Lift my immunity, prove I led a govt of thieves, Lungu tells HH
FORMER president Edgar Chagwa has asked President Hakainde Hichilema to start the process of removing his immunity, saying he is ready to defend himself in court. And Lungu says those who charge that he led a corrupt government should prove it. Meanwhile, Lungu says it is unfortunate that he is being questioned about his properties when he does not own even half of what President Hichilema has. Yesterday, some DEC officers carried out a search at one of Lungu’s properties. Speaking to PF members of parliament who went to check on him, Lungu said one day, people would wake up.......
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UPND youths should benefit from party activities, govt is for all of us
THERE have been some strange complaints from leaders of the ruling party to the effect that their youths are not benefiting from the government as they expected. We are being told that the youths are frustrated, hence their demand for a change of leadership in the party structures. Last week, we heard from UPND Deputy Secretary General Gertrude Imenda who said ruling party youths are frustrated because PF members are still in charge of government affairs, controlling contracts and job opportunities, thereby side-lining the hard working youths who suffered and sacrificed for the party during campaigns. Madam Imenda says it was expected that once UPND assumed office, the party youths would be employed or at least benefit from government contracts, an aspiration which has failed. Gertrude Imenda: “Our youths are frustrated because the people who are still running government, the civil servants who are still running government, and even local government, are still those from the old regime. So they are not addressing our people according to the policies that we have set. When I say crisis of expectations, our youths who fought, it doesn’t matter at what age, let me just say our people who fought, we all fought, we’ve got a lot of our people moving with broken bones because of the brutality of that regime, we’ve got people who are moving with bullets in their bodies, we’ve got people who got their vehicles burnt to ashes. I have so many of our people who suffered during that struggle. So it was expected that when we come into power, for the youths, for the young people, they expected that they will get the jobs and for others, they.......
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ZCCB SG U-turns on his LGBTQI statement
ZAMBIA Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) secretary general Fr Francis Mukosa has u-turned on his earlier statement that homosexuals are not criminals, describing stories attributed to him as “purported ambiguity or contradiction”. During a meeting between Vice-President Inonge Wina and church mother bodies held last week Friday, Fr Mukosa said that although the church does not accept homosexual tendencies, homosexuals are not criminals and they must therefore not be criminalised. “And I would like to re-emphasise what my brother from…….
Queen Elizabeth II is laid to rest, but not so the past
Many Africans’ largely unsympathetic reaction to the death of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II has come as a surprise to the average British person. This is hardly surprising. Given the passage of time and the Queen’s old age, most British people either do not associate her with the British Empire, do not know much about the negative side of it or, if they do, see it as belonging to the distant past. Overall, they tend to see her – and....
