Why is University of Zambia lecturer, Dr. Lubinda Haabazoka saying President Hichilema has scored 8.5 out of 10?(85%)?
Amb.Emmanuel Mwamba Wrote;
Many have stated that President Hakainde Hichilema has lamentably failed and these last four years constitute an unfortunate loss to Zambia.
● He has accumulated more foreign debt, $ 3.4 billion in 3 years. He found Zambia’s foreign debt at $ 11.9 billion and bot its sitting at $15.3 billion… Although the IMF said it’s actually standing at $ 21 billion.
● the exchange rate has remained volatile making the Zambian Kwacha one of the worst performing currencies against the basket of top world currencies.
● the debt restructuring process was bungled. It has not achieved the intended benefits. Further no debt forgiveness or debt cancellation was acheived. Further the Zambian Government has not pursued the new initiative to cancel the entire debt for poor countries being advocated by the Vatican campaigning this initiative in the Jubilee year.
The Vatican was instrumental in the earlier multilateral debt cancelation for poor countries where Zambia’s $7billion debt was forgiven in 2007.
Further President Hichilema failed to capitalise on the cordial and historical relationship between Zambia and China as the biggest bilateral creditor and couldn’t pursue total debt cancellation.
● Debt reschedule was so bungled that Zambia continues to pay high debt service and the reschedule only shifted the birden to a future government.
● For over 3 years, President Hakainde Hichilema has failed to resolve the cost of living crisis and the associated high cost of essential foodstuffs, mealie-meal, fuel, cooking oil, electricity and other living expenses.
● Hichilema’s strenth would have been the restoration of a good economy as he touted himself as a good economist. It has been his archilles heel!
● the human rights record has fallen significantly with extra judicial killings, torture,and inhuman treatment.
● the enactment of laws such as cyber security and cyber crimes Acts that have rolled back the democratic development and has undermined rights and freedoms of citizens.
● the unilateral and sinister decision to embark on constitutional amendments against the strong objection by civil society, the Church and other ley stakeholders.
● President Hichilema has destroyed Zambia’s good governance record by attempting to anhilate the Opposition, meddling in their affairs, abusing state institutions, and imprisoning critics, political opponents and rivals.
● obliteraring the independence and autonomy of democratic institutions and destroying the seperation of powers amonts yhe Executive, Legislature and Judiciary.
● actively fostering tyrsny and a dictatorship
Even Presodent Hichilema has valued his own record as about 50%.
Clearly the remarks by Dr. Haabazoka are therefore, merely patronising and meant to be pleasing to the ears of the UPND.
Muamba the boy from Tanzania, you are the people who has landed this country in the mess it is today. You people borrowed for your pockets and Tantameni without any proper plan to pay back. You defaulted to pay the Eurobond and today you want to play smart Muamba. Who do you want to fool? People who appreciate what HH has achieved is not you and you have never been. Keep lamenting and collecting baseless data. They will vote for him massively with a wider margin which may even be doubled next year.
As for you Muamba should never be allowed near any government in future. You are a danger to Zambia
This what HH has done in case you don’t know:
-Free education and Meal Allowances to our student
-Debt restructuring and dismantling it by paying back
– Mines are Opening
-Mulungushi textiles opening
-Kafue plant to produce cheap fertilizer
-Employment of young men and women
-Paying farmers and pensioners on time
-CDF
-No more Hooligans at our bus stations and in our Markets
-No has been killed under HH by the police
Mukose ba kawalala!
It is not surprising that HAABAZOKA is supporting HAAKAINDE.
Reject tribalism, corruption and oppression.
God bless Captain Ibrahim Traore.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Tyrol, don’t rush to bring in the issue of tribalism, otherwise you will eventually realize that you are like a person who lives in a grass thatched house and keep throwing……on those with… metallic roofs. Tyrol do you know that one out ten of the individuals making noise and expressing opposition ( on social media platforms) to what the good government is doing are linked to Umodzi kumawa? Check through their names, you will prove this. And those at the hems of Association, NGOS, and some church groups have taken advantage, hijacked and used their positions to drive the agendas Umodzi kumawa and Tonse alliance. Unfortunately Tonse alliance is unrealistically now put on fire by ECL. Tonse alliance with architects of Umodzi kumawa was coming up well but with, ECL, the confuser, It has become pregnant with confusion.
We need genuine economists, like Habazoka, constitutional lawyers, like lawyer Paul, educationist like Gary nkombo, etc and not fake ones. Yes we need people like Dr. Chilufya and other genuine professionals to continue working with HH, to make Zambia a better country. A criminal will always be a criminal and will always support criminality, but genuine professionals will always give just information to the nation as they execute their professional duties. In this regard, fake professionals have no posts in in the genuine democratic way of running and taking the nation forward, anchored on the rule of law
Uko, lost man in the community. The only one who doesn’t know and see what His Excillency President HAKAINDE has done and continue doing. You will always be thinking and writing in dununa reverse.
