No 800 K10 www.diggers.news Tuesday October 20, 2020 I WON’T ANSWER IG’S IMF is Zambia’s only chance of avoiding STUPID CALL - HH debt default ...as police insist on his summon By Ulande Nkomesha answer Inspector General of interrogated in the alleged Speaking when he National Institute of Public - Simumba UPND president Hakainde police Kakoma Kanganja’s abduction of two police addressed students from Administration, Evelyn Hone Story page 6 Hichilema says he will not “stupid” call to have officers in Muchinga. the University of Zambia, College and... Story page 2 By Julia Malunga PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says Judiciary washes he knows he will be re-elected in next year’s general election because of the many works his hands on Simusamba government has done. Speaking when he drummed up support for as JCC puts lid back PF candidate in the Chilubi Council chairperson by- elections Rosemary Chimbini, in Bulilo ward, Monday, on disciplinary case President Lungu said he knows By Sipilisiwe Ncube that he would be re-elected. CHIEF Registrar of the Judiciary Charles Kafunda has distanced “Ndemona abantu the judiciary from the recommendation made by the Judicial nabamitemwa sana muposeko Complaints Commission (JCC) to have Magistrate David amano mukabwele bwangu Simusamba removed from presiding as a judicial officer in a bwangu mukese umfwa abantu matter where he was found wanting for misconduct. efyo balefwaya. Nga mwaya And the JCC chairman William Nyirenda says he does mwaililila, 2021 tamwaimone. not understand how the letter of recommendation to remove Lekeni nsoke abo mwasala Simusamba found itself in the public space, as such matters are mu Zambia lyonse kuno kwine ku Northern Province, considered confidential. Story page 6 ngabamisala whether MP, council chairman, ulimubomfi wabantu, bombela abantu. Day of Prayer has become Ipalamike kubantu, wishibe abantu efyo balekabila. Abo bakabwela mu 2021 ni abo an image building event abale bombela abantu, abo balecindika abantu, abo baleumfwa abantu efyo for political players - CCZ balelanda. Naine wine Edgar By Julia Malunga Lungu pano ndi ninjishiba COUNCIL of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) general secretary abantu bakambwesha mu Father Emmanuel Chikoya says the national day of prayer and 2021 pantu efyo ndebomba fasting has turned into an image building event for political party nabanandi filemoneka. Ama players. sikulu, ifipatala, ubulimi, During the National Day of Prayer and Fasting, Sunday, ifikulwa ipanga yonse. (I Catholic priest Fr Lastone Lupupa said there was no need for have seen that you are the President Edgar Lungu to campaign in next year’s general election President Edgar Lungu jokes with an old lady in Chilubi district of Northern Province where he preferred...” Story page 10 because he was God-sent. is on a two-day working visit “Today, we have a Caesar in our midst, it is His Excellency the President. Do we pay taxes to the President? No. We pay our taxes to the government and three things are very important to I know I’ll be re-elected in 2021 the Christians; they don’t evade tax, Christians are the number one in obedience to paying tax. Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar simply means when it comes to voting, Christians are number one on the queue to vote...” Story page 6 because of my work – Lungu 2. Local News www.diggers.news Tuesday October 20, 2020 By Ulande Nkomesha UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says he will not I won’t answer IG’s answer Inspector General of police Kakoma Kanganja “stupid” call to have interrogated in the alleged stupid call – HH abduction of two police you have in us people who car in full view of the police, officers in Muchinga. have a heart for students and “Hichilema said. Speaking when he for the people of Zambia. “To our surprise the police addressed students from Let me tell you a short story did not arrest those thugs, the University of Zambia, of what happened when we instead the police sent a call out National Institute of Public went to Kasama. We went to to us victims. Have you ever Administration, Evelyn Hone Kasama to attend a court case understood a situation where College and Zambia Institute for Mucheleka deputy SG, who victims are the ones called to of Mass Communication was in detention not because be arrested. The PF thugs who (ZAMCOM), Hichilema said he committed a crime but were attacking us were not it was disappointing that because of political ineptness, arrested and I said to Kanganja police were summoning him On our way and back the and to everybody that ‘I am and other party officials when PF thugs were jealous of the not answering your stupid the real culprits who harassed support the people of Northern call’, why? I did