @tembo you are a big fool.

      Bolokiyo Aka bravo - January 20, 2013
      14:38

    • its pf invitting problems in the nation shaka is just okey why should u limit us on moves we will follow hh if u dont mind kill us what a buch of fools pf guys days are numbered

      bwaalya - January 20, 2013
      22:05

  47. Let this sink in lungu rotten skull…WE MOVE WITH OUR LEADERS WE DIE WITH OUR LEADERS…..Period!

    Politics - January 20, 2013
    11:37

  48. The minister has an opportunity to bring sanity into our politics by being fair to all parties at all times.

    Honest - January 20, 2013
    11:27