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Police Clash With UPND Funeral Procession
Police and UPND cadres clashed today during the funeral procession of UPND member Grayzer Matapa who was killed at the weekend by suspected PF cadres in Lusaka’s Mtendere Township.
This was after Police tried to advise the UPND cadres who were carrying the casket on their shoulders from Ambassador St Annes to put it on a vehicle, a suggestion the cadres rejected sparking the confrontation.
The casket of the late Matapa was damaged in the ensuing fracas after it was dropped after Police fired teargas. A new coffin had to be bought in which to bury the slain UPND member.
The late Matapa has since been put to rest at Leopards Hill Memorial Park. UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema was among the mourners.
And the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has described the clashes involving Police and UPND cadres carrying the coffin of the late Matapa as a distressing.
YALI Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza says the police should have read the mood the UPND were in considering that they were mourning.
Mr Mwanza says it does not matter whether the cadres carried the coffin on their shoulders or in a vehicle.
Mr. Mwanza states that it is unfortunate that the Police went ahead and did the unthinkable disrespecting the dead.
He says the move by the Police was provocative and that they should desist from engaging in such taboos in the future.
Mr. Mwanza has since appealed to the Police command to ensure that they do not allow police officers to engage in provocative situations in a bid to promote peace and order in the country.
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imute wa kalilo
February 27, 2015 at 10:49 pm
That is what the Po;ice Command tells the Police rascals. They did the same in Mungu when they killed some youths. They love starting troubles so that they can use the teargas and live bullets/ Ill political trained Police. Marubbish Police who cannot even respect the dead. Even the current Govt. has shown disrespect for the dead keeping their dirty mouths closed. They are cursed and they then will continue doing that even in the near future.
New Educated Zambia
February 27, 2015 at 11:36 pm
Spot on mate! You have hit the nail on the head.But do not worry, we have 2016 to make a statement and show these useless chaps who really is boss and servant. They will realise in 2016 that leaders are only servants when UPND forms government. Let them enjoy this last year.
New Educated Zambia
February 27, 2015 at 11:34 pm
Stupid zambia police. Can they please state what law those people were breaking by carrying that coffin on their shoulders. Was it not recently when their own supporters carried a mock coffin to intimidate kabimba? If this was illegal why werent those demonstrators also stopped? A police force that is biased and controlled by the ruling party. This is what you will get under PF. Foolishly their president lungu goes on record at the swearing in ceremony to state that PF cadres were not involved in the fracas that led to this man’s death, even when the case is not concluded. I thought this drunkard was a lawyer. well maybe now we know he was a useless lawyer. Zambia fits the definition of a failed state. The Judiciary is compromised and so is the police force. If these two important institutions cannot act independently it means you are a failed state. Vote UPND to bring about sanity. RIP Matapa
Nini No Vusi Mukamwa
February 28, 2015 at 12:11 am
New zambian these police are doing their jobs why have funerals like a carnival. Funerals are for people to moan in their own time not use them for campaigns..Fintu Ni Lungu moba pa kamwa
Judge Joe Bidden
February 28, 2015 at 8:06 am
Can you cite me what law in our Penal Code did these people break? These police are lawless like their boss. I grew up seeing coffins carried on shoulders what’s wrong now??
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 12:01 pm
How has carrying a coffin on the shoulders now become a campaign strategy?SO, now carryng a coffin is inversely proportional to votes?. Do not be dull iwe! Today look in the mirror and tell your self “ndine chipuba chikulu”
major chileshe
February 28, 2015 at 1:23 pm
Ichi ichi mukamba nacho,reasonin yachiko yimbi yimbi fye
jobreaker
February 27, 2015 at 11:53 pm
so now they line up early morning walking in roads meant for cars that we are going to burry our dead..whose idea was it anyway…Hh…Hh decided to keep his land rovers and decided to walk.really what was the motive of walking in the road..who has ever seen anyone carrying a coffin on Ur head..even mwanawasas body was put in a car..its 21st century.. typical upnd..wants to make drama anyway possible…ati disrespecting the dead..who? its u fools making drama instead of bursting the body.pathetic and silly to the core upnd cadres
Judge Joe Bidden
February 28, 2015 at 8:10 am
When your grandfather at the village died he was taken in a car? Stop arguing for the hell of it, this practice is still in village today
kakolwe
February 28, 2015 at 12:19 am
It was most UNPROFESSIONAL, UNTHINKABLE & LACK OfINTELLIGENCE on the part of Tue police officer who gave Tue command to fire the tear gas. Honestly, how do you tear gas a funeral procession? If the UPND members were not in mourning, stupid riots would have ensued & much property would have been lost. So Stella, plz, find out which idiot gave the command to fire and roast his balls. We need tact as we handle Nobel. I hear some cops were clobbered by upnd cadres before replacing Tue casket.
