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Rupiah is running a sadistic regime, says Harrington

Rupiah is running a sadistic regime, says Harrington
By Edwin Mbulo
Mon 28 Feb. 2011, 04:01 CAT

PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda is running a sadistic regime which derives great pleasure in the suffering of the Zambian people, says William Harrington. And Caritas Mongu director Nathaniel Mubukwanu says the government should establish a commission of inquiry instead of listening to lies from Vice-President George Kunda over the recent Mongu killings.

In an interview, Harrington, who is former Senanga member of parliament, said the sadism in President Rupiah Banda’s government can also be seen clearly over the continued detention of the 68 Lozis.

“President Rupiah Banda is running a sadistic regime which derives great pleasure not only in the suffering of its own citizens, but even failed to show remorse on the death of youths during the Mongu disturbances,” he said.

Harrington said the treatment of the incarcerated Lozis was a violation of the Constitution and confirmed President Banda’s agenda to inflict suffering on the people of Zambia.

Harrington said it was an open secret that President Banda won the 2008 elections by ‘amassing’ 38,000 votes from Western Province.

“The results from Shangombo and Kalabo in particular were delayed in suspicious circumstances and one wonders what President Banda and his members of parliament will do to get into the area for campaigns,” said Harrington.

And Mubukwanu said the moral obligation for Vice-President Kunda was to resign for telling lies to the nation over the Mongu shootings.

“Kunda is a letdown. I think even Mike Mulongoti was going to do be a better vice-president. He told Parliament lies on what happened here. The government needs to set up a commission of inquiry so that people who witnessed what really happened can give submissions,” he said.

Mubukwanu said Kunda lacks morality as he only likes what suits him and the MMD.

“Leadership is about morality whether you like an issue or not. It is unfortunate that Kunda could tell a lie; he lied about the killings at the filling station because the young man had no fire on him and he did not die in hospital; he died on the spot as the bullet hit him in the head,” Mubukwanu said.

He said the other man who was shot at by police was a headman and had gone to buy groceries at a shop. Mubukwanu said the people of Western Province were finding it difficult to believe the lies about what happened in their backyard.

Vice-President Kunda on Friday told Parliament that police officers acted professionally when they shot dead two men in Mongu following a fracas over the Barotseland Agreement of 1964.

Labels: BAROTSE FREEDOM MOVEMENT, RUPIAH BANDA, WILLIAM HARRINGTON

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