HERE IS A CHALLENGE TO THOSE SAYING HH AND THE UPND HAVE DONE NOTHING
We have noted some sentiments from the opposition PF leaders and their surrogates alleging that President Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND government have done nothing so far.
With the freedom of movement and free speech and environment President Hakainde Hichilema has brought in so far, here is the challenge.
1. Go out to the poor rural communities and tell those orphans, and other vulnerable children to stop going to schools under the free education policy because, according to the opposition, this policy has failed. Go and tell the kids to go back into the streets.
2. Go and tell the poor university students who are recipients of increased bursary allocation to stop their education because government has failed.
3. Go and tell the poor communities who are recipients of increased allocation towards Social Cash Transfer to stop getting the money because government has failed.
4. Go and tell the bus drivers, marketeers and other people operating in public places that PF thugs should go back in these places and start what they were doing such as hacking citizens, because the UPND government has failed.
5. Go and tell the citizens in all Constituencies that the increased CDF should be brought back to Lusaka instead of the communities because government has failed.
6. Go and convince media houses that they were better off operating under the previous PF regime where they were being closed and harassed, but now the UPND government is worse off than PF.
8. Go and tell the farmers that they were better off under the previous PF regime getting three pockets of fertiliser than now when allocation has increased.
9. Go and tell any economist that the runaway inflation, unstable exchange rates and other economic variables were better off under the previous regime than now.
10. Go and tell citizens that the Zambia Police service and other law enforcement agencies were more professional under the PF regime, detaining citizens for days, weeks, months, in police custody without police bonds.
Go and tell the people these messages then come back and tell us how citizens would react to you.
Percy Chanda
UPND Chairperson for Mines