 Good afternoon, countrymen and women. This afternoon, when I went to my office, I found a police call out, which was issued, I believe, maybe two days ago. And it was essentially put under my office. And I operate an audit firm. I'm an auditor by profession. And this is not a busy period for audit. So I don't go to my office regularly. I just pass through there every now and then. And I wonder why the police decided to take the call out to my office where I don't go regularly instead of bringing it to my house where I live. So I'm wandering. And I've rehearsed with my lawyers. And we have resolved that we are going to visit the police station, Idex police station, tomorrow at 14 hours so that we can hear what the police have to say. But this issue of the police not discharging their responsibilities professionally, the police always wanting to find a fault in people instead of doing their job in an ordinary manner, in a professional manner, is very regrettable. Because the police could have easily come to my house. Almost everybody knows where I live. I live at Liberty House. So what is so difficult with the police coming to Liberty House and bringing their call out if they are in need of me, if they want my presence at the police station? So I find that very regrettable. And in addition to that, I just received some information about 30 minutes ago that the police have actually obtained a search warrant and that they intend to come and search my house this evening. So I wonder, why should the police come and violate my privacy? I'm not a terrorist. I'm not a criminal. I'm just a politician who believes in contributing to the governance of this country and who believes in providing checks and balances in the manner and fashion that we see fit. The problem with the UPND administration and President Haga-India in particular is that they want the opposition to provide checks and balances in the manner that the president approves. There is no opposition political party in the world which is going to do its checks and balances in a manner approved by the government. That is totally unacceptable. So I want to put it on record that I'm ready for the police. Even when they come for that search warrant this evening, I believe they got the search warrant this afternoon about two hours ago. When they come for that search this evening, I'll be waiting for them because I'm a raw abiding citizen who is being harassed by President Haga-India, Ishirima simply because he does not approve of the way we provide checks and balances simply because he does not approve of alternative voices in this country. So I want to put it on record that I'm not afraid of the president. I'm not afraid of Haga-India, Ishirima. I'm not afraid of the government that he runs because I'm a raw abiding citizen and I know I have the support of the majority of world-meaning Zambians in whatever we do, whatever checks and balances we highlight. If prices of meeting meal are too high to be affordable by an ordinary citizen, of course, of course we are going to speak out. We are going to speak out whether President Haga-India, Ishirima wants it or not. We are going to speak out. And if we are going to have our privacy violated simply because we are opposition leaders, then so be it because I don't understand why the police should come in my house, violate my privacy, see my underwear, see my daughter's underwear and see my wife's underwear. On what basis? On what basis should the police do that? I'm not a terrorist. I'm not a criminal. I'm an opposition leader who wants and who desires to run the affairs of this country one day. So why should I be victimized by President Haga-India, Ishirima? That is totally unacceptable, but we are going to challenge him. We are going to challenge him whether he sends the police to harass us, whether he instructs a prison personnel to kill us out of our blood. Our children will be born and they will challenge the dictatorship of President Haga-India, Ishirima. There's no question about that. We are going to challenge him and we have no plans of renting whatsoever. We are ready, we are ready, we are very ready. So whatever President Haga-India, Ishirima has planned in his quest to harass opposition leaders, we are ready for him. We are not going to shy away from him. And you know why? You know why we are ready for him? You know why we are not going to shy away from him? Because Zambia is our country. Yes, because Zambia is our country and nobody can harass us in this country. Because if we are afraid to be harassed by the police in our own country, then where are we going to go? Which country are we going to go? We cannot afford to be refugees anyway. So we are going to fight here in Zambia because Zambia is our country. So if President Haga-India, Ishirima has prepared a fight for us, we are equal to that fight. We are ready for that fight. We are money now for that fight. We are going to meet him head on. We are going to meet him head on and to let the Zambian people be the judge of all the harassment that Haga-India Ishirima is doing to the opposition. Within a week, we've had three opposition leaders being harassed by President Haga-India Ishirima. We had Dr. Fred Membe, who was arrested. We had Edith Nawaqui, who was arrested today. And then myself. What kind of a country is that? Is that the kind of democracy that President Haga-India Ishirima promised to Zambian people? Their answer is a definite no, but he should not be mistaken. He should not be mistaken that we intend to shy away. We intend to cow to him. We do not intend to do that because we are confident that we are doing the right thing. We are confident that there's nothing illegal about