 Good afternoon Zambia. We know Zambia is not beginning today and it's not ending today. We know president Hakkai Ndetsune Ma was given a mandate to carry on on the development of Zambia to make it a democracy that will shine and bring accolades. That the world may see that something good, something great can come out of Africa and that has been our prayer. There are those that are rising the youth who are the majority of this country and they are faced to see a leadership that can inspire and when they saw our body come to the fall and become a president they believed finally a beacon that been waiting for had arrived on the stage. Some of us took back and thought that indeed we had something we can see as a challenge. I'm coming from a background of a unionist who's so passionate and when I ran against president Hakkai Ndetsune Ma I thought this man would show us how things should be done. Honestly when I lost to him I said I'd lost to somebody who's worth losing to. But as days are passing through as I look back as a youthful leader my heart is torn to tatters because this direction we are taking is not anything that would have ever imagined or assumed. Nothing personal. I fought battles for president Hakkai Ndetsune Ma he knows. I went to ZNBC and fought for him, paid my own money when I've got nothing to give. We laid our souls down when he was taken to Mkomekosam of us but when he came into office nothing personal. I was the first person he put in cells. I was beaten like a dog. The videos are out there in Kitwe when we were reminding him simply of him bringing free education. They told us too early after we are beaten like dogs thrown in cells. I remember he was out of the country like most of the way things happen. He issues instructions that make him seem like he's not there but actually is there. I received the phone call from his aide that should have been from UK and that time we were in cells being beaten for simply reminding. We thought he was just getting started and probably had not gotten root of the control of government because he was basically new. But now it is looking as days pass by as time moves on. He's now entrenching those same tendencies that Zambian thought were a thing of the past. I went to see the ambassador there at MSDL police. I'm an architect and there are some systems that were created for repression to break down the strength of an African man and woman. They built for us cells that are death chambers. When I was talking to him, this was the size of the window with gorgasians across it. I remember when we were thrown into cells that is in March this year. We went to central police. I always remind President Akande Chidema that when we went in those cells we found out that in December six youths had died there out of suffocation and trumpeted. This is on record. This is not a secret. This is something that they know. We sought the man who had said he would release those places had come MSI. They were calling MSI. He will repeal these things. But now it's entrenching a tendency that is taking us backwards. The youth that rose and gave him a mandate are heartbroken. We are heartbroken if he thinks we are speaking this because we are politically opposed. He is wrong. We are standing up to offer leadership. My wife drove me here. She's worried. She doesn't know whether I'll go back home. She was saying I'll sit and wait for her. I said please go. And this if they lock me up we'll be after. We'll look after the children. This is a true story. I'm not making this up because she has seen it before. When I go I don't come back under the new dawn government. So we are appealing to you President Akande I know you are back. I saw your plane. You are back and I know you are watching. Some of us are starting our lives and we still are naive. We still dream of a great Zambia. We still are hopeful that things can be better if you have given up and you have come for retribution to finish off your political enemies. Some of us are not your enemies. We are other people's children and we have got children and we want to make up a country that our children will rise on. But this tendency we are now being a politician is like a death sentence. You don't know where tomorrow you'll be alive or dead. This we cannot go and I can assure you if you want to kill us kill us because some of us ain't gonna back down. Wherever I want to go our feet will take us there. We have the hope that we choose us to die and for Zambia we're ready to go all the way. Thank you. We are now going to have the P.F. acting president. Good afternoon. Isn't this a good opportunity for us to remind each other of the fact that today Zambia in the world is commemorating the 12th anniversary of the demise of Frederick Titus Jacob Chilova and Frederick Chilova will be remembered globally as having been the first to have been elected in a multi-party democracy Zambia. Isn't it ironic that on a day when we're supposed to be celebrating democracy we're actually bemoaning the dwindling democracy in our country. The patriotic front is not a stranger to this kind of meeting. We've had several meetings of this nature. We have lamented how we're being ill treated. We have said before that some among us think that it has become fashionable for leaders of the patriotic front to be harassed. Some have even gone to the extent of saying but you were worse. Others have said you did the same. My response has always been this was divine. It was providential goodness. You cannot miss something unless it is God and you cannot compare one that exists with one that doesn't. In these few months Zambians have been given an opportunity to compare and contrast and for those who have given it to themselves to say P.F. don't complain because you did the same. I have a message for them. Development is the essence of leaving spaces better than you found them. When you leave them the same way you found them you have not developed especially when you make them worse than the way you found them. The past cannot justify the ill treatment of one another. Had that been the case Christ would not have died on the cross