HH THINKS THINGS ARE BETTER UNDER HIM BECAUSE HE AND HIS CIRCLE ARE EATING – KALABA
CITIZENS First President Harry Kalaba says President Hakainde Hichilema should stop mocking Zambians, arguing that the economy has become worse than it was four years ago.
Kalaba was responding to President Hichilema’s recent remarks questioning if those saying things are worse than they were before live in Zambia.
In an interview, Friday, Kalaba said the President and the people around him are eating, that’s why he thinks there is no suffering in the country.
“President Hichilema is being very, very insensitive because the President is eating, [and] people around him are eating. As a result of that, the President thinks there is no suffering in the country.
Now what we can tell the President is that there is a lot of suffering in Zambia. And people are struggling, people are poorer now than they were four years ago. The economy has become worse than it was four years ago and
Mr Hichilema cannot tell the Zambians that things are better off now.
When you look at electricity, we used to have two to three hours of load shedding before, now we are having 20 hours of load shedding. When you look at the price of mealie meal, a bag of mealie meal was costing K140, K135, today we are buying a bag of mealie meal at K300,” he said.
“When you look at fuel, the price of fuel per litre was somewhere around K17, K16 per litre, today we are buying fuel at almost K30 per litre. Before he came into government, maize [and] fertiliser, farmers were getting eight bags each per farmer.
Today, farmers are literally sharing fertiliser in medas, so how can he even say that things are better? I think the President should stop mocking the Zambian people, he has mocked us enough through the lies he has been telling us. Let him stop mocking the Zambians”.
When told that the President indicated that the economy was declining at negative 2.8% but now it is projected to be growing at 6.6%, Kalaba said the problem with President Hichilema is that he is theoretical and not realistic, adding that people are not interested in statistics as they only want to eat.
“Those indicators must reflect what is in the pot. Let’s be practical, let’s stop theories. The problem with our President is he is very theoretical and the reason why he is theoretical is that he has never done grassroot politics to understand that people don’t believe in theories. What people want is like what that Catholic priest said, balefwaya ulu toshi (they want food).
People want to eat, not those [figures like] negative two per cent. ‘It has grown by 6.6%,’ it has grown by 6.6% for him because all of us are just struggling, we are suffering. So he is wasting our time with those theories,” said Kalaba.
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So for this idiot, politics is about eating, not serving.
No wonder his political career is going nowhere.
Just imagine?!! Just the use of eating inquest for leadership is appalling. So he wants to rule to eat? He has no brain to solve complex situations. Try to be a Pastor, the career of failures.
Generally, things are far better under UPND than we had under the notorious PF. Yes, there are undeniable challenges with the cost of living and loadshedding, but things would be ten times worse if PF had won the 2021 elections.1
As things stand, I will vote for HH and UPND unless they do something really stupid ( this is not beyond them going by the lack of action against the tribalist RTSA CEO).
UPND has just been an experiment gone horribly wrong. Hand on heart, I believe we will only be having one term presidents for a while until we get it right. The current crop of politicians are just too corrupt and incompetent. They are all deluded. We will set a good example on Hakainde by giving him just one term. No amount of rigging or oppression will save him. We have had enough of him.
REJECT TRIBALISM, CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION.
COPY AND PASTE SOUTHERN PROVINCE.
UMUFULO PA MUFULO.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Mwaculenipo mukwai!
Keep on dreaming
You are the only person NOT seeing what everybody is seeing. Things are improving on daily basis. Borrow the binoculars from nakachinda to help you see, what we are seeing.
The economy has significantly improved in the past four years of UPND government compared to the rest of PF 10 years regime. Both in their Sata period and in the collapsed Jameson ECL government. It was a total disaster. Mr. Kalaba, i know you always get between 0.01% to below 3% of the total votes in the presidential and general elections. This, i am vey much aware of, from the time you started participating at presidential level elections. It is for this reason that i bring to your attention thst you are completely a non- entity in as far as Zambian politics is concerned because even Pater Chanda ( even the dead Lungu can gain more votes if he was put on the balot paper) will beat you in the 2026 presidential and general elections. NIPANO TULI so ka arrogance kobe will always slim you in political games becsuse you don’t seem to be a qualitable leader of substance. We have to be leaders of substance who speaks the truth and remain in the truth if but in case, there is or be some lies then let them be of proper reason. Becsuse in PF; Theirs was concentration on stealing from the treasury for their own benefit since they had access to the government coffers. Their/ your slogan of uwulya mwibala. Very evil people who are un-repetant, your chipani and it’s cadres and other associates.
