Opposition Movement for Multi Party for Democracy presidential spokesperson Muhabi Lungu says President Michael Sata is behaving like an emperor by ordering police to arrest protesting students over the removal of subsidies.
Commenting on President Sata’s ordering of Lusaka Province Police Commissioner Joyce Kasosa, Lungu said in a democracy people must be free to express to express themselves.
“I am afraid the president is behaving like an emperor to anoint himself to order the arrest of people for exercising their rights,” Lungu said.
“In a democracy, people have a right to demonstrate unfortunately this is symptomatic of the daily breakdown in the governance system that we continue to witness. So let the young people express themselves after all the future belongs to them.”
Lungu said the country’s democracy was crumbling under the iron fist of President Sata who had taken to curtailing people from exercising their freedoms.
President Sata during his launch of Palabana University in Chongwe directed Kasosa to lock UNZA students who are protesting on the removal of subsidies.
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