How Can You Dialogue When Your Bloggers Spread Hate?
Calls for genuine dialogue and reconciliation in the interest of unity and peace are welcome and necessary for national healing.
President Hakainde Hichilema has consistently demonstrated his commitment to unity and peace. He has always championed dialogue and resolve the differences on the round table. 
The Church, civic groups, and opposition leaders, including Dr. Brian Mushimba and Harry Kalaba have urged President Hakainde Hichilema to take deliberate steps to unite the country.
However, it is difficult to process these calls given the level of insults and disrespect directed towards President Hichilema coming from the opposition figures.
You don’t disrespect the presidency and then ask for dialogue. You don’t insult senior government officials and then call for “national dialogue.” That’s not peace. That’s provocation.
Before calling for dialogue or reconciliation, certain individuals in the political space, especially Tonse-Pamodzi Alliance, should introspect and reflect on their conduct before, during, and after the August 13 general election.
How can the country genuinely pursue dialogue to achieve unity and peace when certain fugitive propagandists led by Emmanuel Mwamba are busy on social media insulting President Hakainde Hichilema and senior government officials daily?
Peace talks require respect, goodwill, and sincerity. Yet the same individuals calling for “national dialogue” are the ones fanning flames of hatred and division online.
Their diaspora agents are leading the attacks, insulting President Hichilema day and night. Why can’t they control their bloggers who continue to spread hatred?
What is the real motive behind these inflammatory comments? Is it truly about democracy and national interest, or is it about settling political scores from an election that was lost?
The timing and tone of these attacks suggest a deliberate attempt to undermine the authority of elected leaders and to provoke public anger, not to building peace.
Insulting the president and senior government officials does not strengthen democracy. It erodes the respect for institutions that hold this country together.
You cannot claim to love Zambia while demeaning the office of the presidency and the people entrusted by Zambians to lead.
Such behaviour makes it impossible to have any meaningful conversation about unity.
Zambians must ask questions, who benefits when leaders are insulted and the nation is set against itself? Certainly not the ordinary citizen struggling with the cost of living.
Division only benefits political fugitives who have nothing to lose and everything to gain from chaos. Their agenda is not peace. Their agenda is confusion.
If they are serious about dialogue, then let them start with decency. Let them accept that they lost the election and start to debate issues, not insulting people. Let those in exile who want to contribute to national unity return through lawful means and present ideas, not insults.
Zambia deserves better. We cannot build a united and peaceful Zambia on a foundation of hatred and disrespect.
If you want dialogue, bring ideas, not insults. Bring solutions, not slander. Zambia is bigger than personal grudges. Let’s build, not destroy.
