 good afternoon fellow compatriots I propose a moment of silence for the memory of those of our fellow citizens that we have lost in the shootings that took place at today when one of our comrades was being led to the police by the police may their precious souls rest in a peace when the Tonga speaking people came to settle in this territory because I met today in the fourth century they crossed Maguaya River and they said was a booker who was a booker meaning we have crossed over from where the name was a booker comes they settled peacefully in this Republic before all of us came to settle in what we call Sunday today almost 800 years to 1,000 years later the members losses and no other tribes came to join a Tonga speaking people in this Republic because and each of these tribal nations settled peacefully yes they were tribal conflicts but at the end of the day our founding fathers and mothers united they live together in peace and the evidence of massive social economic development by the Tonga speaking people before all of us came to settle here is that in Mombayla they had local trade in terms of agriculture in a commerce and trade with other international trade partners and you can find all these evidence of copper crosses at Mombayla the Portuguese were some of those traders that came and this was before slavery came by the time that the BSA campaign to pursue commercial interests as well as extending the influence of the British and the one man Rhodes just a lot we the people of Zambia and I'm speaking on behalf of the men and women who came ahead of us the founders of what we call Zambia today before they came to settle peacefully and after the coming of the BSA company which acquired this entire territory as a property of a company they created by 1900 what they called northeastern and northwestern Rhodesia and the BSA company imposed hostile taxes and was these taxes that caused the natives to unite to begin to fight against a tax injustice because I've been forced to pay taxes as a way to force them into cheap labor to work in the mines and the raw projects that the BSA company was pursuing in Africa they wanted to extend the British Empire's influence from Cape to Cairo this was the objective of the BSA company and all of us know this fellow citizens the men and women who founded the Republic the nationalists didn't look at right they suffered the abuses at the hands of the BSA company which let us see that control and the crown took over the random of our territory in 1924 and we were called northern Rhodesia of course that was by 1911 we were called northern Rhodesia after the amalgamation of northeastern and northwestern Rhodesia into northern Rhodesia now I'm talking about these parts so you can understand where these countries come from that there are many red seas there are many hurdles that our country has faced but from the prophetic crossing of Magua River by the Tonga speaking people and they said Zambia has always faced such you know those but the people have crossed from that act of the Tonga speaking people brothers and sisters are from the Tongaland we the people of Zambia can learn something that you must cross our red seas just like the children of Israel who crossed their red sea they crossed the Jordan what you're facing today cause for the reckoning of that spirit we have to rekindle the rekindling of that spirit of fighting for proper self through proper self termination as a country for the citizens when the men and women fought for independence when we are fighting for the right to vote which unfortunately the current pay-off regime has taken for granted those men and women united they said we cannot have three Africans making one vote the brutal federal police force which was created as a force to fight men and women who wanted to fight for freedom who are seeking self-determination many of them died but they never gave up on the vision to free this country and then over a united republic to the generation of our fathers those men and women united they faced the brutal police force the federal police force went across the country to stop all forms of meetings that were aimed at uniting the country they imposed it by the rule in so many ways but they realized that as long as the federal police force was using by the new independency was not going to come and they come up with international creed one Zambia one nation that I was supposed to be a unity of peoples and when it comes to unity it's not about you like and you don't like they showed us what to do when times are hard when you don't have any other option but united for the sake of the public for the second time we only have one time as the Bible says in the chronomy I think chapter 32 it says it's not chapter the 12 correctives but I'm talking about the best which says when the almighty created nations you are located nations or boundaries in accordance with the standards of Adam in accordance with the number of the people settled who settled in the land and therefore all of us color citizens ought to know that this is the only country that we have the federal police force killed many of our founding fathers and mothers those who are fighting for freedom those who stood up for Zambia those who stood up for the bettering of the republic of Zambia they took the bullets and died why did they die they died because they wanted an independent Zambia to have men and women in the police service who are going to save the people of Zambia they did not die in order to create and not even more brutal a police force what we have today is reminiscent of the brutal federal police force but I want to say these two federal citizens that we have so many professional men and women in the police service just like the Zambia army the Zambia air force Zambia national service no prisons and the intelligence community but the problem that we have right now is the laying of this institution under siege under captcha by the pure freedom all of us are aware that the moment the pure freedom rose to power and all the criminal elements who you know got