The Editor Zambia
FORMER religious affairs minister Reverend Godfridah Sumaili should first seek God’s spirit before making unfounded and misleading statements in the eyes of the public.
Rev. Sumaili should let sleeping dogs lie rather than invoking emotions that will take people back to the days of sponsored violence on innocent citizens. 
Rev. Sumaili’s claims that there is worse cadreism under the United Party for National Development (UPND) government than there was under the Patriotic Front (PF) regime cannot go unchallenged.
This is an outrageous and blatant lie coming from a former minister of religious affairs and Reverend in the church.
Rev. Sumaili’s appointment as Religious Affairs minister was more of a cover-up for the well-coordinated PF criminal activities, including attacks on innocent Zambians.
This woman of the gold is always telling lies, all in defence of the former ruling party’s atrocious governance.
Telling lies is sin. Rev. Sumaili should seek God’s forgiveness for her continued lies. May our good Lord Almighty God forgive this lying Reverend.
Surely how on earth can Rev. Sumaili compares what Zambians endured under the PF’s blutality regime to the prevailing peace the country is today experiencing?
What criteria does the Church use to qualify someone for a Revered’s position? Certainly, lying is not among the qualifications.
Political commentators have described Rev. Sumaili’s political comparative statement on the PF and UPND as shallow and shameful.
People with knowledge of Rev. Sumail rubbished the former minister’s rants as far from truth.
Many believe it’s because of people with characteristics as that of Rev. Sumaili that the PF tolerated thuggish behaviour.
Such individuals made the religious desk irrelevant during the PF’s rule.
It is nowonder that the PF was managed like a “terrorist organisation.” The former ruling party engaged in State-sponsored terrorism and used undemocratic tendencies to attack innocent Zambians in broad daylight, especially in markets and at bus stations.
Where was Sumaili when the PF was shutting down critical media outlets, including Prime TV and The Post Newspapers.
Rev. Sumaili was the minister of religious affairs when a UPND member, Priscilla Mwiinga, was STRIPPED naked and ASSAULTED in full view of State police officers during Youth Day celebration.
Rev. Sumaili kept quiet when her party officials beat up police officers at Central Police and urinated in the mouth of a journalist in Eastern province.
PF cadres shut down busy roads like Lumumba, Cairo, and Great East, among others, as and when they wanted. We had commanders who coordinated and supervised the violence on innocent citizens.
Under Rev. Sumaili’s tenure, PF cadres moved with pangas and terrorised innocent mothers in markets and other trading places.
Bus drivers who did not toy the PF’s thuggish behaviour, or those suspected to supporting the opposition were kicked out of the bus stations.
It is the PF’s violent nature that contributed to the loss of public confidence in the former ruling party, leading to loss of political power in 2021.
Rev. Sumaili should not remind Zambians what her party did to the country. Victims of PF violence have kept quiet, thanks to President Hakainde Hichilema, who put his foot down to stop to political violence soon after assuming ofgice in 2021.
May be Rev. Sumaili should be reminded that even the European Union Observation Mission’s report on the 2021 Zambian elections pointed out that the PF used undemocratic tendencies such as violence and intimidation, before and during elections in an attempt to win the 2021 elections.
The EU report crowned the PF as a champion of violence.
Zambians kicked out the PF because it was a bad government. A corrupt government. A militia government, a tribalistic and nepotic government.
The PF is a group of dangerous and deceitful individuals who hide malicious, “ravening” intentions behind harmless, gentle facade.
There is nothing good that can come out of the people who were kicked out of power for running the most corrupt enterprise.
It is sad that people like Sumaili have not repented from the evil acts of terror and still want to align herself with the former ruling party, which is associated with numerous corruption scandals, economic mismanagement, and violence.
