Zambian Political Figures Dispute Secretary to Cabinet Account on Facebook
A social media post published on Facebook has cast doubt on an account attributed to Zambia’s Secretary to Cabinet, with figures Thabo Kawana and Maambo Hamaundu publicly contradicting the official version of events. According to facebook.com, the post carries the assertion that “there was no shooting” and that any claim of a security operation inside Zambia is “a joke,” with the signatories insisting “there was no such operation in Zambia.”
The intervention, framed as a direct rebuke to the Secretary to Cabinet, escalates an unusually pointed public disagreement among figures associated with Zambia’s political establishment. The post is attributed to associates of Emmanuel Mwamba, whose name appears in the headline circulated on facebook.com. The exchange highlights how political disputes that might once have played out behind closed doors in Lusaka are now being conducted openly on social platforms, where rebuttals can be issued and broadcast within minutes.
Zambia returned to multiparty competition in 1991 and has since experienced several peaceful transfers of power, most recently in 2021 when the opposition defeated the long-ruling party at the ballot box. The country has generally maintained a reputation for relative political stability in southern Africa, even as public disagreements between rival political camps have become more common in the period since the change of administration.
The facebook.com post does not elaborate on the alleged operation in detail, nor does it identify the Secretary to Cabinet by name. Without independent confirmation or a separate official statement, the contested account remains a matter of dispute between the parties named in the post and the office at the centre of the disagreement.
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