 family those that are joining us we are the residents of Zambia 6th president Dr. Edgar Chagualungu you've seen that is flanked by leaders that quickly rushed to come and see him here I'll land over the microphone to our vice president of the party honorable given Louvinda. Thank you thank you very much those of you who are following us on social media and let me seize this opportunity to thank his Excellency President Dr. Edgar Chagualungu for allowing my team to come to his residence this afternoon. Thank you very much your Excellency. We came primarily to come and give his Excellency solidarity. On the 28th of October last year when he decided to divorce himself from the trappings of former president he did it for the sake of this party that we lead he did for the sake of Zambians and naturally when we hear that there is anything that is happening to him which is inimical to his interests it is our duty to stand by him because he is not an orphan at all he is a leader of the largest political party in Zambia and your Excellency would like to say the statement that you made has come to be leaving testimony of what we've said all the time that the democratic space in Zambia is shrinking that the freedom of expression in Zambia is under a guillotine in this country it seems like nobody is allowed to speak nobody is allowed to express themselves even rendering innocent and honest advice is becoming a criminal offense when you said what you said I was sitting opposite you you advised that please police behave yourselves conduct yourselves in a civil manner because what you are doing is risking bringing down the government you did not say that the government will be brought down you are advising the police to behave in a civil manner lest they risk the government's continued operation and the reaction that we read first of all from Reha Munga was extremely extremely surprising that Reha Munga could even go to the extent of making a public statement where his warning that your statement would be studied what is there to study over that statement what is it that wasn't clear in that statement it was in French what was it in that statement that requires analyzing and what is it that you are saying that the legal consequences have to follow what are the legal consequences of a person advising because it is your duty as a citizen to ensure that you give information to the state when you think that there is a threat to our democracy there is threat to the continued state of government it is our duty as citizens to advise and say watch out something is wrong now to even come in here that there are plans to have you arrested no that will not allow and that is the reason why we have come and I want to say to you excellency that where we came from we your lieutenants there are many others who are waiting they all wanted to converge here but we said no wait a minute there is no reason for us to go and besiege the president's residence let us your leaders just go there and give solidarity to him but would like to take advantage of this to tell all our members when I said just the day when Miles Sampa decided to declare himself president of the party with the support of Haga indi I did I spoke at the secretariat and I said time had come for Zambians to rise and defend Zambia's democracy there is no offence meant by that we ought to rise and defend ourselves now when you say that please police watch out because if you don't the Zambians may rise what is wrong with that every citizen has the duty to rise to defend themselves and to defend their democratic space so it is true we are going to rise in the event that this tendency of destroying our democracy continues we are bound to rise we may rise tomorrow but we may also rise in 2026 when we go to vote who rise and go and defend ourselves there is nothing criminal about that so excellency we've come to assure you that you are not alone in this they touch you they touch all of us and they must also be made aware that when I say all of us are not talking only on behalf of the patriotic front no am I speaking only on behalf of hookah I'm speaking up on behalf of all the Zambians who have already awakened the Zambians are awake Zambians are so touch you then they are touching all of us as a matter of fact your excellency the same people who today are saying they want to study your statement they want to have you arrested we just have to ask them just three years ago when you were in state house what kind of treacherous statements were being made by those who are in opposition then Hagainde himself on several occasions made statements that are worse than the statements that any of us have made ever since he became president you never had him arrested you never had the spokesperson of the police issuing threats the way Reha Monga has done he made lots of statements how many times did he refuse to even recognize your presidency for us we respect him we recognize him as president he was elected yes but we know the circumstances under which he was elected we can actually dispute that but we don't want to we have allowed him free reign to govern until he proves himself a failure to the Zambian people without without our participation and yet now because we have given him this free reign he is now going about it in a manner that shows the whole world that as a matter of fact the Zambians made a very big mistake in 2021 and I cannot sure the Zambian people I cannot sure Hagainde did it myself that if he continues and I would like to borrow your words but I would just just oppose them if Hagainde I'll be very happy your excellency I'll be extremely happy to be co-accused and I'd like that all of these my colleagues will be co-accused with you the fact is if Hagainde does not watch the way that he's governing or mis-governing this country the manner in which he's mistreating people the manner in which he's diminishing political space and if he continues to dance to his praise singers who seeing those praises only to his ears when they turn their backs against him they are telling us that as a matter of fact is a dictator then he himself is creating his own downfall and if he's going to manage to go until 2026 God in heaven will be our witnesses because he is bound to fail even before 2026 so excellency we are here with you to what happened to Dr. Kaunda he was elected popular elected in 1988 two years later he was calling for fresh elections precisely it has happened in many parts of the world it was not only with Dr. Kaunda but it's a good example because Dr. Kaunda had been president for 27 years and he thought that he had gotten grip of the governance of this country but the Zambians showed him that the power truly belongs to them not the people occupy office and I'm glad that you're saying that so we can also remind this man's elder brother my friend your elder brother my friend Hagainde he did that the power that you have is borrowed power the true power belongs to the Zambian people and the Zambian people are watching you every step the confusion that you have created in the patriotic front sponsoring studios to come and cause confusion that will be your downfall but please let go of Edgar Chagualungu he has given you space to govern he respects you he recognizes you each time he mentions your name he says president Hagainde for you Hagainde for as long as president Lungu was republican president you did not call him by the title president you didn't want to even recognize him please give him some respite he needs yes because he is indeed a guy but he's president of Zambia and you've recognized that so yes thank you very much for excellency we want to give you our total support and solidarity thank you sir thank you thank you thank you to our dear viewers we are the residents of the former president Zambia's sixth president Dr Edgar Chagualungu there were urgent reports that there were schemes and attempts to have him arrested we found him joyful he's in his house he was reading some some political books he welcomed us and the vice president has just spoken to the issues that the president committed any crime the power of the people lie with Zambia's doesn't lie with those that exercise it now and we've demonstrated that if for example you don't run the economy well you create a political crisis they could be caused for fresh elections it's not criminal to go for fresh elections it's not criminal to say Zambia's will vote you out it's not criminal to literally criminalize every speech that Zambia's are making so until next time thank you very much and if there are any developments we'll let you know