HE ECL, HELP UEALR OUR LAND
Judge Joe Bidden
February 28, 2015 at 8:16 am
Totally agree it’s a shame such things are happening how would one feel your dad’s body tumbling out of the coffin as it hits the tarmac
figo
March 1, 2015 at 1:47 pm
That’s why you should carry it with dignity and not as a political object.
Chief of Grief
February 28, 2015 at 1:11 am
Okay tu tumfweko!The curent news muletupela SACKS!!Yachabechabe,mek it more lively noti amafi aya muletulisha daily,anyway MHSRIP.
VAMPIRO
February 28, 2015 at 1:23 am
That’s why public order act is important. Those mourners should ‘ve informed police of their programs.
The other problem is HH wanted to capitalise on his political agenda. He was thinking it’s a well attended political rally in pf strong hold and somehow wished it was during election period. Agony is to claim that yu get intelligence info b4 it reaches only to find yourself running away from the police.
Josias Muchindu
February 28, 2015 at 3:30 am
So embarrassing.It’s very shocking to note that there are laws for those in power & ordinary citizens.In the recently past, we saw the owners of law carrying a coffin along central business centre in Lusaka demonstrating & agitating for the removal of WK, nothing disgusting & nasty happened.It was justified with those with the reigns of power, today, a similar incidence happens, the police say its a political milage. SHAME ON THE POLICE FORCE & not police service. The world is watching this brutal selective justice.
vampiro
February 28, 2015 at 8:31 am
Do yu know why public order act is ther for?
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 12:06 pm
Public order only when it suits you? How is teargassing funeral mourners proportional to stopping them carrying a coffin on shoulder? Where in the laws of zambia is it illegal for one to carry a coffin on shoulder? One law for those in power and another for those in opposition. That is how the PF government operates. In 2016 let us come out in numbers again and vote these Polluted Pigs out and vote UPND a fair party that will apply laws fairly
tutu
February 28, 2015 at 5:02 am
boriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing….me go sleep now
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 12:06 pm
that is what PF cadres are good at doing. Sleeping and farting all day and yet get surprised when the UPND make gains in their strong holds.
kakolwe
February 28, 2015 at 6:15 am
Surely, which leaders, in their right mind, punishes their followers to track 17km across Lusaka carrying a casket with the dead in it, when, they have all manner of transportation at their disposal?
BaLibongani nabo! What necessitated the tear gassing of the mourners who thought they were conducting a burial in 1823 & not 2015? UPND were about to conduct what the Luapulans call ‘icitaleme’ & the casket may have landed at plot 1. Thus tear gas!!!
As wrong as it may be to joke over the death of the citizen, so it is to politicize the same death. I demand that, as a citizen, both Mr. E. C. Lungu & Mr. H. Hichilema hold a joint conference and tell their followers to exercise restraint & be civil ij their day-to-day deliberations. We are not at war.
Judge Joe Bidden
February 28, 2015 at 8:26 am
You remind me of my home village it used to be common icitaleme and they tell kids to stay indoors the coffin would be moved village to village Kiki
MAN G
February 28, 2015 at 6:43 am
Yes pf carried a casket but was it mourning or did they carry a casket with someone in it? pliz pipo lets first respect the dead then after burial u demonstrate in yo own way. Its good that u were sorted out by the nature of order.
