DESKS AND UNIFORMS CONTRACTS FOR YOUTH AND WOMEN – HH.

President Hakainde Hichilema has stated that government contracts to produce desks and uniforms will be given to Zambian youths and women.

The Head of State says this is part of his business and job opportunities for the locals.

The President however says any Zambian wishing to join ventures with citizens from outside the country will do so out of their volition.

He says government’s responsibility is to ensure that Zambians and Zambian businesses are protected first.

He writes below…

We are thankful to His Royal Highness, Chief Chamuka of the Lenje speaking people in Central Province for giving us an opportunity to meet with him. During our meeting we stated that we are working round the clock to ensure that people have jobs, business opportunities and quality health care services and education.

Like earlier on, we stated that there will be no need for Zambians to go hungry under our government because food and shelter is a bare necessity.

Agriculture is key for development and this is why we call on all of you to join us in ensuring a better Zambia.

Once our budget is presented, come January, 2022, a lot of the reforms that will empower our people will be carried out.

There shall be no buying of nurses uniforms or indeed men and women in uniforms uniform from outside. These will be produced by you the youth and women. This is job creation. We will not allow such including making of desks for schools and other government needs to be produced by foreigners unless they partner with you.

We are methodical and systematic and we understand the job you gave us fellow citizens and trust the process, we will achieve this together.

People of Lufwambula in Chisamba, come 21st October, 2021 by-election, vote for Fred Choongo as Council Chairperson. He is your son and our chosen representative to help us bring development to the area.

May God Bless our Country.

Hakainde Hichilema
President of the Republic of Zambia.

AVOID SELLING LAND TO FOREIGNERS AT THE EXPENSE OF ZAMBIANS…HH TELLS CHIEFS

…President HH is on a campaign trail in Chisamba.

He wrote….

This afternoon we held a meeting with His Royal Highness, Chief Liteta of the Lenje speaking people in Central Province.

During the meeting, through His royal highness, we appealed to all traditional leaders across the Country to avoid selling land to foreigners at the expense of you, Zambians.

We stated that land as a matter of ownership and empowerment, must first be given to Zambians and Zambians first and that those Zambians without capital and out of their own volition can get into joint ventures with citizens from other countries.

We also stated that in order to ensure that service delivery is prompt, more funding for constituencies will be allocated and for the first time in the history of our Country, local people will be deciding on how to use the funds as this will help curtail corruption that has been unprecedented at National level.

And later we thanked the people of Liteta for voting for us but also stated that we are aware of the people’s hopes in us and that come this December, the current budget will be shut and ours will begin in January, 2022 and once we start using our own budget, all Zambians will start seeing the benefits of voting for change.

Meanwhile, we have also instructed that starting tomorrow, Monday the 18th of October, 2021, distribution of farming inputs (Fertilizer) to farmers across the country will begin.

We understand the challenges that the Agriculture is facing but these were mainly induced by the previous regime’s awarding of Fertilizer contracts to suppliers for two years without due diligence but we are on track and we will ensure that Agriculture does not die in the Country.

Dear Zambians. Take your pens and notebooks and start taking down what we are delivering as per our vision.

So far, we have kicked out caderism and this led to freedoms in public places with only a few cases of not accepting change remaining currently but we will manage this. It is a process and let’s all get involved and get it solved.

And to the people of Chisamba, come the 21st October, 2021 by-election, vote for UPND Council Chairperson candidate Fred Choongo as our tool for development.

Trust us, we will deliver! And we are thankful for the mandate you have given us to work for you.

May God Bless our Country.

Hakainde Hichilema
President of the Republic of Zambia

Kasebamashila Kaseba
HOW EL SHALL REPRESENT AU, ZAMBIA AND PF AT KENYA ELECTIONS

— EL dilemma of being former Zambian and current PF presidents when, by law, he cannot be both —

While sixth president and PF president ELreported invitation by African Union to observe Kenyan elections next year is appreciable, it doesn’t change his legacy from a corrupt dictator to beloved democrat.

EL contested three parliamentary elections in Chawama during MMD as an independent (1996) and twice as PF candidate (2001 and 2011).

EL twice (2014, 2021) conducted and contested and won unopposed the PF Presidency at PF General Conference.

He has thrice (2015, 2016, 2021) contested ECZ Presidential elections. The third being unconstitutional third term bid.

Apart from the elections he only contested, the elections EL conducted and contested and won or lost were neither free nor fair nor credible nor transparent.

The three elections are among the most shambolic elections of the nine since 1991.

The only democratic thing EL ever did was to concede election defeat and handover power.

EL did not just lower the democratic credentials but also lowered the presidency.

He lowered democracy to a mobocracy, that is, rule of the mob; militarised and politicised police for politics of the police state as well as militarised and radicalised the PF party cadres.

EL lowered the Republican Presidency to the PF party Presidency just as he lowered citizenship to cadreship.

EL and HH who lived in Lusaka and in 2016 in same neighborhood in 2021 could not share a province during election campaigns.

EL had campaigned throughout in abuse of the presidency.

To this point, when he long lost republican presidency, that qualified to the AU Kenya observation mission or African statemanship, he cannot relinquish the PF Party Presidency, that cost him the presidency and disqualifies him from the Kenyan and other assignments.

Further, the PF presidency makes him answerable for PF and EL 2021 election campaign funding

In short, by law, ELas an active partisan politician cannot travel to Kenya to represent AU, Zambia and PF itself.

(He might end up panicking like FAZ Patron HH who appointed and swore in Cabinet when Chipolopolo was playing and losing its home fixture of the FIFA Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifier or held a debut press conference when female Chipolopolo were involved and lost in COSAFA tournament.)

Therefore, let EL decide in good time whether or not he will serve Africa, Zambia or PF.

EL has no future but a past with PF and Zambia.

He may need to reconcile himself with Zambians to forget his dictatorship than attempt to launder himself as a African dictator who failed a third term bid.

For example, EL contesting 2026 elections as opposition would be more humiliated than Sean Tembo and Andyford Banda.

Now, what does he want with active politics of PF presidency?

EL’s rehabilitation, even from this assignment is to first relinquish the PF Party presidency by recognising and conceding he hurt citizens with his dictatorship.

Try to teach that to Uhuru Kenyatta and other African active or retired leaders.

Choosing Chief Justice

By Dickson Jere

I have read with keen interest the latest letter by lawyer and academician John Peter Sangwa, SC on the appointment of Chief Justice. He has, more or less, reiterated his earlier counsel that the vacant position of Chief Justice be advertised.

I argued – last week – that his progressive proposals will require some legal intervention especially that it would be the first time such proposed process will be done in our jurisdictions.

I also defended Sangwa’s right to debate these matters as it is his fundamental right to speak on matters of national importance even if it involves the judiciary.

I have, however, been taken aback with his latest letter which contains personal attack on the deputy Chief Justice Micheal Musonda, SC.

Sangwa opines that Musonda may not be a good choice of Chief Justice because he is an acquaintance of President Hakainde Hichilema and also used to be his lawyer. Sangwa mentioned that Musonda represented the President in the much-talked about purchase of the house in Kabulonga.

Here is my take.
1. Michael Musonda was plucked from private practice and appointed straight to the Supreme Court Bench (very rare cases in Zambia) under the previous government when his client HH was in opposition.

2. Michael Musonda was then appointed deputy Chief Justice by the previous government when there was a vacancy. He was, in both cases, ratified by the National Assembly to hold the position of Supreme Court Judge and later Deputy Chief Justice. He past the test!

3. In his previous life, he served as Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) President, taught at UNZA Law School and later ZIALE before he was appointed to the bench. He was also bestowed with the rank and dignity of State Counsel in 2015 by President Edgar Lungu – meaning he is worthy in the legal profession.

4. Musonda is also academically sound and well read. Apart from his legal degree from UNZA, he holds double masters degrees – one from the prestigious Oxford University in the UK. He is a Rhodes Scholar!

So, my intervention on this matter, is to state simply that Michael Musonda should not be disadvantaged in the race for Chief Justice because he was lawyer and friend of President Hakainde Hichilema. It was not HH who put Musonda on the bench and later promoted him to Deputy Chief Justice. It was under President Edgar Lungu.

Let his credentials speak for him and not the perceived bias because he represented HH in the past as a lawyer. Further, by virtue of his position, Musonda cannot publicly defend himself. Someone has to do it.
NB – there are other qualified Zambians who can hold this office even on the current Supreme Court bench but I restricted myself to Musonda because he is one who has been singled out in the Sangwa Papers.
Good morning!

I am still on sabbatical…

Chilufya tayali wrote:
PF COMPROMISED ACC BY KEEPING ROSEMARY IN AN ACTING POSITION WHILE MR. PHIRI COULD NOT DISCHARGE HIS FUNCTIONS AS DG
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Do you know that, Rosemary Khuzwayo has been acting as Director General of the Anti-corruption Commission since about October 2018 while the substantive Director General, Kapetwa Phiri, has been at home due to an ailment?

Yes, Rosemary was appointed by President Lungu as Deputy Director General of ACC after Mr. Phiri went on sick leave due to a stroke that he suffered in 2018. As Deputy, Rosemary took up the acting position and the status-quo has been like that till 4th October when her contract ended.

So, get the clarification, she was not fired by the “New dawn” govt as some media are reporting. However, it is true that the Commissioners refused to renew the contract, if that is the same as firing, I beg to differ.

AND WHO APPOINTED THE CURRENT COMMISSIONERS?

