 So, thank you very much for all of you to come to our humble home. I really appreciate your coming to the media and especially my brothers and sisters from different political parties. I will not waste time to introduce them. They will be able to introduce themselves. I just want to say thank you very much for your support that you have run to me when I really need people around. So basically what happened this morning is that our yard is divided into two parts. There is the main yard and there is the garden side but the garden is also fenced except there is no electric fence on the garden. So I have a gardener who usually come early in the morning to come and do the watering. So he came about six. Immediately he took the hose pipe to go to the garden to start watering. As he was just opening the small gate entering into the garden he was grabbed by somebody and held on the neck according to his explanation and they put a cloth on his mouth. Then they tied him. I should have brought that wire which they used to tie him up. Now when I opened for me I went in but I started I don't know what happened but I just went and started looking at the CCTV. So as I was looking there only to see him being carried by these two gentlemen who identify themselves as army officers. They came in front but I saw them on the CCTV. So immediately I got alarmed I came locked up the house the doors and because I saw the guns and the guns they were those rifles. I was very sure they were criminals because I saw that they jumped the fence from this side. So I couldn't think of anything. I just thought these are thieves. And I went and I armed myself and I came to the door because I was able to see them from inside on the CCTV expecting that maybe they will break the door and enter. And at that point I was ready to fire. But as I was sitting there I heard them telling my gardener to say knock. Then the guy answered, how am I going? He answered in Muchibemba. No manara konkoshisha na munkakila. So I realized my gardener is in front. So I went back at the porch. There is an opening area inside and I shot in the air just to let them look. I'm also armed inside here. The moment I did that I saw one of the guy who was in front of the land cruiser that came in calling them and telling them to retreat. That's how they jumped into the vehicle. But as they were jumping into the vehicle they told my God very clearly. They said you should tell him to stop talking about us. But then it's like he was confused he didn't know. Then the other guy said, na umfufu bale kwewa. Umfufu bale kwewa. And then the guys wewa boso bale kukulanda paliva ame. And they got into the vehicle and left. Pretty much in brief this is what happened. There were five of them. They were carrying those not AK-47 but those assorted rifles which we usually see with the army officers. We've seen that kind of rifle with the police officers. So in brief this is what happened. Thank you. Thank you very much. I would like to call upon the Frank Wallya of the Socialist Party. I wish to recognize leaders of political parties present in the interest of time. They will introduce themselves when their time comes to make an intervention. But my name is Frank Wallya. And I recognize all of you from the media and everyone here present. We have listened to Mr. Chilofia Tyali explaining what transpired here at his private residence. As a party headed by comrade Dr. Fredemembe, we want to say to the Zambian people through you the media that we are shocked about what has happened here. We are very very shocked. It is not common in Zambia to see this kind of criminality. There are a lot of criminals around that we know. And they are stealing from people's houses, they are killing people and so on. But when you listen to how our brother Mr. Tyali has explained, we have no doubt. We have no doubt with all the footage CCTV footage that everyone has seen. It's there on social media. We have no doubt that this kind of audacity on the part of those responsible for this criminal conduct. We have no doubt that these are people who are not scared of state police. These are people who are highly professional. These are people who knew what they wanted to achieve. And they had no fear whatsoever of our established police system and other wings that we have to ensure that law and order prevails. This makes us not doubt the fact that these people could be sponsored by some powerful elements if not the state itself to perpetrate this kind of notorious criminal behavior. And we want to join all Zambians to condemn what has happened so that this criminal behavior can be nipped in the bud. We also want to say and to remind Zambians that we are living at a time where we have a government that is panicking, a government that has become very unpopular, a government that is in panic mode. And when somebody is panicking, when a government is panicking, anything can happen. That said, we as a Socialist Party and I'm sure all the political parties present here including those who for good reasons are not here would agree with us to demand a thorough investigation of what happened here so that Zambians can not only know the truth but that they can see the culprits brought to book. This country should not be allowed to degenerate to a point where we should start witnessing extrajudicial killings. God forbid. With these few words and intervention allow me to give a chance to other leaders who are here present. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I would like to call upon President Savoia Mola of the NDC. You have just associated my name. Good afternoon everyone. I'm sure you know today is a holiday but just when this incident happened, I think we called each other up. I thank God for President Shon Tembo here, for coordinating us to be here and all of us felt they need to be here. Why did we feel they need to be here on a holiday? We would have done it tomorrow or any other day. We felt the matter at hand was very, very serious. Something that we have never ever seen before. And every time when you hear some of us saying that the UPND is a West Government that this country has ever had, this is exactly what we mean. The UPND is very, very intolerant. We have never seen a situation whereby kadas or ami officials or whatever it was who came here do what they came to do here. This is totally, totally unprecedented. And something that needs to be nipped in the bud, like the spokesperson for the Socialist Party said. We can't allow such a thing to happen because like they say, if it happens to Mr. Tyali today, our president for EFF. It's going to happen to somebody else tomorrow because that's how they start. They'll start with this one, tomorrow it's another person. Tomorrow it's another person. So as opposition political party leaders and just opposition in the country, we are very, very scared with what has happened to him. It's more like it has happened to us individually because the audacity with which things are happening right now under this government is very, very scary. You can't allow such a thing to happen because also like my comrades have said, the CCTV footage is there. So if really the state is not involved, the people that claimed to be here are really not involved, we hope the investigative wings are going to investigate and find out who exactly was behind that. And those people need to be brought to book because as Zambia, we are at a level whereby we are afraid to speak. If Mr. Tyali says something that you don't like, find ways of addressing that. If I say something that you don't like, find legal ways of doing that. If here Ambassador Mamba says what you do, anyone of us here, if we say something that you don't like, find a legal way of doing it. Like they say, democracy is about noise. And if you are a democrat, you need to love the noise of democracy. That's what one philosopher said. Real democracy is about loving the noise of democracy. So with democracy in this country, we are going to make noise whether you like it or not. And if you don't like it, find legal ways of addressing what it is that anyone of us says. Just like sometimes we may not like what you say. But how do we address that in a civilized state? We address it like normal human beings. I won't say much. There are a lot of communities I would like to say. They are parts of course. But as I go back to my seat, I just like to say one thing. The UPND government should be serious and love the noise of democracy. This is an indictment on the law enforcement agencies and the president himself. Because the president receives intelligence information on a daily basis. So even as of now, I'm sure it has been briefed, who came here? So if the president is serious with democracy and being tolerant of other opposition political party leaders, then he should put his foot down and ensure that what happens here, first of all, we know who really came here and that he should not repeat itself. Thank you so much. Thank you so much President Savoy Imbuela. I would like to call upon President Kasondemwenda of the EFF. Thank you. I would want to appreciate the presence of the media and the fellow leaders from political parties that have made an appearance here. We know in moments like this one, it might not concern some people and they might find it light. But when you look deeper in a moment like this one, to some of us it goes deeper because we are all just people. We are all just human beings who love this country and come in fourth to give a service with the hope that the little gift God has given us can take our country somewhere. We do not go into politics because of so many other reasons. There could be people with such reasons but there are also people, the people that I see here are people that have gone into these things because we believe in every generation there are people that should stand up and offer leadership. That's all we want but should that be equivalent to a death sentence? Should it mean that when we step up and offer leadership we cease not to be human beings? Don't we have families? Should we be followed and threatened like we get paid for what we are doing? No, we chose Zander to be a democracy and I want to extend these ways to present how kind he is. He is one person who gives a testimony of what he went through and I pray and beseech him that if he be a president that he claims to be may he look into this matter? Should he make us become so hard hearted by the time we become leaders? Should we have lost people that we love? Should we come so close to death before we become leaders such that we become so hard hearted such that even when people are crying we can't feel their pain because we have gone through us? I think leadership should not be like that. That is primitive, that's a cake. I can confess honestly with confidence that president Hakan Dachilema sofa has not showed the statesmanship that he should with the background he has. Most of us have been in sales before we have been locked up. He has never, not even once offered police guidance to anyone wanting to protest. He's never given, he's not given anyone. No one, no political leader, the only people on record has given protection whatever he calls it, permit which is even illegal before the law, there is no such things as permit are those people that were demonstrating for gay rights. All of us he has not given and he has not stood up to credentials. I would not want to tanish everything he has done. He has done some few good things here and there but all in all this is a democracy and we are standing up. What we saw happen here, I came when I was caught immediately because I knew it has happened to my comrade Chilufia here. Tomorrow it will happen to me. I don't own