together they ensured that they started they ensured that they began to plan for what we are seeing today how did they place their police service under captcha they began to recruit they are party law lists and you cannot call those men who are recruited in the most corrupt manner who are recruited in a manner which was not transparenty we cannot call those as the real police the real police men and women are professional they went through competition proper competition they went through interviews and were proper trained to save this republic and we know them but these professionals who are advising we know that they are advising the current recruiters but they can't understand because when dealing with a criminal mind a criminal mind does not care about who is injured and who dies they don't care about that because they are criminals a criminal values property over life a criminal would kill over money a criminal would kill over a wrist watch that's the criminal mindset and this is what we are seeing happening under the peer freezing and this is totally unacceptable how can after fellow citizens about 56 years of our independence how can we work up today to find that the same kind of force that the federal police use the same force that is being applied on the citizens how can you expect the police to carry for instance life in ammunition when they are going to face citizens who are not armed citizens who are simply standing up for their rights since when did it become a crime to accompany any political leader to the police station a police all police stations are public places and you can't stop the people of Zambia to go to public spaces the police is our police it is not the peer police all police buildings are public property just like markets or roads and therefore the citizens have the right to go to the police and the subject police when i talk about maintaining law and order how can you attack citizens how can you open fire on the citizens who are just standing they are not carrying any offence weapons unless you show us the evidence they are just standing there they are accompanying their leader even during the struggle for independence their solidarity supporters accompany their leaders to court their company wherever they went look at South Africa Zambia help to free South Africa the people of South Africa have the right to demonstrate the people of South Africa can go on the streets at any time as long as they are not destroying property or they're not attacking ordinary citizens what has happened today can never go without committing and the catch to be the hour that innocent citizens who must enjoy the protection of state agencies that they were killed in court like that that's brutal murder what has happened is murder and it's a crime against humanity here is a state prosecutor who left his home he left his wife and children and wife and children were expecting their father to return home and this state prosecutor from what we have learned so far he goes to a restaurant to just go and have breakfast to wait for the state of Zambia to work for all of us and what does he mean there a bullets killed murder brutal murder innocent this is what we call leadership I for one and we inner you people have a problem with this if when we speak about this matter as you say we belong to china we are mad we'll rather be called mad and please keep your normal behavior if yours is normal we'd rather be called mad people even the bible says whoa and to him who is that is when there's a cause when there's a cause to stand up and fight what is good for all the police service must not be there to abuse citizens of course i'm not yet privy to the factual concerning the summoning of white church but what you're saying is that on the basis of what has what has been happening we can clearly see that what has been happening is abuse how can an individual since the pf2 cover power be summoned to the police be arrested 15 times and all those cases have not been prosecuted successfully it's simply meant that it's up and there's any criminality there's any a criminal or evidence which is incrementing incrementing hh where has it taken this regime to wait until this this time the rose to power in 2011 why wait until now this when you are now you are you are now going for the system this is totally unacceptable it's very clear and then no person can start their own motives and all of us ought to stick together to repair this country for what has happened but what is happening and we are appealing to the leadership if i tell you are waiting to be called leaders that please you cannot put your personal interests of private interest first we have zamday before us holding on holding on on to power it's not to wet the blood of a single person why should blood be shed on our streets on our soils we are standing on the soils that so much blood during the struggle for independence and we cannot continue on this path we want the police to be given the professional space that they need to be freed from all kinds of capture and the same applies to all institutions of the state this is our call and it's not too much to ask for the citizens of zambia must be given space to demonstrate peacefully they must be given space to hold meetings freely this is the country that they have this is the country that we have and it's what we are calling for what has happened and what is happening in our republic cannot be watched we cannot stand at ease no not at all and this is what you look at those people that have died in their own country that a master of eco protection in the local they wake up on the street i mean they wake up sorry from their homes they go and they are not fighting anybody and they continue now from what we can see we have not seen any evidence of violence these are peaceful you know party members of the uk and i believe that time has come for all of us across you know political groupings to unite and stand up what is right in our country time has come for all of us as citizens to unite when i talk about the unity of political groupings