29/02/2024
It's very unfortunately and really heart breaking to hear Former president His Excellency Dr. Edgar chagwa Lungu, complaining about citizens being harassed by the police, brutally beaten, tear gassed and maltreated.
But again this is a trend that has been passed on from long time were the government of the day and president uses states institutions and personnels to advance their political agendas and endeavours. Of which he himself is not spared from such treatments and operations.
Using the police for political gains and other state institutions to intimidate political opponents is a bad precedence that was set by Unip and Dr kaunda and most Presidents thereafter continued the vice of which president Lungu himself fell victim, for me him crying about this honestly doesn't make sense. He knows better how this system works, he himself occustrated such moves before, now whether it was personally him or the system that's for us to debate but the issue still remains he was the commander in chief of the armed forces. He should have changed that system.
God is great He has given him a taste of the same medicine, now he knows how it feels, hopefully, if he gets a second chance from God to be president again he can correct this precedence.
It's sweet when you're the one occustrating it, not when you're from the receiving end.
It's very unfortunately that President Hikainde has been through this, so he knows how it feels, the inhumane treatment, brutality, interruption of life,the pain agony etc. But still allows and gets trapped in the same vice.
Can there be a president in this country that will change this narrative. Let politics be politics and governance be governance.
No using of state institutions to fortify one's political castles and interests.
Allowing truly that the Judiciary, police service, ACC, DEC, ZRA and All other security wings be independent in operation but be guided in administrative.