providing checks and balances. We are confident that there's nothing illegal about having an alternative voice. We are confident that when the price of MiriMil is very high, there's nothing illegal about raising those concerns. We are confident that if there's a God scandal and we are not happy with the way it is being investigated and we have suspicions that the President is involved, we have a right to speak out. We have a right to say, Mr. President, we believe we are involved in this God scandal. Can you excavate yourself? We have a right. We have a right to do that. And you know where we derive our rights from? We derive our rights from the Constitution of Zambia. That is where we derive our rights. And the Constitution of Zambia is supreme. It is more supreme than any individual. The Constitution of Zambia is more supreme than any institution. The Constitution of Zambia is the one which gives us the rights and liberties to speak out on issues that we are not happy about which government is doing. So whether President Hagaende Hirema, together with his press singers, attack us, we are going to continue providing checks and balances. If we feel that President Hagaende Hirema is wasting public resources by living at his private residence and commuting every day to state house with a convoy every day, wasting fuel, wasting resources in terms of police personnel, we're going to challenge him. We're going to take him to court. The way we took him to the Constitutional Court, we are going to do that because that is our job and responsibility as an opposition political party. If we feel that President Hagaende Hirema is refusing to declare his assets, if we feel that he's refusing to declare his assets, and if we feel that he's refusing to declare his assets, we'll create a fertile environment for him to steal from the Zambian people. We are going to challenge him. We are going to tell him, Mr. President, can you declare your assets? And if he continues to refuse, we are going to take him to court. The way we took him to the Constitutional Court because that is our job, that is our responsibility to provide checks and balances. If we feel on any given day, if we feel that the appointments that President Hagaende Hirema is making are not regionally balanced, they are not tribally balanced, we are going to tell him that, Mr. President, you are conducting your presidency in a tribal and regional manner. We are going to tell him in his face. And if he doesn't change, if he doesn't change the appointments that he makes, whereby he only appoints people from the Northern and Eastern region when they are married, they have a marriage name. If it is a Mulenga, then you know that Mulenga is a marriage name. We are going to tell him that, Mr. President, we are not stupid, we are not foolish. Can you stop this tribalism? Can you stop this regionalism? We'll tell him that you, Hagaende Hirema, you were elected to be President of this country because other regions voted for you. If it wasn't for other regions voting for you, you were going to continue coming out number two because your strongholds didn't have enough people to elevate you to become president. The only reason you, Hagaende Hirema, became president is because other regions, other provinces voted for you. So the same way that other regions voted for you in the spirit of one Zambia, one nation, when you are appointing people to positions, you should consider all citizens in every corner of the country. We challenge Hagaende Hirema the way we challenge them in the constitutional court. You know why? Because it is our country and we are given that right to challenge the president by the constitution. So it doesn't matter whether President Hagaende Hirema and his band of press singers insult us. We don't mind, we don't mind because we know we are on the path of the truth. We know we have the interest of Zambia at heart. So we shall not be afraid of Hagaende Hirema. We shall not be afraid of his police harassment even when the police come this evening as we are reliably informed that they got a search warrant about two hours ago. They want to come and search my house. They want to come and see my underwear. They want to come and see the underwear of my daughters. For whatever reason, they want to see the underwear of my wife. I don't understand why I should be victimized in that manner. If the police wanted to see me, they could have easily brought a call out to my house. A house is where you take a call out. You don't take a call out to a place of business where someone operates, where someone goes every now and then. I've got two offices and I can spend a week, sometimes even a month, without going to one of my offices. So why should the police, if they were acting in good faith, why did they decide to take the call out to my office, to one of my offices? Why didn't they bring it to my house where I live? So you can see there that they are trying to create a certain narrative. They are trying to lie to the people to say, you know, President Shontembo is difficult to find. He's not complying. Me, I'm a raw abiding citizen. I've got nothing to hide. I've got nothing to hide whatsoever. I've got nothing to hide. I'm a raw abiding citizen who loves this country, who will stand up to this country and defend this country, come land, come sunshine. I'll defend and stand up for this country regardless of who the president of this country is. And regardless of how much of a dictator he feels he is or how much of a dictator he feels he can be, we're not going to be afraid of him. So, Mr. President, Hagaideh Ichirema, just remember that when you were in opposition, you were talking about harassment of the