Let’s just say, they were appointed by the previous regime and I am wondering if President Hichilema has powers to fire them. Technically it, therefore, follows that, Rosemary refusal for her contract to be renewed has nothing to do with the current Govt.

WHO IS ROSEMARY KHUZWAYO?

I would lie if I said I know her personally, but I have interacted with her mostly, in her capacity as Acting Director General of the ACC.

ROSEMARY PROTECTED PRESIDENT HICHILEMA WHEN ASERNALS WERE POINTED AT HIM THROUGH ACC

Some of you laugh at me, that I bluffed about my evidence against President Hichilema, then in opposition, but I will tell you that, the land allegations against President Hichilema were put off like water on bush fire by Rosemary.

I will not discuss the merits of the evidence because it is water under the bridge, but I want you to know what Rosemary told me as she was escorting me out of her office.

“I know BaTayali, you work closely with some people who would want to see this man arrested and possibly jailed, or at least embarrassed, but you should know that, he also has rights which has to be respected. So the Commission will not work under pressure but work within the provisions of the law”, she said.

I can vividly remember her talking to me like a girl who wants to turn down your proposal, but politely, knowing that, your father is a big guy, and I got the message.

From that time, I had so much respect for her, because I knew that, what I may have seen as evidence, was not good enough for the ACC to arrest HH.

However, Rose was not liked by many senior Govt Officials and they wished she was out of ACC. You remember that even President Lungu complained about ACC arresting Ministers, though he didn’t engineer her firing like they did to Ireen Lamba.

For Ireen Lamba, they just concocted a fake case and had her arrested and that is how they removed her.

SO WHY DIDN’T THE PF REMOVE KAPETWA PHIRI AND APPOINT ROSEMARY AS DG?

In my opinion the PF kept the ACC in a weaker position by having Rosemary in an acting position while the substantive DG was unable to carry out his functions.

Much as she resisted some of the issues brought before her to act on, while in other cases she decided to fight corruption, by arresting some senior officials including ministers, she was still in a weaker position because she was only acting.

If Rose was FULL Director General protected by the constitution, I think, things would have been different.

HOW DO YOU REMOVE THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE ACC?

Removing the Director General of the ACC is not easy at which makes me disappointed when I see these investigative wings bowling to political pressure.

According to the ACC Act a person appointed Director General, by the President, subject to ratification, may be removed from office for inability to perform the function of his office, whether arising from infirmity of body or mind or from any other cause, or for misbehaviour, and shall not be removed except by or in
accordance with a resolution passed by the National Assembly by supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the members of the National Assembly.

It actually doesn’t end there, upon resolving that the DG ought to be removed, the Speaker of the National Assembly shall send a copy of such resolution to the Chief Justice who shall appoint a
tribunal consisting of a chairman and two other persons to inquire into the matter.

Only after the tribunal has recommended that, the DG must be removed, do the President come in, to fire the person.

Therefore, those of you calling for the firing of DEC Director, Director for Public Prosecution (DPP) and other constitutional officers, take a chill pill, it is not just because Bally is in office. He has to act within the confines of the law and at times it is frustrating.

WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN AT ACC?

I didn’t write this article to save face of Rosemary, but to set the record straight and let you know my opinion about her. I think she was professional, but let her go serve elsewhere.

However, there is need to strengthen ACC by appointing a new Director General, removing the current one who for a long time has not been able to discharge his duties due to infirmity.

As long as ACC is headless, the UPND can’t boast of fighting corruption, it will still be weak as it was during the PF regime.

TAYALI THE NATIONAL ASSET – THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS!

EEP PRESIDENT – PEOPLE MAKE A NATION!

POLITICAL AND BUSINESS CONSULTANT!

ZAMBIA MUST BE OWNED BY ZAMBIANS!

Acting CJ Musonda is HH acquaintance & not qualified not be appointed CJ – Sangwa

Prominent Lusaka Lawyer and state counsel John Sangwa has written a five paged letter to President Hakainde Hichilema – HH Challenging him to raise above personal interest and avoid appointing personal acquaintances which risks the country from attaining a constitutionally desired independent judiciary.

The State Counsel has re-stated his call that the position of Chief Justice – CJ should be advertised as opposed to just making a presidential appointment in order for the judiciary to retain its independence and install the rule of law in Zambia. He also confirmed that he had gotten credible information that Deputy Chief Justice Michael Musonda was about to be appointed as Chief Justice.

Sangwa has further revealed in the same letter to President Hichilema seen by the Zambian Business Times – ZBT that the current acting Chief Justice who is the substantive deputy Chief Justice – Michael Musonda is not fit to be head of the judiciary as he is an acquaintance of HH.

The prominent lawyer who has stated in the same letter that his calls for advertising for the role of CJ is not motivated by his personal ambition or having his own preferred candidate stated that Justice Micheal Musonda does not believe in the independence of the Judiciary, a situation that renders him undesirable for establishing the rule of law in Zambia.

Sangwa revealed in the letter to President HH that “ Mr. President, I know that you and Deputy Chief Justice Michael Musonda have been acquaintances for a long time . He previously saved as your legal counsel including when you purchased property number 488a.40/a/3 serval road from the National Tobacco Board of Zambia in July 1995. Nevertheless, the appointment of the Chief Justice of Zambia requires you, Mr. President, to raise above personal ties and considerations in the interests of the public and the need for an independent judiciary”.

Sangwa further argued that “ infact, given your [HH] personal ties to Deputy Justice Musonda, it is in your [HH] best interest, and in his [Justice Musonda’s] interest, to ensure that the process relating to the appointment of the CJ is done in an open and transparent manner to avoid perceptions that you [HH] are opposed to such a process because your ally is involved”.

Deputy CJ Michael Musonda was appointed acting Chief Justice by immediate former President Edgar Lungu after the sudden and shocking death of Justice Ireen Mambilima in Egypt, in June 2021, about two months prior to the 12 August, 2021 general elections.
Zambia’s first female chief justice, Irene Mambilima died in an Egyptian hospital after being taken ill while on an official tour. Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation – ZNBC then quoted a statement issued by President Edgar Lungu’s principal private secretary Simon Miti who confirmed the death but did not give details, but said she had travelled for official duty on June 10, 2021. Justice Mambilima, 69, had been appointed Chief Justice of Zambia on February 26, 2015.

Credit:Zambian Business Times

THE SLOW PACE OF FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IS WORRYING

The Candidates’ Comment 2

We have found something to praise and support about Hakainde Hichilema’s administration: the will to fight corruption and to restore the rule of law. While we may not agree on everything with the UPND administration, we fully support them in their desire to make past and present leaders accountable, and to fight corruption as well as other financial crimes committed by PF members and their associates. We wish to praise Hakainde particularly for restoring a sense of responsibility in our society.

Crooks, thieves of all sorts are today thinking twice before engaging in crimes. Those who are still plundering tax payers money in government institutions are doing so in secrecy knowing too well that there is a President who does not tolerate that nonsense. Corruption – not until Hakainde was pronounced a winner in the August elections – had become a normal undertaking where senior government officials in collaboration with party thieves were blatantly engaging in corrupt activities. Once again, Zambians can feel that corruption is a crime all because the President has spoken strongly against it on so many instances than not.

But as we praise and support Hakainde on this score, we are concerned with the slow pace at which things are happening. We are not rushing things, we are not impatient. We – just like many Zambians – want to see thieves jailed for plundering tax payers monies and bankrupting Zambian coffers.

It is not a secret that the past seven years there about has been a stealing spree in this country. Zambia was turned into a safe zone for all sorts of crooks, criminals. The thugery that characterized this country was embedded in the so-called infrastructure development agenda of the PF. Prices of goods and services where inflated 100 times beyond the market value , whereas, the markup ended up in the pockets of PF aligned tenderprenuers and all sorts of crooks. Look at the immorality in the procurement of 42 fire trucks and the inflating of figures therein! What justification is there, for government to spend $1 million dollars on a single truck of that nature? What is so special about those wheelbarrows for us to spend such a huge amount? Does the investigative wings need so much information to tell that, regardless that procurement procedures may have been followed, it is criminal and immoral for government officials to buy such things at that cost? Yes, the supplier met the requirements set out but, there is a very high possibility of corruption there.

We know of how government was paying for contracts of supply of goods and services to companies despite those companies not delivering anything. We know of how criminals who were working at State House were forcing Permanent Secretaries to authorize payments of huge monies to crooks of all sorts, on contracts that were not fulfilled. We know of how crooks were importing vehicles in the country without paying duty for them. We know of how ZRA was turned into a facility of criminals of all sorts. We know of the theft that was happening at Food Reserve Agency where PF thieves were getting maize from there and selling to Congo. Look at the criminality that surrounds the Government Higer Bus empowerment scheme, where much known criminals who are at party structures of the PF turned the buses into their personal cash cows!

There are people who were employed by the Local Government Service Commission as workers of Lusaka City Council (LCC) yet, the same elements where active members of the PF on structures in Lusaka Province and on the District.

We believe there is no much to investigate about some of the crookedness that took place in the PF administration, to an extent that it must not take forever for the investigative wings to deal with such.

In the beginning, we doubted the intention by Hakainde to move the investigative wings to State House but at the moment we support this move. We believe it is a move that is noble and is meant to ensure that these faulty investigative wings work to meet the satisfaction of the people. We support this and hope that it will not be abused by Hakainde.

As we support these efforts by the Hakainde led- administration, we wish to state that the UPND must always remember that they are in power on account of trust of the people. Hakainde is only in State House on condition that he pleases the people of Zambia. The people want to see arrests and convictions in haste. The slow pace at which he is doing things, is worrying.