Andy Yosi
February 28, 2015 at 7:02 am
Which law outlines what mode of transport to use when carrying the dead? Just asking!
kakolwe
February 28, 2015 at 7:16 am
The law of common sense.
Unless you say it was a traditional ceremony were twenty first century transporters carry their chiefs on their shoulders when Limos are cheaper or those that paddle their huge canoe with an elephant when a yacht can do better & faster..
Besides, imagine that procession reaching central business district or Kamwala! It had the potential to degenerate into serious chaos.
Be that as it may, I still believe tear gassing was NOT the option.
tupac
February 28, 2015 at 7:14 am
Lekeni abafwa baleshikana why respecting the dead,are they humans?Even the bible is against that…new cinyo cinyo your freemason will never rule this country because leaders are born leaders and not made and this is a christian not satanic nation.Voter apathy characterised last election only 30% of the voters voted the entire country so just get ready to watch as we send your tribal and regional party in extinction next year.
jobreaker
February 28, 2015 at 7:40 am
even u ka tumfweko Ur recent topics are looking like u want us to start thinking in a specific manner and that is that Pf is doing something wrong..I’m not suggesting that they are doing everything right but then again who would but to be honest Pf is pushing things forward.this idea.was it the wife who suggested to carry her husband in the streets of Lusaka or was it the party president.I’m curious. because a normal widow about to burry her late wouldn’t do such a thing
Ba buza
February 28, 2015 at 7:44 am
The OP officers didnt do a good job this time around to inform HH about police confrontation of UPND during funeral procession
jobreaker
February 28, 2015 at 7:44 am
even the idea of removing the body from the church ati tantameni bonse twala twika pamutwe..if the man was such a big deal in society why didn’t just get cars drive around Lsk and go burry..unlike blocking the roads and inconveniencing others for Ur sake of mourning.I’m sure if every one at the funeral contributed a 5kwacha they would have booked trucks
jobreaker
February 28, 2015 at 7:50 am
the police were doing their job..same thing if they found a bunch of unza students blocking the way or any demonstration u plan on holding without first informing the police..its the duty of the police to maintain law and order ati let them walk they are mourning.believe it or not life goes on for the rest of the world even if educated died people will still go on with life. and there u are ninshi naudanganana munshila ati I’m mourning my late..typical upnd
Judge Joe Bidden
February 28, 2015 at 8:36 am
All I can say is what the police did was wrong and unethical no matter how wrong the mourners were. The Govt need to investigate the culprits and disciplined this is Zambia not Zimbabwe respect each other regardless their political affiliations.
kalijo
February 28, 2015 at 9:11 am
LAW AND ORDER MUST BE OBSERVED EVERY WHERE FUNERAL,CHURCH,SCHOOL ETC . IF NOT POLICE WILL COME IN . WHY SETTING BAD EXAMPLES . SUPPOSE EVERYONE START CARRYING COFFINS ON THEIR SHOULDERS , WOULD THAT BE OKAY ? IT WAS OKAY THEN THAT WE DID NOT HAVE MEANS BUT AS A PEOPLE WE HAVE MOVED ON . IN FACT THE PEOPLE WHO CARRIED THEIR COLLEAGUE’S COFFIN ON THEIR SHOULDER ARE THE ONE WHO DISRESPECTED THE DEAD NOT THE POLICE. ORDER PLEASE .
Wise Fool
February 28, 2015 at 9:38 am
The Upnd Didnt Hve Money to book vehicles.Shalipwa Mu Campaign.Hahahahaha……….
poly
February 28, 2015 at 11:01 am
When the UPND Tribal leader ordered his cadres to carry the coffin on their shoulders and damp it at Plot 1,what was going thru his feeble mind? A funeral is a very serious solemn gathering and you apply rat thinking, then the outcome is all yours to absorb.The women are also out there exposing their malnourished bodies like rats.OOOOOOOOHH! GOD HELP US because UPND (United Party for Naked Demons)must be caged.
