It’s premature to accuse PF of violence

Dear Editor, FIRSTLY, we strongly condemn the violence that was undertaken by unknown people who allegedly disrupted the live radio station in Muchinga Province.

It is also disappointing that instead of letting the investigative and security wings to take the lead, the opposition sympathsers have pointed an accusing figure on the ruling PF.

These petty politics are very unfair to the PF which values freedom of the press.

We are made to believe that unidentified people, who might be UPND supporters could have been assigned with this dirty task of tarnishing the enviable reputation PF has acquired as a fountain of democracy.

We urge the UPND to desist from this cheap politicking and particularly using hapless youths to pursue a fruitless political battle.

The violence which was conducted by unidentified people did not have the blessing from the party but it was perpetuated by people who were not clad in any political regalia.

We have consulted with the party leadership and its functionaries in the region and the PF has confirmed that there was no operation that assigned youth to storm the private premises of any individual or institution.

The UPND must stop playing to the gallery but should instead cooperate with the police and furnish them with necessary information which would lead to the successful prosecution of the perpetrators irrespective of their political association.

In the same vein, Mr. Hakainde Sammy Hichilema should be sober and work with the government of the day to fight the common enemy, Covid-19.