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MLC Chairperson Enock Ngoma
The Media Liaison Committee (MLC) is calling upon President Edgar Lungu to tame thugs in the ruling Patriotic Front harassing innocent citizens.
MLC Chairperson Enock Ngoma in a statement says the latest incident is where PF cadres brutalized Democratic Front president Miles Sampa’s supporters at Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International airport.
He says Mr. Sampa has every constitutional right to address the media on matters of public interest,just like any other politician.
Mr. Ngoma says actions of the PF cadres therefore repugnant, criminal and primitive.
He states that President Lungu as leader of the ruling party has powers to stop such criminal acts from his party supporters.
Mr. Ngoma points out that Mr. Sampa was going to address a press conference, and not a political rally, and that it was therefore unreasonable for PF cadres stop that planned conference.
And Mr.Ngoma says the Media Liaison Committee is shocked by media reports that Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Chishimba Kambwili that he and his colleagues in government owned ZNBC.
He says the MLC is shocked by Mr. Kambwili’s continued ignorance about the ZNBC Act.
And The opposition UPND has described as barbaric the violent attack on Democratic Front president Miles Sampa by PF cadres who besieged the Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport on Saturday.
In a statement to QFM News, UPND National Chairperson Mutale Nalumango says it is clear that the violence on Mr.Sampa was well orchestrate and had the backing of senior PF functionaries.
She says Mr. Sampa is simply exercising his democratic right, and that his movements as a Zambian should not be curtailed in any form.
Ms. Nalumango states that the UPND has always believed that the violence in PF has approval from the highest office.
She questions what message the ruling party is sending to the world with what she has described as terrorist acts at an international airport.
Ms. Nalumango has also wondered of what essence it is to build a national house of prayer with this type behavior from the ruling party.
She has since appealed to the Clergy to remind President Edgar Lungu of the 18th October he has declared as a day of national prayer and reconciliation.