ATTORNEY GENERAL KABESHA MUST APOLOGISE TO ZAMBIANS
12 September 2025
Today’s News Diggers headline of “Zambians are lazy – they would rather eat while seated without working” by the Attorney General cannot pass without comment.
This is not only an insensitive statement from a man that has become arrogant because he has a good job but it is also an affront to us Zambians that do not have the job that he has and have to eke out an existence in this economy that this UPND government has woefully failed to create job and business opportunities for the majority of Zambians.
Has Kabesha bothered to go around the country to see how Zambians are toiling simply to put food on their table? Zambians wake up way before you Mr Kabesha, and go to the market to
Does Kabesha know why youths go en-masse to risk their lives to mine gold and copper in an unsafe environment from the police as well as the mining environment itself? Is that laziness or it is desperation to survive due to your government’s failure to provide safe jobs?
As new Heritage Party, we are appalled at this statement and pray that this Attorney general will apologise to Zambians.
We do not know why we are surprised by this statement. Various UPND officials have made some preposterous statements as advise to Zambians, that boggle the mind and give a clear indication of how the UPND official in government are out of touch with the reality that is at play on the ground
• Eat rice as a substitute to mealie meal – Kelvin Hambweza, former FRA Board Chairman.
• Do not mourn about electricity, go solar – President Hichilema
• Go into cattle ranching – President Hichilema when most Zambians can not even afford a chicken or a goat!
• If you can not afford breakfast meal, eat roller meal – Vice President Nalumango
Please let us be sensitive to the plight of Zambians, particularly as you the UPND have spectacularly failed to meet our needs of:
❖ Lower cost of living
❖ Lower fuel
❖ Lower exchange rate
❖ Consistently available electricity
❖ Widespread employment
Please stop making demeaning statements towards Zambians – rather focus on what you need to do in the short time that you have in government.
CHISHALA KATEKA
President – New Heritage Party
This man Kabesha has become very arrogant and obnoxious. How dare he disrespect an entire nation!! How many Zambians are even managing to eat one full meal a day? He is talking on a full and fat stomach because everything is free for him and made possible by taxes paid by us. Mr President, please tame this paper tiger.
How? You just can handle the truth ba Rosemary. Kabesha cited why he makes such a statement. Is there no truth in his examples of why he says Zambians are lazy? Introspect ba Rosemary. Do some introspect before being dismissive. Kabesha is saying the way it is. Truth be told…
Thats the truth,half the country wants things to happen without work.They got used to tantameni for tomorrow it will take care itself mentality.He should not apologies to anyone especially you ba pf who left the economy in ICU, defaulted paying the external and internal debt.Keep on lamenting and crying,we see you.
There is lots of work out there but few willing to put in an honest day’s work. I have just been giving someone a tongue lashing for not honouring our agreement to do some skimming which was supposed to commence today. Says he had a funeral (but never bothered to inform me). I have been waiting for another gentleman to install a gate. It was supposed to be done last year August. More stories.
So ba Kateka, for you who is playing politics it is alright but for us who have to face daily frustration from the Zambian worker, it is easy to understand what Mr. Kabesha is talking about. I don’t have a caretaker at my farm because they are unreliable and such thieves.
Mr. Kabesha is absolutely right. The average Zambian is lazy. You have to stand over them with a whip to get anything out of them. Zambians expect to be paid because it is monthend regardless of whether they have worked or not.
Apologize for what? Read the bible and get what even say against the lazy ones. And from the Begin God said you are there to enjoy life out of your own sweat. And you understand how and what has helped china, Japan, Korea etc, you will realize that the leaders in those countries encourage everyone to be hard working and they rebuke the lazy ones. It’s also true the most corrupt crooked and thievery citizens, come from the lazy Buffoons. It’s buffoonic type of thinking for some even to request one encouraging others to apologize. What type of politics are we now having in Zambia?