Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
The opposition UPND has disputed suggestions that it has ferried thugs from Chawama in Lusaka to areas where Parliamentary by-elections is due.
UPND Secretary General Stephen Katuka says his party hopes that President Edgar Lungu may have been misquoted when has reported to have said that the UPND has hired thugs from Chawama, which is his former constituency, to go and cause violence in Lubansenshi and Solwezi constituency bye elections.
Mr. Katuka has told Qfm News in a statement that his party believes it is a huge insult and very demeaning for President Lungu to view his own people in Chawama as a mere bunch of thugs that can just be rented for political violence.
He says this is especially that President Lungu owes everything he has today at the top as Head of State to the support he got from the same people of Chawama, whom he allegedly now views as mere thugs.
Mr. Katuka states that the UPND therefore believe President Lungu owes the people of Chawama an apology because if indeed they are thugs as he allegedly labeled them, he must have allegedly contributed to their poverty that has brewed thugarism in them.