it's about time that you put all this person equals aside and let us put zambia first we believe it's about zambia first and time has come for common action we need an action to place the police service under forensic audit we want to audit all kinds of recruitment that have taken place and if the police service has been infiltrated by criminal elements by people who are not serving national interests who are not serving the interests of the police we the citizens of zambia can prosecute that case and we call on the symbols of sight we call on the church all groups in the republic of zambia to unite and they show that justice prevails we have to prevent more deaths because what we are seeing right now is very clear and gives us a global picture of where we are going we have to stand up this country is facing numerous you know problems and we have said we cannot give priorities to one hh hh is simply being abused there's no two way about it and when it comes to the abuse of any citizen all of us must unite touch one touch all touch one person touch all the citizens touch one tribe touch all because we are united we are one zambia one nation and that's why we are calling on all the citizens to begin to work together please let us refuse division whatever you are know that we are one zambia one nation let us unite let us not be divided but a people that have no national agenda what there is a personal agenda we do understand that the men and women in uniform are under siege they are under clear siege and there's not two other and we can prove this kind of case there are many people who have been retired in personal in personal interest or corruption interest they have been retired and they have not been paid so it simply means that they are using the power that they have to save their personal interest power must be used to save the people of zambia and this is something that all of us must fight for we in the upp have been giving alternative I mean objects and balances with evidence-based solutions to the country we have said time has come to scrap off all these bodies of the state in the shoes of the state that have centralized the power at the top we need to take part where the people are and we must put the people of zambia first in land matters in trade and commerce China does not come to zambia because China loves zambia the Lebanese don't come to zambia because they love zambia they come here because they love water they love land they love I mean no resources and therefore any sensible government must put the citizens first the country is using the country is losing huge amounts of money through illegal trade of diamonds illegal trade of food of gold illegal trade of food of emeralds even through private accounting in the mines billions have been lost and all those billions that have been lost they are enough to clear this country's debt zambia does not need to depend on any good the country this country is so sustaining we are a country that is so endued with all the resources that we need that we cannot be going with a plane to bed this country must stand on this country is not a poor country when look at the balance of zambia you look at the assets that you have you can agree with me that this country is he is rich what we are lacking is a visionary and the firm leadership to put this country on the right back and to put the people first to put national interest first and we ought not apologize over putting our country first and therefore concerning fellow citizens these atrocities that are going on the crimes against humanity is about time that you documented zambia clearly needs international help we need international intervention what is happening in this country i can assure you needs international intervention because we are under siege yes all of us must unite let us begin to work together for the sake of zambia let us repair our country but at the end of the day let us know that all these crimes against humanity that are being perpetrated they must be brought before the icc the pf regime must be entitled for these crimes that are committed because these things that you can assure you have potential to plunge this country into a deep crisis we don't want a crisis we are peace-loving citizens but this culture of peace it ought to be sustained and must be supported by those who are in the governing authority how can any sensible issue a statement that these things that are happening have been happening they happen to juba they happen to other reasons is that the kind of thing that we need that people were killed during the colonial government but they were killed in the unique government therefore we must kill this is the more reason why the people of zambia said not to the m&d because they wanted to put an end to police brutality so you cannot be justifying the rules that because the m&d government is told therefore we must be still can you see the thinking of the people that we have at least the people that as a country we can continue to entrust leadership we how can somebody say how these things not because these things happened not because juba was right and therefore we must continue to try the people unfairly they're thinking for the citizens this is what recycling has done in the politics of the land because when you have the same kind of people that you have recycled for too long this is the end result because they think that that is normal some of them when i talk about recycling they say when the party structures of the m&d some of them do a key ministers and all key ministers have been taken over by the same people who say under under some of them partly under some of them under m&d under in all the the three under the three presidents who save them and they ask the ministers and a few were there those who didn't say was ministers they're just there's passengers there are many people are professional not many sorry a few are professional i'm talking about the cabinet but the few who are professional are under siege cabinet is under siege secret wings are under siege and the state you are talking