But after three months the court released the accused, saying their detention was illegal. ILO caucuses elected him to chair 7 committees between 1981and 1986. When glasnost and perestroika reached southern Africa, discontented Zambians turned to Chiluba to restore democracy. In the October 1991 election, the MMD won 125 seats and the UNIP took 25. We know what is right.
Democracy is right.
We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on earth through the freedom to work, the freedom to toil, through free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the State. We know that upon the individual rests the ability to make his own dreams come true. The state must allow every individual that freedom in security and justice. During his incarceration, Chiluba became a born-again Christian. Before I retired to bed in my hotel room, I turned to the Gideon Bible, and, like always, I selected a chapter at random.