President Edgar Lungu is on Tuesday expected in Angola to attend an extraordinary organ troika SADC summit on the political situation in Zimbabwe.
Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba has told journalists yesterday that the summit had been called following an emergency meeting of the SADC organ Troika plus council chairperson ministerial meeting on the political situation in Zimbabwe held in Botswana on November 16, 2017.
Kalaba said the ministerial meeting reaffirmed SADC’s commitment to its principles regarding the unconstitutional removal of democratically elected Heads of State and condemned the current situation in Zimbabwe.
And Kalaba advised Zambians to ignore social media stories purporting that President Lungu was being warned against commenting on the political situation in Zimbabwe as the country had not received any official communication of that nature from that country.
Meanwhile, President Mugabe has resisted calls to step down, instead announcing that he will preside over a Zanu-PF congress in the next few weeks.
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It is important to take note of what is or are the root causes of what is happening in Zimbabwe.
What is happening in Zimbabwe is Mugabe’s making.His Negligence, running aground the economy of the country,taking Needless Risks, Wrong choice of a successor, allowing plundering of wealth by a few, and turning Zimbabwe into a Savage Democracy, are some of the factors behind the reaction in Zimbabwe.
In Zambia, there is undermining of Democracy and Gross Human Rights Violations being perpetuated by the Zambian intelligence also infamously known as the Office of the President (OP).
Under the sway of OP, Zambia has become a land of Torture, Terror,Political Assassinations, impunity, Fear, Selective Justice and lawlessness.Zambia is aptly a Savage Democracy.
There is urgent need to attend to the local situation and not wait for mass uprising in Zambia,like is happening in Zimbabwe and what has happened in Romania, Turkey, Egypt,Syria and other countries.