Edgar Chagwa Lungu
Fellow Citizens,
This morning, I along with a few of my colleagues went into our Lusaka Central Business District (CBD) just to have a feel of how our traders are fairing with this apparent high cost of doing business. While we toured the CBD, we came across a woman trader selling tomatoes and onions by the roadside and stopped to buy some for our homes, I was personally amazed by how high the prices of commodities have become under the current regime.
When I asked the woman why one tomato was costing not less than k5, she replied, ” Daddy vintu vonse vadula, ma order nayo Ku Soweto uku mitengo bana lunda (Sir, prices of everything have gone up).” Please find time to go through the town centre and Soweto Market, and you will be shocked.”
Taking up her challenge, I decided to pass through Soweto Market and Lusaka’s Central Business District (CBD) to see for myself. True to her words, prices of commodities are indeed very high for ordinary Zambians and something drastic has to be done by those in authority to ensure that our people’s lives are made much more bearable than the apparent situation.
However, my word of encouragement to all entrepreneurs, whether small, medium, or large, is this: don’t lose hope; continue working hard fikabalansa, fikapanga sense.
As I reflect on my visit to the CBD today I urge all fellow citizens to continue to support all local businesses, no matter how small or big they may be, because that’s how we will impact our country’s economic growth by empowering each other.
God Bless!
Because of this they will not sleep
Lost cause. He laid a foundation of kaloba that he had no intentions of repaying. And today you want to appear like the people’s champion?
VORSEKK
Imagine if it was HH doing this during Edgar’s time, just imagine the mayhem, the blood that would have flowed, the limbs that would have been Brocken and the lives that would have been lost?
To imagine Edgar and the PF in power is a nightmare many Zambians will fight tooth and nail to save the country from.
They are missing dipping their fingers in government coffers, sharing government contracts to deliver air and all those opportunities of sharing government resources. They are afraid and scared of losing their I’ll gotten wealth and properties through forfeiture to the state.
Just get used to your new status and life. Bouncing back yeve just forget. You injured too many people who have vowed never to see you anywhere near power.
Let’s not play politics with peoples lives sir, I don’t think things would have been any better had you retained power.
If you really care about those people calling for your return , why wait for 2026? As a mature caring opposition leader in the meantime i would have expected you to provide alternative policy solutions to save the people you pretend to care for.
Or is it that you are clue less!
Ba PF or ba UKA now don’t want to learn or listen, we know that they failed to hold their conversion due to lack of a formidable candidate to challenge HH in 2026. And Because of that, they have gone back to Lungu, the same person who made them lose. They are also forgetting that Lungu is still a venerable person walking on a very tight rope of immunity and if one day, that tight rope will be cut, you will see how he will tumble into the deep below. This is just a friendly advice, come up with a formidable candidate before it’s too late because you may end up having no presidential candidate in 2026 and if HH goes almost unopposed, don’t complain or cry no democracy.
If people can do what they did yesterday, then the ND government should be commended for bringing democracy in the country. What we saw yesterday is what we see in UK, Israel or America, so where is the shrinking democratic space that some people always talk about? It’s like it just exists in their own heads because under Lungu, such a thing could not have happened. Viva ND but please keep a Virgil on them, we don’t want chaos and confusion in our peaceful country.
I hear people in the crowd shouting abwelele tavutika. They don’t know what we are in this mess because the same ECL borrowed and stole money? The drought also has compounded the situation. What ever it ni HH chabe, why ,because he’s visionary leader sluta continua.