guns. I could have a small gun but I don't own guns. I could not, I've got little kids at home should they live in fear just because we are pursuing this. So what we are doing is a noble cause to advance the interest of Zambia to make Zambia great president Hakan Dachilema will not be there forever. If the playing field for politics becomes so animated such that people that are of noble cause start fearing to endeavour in this then it's just allowing criminals to replace us because we don't want to die. We want to be part of the progress of this country. We want to see success in our lifetime but it should not be equivalent to a death sentence. So we send a message that what has happened here is within the ambitio of the government they can investigate. Them failing to investigate this is actually a confirmation of the amniocris because something like this can happen in a land where you are a leader and you failed to come to terms of who did what then you don't deserve to be president. So if it doesn't get to the detail of what happened here then it doesn't deserve. And according to his words then it should be gotten rid it should be voted out in 2026. So we want to echo the word say what has happened here we don't want it to exceed beyond here and we need answers. Without wasting much time we want to appreciate the media and everybody and we pray that this shall really stand up to be witnessed to us. Thank you. I would like to call upon patriotic front presidential aspirant Ambassador Emmanuel Mwamba. Colleagues are here. I was caught by my vice president Honorable given the wind that I could represent the party here. Honorable Shontembo colleagues thanks for coordinating this solidarity joint press conference. For us we've been crying to the Zambians we've been under attack from day one. You must have seen the lawlessness that characterized the so-called corruption investigations. The law enforcement agencies without warrants storm the homes of most leaders of the patriotic front even when the law prescribes how they can do an investigation to informatize children they buggered into homes, broke doors, broke gates and I think there was euphoria. It was after elections and the PF had just lost elections and no matter how much we raised this issue I think people didn't pay attention because I didn't think that president Againda Ichilema's government would descend into lawlessness that early. Now it has become apparent there is a key matter which is now being discussed everywhere the case of Kwacha and Kabushik by elections where with the coordination of state house ECZ and the courts of law including then the police store the two seats without shame you have seen the judgment from the constitutional court that has ruled that the two candidates were eligible I am bothering to go back to the background to understand why purported officers of the law were here you have to lay the background to demonstrate that the lawlessness has been from day one ignore the rhetoric president was on hand when he saw in Kajowa and he said he didn't want lawlessness in bus stops markets and in bi-elections but you know that the violence has even been escalated look at the last bi-elections our dear brother, comrade Dr. Fred Membe was forced to draw a weapon in Serenje because the hoads of kadas were attacking in the presence of the police and who did they arrest they didn't arrest the kadas that perpetrated the violence they instead arrested comrade Fred Membe you saw how the UPND kadas attacked our camps in Chilila Womboy and even injured our people including the former minister of national planning Hon. Alexander Chiteme then there is these attacks that are led by the president who attacks his excellence the president himself attacks citizens he will hold a press conference attack Nakachinda what are you saying to law enforcement agencies of let it is even bad the attacks are now directed at the former president president Ed Galungu when the president was opening a meeting at Mungushi to resolve the issues around CDF he went for president Lungu who was not the agenda or part of the meeting he said the labor overlap what does he mean I will not allow him to and when the president says I will not allow you to what does that mean he has since repeated these threats against the former president if you see any attack on former president Lungu what will you conclude because the president has vowed that he will never allow the president Lungu anywhere near politics as if that he is the constitution himself president Lungu has put it very clear he is in retirement he is waiting to hand over power to whoever the party will elect but that still doesn't set to president Hilema so there are warranted attacks against the former president are totally unjustified so when you see the narration that has been done by Comrade Chilufia this is totally criminal there should be a proper formal investigations against his attacks and they need to understand that we are part of democracy they just hosted the democracy summit what does it mean you have to allow freedom of the press you have to allow the opposition and divergent views to reign if any of us break the law take us to the police take us to a court of law but you can't send criminals because I don't think soldiers will do that Zambian soldiers are known to be very disciplined so whoever is among security officers from the Zambia Army is involved in this crime they should be fleshed out and my brother Chilufia said you have to remember there are kids who made a video in Chiengi in Wapula and people need to remember the pattern who went to arrest those kids and beat them up if those soldiers been arrested if those soldiers been brought to court for assault when do soldiers get involved in civil matters so people might forget that soldiers went and picked these kids who they thought had insulted the