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Suspected PF Cadres Attack Fr Bwalya, Pour Opaque Beer On Him
By NKOMBO KACHEMBA
Fr Bwalya
The youths also poured opaque beer on Father Bwalya and attempted to abduct Mr Banda but fled the scene when police arrived.
Speaking after the live phone-in programme, Fr Bwalya said he can identify his attackers because he campaigned with them before the 2011 tripartite elections.
“I can identify the people who attacked me and my brother if I see them. These people are PF cadres, we campaigned together in 2011,” Fr Bwalya said.
But PF Copperbelt youth information and publicity secretary Chanda Kabwe dismissed Fr Bwalya’s claims that PF cadres are responsible for the attack.
Fr Bwalya said the attack was nothing compared to what he endured under the MMD when he was campaigning for the PF.
He vowed to continue speaking for poor Zambians.
By press time, Fr Bwalya had reported the incident to Kitwe Central police.
And Mr Banda said the cadres left him with bruises and tore his shirt. He said the assailants allegedly attempted to abduct him but Fr Bwalya rescued him.
“They wanted to drag me outside, they started pulling me and tore my shirt but my brother came to my rescue,” Mr Banda said.
But Mr Kabwe dismissed claims that PF cadres attacked Fr Bwalya and Mr Banda.
Mr Kabwe said President Sata has warned youths that they will be expelled from the ruling party and jailed if they engage in violence.
“Our youths cannot attack Fr Bwalya. Who is he to be attacked? Our President has strongly warned us that if we engage in violence, he will not protect us,” Mr Kabwe said.
He urged Fr Bwalya to discuss issues of national interest in a mature manner instead of tarnishing the image of the PF.
And Press Association of Zambia (PAZA) president Andrew Sakala condemned the attack on Fr Bwalya on Flava FM premises.
Mr Sakala said in a statement issued in Kitwe yesterday that the suspected PF cadres were wrong to attack Fr Bwalya.
“PAZA condemns the attack on Fr Bwalya…. this is a threat to media freedom. Radio stations will now be scared to host politicians for fear of being attacked by unruly cadres,” Mr Sakala said.
He urged the police to quickly arrest those involved in the attack.
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The Observer
June 13, 2013 at 9:43 am
Why does this Kabwe deny everything? makes me wonder! That behaviour is nothing but cadrelike behaviour. He knows in his hopeless mind that those were PF thugs!!!
joelove
June 13, 2013 at 10:40 am
We are watching the PF cadres activities and their day are numbered.
Kennedy
June 13, 2013 at 10:55 am
The Zambian masses should open up their eyes. What is happening is that some of these politicians are organising their own thugs to try and earn sympathy from the people. Fortunately or unfortunately, Zambians canot be fulled anymore. They will make an intelligent assessment. If Frank knows them and he campained with them, then he should report them to the relevant law enforcing agents.
Uwakwamununga
June 13, 2013 at 11:23 am
KENNEDY….I LIKE YOUR ANALYSIS.IF INDEED THOSE WERE REAL THUGS FRANK COULDN’T HAVE MANAGED TO RESCUE HIS BROTHER. THIS MATTER NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED FURTHER.
Kyulu Buteshi.
June 13, 2013 at 11:34 am
Efyo chali na muli ba MMD. 2016 muleya.
Kennedy
June 13, 2013 at 2:07 pm
Nimwe muleyililila
Uwakwamununga
June 13, 2013 at 11:51 am
BALEYA KWI?
One coin
June 13, 2013 at 12:06 pm
mu 2016 kuya bebele.
abasoma
June 13, 2013 at 12:25 pm
iwe chikabwe ulichiwelewele efyo ulekana kwati teiwe, 2016 kuya bebele
Umutakatifu Anastazia
June 13, 2013 at 12:32 pm
I am worried about the involvement of Fr Bwalya in full time politics where he even heads a political party. I am a Catholic and Im worried that fwe panga twacula batusha bashifwe bakana ukuti tulesalikila icalo baya abene nomba kuku tungulula. I feel the man worked well as an Advisor (Kubulambo) Im not sure about being a driver (ku State House) nga fyala bomba. My prayer remains that God forgives you for all your wrongs and takes care of you. Kabili emwine wama Prodigal Sons nga tamwakafwe mu fikansa fya calo mwikomfwa insoni ba Bwalya mukabwele fye kuli Shinwe (Lesa) nangu fye lelo line pls do.
Semu Same
June 13, 2013 at 1:06 pm
Here is how political violence has evolved in our beloved Zambia, the once-upon-a-time beacon of African peace.
In UNIP time, vigilantes roughed you up and lifted you in the ‘by air’ style;
In MMD, violence was ratched up a notch higher; cadres acquired pangas and revolvers or pistols from the state. Remember chawama mayhem?
Now in this ‘our’ PF the violence has fast reached levels never known before. The violent gangs have turned into militias, and their thuggery escapades have been emboldened by state silence or blessings . Not surprisingly though; Mr Sata was a chancellor of UNIP and MMD University of Violence. Come 2016, the state is gonna perpetuate its existence through blood and corpses. Signs are ominous.
ENVELOPED
June 13, 2013 at 3:27 pm
THIS IS CHEAP POLITICKING INDEED. ONE ORGANIZES HIS THUGS TO ATTACK HIM SO HE CAN BLAME THE GOVT. IT DOES NOT PAY IN OUR ZAMBIA ANYMORE. PEOPLE ARE AWAKE AND CAN READ BETWEEN THE LINES. BWALYA SAYS HE KNOWS THE ATTACKERS AND HE ALSO KNOWS WHERE THE POLICE STATION AND THE COURTS OF LAW ARE. WHY NOT DO THE NEEDFUL.
ANOTHER ONE SAYS THERE IS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE AND DICTATORIAL TENDENCIES IN ZAMBIA AND WROTE TO SADC AND TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION. APPARENTLY, I ONLY KNOW OF ONE ZAMBIA WHICH I LIVE IN AND HAVE NOT SEEN ANY OF THESE THINGS ANY PLACE AROUND. LET THESE SYMPATHY SEEKERS DISGUISING THEMSELVES AS POLITICIANS STATE THEIR MATTER CLEARLY THAN WASTING PEOPLE’S TIME.
isaac
June 13, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Those were his coleagues with whom he has differed with on personal basis. So PF has nothing to do with his beatings if at all was beaten.Infact thats how politics is. He left the pulpit where souls are served and join politics where insults and beatings is way of life. Frank should have known that politics especially here in Zambia is full of nothing but insults.
chiingu
June 13, 2013 at 4:26 pm
That behaviour is uncalled for.These are acts that we condemned the MMD for.Sad reading indeed.
Michael M C
June 13, 2013 at 4:43 pm
I know who poured beer on you. It is Kambwili. Who else can do that if not some one with his brains below the waist.
BBC
June 13, 2013 at 5:02 pm
Please just like he wanted, from to be called Bashikulu now he is among them. MALIBO YAKUILOMBELA
Zyukuwalola
June 13, 2013 at 5:21 pm
From now on, we the followers of Sata’s party, the PF, have decided to call ourselves SATANS in order to show immense love to our founder and president Sata, for his glorious SATANIC performance in disorganizing our beloved Zambia. He is a man of action.
DZ
June 14, 2013 at 7:09 am
Why can’t Bwalya employ a cameraman start moving with him.take pictures then we will not be pointing finger at PF or any party.
Lubula Nkashi
June 18, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Clergy turned beerman.