By Staff Reporter
Mafinga member of parliament Robert has threatened to unleash mayhem and beatings once the remains of late former president Edgar Lungu are buried.
Addressing the media, Chabinga warned that it would now be a bare knuckle fight once the remains of Lungu were buried.
“l am waiting for us to burry … if any man with his own strength reaches the secretariat then you will see the other side of me … Police you have to be on standby because there will be mayhem I can guarantee you … Enough is enough … Police be ready when you hear people have been beaten at secretariat, people have been beaten don’t look for any other people. Come and arrest me,” Chabinga said. “I have told you in advance ba Inspector General of Police. These people have to be taught a lesson, enough is enough.”
He claimed that he had been civil in the way he had been doing things but now was the time to act.
Chabinga further accused PF secretary general Raphael Nakachinda of having moved alone in South Africa, saying while former first lady Esther Lungu was mounring, others were making money over the death of her husband.
He warned his opponents not to underestimate his capacity as he could create demonstrations in the country for the next one year.
Chabinga accused his opponents of being crooked to the extent that they placed his “brother” Brian Mundubile in “group 5” at the Church service for the late Lungu so that he could not be seen by people.
He further launched attacks on Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa saying the Stellenbosch University lecturer was not at his level of wealth as he was just a pauper who maybe was renting a ramshackle, but could accommodate him at his property in Cape Town for two years.
Dr Sishuwa has said that his sources have revealed to him how President Hakainde Hichilema was working closely with a renegade member of parliament belonging to PF to orchestrate state-financed public protests in Lusaka, Copperbelt and Eastern Province to create the false impression of widespread public outrage against the decision by the Lungu family to lay the former president to rest in South Africa.
“He has also been installed as Leader of the Opposition in Parliament by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Nelly Mutti, Hichilema’s former personal lawyer, though he was elected by no one. According to insiders, Hichilema had initially wanted Chabinga to join the court case in South Africa as Leader of the Opposition,” Dr Sishuwa stated. “After the President received advice against the move, he and his allies then hatched the plan to organise “mass public protests” across the country by placard-carrying ruling party supporters masquerading as PF members and Zambian nationalists demanding the return of Lungu’s remains so that he could be buried at home. The objective of these demonstrations would be to manufacture evidence of popular anger against the Lungu family’s position, fabricate visible proof of “public interest” in Lungu’s funeral, and create the pretext that the government hopes it can use to persuade the South African judge to rule in its favour.”
He stated that for Chabinga, who remains at the helm of Zambia’s main opposition party because of the complicit role of the judiciary, delivering on this presidential aspiration would cement his State-backed illegal leadership of the PF and reduce the political costs that might befall Hichilema in next year’s election should Lungu be buried abroad.
Dr Sishuwa further said that Chabinga was recently in South Africa on a State-facilitated trip, and had privately expressed confidence that the judge might be amenable to bribery.