president but the law was there and what has happened to those soldiers I've never seen in court charges against them so what happened this morning this is labor day an attack to one is an attack to all we have to stand in solidarity what has happened to Chilufia Tairi and what has consistently been happening to the patriotic front from day one Zambians need to wake up because when it was happening to the PF never PF maybe the PF never left it so let them take their own bitter medicine but human rights violations remain that human rights violations so thank you very much thank you very much I would like to call upon president for the patriots for economic progress good afternoon countrymen and women afternoon what happened this morning is something that is very worrisome from whichever angle you look at it and from our standpoint if it wasn't for the CCTV footage which president Tairi posted on his page we might not have believed what he was saying but we saw it it was very very clear the people came the first they get open others were coming from behind and it can be seen from the CCTV footage that that was a coordinated attack now there are few silent issues about this particular attack number one is the issue that it happened at home ever since we joined politics we've had all sorts of political violence all sorts of attacks take place but this is the first attack that I can think of where a political leader was followed at home so it is unprecedented so to speak it was a home invasion and that is one of the reasons why for me I had to abandon whatever it is I was doing to be part of this press conference because such conduct if we don't address it from the very beginning it will become normal it will become normal to go to President Kassande's house and attack him and his family it will become normal to go to President Sawari's house and attack her and her family that's why we saw it necessary to come here this afternoon there are no aspects about this particular attack as evidenced from these pictures these still pictures which were taken from the CCTV footage is that when you look at the vehicle that was used which is a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser Double Cub this is a very expensive vehicle if you look at it it's a very expensive vehicle this vehicle at Toyota Zambia is not less than $100,000 so when you convert that that is close to $2 million so the question then arises what kind of thief comes to a home like Chufetari's home here in a $2 million vehicle to steal what to steal this table or to steal this chair what kind of thief so from the vehicle itself you can tell that these people are unlikely to become on criminals number two when you look at the person who is behind there who climbed behind the Land Cruiser and the firearm that this person is carrying this firearm is not a very common firearm this firearm is a submachine gun a 6 hour MPX submachine gun these types of firearms are not common here in Zambia and all the people who came all five of them were carrying the same submachine guns now for those of us who pay attention to different types of firearms for those of us who are familiar with firearms there is only one wing that we know in Zambia which carries that particular type of firearm it is not the Zambia Police because the Zambia Police generally carry AK-47s it is not the Zambia National Service it is not the regular Zambia Army no conventional AK-47s the only wing if you pay attention during state events and such events the only wing which carries this type of firearm in Zambia are the Zambia Special Forces commonly known as Commandos pay attention when you see those soldiers in Merun Barats and you pay attention to the firearms they carry these submachine guns we are not personally I am not saying that I am 100% sure that the people in the photo are Special Forces I am not saying that because the photo is not very clear but what I am saying is that it looks very likely it looks very likely that the people in the photo are Zambia Army Commandos that is what I am saying number 3 when you view the CCTV footage which president Tiari posted on his on his page most of the footage doesn't have sound but the one which I looked at from the DVL has sound and one thing that you are going to observe on the CCTV footage is that why president Tiari was firing shots in rapid succession in the air these people were not afraid they were not running they were strolling to their vehicles and disturbed and I can assure you countrymen and women as a former police officer that an average criminal when they hear the sound of a gunshot even if they are also carrying a firearm they will run like no man's business they will run they will scamper just one gunshot president Tiari fired more than 10 I did 3 gunshots and those people were just walking leisurely to their vehicle that alone speaks volumes in terms of who the possible people behind this attack are number 4 number 4 when you look at when you look at these people and the way they opened the gate on the CCTV you can tell that they are professional yes they are very professional not every common criminal can open a locked gate within less than a minute is open and is out so all those factors speak to who the potential attackers are what having been said we are covered in masks yes what having been said I think there is a high possibility that the people who attacked president Shilufia Tiari this morning are people from the defense winds are people it is very possible that the people who attacked president Tiari are people from the Zambia Army it is very possible that the people who attacked president Tiari are people from the special forces the probability is very high a fifth issue which you would like to pay attention to is the fact that this particular video CCTV footage by president Tiari was posted early in the morning as areas