State House says President Edgar Lungu doesn’t know the truth about what is going on regarding the gassing incidences across the country, and as such, he has nothing to say to citizens who are crying for his national address. If this is true, then Zambia is under very dangerous times.
This means the President is not in charge of the country. It means he is not in control of the system. It means people around him have truly usurped his power with the agenda of making him unpopular.
We want to make it very clear that we believe the Head of State is aware of what is going on, in fact, he may well be involved for reasons that have already been outlined by others. But our concern today is that if, indeed, the President doesn’t know who is behind this, then as a country, we are on auto pilot.
We have seen so many narratives around this gassing issue since it started, and only one makes sense to us – the State is involved. When we say the State, we don’t mean President Edgar Lungu, but the system. If we are to give a benefit of doubt to the Head of State, we would urge him not look too far when looking for people who are behind these acts of terror. There is a possibility that people within the party who want him out of power are at work (that’s assuming that the President is truly innocent).
What we have refused to believe, and we speak on behalf of many Zambians, is the narrative that the opposition, Seer 1 or some Satanist somewhere is financing this gassing operation. That is a very, very cheap lie meant to divert the public from the epicentre of the problems. In fact, this is not a problem, it’s a scheme. It’s an agenda well-planned and financed.
Why are we saying the State apparatus is involved? Because this crime doesn’t suggest any motivation for the individual actors. A criminal will gas a household, break in after the occupants have passed out and then steal before running off. A ritual killer or Satanist seeking blood would gas a household at night, break in, draw blood or whatever they want and leave. A terrorist would blow a school or a public gathering to send a message to their adversaries. A murderer will break in and kill.
This is not what is happening here. The agents in this gassing are out to cause harm and alarm, but not death. And they have been very choosy of target places. They have never gassed a drinking joint or night club, heaven knows why. Now, why would someone take the risk of gassing a school in broad day light? What would be the motivation for someone to gas a house and walk away without stealing anything?
The Office of the President Special Division cannot fail to get to the bottom of this in three months because any accomplished private investigator can solve it. With access to the State surveillance system and call records, even an inquisitive journalist can bust the criminals behind this, in a matter of days. So, it doesn’t make sense that the President doesn’t know the truth.
We are saying if President Lungu doesn’t know who they are and on whose instructions they are acting, then he is not in control of the system. His Presidency has been hijacked! If President Lungu has been told, and he believes that the opposition are behind this activity, then he is a very naïve Head of State.
It must scare citizens if their President is this uninformed about what is going on in the country. It means the country is not safe for anyone, including himself. It means people can be plotting his removal from office and he would have no idea. Now, that’s living dangerously. This operation is too big for the President to remain in the dark for so long.
Let’s forget about the opposition being behind this. If that was the case, we would have seen more UPND members being arrested, but what we are seeing instead is PF officials charged with terrorism and police officers being charged for abetting the crime.
The UPND may be desperate to form government, but they are not this organized and coordinated. They have no capacity to carry out a detailed countrywide operation of this nature without being caught.
If any UPND members are guilty of gassing in houses, maybe that would be the other kind of gassing, which is meant to surprise inquisitive noses, but they are not behind this terrorism.
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Very true,if it were the opposition, they would have caught them already,however,we are not surprised by these accusations targeted at the opposition,what happened to city market?
Excellent analysis, competently crafted and highly educative. Missing very little if anything. Truely revealing. Well done mate.
Wow
This is very true. It’s definitely not the opposition. I think it’s high time we heard from our head of state. It doesn’t make sense that he doesn’t know what is happening in the country after all this time..
Exactly my fears! If Lungu doesn’t know what’s going on in the country, then he’s been hijacked by his own people. He looked scared during his last prayer meeting and that can be a very bad sign pointing to other players are holding him hostage. Something is very wrong in state house and we need to know.
The question that we should be asking is has he ever known what goes on in this country? If an issue that has gone country wide, with all the security wings at his disposal and yet not know how will he know issues that are localized in districts?
Very brilliant
This is state sponsored terrorism so that elections are cancelled and ECL and PF kept in power.
Kkkkkkkkk, He dose what’s happening in Zambia, No sorry maybe I don’t understand the question.
(1) People have been killed and gassed , he doesn’t know.
(2) The police said they have arrested same people in Connection with gassing, he
doesn’t know
(3) Zambia armey and the police are all over Zambia trying to prove security to citizens. He doesn’t know.
(4) innocent people in parts of Zambia have been killed on force iqusetion ,we have seen photos on Facebook and what’s up, news etc. He doesn’t know.
If you have a father in a one bedroom apartment, when things go missing or bad, he doesn’t know, when everyone else knows, Begin question yourself,
Maby the president wants to plan carefully before acting.
true if eagle one truly doesnt know then we are in trouble
This article is one sided the analysis is some what poor n narrow minded. Note that both parties respectively PF and UPND are hungry to stay in power and come into power which to me puts them both at the scene of these crimes on innocent citizens. Point is either is capable
Auto pilot indeed. Very worrying. And this kind of incompetence is happening in a lot of other aspects as well. Give us more info please as this develops. Thanks Diggers.
So sad
Can’t this be written in the 72 languages for everyone’s consumption.
There is sense in that, unlike the point you said saying if the president is not aware of this then we are in danger,its very true ,look at how Americas trump gets briefed of the security situation in that country by the all wings of investigators.it really posses a danger if ours knows nothing of this reality that we are seeing on tv and next door happening