Overzealous Police threat to democracy

Dear Editor, SINCE 2021 when UPND formed government, the conduct of our police officers has been appalling to say the least.

It would also appear to me that with the appointment of Mr Graphael Musamba as the Inspector General, the situation has grossly worsened. To imagine that since UPND assumed power in 2021, not one opposition political party has been allowed to hold a public rally or a meeting. Unfortunately, it is not only the opposition being choked to death, but the Church as well because it speaks for the voiceless majority.

And yet meanwhile, the UPND leadership keeps on singing about thriving democracy in the country, freedom of speech, religion, assembly and so on and so forth.

I get this feeling that our Mr Musamba is a kind of a gentleman who enjoys pleasing his employers higher above even when their voices are silent. He has already threatened to purge our Police Force, sorry Service, of junkies recruited into the service by PF as usual. But Mr Musamba should not forget he is not in that chair for ever. There have been other IGs before him who have since gone away.

They say whatever must come down.

This is a basic rule of gravity which loosely means your good and bad deeds will be repaid to you in due course because the cycle of life revolves. On police overzealousness, I will gladly wish to advise Mr Musamba that when people become overzealous, they tend to get into some odd mindset and move forward without regard to what the people want.

I have heard something on the lines that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Put into context, this means all unwelcome activities are always followed by a fall. When this police overzealousness is not guarded, it begins to go too far and start to scare people.

Needless to state that peace in the nation costs an arm and a leg to lose by being careless in our deeds. I have always quoted that old idiom; “A stitch in time saves nine later.”

BEVIN T. MAHACHI, Lusaka.

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