not commit and stoned his entourage in Province and Muchinga were any crime, we are victims of Mpika were not arrested. showing us. They were pelting the thuggery and this is our “First and foremost we us with stones when the rest of country. They must arrest those would like thank you for the community were coming who were pelting us with stones Movement for Democratic Change leader Felix Mutati interacts with Kabwe Shoprite coming to show your solidarity to greet us and they were and they are known, including workers on Sunday - Picture by Tenson Mkhala to us. I want you to know that saying we want bally now’. Now the Mpika DC, they are known. because of the love Muchinga You saw them carrying stones and Northern showed to us, the in the footage, let them arrest PF felt jealous and they know those people. We must not It’s foolish for police to say HH wasn’t that they are going, they were allow a breakdown in the rule summoned when call out was delivered – Katuka stoning us and they stoned my of law. Story continues on P4 By Sipilisiwe Ncube guided. You know, all the time Hakainde was in a motorcade, possible that a trained police UPND secretary general we are told that, ‘we have been he can’t control everyone in officer can be abducted by Govt nearing end of 2020 Stephen Katuka says it is instructed’, meaning they are those vehicles. There are more common citizens. foolish for the police to deny not independent. And that’s than 20 vehicles! He wouldn’t “Similarly, how do you census preps, says PS that they summoned party what normally happens in a know what is happening. expect a trained police officer leader Hakainde Hichilema dictatorship. When a dictator And in every motorcade, the to be abducted? Is that possible? By Sipilisiwe Ncube made by the Minister of when a call-out was delivered takes over government, the president’s vehicle is always in This is why we are saying NATIONAL Development Finance (Dr Bwalya Ng’andu) at the secretariat, Friday. first thing they do is to kill front and there are so many that we have so many cadres Planning Permanent to the effect that the census And Katuka says it does institutions of governance behind. So, he can’t also know wearing police uniforms. There Secretary Chola Chabala says has been postponed to next not make sense that trained so that they don’t make what is happening behind. But are so many. They are training preparations for the 2020 year. There are just too many police officers can be abducted independent decisions [and they (police) wanted to behave in Sikanze [Police] Camp, they national census amid the circumstances… [that have by common citizens. make them only] answerable in the same unprofessional give them uniforms and ranks COVID-19 pandemic are led to the postponement]. The In an interview, Katuka to this one individual, who is manner they behaved in and guns. Nowonder there almost complete. preparation has been affected rebuked the Police Command a dictator, who, in our case is Mongu where this motorcade is so much misuse and abuse In an interview, Chabala by: (1) we had those gassing in Lusaka for contradicting Edgar Chagwa Lungu. So, the has so many people, but they of guns by the police. You explained that the 2020 census incidences. That also took a lot a statement that came from police are not independent. only went for an individual. have heard of stories of how had been hampered by the of time because we had to stop Muchinga Province Police They want to depend on Meaning that they were not a policeman has shot another COVID-19 pandemic, but the activities. So, a number of Commissioner Joel Njase who instructions.” looking at what happened officer, how a stray bullet has stressed that that government activities were affected. Then, confirmed that Hichilema was He added that even on that day, but they were hit a citizen, it is because of was strategising on an after the gassing, we have now among the UPND officials if Hichilema was in the witch-hunting and looking these untrained police officers. appropriate mechanism to COVID-19. And the decision summoned for questioning in motorcade, which allegedly for a person. GBM was in A police officer is trained to conduct the exercise before we had to take was that do a case of abduction. abducted the two police officers that motorcade in Mongu, but defend himself using either exposing the enumerators to we have to expose more than Commenting on the last week, he would not have did they pick him or did they minimum or maximum force. the pandemic, which included 45,000 enumerators to gassing development, Katuka said known what was happening as even question him? No, they If a situation is life-threatening, timely payment of salaries for or do we wait for circumstances police delivered a call out to his vehicle was in front.