Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:39:26 +0000 By ANDREW MUKOMA UNITED National Independence Party (UNIP) in Southern Province has attributed political violence as witnessed from the previous elections to inability by people grasp pertinent political issues. UNIP provincial chairman Captain Robert Mukengami says that until everyone realises that campaigns and dialectics were a necessary process for political change, then the nation will always have political violence. In a written submission tendered to the Commission of Inquiry on Voting Patterns and Electoral Violence which was sitting in Livingstone on Monday, Captain Mukengami said that people turned to violence out of malice but because they couldn’t stand opposing viewpoints. Captain Mukengami further charged that it was imperative for all those taking part in the political campaigns to conduct substantive campaigns other than what happened in 2016. “As UNIP in Southern Province, we believe and recommend that the one Zambia one nation motto must be companioned as we […]
