02/08/2026
DESPERATE RIGGING PLOT IN EASTERN, MUCHINGA, NORTHERN, LUAPULA AND PARTS OF CENTRAL PROVINCE
President Hakainde Hichilema had a meeting with the Director General of the Zambia Security Intelligence Service (ZSIS), and the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Zambia in which a chilling revelation unfolded.
Hichilema told attendees at the meeting that a prior scheme of fusing illicit ballot papers printed in Tanzania with genuine ballot papers produced in Dubai had been exposed by Honourable Emmanuel Jay Banda and alert citizens, and that cadres assigned to fuse illicit ballot papers would be killed by vigilant residents.
Undeterred, a new, deeply unsettling strategy was crafted, revealing the extremes to which some may go in pursuit of power.
This new plan abandons counterfeit ballots in favor of a sinister, ritualistic method targeted at specific provinces—Eastern, Northern, Western, parts of Central, and Luapula—where Hichilema intends to influence voters through a combination of material gifts and spiritual manipulation.
Below is a dramatic, step-by-step unpacking of this alleged plot:
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨: Hichilema plans to donate 1,000 cattle and copious amounts of mealie-meal from Eagles and Kalonga milling using 2026 Food Reserve Agency maize, providing both feeding programme and goodwill to communities in Eastern, Northern, Western, parts of Central, and Luapula province. This approach uses generosity as a precursor to a more covert operation.
𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨: The beef to be given to people is not ordinary; it will be mixed with ritualistic ingredients—placentas and foreskins—elements believed in local spiritual traditions to hold power over the human will.
𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚: The ritualistic mixture of beef, placentas and foreskins is intended to place recipients in Eastern, Northern, Western, parts of Central, and Luapula “under a spell,” effectively manipulating their free will and compelling them to vote for Hichilema through supernatural means rather than political conviction.
Whether effective or not, it highlights Hichilema's desperation to win August elections, which calls for vigilance in the provinces targeted.