tutu
February 28, 2015 at 12:28 pm
bafikala balemona kwati baliku ku Gaza,pantu ufyamusango uyu ifyakwenda nefitumbi pamitwe eko fyaseka after Israel abaponona ba Hamas…bakapokola next kubapononafye bonse pantu aba bafipele kuti baleta ififulunganyo
kunda's
February 28, 2015 at 3:59 pm
PF stop killing pipo,frm the time Sata died mucitafye nge mbwa.we wanted Sata nt ka lungu full of worms.
shocks
February 28, 2015 at 5:02 pm
I’m a police officer myself & what those lsk(pf carder police officers) did was a shame. No wonder proffessioanal police officers are in da rural. Those in lsk are just pick-pocketors. Them its moni & pleasing their fool masters. No wonder i have rendered my resignation letter so that i have fresh breeze. Z has gone to the dogs.
Ewa
February 28, 2015 at 5:06 pm
So the coffin was to be carried pa mutu from town centre up to ku manda ya ku leopard’s hill sure? Apa pena wayitaya HH. Malilo ni malilo, a political rally. ATI ma cadres, that’s why you are dying because you are just being used bafila.
jobreaker
February 28, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Ba judge sure can u compare town to village..u tell me in the village they carry the dead on the head ..I assure u its only Ur village..u see villages have limited traportation its not tradition.and they use what we call ichikochika because they are more civilised than the upnd..really Joe u will compare a village to a town..u got issues bro
blackbull
February 28, 2015 at 7:23 pm
this kind of news is madness . 50 years after indipendence you still find cadres behaving like in kaunda errar shame when are we going to be free from these malawians whose mantor is a malawian. chiluba must have deported this man mwe. coffins have been carried on shoulders . we know they only feared the presence of hh . any way go ahead and continue to decampaign your selves. shame on you life is more valuable. may his soul rest in peace
jsm
February 28, 2015 at 11:55 pm
fya bututu sana ukulasendela icitumbi pamutwe. That upnd cadre was killed by friends at a beer drinking place. Let’s be civilised guys!
Metalone
March 1, 2015 at 7:35 am
THE POLICE FORCE AND NOT THE PF CADORE….SHAME, FILIEKOTULEYA.
Akapondo
March 1, 2015 at 9:49 am
police were right to ask pal bearers to place casket in the hearse in order to honor the dead properly. why do you people want politicize everything with your HH who will never rule in Zambia.
the most correct thing is to place coffin in a vehicle for dignity to prevail Iam thinking it is simple reasoning that is required. the kind of politics the upnd want practice is very amateurish, low level, outdated and unthinkable for sure you are too behind in conducting politics.
sihubwa
March 1, 2015 at 10:49 am
I advise Akapondo not to use terms like who will never rule Zambia. then who should rule Zambia? does he understand Democracy, let him go to UNZA and update himself with LATEST knowledge than exposing himself like this.
Shuvan Kafuwe
March 1, 2015 at 10:16 am
FOOLISH HH and his useless cadres where in Zambia have they eveer seen or heard people carrying coffins on their shoulders? Ndiye upuba uyu and these hopeless cadres busy following blindly.
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 11:59 am
You must be a lost fool or living in a cave for many years. Please travel more and see how most zambians live their lives and carry out their funerals and you will realise why I say you are an idiot. Am sure you are a pf cadre
mercy
March 1, 2015 at 11:57 am
WHEN IS THE NEXT ELECTIONS? Is it 2016
vampiro
March 1, 2015 at 12:29 pm
MMD and PF are to blame for the squables they had prior to elections which resulted in hh getting an advantage. smal boys like NEZ now think that hh is popular when he is not. lets give hh his rightful position in 2016 so that no one talk silly like what we are reading.
cludzz
March 1, 2015 at 1:21 pm
the police were wrong to fire teargas quiet alryt…..bt u can’t carry ur dead pama shoulders and block traffic….nimu lusaka muno nt village..muzapangapo che traffic…HH think!!!!!!
