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Tame bitterness, Lubinda urges HH

Tame bitterness, Lubinda urges HH
By Edwin Mbulo in Livingstone
Sat 30 June 2012, 13:25 CAT

FOREIGN affairs minister Given Lubinda has urged opposition UPND president Hakainde Hichilema to tame his bitterness. And gender minister Inonge Wina says there is need to instill a sense of morality and oneness in Zambian politics.

After visiting the house of mourning for a 36 year-old PF member Maybin Chilimanzi, who was killed by unknown people on Tuesday night, Lubinda said there was nothing worth killing a person and urged opposition political parties to share love and not bitterness.

"I had thought our cadres were just making up these issues of being attacked but after visiting the people who were beaten by UPND cadres, I now know that it is true, they have told me the name and they say it was UPND. HH should stop his cadres from being hooligans, he must tame his own bitterness," he said.

Lubinda said he was happy that no one in Livingstone had lodged a complaint of being attacked by the PF and urged the PF members to refrain from retaliating.

And Wina, who is gender and child development minister said there was no morality in the UPND which could send people to molest, unleash violence and instill fear in innocent women returning from burying a departed relative.

"What has happened in Livingstone is untold misery, the woman who was attacked is five months pregnant, and how do you expect her to deliver safely after the attack? We appeal for peaceful elections here in Livingstone," said Wina.

And Malota Charity Mushumba, the sister to late Maybin Chilimanzi, said the body of her brother was found in the early hours of Wednesday in Linda near some bars.

"It is suspected that my brother was at the time wearing a PF t-shirt and was involved in campaign. He was a social jovial man who was never violent. A post-mortem will be conducted today Friday as police suspect foul play," Mushumba said.

And Chilimanzi's nephew, William, said his uncle's body was found with head injuries and a broken neck.

Lubinda and Wina also visited the house of mourning for the late Morris Maduma, 37, a PF ward youth chairman who died of natural causes on Wednesday and Susan Zulu of Malota's E 21 together with Angela Nyambe of MA 229 and Charity Nguni of MA 227.

Labels: GIVEN LUBINDA, HAKAINDE HICHILEMA, INONGE WINA, POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UPND

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