East anti-Mutati group petition PF chief

By MUKOSELA KASALWE I AM not hiding from the police but freely moving about as the case the police want me for is a civil matter, and I only wanted my lawyers to be present during interrogations which they declined, says Prime Television proprietor Gerald Shawa.

Mr Shawa said he had no reason to go into hiding over a footage the police needed from him. The footage is believed to be in connection with investigations they are carrying out on acts of suspected damage on public installations. He said he was going about doing his By KALOBWE BWALYA and JACK MAPAPAYI HUNDREDS of Patriotic Front members from Eastern Province yesterday stormed the PF secretariat, demanding the resignation of Finance Minister Felix Mutati, who is also MMD president, accusing him of being disloyal to the ruling party.

Simultaneous protests against the minister in North-Western and Northern provinces were also held with PF members backing their Eastern province counterparts.

In Lusaka, the cadres marched from Intercity Bus Terminus to the PF secretariat, while chanting anti-Mutati slogans, and petitioned party secretary general Davis Mwila.

More than 50 buses carrying the PF members, took over Lusaka’s Cairo Road heading north as some members walked with placards written "Mutati must go".

And receiving the petition, Mr Mwila charged that people who did not want to abide by the party’s constitution should leave becuse the PF was a party on its own.

Mr Mwila said, he expected total loyalty to President Edgar Lungu especially from govern-