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MMD youths give Hichilema 48hrs to withdraw RB comment

MMD youths give Hichilema 48hrs to withdraw RB comment
By Abigail Chaponda in Ndola
Mon 26 Apr. 2010, 04:10 CAT

MMD youths in Ndola have given UNPD leader Hakainde Hichilema a 48-hour ultimatum to withdraw his statement that President Rupiah Banda is a man with a small brain, failure to which they will take the law in their own hands.

During a press briefing at the Ndola swimming pool on Saturday, district chairman Patrick Nyasulu said calling President Banda “a man with a small brain” was not a small issue and that no one would get away with insulting the President.

“From here, we will not leave an enemy behind. It is time to reposition ourselves. We will not allow evil practices in our country,” Nyasulu said.

“We know why people are insulting our President. It is because he is hard working. The mines have reopened, employment is growing, the national treasury is growing, hospitals have both staff and medicine, food is available and affordable and thieves are exposed. What more do you want? Just mention it, and RB will deliver.

“We are demanding an interpretation of a man with a small brain. Who is Hichilema to call our President a man with a small brain? To prove that we don’t believe in violence, we have given Hichilema 48 hours to withdraw his statement or else we will teach him a lesson of his life.”

Nyasulu said people who were insulting President Banda were provoking MMD youths, who should not be blamed when they react. He warned that whoever was belittling President Banda was going to answer to the youths because they were sick and tired of people picking on their beloved President.

Nyasulu called on the Inspector General of Police Francis Kabonde to do something over Hichilema’s statement and that if he (Kabonde) was not going to do anything, the youths would have no choice but to take the law into their own hands.

Reacting to President Banda’s statement that Hichilema was deceiving himself that he would be the presidential candidate for the PF-UPND Pact because Michael Sata was already the Pact leader, Hichilema said only a man with a small brain can say that.

He said that was because the issue of who leads the Pact does not bother the two parties involved. Hichilema said both PF and UPND have said many times that at an appropriate time, they would sit down to agree on the leader for the Pact in 2011 elections.

Hichilema said that was why he was convinced that only a man with a small brain would keep on raising the issue of who leads the PF-UPND Pact in next year’s election.

Labels: DEFAMATION, HAKAINDE HICHILEMA, MMD YOUTH LEAGUE, PATRICK NYASULU, POLITICAL VIOLENCE

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