ACA’s Miti Decries Cadres Culture

Alliance for Community Action (ACA) Executive Director Laura Miti has this week decried cadre culture following threats made by Kaizar Zulu against lawyer John Sangwa after he challenged President Lungu’s nomination filling in court.

Miti called on the former state house aid to leave Sangwa alone stating, “Kaizar and our fellow brutes leave John alone! He is the exact opposite of you – soft spoken, uses intellectual arguments and the law to win his battles. He is the Zambia we remembe, and wish to be again.”

Positing on social media earlier this week Miti decried the incessant violence and lawlessness that represents the “ethos of the PF and the EL administration.

“Close your eyes and think,” Miti writes as she goes on to list the aspects of cadre culture witnessed in Zambia today.

“1. PF Cadres that openly brandish pistols and pangas, while dressed in full party regalia.

2. Cadres that speed in convoys on the wrong side of the road, bullying and endangering other road users.

3. Cadres who demand daily unlawful tax from bus drivers and vendors, who are battling to make ends meet.

4. Cadres who have constituted themselves into a veritable unlawful army.

5. A President appoints a well known violent thug (Bowman Lusambo) as Minister, and allows him to continue his antics.

6. Cadres who routinely storm radio stations to prevent shows, destroying property and injuring. journalists

7. Cadres who openly intimidate police officers.

8. A President who is protected, while on public duty, by party militia.

9. Cadres who storm a funeral and violently attack mourners just because the deceased was a member of the opposition.

10. A cadre who walks into the biggest police station, beats up police officers and, essentially, gets away with it.”

“Given all that, who, in the PF or government, would censure Kaizar Zulu for being who they are? For his shocking threat on John Sangwa? Only we, the people, can refuse for Kaizar to represent who we are!” Miti concludes.