about is in form of corruption which you can prove corrupt elements in disciplined there's no cabinet that's disciplined as this one that we have this is total indiscipline and we are saying please don't divide us and we the people of zambia must unite we the people of zambia must speak together as one there are refuse tribal divisions there are stick together there's no olsi there's no memba there's no tonga there's no kawande there's no lunda there's no goni there's no no chewa there's no namwanga there's no only one zambia one nation we must unite in our diversity we must fight with the divers you know cultures that we have we must appreciate them and decide that the diversity of our culture is what makes us beautiful that we must stick together and build a strong republic so that each and every tribe of zambia needs not feel annihilated this is very important it is no one that we in the ipp keep saying that it's about time that when it comes to appointments there must be a derivative policy to try by the balance you know cabinet try by the balancer are controlling officer positions try by the balance all positions in government including segre twins because each and every tribe must feel equal must be famous feel to be actually to be fully you know part of this republic that you call zambia this is the nationalism that we in the upp are talking about reclaiming and we ought to work together to reclaim the lost signal zambia is no longer respected in the committee of nations how can a country which is brutally killing uh on citizens who are not even involved in those people and they are not involved go to other countries people go on the streets in america people protesting they think that that donald trump's election was stolen people are going on the streets and the police in america has not responded by brutally killing citizens on the streets and we are talking about millions that are going on the streets how about those people you can't even count them those are few people but what has happened to crowd control that's why we have we have convinced them why why why can't let professions do their work did you go to use our money our taxpayers money to go and buy the equipment to go and buy guns and dominions to kill the citizens are you using your father's money using your mother's money or your grandfather's money you need to understand that even that common person who is selling tomatoes on the street that person pays tax those are women who wake up every morning hoping that they are going to excel they are going to prosper in their own republic there are many young people today some are finished with medical degrees others are nurses but medicals engineers they are on the streets there are no jobs the pio found the economy growing at seven percent it has gone to negative it's negative one and we believe that by the end of that we need negative two negative three meaning that we are in terms of decline we are talking about ten points or ten percent they are about now when you do actual competitions for that it's actually more than that when you look at the actual growth that seven percent and you look at the decline this is totally unacceptable these are things that you must be talking about and when it comes to zambia everyone must be brought on board whether you are in a party which is not in a government or a party in a government or to unite and i want to say this to the people those genuine pf members because i do know that even the pf parties and the capture i want to say this to genuine pf members wherever you are across the country look take a piece of paper take your pain write the list of cabinet ministers look at women and secretaries ask yourself where are those people there when we found the the pf where were they what did they do to you what did you go through i'm talking to genuine pf members let us remember what you went through the violence that you went through we know that some of the people who are at the center of of this you know planning the violence and this is violence on us they are not just in the pf alone but they are also in opposition some of you i mean we can list them you know them but what i'm saying genuine is that look at the list of which controlling your party your pf today are these people when supporting even in the reading scheme wherever you are as genuine pf did you fight for pf in order to let the same criminal elements take over the power to command hijack your power is that what you said the permacare if that is permacare when every morning you are lining up to get a seat back if that's the pf you fought for then support them but i want to say that you two are in danger meaning if you can't help to carry your friend's load even what you are carrying will be taken away from you this is was ambient and if there is any political leader unless it's a very very very stupid political leader who thinks that you see these things happening to your friend and say no no no it's for him now we chance them you are very stupid over a number one if that's the kind of thing that you have a brand of a brand of a god you can't smile when it's what is happening tomorrow to be on you we need to stop this culture we must be united to stand and stop this culture if any zombie and political leader must be defeated he or she must be defeated through a fair and genuine election and not through the abuse of state-abusing state institutions that cannot be set in victor if hh must lose their elections let him lose genuinely don't unleash unless state agents and fair and when i'm talking about you know you know privatization and many other useless things that i'm talking about as important as these subjects are hh was not in the cabinet he was not among the people who decided that that there must be privatization in the country he was not there they decided and therefore you cannot go to prosecute a people who are given who are given contracts as consultants who kept the contracts we must hear the story firstly from the person who gave the contracts and this is very important if we are talking