around 8 hours yes and there has been no police reaction up to this time what is the time now who has the watch from 8 hours to 17.40 no police reaction and yet you can see that there are five armed people and I can assure you that in terms of Zambia police when they are operating ordinarily political instructions but when they are operating ordinarily any cases involving firearms the response is very very very fast they delay on other types of cases but when you report or when they see an incident trending on social media where firearms are used you see the flying squad land here within minutes to investigate the matter to get that CCTV footage so they can identify the criminals whether they are non criminals who have done robberies or shopping malls or this and that they will be very active so the question which you the Zambian people must be asking yourselves is why are the police quiet on this matter why are the police quiet on this matter to me it is indicative of a fact that the police have been instructed that this is a state matter and they should not intervene that's what it appears to me that is what it appears to me that having been said I want to take this opportunity to appeal to my fellow opposition most of whom are here that we need to always remain united as opposition we always need to remain united for us to remain united we don't need to agree with one another no it is not possible for us to agree with one another 100% that is why each one of us has a political party because we don't agree with one another 100% we have individual political parties but when issues of common interest arise we should not check the name of the person involved and say ah, it is Savoy Savoy I disagreed with her that day ah, it is Chufetahari I didn't like what Chufetahari said in his evening video the other day ah, it is President Shuntembo I didn't like President Shuntembo calling Urimambara Fuiti it should never be like that it should never be like that when issues of common interest arise we should all unite we should put our political differences aside and make sure we are there for one another otherwise these people will finish us one by one they will finish us that having been said I want to also take the opportunity to thank you the media I will hand over to the director of ceremony thank you thank you so much leaders of the opposition at this point we will be taking questions from members of the press or anybody available in this meeting thank you no questions just one question to you Mr. Zanyi just one question sorry if you reported this matter if I have reported this matter yes frankly speaking maybe I am shocked so the question is have I reported this matter as you know this has been quite traumatizing and scared for me I have just been in the house I have not even been able to come out even those generalists my brother Frank when they came I was scared to go out so I was waiting for my brothers to escort me to go to the police because I have been scared so I have not even gone but we are going soon after this press conference any more questions ladies and gentlemen and I just want to emphasize from the points that Shuntembo brought out you see these people when they came all of them they were masked they were all masked they were looking like ninjas you could only see the eyes all of them now and if really these people were whatever if they were common criminals they wouldn't have been that casual during the day and masked up from my point of view I want to say I don't want to sound inflammatory but I feel this was an attempt on my life I strongly believe this was an attempt on my life because if they had gotten me and bundled me in their car and I believe those were military do you think they would have taken me beaten me up and left me to tell the story I don't think so so from my point of view I strongly believe how everything happened I think those people were attempting on my life and it's really sad under the leadership of president Hachilema it's really sad and in responding to the question that you have raised which is very important we have it we have it we have a duty to report such matters when they happen but there is also an appreciation of who we are we have put ourselves up there there are moments we don't even need to report by virtue of us crying because we speak for people let me give an example if today I utter defamatory marks which are injeras or criminal trust me they will look for me they will find me they don't have to go and report but if I wrong so we feel the state by law has got a duty to look after him it has got a duty to look after the citizens so the very essence that the state has not made effort to protect the citizens whom they have not only called ordinary citizens but whom they have first responsibility to be spokesperson for the people like us we are not common people we sacrifice for this country to protect us so the state doesn't need to be begged to come and protect us when we are attacked the state should stand up and defend us so if they will give a name excuse to say no because Mr. Tehari has not reported then they have failed in their duty a person who is agrived beaten by the wrongs may not have the energy to go and report but the state should look at such people as their property and move in whenever they have been taken just to put it on record also I actually called the 9-1-1 during the time when they were here I called 9-1-1 I couldn't go through I called another police officer who I know I have his number I called him and I mean I was talking to him the phone cut so at least I made an attempt to reach out to the police to cry to the police and even during that they have been crying to the police but they haven't come and yet the only people that have come are my brothers from the political arena as well as yourselves but no phone call from the police nothing