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Miyanda Goes to Court Over SIM Registration ‘Zambians have been Duped, its unjustfied errosion of constitutional right’
Bregadier General Godfrey Miyanda has advaised the Patriotic Front (PF) government against disabling cell-phone facilities for citizens who would not be able to register their mobile phones subscriber identity module (SIM) cards because the action is an abrogation of the citizens’ liberties.
Gen Miyanda has said that if the government was not going to suspend the SIM card registration, he was personally going start advocating for a class action in court to stop the unjustfied errosion of constitutional rights.
“The scheme must not be implemented and if it has to be, then it not under the presidency of President Sata,” Gen Miyanda said.
Gen Miyanda has called on the general citizenry who value their inalieble rights to brace themselves as they embark on participating in a crusade to restore the rights that are curently under threat.
Gen Miyanda has charged that the PF government was using the public media to take advantage of the ignorant majority by highlighting the security and recovery of lost phones aspect which he said several Zambians had latched on in spreaading misinformation.
He said the circumstances under which government had introduced the latest law on the registration of SIM cards was worrying particularly that President Sata had exhibited the propensity of total disregard of the rule of law.
Gen Miyanda who is the Heritage Party (HP) leader said the record for President Sata had set for himself should convince all Zambians including PF sympathysers tht the current regime could not fairly superintend the new law of SIM card registration.
He said politicians were like vultures with the appetite to devour anything in sight and has cautioned Zambians to fall prey to their false humbleness of the politicians who often fake humility when canivsing for votes from the electorate.
He said his party would be contending that there should be no abridgement of or abitrary derogation from the protected rights in Part Three of the Constitution.
Zambians, including PF members and sympatyisers that the PF regime cannot fairly suprintend this piece of legislation whic bears directly on certain civil liberties,” Gen Miyanda said.
Gen Miyanda said it was disconcerting that ta a time when President Sata had declared that there was nothng wrong with the Public Order Act, he was determined to have Zambians register their SIM cards.
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id!ot!
January 2, 2014 at 4:18 pm
Mwalitemwa ku court ba general, nishi ichitendwe?
Chinvindinvindi
January 2, 2014 at 8:20 pm
Ba Coward General! Which part of the registration of sim cards act are you not agreeing with?
You seem to hate Sata for no other reason than that he out-smart you, HH, and RB.
CHILL MAN!!
Ken
January 2, 2014 at 9:15 pm
To be brased with what BA general?
I never new this guy can be so simplistic. Coming up with politics of the past age.
There is no civilized country in the world where you buy a phone line without your personal details.
How can a trained security man sink this low?
Your talk cannot even be understood by my grade six son.
DK
January 3, 2014 at 4:59 am
I think Zambians need to wake up and understand the serious implications of SIM registration (given the NSA scandals) regardless of who is actually standing up for Zambians. Zambian enterprise, growth, future leaders can all be ‘blocked’ if the wrong people have access to such information which they already do thanks to the back doors these foreign companies have to install. If you think it doesn’t happen especially to Zambians think again. Ask those who have tried to help Zambia progress who’s phones have been tapped, calls blocked from coming in, business meetings tapped and personal security compromised because of such practices. There’s governments who think Zambians should just be slaves and such practices ensure they’ll have the means to keep them as such
Max Mbizo
January 3, 2014 at 7:56 am
I am trying to understand the line of reasoning of General Godfrey Miyanda and all those supporting him. The Generals seems concerned about the danger of government having access to his personal details and using this information to curtail his basic human rights. But the personal details he is worrying about are already in the possession of the government. For sim card registration, the information that we all gave includes the name, details on the national registration card, and the physical address. To the best of my knowledge, much of the same information RTSA, ZRA, the Passport Office, and the Department of National Registration already have.
If the General has a car, a passport, NRC, and pays tax, then the government already has a lot of data on him even if he doesn’t register his sim card. ZICTA is also getting the same personal details in the implementation of the national address system which involves numbering houses and naming streets in all Zambian districts to facilitate the location of people and houses in case of emergencies and for faster parcel post deliveries. Why doesn’t the General extend his campaign to these organizations as well so that they can stop getting personal details of the citizenry? But even in the absence of sim card registration, doesn’t the General know that it is possible to subpoena transcripts by court order from any of the mobile phone providers?
id!ot!
January 3, 2014 at 1:43 pm
You couldn’t have put it any better than this Max! If the egenrla reads these blogs,let him learn one or two things from your points. Dalo ma generals yapa Zed chabe!
Heritage Leader
January 3, 2014 at 8:31 am
Please MR Miyanda, grow up and use your idle time to do something productive for the country. You seem to have issues even where there is nothing wrong. You are supposed to have a security background, but it is suprising that you can not see the need for Sim Card registration, especially in these times of international terrorism and drug peddling. If you need anymore clarification, please do not hesitate to phone me. Maybe before you even do that, find out why all developed as well developing countries already have this system in place, please do not live in the iron age.
Davido
January 3, 2014 at 9:10 am
Ba General, I have such respect for most of your points of view but this one is not only shallow but exposes the hypocrisy in you. As a man with security background you were supposed to be the first to support such a task unless you have something to hide, there is nothing wrong in submitting your personal details for sim registration. I certainly know that this information will be easily accessed by the government for what ever purpose they want but only people with clandestine motives will be worried.
Narrant
January 3, 2014 at 11:39 am
Miyanda is exhibiting ignorance. And this is a man who would one dark day like to be Zambia’s president!