President Edgar Lungu is a tyrant, I don’t know if that’s how heartless slim people are because that is how Paul Kagame is, says Former Chief Government Spokesperson Chishimba Kambwili.

Speaking on Live Issues programme on Live radio, Kambwili observed that the PF was blocking the opposition from holding public meetings.

He charged that the Head of State was a tyrant.

“Today this government doesn’t give permits to the opposition or anybody to have meetings, they are misusing the Public Order Act (POA) with impunity. For instance I am a member of parliament for Roan, for the past one year, police have refused me to have meetings in my constituency. Every time I tell them that I am having meetings in my constituency, they will tell me ‘no, we have to find out from the commissioner of police in Ndola’ and the answer that we get [is that] ‘no he cannot go ahead for security reasons.’ Now I don’t know what security reasons they talk about [because] in the meantime, my colleague from Luanshya constituency Steve Chungu gets permits to hold meetings in my constituency. For him it’s not for security reasons. So democracy under Lungu is not as it was under Sata. Lungu is a tyrant. I don’t know if that’s how heartless slim people are because that is how [Paul] Kagame is and Lungu is imitating what Kagame is doing,” Kambwili charged.