1. You heavily borrowed as PF and some of the monies your cadres started burning without fear and shame. In the end you failed to pay tbe inkongole and defaulted in 2020. UPND is serving the debt ( kwenyu)
2. You contnued getting the subsidised fuel on credit and left a debt of about US $890 million for OMC (oil marketing companies) UPND is desmatling that debt. Kwenyu.
3. You gassed citizens and killed them during your gassing period. You created KAMUGODI as PF where citizens went through hell by and from your cadres. UPND has stopped this madness.(kwenyu).
4. NSAMA NSAMA, Lawrence Banda, Joseph Kaunda killed in day light by your emissaries. UPND has stppped these evil acts. Kwenyu
5. You denied North – Western province even a single road under local government to be graded, giving the whole province 0. This evil is and will never be tolerated again. UPND is giving them graders, and other equipment to work on feeder roads. Kwenyu
6. Debt restructuring, President HAKAINDE HICHILEMA has managed it when you as PF completely failed because you were jinkie in tbe eyes of creditors and international community. HH has done it. Kwenyu.
7. You had your CDFat K1. 6 million which was just and mostly available to your so called strongholds but HH has taken it to high hights – K36.1 million given equitably to all the 156 constituencies. Kwenyu
8. HH has brought free education when your as PF made parents pay even for the projects which were supposed to be done by government. Kwenyu.
9. You as PF you removed meal allowance that was supposed to help vulnerable University students at CBU and UNZA and even increased the bursaries and Scholarship loans to 15%. HH and UPND has brought back meal allowances and reduced the loans pay back to 10%. Kwenyu.
10. You wanted to steal on the lusaka Ndola dual carriage way by bringing a contractor at a cost of US $1.2 billion kwacha. HH is doing it at US$650million kwacha and using PPP model. Kwenyu.
11. Yiu stole money that was supposed to be collected by councils in bus stops and markerts which you shared as equal PF Thieves. UPND and HH has removed this day light robbery and councils now are getting revenue from these facilities. Kwenyu
This is just out of 11. But the KWENYU list is long
Work in progress ( getting it out of the – immidiate, medium and long term plan)
1. Work on electricity deficit to finish loadshading- interventions ( sollar plants being done, mamba phase two being worked on and many other projects currently being worked on. Ala wukashala mulimwamoneni. Kwenyu
2. Fuel price reduction: many interventions being done including the TAZAMA pipe line if i am not mistaken and other. Kwenyu.
3. Mealie meal prices: work work work not tantameni. People planted and have harvested more food at household level and country level. Additionally people are cultivating and harvesting. Already the markert is responding favourably. The principle of demand and supply. Kwenyu
4. Exchange rate: copper production is incressing and exports will also increase bringing in the much needed foreign currency. Aha. NIPANO TULI wukapapa. Kwenyu.
Muamba wukashala mulimwamoneni nokulila. NIPANO TULI
Mwamba, there’s a difference between 8.9 out 10 and 8.5 out of 10. How do you misquote numbers on the front pages? As usual you want to manipulate the figures! Go back and read his message. Habazoka is in a better position to access economics than you.
Hey Mwamba this is the headline: Haabazoka Gives UPND 8.9 out of 10 Points.
If you can’t notice that there’s a difference between 8.5 and 8.9, then you have big problems in the head to even write useless stuff when you’re illiterate.
Lecturer Lubinda Habazoka would have given HH 100 % but he is a very strict marker.Probably he realized one retiree is still waiting for the “ka some fing” for his pension.The one who was retired on national interest in 2000.HH shall always be the most celebrated President in the history of Zambia.He came to power amid economic conondrum, waste drought which caused serious load shading and found unprecedented burden of debt.And he is busy fixing.But Bally kwena mukali.Wa kuleka fye.Shatala mona po umuntu ubomba so.
He has switched sides from PF bootlicker to upnd bootlicker. He tried hard to get appointed to a position in PF during their time by defending and agreeing with whatever PF said or did. He is now doing the same with upnd in the hope that at least upnd might appoint him somewhere.
How people change in a life time is always a beautiful thing. Some change for the better and others for worse. Continue to politic when facts are there to see is treacherous. This same man should publish the before and after. I will start for him…PF took over from MMD, Kwacha at less than 9 to 1 USD and left it at 24! Mealie Meal at K50 and left it at K250; Inflation in single digits but left it in double digits; Debt at 3.5B USD and left it USD14.5B and the same IMF being quoted, puts it over USD33B when you add domestic debt: found peace in bus stops but unleased terror; found meal allowances but removed and totally kept 2 million children out of school. Now start by saying PF 1.6m in CDF and currently at 30m (If you don’t want to mention the name of actors!) Please now draw a graph to show the before and after. Anyway, i dont know why we even reply, you speak to your 1.8m. It was purpose to keep them illiterate so that you can be propagating longer. Fortunately, most of the citizens see and feel what is being done.