ARREST OF PATRICK MANYENI BANDA, PF MSANZALA DISTRICT COUNCIL CHAIRMAN CANDIDATE UNFORTUNATE.

GEARS Initiative Zambia describes the arrest of the PF candidate for the district chairperson for newly created Lusangazi District which houses Msanzala Constituency of Eastern Province, Patrick Menyani Banda for alleged possession of a forged Grade 12 certificate as unfortunate.

GEARS Initiative Constituency Coordinator in Msanzala confirms that indeed Mr. BANDA is in Police Custody in Petauke for alleged offence.

It is, however, sad that the two (2) ECZs-Electoral Commission of Zambia and the Examination Council of Zambia, could authentic academic papers for Mr. BANDA and validate his nomination based on forged academic papers which have landed the PF candidate into police custody.

This is great blow to the PF and competitive electoral contest ahead of the next week, Oct 21, 2021 by election in the area.

This vice of alleged possession of forged grade 12 academic papers among aspiring and contesting candidates in both rural ane urban areas is now a source of worry in the electoral process.

The practice is also a concern that must be rooted out by finding the manufacturers of such papers and bring them to book.

The fact that aspirants even with forged papers pass the ECZ (education) verification process and ECZ (election) validation exercise at nomination is a sign that the two institutions may have poor or defective vetting systems/equipment that cann detect such illegality on the papers thereby contributing to perpetuation of illegality in the electoral process.

Therefore, there is need for more investment in the installation of effective vetting systems/equipment to avoid unqualified individuals ascending to positions of influence they are not supposed to ascend in future.

It is also unfortunate that political parties fail to do due diligence when adopting candidates despite the knowledge of the existing legal requirements for any adopted candidate to have Grade 12 certificate which is must to be fulfilled.

However, since Mr. Banda is validly nominated by ECZ(Election), his case may be beyond the police arrest but a constitution breach which triggers a petition under Article 52.

This means that the complaints must have sought the attention of the Constitutional Court within seven (7) after nomination than going to police so that the Court could have interpreted the provisions of Article 52.

However, GEARS Initiative is aware that forgery is standalone offence under the relevant laws of Zambia and the case may be properly before the police.

Being a bondage and bailable offence, GEARS Initiative expects Mr Banda to be granted those facilities so that he continues with his campaigns pending the his appearence in court and also possible election petition after the election if he wins the by-election.

McDonald Chipenzi
Executive Director GEARS Initiative

16/10/2021

By Julia Malunga,

THE Auditor General’s office has launched a toll free hotline (5566) which will provide a platform for the public to report issues of concern regarding the management of public resources.

And Auditor General Dr Dick Sichembe has warned controlling and public officers that his office will not relent in exposing all those in the habit of mismanaging resources.

Speaking at the launch of the hotline, Friday, Dr Sichembe said the toll free hotline would enable whistleblowers to report financial irregularities in a timely and convenient manner by simply dialing the hotline.

“The purpose of setting up this toll free hotline is to provide a platform for the public and other stakeholders to report issues of concern with regard to the management of public resources which my office will follow up to examine from the audit perspective. This will not only enhance our audit reporting but also promote transparency and accountability. The toll free hotline will enable whistleblowers to report financial irregularities in a timely and convenient manner by just dialing the toll free line. The caller and the information that will be obtained will be treated with utmost confidentiality. I therefore encourage all citizens to participate in the effort of promoting prudent management of public resources,” he said.

Dr Sichembe said the toll free line was only available on MTN and Zamtel for now.

“The toll free line number is 5566. The number is active on two mobile networks namely Zamtel and MTN. Plans are underway to have Airtel come on board. The call centre will be operational from Monday to Saturday from 08:00 to 17:00. All informers or callers will be allowed to remain anonymous if they choose to. The office will devise a mechanism of giving feedback to informers or callers who choose not to remain anonymous on how the cases are progressing. This will be done so as to encourage more members of the public to report cases,” he said.

Dr Sichembe said the initiative of having the hotline would greatly help in the areas of conducting audits.

“As you may be aware, article 250 of the Constitution of Zambia amendment act no.2 of 2016 requires my office to conduct financial and value for money audits, including forensic audits in respect of management of public funds. Therefore, this initiative of having the hotline will greatly help in the areas of conducting these audits.

As a supreme audit institution in the country, we are mandated to provide oversight on the management of public resources and provide an assurance to the stakeholders and the citizens on whether the resources are being used for the intended purpose and are being used efficiently, effectively and economically. This is critical to the economic and social development of the country,” he said.

“The task of promoting accountability and transparency in the management of public resources cannot be undertaken entirely by our office, we need the collaborative efforts of the citizens. This is because citizens live in the communities where government projects, programmes and activities are implemented.

Therefore, they are better placed to provide information to my office voluntarily on any suspicious activities related to financial management with regard to the projects, programmes and activities using the platforms like the hotline we are launching today. It is my hope that citizens who are taxpayers will take keen interest in the management of public resources.”

And Dr Sichembe said his office would bring to account all those in the habit of mismanaging resources.

“Let me take this opportunity to warn controlling officers and other public officers that my office shall not relent to expose and bring to account all those that are in the habit of mismanaging resources. My office remains resolute and steadfast to protect public resources,” said Dr Sichembe.

Meanwhile, Embassy of Sweden Head of Development Corporation Susanna Hughes said fighting corruption as a development obstacle was high on the Swedish international development cooperation’s agenda.

“The purpose of the development cooperation between Zambia and Sweden is to contribute to decreased inequality, improved resilience, increased respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law as well as environmentally and climate-resilient sustainable and inclusive economic development.

Fighting corruption as a development obstacle is high on the Swedish international development cooperation agenda. We welcome that this has also been echoed by the new Zambian Government.

Sweden considers ensuring transparent and accountable management of resources and integrity in public life, and fight against corruption to be fundamental to economic growth and development in Zambia,” said Hughes.

PRESIDENT HH SIR, PLEASE HUMBLE YOURSELF AND IMPLEMENT THESE STEPS FOR YOU TO SUCCEED IN YOUR GOVERNANCE!

1. FARMERS AT MAIZE DEPOTS:

Mr President Sir, give farmers much needed empty bags so that they can put their maize and sell to FRA. Please hear the cry of thousands of farmers across the country who are crying day and night as they wait for the FRA to buy their maize. They need that money to buy farming inputs for the approaching rain season.
2. FARMERS AT HOME: Mr President Sir, please provide farming inputs to all farmers so that they can start preparing for the rain season. Fertiliser is very expensive between 500 and 800. Farmers voted for you because you are also a farmer who understand their challenges but your snail pace of doing things is greatly disappointing them. Let a bag of fertilizer be K250 as you promise.

3. SPEECHES

Your Excellency President Hichilema Sir; I strongly urge you to 20% of your time talking and 80% of your time working. If didn’t know, Zambians hate a President who is excellent at talking but poor in implementing. Your radio interviews will be total meaningless with they are not coupled with practical work. People want you to talk less (20%) and work more (80%).

4. FAVOURING PF CARDERS AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER ZAMBIANS:

President HH sir, PF supporters are also Zambians who also need the nation cake. But the problem comes in where you prioritise to make them happy and punish people that voted for you. This is Bibilically unacceptable even you as a Church Elder knows this but its shocking how you are deliberately ignoring it. Its unacceptable to see people that campaigned for you being arrested for merely demanding employment while those that used to oppress them are fully enjoying in your government. Please provide employment.

5. BURSARIES AND MEAL ALLOWANCES

Please Mr President, if there was a clergyman that supported you for 10 years until this day its me Prophet Isaac. This means I was following and agreeing with all your political pronouncements. To this, one of your commitment was to ensure that university students are given free education and meal allowances. Now that you are on the throne please don’t annoy the expectations of the students. Give them bursaries and meal allowances as you promised. If you fail to implement this believe Mr President you will be a one term Head of State like President Rupiah Banda.

6. PF MEMBERS MOCKING UPND MEMBERS

Mr President, sorry to categorically state that its you who is encouraging PF carders to mock your supporters by sidling UPND members who suffered for the party and choosing to work with PF carders who were persecuting UPND Members. Please Mr President, have pity for individuals that greatly sacrificed for the party. Remove PF carders from strategic positions and appoint those Zambians who are loyal to you and to the people of Zambia. PF carders are in your government not to work for the Zambian People but to frustrate your good effort in developing the country. The earlier you realise this the better. Hear it from me, 90% of PF carders still report to the former regime members.

7. ARREST PF TRIBALISTS

Mr President, majority of Zambians are saddened that almost 2 months of you being in office, PF Tribalists who used to insult some Zambians on tribal bases for they think you are a weak President. Please sir, bring rule and order in the country by ensuring that all those that break the law are dealt with in accordance with the law. You will quickly if you become the immediate past president who used to keep a blind eye on the tribal remarks championed by his party.

8. SLOWNESS IN WORKING:

Mr President , you are too slow in executing your duties sir and this has caused a lot of anxiety among your members. In trying to do things opposite to how your predecessor was doing, you actually making more mistakes that are clearly discouraging your supporters. Sir, the only way of success is to listen to what the grassroots are saying. Please don’t be uncontrollable like the head of the defeated brutal regime. Currently majority Zambians dont want to see a lot of PF in govt offices where they have continued to dominate despite change of government. Please be an action oriented man instead of being like a man of speeches only!
Dear President Hakainde Hichilema, please take this advice seriously for you to 100% succeed in your governance. God Bless!
Yours In Christ.
Prophet ISAAC Praise
Your Excellency for more direction you can also call me on +260761881657/+260974431941/+260969385773

PROPHET ISAAC DISSATISFIED WITH PRESIDENT HH’S TWO MONTHS IN OFFICE.

