08/06/2025
Emmanuel Mwamba confronted on camera over why he’s using Edgar Lungu’s funeral to subject Zimbabweans and Zambians to more human rights abuses. Transcript-
Emmanuel Mwamba: Just hold on. Just hold on. I want to put you online. Thank you. Please introduce yourself and give us your name and you make your contributions.
Simba Chikanza: Okay? Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah. I'm calling from Zimbabwe, Chikanza, so I just want to mourn our president, Edgar Lungu, and mourn with our people of Zambia. And thank you for the update, comrade Emmanuel Mwamba, but also to ask you, why are you of omitting the violence that President Lungu and also the disinformation campaign that he was running against Zimbabweans? We've got 16 million Zimbabweans, most of them are in the diaspora because of the collaboration that President Lungu was running with Emmerson Mnangagwa, which started with the deportation of Tendai Bitii? My name is Simba Chikanza. My name is Simba Chikanza, sir. And you know what? Comrade, honorable.
Emmanuel Mwamba: Simba
Simba Chikanza: Yes Sir.
Emmanuel Mwamba: just a minute let me guide. Let me guide.
Simba Chikanza: Thank you. Thank you, because you never mentioned these issues. And I I live in the diaspora. Honorable Mwamba right now. I live outside my own country, even Zambia. I cannot visit Zambia right now. I only briefly visited. I can't even right now because of the chaos that President Lungu left your country in. So I'm asking, and you know what honorable Mwamba? Honorable Mwamba, Honorable Mwamba, Honorable Mwamba, honorable Mwamba, yes.
Emmanuel Mwamba: Who’s hosting the program. Who's hosting the program?
Simba Chikanza: Yeah, sorry?
Emmanuel Mwamba: who's hosting the program?
Simba Chikanza: Oh,
it is. It is yourself, sir. But you know what? I'm trying to let you know you mentioned that there was abuse against President Lungu. I myself right now. I'm still- my people. Over 10 million Zimbabweans are in the diaspora because of Preside