PF faction Secretary General Raphael Nakacinda says former president Edgar Lungu is out of the country to take a break from the disrespect and aggressive attempts to treat him as an ordinary citizen.
And Nakacinda says citizens should brace themselves for more of his arrests under the Cybercrime act.
Speaking on Diamond TV’s Diamond Live show, Monday, Nakacinda said Lungu was in good health.
“The only thing I can tell you is that President Edgar Lungu, by God’s grace, is in good health, and he is out of the jurisdiction because we have collectively, deliberately decided that he needed a bit of a break from all the nonsense he was subjected to because of the disrespect, dishonour, and aggressive approach to try and treat him as if he is just an ordinary citizen. For the UPND, when it suits them, he is a criminal; when it suits them, he is a statesman; when it suits them, they want to give him all manner of accolades. But we know that at the end of the day, what scares Hakainde Hichilema out of his pants is the idea that Edgar Lungu may face him in 2026 as a candidate, and further on, when Edgar Lungu says, ‘I have a plan,’ and because there is a bit of mystery around plan B. Though plan B is in motion, Hakainde Hichilema is so scared, he doesn’t know and he is searching for what this plan B is, and we are not prepared to tell him what plan B is, and plan B is in motion towards 2026,” he said.
Meanwhile, Nakacinda claimed that government enacted the cybercrime law to deter political parties and players in 2026 from sharing information related to the election results.
“One of the things that you can deduce from the cybercrime law is that issues of sharing data that is not authorised is criminal; actually, the sentence is life imprisonment because they don’t want political parties and players in 2026 to share information in relation to the results through a PVT (Parallel Vote Tabulation) arrangement. They want that if, for example, the Patriotic Front, we put a system to which we can communicate the results from every polling station in the Republic of Zambia to a particular centre away from ECZ, that we’ll be criminal; that is what they are saying in that whole arrangement. Jack Mwiimbu (Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister) said, ‘this law, we are only enacting it for a year and some months; after that, in 2027, we are going to repeal it,’ because they want to criminalise every effort to expose the loss of UPND through PVT,” said Nakacinda.
“I am just telling you that the Zambian people must brace themselves for more arrests of Nakacinda because the law has decided to take away my freedoms and rights as a citizen. Those in the Republic of Zambia who are ready to take the same stance to be defiant against this draconian law (Cybercrime law) are welcome. If I am the only one, and others, I know, are courageous to say this is wrong because it infringes on the rights and freedoms bestowed on us by the supreme law called the constitution of the Republic of Zambia, then we’ll be able to be in the same boat”.