“Your Excellency Sir, Your performance is far below the expectations of majoritarian Zambians that voted for you and this is extremely disappointing!”.

Zambia’s Most Respected Clergyman Prophet Isaac Praise said he is taken aback by the fact that the performance of the New Republican President Hakainde Hichilema is below what 80% of Zambians expected him to do. Speaking in Monze this morning after his routine prayer mountain, the Renowned Prophet said the only thing that the Head of State has achieved since he was sworn in on 24th August 2021 is to frustrate the expectations of the majority citizens that voted for him as well as conducting a radio interview. The Man of God whom most Zambians call “The Voice of the Voiceless”, said it is disappointing that despite people overwhelmingly voting for change, the President has continued to work the very people (PF supporters) that were oppressing his members probably with the major aim of frustrating people who sacrificed their lives, resources, energy and time to campaign for him amidst unprecedented PF sponsored police brutality. The Man of God said he is perturbed by the truth that despite having spent 8 weeks on the throne, the Head of State has continued to fall short of displaying Mosaic Leadership by naming and bringing the owners of the 48 houses to book and as former regime members who involved themselves in deadly corruption such as Honey Bee Scandals of facilitating expired drugs and condoms to the innocent citizenry. “Late President Levy said and I quote, ‘ I was hated by corrupt people because I fought hard to bring back that which was taken away from children and our voiceless population’. President Mwanawasa is still the number one respected former Zambian Leader because of his firmness in dealing with the wolves. The Zambian People suffered a great deal in the previous regime because because what was to be for them was taken away by selfish individuals who wrongly thought they were more cardinal than others. Please Mr President you have disappointed your supporters alot in many regards and you can’t continue to disappoint them while you continue to favour people that used to prosecute them”, said Prophet Isaac.

Meanwhile, Prophet Isaac warned that if President HH continue ignoring the cries of people that ushered him into office, he will make his party UPND unpopular among Zambians to the extent that the ruling party will start losing a lot of by-elections and will soon suffer massive resignations. He has since urged the President to implement the following if he has to maintain being supported by Zambians;

1. FARMERS AT MAIZE DEPOTS:

Mr President Sir, give farmers much needed empty bags so that they can put their maize and sell to FRA. Please hear the cry of thousands of farmers across the country who are crying day and night as they wait for the FRA to buy their maize. They need that money to buy farming inputs for the approaching rain season.

2. FARMERS AT HOME:

Mr President Sir, please provide farming inputs to all farmers so that they can start preparing for the rain season. Fertiliser is very expensive between 500 and 800. Farmers voted for you because you are also a farmer who understand their challenges but your snail pace of doing things is greatly disappointing them. Let a bag of fertilizer be K250 as you promise.

3. SPEECHES

Your Excellency President Hichilema Sir; I strongly urge you to 20% of your time talking and 80% of your time working. If didn’t know, Zambians hate a President who is excellent at talking but poor in implementing. Your radio interviews will be total meaningless with they are not coupled with practical work. People want you to talk less (20%) and work more (80%).

4. FAVOURING PF CARDERS AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER ZAMBIANS:

President HH sir, PF supporters are also Zambians who also need the nation cake. But the problem comes in where you prioritise to make them happy and punish people that voted for you. This is Bibilically unacceptable even you as a Church Elder knows this but its shocking how you are deliberately ignoring it. Its unacceptable to see people that campaigned for you being arrested for merely demanding employment while those that used to oppress them are fully enjoying in your government. Please provide employment.

5. BURSARIES AND MEAL ALLOWANCES

Please Mr President, if there was a clergyman that supported you for 10 years until this day its me Prophet Isaac. This means I was following and agreeing with all your political pronouncements. To this, one of your commitment was to ensure that university students are given free education and meal allowances. Now that you are on the throne please don’t annoy the expectations of the students. Give them bursaries and meal allowances as you promised. If you fail to implement this believe Mr President you will be a one term Head of State like President Rupiah Banda.

6. PF MEMBERS MOCKING UPND MEMBERS

Mr President, sorry to categorically state that its you who is encouraging PF carders to mock your supporters by sidling UPND members who suffered for the party and choosing to work with PF carders who were persecuting UPND Members. Please Mr President, have pity for individuals that greatly sacrificed for the party. Remove PF carders from strategic positions and appoint those Zambians who are loyal to you and to the people of Zambia. PF carders are in your government not to work for the Zambian People but to frustrate your good effort in developing the country. The earlier you realise this the better. Hear it from me, 90% of PF carders still report to the former regime members.

7. ARREST PF TRIBALISTS

Mr President, majority of Zambians are saddened that almost 2 months of you being in office, PF Tribalists who used to insult some Zambians on tribal bases for they think you are a weak President. Please sir, bring rule and order in the country by ensuring that all those that break the law are dealt with in accordance with the law. You will quickly if you become the immediate past president who used to keep a blind eye on the tribal remarks championed by his party.

8. SLOWNESS IN WORKING:

Mr President , you are too slow in executing your duties sir and this has caused a lot of anxiety among your members. In trying to do things opposite to how your predecessor was doing, you actually making more mistakes that are clearly discouraging your supporters. Sir, the only way of success is to listen to what the grassroots are saying. Please don’t be uncontrollable like the head of the defeated brutal regime. Currently majority Zambians dont want to see a lot of PF in govt offices where they have continued to dominate despite change of government. Please be an action oriented man instead of being like a man of speeches only!
Dear President Hakainde Hichilema, please take this advice seriously for you to 100% succeed in your governance. God Bless!
Yours In Christ.
Prophet ISAAC Praise
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Hamoonde Lister
Powerful, Prophet Isaac is a Real Man of God who speaks for all Zambians.
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God Bless You Prophet Isaac.
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HH IS RUNNING A ONE-MAN, KNOW-IT-ALL GOVT, CHARGES KAMBWILI

President Hakainde Hichilema’s administration is a one man, know it all government, says Chishimba Kambwili.

And Kambwili said the UPND must report their Central provincial chairperson Albert Chifita to the police for saying that former president Edgar Lungu was held under “state capture” by people from the northern provinces of the country, on account of the votes they gave him in previous elections.

Kambwili also said that he agrees with former permanent secretary (administration) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Dr Ronald Simwinga that President Hichilema lied when he said he did not sanction all the diplomatic recalls.

Speaking with Daily Revelation, Kambwili started by first addressing the ongoing parliamentary by election campaigns in Kaumbwe, where he is currently at, saying the former ruling party was 100 percent certain of scoping the seat, as they were running against “a party that assumed power through deceit.”

“I am here. We are campaigning we are telling the people the truth. If you tell the people the truth you, more especially if you are fighting a government that came into power through deceit, which they have failed to fulfill. You can’t doubt your winning. We are dealing with a government that lied to the people in order to get into government,” Kambwili said. “It’s very easy to defeat them, because there is absolutely nothing which they say which is true. They are changing goal posts. Today the President wants to say that he is going to introduce a system where CDF will start paying for children school fees and he is saying it’s the first of its kind, it has never happened in Zambia. Where I am they say wenye, lies.”

Kambwili said he started the system of using CDF to pay for school fees for vulnerable children in 2007, claiming that 3000 students have since benefited from the facility in his former Roan constituency, and that his fellow party colleagues copied and implemented the same in their constituencies, including Joe Malanji, Bowman Lusambo, Stephen Chungu and Mulenga Kampamba.

“How can the whole of a president go to a newspaper and say I am going to put more money in CDF so that CDF can start paying for school fees, and this is the first of its kind? Wenye. That’s why we are saying our brother is not bringing anything new to the fold, he’s only doing what he found,” he said.

Kambwili challenged those in the UPND who were calling for his arrest for allegedly uttering tribal remarks to look no further than their own Central provincial chairman, Chifita who said that Lungu was under state capture of people from the northern regions of the country.

“Me I have said and I want to say it again, the UPND is a tribal party, and they can try to hide as much as they want but truth will always come out. You know a fact is a fact and nobody can run away from a fact. I mean voting regionally is not a good thing at all. I have condemned it and I am still condemning it, but if other people are doing it, why is it wrong that you can ask other people to also do it?” Kambwili asked. “But that man (Chifita) he is saying he (Lungu) was held captive by northerners and all that. That is tribalism that we should talk about. And let’s see Dante stand up to go and report that chairman from Central Province. Let’s see Mulenga the NGO whatever, Mrs Mulenga the wife to late permanent secretary Mulenga, let them, Laura Miti, raise the voice against that individual.”

He said they must not keep quiet just because it was the member of their own party involved in the matter.

“You see in Zambia the only thing that I have noticed which will not make this country develop is we celebrate leaders when we belong to that group whether they make a mistake or not,” Kambwili said. “We have already seen people, when President Hakainde Hichilema makes a mistake whether they have seen that this is a mistake they just want to justify and celebrate him. You are destroying the man right from the beginning. If he makes a mistake please let’s tell him what you are doing is wrong.”

Kambwili said every genuine Zambia should condemn dismissals such as those involving career civil… finish reading here

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WHY IS UPND EMBRACING POLITICAL PROSTITUTES?

