Tuesday 19 July 2011

ZAMBIAN NGO HOPE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONDEMS THE HARASSMENT AND ASSAULTING OF MUVI TV JOURNALISTS BY SUSPECTED MMD CADRES

HOPE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HAS CONDEMNED THE HARASSMENT AND ASSAULTING OF  MUVI TV JOURNALISTS BY SUSPECTED MMD CADRES.
HOPE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SMART CHANDA SAYS IT IS SADDENING THAT GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN SO RELUCTANT TO DEAL WITH THE MMD CADRES WHO HAVE FOR SOMETIME NOW BEEN HARASSING PEOPLE WHO OWN LAND AND ILLEGALLY ALLOCATING THE SAME PLOTS TO UNSUSPECTING CITIZENS.
MR CHANDA HAS NOTED THAT ISSUES OF ILLEGAL ALLOCATION OF PLOTS BY MMD CADRES HAVE BEEN COMING UP FROM TIME BUT GOVERNMENT HAS NOT COME OUT TO CLEAR OUT THE CONCERNS ON THE MATTER AND CONDEMN THE CADRES.
MEANWHILE MR. CHANDA HAS FURTHER CONDEMNED THE POSITION TAKEN BY SENIOR CHIEF MUSHOTA OF THE CHISHINGA PEOPLE OF KAWAMBWA DISTRICT IN LUAPULA PROVINCE WHERE HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE VOWED TO PUNISH ANY OF HIS SUBJECTS CAMPAIGNING FOR THE OPPOSITION PATRIOTIC FRONT.
HE SAYS CHIEF MUSHOTA SHOULD REMEMBER THAT IT IS A RIGHT OF EVERY CITIZEN TO BELONG TO A POLITICAL PARTY OF THEIR CHOICE ADDING THAT WHAT THE CHIEF IS DOING IS AN INFRINGEMENT ON THE RIGHTS OF HIS SUBJECTS.
published by augustine

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