for all of us. I want to assure all Zambians that Hagainde Higilema's agenda, the UPND agenda fits squarely in the comment of a founding father President Kenneth David Kaunda when in that interview he said I don't mind any other except that one. I've forgotten his name that one and the interviewer reminded him and he said yes that same one. That one I'm not sure about that one who divide the country. The members say by the time Hagainde Higilema is through with this country we shall be divided. After he's through with us the politicians he will certainly come for any person who opposes him. Now he's pursuing us because we oppose him and because we openly oppose him and we have organized ourselves as opposition political parties but remember when we oppose him we oppose him in the interests of Zambians. After he's done with us he will also look out for ones who will go into a shop and complain. Medium it was too expensive. There will also be his targets. So for those of you citizens who are standing aloof when you see us being harassed when you see us being arrested be forewarned. After us it is you. Time has therefore come for all of us Zambians all of us citizens to stand up and to defend the rights of every other citizen. The erosion of one person's rights is the erosion of all people's rights. The one thing that I can assure citizens about is that the patriotic front shall not be cowed. We in the patriotic front have given it to ourselves to continue to mobilize to continue to speak on behalf of the Zambians. We join our colleagues in the other opposition political parties because we know that there is strength in numbers. We therefore call upon all of you citizens. Time has come. The call to action is now. When you hear of any person being brutalized because of their political standing and you look the other way you should know that you are complicit to the destruction of democracy in this country. Time has come for every Zambian to stand up for a fellow Zambian. Had it not been for these people raising concerns had I indicated them I would have made all those farmers who grew soya to have it burnt. But because these people spoke at least he has now agreed to pay at least six kwach from 11 kwach. Had it been for these people's voices those farmers would have gone without anything. So when we speak we don't speak for ourselves we speak for you Zambians. My message to Agha Ndehidema is that he is not the first thing to happen to this world. He is not the first thing to happen to Zambia. He is not the first president of Zambia. I know he likes fests. He is the first president to go to Ukraine and Russia to go and be among as people are going to mediate and yet he himself had already taken sides in that conflict. He himself voted against one of the warring factors and then he goes and says I want to come and mediate. My message to him, my friend Agha Ndeh, two things. If you want to be a mediator in conflict maintain neutrality. We advise you to be neutral over the Ukraine-Russian war because Zambia is too small to get involved in such conflict. Instead you departed from the long held position of non-alignment and voted against one in favor of the other. The second message is please don't dare go and clean up the mess in your neighbor's house before you clean up the mess in your house. Unify Zambians before you ever dare to contribute to the unity of the global economy because doing that will expose you. My third message is that the Zambians in 1991 stood up because they wanted to govern themselves in a multi-party democracy. Your attempt to annihilate multi-party democracy in Zambia shall not be accepted and we shall mobilize to make sure that we defend the democracy that we fought for in 1991. Khaunda had been president for 27 years. We stopped him. What about you? Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. If we will now have citizen's first president, Honorable Harry Kallawa. Thank you very much and thank you colleagues for what you have said and I will try to write on the many things that you've said. As I was coming here, I received a barrage of course from people telling me but why are you going for that press briefing? Why do you want to go and mix with the PF? Because even the PF were brutalizing others when they were in government and I said, oh okay, here is my message to those colleagues I thought I should use this platform. Yes, I was thrown in the cells before the elections in 1921. Yes, I was tear gas several times but picking the words of President, I mean President Luwinda, one wrong does not make you also to begin doing a wrong and want to justify it. Zambia now is at the cost roads. I had received a call from President Againda HLM when I was incarcerated at Camp Finca in 2021 when I was held by the police. When I came out, he called me and was sympathizing with me and said, don't worry Moana, very soon we shall cross. Is this the crossing that I was talking about? Yes, we have crossed and now as long as you are a political opponent, you are being targeted. This is not the Zambia that we thought we would have. Yes, we have crossed. Institutions of governance are being used to oppress all of us seated here. And as President Luwinda had said, today it is Harry Kala but tomorrow it will be you. Yes, we have crossed but clearly you can see that the democratic space in this country is fast shrinking. The other day we received a letter from the registrar of societies telling us that you did not have your meeting of the 500 people you talked about as your convention in Indola. We have discovered with the police that you didn't have this meeting and so we are giving you 21 days in which you should tell us why you lied to us that you didn't have that meeting. Now these are the jokes and I'm happy you are laughing because these are the jokes that you begin getting from an oppressive regime. The moment you begin talking they will want to begin finding reasons to gag you. They will want to find reasons to stop you from going ahead. I want to tell you through this auspicious occasion that those who are stopped do not look like the one talking