Otherwise UPND under the Presidency of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zambia. President Hakainde Hichilema has done extremely well .
1. Dismantling the debt. Both local and international creditors. ( restructuring and comencement of payments).
2. Dismantling and comencement of payments to genuine local suppliers, who supplied goods and services to government ministries and agencies.
3. Dismantling and payment of many outstanding dues to retirees and pensioneers.
4. Dismantling and payment of farmers who supplied maize to FRA in the PF corrupt regime.
5. Continuation of staled projects some which started in MMD and the other ones which were started in PF where many contractors aligned to PF were paid and chewed the monies others without doing anything while others did shoddy works and abandoned the sites. Very embarrassing indeed.
6. On the price comaperisons, i think only a fool can be fooled and pretend not to understand history. In UNIP under Dr Kaunda we even used to have 50 kgs or mill meal, by then a bag of 25 kg break fast meal used to cost K10, K14 and K15 respectively, In Chiluba’s MMD a bag of breakfast mill meal, the last was, if i am not mistaken between K25 to K35. This went up to K60 i think in Rupiah Bandaz MMD.. i may be corrected if i am wrong by far. In PF a bag meal mill went up to between K120 to K170. Check and make you dununa reverse mathematical comparisons to see the curve, if it wss going up or down.
7. Fuel and exchange rate- the great mark-up was in and suring the great Levy Mwanawasa’ regime. Kwacha to a dollar was at between K3.50 and K5.00. Fuel was between K7.00 and K8.00. So what are you the arragant crooked kalaba and your associates in the collapsed PF TULONSE talking and vomiting. Total rubish!!!! Bakabwalala hard cole thieves with no shame in the eyes and mouth.
1. Do you know that there’s free education in UPND government in Zambia ?
2. Do you know that there’s no employment and wage freeze in UPND government in Zambia now?
3. Do you know that there’s cash for work for many of our citizens? Do you know that there’s social cash transfer payment to most of our elderly citizens welcome thank you from 60 years and above? Do you know that there’s socisl cash transfer for our fellow citizens who are not able body-ded and with other physical ailments? Who are being assisted in a small but better way by the UPND government compared to or with the money which you as PF, First Citizen party leader stole for your own benefits fogetting about the majority Zambians? Do you know that you scrapped meal and book allowances for Univesity children and starved many children from vulnerable families and disadvantaged them?
4. Do you know that UNDER PF and lungu you promoted segregation and tribalism?
5. Do you know that under PF and yourselves many or alot of Zambians were gassed, killed and brutalized by the POLICE and cades under the watch of pf Lungu and kapyongo?. Shame on you crookes and murderer.
6. Things are getting better every day under UPND government through the visionery leadershio of President Hakainde Hichilema by thr grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Mukalwapa mukanaka because the person you abused and and vomited your vernon that hw will not rulw Zambia but the ALMIGHTY GOD Himself made him Predident by His grace through His to the people of ZAMBIA.
Bamwankole!!!!!!!
You are the only person NOT seeing what everybody is seeing. Things are improving on daily basis. Borrow the binoculars from nakachinda to help you see, what we are seeing. Sometimes it’s better to keep quiet. Zambians don’t want a president talking about eating only . Are you in politics to eat or serve? We need problem solvers not aba bwali daily. What a lazy chap aspiring for presidency .
I used to work from home..
My income has dropped to almost zero due to Load Shedding. The power goes at 05:00 and comes back at 22:00 hours and I can’t do any work as am tired at that time.
I have seen butcheries, Barber shops, Metal Fabrication shops closing..and many people have become destitute.
There is a Danger of looking at Gross Domestic Product as the only measure of economic development.
