KALABA IN FANTASY LAND: CITIZENS FIRST LEADER SPIRALS INTO POLITICAL HALLUCINATIONS
Citizens First president Harry Kalaba appears to have entered full fantasy mode again — blurting out dreams, delusions, and political hallucinations as if they were serious policy proposals.
In his latest outburst, Kalaba declared that the very first thing he would do if elected in 2026 is slash the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) back to a pathetic K1.6 million. He then had the audacity to describe the current K40 million CDF as a “flop.”
This is not policy. This is political self-sabotage.
Kalaba is now openly campaigning against development. He wants to drag communities backward, starve constituencies of resources, and return Zambia to the dark days when MPs begged ministries for boreholes and desks.
Even more ridiculous, Kalaba claims that he achieved more in Bahati with K1.6 million “ancient years ago” than what the UPND government is doing today with K40 million.
This is pure revisionist fantasy.
Under the expanded CDF, constituencies are building schools, clinics, bridges, markets, skills centers, and creating real jobs. Communities are deciding their own priorities for the first time in Zambia’s history. That is progress.
Kalaba, however, wants to reverse it.
He wants to cut development at the knees, cripple local councils, and return power to Lusaka bureaucrats.
If this is what Citizens First stands for, then Zambians can already see the future he is offering — a future of poverty, stagnation, and political daydreaming masquerading as leadership.
Kalaba is not ready for State House. He is busy fighting development itself.
Real time hallucinations
There are serious problems with CDF.
Only some one who tells me the Bulangililo Primitive Welenskey type pit Latrines is the model of development Zambia needs can support CDF in it’s entirety.
The only thing which is working under CDF is the Bursary for Skills Training… Projects are a sham , uncoordinated,substandard and not worth the money spent on them.
A 1 X 3 classroom block here, a two bedroomed house for a nurse, or policeman , a 2 Unit Mortuary , poor Hazardous Desks , built at exaggerated cost and some one says this is development.
Let the Ministries such as education, health or home affairs handle big projects.
If we want houses for Policemen in Chinsali, let these houses be designed uniformly, planned, and constructed based on the population of officers in these regions, and handled by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
A so called Police Station is built without consultation with the Home Affairs Ministry, there are no officers to man the Station and thieves start stealing Roofing Sheets, Window frames etc.
There’s a lot of nonsense we are seeing under CDF and some one says this is development!
People apply for loans , but they are given a fraction of what they applied for…You apply for K50,000.00 for a piggery, and you are given K10,000.00..people just share the money and 4 years down the line no serious project can be seen in communities.
CDF needs revisiting, as at now money is just going down the drain.
This is exactly what we mean when we say currently there’s no sensible opposition in Zambia. The utter mediocrity of the so-called opposition leaders and their cloud political parties renders Zambia a one-party state, not by design but by default.