‘UPND is the most violent party’

IT is now evident that the UPND is the most violent party in Zambia and there is an urgent need to tame them before their barbaric behaviour gets out of hands, the United for Better Zambia (UBZ) has demanded.

ABZ president Hector Soondo said what happened in in Kitwe when UPND cadres clashed with Police who were deployed to ensure peace during the Youth Day celebrations was uncalled for.

Mr Soondo said it was unfortunate that

UPND cadres could take advantage of Youth Day celebrations to engage in engage against the peace makers, who are the police.

“We are calling for police to investigate who sponsored those cadres to fight the police who were merely doing their job of controlling and ensuring that there was peace in the streets of Kitwe.

“If Police will allow this behaviour from UPND to continue, then the forthcoming elections will be something else,” Mr Soondo said. He said: “The UPND is on record claiming that PF is violent and that they only acted to defend themselves, now we want the UPND to tell us why they were fighting police officers on duty? Were they defending themselves against the police? The truth is that UPND is the most violent party,” he said. Mr Soondo said if UPND continued being violent, it was necessary to ban them from participating in the August 12 general elections as a way of preserving peace.

Meanwhile, Patriotic

Front (PF) Chimwemwe constituency aspiring candidate Allen Banda has said, “it is cheap political campaign for opposition politicians to promise to create employment for the local people when they were the architects of privatization which sold many companies and brought about unemployment and untold misery in various communities”. Mr Banda said promises from the opposition UPND that they will create employment for the youths were cheap political campaigns which were not attainable, but merely wanted to use it to gain political mileage ahead of the August elections.