police. You were talking about harassment of the police, but even when you were being harassed, the police never came to your house to set you, except when they came to arrest you for that treason case. They never came to set your house. Now you want to make it a habit to violate other people's privacy. You want to make it a habit to be seeing my underwear, the police to be taking pictures of my underwear, to be taking pictures of my family's underwear. That president Hagaideh Ichirema is total nonsense. What you are doing is total nonsense, Mr. President, and we're not going to sit idle and watch you do your nonsense simply because you feel that you have power. We are not going to do that. We are not afraid of you. We are not afraid of you. We are not afraid of whatever evil you have planned for us. We are ready for that evil because we are on the side of righteousness. We are not going to be afraid of your evil, the evil that you have planned. If you intend to poison us when we are in custody after the police arrest us, so be it. We shall be ready for that. We shall be ready for that. So whatever evil you've planned for us, President Hagaideh Ichirema, we are ready for it because we are on the side of righteousness and we love this country and we are not going to be intimidated by any citizen of this country regardless of what position that citizen occupies. It doesn't matter whether that particular citizen occupies the position of president, whether that particular citizen occupies the position of Inspector General of police, we are not going to be intimidated. Zambia is our country. Zambia and Charochat too. You understand, Zambia is our country. If that is the new standard of dealing with your political opponents of violating their privacy, sending your police officers to come and take pictures of our underwear the way you intend to do this evening, then we're on good. We're on good. We're on good. Just remember that just like people are in power, people can leave power. You should remember that. Just like people are in power, they can leave power. Even all the other six presidents that have been presidents of this country, they never thought that at some point they are going to actually leave office, but they had to leave office. That is the nature of it all. You go, you are given the power by the people and then you are supposed to do your part and not use that power to harass the people. So you, Mr. President, you are behaving in a manner whereby you believe that you are going to be in office forever. You are not going to be in office forever. At some point you are going to retire. At some point you are going to have no power. At some point you are not going to have that escort, that police escort. At some point you are going to become more less like any other ordinary citizen. You understand? And then the question you must ask yourself is how are you going to feel at that particular time to be harassed? How are you going to feel at that particular time for people to intrude in your house, in your bedroom and see your underwear and see your wife's underwear? How are you going to feel at that time when you are no longer a president? So you must remember that in whatever you do, just remember that it has the tendency of coming back. Just remember that, Mr. Hakan and the HLM. So the police that you are sending this evening to come and search my house, I'm ready for them. I'm not going anywhere. I'm ready because I'm not a criminal. I'm a political leader. I'm one of the senior political leaders in this country. And I'm not going to be intimidated by an individual. Like you, Mr. HLM, are simply because today you are now a president. Simply because now you have the instruments of power. Simply because now when you summon the police to invade a particular house, they comply to what you tell them. I'm not going to be intimidated by that. So I just wanted to put it on record that as far as complying with any police request's consent, we are going to visit the police tomorrow. If you had brought that call out to my house, Liberty House, I would have gone there by today. Or by yesterday I would have gone there. There's no problem. I've been arrested several times before by your government. So I'm not going to begin to become afraid today. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. So the only issue is that you decided to take the police call out to my office, an office which I rarely go to, an office where I go there maybe once a week or twice a week. You understand? Why do you take the police call out there so that you can find the fault? You may have shown them a problem or no. You have shown them you are in a problem. We are not going to tolerate that, Mr. President. If we are going to do politics, let us do politics in a civilized manner. Let us compete on the basis of competence. Let us compete on the basis of ideas. If you are not able to do that and you think you can use your dictatorship to harass people, just know that the time for dictatorship is wrong past. The time for dictatorship in this country is wrong past. So you are not going to become a new dictator of Zambia, where in a day you want to arrest two opposition leaders. It has never happened in the history of this country. But we are going to be ready for you. We are not going to shy away. We are not going to hide. We are not going to do that. We are going to be ready for you. Send your police officers if they want to see our underpants, often known as Bamba Yachtu and Manika Yachtu. So be it. We are not going to do that. Since that is the Zambia you are creating, whereby you want to embarrass us, you want to violate our privacy. We are not going to do that. We are not