The Candidates’ Comment

Patriotic Front (PF) members Peter Daka and Moses Mawere have joined the United Party for National Development (UPND) campaign team in Petauke’s Kaumbwe Constituency. These two gentlemen are currently praising Hakainde Hichilema and his administration while denouncing former President Edgar Lungu.

These are elements who are PF by heart. They took part in the campaigns of the previous elections where they glorified Edgar and took part in branding Hakainde a Freemason, a Satanist who must not be given any chance to rule this country.

Today, these two elements are glorifying the very person whom they wanted to have us believe was evil. If you ask them why they are today supporting Hakainde, they have no meaningful explanation to that effect. What is driving these characters is nothing but political prostitution. They are unprinpled elements with no fixed scruples. In short, they are like a dog of the wind which is influenced by the direction of the wind. If Hakainde loses election in 2026, they will change and denounce him while endorsing the new winner.

We all know the political migration of Peter Daka. He left MMD when it lost power and leaped to PF. He has left PF and he is trying to find a plot in UPND. When you look very well, you realize that there is nothing worth talking about which Peter is going to contribute to UPND which the ruling party is lacking. Peter is a rejected and finished political element who has been rejected by his own people in Msanzala constituency. Equally, Moses Mawere is a failure who is not wanted by the people of Chipata where he was an MP. Ask him to tell you what his success story is while he was a minister in PF – he simply has nothing to show. He is a complete shameless failure who belongs to the pit latrine.

What then is the point for UPND to embrace such political prostitutes? What does UPND hope to achieve by admitting these elements into their party to an extent that they have been given prominence in the campaigns in Kaumbwe?

UPND is hastily turning into the very evil which people fought against. In the name of ‘politics is about numbers’, they are busy admitting known crooks, thieves and political prostitutes of all sorts. Before Zambians realize it, UPND will be home of the same hyenas that were voted out of power in the previous elections.

Of course, UPND will not be worse off if it does not admit these political prostitutes. They won an election without such characters as such, why are they going into bed with these unprincipled foolish men?
-The Candidates

FORMER PF MPs, DAKA AND MAWERE ARE CAMPAIGNING WITH US IN KAUMBWE, SAYS UPND’S MUCHELEKA

Ruling UPND deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka says immediate past PF members of parliament, Moses Mawere and Peter Daka, are part of the UPND campaign team in Kaumbwe, Eastern Province.

And Mucheleka charged that the UPND will seek justice against Stephen Kampyongo over his alleged activities during the time he served as minister in the PF government.

Speaking with Daily Revelation, Mucheleka said Daka and Mawere were campaigning with the UPND in Msanzala.

But asked on reports that the people have misgivings over the involvement of Daka, fresh from losing in Msanzala, in the same Petauke district as Kaumbwe, where he stood after he was denied another run on the PF ticket in the 2021 elections, Mucheleka said he was not familiar with the matter as he was not on the ground in Kaumbwe.

“Which people are not happy? People in Kaumbwe or people in UPND or PF? Mawere is there. Daka is there. They are campaigning for UPND in Kaumbwe, and that question I can refer you to our chairman for elections Garry Nkombo,” Mucheleka said. “He’s is Kaumbwe right now. I am not on the ground. I am not familiar with what the dynamics are.”

Daka stood on the Heritage Party ticket in 2001 and lost to MMD’s Levison Mumba. However, Daka petitioned the election which was annulled by the courts, with MMD picking him ahead of Mumba to re-contest the election which he won. Daka served as a member of parliament and minister in the MMD administrations of late president Levy Mwanawasa and Rupiah Banda. He lost to independent Joseph Lungu in the 2011 elections, and also lost the subsequent by-election which followed in 2012, after Lungu resigned as independent to join the PF ranks.

Daka joined the PF prior to the 2016 elections and was adopted, retaining the Msanzala seat in that year’s election. However, he opted to contest as independent in 2021 after he was left out on the PF adoptions but lost, upon which he joined hands with the UPND.

Mawere is the former PF Chipata-Central member of parliament and minister of Youth and Sports under former president Edgar Lungu. He was left out on the adoptions for 2021 in favour of Amon Jere.

And Mucheleka said Zambians have not forgotten nor forgiven what they went through under the PF, saying he was saddened that the former ruling party had carried on as if it was business as usual in stead of showing remorse to Zambians.

“What is making them arrogant is the money they have stolen,” he claimed.

Mucheleka said justice has to prevail against people like Kampyongo and the others, citing incidences where a helicopter that was carrying former first lady Maureen Mwanawasa and Vice-President Mutale Nalumango, was almost brought down in Kampyongo’s Shiwang’andu constituency…finish reading
http://dailyrevelationzambia.com/former-pf-mps-daka-and-mawere-are-campaigning-with-us-in-kaumbwe-says-upnds-mucheleka

By Ulande Nkomesha,

UPND national chairperson Stephen Katuka at Ku Park lodge in Chilanga during the party’s special membership renewal event on December 15, 2019 – Picture by Tenson Mkhala
UPND chairperson Stephen Katuka says PF should just keep quiet and avoid dictating how his party should run government because they committed a lot of crimes and atrocities.

Recently, PF secretary general Davies Mwila wondered why the UPND government had remained quiet on the Faith Musonda case, alleging that maybe the money she was caught with belongs to them.

But commenting on Mwila’s remarks in an interview, Katuka said the PF should “let the sleeping dogs lie” and allow UPND to work.

“Is it Davies to tell us to be talking or is it the PF to tell us to start talking now? It is our own decision; we want to run the party and government in the manner that we feel is good for us. So, they will not dictate to us how to run our party and government. Now that we are government, they should allow us to do what we want to do. The President said let lying dogs lie, so there is no need for somebody to continue talking to a dog which is lying, you push with your leg saying ‘talk’ it will bite you,” he said.

“So, we don’t want to be poked, they committed so many crimes and atrocities. Those guys made a lot of mess and they should just keep quiet. I don’t think it is for them to start talking about this and that, we have been quiet and accommodating them, they should give us the respect. If they won the elections, they would have killed all of us, we would have been dead by now, but God in his wisdom thought that he cannot allow these criminals to continue because they would have messed up the country. I have never seen a government that can spend taxpayers’ money to go and buy chemicals and go and gas its citizens.”

Katuka said the PF should be grateful to the UPND for not being vindictive.

“Instead of letting dogs lie, they want to start poking us, so we will end up biting them. They have stolen from government and we have proof that they have stolen but we have decided to look at them and let the law take its course. So, they should be grateful to us that we are not being vindictive. Instead of them pocking us, advise Mwila and his cronies to keep quiet. They should be the last people to talk about anything. It is because they have no shame that is why they are talking. Any normal thinking person, what PF did to this country they should be the last ones to talk. So please let them keep quiet and watch,” said Katuka.

“Let others comment and not PF because those should be the last ones to comment on governance or any other issue. Peace in this country has finally come, the rule of law has finally come to the country. People are moving freely because of this change that took place. People are enjoying their freedoms, you go on the streets, everyone is happy, please don’t let them provoke us to an extent that we are going to open the chapter where Davies Mwila is. Davies Mwila was in Luapula, he was warning his members that ‘if we lose this election we will be arrested’. Why was he saying that? He knew what he was doing as government.

Green Party leader Peter Sinkamba has demanded that President Hakainde Hichilema addresses the nation on the sacking of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Ronald Simwinga following conflicting statements about his departure.

This week, Mr Simwinga became the latest high ranking government official to be fired for allegedly recalling and replacement of diplomats.

But in a strange turn of events, Dr. Simwinga denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he was duly instructed to do so by higher authorities.

And now Mr Sinkamba is calling on President Hichilema to clear the air on what exactly transpired with Mr Simwinga’s sacking.

“The question is: which higher authorities are these? Are there higher authorities than President Bally? Is President Bally merely pawn in this grand masters’ game of chess, or what? Who ever was involved to give instructions to Dr. Simwinga must be a very, very powerful person in the power play of UPND Alliance, perhaps even more powerful, and feared by even President Bally himself,” Mr Sinkamba said.

“For if it were merely some petty mischievous civil servant, three things would have happened: First, immediately the saga came to his attention, without beating about the bush, President Bally would have named the culprit. The fact that President Bally used innuendoes on this very serious mischief, is proof the the person involved must be mysterious master from “Beijing”.”

“Second, President Bally would have named the diplomats involved and immediately correct the situation. The fact that President Bally could not even name the recalled, or indeed identify the appointed, means that the decision of the mysterious master from “Beijing” is final and irreversible,” he observed.

“Third, Dr. Simwinga had the audacity to openly and publicly reply to President Bally. It is very, very unusual for civil servants and diplomats to do so. The fact that Dr. Simwinga did a rebuttal in that manner, is a diplomatic signal to show that President Bally was merely pretending; that he did not know beforehand the person who issued the hire and fire instructions.”

He added, “In all fairness, for the sake of the integrity of Zambisn diplomsts on the international stage, and supremacy of the Office of the President, may President Bally address the Nation, even for ten minutes, to clear the air on this very embarrassing diplomatic glitch.”

“Otherwise, Zambia risks to find itself in a situation where foreign countries will be rejecting receiving credintials of diplomats from our country, simply because in this country, anybody can appoint anyone as a diplomat, and nobody cares.”

PRESS STATEMENT

MY FAREWELL MESSAGE ~ DR. SIMON K. MITI

It Is with profound gratitude that I today, 14″ October, 2021, bid farewell to all the wonderful people working in the Public Service. Over the past Four (4) decades since I joined the Public Service, as a young Medical Doctor in NDOLA, I have had the privilege and honour to serve in various positions and capacities ranging from Local Government into the mainstream Civil Service.

