FDD President Edith Nawakwi has demanded for the arrest of Daily Nation Editor-in-Chief Richard Sakala for publishing State Secrets the offence allegedly committed by Post Newspapers Editor-in-Chief Fred M’membe and reporter Mukosha Funga.
Speaking today at Lusaka’s Magistrates Court when she went to offer moral support to the duo, Ms. Nawakwi said the Police should arrest Mr. Sakala for publishing a story on the same subject.
” On May 22, 2015, the Daily Nation Newspapers exclusively carried a story quoting Ms. Wandi’s second letter to President Edgar Lungu, under the headline: ACC Clears Kaizer Zulu; Why haven’t the Police arrested and charged Mr. Richard Sakala and the Daily Nation reporter for allegedly breaching section 35 of the State Security Act. Does it mean that Section 35 only applies to the Post Newspapers? Why are the Police exhibiting such deplorable double standards? This a clear case of witch hunting!”
She said the arrest of the duo was meant to silence the people who are exposing the ills and rot in the current Government adding that the arrest of Mr. M’membe and Ms. Funga was a clear case of wako ni wako.
She further wondered why Kaiza Zulu was using the police to intimidate professionals when he is just a cadre fortunate to have been a driver to late president Micheal Sata and has been given a position at State House as Political Advise to the President. She wondered what kind of Political advise the “Defence Minister ” was getting if the likes of Kaiza Zulu were his advisors.
On the Police, the opposition leader expressed disappointment at Police Inspector General Stella Libongani for not standing up to directives from cadres.
She said the IG was making the Police operate in an unprofessional manner and has become an embarrassment to the nation.
She noted that the person who was suppose to be in the dock was Kaiza for looting public resources which the country is suppose to be using in uplifting the lives of people and the reporter who has seen the makeshift beds used in rural clinics as delivery beds and has seen it fit to report corrupt government officials.
And Ms. Nawakwi observed that the country was at war against poverty and that corruption was the root cause of the scourge and that the war was for every well meaning Zambian to stand up to corrupt officials who are pocketing public resources and enriching themselves.
She urged the public to ensure that they rise against the scourge of corruption saying “50 years after independence we cannot continue talking about corruption instead of uplifting the lives of our people.”
In the pictures below (1)FDD President Edith Nawakwi addresses Journalists (2) Chats with Mukosha Funga’s mother and sister.
Nawakwi is obsessed with the sound of her voice. She is like Sarah Longwe. She will continue getting space in the Post Newspaper if she continues like this! She is only making Mmembe and Kabimba happy.
Nobody takes Nawakwi seriously.Her utterances never make sense – its like she has just come out of sleep
They cant arrest Richard Sakala. Its Wako ni wako