W.E. Kamirichiki, PhD Perhaps nothing parallel’s our country’s crises today as the trouble in the Roman Republic. Three crises engulfed it. One, the Republic was cash-strapped to run its affairs. Second, the stench and sewage of graft and corruption amongst elected officials filled the Roman air, and finally, crime was perverse, threatening the integrity of the state. If we Zambians sit out this election and not vote in “tsunamic waves” , do nothing to protect the vote, or become passive and apathetic at this critical moment, the criminal PF organization pretending to be government with its governance emptiness and scorched-earth criminal tactics, will ferment incompetence and cluelessness to thresholds of no- return. The pre-Lungu Zambian institutions birthed in post-independence Zambia and the decorum of the presidency will be no more. The country will be irreversibly captured, and fully neo-colonized. This is not even a hyperbole. It will be the end of our Republic. Mark, my words: the end of the republic. That is why every eligible registered voter must take interest in this final election as an attempt to salvage the country.