CLAYSON HAMASAKA SCHOOLS NAKACHINDA
31st March 2024
It is indeed irresponsible for Raphael Nakachinda to suggest that Republican President Hakainde Hichilema is on holiday. Nakachinda, who claims to come from a culture deeply rooted in agriculture, should know better. His assertion ignores the fact that visiting a farm is not akin to leisure activities like playing snooker or nsolo.
President Hichilema’s trip to his farm is for the purpose of furthering work that contributes to national economic productivity. Generally, farms are not destinations for holidays; they are places where one engages in physical labor to generate livelihoods.
However, we understand Nakachinda’s perspective might be shaped by his experiences with what were considered presidential holidays in the past: lavish excursions involving wining and dining in national parks and foreign capitals, accompanied by individuals of dubious reputation, all funded with public money borrowed by the country.
Nakachinda and his UKWA should recognize that the country has shifted towards more responsible behavior. The focus is no longer on endless partying but on continuous hard work aimed at achieving economic recovery.
While President Hichilema promotes domestic tourism, he also advocates for responsible living among the citizens, especially during this period of crisis marked by drought-induced food and energy insecurity, and an economy weakened by the previous administration’s frivolity.
Unlike indulging in leisure activities such as drinking expensive whiskey, President Hichilema prefers to spend productive hours on his farms. Although there will be time for holidays, now is not the moment for leisure but for hard work.
Observing neighboring countries like Botswana, where cities nearly empty during holidays or weekends as citizens engage in farming and other productive activities, serves as a model. No one criticizes them for retreating to their farms; in fact, Botswana’s progress is attributed to such hard work.
To become a successful nation, we need to shift our work ethic, and unfortunately, individuals like Nakachinda are not suitable role models for this change.
By Clayson Hamasaka
Chief Communications Specialist
State House
Nakachindya, we bangs, never has he ever talked sense. Bushilu bwekabweka.
Ibange.
What a lumpen he is, just keep that mouth shut if there’s nothing to say. Do you think Zambians have time to listen to your baseless statements?
Good write up, some people need to know and need to be told that development does not come from government but from the people, the citizens themselves. Botswana is a good example, if you go to Gaborone on a weekend especially a long weekend like this one, you will find the whole city virtually empty, almost everyone has gone to the village where they work on their farms and produce their own food. No one will just sit idle waiting for cheap mealie meal like it is here. Mu Zambia katwishi nga ni Kaunda nangu ma politics, abengi bali batumpika sana. If you look at the same Botswana, the country is a semi desert just like the desert country of Namibia, but in terms of productivity, Botswana is very productive especially in the area of agriculture. Ifwe tulapoka ama fisp but production almost nil, no one even accounts for it. It’s high time we changed our mind set and start producing our food instead of just producing children. Ati HH promised us mealie meal at k50, but did he say that you should stop producing your own? Kutumpa uko.
Clayson, you are only doing your job! However, taking comfort from historic events and acts of nature is not a smart enough defence. Borrowing the “eggshell skull” rule from tort law, it can be said that the defendant (UPND) must take the victim (Zambia) as they find them.Just do the repair work!!!
Clayson, you are only doing your job! However, taking comfort from historic events and acts of nature is not a smart enough defence. Borrowing the “eggshell skull” rule from tort law, it can be said that the defendant (UPND) must take the victim (Zambia) as they find them.Just do the repair work!!!
Primate, mwana, communicate! You seem to be communicating at a higher Ape level?
Good article but with a bit of exaggeration.Botswana is not an agricultural country, save for cattle ranching.
Lokasa ya mbongo you are now worse than Raphael Nakachinda iwe. Cattle Ranching is a branch of Agriculture bwana. Safe guard your ignorance under key and lock iwe.
“Clayson is only doing his job”?
VERY POORLY we all can see. What kind of a Presidential Spokesperson-sorry-he prefers to be called “Communication Expert”-uses such crappy language?
A little schooling for Hamasaka,(From Public Relations as opposed to Watchdog Editing): As a Presidential spokesperson you respond, you don’t retort! The demeanour of this retort is so condescending that the editor of this publication sarcastically terms it “schools”. Schooling anyone implies you have put yourself on a pedestal higher than him. That haughtiness is not what State House would want to portray to Zambia’s citizens whom it has always declared it is SERVING. If HH wants to be defended it’s not by those who pick the trash thrown at him and throw it back.
Very well articulated. I admire the Tswana way of life. No wonder they are very wealthy. Zambians must pick a leaf from them and we can actually do better.
Zambians should take heed and mature from life styles of handouts and free goods and services. I promise you will keep on changing governments and no progress.
…and he wants to come into power? You condemn a man checking on his farm? These are people who have hinder development in Africa. Anyway, can one expect from a small d-ick man. We know them, they always make noise. The only time they stop is when we are lined up peeing.
Ninshi this president must never go on leave until the economic mess PF created is sorted?
Why Edgar and his murderous PF must not be allowed to get back power in Zambia – Drawing Lessons from Haiti’s Current Political Crisis.
Haiti is currently going through a political crisis precursed by gang violence that has eroded the rule of law and challenged government institution such as the police, the army, the judiciary etc. criminal gangs have not only taken control of 80% of the capital porta prince but also forced the resignation of the prime minister. The history to the current situation where criminal gangs have become so powerful is that at one point through the political history of Haiti, politician armed and financed these criminal gangs which they used to aid their political careers. But now these gangs have become more powerful than their masters and have become autonomous and want political power for themselves. They have turned against their masters who created them. This situation compares to what was obtaining in Zambia during PF government where criminal gangs in Lusaka and Copper belt had become very powerful than the police such that they could not only threaten death to the opposition leaders but also even serving cabinet ministers. These criminal gangs were being financed and armed by the PF leaders as private armies to support their personal and collective political agendas. It became fashionable for criminal gangs calling themselved Americans, NATO etc to openly brandish their weapons such as pangas and guns on tv. Threaten and even perpetuate violence against any perceived enermy, opponent or supporters of their funders. The police were powerless to do anything. Criminals like kalimanshi, Chile one, space etc could commit any violence including murder and nothing could happen to them because the police were powerless. Assuming Edgar and his PF had won the 2021 elections how much power would these criminal gangs have now? What would have prevented them from doing what the criminal gangs in Haiti are doing right now. How can a normal zambian that experienced all that dream of having Edgar and pf back in power in Zambia. Do you miss the violence and criminal impunity that existed during PF? What’s wrong with you? Do you wish to have criminal like kalimanshi, space etc to come back and wreck havoc in our streets and communities? What’s wrong with you?. If it should come to that then it’s better we share the country so that those that want to be led by criminal gangs can live in their own and those of us that enjoy peace and sanity can live in our own. Even if meali meal prices should reach K2500 bringing back Edgar and his murderous PF back should never be an option please!!!