going to do that. We are not going to do that. If that is the Zambia you want, it's okay. Send your police officers to Mzachpeza. You will find us here. We are not going to be afraid of your officers. We are not going to be afraid of you. We are not going to shy away from you. But if what you want is genuine law enforcement, if what you want is genuine law enforcement, then there's no need of you coming to raid our house in the middle of the night tonight, the way you plan. There's no need for that. You sent a call out. You sent it to a wrong place. You sent it to my office. Everybody knows that I live at Ribati House. Even you, President Agaende HDMA, you know I live at Ribati House. So it was difficult with your police officers bringing their call out to Ribati House. Why did they have to take it to an office where I rarely visit? That is my audit office. This is not a busy time for audit. So I don't go there often. So why Mzachpeza has a problem with the temple, with the Shuntembo, so that my Ramazom Agaende knows that the Shuntembo is very good. But anyway, since that is the Zambia you've created, that is the Zambia you want who comply, who live in the Zambia you've created. And when the time comes and we create a certain Zambia for you, we hope you're going to be ready to live in that Zambia that will be created for you. We hope you will be. Because you know, in Eastern province, we say Chaunam Zagocha Pita, Maochiripaiwe. So you think that you are being a star, Mr. Agaende Ichirima, by harassing your friends. You think you are being a star, by harassing your friends. Not long ago, or about three years ago, you were being harassed when the Bisa Mamsirin Bodiak Sanyafem, but many of them are instruments of power, you are now harassing your friends. Instead of using those instruments of power to improve the lives of the Zambian people. Instead of using the instruments of power, I mean I want to pass on my Zambians to actually improve the standard of living of the people. The price of Mirimiwe is unaffordable. Pemunatenga power, Mirimiwe was 120. Right now it's more than 300. I was buying Mirimiwe the other day, it was 310 here in Lusang. What more, my outskirts? What more in Secheke? What more in Nakonde? How much is Mirimiwe? So, Maazambians are enough person, my instruments of power for you to actually use to improve their lives. Maazambians are enough person, Maachiripaiwe, my instruments of power, Maamboya using to improve their lives. Maamboya using my instruments of power, Maamboya using to improve their lives. Maamboya using my instruments of power, Maamboya using to improve their lives, Dr. Fred Membe, Maamboya using my instruments of power, Maamboya using to improve their lives. Yasaraku, my instruments of power, Mukwere landeke, Mwendoku di amatibu in my seven-star hotel zone. You are even posting on your Facebook page, hey, now we are attending a state banquet. Meenu, my Zambians who voted for you, Waribe manhua amupattara, Waribe manhua amupattara, Waribe dara mazoguri raunga. So, again the instruments of power were given to you, but you are failing to use those instruments of power in a proper manner. Instead, the only thing you are doing in this country is nonsense. Maamboya our president, you are only doing nonsense in this country. And I want to tell you, I want you to put me on record that Shontembo told me that I'm doing nonsense in this country so far. Kurimbe Vorongo Sokawa, my name is Tako, I'm president. Kurimbe Vorongo Sokawa, my name is Tako. It's either you are a resting and opposition leader, or you are flying out. 49 trips. Mwendoku na man deke mungo pita na pita na, staying in seven-star hotels. Mukwere amatibu ni, wantua kango gura chabeunga. Not that in Dio, Kanyan Dio ni inang. Wantua kango gura munga. In mungo pita na pita na, 50 trips in two years. Mwendoku na man deke munga. Mwendoku na man deke munga. Mwendoku na man deke munga. Mwendoku na man deke munga. Mwendoku na man deke munga. Mwendoku na man deke munga. Kurimbe Vorongo Sokawa, my name is Tako. Even if you were to leave Zambia today and you've resigned, no one would miss you. No one would miss you. Because you are a useless president. You haven't done anything useful to this country other than harasas. But you can't harasas. You can't. Techi mututinie wa presidenti. Techi. Techi. Mutu peren sana. Dei ni pamuru pan sana mututinie mutu kake. Kwari wa. As if Zambia is your country, wa aka indi nai mo. You are just an ordinary citizen nai mo eze wa opozitioni. Ma Zambia is your country, no wa kuesen koni, wa kuesen koni. But you can't give a kutimusite Vorongo Sokawa pao presidenti wa ono. Mushta ja bevindu virbe ku mutu. Mushta ja bevindu vao siru. A president. Wa aka indi nai mo. So far, paipa eva main mashtako. You are harassing Shontembo. Ine dei mo mange indi nai wakui. Ine dei mo mange predimembe. Minua unga wuku kanga ni ku buesa. Mere furu wuku wesho wunga. Ero mere fa ture mitina so that twirl a landa. Eh? Mere ko maika wa pao presidenti wa ono. Mere mo nga wa tati we are all going to be living in fear because mere ko tawa polis wa persona to oda polis who are going to oblige nga mawa to mati go and arrest Shontembo. Takuawa, we are going to fight you Mr. President. Be rest assured. We are going to fight you head on. We are going to use every opportunity and all the resources that we have to fight you because you are fighting us. Because that is what you want. We are going to fight you Mr. President. Be rest assured. We are not going to take your battles lying down. We are going to fight you. We are going to fight you. We are going to fight you. We will see. We are going to fight you. We are not going to be intimidated by you. Be rest