UPND Launches ‘Paint Lusaka Red’ Campaign

The United Party for National Development has embarked on a new campaign to ‘Paint Lusaka Red’ in a bid to replace billboards and campaign materials ripped down by Patriotic Front cadres.

Announcing the campaign to the press on Monday, UPND Lusaka Province Chairperson Obvious Mwaliteta said his party would no longer tolerate the PF’s appalling habit of taking down campaign materials every time they are put up.

UPND youths, led by Lusaka Province youth chair Anderson Banda and Lusaka District Chair Achritius Mwanakayaya, will tour the Great East Road sticking up UPND posters and flags to replace the lost campaign materials. 

It follows a particularly destructive 24-hours last Tuesday, when members of the ruling party went on a rampage, tearing down UPND billboards and posters along the ring road in Kamwala, Chabala and the New Kasama areas of Lusaka District. 

Mr Mwaliteta said he was disappointed that the police had failed to bring the perpetrators to justice, despite numerous complaints from the UPND. 

PF cadres have been targeting the UPND’s billboards practically since the campaign began, burning down a poster of presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema outside the Heroes Stadium in May. 

These attacks have continued throughout the campaign period, however the opposition party has resisted retaliation, with HH urging supporters “Don’t let them vandalise your resolve to change for a better Zambia”.