PF Cadres Should Stop Wearing Black Berets – Kainga

PF Copperbelt chairman Stephen Kainga has ordered the ruling party’s cadres to stop wearing black berets with the green inscription ‘100 per cent PF’.
And Kainga has apologised unreservedly and condemned attacks on UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema by PF cadres when he visited Kitwe. Kainga said the PF berets were being used by unknown people for criminal activities. Armed PF thugs on Wednesday evening attacked Hichilema and his entourage on their way to a live programme on Radio Icengelo. In an interview, Kainga said it was regrettable that some PF cadres felt that they were above the law. “What happened on Wednesday evening is regrettable.
I must in the first place condemn those PF cadres for their bad behaviour. This issue of putting on berets should come to an end because we cannot differentiate between true members of the PF and some unscrupulous people committing crime in the name of the party,” he said. “Berets are being used wrongly in the name of PF. I, therefore, order all cadres to stop wearing them. Many people are putting on berets and doing evil things in the name of our distinguished party.”
Kainga, who was also summoned by the police for questioning over the attacks on Hichilema, said PF cadres should not feel that they were above the law. But UPND Copperbelt deputy spokesperson Lawrence Mwanza said the PF was resorting to violence because they had run out of ideas. “Nothing will stop the people of Zambia from voting out the PF. These are kicks of a dying horse.
Enough is enough and time for PF to go is 2016,” Mwanza said. He said no amount of violence or intimidation would stop the people of Zambia from voting the PF out. “We are prepared for these PF thugs but we will not act now. They will not manage to kill us all in this country. The revolution is now big and they just need to prepare to leave and not resort to violence,” said Mwanza.