By Amb Emmanuel Mwamba
Was it a Case of money laundering gone wrong- the Last View on the Purported Auction of 3,000 Pedigree Bull
First they issued a statement with impressive figures that President Hakainde Hichilema would conduct an auction of 3,000 pedigree bulls.
This statement was widely circulated on the public broadcaster, ZNBC, Kalemba and Ministry of Information and Media social-media pages and others clearly for maximum effects.
However, it appears that you can engage in propaganda about the Constitution but not on a subject like this.
While stakeholders were asking about ehy the purpose of such private and personal information and private business was dominating the public media, the livestock industry was asking different questions.
Farmers and industry experts quickly scoffed at the information, especially the purported number of 3,000 pedigree bulls available for sale or auction.
Apparently, breeding pedigree bulls is like breeding thorough-bred horses. It’s not an easy undertaking or a mass exercise!
Breeding pedigree bulls like Bonsmara, Romagnola, Santa Gertrudis, Red Poll and Boran that are well suited for the Zambian climate, is quite difficult.
This requires an investments in research, to stop inbreeding, to improve infrastructure and the animal science behind it, abandon processes and traditional practices like communal grazing, communal breeding and also invest in fighting livestock disease outbreaks.
Breeding these pedigree bulls also requires genetic and DNA testing science to be involved to help obtain accurate and desired calves to ensure the accuracy of the genetics of the breed.
It is for this reason that in 2024, Cabinet ( selfishly) approved duty-free importation of associated genetics of pedigree bulls sourced from the world to help grow these breeds in Zambia.
Boran breed is more established in Zambia brought initially from Kenya.
A few farms like the Graham Mulders, Lwimba Ranch, and Mutanda Ranches are engaged in this highly specialised breeding but only sell a dozen or so a year.
So we debunked the false assertions that 3,000 pedigree bulls were to be auctioned.
Later, a poster was issued was circulated to show that only 150 bulls would be auctioned.
In the end, only 36 bulls were sold.
So what was the intention of telling such a humongous lie that PresidentHichilema had 3,000 pedigree bulls to sale, other than to create false public records that wealth was being created and wealth was being multiplied? A case of money laundering!
It is for this reason that we continue to urge President Hichilema to declare his assets, liabilities and business interests even to the point of his irritation and that of his supporters.
It is the law.
Article 261 and 263 of the Republican Constitution require that the President and all senior public officials declare their assets.
Further Parliamentary and Ministerial Code of Conduct of 1994 obligates Memvers of Parliament, the Speaker and the Deputies, and Cabinet Minister declare their assets, liabilities, pecuniary interests and business interest.
And that such declaration be done annually.
But public officials are ignoring the requirement to declare their assets because the leader has not provided leadership in this area.
This also greatly undermines the fight against corruption, transparency and accountability.
You keep saying that HH should declare his assets, but he did Sir! He could not stand for elections if he hadn’t. It was your former pal ECL and PF which stopped the publication of the assets. So, why are you complaining. We knew that ECL assets rose by the exponentil formula of e to the power pi by i (imaginary) in 18 months. When people talked, he moved to stop judge Chulu from publicising. Manje mwaona ka.
Let me say this for free to you Emmanuel. You had started very well raising pertinent issues regarding governance and social-economic matters. Along the way your hatred for President HH overwhelmed you and you became very personal. No one wants to be part of your personal battles with the President. Those are your issues that both of you can resolve privately as men, that is if at all the president has the issues with you. Seek your conscious and find out if what you are doing is truly a good thing or you are just a hateful person. Your hate for HH seems to be tribal. Now, is tribe really such an issue with you such that you even forget about the importance of coexistence? What will your children think about you when they realize the basis of your hatred for one man? We can seek inner peace by accepting differences and the need to coexist. It’s not easy, but it’s possible. Heal my brother heal. You have very good skills that you can put to excellent use for the benefit of the country. For now, you sound very divisive, and most people see you as such. You don’t seek leadership by being bitter. By the even your friends in PF say aba nabo.
Your point is correct, the man’s hatred has gone too far! He is no freedom fighter and must just come back and contribute to food basket. It is no lie that a 50kg bag is K340. He can take advantage and make money quietly than pursue the president at all cost. No one wants to be part of that personal agenda. Even ba 1.8m are tired! And get used to it, HH is here to stay!
Mr. Mwamba, i think it is good to be good to people on your way up because they will also be good to you on your way down This is very important and humbling in life because it shows love not hate.
Surely even when a person is selling his own animals, whatever the situation, can that be an issue to you just because of the hate you habor on him?. His own animals? can a normal person stand on the fence just to manufacture a lie and spread it on internet as breaking news on every social media plartform? for what reason or purppse really. Is this what democracy entails? If this is the democracy we want, then we are lost.
Mr. Mwamba even where you are hiding, because of your own created cases for not taming you tongue, not many are bothered àbout what you are doing where you are, because that is your own life. Even the money that is sustaining you in a foreign land ( be it in USA or Europe ) where things are expensive we don’t know where it is coming from neither follow you, because that is your individual life unlike Edga Chagwa Lungu who is a former president and can manage to stay in South Africa for months, but for you we don’t know and we are not bothered, but only as a fellow Zambian. But for me as a citizens and of course speaking for myself not other Zambians. But the law that you offended and injured is still following and haunting you through the courts of law and the POLICE whom you have to report to for answers. I am aware of the arrest warrants that were issued on you if i am not mistaken for the cases you committed. However, why is it always you, ànd especially Mmembe, who doesn’t miss a day talking ill of His Excillency the President of the Republic of Zambia, President HAKAINDE HICHILEMA. Why? Why?.