assured. Yeah, if you are able to intimidate other people, so be it. But you're not going to intimidate Bambayanga, Nika Yawanaanga, Makabutulayama, Mandamuanga. During the time of PFO, you were summoned in a proper manner, so you were able to invest in privacy, so you were able to go to the bedroom with the police, except that time of treason, that is the only time. But the rest of the time, you were not allowed to be summoned. We came from a different position and we were not allowed to be summoned. We were not allowed to be summoned, so we were not allowed to be summoned by the president. Maybe we were not allowed to be summoned, but we were allowed to be summoned. You can be rest assured of that, we can't, we can't be afraid of you. Zambia is our country and the freedom that we enjoy, there is that misconception about the president. It's quite hot in here. Our president, there is that misconception that you have together with your place singers. You have that misconception that the freedoms that we enjoy are because you gave them to us. If we were hacking them, we'd pass them a freedom, sure. Are you serious? We'd pass a freedom with it. Freedom, we drive the freedoms that we have, the liberties that we have from the Constitution of Zambia, not from you, an individual. You are just a president. You can be a president in the morning. By the time you go to bed, you might find that you are not a president. That is the way it is. You can be a president in the morning. By the time you go to bed in the evening, you might find that you are no longer a president. So you are an individual, a president, and I'm a place singer as one. More and more at the demotivation of freedoms yet. Demotivation of freedom. At now, we have given you freedom now to speak. What kind of nonsense is that? Freedom from you and individual. We get our freedoms from the Constitution of Zambia. That is the one that gives us the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy. Not to you and individual. You are just a president. You are just a president. But when you pass on the power, a president, can you please preside over the affairs of the country that you pass on? So that you must improve the standard of living because of the promises you gave them. No, it's up to you. You have 50 questions. No, if I try, for example, for a 10-10. But if I try, for a 10-10, 300 to 400, everything is up. Come on. The only thing you are using in your instruments of power is to harass the opposition. That is nonsense. A president. What you are doing is total nonsense. It is not what the Zambian people elected you into office for. The Zambian people elected you into office so that you can improve their standards of living. Not my nonsense. You have to pass on the power in each of them. That is total nonsense. Can you please change your presidency, change the way you are running your presidency? Change the way you are running your presidency because otherwise, in 2026, if you think you are going to create hell for us here in Zambia, we are the ones who create hell for you to live in. Yes, because the people who are suffering, they are more than the people who are benefiting. You are a few of you. You are very few of you who award yourself with a contract, millions of dollars. You are very few of you. Imagine you are one of the presidents and you are one of millions of dollars. You are one of the people who are suffering. You are the people of Zambia. That cannot happen, Mr. President. Go back to your political science. I am sure that there are a lot of people who are suffering. When there was a political subject, there was a course in political science. Go back to your political science, Mr. President. And you see that the path you are on is not sustainable. The path you are on is untenable. Where you want to make the majority of Zambian suffer, you want to guard the majority of Zambian, not Vagazikaamba, Vagazifera-Chem-Kachi, or Ta-Bonangera, Vagazifera-Chem-Kachi, Tikakamba-Nishwa-Polishwa-Bwera or Borotimanga. That path you are on, my brother, take this as a warning. That path you are on is not sustainable. You cannot just be benefitting with a few around you at the expense of the Zambian people. Jara-chabbe-e-ga-e-kan-jara-e-wa-wa. Manje-pan-jara-mui-ke-po-na-harassment-e-wa-polishwa-an. When I'm on Zambia-e-bansi, I'm in Zafang. In Zambia-e-bansi, I'm in Zafang. That is nonsense, Mr. President, Vagazikaamba-Nishwa-Polishwa-Bwera. What you are doing to this nation, what you have done to this nation in the past two years, President Vagazikaamba-Nishwa-Bwera, is total nonsense. Can you stop that nonsense and stop it now? Otherwise, you are making a big mistake. Your path so far is untenable. It is totally untenable. Can you sit down, revise you what you are doing and take a proper course of action, take a proper route? Some of us, we might be in a position but we are going to give you solid advice. And some of our ways always come true. They come true. So the path you are on, whereby not only are you subjecting the Zambian people to hunger, but you are also harassing the Zambian people using your police. You want to create a small Nazi Germany. And you want to be like Hitler. That is untenable. It can't happen. It is totally unacceptable. It can't happen. So we are telling you, President Haga-e-Nichirima, so far your presidency in the past two years has been full of no-sense, total no-sense. And if you don't change the path you are on of subjecting us to hunger and harassing us with the police, then you might end up regretting ever having become president of this country. That is where I end. Thank you. So police, we are in a set warranty on you. We are often on a Bombay or on a Nicaragua