to you. We will not be stopped because someone wants us to be stopped. We will choose to speak for the people of Zambia and to advise the Institutions of Governance please avoid being used. Because at the end of the day those that are using you will one day leave power and when they leave power you will be on your own. So my advice is please don't do it and the government must stop this tendency of using institutions of government to fight their own political battles. Why do you want to use the police? Why do you want to use the Anti-Corruption Commission? Why do you want to use the Drug Enforcement Commission and all agencies of the state to fight your political battles? Why? Just why? I think be brave enough, face us in the political arena and let's exchange ideas and let's see whose ideas are better than the Zambian people choose. But this behaviour, this cowardice of wanting to hide behind the Institutions of Governance will not help us and today we are seated here because one of the opposition members on several of them as I sit here many have tested as sales here. If you have not tested sales, be ready because under this regime for as long as you are seen and not to be politically correct they'll come for you. Why are you mixing with Harry Kala? Why are you mixing with Given Levin? Why are you mixing with Mwenda Gasson? They'll ask you those questions and then you're not politically correct and then they'll come for you. But we need to be strong, our colleagues seated here. We should not be sell out when the country has reached the crossroads. Where I come from they say, Zambia must know there are some people who talk for them regardless of what comes ahead and that is the resolve that we have made. We are not doing this because there's any personal beef between the government of the UPND and ourselves or myself. We are saying it for reasons of posterity. We are saying it because once we keep quiet we'll be doing an injustice to this country. We'll be perpetrating illegalities in this country and it seems to me the new dawn government is hell bent on preserving itself and they want to stifle anybody that wants to come up and so they now want to be crude in order to instill fear. When I saw Ambassador Mwamba, how he was beaten, I didn't even know I'd lost the tooth until this afternoon he was showing me that no my tooth is gone. I said you are lucky because the tooth which is gone is this one here. If it was the front one you would have known what a natural whistle is all about. But we are not here to defend anybody. We are not here to say if I recall I would make something wrong we should not be pursued. If I am wrong let me be dealt with because the law is blind but at least follow the law. If you've been talking about the rule of law at least follow the law and then Zambians will know that at least you are doing things in the correct way as opposed to what we are seeing because now it is vindictiveness it is political scores to be settled it is you are in the wrong camp therefore you cannot be part of Zambia is being divided every day and yes it is true we are now a divided nation we are more divided than we have ever been before and we can't continue on this trajectory we can't pretend that we are united country we are divided and we are calling upon the powers that be to ensure that we come together because there's much more that brings us together than what divides us and so we'll be speaking about this because regardless of where you come from colleagues we are all Zambians regardless of who you are for as long as you belong to these parts called Zambia you should be treated the same when equally so so we are asking the authorities that please unite us don't divide us on the basis of tribe on the basis of region on the basis of political affiliation regardless of which party you belong to you must be looked at as a Zambian and that is what we're advocating for and so we hope today this message is loud and clear and that the powers that be have heard stop the arbitrary use abuse of state institutions let the police be professional let the anti-corruption commission do their job without being co-heast let the drag enforcement commission do their job without being co-heast this issue of pointing at people go for that one go for that one is wrong last but not the least I also want to encourage the international community the international community must not remain silent they were very loud in the previous regime they were calling out the pf for who they were when pf was in government what has changed now the voice of the international community is almost muted we would want to hear the american speak more would want to hear the european union would want to hear the the british speak so that because an abuse is an abuse a brutality is a brutality and it must be condemned it should not be because you've got the right person according to your standards in power therefore you should be muted it is important that sin is identified by what it is sin must be called sin and so therefore we are grateful that we are able to see that amidst this we in the opposition now should begin to get in together we should begin talking more often than not so that we can face the world together thank you very much thank you to our leaders that are here and that have reason to you know condemn the action that was done against me uh as honorable given when that said about uh our second president dr frederick jack of titus chirovac is his memorial today and i was supposed to be at his memorial this afternoon but i felt probably the exhibit needed to be here to tell the story on his own and before i i speak i think let me rely on the usa 2022 country report on human rights practices previously when this report is issued the us ambassador who will speak about a report to the country that is affiliated to zambia receives assistance and there is a comment about zambia so the country report this is what it has said and you should take to just released last week one in 2022 there was unlawful and arbitrarily killings there was extra judicial killings there was torture and cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment perpetrated by government there are serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media it has also says there is extensive and serious government corruption now this is a us government saying this about their friend you will understand why the ambassador is even embarrassed to come and say this to use ambiance these words came true to me on wednesday i was on radio when i finished appearing on on radio on wednesday that was the 14th as i was driving out of the radio station i saw a green fortune now and usually sit at service headquarters there's a crack unit there they bought them new cars i looked at it but there was an indian driving in it and they had a phone and a laptop so i think that disarmed me i think i'm just mistaken i went to the lawyers you know in roma of course to alert them you know one of our bloggers two of our bloggers were arrested earlier in the week and i wanted to get an update of how the matter was going because earlier we had expressed concern when mr tabu kawana held the press conference the previous friday he mentioned the patriotic front and mr fred member even before investigations were done and for the patriotic front we are not even the first one to publish those letters so where we were we are taking interest why tabu kawana was mentioning the patriotic front for me you know i publish on my own pages i didn't even publish those letters because i didn't find especially the two letters credible so after seeing the lawyers i was driving out i saw the fortune again the same indian in it i realized this matter was serious i was being trailed but i i laughed why would you spend so much money to conduct surveillance on someone who's readily available in plain sight there was something i was doing in long acres i came near hotefem there when i was driving out again i saw the same car it was at that stage that i caught my wife i said can we meet home in my heart i was saying if anyone is looking for me i think the best place to find me should be my home so she was in town she said the ostrich and she was coming up coming coming later i mean coming in traffic that is the reason i decided to go through the car wash my car was dirty i didn't watch it for a few days i went at a car wash on most of tunia road after luanica shopping more there's a car wash called jammies so i packed and i went into the shed within a few minutes these three cars tombed in and people came out i think they were about 12 i looked i i was not bothered if you've been on that road several times you'll understand that that's a road that the president uses all the time and there are usually usually men in plain clouds or policemen that would come to do the route lining so i i didn't bother but i saw all of them coming to where i was seated so i stood up and then because of the trailing i asked are you guys following me so i saw the the gentleman who was in front who i now suspected was a police officer he says yes he says he addressed me ambassador i said okay but why didn't you issue a police call out i was on radio yesterday i was on tv yesterday even now i was on radio why do you have to do all this drama he said you're coming with us i said okay that is fine but allow me to call my lawyer and allow me to inform my family i think that's where the confusion started because they wouldn't let me make that call they all came around me and attacked me they were trying to get the phone i managed to dial the phone was on speaker and my wife answers but i calmly told her even if i was being fought my hand were being tied with pulling me i said i'm at the car wash here on on on most of tunia road she knows it to wash our cars there and the police are here to pick me up in fact i didn't say the police i said men calling themselves the police because at that stage i didn't know if they were the police they showed me no idea the cars they came with were private they had no number plate and 12 of them surrounding you so you you you are not sure even when these men are taking you that they're taking you to a police station so i demanded that at least allow me to speak to my lawyer so they were trying to lift me they were twisting my hands and they were pushing me when they pushed me to the car there were three women filming especially the pregnant one i felt very sad for because the way they went and attacked and yanked the phone from up and i think they also picked her up her crime there was just filming this violent incidents that was playing out they banned on me banned on me abandoned me in the car and the lead officer even told me that who sought you out you you think your clever who sought you out so they spared off took me to service headquarters and you know they left in me in a room for about two hours then they came to do the interrogation later they took me to the car wash again they had gotten the car the keys and when we arrived at the car wash they didn't find the car they were very annoyed with me that the car was not there see gentlemen you must be foolish you've held me you've locked me up you've grabbed phones from me so at what stage have i moved this guy you are annoyed with so they called the young man because around 20 hours 20 30 i think there was only one man at the car wash and they also bundled him in the car and they drove me we drove back to service headquarters i still plead it in fact there's another matter that is very important when we arrived the first time at service headquarters and they gathered around me when their seniors came we introduced himself as mr kalala i told him your officers have injured me and now my my thumb was swollen i said look at my my thumb my wrist and my shoulder i don't know if it's dislocated then i said i have a lot of fear my neck because i have a lot of pain on my neck when they were trying to force me in they come a bit tough and you know when they're trying to collapse you into a small bank i think that's where they really did a lot of damage on my right side so i complained i said i need to see a doctor more worried about the pain on my neck he said the ambassador