My greatest honour and privilege was bestowed on me when His Excellency the former President, Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu appointed me as Secretary to the Cabinet and Principal Private Secretary. I, therefore, wish to thank, most sincerely, President Lungu for the honour.

Over the past few weeks as President Hakande Hichilema has methodically organized his team, it has been an honour to help facilitate the smooth transition. In this regard, I wish to thank President Hichilema for giving me a rare opportunity to share with him my thoughts about the future of the Public Service. In my meeting with the President, I indicated that ! shall be at hand to provide whatever support I can, to the New Dawn Administration when such need arises and also in my capacity as a dedicated servant of the people. As a public servant, I owe my country everything I have contributed and achieved.

Zambia through the free education policy of Government at the time, allowed me to come out of Chifubu Township in Ndola, to be the Secretary to the Cabinet. 1 shall always be indebted to my country.

I wish to thank my family for the support they have rendered to me during this astonishing journey. Without the support of my family, this journey would not have been possible. To those that may have encountered me during the course of my tour of duty, I pray that I had a positive impact on your work and indeed your lives. To those that I may have fallen short, I seek your forgiveness. When all is said and done, we must all run our own races. I have run mine.

Finally, to the civil servants all across this wonderful country, championing the development path for our country, I wish to implore upon you (Oo remain professional and non-partisan and atways serve the Government of the day in accordance with the Code of Ethics for the Public Service. Prior to becoming Secretary to the Cabinet, I as well, served in other higher positions across Government in all the three (3) previous administrations. I am a proud Public Servant who has served all the four administrations including the New Dawn Administration. This has only been possible because I remained professional and non-partisan. In some very difficult and challenging environments, it is important to always remember God and put God first.

I leave you in the capable hands of the Acting Secretary to the Cabinet Mr. Patrick Kangwa, who I worked with closely and the two Deputy Secretaries to the Cabinet, one responsible for Administration and the other responsible for Finance and Economic Development. I urge you to continue supporting them. I also urge you to ensure that the upcoming 8th National Development Plan provides hope for development and is implemented fully for the good of our Nation in our New Dawn Government.

I want to thank you all for your unwavering support rendered to me during my tour of duty. It is well and it shall be weil.

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith,” 2 Timothy 4:7.

God richly bless you ail.
God bless our President.
God bless Mother Zambia.
Farewell…!

DR. SIMON KAMWENDO MITI OUT-GOING SECRETARY TO THE CABINET

14 October, 2021

PF’S EXPECTATIONS FOR HH TO DELIVER PROMISES IS NONSENSE

The Candidates’ Comment

In the recent past, the former ruling party the Patriotic Front (PF) has been asking President Hakainde Hichilema to deliver his promise to the people, such as selling the Presidential jet, offering free education and many others things.

Of course Hakainde must fulfill his promises to the people. However true this is, Hakainde cannot deliver certain promises in the shortest period that PF wants him to. If one is honest with themselves, one can’t fail to tell that Hakainde is doing very well at the moment. Among the things he has done so far is restoring the rule of law. Just few months ago, one could be arrested by the Police and detained for even traffic offenses. People who committed many bondable offenses were kept in detention for weeks without the authorities even worrying or caring about it. Today, the Police are not keeping people in cells, including political opponents of Hakainde and his party. This did not happen from without. It was after Hakainde corrected the violation of people’s fundamental rights.

Again, freedom of expression was at the mercy of the PF members and its leaders. Not long ago, you could not say anything – however just and true they were – against elements in the PF administration. It was a crime to freely express yourself under the PF administration. Today, the people are free to express themselves. The media is operating in a much freer environment than it did when PF was in power. All this is because Hakainde did something about.

We know that the UPND is expected to deliver certain things but to expect them to deliver some of the things instantly is to be dishonest, by the PF and their cronies given that, when they themselves were in power, they failed to deliver the very things they want Hakainde to deliver today.

We are not here to stop people from expecting Hakainde to honor his promises. We also want to see the UPND administration honor its promises. However, as we expect this to happen, we must not expect things to happen at the blink of an eye or overnight. We know that one of the many problems which this country is facing is that the treasury is empty. The money which the PF left in the treasury is nothing worth talking about. How can one reasonably expect Hakainde’s administration to offer free education, when the money which he is supposed to be using was all stolen by all sorts of crooks in the previous administration? We all know the magnitude of plunder, theft that characterized this country in the previous seven years. The delivery of promises will only happen once our treasury’s liquidity is sorted out. Part of that entails raising money through all sorts of justifiable and right means and getting back the stolen monies by our investigative wings. This is not to say, Hakainde must rely solemnly on prosecuting crooks in order to get back the money. Of course, while there must be other ways of raising the money, we must support Hakainde in his bid to ensure that crooks who took part in plundering tax payers’ monies are made to pay and brought to book. We know that these crooks are by party affiliation members and associates of the former ruling party. Therefore, the PF has no moral right to even demand that Hakainde honors his campaign promises because they are the reason why some things can’t be honored. Let other credible people talk.

By Kasebamashila Kaseba
WHEN HH PREFERRED ONLINE TO OFFLINE.MEDIA; INTERNATIONAL TO LOCAL MEDIA; PRIVATE TO PUBLIC MEDIA; PHOENIX FM TO ZNBC/ZANIS

Some UPND cadres before elections approached me, a few times, to consider becoming one of HH’s advisers because the advisers around their boss were either ineffective or were only telling the boss what the boss wanted to hear.

I generally answered that it was the boss who actually chose and appointed the advisers to tell him exactly what he wanted to hear and not what he did not want to hear.

That advisers were appointees serving at the pleasure of the boss. (I was a critic and not an adviser.)

The last conversation was outside the UPND Secretariat when I went to do some political analysis for ON-TV online during the UPND General Assembly.

Now, UPND and HH are receiving praises they want to hear even for mistakes because it is what they want to hear and it is still during their honeymoon.

HH, like MCS or EL, shall dearly pay, sooner or later, for squandering the honeymoon goodwill.

FJT in 1991 was the most popularly elected president in defeating KK to one EP region as FJT ended up the most unpopular or hated former president as KK became the most popular former president.

UPND are receiving praises for mistakes because they cannot be criticised or corrected for their mistakes.

(They are conscienceless to tell a right from wrong. HH even thinks a mistake is style.)

UPND and HH are bashing and gagging criticism, dissent and opposition.

For example, HH media priorities are upside down in as far media strategy is concerned, yet he is praised for that.

Firstly, HH who as president is active online as he was as opposition president granted interviews to international media ahead of local public and private media.

Secondly, with local media, HH is in charge as a producer, running commentator, self interviewer, latecoming and overrunning, he doesn’t do with International media, I can guess.

Thirdly, he has since preferred to start with local private media to local public media.

Fourth, and importantly, if what HH says is policy and record, it has to go through mainly ZNBC especially ZANIS where it shall be transcribed and printed in a booklet, published and filed.

ZANIS is even supposed to be under the president (HH) or State House or he can re-transfer there.

Otherwise, let HH himself and his advisers be oriented even by ZANIS of how the offline public media works before he is further embarrassed or suffers backlash and setbacks.

Lastly, unstrategic ruling through the conventional and social media is a bad thing. As bad as it was to POTUS Trump who rejected defeat at one term. Trump lived in this reality and alternative facts.

HH shall suffer a media burnout or defeat he cannot reverse. Just as HH cannot speed up the slow civil service he slowed down. Or he didn’t know the public complaint against the civil service is slow speed which helps corruption that HH is fighting.

By Simon Kabanda
SHOULD SOME POLITICAL PARTIES STOP CONTESTING IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS?

YES! Some political parties should just stop contesting in presidential elections because they are a waste of time and a waste of resources, and they do not add value to the presidential elections. They just escort other political parties.

YES! Some presidential hopefuls should just stop contesting in presidential elections because they are a waste of time and a waste of resources, and they do not add value to the presidential elections. They just escort other presidential candidates.

Which are those political parties that should stop contesting in the presidential elections?

I invite you to analyse with me the performance of political parties and presidential elections from the 1991 elections to the last one, which took place on 12 August 2021.

