PeP embarks on weekly demonstrations

Enock Tembo – PeP President

Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) says it will beginning next week on Wednesday start staging weekly  demonstrations against the procurement of 42 fire tenders at a total cost of $42 million.

Party president Sean Tembo who was among the six protesters arrested by police last Friday for staging a demonstration near parliament says the demonstrations will be held every Wednesday from 11^th October, 2017 until 10^th October, 2018.

He says protesters will march peacefully, carrying placards from woodlands shopping mall to state house and back to woodlands shopping mall, through Independence Avenue.

Mr. Tembo adds that as a law abiding political party and in compliance with section 5 subsection (4) of the public order act, chapter 113 of the laws of Zambia, the party has since given the required notice to the police for next week’s demonstration.