he was a bit respectful we'll let you see a medical doctor it didn't happen they took me to him as their police no one knew where i was lucky now for the given wind and the other MPs at now heard that i was abducted and they were looking for me they didn't know where i was at the police they gave strict instructions they if anyone came that i was there they should refuse and no one should see me um at the police i asked that i needed to go to the hospital they refused they said that it would be done tomorrow morning i said i'm worried about the pain in my neck i think that shouldn't wait up to tomorrow well they just booked me in and locked me up in this cell the cell is a very small cell as my dear brother kason they were saying he separated there are women there it must be trauma for the women there are men women and the small area if a woman is bathing i would see her and in a small cell we are 30 of us you can't sleep straight you you are locked interlocked like this because there's no space so they put you there and the police officer the one who was leading had warned me he had even used bember tell i go come i beg see you mow lans to meet walla and when i entered the police i understood what he meant first it was very heavily congested there are a lot of people with flus you don't know if it's tibia if it's a if it's scoby do you have no idea but you are in a small space that you have to enjoy or i was not able to see anyone i didn't know what was happening until the following day around 10 11 o'clock when they allowed hodebomakebizulu my lawyer to see me even there i was from wednesday thursday friday i was not allowed to seek medical treatment the following day the pain the headache became very very severe and i pleaded that i i be allowed to uh see a doctor one of the police officers brought medicine now the police officers have just beaten me brutalized me can i take their medicine can i trust their medicine so they said i should take the painkiller so i got it and just threw away i didn't know if it was poison um finally when i was given the charges around 17 18 hours and i was released on police bond i went straight to the investiging hospital where i was examined there was confirmation that there was a lot of soft tissue injury on my thumb on my wrist my shoulder and then i did a lot of bruises i didn't realize they bruised me in the in the entire man handling the way doing a lot of bruises some of them you you saw them on social media and my tooth that has this tooth that you know was also removed now i want to say something with with your president chairman with your permission because they've used these charges to attempt to scandalize me to attempt to reduce me to a forger and you know you are all aware that i've saved us for 10 years i saved us dr chluba's official spokesperson and administrator i was privileged to have been permanent secretary you know in northern province in eastern province in western province i was permanent secretary at minister of information and broadcasting services i was also privileged to have been ambassador in south africa i was also ambassador in ethiopia i was permanent representative to the african union and i was permanent representative to the united nations economic commission for african in an article that that uh two three weeks ago dr sishua wrote he warned that zambia had lost it who likely lose its hard-won democracy in his article zambia the president's five point plan to stay in power at tokoast why hichlima is desperate to return power his first point was that hichlima was determined to contain the catholic church these were not my views these were the views of um of dr sishua three weeks before the so-called letters appeared for those in they know this so-called letter they are saying i forged on the 8th june has been in circulation for months mr president it's been in circulation for months but they want to scandalize my name they want to bring these charges that have been manufactured like tabu kawana says before any investigations is done he names the pf he names dr fred member this these are the people who for the moment have targeted like they've targeted everywhere else it's not that they are investigations that that we are guilty of these offenses no it's a plan to bring these oppressive charges to attempt to break us so this is what i've done this morning i went to the police i've registered a complaint against especially the three police officers that were very brutal with me but i've uh i've advised that all of them should be a charge for us but because i witnessed when they went into the crowd and they harassed the crowd to grab their phones and some pick picked picked up very brutally i hope that the police can investigate i have medical reports here to confirm what was done to me and you members of the press i can show you tomorrow in the morning i'm going to the police public and police and public complaints commission for the unprofessional and brutal i was arrested i'm not above the law i can be summoned i can comply but i think it is wrong for the police to brutally treat citizens in the manner they treated me to manufacture charges you heard that the police officer who brutally beat me knocked out my tooth it was the first one to report a case of assault this is cover up that's fraud it should be arrested for fraud so i want the police and complaints commission to pursue those issues and then i challenge the u.s. ambassador to read the finding on zambia in the 2020 u.s. report is mandatory honorable calaba will tell you because when we receive assistance then they look at our human rights record they've been doing this since 1961 so the u.s. ambassador must sit and read to you zambians what they found about us and in 2022 they found awful things and let me repeat and lawful under bitterly killings this is under president in the itch lemurs watch his president in the entire 2022 extra judicial killings you hear the police have shot someone even before investigations torture and cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by government mr president i don't know if you