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VIOLENCE & DISRESPECT FOR PRESIDENCY IS A PLANNED UPND PROPAGANDA SCHEME

- DR. JOZE MANDA Political Analyst based in Lusaka

Dear editor,

WE would be naive to bury our heads in the sand and refuse to suspect that HH has something to do with disrespect that was shown to the president recently in Monze.

The office of the presidency deserves respect even when actions of our president at times don’t, the sooner we accept that the president is human and he too can error sometimes, the better we will be positioned to offer respective checks and balances and not a full fledged war.

UPND has been consistent in its disrespect for the current government and the people of Zambia, UPND modus operandi, is rubble rousing, contradict­ory behavior at every turn.

Disruptive conduct in parliament, declaring open war and hostilitie­s to the legitimate democratic­ally elected government of the Republic of Zambia has been the order of the day for UPND and its cohorts, from day one, theirs, has been to make this country ungovernab­le so that they can usurp power from Lungu’s government. We all know that HH is a Tribalist and secessioni­st and there is no secret to his agenda.

The level of desperatio­n by the opposition to acquire political power by all means possible is now threatenin­g the livelihood of the same people they wish to govern. Lies, violence and economical sabotage has now become the order of the day for the main opposition, the UPND.

The concentrat­ion of so much power in one person, has been the greatest undoing of UPND, such that as things stand today, UPND is HH and HH is UPND and it is therefore safe to conclude that there is no UPND without HH and every party member knows this, this is the reason there now far too many clandestin­e meetings being held within UPND to change the status quo.

It is therefor justifiabl­e to conclude that whatever happened in Monze was planned and sanctioned by HH,

HH and his sympathize­rs, apart from not having respect for the president, they also do not have respect for the country as a whole and this could be seen by their unpatrioti­c behavior of mounting our national flag upside down.

Opposition parties must understand that their position in our national issues is a central component of any strategy of “democratiz­ation by elections” and they cannot put all their power in one person or leader. Regardless of the nature and quality of our electoral institutio­ns, UPND has remained numericall­y weak and fragmented, and unable to carry out its role of political counterwei­ght to PF it is very also clear that they cannot win the 2021 elections in their current status.

It does not need a rocket scientist to now realize that UPND has crossed the line and we need to do anything possible in our power as a country to bring them to book. They are a bloodthirs­ty Organizati­on that will send this country down the path of hell we will not recover from. Lungu and his government must stand up tough and deal with this demon once and for all to save our country.

As a country, we must wake up to the increased negative propaganda being engineered by UPND to make this country ungovernab­le and also to incite citizens to revolt against the elected government.

UPND and its loyal cadres have tremendous­ly increased their level of propaganda and they have flooded all our social media platforms day and night with negative message about the current government and PF must wake up from slumber and smell the coffee, UPND surrogates have recently capitalize­d on the President’s face book page erroneous posting of borrowed images to Photoshop their own and make the presidency look even worse in the eyes of the citizens and the world at large.

The damage being done to our country by UPND through social media and other media channels is so huge that if left unchecked, it will drive this country down a path that will take us 100 years to recover from.

 ??  ?? UPND has been consistent in its disrespect for the current government and the people of Zambia, UPND modus operandi, is rubble rousing, contradict­ory behavior at every turn.
UPND has been consistent in its disrespect for the current government and the people of Zambia, UPND modus operandi, is rubble rousing, contradict­ory behavior at every turn.

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