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Brebner Changala
Civil rights activist Brebner Changala says calls for political parties taking part in the 2015 presidential election to disclose their source of funding are justified.
Mr. Changala says he particularly finds it surprising that political parties that have seemed to have less financial resources are now managing to fly from one place to another only at the time that the country is having an election.
In an interview with Qfm News Mr. Changala says his suspicions therefore are that most of the political parties taking party in the forthcoming election have their sourced funding from outside the country.
Mr. Changala has warned that the danger of such a situation is that when one political party that is being funded in this manner manages to win the election and forms government the financiers of its campaign will be the one giving direction of how government will be operating.
He says this will mean that the plight of the people of Zambia will risk being sideline by such kind of a government in a quest to please its campaign financiers.
The civil rights activist says this will also imply that the people of Zambia will have lost their power over a government which they themselves have voted in.
He says this is why he particularly thinks that it is important that electorates know exactly where and how their political parties are sourcing funds they are using in the campaigns.
Reporting by Lazarous Sichula