understand at the car wash members of the public recognize who you are and in the manner was treated you can imagine the public humiliation i don't know if there's even a price to that they want to heal but the public humiliation i went through you know uh uh uh was was was great so uh madam president as i end uh i think that would be my call so thank you first i'd like to to thank members of parliament members of our political parties that have supported me a lot of people called consent thank you very much and to the price singers from the upnd i feel so sad for them they think that this should happen to us and you know that discusses dangerous thank you very much thank you so much uh sorry that you had to go through what you went through i think no human being should be subjected to such um abuse um members of the press i think that we need to understand that yes we we have come because of what happened to him but the picture is actually bigger than that this was just the final straw that caused us to say we are now going to get together and do something about this because if we do not raise our voices um worse things than this can happen in the past few weeks we have had a number of opposition political figures arrested detained brutalized and just harassed or intimidated by one wing of the zambian security forces or another amongst those that have fallen short to this um these actions by the government agents of the upnd include the sixth president of the republic of zambia his excellency mr edgar chagolungo and his family president uh lungos former political aid dr zuma nizimba president of the socialist party dr fred member president of the eep mr tayali pep president mr shon tembo and most recently of course we've just heard uh ambasada moamba um who was assaulted abducted charged and arrested and denied medical attention even the clergy have not been um spared uh we all heard the recent insults and the threats directed at father salangata and the chawam the chawama parish priest and most reverent dr alec bander archbishop of lutsaka this list is by no means of is exhaustive because there are many other zambian citizens who are of less prominence politically so they're not in the public space but they have suffered the same fate i got a call from one of them today uh who came out on friday i can't even remember the name but these are people that are going through these things the new heritage party has been warning this nation that about the danger that the upnd party in government poses to the unity and peace and future stability of our country by their violent intolerance intolerance to criticism and the growing dictatorship of their leader president hacainde we warned zambia a few months ago that zambia was sleepwalking into a dictatorship our warning is unfortunately proving true what then should be done to stop this anti democratic trajectory that the upnd is carelessly taking this country into it is a very careless move i mean when you give somebody an opportunity to rule this country you are saying to them look you can actually lift this country from this level to a higher level but what we are seeing is is totally different and unfortunately something that is very very regrettable we condemn in the strongest term this cowardly and shamefully primitive strategy by the upnd to intimidate the opposition and zambian citizens in general into silence i'm not too sure whether you remember what we went through in the first republic where you couldn't discuss anything you know you were afraid to talk about the government or the president or anybody people were just afraid that is something that some of us are definitely not prepared to go back to and we are prepared to fight this to the bitter end we cannot accept such oppression because that's not what we fought for that's not the independence that we fought for unfortunately the cost and damage done to individual citizens even after the dictatorship has been removed from power is usually irreparable especially where there's a serious physical injury your tooth will not grow again by the way just so that you know as for the country there is damage to the democratic institutions of governance and the economy amongst many in the worst case scenario there is the danger of creating a failed state as is the case in some countries in the case of zambia the civil society has either been bought or intimidated into silence acquiescence and even tacit corroboration with some of the civil society voices actually cheering on the brutalizers and even justifying these barbaric injustices however the most damning indictment for dereliction of duty by an institution which is funded by zambians citizen this the human rights commission of zambia this institution and its commissioners are the most treacherous incompetent individuals to have ever been given this secret responsibility people's rights are routinely violated in this country and one hardly hears a whisper from them we haven't heard them when somebody go human rights regardless of whether somebody's a murderer or not human rights are human rights and it's important for these people to speak but have you heard them speak at all they are just quiet we don't hear a single word from them what are they doing what are they being paid for what are they doing in those positions if they cannot speak for the citizens to our fellow opposition political parties we want to assure all of you and flinching and flinching support whenever you are unjustly treated by a government party and by the government in power and its agents further we want to assure you of our readiness to be part of a more united front in advancing the restoration of the full independent independence rights of our people including the right to an impeded land ownership freedoms of speech assembly association and economic freedom to the Zambian people we pledge to be your voice whenever your rights and interests as citizens are threatened to the upnd in government we request you to respect the mandate you were given by the Zambian people remember by the ballot you came by the ballot you will leave I thank you