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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Former deputy minister Luxon Kazabu has warned that the Patriotic Front (PF) will sink along with former President Edgar Lungu if his immunity is lifted.<\/p>\n

Kazabu, who served as deputy livestock and fisheries minister in the Michael Sata administration, says it is sad that Lungu got excited and make utterances he is not supposed to be saying, each time his PF colleagues visit him.<\/p>\n

He says if Lungu is serious that he would love to prove his innocence in court, he knows what to do and should incite PF MPs to support a motion that calls for the lifting of his immunity.<\/p>\n

He advised the former President not to invite trouble which will end in tears on his part. \u201cEdgar Lungu knows the consquences of his immunity being lifted and it will not only end up with him but his vehicle the Patriotic Front.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne can only imagine what will happen to the PF if his immunity is lifted and it is very easy all he has to do is to tell his MPs to support such a motion so that a two-thirds majority is attained then we will see what happens when the matter goes to court.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut definitely you can tell that it will affect the PF as a party,\u201d Kazabu said. He says Lungu get too excited whenever his colleagues pays him a visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cLungu gets motivated each time his colleagues got to visit him and tell him that they are with him and will give him solidarity.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gets motivated and this is how he begins to say things he shouldn\u2019t be saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he says is depriving him of the statesmanship. He is the only surviving former head of state and so he has all the space to win the support of Zambians as a person who once held the highest office,\u201d said Kazabu.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if he continues to get excited each time his colleagues go to visit him he will not attained the statesmanship status which entails all Zambians to go to him and seek counsel. I think he is still politically tilted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last Thursday Lungu said he is ready to face the law if he stole during his tenure as president. He seems to believe his colleagues are being persecuted. Lungu was not happy that the Drug Enforcement Commission went to a piece of land that he owns to carry out investigations.<\/p>\n

He reacted by calling on his successor Hakainde Hichilema to start the process of removing his constitutional immunity from prosecution so that he can clear his name.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe who alleges, must prove and we will defend ourselves,\u201d Lungu told PF members of parliament and supporters from who visited him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy urge is that may the president institute the lifting of my immunity by going to parliament to lay a case so that he can eventually prove what crimes I committed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. Former deputy minister Luxon Kazabu has warned that the Patriotic Front (PF) will sink along with former President Edgar Lungu if his immunity is lifted. 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