 What has been going on here starting yesterday and maybe even before yesterday is a typical, a classical case of how a scared government can abuse, the criminal justice system can abuse the police to victimize those with dissenting voices. That's what has happened. We had a call out on Thursday for Comrade Dr. Fred Membe, the leader of the Socialist Party, to appear at the cyber security unit here in Lusakat-Forced Quarters on Friday. The police were professional, they understood the fact that he was not able to do that on Friday last week. And we knew why they decided to save or to send the call out on a Thursday for him to appear on Friday, which was a long weekend, so that they would lock him up in the manner they have locked him up. They would lock him up Friday last week, Saturday Sunday, then Monday they would have an excuse that it was a holiday and then Tuesday, which should have been yesterday, to continue their tactics, gimmicks in order to keep him behind bars. So that's what has happened. They are succeeding in trying to frustrate the law, because the law is very clear. Yesterday they should have given him police bonds, they should have done it today if there was a good excuse not to do it yesterday. But as you can see we have the sureties, they have been secured, everything has been done, but the police will not comply. This is one of the rare cases where the police themselves are used to complain against an innocent citizen. We have seen in the past where UPND cadres would complain to the police, usually they would go to a remote place, complain about something concerning an innocent citizen. The police will come, bundle that citizen in a vehicle, drive them overnight to that part of place in an effort to intimidate, to destroy the spirit of such an individual in the opposition, mainly with dissenting voices. So this time around they have used the deputy inspector general of police. This has not happened before, it's unprecedented. And in order to fulfill a futile attempt to mislead the Zambian people and they would not favor it, the inspector general of police issued a statement ahead of the summoning yesterday. Later on as comrade Dr Fredman was in the hands of the police he issued another statement, as if trying to justify the reason why they want to keep him beyond what the law stipulates. So as socialist party we are demanding that comrade Dr Fredman be released on police bond to go to court and have his day in court. Because we know the reason why they want to keep him too long in the cells and make him suffer and frustrate him and try to break his spirit is because they know that when the matter goes to court nothing will happen, nothing will happen. But we are sending a strong message to president Hrema and the UPND government that they will not succeed, no one has succeeded to break the spirit of our people, to break the spirit of leaders in the opposition who are speaking for the people. Earlier on we did talk to the lawyer that is a council summoner and he updated us early in the morning that he did have a meeting with the police at 7 hours and in his update he told us that by 11 hours we should see the release of the socialist party leader. What has been the delay? This is now 2 hours after 13. Do you have any information of what's happening inside? You may also want to know that yesterday the police tried to would wink us saying that the reason they were not releasing him was because we had a lot of people outside and they asked us to displace the people. We knew it was a lie but we still agreed that the people should go and the people went and nothing happened. We know that even today they will not release him. What the police said yesterday was that they are still studying the elements of this charge. So they arrested him before they were ready to arrest him before they concluded investigations. Who does that in a civilized world? So whether we meet the requirements, the surities that we talked about, the honorable mouse and the honorable computer, whether we secure the surities, whether we comply with the law in terms of what is required to secure a bond for him, they will not release him because they are acting on instructions from the powers that be. That statement yesterday which was read by the Inspector General Police was full of language typical of Cosway, that gorilla type of welfare media, the Zambian watchdog and it's very clear that it's written by a known individual from State House given to the Inspector General Police to read. And we feel sorry for the man. This is a typical case of where to get a retiree who is tired physically and mentally. She put them there to give them a job and they are replacing somebody who has been fired prematurely for simply saying they are not moving on investigating a matter because the instructions from State House not to do so. And then you bring this retired man, probably retired in terms of mental faculties as well, put them there and use them as a puppet. Who expects them to go against the direction in which the puppeteer is pulling the strings, the strings I make. So that's what is happening and it is shameful. We do believe that the man, the Inspector General Police last night would not sleep if he has conscience. Because he knows he has disgraced himself, he knows he has done something that no one does. The man did his job, he retired the coding back. This is the time when you should demonstrate, when you should refuse to compromise your integrity, your professionalism. So that on the last page of your career, what would be there is distinguished service, but the man has allowed himself to be used by politicians. It's shameful. We know very well that if that statement were to be written by professional police officers who are there to assist him, it would not be in that language. It would not be full of baseless political accusations, including trying to imply that Comrade Dr. Fredman should be very careful because people who trade, the path that has been trading, something bad happens to them. Do they have plans to kill our leader? Do they have plans to destroy our leader? And for what? This is a democracy. The Socialist Party is registered as a political party in this country. We have not gone to the bush. We have not been inciting soldiers so that we can take over power and constitutionally know. The Socialist Party has all Zambians know, participated in the general elections in this country in 2021. The Zambian people did not elect Comrade Dr. Fredman. They elected president Akain Dehichilema. And we recognize the mass president of this country with a legitimate mandate, despite the fact that the light is way into state house. And the Bible is very clear. He who goes through the window, he who lies is reversing the gains that we have heard, the democratic gains that this country has scored. A number of key opposition, prominent leaders from the opposition political parties have come to support and base their solidarity to Mr. Membe. How does that make you feel as a party? The members say in solidarity they have come to encouraging because they know that we need a strong opposition. We need everyone in this country to be strong. Because we have a ruthless man in government. We have a ruthless corrupt bunch of selfish capitalists in charge of government. And if the people of Zambia are not united, the opposition included, these people may have a few day abusing our people, increasing prices, refusing to put medicines in hospitals. Somebody was calling me the other day, just yesterday, and I was very emotional to explain that at Kito Central hospital, the water pipes into the mortuary are blocked. The people have to buy mineral water to use pieces of cloth to clean bodies of the alive ones before they go to Paris. And yet you have a government that is moving in big cars contrary to that pronouncement, hypocritical pronouncement, that they want to sell the big cars because they are consuming too much fuel and so on. That is contrary. They are enjoying life at the expense of our people. They have allowed, they have allowed the cost of living to continue skyrocketing and they are not doing anything to alleviate the suffering of our people. Allow me also to say, allow me also to say that the body of Comrade Dr. Fred member is behind bars. So his mobility is limited, but his spirit is not behind bars. His spirit walks with that woman who is being carried on a wheelbarrow to take them to the next, to the health center for them to give birth. The spirit of Comrade Dr. Fred member is with that old woman who is carrying a prescription in the corridors of UTH, Kito Central teaching hospital and so on. Going away to go and buy medicine because there are no medicines in hospitals. Exactly. That is what is happening for the spirit of President Dr. Membe as in high spirits. Finally we want to commend our members who have been highly disciplined in line with the socialist spirit. We are asking them to continue this spirit not to inconvenience members of the public. We ensure that they go about their business and whatever they have to do without us inconveniencing them in any way. Thank you. Pleasure.