Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:58:40 +0000 By SANDRA MACHIMA & AARON CHIYANZO THERE is no need for a state of emergency to be declared on account of one individual breaking the law with impunity, says New Congress Party leader Peter Chanda. He however advised the opposition UPND sympathisers to be remorseful and stop issuing alarming statements because it could not be disputed that their leader Hakainde Hichilema and his entourage were wrong for having blocked the President’s way in Mongu. Mr Chanda said the UPND must apologise to the nation because that was lawlessness at its worst. He said Zambia was a democratic nation and guided by such tenets, saying if President Lungu was a dictator he would not have spared the UPND. He alleged that the UPND was testing the grounds to see how people would react to certain situations to satisfy their political interests and gain empathy from sections of society. […]
