By Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba
No Foreign Head of State, No Zambian President at the 59 ZITF
Despite an official program showing that President Hakainde Hichilema would grace the opening of the 59th Zambia International Trade Fair, he didn’t turn up and there was no offical explanation.
The International show is Zambia’s premier show and attracts exhibitors from Africa and beyond.
It is the largest trade exhibition in the country, boasts of over 1,000 local and foreign exhibitors and attracts about 200,000 patrons.
To my knowledge this is the first time that the trade show was not officially graced by the President and a foreign guest President.
When I enquired about the President’s absence one official gave me a comical but probably a true answer; “the President is too busy with the Attorney-General trying to reclaim the remains of his predecessor!”
It is clear where the priority and mindset of the President is.
President Hichilema did not even bother to send his Vice President.
This is derelict of duty.
Emmanuel Mwamba the Ambassador of propaganda and lies. His ears are glued to receiving negative news whicu he quickly manipulate to gain political mileage.
Emmanuel Mwamba the architect of evil schemes and his desire to spead falsehood and celebrates when things to wrong? Each day he goes to bed his thoughts is to search for evil schemes to spread to broadcast the following day.
What is wrong if there is no foreign dignitaries to official at the Zambia International Trade Fair? . Emmanuel Mwamba has no agenda for Zambia and his preconceived evil schemes will not prevail against the good the UPND government is doing.
This Man Mwamba something is not correct with him. When a father has died and not yet buried there can not be any celebration of sorts. So please know Zambia has a father awaiting burial and HH in his maturity knows, understand this so very well.
Shame on you Mwamba and the cheap political mileage you trying to gather.
Mourning is not over until we bury our former head of State, ECL mhsrip.
UPND is an orderly government, unlike your PF/Tonse where almost everyone is a spokesperson. Just wait for an official established report, it’s coming.
If this was true, the impasse on the burial of ECL would not have reached this stage.
This time around we are going to deport you back in Tanzania where you come from.So your job is known where the president is all the time.
HH is not dull like you Muamba from Tanzania.He knows that the country is still mourning the death of the former president, and he respects that…
Musonda, leave Tanzania alone.Just deal with Mwamba as ai individual and who is actually a holder of a Zambian NRC and passport
We need upright Zambians to hold that passport. He is from Tanzania and that’s the truth. Why should we shy away to say it?
The Question is has the President opened this year’s Trade fair?
If the answer is NO, then Ambassador Emmanuel Mwamba is not telling Lies or in any Propaganda. The President has not opened the Trade Fair this year.
Is the reason for his absence at the show because he is mourning ECL ? I don’t think so .
The man cancelled the Mourning period, and the flag is now flying at full mast.
The reason is simple. No foreign President is prepared to come to Zambia at the moment, while the Body of the former
president lies in a Morgue in South Africa..
The mask is finally off Mr Hakainde Hichilema, and many in Africa now know who he really is..The death of Edgar Lungu has removed the holy masquerade of Mr Hakainde Hichilema..
HH is ordinary flesh and blood. He therefore should have his low days also. Commerce, Trade & Industry minister Chipoka Mulenga had appeared on tv and said that HH was going to officially open the Ndola Trade Fair himself. The fact that things changed at the last minute should suggest that he decided to delegate due to some unforeseen reason. HH, or any president for that matter, is perfectly entitled to do that. All reasonable people see no big deal here.
Is this a Trade Fair or a Political Fair? Let us get the Statistics of International and Zambian companies that are participating and compare to previous years. Has the numbers reduced because the President or Vice President did not go to open the Trade Fair? If not, what is the problem?
If I had my way I would recommend all Trade Fairs or Commercial and Agricultural Shows be opened by appropriate Ministers of Finance, Commerce, Mining and Agriculture. In Zambia, we like to politicise everything. What a country we have!!
Pettiness is all they are about. Even in Parliament who the Free Masons are a national issue and the perception that the would like to create about free Masons of national importance? That is the calibre of leaders we have in the oppositions people who use their mouths not to address the issues that plague Zambians but just so that the attention is on them and not so that issues are addressed. This isnt about the why and how those people were killed its about casting aspiration on this administration. Yet when placed in power, what would they do? They are already on record as being violent and promoters of cadres while they loot.
History is made by people, a president can miss an important event and there is nothing sinister about it, as long as he has reasons for that. The other day I was reading about President Boko o Botswana missing the Sir. Seretse Khama commemoration day and he told the nation why he missed. So it did not really matter to Tswana people whether it was the first time Khama day was celebrated without the sitting president or not. People are the ones who make history, for example, for the first time in the history of Zambia, you Mwamba, you are the first former Ambassador to live into self imposed exile and no one is concerned about it. If the burial of Lungu goes ahead and takes place in South Africa, it will be the first time a former Zambian president to be buried outside his own country. So leave the President alone, he knows what he is doing, just mind your own business there in exile. It’s normal for some things to happen for the first time, what is your problem?