I CAN NEVER WORK WITH HH
…It would be a sin, Munir says as he eyes Haimbe’s seat
By Charles Musonda
I CAN never work with Mr[President] Hakainde Hichilema, says former Lumezi member of Parliament Munir Zulu.
And Zulu says he is eyeing Lusaka Central seat and has warned incumbent member of Parliament (MP) and foreign affairs minister Mulambo Haimbe to be worried.
“It is too soon for me to share my ugly prison experience. I will share the story with you at the right time. My story will not be shared now for so many reasons. I have got to engage the family. I have to settle down,” he said.
“The only decision I made while in prison is very simple; which I don’t need to consult even God. I will never be a UPND [United Party for National Development] member. I can never work with Mr Hakainde Hichilema. It is a sin. You can only take someone to two worst places: it is prison and the graveyard,” Zulu said.
He said he could stay away from politics because some family members were advising him to do so while some were mute, but what he had decided as a person was that he would not consult God on not working with Hichilema.
“I will never work with him I will never work for him. I will never be his follower. not even my wife, my daughter, my dad, my mum can can change that. I have made that decision and I am firm on it. I will not consult God. I have consulted myself,” Zulu said.
He warned the people who made him go to prison that their day and time was coming.
Zulu said he believed in the law of the season, which prescribed time for everything.
He thanked the people of Lumezi Constituency in Eastern Province for being kind with him during his imprisonment and now.
“I will be going back to Lumezi in the next few days because I have allies in the country and outside. But my priority is to go back to the people of Lumezi to thank them for having given me that mandate to represent their aspirations,” Zulu said.
“Unfortunately, if I decided to contest for a parliamentary seat, I am not eyeing Lumezi. I am going for Lusaka Central seat. I have never lost an election in my life. I contested once, I won it once. They grabbed it from me,” he said.
To prove to the Zambian people that power really belonged to the people, he would go for Lusaka Central if need be.
He said he had done his part for the people of Lumezi and he appreciated them for having entrusted him with representing them in Parliament.
Zulu said Lumezi remained the land of his ancestors and on Sunday, he managed to change his voter’s card from Lumezi to Lusaka Central in readiness for being on the ballot on August 13, 2026.
“Mulambo Haimbe must get worried because I don’t lose an election. This year I am voting from Lusaka Central at Thorn Park Primary School where I grew up from. So let Mulambo Haimbe get worried. I have not officially declared because the calls are coming that I should come and by the time I will be responding to those calls Mulambo Haimbe must get ready to vacate that seat because I will beat him and by 10 clock on the 14th August the results will be known,” he said.
“I don’t go in an election and lose. I have never lost an election. Mr Hakainde Hichilema lost elections five times but I have never lost an election. I contested once and won once, and they grabbed it from me,” Zulu said.
He said Haimbe should start packing because the chances are very high that he was going for Lusaka Central.
Zulu said he was in prison but people kept asking him why he could not come to Lusaka Central and serve them.
“I can confirm that I am a registered voter of Lusaka Central. What I can’t confirm is responding to the calls because those calls came while I was in prison. They want to block my candidature, I know. But to me that matters less. Let them block me, but the people will not block me,” he said.
Meanwhile, Zulu says he will address the nation in the next 21 days because this weekend he is travelling to South Africa and mourn with the Edgar Lungu family.
He said he needed to pay his condolences, then once he was done, he would visit his allies in the region.
Zulu said once he was done with his visits, he would travel to West Africa after which he would return home and address the nation.
“Remember, I was one of the closest to ECL. He died while I was in incarceration. It is only right that now that I am out I need to travel to pay my last respects. Then move into West Africa. I will be back. I will make an announcement,” he said.
Zulu was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by a Lusaka magistrates court for seditious practice in May 2025.
