OPPOSITION ATTRIBUTE PRESIDENT HICHILEMA’S CALL FOR IMMEDIATE FOOD AID TO LACK OF COMPETENCE
By Nonhlanhla Phuti
Some opposition Political Party Leaders have criticized President Hakainde Hichilema for his call to raise over K22.2 billion for immediate food assistance, attributing it to lack of preparation and competence.
President Hichilema recently appealed to the international community and local stakeholders to aid Zambia in responding to the drought, stating that the country needs K22.2 billion for immediate food assistance.
But Zambia Must Wake Up Party leader Howard Kunda feels lack of leadership in the country has turned Zambians into beggars and has advised the government to utilize the abundant natural resources that the country has to raise money and address the plight of suffering Zambians.
And Zambia United for Sustainable Development Party Leader Lazarous Chisela is urging the government to divert resources from the constituency development funds towards the humanitarian cause because CDF is not serving its intended purpose.
Meanwhile, National Democratic Congress Leader Saboi Imboela says the president’s call for help is embarrassing for a country like Zambia.
Ms. Imboela says 59 years after independence Zambia should not fail to feed itself adding that the president should have implemented mitigating measures to avoid relying on external resources.
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Ba opposite be real with what you are talking
Foolish Saboi Imboela!!! This is a natural catastrophe and Zambia is not the first country to undergo such a catastrophe. Turkey is still having the problems caused the massive earthquake which stroke that country in 2023. Are you also saying Turkey’s President and his cabinet ministers are incompetent!!!?? Foolish woman!!
Some of these opposition leaders who only exist by name and by themselves, no following at all except their buttocks. Even buttocks could have left them had they not been fixed to their bodies. Nga niba Saboi, ama ghosts yalionaula, nothing appreciable can come out of her mouth.
Well spoken opposition leaders, there’s nothing embarrassing as extending a begging bowl to your neighbours when you are blessed with all the natural resources needed to produce too much food but you mess them up due to bad planning and too much selfishness. For example when the maize in reserves was sold where did the money? Most small scale farmers have not had fertilizer because they are told by those responsible for distributing fertilizer that their names didn’t come out among those to benefit from FISP, and are told to share bags of fertilizer with those whose names came out, result, medas of fertilizer. This is just a trick by those administering the issues of fertilizer. Leading to less maize production, because to selfishness by administrators in charge of FISP. The money Hichilema is begging for can easily be gotten from sell of our minerals, but our leaders would rather make foreigners rich instead of we Zambians ourselves. So with serious planning there’s no need to beg.
He is blinded by power