12 AUGUST 2021 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Hakainde Hichilema, United Party for National Development (UPND): 2,852,348 votes (59.02%);
2. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, Patriotic Front: (1,870,780) votes (38.71%)
3. Harry Kalaba, Democratic Party (DP): 25,231 votes (0.52%);
4. Andyford Banda, People’s Alliance for Change (PAC): 19,937 votes (0.41%);
5. Fred M’membe of the Socialist Party (SP): 16,644 votes (0.34%);
6. Highvie Hamududu, Party for National Unity and Progress (PNUP): 10,480 (0.22%);
7. Chishala Kateka, New Heritage Party (NHP): 8,169 votes (0.17%);
8. Charles Chanda, United Prosperous and Peaceful Zambia (UPPZ): 6,543 votes (0.14%);
9. Lazarous Chisela, Zambians United for Sustainable Development (ZUSD): 5,253 votes (0.11%);
10. Nevers Mumba, Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD): 4,968 votes (0.10%);
11. Enock Tonga, Third Liberation Movement (3rdLM): 3,112 votes (0.06%);
12. Bishop Trevor Mwamba, United National Independence Party (UNIP): 3,036 votes (0.06%);
13. Sean Tembo, Patriots for Economic Progress (PEP): 1,813 votes (0.04%);
14. Stephen Nyirenda, National Restoration Party (NAREP): 1,808 votes (0.04%);
15. Kasonde Mwenda, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): 1,345 votes (0.03%); and
16. Richard Silumbe, Leadership Movement (LM): 1,296 votes (0.03%)
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 4,832,763
INVALID VOTES: 126,569

11 AUGUST 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Edgar C. Lungu (PF): 1,860,877 (50.35%);
2. Hakainde Hichilema (UPND): 1,760347, (47.63%);
3. Edith Nawakwi (Forum for Democracy and Development – FDD): 24,149 (0.65%);
4. Andyford Banda (People’s Alliance for Change – PAC): 15,791 (0.43%);
5. Winter Kabimba (Rainbow Party): 9,504 (0.26%);
6. Saviour Chishimba (United Progressive People – UPP): 9,221 (0.25%);
7. Tilyenji Kaunda (UNIP): 8,928 (0.24%);
8. Peter Sinkamba (Green Party): 4,515 (0.12%); and
9. Maxwell Mwamba (Democratic Assembly – DA): 2,378 (0.06%).
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 3,695,710
INVALID VOTES: 85,795

20 JANUARY 2015 PRESIDENTIAL BY-ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Edgar C. Lungu (PF): 807,925 (48.84%);
2. Hakainde Hichilema (UPND): 780,168 (47.16%);
3. Edith Nawakwi (FDD): 15,321 (0.93%);
4. Nevers S. Mumba (MMD): 14,609 (0.88%);
5. Tilyenji Kaunda (UNIP): 9,737 (0.59%);
6. Eric M. Chanda (4th Revolution Party – 4R): 8,054 (0.49%);
7. Elias C. Chipimo Jr. (Narep): 6,002 (0.36%);
8. Brig. Gen. Miyanda (HP): 5,757 (0.35%);
9. Daniel M. Pule (Citizens Democratic Party – CDP): 3,293 (0.20%);
10. Ludwig Sondashi (Forum for Democratic Alternatives – FDA): 2,073 (0.13%); and
11. Peter Sinkamba (Green Party Zambia – Greens): 1,410 (0.09%).
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 1,654,349
INVALID VOTES: 17,313

20 SEPTEMBER 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Michael Sata (PF): 1,170,966 (42.85%);
2. Rupiah Banda (MMD): 987,866 (36.15%);
3. Hakainde Hichilema (UPND): 506,763 (18.54%);
4. Charles Milupi (ADD): 26,270 (0.96%);
5. Elias Chipimo Jr. (Narep): 10,672 (0.39%);
6. Tilyenji Kaunda (UNIP): 9,950 (0.36%);
7. Edith Nawakwi (FDD): 6,833 (0.25%);
8. Ng’andu Peter Magande (NMP): 6.344 (0.23%);
9. Brig. Gen. Miyanda (HP): 4,730 (0.17%); and
10. Frederick Mutesa (ZED): 2,268 (0.08%).
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 2,732,662
INVALID VOTES: 39,602

30 OCTOBER 2008 PRESIDENTIAL BY- ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Rupiah Banda (MMD): 718,359 (40.63%);
2. Michael Sata (PF): 683,150 (38.64%);
3. Hakainde Hichilema (UPND): 353,018 (19.96%); and
4. Brig. Gen. Godfrey Miyanda (HP): 13,683 (0.77%).
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 1,768,210
INVALID VOTES: 23,596

28 SEPTEMBER 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Levy Mwanawasa (MMD): 1,177,846 votes (42.98%);
2. Michael Sata (PF): 804,748 (29.37%);
3. Hakainde Hichilema (UDA: UPND, FDD, UNIP Alliance): 693,772 (25.32%);
4. Brig. Gen. Godfrey Miyanda (Heritage Party – HP): 42,891 (1.57%); and
5. Winright Ken Ng’ondo (All People’s Congress – APC): 20,921 (0.76%).
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 2,740,178
INVALID VOTES: 48,396

27 DECEMBER 2001 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Levy Mwanawasa (MMD): 506,694 votes (29.15%);
2. Anderson Mazoka (UPND): 472,697 (27.20%);
3. Lt. Gen. Christon Tembo (FDD): 228,861 (13.17%);
4. Tilyenji Kaunda (UNIP): 175,898 (10.12%);
5. Brig. Gen. Godfrey Miyanda (HP): 140,678 (8.09%);
6. Benjamin Mwila (Zambia Republican Party – ZRP): 85,472 (4.92%);
7. Michael Sata (Patriotic Front – PF): 59,172 (3.40%);
8. Dr. Nevers Mumba (National Citizens Coalition – NCC): 38,860 (2.24%);
9. Gwendoline Konie (Social Democratic Party – SDP): 10,253 (0.59%);
10. Inonge-Mbikusita Lewanika (Agenda for Zambia – AZ): 9,882 (0.57%); and
11. Dr. Yobert Shamapande (National Leadership for Development – NLD): 9,481 (0.55%).
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 1,766,356
INVALID VOTES: 28,408

18 NOVEMBER 1996 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Frederick J.T. Chiluba (MMD): 913,770 votes (72.59%);
2. Dean N. Mung’omba (Zambia Democratic Congress – ZDC): 160,439 votes (12.75%);
3. Humphrey Mulemba (National Party – NP): 83,875 votes (6.66%);
4. Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lwanika (AZ): 59,250 votes (4.71%); and
5. Chama M. Chakomboka (Movement for Democratic Process – MDP): 41,471 votes (3.29).
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 1,258,805
INVALID VOTES: 66,248

31 OCTOBER 1991 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS:
1. Frederick J.T. Chiluba (MMD): 972,212 votes (75.76%)
2. Tilyenji Kaunda (UNIP): 311,022 votes (24.24%)
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 1,283,234
INVALID VOTES: 41,531

With this trend in the presidential election results since 1991, when Zambia reverted to a multiparty system of governance, some political parties and some presidential hopefuls should just be realistic and stop contesting in the presidential elections.

UNITED NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE PARTY (UNIP)

After losing to the MMD in 1991, getting only 24.24% of the valid votes cast, UNIP boycotted the 1996 presidential and general elections due to a retrogressive amendment to the Constitution. However, after resurfacing in 2001, UNIP got 10.12% in the presidential election. In the 2011 presidential election, UNIP got 0.36% of the valid votes, but gained a bit of momentum in the 2015 by-election, getting 0.59% of the valid votes. With 0.24% in the 2016 presidential election and 0.06% in the 2021 presidential election, UNIP should bid farewell to contesting in the presidential elections.

MOVEMENT FOR MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY (MMD)

After losing the power of governing to the PF in 2011, with 36.15% of the valid votes, the MMD got a paltry 0.88% of the valid votes in the 2015 presidential by-election, and did not contest in the 2016 presidential election. With only 0.10% of the valid votes, in the just ended 2021 presidential election, the MMD should simply say “goodbye” to contesting in the presidential elections.

THE FATE OF FORMER RULING PARTIES

Since independence in 1964, the country now has three (3) FORMER ruling parties. These are UNIP, MMD and the PF. While UNIP stayed in office for twenty-seven (27) years, the MMD ruled the country for twenty (20) years, while the PF was in office for only ten (10) years.

Stating that “UNIP and the MMD are now on the verge of EXTINCTION” is not far from the truth. Their performance in the elections attest to this ASSUMPTION. The two political parties are now existing only in NAME and not in SUBSTANCE.

The latest FORMER ruling party, the PF, should watch out for this trend. If the PF does not learn lessons from UNIP and the MMD, they may follow suit and become extinct in the next few years.

(If you have any socio-political question that you would like to be discussed on this column, kindly send a message to me either through sms, WhatsApp or email).

SIMON KALOLO KABANDA
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Email: shimwenya@gmail.com
12 October 2021
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SOSHOPOLITIKO QUESTIONS
with Simon Kalolo Kabanda
Simon Kalolo Kabanda is a Human Rights and Development Consultant. He is also an analyst of governance and socio-political developments.
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WE ARE NOT WEAK AND OUR MEAKNESS SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED – HON. LUBINDA

… says it is totally unacceptable for President Hichilema to ask his people to seek revenge, adds that the PF will forever not manage to tame it’s people.

Lusaka … Thursday, October 14, 2021 [Smart Eagles]

Patriotic Front party vice president Hon. Given Lubinda says it is totally unexpected and unacceptable for President Hakainde Hichilema to call for an eye for an eye.

Addressing the media at the PF secretariat in Lusaka, Hon. Lubinda said it is disturbing that President Hichilema openly encouraged UPND thugs to continue hacking and harrasing innocent Zambians and PF members.

The PF vice president said it is unacceptable for the Head of State to ask his cadres to go and seek for revenge on PF members.

” President Hichilema should not reduce himself to be a partisan President. The remarks that attacks on PF are expected human nature makes sad reading. The extremely unguarded statement made by the highest office of the land must be condemned in its entirety,” Hon. Lubinda said.

” PF cadres are being attacked ruthlessly, tortured at the the hands of UPND cadres and our complaints to the Police, Human Rights Commission and the International community are being met with defeating silence,” He said.

Hon. Lubinda reminded President Hichilema that he was elected by Zambians and he is a President for all including criminals.

” On the hand President Hichilema is saying there is need for rule of law and on the other hand he is calling for a law of the jungle. I want to remind President Hichilema that he is a President for all including criminals and not only for the holy ones. He swore to defend the constitution of the country.

And Hon. Lubinda said the PF is not weak and its meekness should not be taken for granted.

He said the PF will forever not manage to tame its cadres.

