By SAM PHIRI –

PATRIOTIC Front (PF) youths in Lusaka’s Kanyama constituency have teamed up to help preach peace and reintegrate foreigners back into the community.
The youth, led by PF aspiring candidate for Kanyama constituency Lazarus Banda, said they were resolved to implementing the presidential directive of accommodating, loving and protecting foreign nationals.
Mr Banda’s team, that also visited the St Ignatius Parish Kalemba Hall where most foreigners were seeking refuge on Friday, expressed happiness that records at Kalemba Hall showed that there was no Kanyama resident.
“I am urging other constituencies to emulate what we have done in Kanyama because we stand for peace and unity, and we only allow those charged with the responsibility to enforce the law to do so as directed by our peace-loving President Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu,” Mr Banda said.
He was optimistic that the wrong picture that was painted about Zambia because of actions of a few criminally-minded parsons would soon be rubbed off the face of the world and that the country should continue being admired as an example of an oasis of peace.
Kanyama PF youths on Friday donated food items and other materials to the affected foreigners at the parish.
Calm has since returned to the affected townships and President Lungu has reassured all the affected foreign nationals of protection, including their property.
A check by the Sunday Times at Kalemba Hall yesterday revealed that some foreign nationals had documentation to be repatriated back to their various communities.
Meanwhile, Kanyama PF youths chairperson Franco Mashunye has refuted allegations that appeared in some sections of  electronic and social media suggesting that he had defected to the United Party for National Development.
Mr Mashunye, who accompanied Mr Banda, told the Sunday Times in a walk-in interview that there was no way he could leave a progressive party like the PF.