10% of the economy can post Significant Growth, eg Mining Companies while 90% of the population is wallowing in poverty. That’s why other measures should be used, per capital income, employment figures, cost of the food basket, disposable income etc..
But starting jumping up and down because of 6% growth is being an Ostrich, and one will end up like a Chakwera, and the GDP will be there laughing at him.
Things are bad..And the Kwacha has lost so much value. Who feels it knows it.
Buy solar system you were not born with zesco from your mother womb
Ba Lizard, the challenges of loadshedding are real. UPND can ignore them at their own peril.
Solar power doesnot come cheap. A reliable package costs a minimum of K60000. Don’t assume every SME has that kind of money to invest in solar power.
UPND should incline their ear to those who are groaning under the burden of loadshedding, not those who dismiss such complaints as bitterness.
HH was eating when you were begging. HH has no need of the Presidency to enrich himself, but you Kalaba, need the money. HH has sponsored dozens of people through colleges and university, dug dozens of boreholes, built dozens of schools but tell us who you have helped apart from paying a Papa to pray for you. Ba Kalaba, do not be personal in your politics when you failed to do that about the last President you worked for when you resigned. Tell us what you will do for Zambia, not what HH eats for lunch.
Ba Kalaba, amafya mwashile munochalo chesu icha Sambia yalikuliishe nganshi. The problems you left in Zambia as PF were insurmountable and to see that HH and his government have turned negative growth to positive growth in the economy and improved governance in general shows that he is a more capable leader than you Kalaba who left the foreign service full of your ‘own’ and this was shear kithe of what this country is bound to be if you were (God forbid) to be given an opportunity to lead ( or is it mislead) this country. In short, you are acting very biased leader who has no shame. You resigned to emulate that gallant leader, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, but not for the same reasons. While he loathed tribalism and corruption that was showing up in MMD,, you, on the other hand, were trying to run away from being sighted for regionalism for filling up the foreign service with two regional groups, and these are facts you can dig up from foreign affairs and Central statistics.
This is your biggest failure before even talking about you capacity.
You may hate figures, but the reality is that things have improved and are still improviǰn̈
Who makes rain? Is it HH? Load shading is due to lack of investment in non hydro power generation by past leadership. We solely depended on rain for power generation. How long and how much does it cost to construct solar stations? Despite inheriting a run down economy, HH is building huge solar power plants. Which president ever did this in the history of our country? There was a drought. How many people died of hunger due to crop failure? How much debt was left by PF for the importation of fuel which they were not paying OMCs which now the UPND government is clearing. How much debt did ZESCO have on power importation at huge cost and delivering it at non cost reflective tariffs? Do you see how that disadvantaged us when we wanted to import power? You may be wondering why we are not importing power from Tanzania which has excess supply. How was it going to come to Zambia without the power interconnect which the UPND government in conjunction with our neighbor are now Constructing. As foreign affairs minister, why didn’t Hurry Kalaba never negotiated for such deals while he was serving as minister in the PF govt? Was there no load shading then? You think you are a champion when you see others doing it now after you failed to do it in your time. Don’t be hypocritical. You were busy eating and now you want to go back and continue eating from where you left. Relax. This is not your time to rule. Let those who have better ideas continue and finish their projects. You abandoned so many projects, some from MMD time and others unplanned from PF. Your colleagues are completing them and now you are crying that those were your projects. You were liquidating the mines and laying off workers leaving mining towns as ghost towns. Check out what is happening now. You cheated people in Kabwe about revamping Mulungushi textile. What did you do about it. Check what your friends are doing. Out grower schemes in agriculture look at job creation. Youths in teaching, health, agriculture ZAWA, military wings mining with licenses and many more. What are you going to cheat the youths? Who told you that campaign promises can all be fulfilled at once? Count and see how many are remaining. With improvements in the economy, the rest are now within reach. One project sometimes depends on the completion of the other. Look at the wheels of a growing economy. Stay back and don’t disturb the momentum. Just congratulate them. They are serious and mean well for all corners of this country. Zambia now looks like a contrition site. Are you not envying them. If you can’t beat them, be reasonable and join them for 2026. Here they come and unstoppable. Keep on guys.
So you what to come and eat, skewed thinking