People’s Tribunal

Tired of hearing same political noise

Dear Judge Mbadwa,

I have decided to pen you honourable judge because the noise generated by political bickering in the country’s oldest party and others that followed it is disturbing my peace.

I think as a citizen I have a right to live a peaceful and productive life devoid of political tantrums that have characterised the wrangles in Lazaro’s party and Petro’s blue half or the remote controlled orange vehicle.

My Lord, I have likened the discomfort being created by these wrangling to pollution. I have suffered injury because of the noise pollution coming from these parties and that is why I seek the indulgence of this court.

You know My Lord, I like to live a quiet life, but instead every day I am being subjected to noise about district chairpersons calling for conventions; about suspensions and purging of members who have a contrary political opinion; about Petro’s party masking its own rot by sowing seeds of subversion in opposing parties while muting its own voice of dissent.

Remember how Honourable Kalindonda of the Buno Bwamuswe fame was ostracised after he openly questioned his party’s leadership style in dealing with the killings of people with albinism?

Now I hear others are plotting of civil disobedience because they feel short-changed on electoral reforms while the blue side of life is talking a totally different language now when its own manifesto promised reforms and more reforms almost on anything!

My Lord, I submit that when party officials tickle my ear and those of other unconcerned citizens with the loudest of decibels on pure nonsense or something that can spur development, a crime of noise pollution has been committed. What makes this pollution so unpleasant is that it is successfully diverting us from issues we have to contend with as a nation.

We have blackouts that we are failing to get used to, a water crisis that is threatening the core of the nation’s existence, an economy that government has failed to tame, yet all we hear, to quote one Nicholas Dausi, is these political ‘lullabies’.

My Lord, I understand that the Public Health Act and Water Resources Act can deal with the issue of air and water pollution properly, but as a layman, I am banking on your understanding of the law and your years of experience on the bench on the right Act to use in dealing with the political noise.

The only thing I can say is that I have suffered injury through the political noise pollution to an extent that I have lost appetite for participating in any election. My health has greatly been compromised by the noise as I am perpetually vomiting at the sight of anything cockerel, blue, orange and yellow.

I don’t know the formula you use to determine compensation, but these leaders should be made to pay for their bad political verses. Your true citizen, Mphala Muwawa.

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