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 1:35 pm
because HH attends a funeral, he is the one incharge of the funeral. He is the organiser, he is the funder, he is jesus christ. he is the administrator. DO NOT BE AN IDIOT IWE! And there is no proof that these people caused any confusion. Every funeral in zambia disturbs traffic. that is the work of the police . To escort the funeral procession. Just becaust those lazy and starved police couldnt be bothered to walk they decided to use tear gas to force things to be faster. We pay taxes for their salaries. It is not illegal to carry a coffin that way. mambala iwe
figo
March 1, 2015 at 1:58 pm
It is very illegal and illogical carrying coffins on heads in midst of Lusaka. Be rest assured that such a coffin will drop and contents spill onto tarmac. Try it again and same will happen. It is NOT allowed to behave like that. Hope you know now
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 2:05 pm
You dull fool. can you please cite the zambian law that states that it is illegal to carry coffin on shoulder please? PLEASE STATE THE LAW NOW!. Just because you think it is illogical does not make it wrong. WHo cares what your personally think? Your thoughts are not the law. foolish cadre
skylimit
March 1, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Let’s love one another as one zambia one nation.
Mono
March 1, 2015 at 4:34 pm
Zambia has fools for leaders
chibwe
March 1, 2015 at 4:46 pm
Vampiro I hope you get one of your very close family stabbed and knifed to death before the end of this year then you will feel the pain of death. I hope you will have the strength to put up such stupid comments.
cludzz
March 1, 2015 at 5:04 pm
its jst wrong to make such a wish on sum1’s family!!!!! ba chibwe thats nt cool
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 6:29 pm
and it is ok when a upnd supporter dies iwe? Kabiye uko. it is better you lose your life because tapali benefit uleleta pa earth iwe. Pure caderism based on benefits you get out of that drunk chap lungu leading. The last people we need on this earth are idiots like you who lack objectivity. Hope you wont be here in 2016 chikamba
cludzz
March 1, 2015 at 5:16 pm
HH is the leader of upnd, thus its his responsibility to make sure his cadre’s behave….since he ws even there….you can’t surely carry a casket on ur shoulders and walk 4 abt 17km you will jst create traffic and you can’t tell me that those that take the body to the grave site via vehicles also create traffic!!!!…think iwe a moving vehicle and a person walking at a cadres pace who is faster?
Mulenga
March 1, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Good and bad comments though i have enjoyed reading them but please avoid insults
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 6:25 pm
You are an idiot iwe. Mwana wagula iwe. The ones that should behave are the ones that kill a person over selfish reasons. It is no lie that caderism is violent in zambia and this is not the first time political violence has led to death. Do not be an idiot and think this is zimbabwe. If your president is meeting mugable and getting funny ideas from him, he will not know what hit him in 2016. Do not play with life! Every zambians life is sacred you silly uneducated cadre. Which law in zambia states how one should carry out a funeral? Please can u cite this law or regulation before opening your mouth u dull wet fire wood
New Educated Zambia
March 1, 2015 at 6:25 pm
Yes chudzz this is a reply to your stupidity
John Tseidukan Kwempa
March 1, 2015 at 7:41 pm
Just be realistic that’s Lusaka you are talking about a break down on the road for 10 minutes can have 1 kilometre long of traffic jam what of people carrying a casket on shoulders gents en Ladies these are not joking matters, worst case if you have an emergency of any form what lane can they use pliz think I have always thought you guys are elites en can make good presumption or assumptions please this is a safety en security matter since when did we start carrying coffins with the remains of our belioved ones on shoulders mu main road Nda gambwa mebo
poly
March 2, 2015 at 8:38 am
There is no law which prescribes how funerals should be conducted.But carrying a coffin on mourner’s shoulders for a distance of close to 20kilometers is sheer madness today.These mourners became a nuisance to the public and police had to move in to correct or remove these mourners madness using tear-gas and it worked.If you insist on being a publi nuisance,you should relocate to Gaza or Sinazeze.I just hope you still feeling the side-effects of the tear-gas.Love your neighbour as you love yourself bene Mukuni Ngombe.
kalijo
March 2, 2015 at 8:41 am
WELL PUT