{"id":25769,"date":"2022-07-03T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/why-are-people-insulting-the-president"},"modified":"2022-07-03T22:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:03:21","slug":"why-are-people-insulting-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/why-are-people-insulting-the-president","title":{"rendered":"Why are people insulting the President?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>During the previous regime, daring to insult the president would have entailed a mortuary or ICU case, thanks to the almighty PF cadres that were keen to take matters into their own hands. Lately, we\u2019ve witnessed a number of people insulting the president. What is causing all this? Some people have, of course, weighed in and offered conflicting reasons, more prominently UPND spokesperson Hon. Cornelius Mweetwa MP and New Heritage Party Leader Chishala Kateka.<\/p>\n

Addressing a media briefing at the UPND secretariat recently, Hon. Mweetwa MP appealed to the previous PF administration to stop sponsoring people use the social media to insult the president.<\/p>\n

Earlier on, Kateka had claimed that the rising number of cases of members of the public either insulting or defaming the President could be that Zambians are unhappy with his leadership and have no other option but to insult the presidency.<\/p>\n

For the record, we don\u2019t subscribe to either of the assertions! But what could be the main reason, you may still wonder. You don\u2019t have to be a rocket scientist to get to the root cause of this problem. During the previous administration, caderism had taken to another level. Reminiscent of the dreaded vigilantes during the UNIP era who were eager to lift suspected critics \u2018by air,\u2019 the notorious PF cadres were ubiquitous in the markets, bus stations, CBDs and even public offices. Some of them had even gone to the extent of decorating themselves with revered titles as commanders and put on military uniforms!<\/p>\n

Anybody who dared criticize the humble leader risked having \u201ca ton of blocks falling on them!\u201d Any perceived culprit would be abducted and taken to secluded places where they would be subjected to spine chilling indignities. Remember the journalist in Chipata that had himself peed into the mouth for writing articles critical of government? And if you thought you were smart and offloaded profanities against President Lungu on social media, they would hunt you down with the help of ZICTA and mete out instant justice on you!<\/p>\n

As everyone would recall, when President Hichilema got into State House, he immediately pronounced a big NO to caderism. \u201cIf you commit a crime in the name of the party UPND, remember you are on your own!\u201d he fired a warning shot.<\/p>\n

Consequently, those in UPND cadres with evil intentions of emulating their peers from PF would immediately refrain from such illegalities. Today, citizens are free; there are no cadres to instill fear anymore, but instead of enjoying these newly found liberties, some people have now realized a golden opportunity to insult the president with impunity!<\/p>\n

Even in the so-called free world, we don\u2019t see individuals insulting presidents and their parents to such an extent as literally undressing and describing their body anatomies in graphic detail. It\u2019s even shocking that some of these insults are coming from our mothers and children who ought to uphold good morals.<\/p>\n

The president has encouraged us to criticize any wrongdoing on the part of his government. However, this doesn\u2019t mean we should now start competing for entries in the Guineas Book of World Records for having uttered earth-shattering insults against the head of state!<\/p>\n

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