” We are not weak and our being meek should not be taken for granted. We dont want to act the same way the UPND behaved while in opposition where they encouraged their members to defend themselves, because we will be adding fuel and recipe for anarchy,” Hon. Lubinda said.

” President Hichilema must not encourage Zambians to ignore the provision of the justice system. He must be reminded that if people committed atrocities against each other, there are procedures to follow and an eye for an eye is not one of them,” Hon. Lubinda said.

ECL WAS BETRAYED

By IPS EASTERN PROVINCE WILLIAM PHIRI

Betrayal of trust by Eastern Province political Gurus can never be ignored especially after ECL lost an election in a painful way.

It is embarrassing and disgusting to see high levels of betrayal of trust of former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu by Eastern Province political Gurus.

The former president thought he was well represented by Eastern Province political leaders when infact he was being stabbed in the back everyday. They never loved him nor supported him. The biggest issue was petty jelousy and luck of appreciation. Even some clergy fought their son during every mass or preaching instead of embracing him as their own.shame.

The people that ECL entrusted with leadership in the province were living double standard. It is surprising that even those that were trusted to be presidential campaign managers decampaigned the President by dinning with UPND Candidates during the general elections.

Today people like Peter Daka have the audacity to talk ill about the former president ECL just because he wants a job from HH. UPND should never trust Peter Daka,he is a snake in green grass.Even when ECL has done so much for him,he is going round Lusangazi and kaumbwe insulting ECL and the PF leadership.
The man has no sense of pride or shame, he is a shameless pathological liar who can not be trusted by anyone. He is a betrayer who deserves no forgiveness. How can a normal person betray his own brother who meant well for him? Such politicians have the potential to sell their soul to the devil just to see their own elder brother suffer more.Peter Daka is not a good example of principled leaders but one who is misleading young politicians who are just starting their political journey.

Eastern Province has always been led by elders in politics who have failed to unite it. It has always produced leaders who are always indecisive,people like Peter Daka, Panji Kaunda, Mkondo Lungu, honorable Lameck Mangani,Bizwayo Nkunika, Alexander Miti to mention but few,have failed to show proper leadership to the young generation.

We have people still serving as members of the central committee in PF when infact they are of no tangible use in the party because of their double tongued dealings. It’s no secret that honorable Vincent Mwale is the biggest political terrorist in PF and a danger to the party. He messed the election and surprisingly,was appointed elections chairperson of the prty.wherr are we going with such leaders? Is the the rebranding we want?

Many, including the former president, were deceived by his sweet eloquent talk, sugar coated with fake loyalty.

If the party has to rebrand, the party President should understand the pain of the people in the structures.

We have nothing to lose now and let us speak in a painful way because we want to correct the mistakes that made us to lose the elections. Actually I warned the party in 2019 that losing was going to be painful. Here we are now. The people or leaders that bootlicked the President are nowhere to be found.

As if that was all, Zumani Zimba, Political Advisor to the President,was the worst person we all hated with passion. Everytime that the President visited the province, Zumani behaved as tho he was President himself. He insulted and shouted at the party officials and no one had access to the President except him and a few selfish individuals around the President. We hated our own President because we felt orphans.

Zumani was the worst choice the President made to manage the political terrain of the PF. He messed up. Only God can forgive him not us. We are hurt that our president lost an election which zumani and Siyo mismanaged. The PF Secretariat was reduced to a mare office and did not even know what was happening during elections. The Secretariat was in the dark as Zumani ran the campaigns from State house.

The Goza issue that Zumani Zimba managed was an animal which ate us at the end because they used it to milk the President of millions of kwachas just to enrich themselves.The president was vulnerable because all the people he trusted had schemed against him instead.

When PF lost,only the disgruntled and distressed few individuals gathered around ECL everyday because he was lonely. Those he trusted could not pick up his calls anymore.Beyrayal of trust.

Selfishness killed us.we had stopped listening to the structures on the ground

Thank God for a few bold members who have stood the test of time,people like Given Lubinda, Steven kampyongo,Raphael Nakachinda,masuaso Tembo to rebrand the party in times of tribulations.

CROOKS ARE UNDERMINING PRESIDENT HICHILEMA’S FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION

The Candidates’ Comment

The slow pace at which our investigative wings are conducting their activities in their bid to bring to book crooks is worrying. President Hakainde Hichilema has shown so much political will to fight criminality, corruption. His stance, often than not, over these vices has created a conducive environment for a robust fight against corruption and stealing of public funds by elements of the previous administration of the Patriotic Front (PF).

However, the slow pace at which investigative wings is worrying to the public. We all know that there was massive theft of public funds in our country by thieves in the previous administration. This is not a secret. And when one takes a very small investigation, it is not very difficult to trace where some of those crimes were being committed. We believe our investigative wings have enough know-how and resources to establish where corruption and thievery was taking place in the PF administration. Why are we not seeing serious arrests yet?

We are beginning to think – and we strongly believe we are not far from truth that – there is a systematic way which some compromised elements within the investigative wings in partnership with crooks are doing to undermining the corruption fight of Hakainde.

Everyone knows, including children, that PF housed a number of serious thieves. They inflated figures on tenders where most of the monies paid do not correlate with actual prices of goods or services in question. Most of that money ended up in the pockets of these criminals. It is only in Zambia where government, under the PF administration could procure a fighting fight truck at $1 million yet, fail to secure insurance for that truck at its said market price. That alone tells you that the real cost does not reflect the amount that such items were purchased on by tax payers through their representatives in government.

Further, a number of them were given contracts of all sorts and paid monies but have not delivered anything. Look at the thieving that took place at Food Reserve Agency (FRA) where a PF Provincial Chairman obtained tons of maize to sale to Congo but did not pay FRA the money! Look at the thieving that took place over the Higer Buses which PF elements on structures begun to run and manage them, and pocketed all the monies.

This country is damaged because much of the debt which the PF administration acquired ended up in the pockets of few crooks. These are very well known facts but until now, investigative wings seem to be doing nothing worth talking about despite that Hakainde has created a very fertile environment to prosecute thieves.

Ironically, thieves are regrouping and asking Hakainde to deliver certain things overnight when we all know that Zambia is broke because they stole all the monies. It is the same money which these thieves plundered which should be used to offer free education and meet other promises. If Hakainde is going to fulfill most of the promises he has made – which we all know are in the interest of Zambians – there must be a robust fight against corruption, against endemic plunder which we experienced in the PF administration. Therefore, investigative wings must not fold arms and take all their time in visiting thieves. They must do things with a sense of urgency because so much is highly dependent on them. Hakainde has provided enough leeway and support and has shown enough as well as necessary political will to ensure that what was stolen from Zambians in brought back. Do not let Hakainde down and consequently, let the people of Zambia down.- The Candidates

DESTROYING CHOMA DEBONAIRES DUE TO ALLEGED NON DISPLAY OF PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT IS MERE POLITICAL HOOLIGANISM

What happened in Choma where UPND cadres, harrassed and attacked the Choma Debonaires branch, belonging to PF MCC Kebby Mbewe, for not displaying President HH’s portait was unfortunate, barbaric and a display of lawlessness.

There is no law that requires that businesses and offices must display such as it is a mere practice and not legal requirement.

Just to remind Zambians that this is not the first time that overzealous cadres have misbehaved and misconducted themselves in this manner just to attract political attention.

On Monday 5 January 2018, then Kitwe District Commissioner, Binwell Mpundu while inspecting business houses in Kitwe, expressed disappointment that some prominent institutions were using the 2015 Presidential portrait which has been done away with.

Mpundu, ignorantly said it was an offence for any institution not to display the new presidential portrait which Cabinet Office issued to the public over a year ago further warning them by issuing a 21-day ultimatum to business to adhere to his directives failure to which government would act to enforce the non existing law.

Clearly, Mpundu acted ignorantly because perusing through several pieces of legislation including the Constitution, the Penal Code, Public Order Act and the Local Government Act, there is no section contained on presidential portrait display to that effect.

On Friday 24 June 2011, Given Lubinda then opposition PF member of parliament for Kabwata raised this issue with the Vice President and Minister of Justice, late George Kunda in the National Assembly.

Lubinda wanted to know whether or not (a) under what law the portrait of the Head of State and Government was displayed in public places; (b) if no law existed, when the practice of displaying the portrait had started and what the rationale was; and (c) whether there were any penalties for failure to display the portrait.

In response, Todd Chilembo, then Deputy Minister of Justice responded that, *there was no law requiring the portrait of the Head of State and Government to be displayed in public places.*

*It is a practice* and “the practice of displaying the portrait of the Head of State and Government in public places was inherited from the British and is encouraged as a means through which the public is made aware of who the Head of State is and who constitutes Government explaining that this practice is particularly helpful in settings where the general public may have no access to this kind of information via television, newspapers and radio.

Chilembo further guided that there could be *no penalties for failure to display the portrait of the Head of State as there was no law requiring the displaying of the portrait.*

Since this question was raised in parliament, there has been no law enacted to criminalise the no display of a Presidential portrait in public, business and govt places.

So the incident in Choma was clearly more of political one than legal and therefore, the cadres just used the presidential portrait issue to reach at Kebby Mbewe, the PF MCC whose conduct before, during and after election could have been injurious to them.

Now that barbaric conduct by cadres destroying private properties to reach at a political opponent and a place that benefited many regardless of their party affiliations is evil and must be condemned and culprits brought to book.

Civil ways of reaching at each other as politicians can be explored than destruction of property in the name of party vigilance.

I submit

McDonald Chipenzi