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Government has slammed individuals involved in crimes but, who when confronted by the law, swiftly cry persecution by accusing President Hakainde Hichilema as the cause of their legal predicaments.
Chief Government Spokesperson, Chushi Kasanda, said that implicating the President, in self-induced conflict with the law, was an attempt to gain public sympathy.
Kasanda who is Minister of Information and Media said this in a statement issued in Lusaka on Wednesday.
She said all well-meaning Zambians by now know that the Republican President was not responsible for the criminality of any individual, whether a politician or an ordinary citizen.
“The position of President Hichilema is that every individual who engages in criminality of any sort is on their own,” Kasanda said.
She said the collective position of the new dawn administration was that, while it upheld citizens’ freedom of expression, those who break the law would not escape the dragnet of the law enforcement agencies.
Kasanda said the government would not tolerate a situation where individuals with criminal intent would establish political parties to facilitate illegal activities and think they would use public sympathy to escape liability.
“Politicians, and their supporters, must desist from holding a misguided proposition, common in the political sphere, that one must continuously violate the law and face law enforcement encounters to aspire to the position of Republican President,” she said.
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