M'membe warned that bad laws will be persistently and consistently fought. UNIP vice-president senior chief Inyambo's press secretary, George Zulu said it was a mockery for the government to say there was press freedom when so many journalists had been subjected to harassment. Zulu, in an interview yesterday, challenged journalists to resist the legislation of the media council because the MMD government is not sincere in its dealings. What the President is doing is to undermine, intimidate and frighten us so that we can become imbeciles. We shall stand our ground, we shall never allow anyone to take us back to one party state.
Pluralism means participation of all parties and the civil society.
President Chiluba told Parliament on Friday that the House should establish regulations which would make election monitoring teams and all NGOs accountable to their members and to the society. The situation where some NGOs decided against facts on the ground to pronounce elections not free and fair borders on treachery against this country.