Control your cadres, Imboela tells UPND
By Staff Reporter
Loosing Lusaka NDC mayoral candidate Saboi Imboela has challenged the United Party for National Development to control its violent cadres and discipline them when they attack other members of the party, especially women.
In a statement Imboela said she was horrified on Monday by the behaviour of about eight UPND cadres who followed her young sister home and verbally assaulted heR.
“The Gender Based Violence my young sister experienced yesterday is a very common thing in the UPND and I urge the party to discipline the eight cadres who attacked my sister yesterday, or we shall take the matter up as a family and let the law take its course. Contain your violence within the party if that is your accepted behaviour and do not follow people to their homes, otherwise we shall not accept that lying down,” she warned.
“There is now a school at the former family house where my sister was attacked from and they exposed this violence to the children who were nearby and all the neighbours and passersby who watched the incident in horror. Remmy was jailed for nine months just a few weeks ago for physically assaulting Mbozi and while Mbozi sought to solve this matter internally you supported a man who assaulted her instead of supporting the woman that was physically attacked.”
She asked UPND member snot to blame the woman for protecting herself when the party failed to protect her.
“I know how cadres like Brian Mulenga verbally attack anyone who fails to give them money on a particular day regardless of how many times you give them money in a particular week. And sadly, it is women that he normally targets for that abuse, I was a victim of that abuse when I was a member of the UPND and as usual you failed to protect me and the answer was ‘that is how he is’.,” she explained further. “Women should be protected from these violent cadres in the party and not turning your usual blind eye to the violence that your own members are facing from such hooligans. Moving forward, I would like to give the party only this week to discipline the violent cadres who attacked my sister yesterday failure to which we shall do so as a family. My sister is not NDC as the cadres are alleging and she has to be respected for her opinions and contributions within the party of her choice. UPND.”
