Thu, 04 May 2017 12:14:08 +0000 Justifying HH’s Kuomboka action Dear Editor, I wish to register my dissatisfaction with partisan civil society bodies throughout the country – trade unions, traditional leaders, conservative church organizations, and lawyers’ groups – pestering the PF government for political dialogue with the incarcerated UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema without telling him at Lusaka Central Correctional Facility to accept the 2016 election results and wait for 2021. These pressure groups have made a cleverly veiled attempt to justify the post-election provocative, lawless and impudent actions of what the UPND leader and his opposition party were really trying to achieve in Zambia (“Dialogue is not one-sided, Lungu tells critics”, Daily Nation, May 2, 2017). In my view, the one-sided civil society’s calls for political dialogue in the face of Hakainde Hichilema’s arrest and arraignment for treason have been used to outwit and do public relations (PR) for UPND and its backers. Now that […]