about the commission investigations everything must be comprehensive and there shouldn't be any secret house especially all those who serve the that cabinet of the which destroyed the country this is what you call justice in the land and we in the ipp believe in justice for all not for a few criminals it must be justice for all all the citizens again they even to even reach your poor all of us are equal before the law and the quality before the law must be experienced we must live it we must see it this is the zambia that i believe our founding fathers mother's portfolio they didn't fight they didn't remove the federal the brutal federal police force to replace it with another even more brutal a police force that we are seeing is totally unacceptable how much blood will the land go near to take look at what happened during the the the gassy how many citizens died and has just gone quite like that i must say the foot it should a statement to one that there are so many crises that this country is facing corruption and many other crises if the same energy that we unleash on some of the things that are not a priority we can unleash it to recover the money stolen they steal them and this is the government it has become the first government that steals the money for donors and then they use the public funds to repair the donors quite they steal the money it goes in that person of pockets then they go to the treasure they get the money to repair the donors and the country is quite we are not going to be silent over these matters zambia is the only country that we have and this advice we are given to his family there is no individual on earth who can defeat the people power when you read the so-called constitution which is not a constitution because zambia is no constitution it clearly says the courts drive their power from the people the same change to which you've been amending of the zambia independence act section 65 of the laws of england clearly again he says that talking about the executive orders that they derive the power from the people and that's some paper says we the people the people of zambia not funk too selfish the people of zambia still very much in charge of their country that was the power the power is ours the power is ours it's not for future criminals this world is replete with examples we ever thought mama gada would fall like that also in mubarak and that president of madagascar would read the elections and they had their water that planned according to him but after reading the election he succeeded actually the country rose and it was a country-wide uprising and they were not violent all they said is show us here we are counter supported for you and if you think that this is too far if you think this can't happen in 2021 how if you take up with elections then you are testing the patience of the pro zambia you are stretching the people of zambia too much today the people the police can come out with guns like that and the people appear not to be like you think they're not doing anything zambians i won't ever need to respect them especially when they stop they stop talking too much there's some kind of an alliance of the people people to people alliance the people of zambia deciding even children know go and ask children they know that change is coming but we have challenged you that if you do something constructive between now eight months seven months there about is too much time right now your budget is under consideration before parliament and i think you are finishing it by january too much there about you show genuine information the people with the people of zambia can say well why should we change the working government let's support them let's stability continue i mean for the sake of stability and continuity but it must be continuity what is good this is our genuine council the murdering of citizens is very very very painful they understand too much what has happened is very painful we mourn with those of our compatriots who have lost their loved ones today test be this day and may the moment come that perpetrators of these injustices are going to go to justice and we must unite over this we once again stand in solidarity with hh and we are saying these abuses against him these are abuses the master stop if you are lacking strategy wisdom find wisdom but stop what you are doing is dividing the country and if you think that you are destroying you are not campaigning for him that's what you are doing that what we are doing as they work as a strategy the independent government with all the vigilantes tried this it never worked when time for change came it came the men you think we use in the security circles they are suffering they have children and they were caring about the future of our country zambia must unite and that is not for for this kind of division that we are seeing what has what has happened in the public and what is happening clearly you can see that this is a clear strategy trend and i let some people where you come up with a political strategy you know we are going to divide and rule we simply say that all our tongue has a tribe of this and that stop that the tongue has taken people honorable people all the tribes are honored and therefore we the people of zambia must say no to all forms of division we have one zambia one nation fellow citizens we are monitoring and we shall be speaking to you as we want what is happening we are not going to be quiet over zambia we only have one zambia and let us be one people united let us remember prayer let us remember to pray but at the same time let us go to raise a cry and as we raise a cry let us ask the almighty what can we do you never know that you are the kind of absorption right where you are and we appeal to the zambia senator that please if there's a moment that you ought to contribute to the struggle is now when they are giving one dollar five dollars help us let us help our country zambia needs a new kind of you know spirit to come upon the land to rekindle that independence dream and our creed one zambia one nation thank you