Even on the issue of declaring his assets, but for him to be allowed by ECZ to stand for presidential elections in 2021 it means he followed the procedure and it was approved of him hence the ECZ accepting his nomination papers to participate in the 2021 Zambian presidential and general elections and massively won. You as PF tried by all means to stop him and his running mate, Honourable Mama WK Mutale Nalumango, the Vice President of the Republic of Zambia but you failed. Infact HH has busineses not just a business- these are numbers that generate income for him every year if not daily or monthly, so his investments always increases his networth in terms of his value as an individual and his record is clean. Next time it won’t stagnant but it has grown. This again it will be an issue to you but what else can one expect from a person or people who hate him. It is always negatives.
So why always fight a losing battle. Change and do something sensible you are a parent don’t be a lying propagandist father. There’s nothing else that will change the status quo today Mr. HAKAINDE Hichilema is the President of the Republic of Zambia. It is either you Love him or hate him, but the truth is in reality – No change alikala kale pamupandu BALLY He is the President of Zambia. If you are still thinking he is not, i tell you that he is arlready been and you will be with him until 203. PERIOD!
Mr. Mwamba, i think it is good to be good to people on your way up because they will also be good to you on your way down This is very important and humbling in life because it shows love not hate.
Surely even when a person is selling his own animals, whatever the situation, can that be an issue to you just because of the hate you habor on him?. His own animals? can a normal person stand on the fence just to manufacture a lie and spread it on internet as breaking news on every social media plartform? for what reason or purppse really. Is this what democracy entails? If this is the democracy we want, then we are lost.
Mr. Mwamba even where you are hiding, because of your own created cases for not taming you tongue, not many are bothered àbout what you are doing where you are, because that is your own life. Even the money that is sustaining you in a foreign land ( be it in USA or Europe ) where things are expensive we don’t know where it is coming from neither follow you, because that is your individual life unlike Edga Chagwa Lungu who is a former president and can manage to stay in South Africa for months, but for you we don’t know and we are not bothered, but only as a fellow Zambian. But for me as a citizens and of course speaking for myself not other Zambians. But the law that you offended and injured is still following and haunting you through the courts of law and the POLICE whom you have to report to for answers. I am aware of the arrest warrants that were issued on you if i am not mistaken for the cases you committed. However, why is it always you, ànd especially Mmembe, who doesn’t miss a day talking ill of His Excillency the President of the Republic of Zambia, President HAKAINDE HICHILEMA. Why? Why?.
Even on the issue of declaring his assets, but for him to be allowed by ECZ to stand for presidential elections in 2021 it means he followed the procedure and it was approved of him hence the ECZ accepting his nomination papers to participate in the 2021 Zambian presidential and general elections and massively won. You as PF tried by all means to stop him and his running mate, Honourable Mama WK Mutale Nalumango, the Vice President of the Republic of Zambia but you failed. Infact HH has busineses not just a business- these are numbers that generate income for him every year if not daily or monthly, so his investments always increases his networth in terms of his value as an individual and his record is clean. Next time it won’t be the same or stagnant but it has grown. This again will be an issue to you but what else can one expect from a person or people who hate him. It is always negatives.
So why always fight a losing battle. Change and do something sensible you are a parent don’t be a lying propagandist father. There’s nothing else that will change the status quo today Mr. HAKAINDE Hichilema is the President of the Republic of Zambia. It is either you Love him or hate him, but the truth is in reality – No change alikala kale pamupandu BALLY He is the President of Zambia. If you are still thinking he is not, i tell you that he is arlready been and you will be with him until 2031. PERIOD!
The boy from Tanzania is a problem.These are the people who took advantage to exploit our country and Zambians.They got used receiving and eating free money for doing nothing and that is the only thing he knows. They hate HH for cutting them out. They thought this country belongs to only them bakawalala.Start farming and count your own bulls Muamba.If I was the president I could have arrested you for using those fake names Muamba.We are going to make sure that you are not near any government in future. Thank God Zambians are good people
HH is a living testimony, as far as the need and call for hard working and investing are concerned. HH talks from practical point of view. Chakubaba bwanji Nakachinda? Who doesn’t know that HH has thousands of cattle? Jealous! jealous! Just work hard and don’t continue being a parasite on ECL. Let ECL enjoy his retirement quietly. Don’t behave like snakes of the garden of Eden to entice ECL and pursuade him to continue being in the political arena, just because of his money you want to benefit from. Please don’t swindle him. I love ba lungu, but he’s just tooslow to listen to advice.
Mwamba,. jealous. Who doesn’t know that HH has thousands of cattle? Just work hard and stop being a parasite on ECL. Let him enjoy his retirement quietly. Don’t behave like snakes of the garden of Eden to entice ECL and pursuade him to continue being in the political arena just because of your hidden agenda of hummering his money together with him.l love ba ECL, but only that ba ECL nabo, he is too slow to listen to advice.