Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:14:30 +0000 UPND on the Copperbelt has described as irresponsible and dictatorial instructions by Home Affairs minister Edgar Lungu to bar every one that was summoned at the police not to be escorted by cadres and other sympathizers except their lawyers. Provincial spokesman Kennedy Kalunga said that the PF government must clearly understand that Zambia was a democratic country and not an era of party participatory democracy like was the case in UNIP days. Mr Kalunga said he expected the Minister to understand it better since he was a lawyer that only the law could ban or allow that, adding that dictatorial statements would not be allowed in Zambia. “Zambia does not belong to Lungu and his policemen but it belongs to Zambians and Zambians should be left to enjoy freedom of association and assembly without being threatened with arrests. He said it would be difficult for the cadres to be […]
