I’LL USE MINERALS TO SETTLE EXTERNAL DEBT WHEN ELECTED IN 2026 – KALABA
CITIZENS First leader Harry Kabala says once elected into office next year, he will use Zambia’s minerals to settle the country’s external debt, rather than wasting time getting IMF loans.
And Kalaba says people should not compare him to President Hakainde Hichilema who lied his way to presidency.
Speaking when he featured on Radio Mano, Saturday, Kalaba, who spoke in Bemba, said Zambia had enough minerals to settle its external debt.
“What problem do we have as a country that we even went to borrow [$]1.4 billion approved by the IMF, which is even being given to us in instalments? When I come into office in 2026, I won’t even waste my time on the IMF because we have gold”.
Source: News Diggers
Kalaba you were in government with Lungu for a very long time. Why didn’t you tell Lungu that you could have used our minerals to pay Zambia’s debts? Zambians are not fools to be told such open lies. Does it mean Zambian politicians can only see solutions to the many problems we have only when they are voted into power? Childsh thinking at its best. This what people mean when they say, there is no opposition in Zambia today. The so called opposition is fragmented, disorganised ,spineless and above all visionless with no leader. Keep dreaming Kalaba it’s your right to dream.
Instead they were borrowing and thinking they could pay using the same concept. And bankrupt the country banking on mines that did not belong to them. This is full of it…a quack like thinking. Chimbwi ku mano…in short he wants to lead the country to help himself to treasury.
The same minerals you used to enrich yourself when you were in government. Kalaba when you went into politics from bee a civil servant you had zero balance in your account if any money reflected it was a salary at the month end. I can’t waste my vote on a criminal like you, after HH we look somewhere but definitely not you bwana.
Ba Kalaba, ayo mano yamulubuli, ayesa panuma yalubuli (ninshi muli nepompo pampumi, elo muletontonkanya ati palya kanshi nganacisolafye, elo namuma upper cut!). For the sake of my countrymen and women who may not understand Bemba, there is a saying in Bemba which says ‘intelligence in fighting comes after a fight’. When you start reviewing the fight in your mind, you only imagine how you could have dodged those blows that have left you with a swollen forehead and lips and how you could instead have delivered good upper cuts on your victorious opponent. This is the kind of wisdom Mr Kalaba is portraying to the Zambian voter.
Once the finished stealing the taxes from the mines, the stop meal allowances, free education and then went for mukula logs. Lungu shut down the mine with a dodgy liquidation (he mine and started getting all the money with his friend Milingo). The couldn’t pay for anything and started making money off civil servants loans). What happened next! They had to default. Mungu left all his cabinet minsters to steal locally while he was milking Zambia at an international level.
And exactly how are you going to use ” our” minerals to pay off our debt? I agree that it is possible and that is the way to go, but what strategy are you going to employee to ensure optimum benefit for the nation?
We don’t want another KCM/Vedanta fiasco.
Kalaba you already had your time in government and showed us how you are a failure. If you want your party to succeed look for another candidate.
This is exhausting
This is exhausting, why didn’t you settle it