YOU HAVE FAILED! IT’S THREE YEARS OF INCREASED DARKNESS – LUBINDA
PF Vice president Given Lubinda who also served as member of Parliament under UPND has described Hakainde Hichilema’s three years of total failure.
President Hakainde Hichilema who three years ago was sworn in as Zambia’s seventh president after several unsuccessful attempts had promised to fix the economy and make Zambia better.
With two years to the elections some of the key economic promises such as lowering price of fuel, mealie meal, loadsheding and making the Kwacha strong remain unattained.
Here is what Lubinda who also served as Minster in the previous administration has wrote about Hichilema’s three years in office.
The 3rd anniversary
Hon. Given Lubinda wrote;
Since that day, three years have passed
When glamour and splendour filled the air
Hereos stadium reverberating with funfair
At least three million holding dear their trust
that to a better Zambia, all you shall thrust.
You, gleefully turning your head left and right as the egret
When your supporters jeered and booed your predecessor without regret.
Thirty six months to yesterday
What for them do you have to say?
Besides clamouring for your prolonged stay
And you insatiable appetite for us to you to pray?
Fifty six and a hundred weeks ago
You spoke with such vigor
And referred to predecessors as all were on liquor
And you were the first on this tour
Brother, twenty four months ahead on this day
The Zambians will have decided how you to pay
For the the sixty months of your fray
If we make it to that day
No one to them will have to tell
How instead of paradise, for many a Zambian you made hell
Those whose lives you cut short
Either from sadism or hate so hot
And Kungo’s blood shall shout
Into heavens door to the Lord
Those whose careers you brought to naught
Simply because your lingua they speak not
Those whose businesses you ruined
Simply because on your ideas and style they frowned
Those whose freedom you curtailed
Simply because other political ideas they retailed
Those whom in incarceration for long you kept
All because human feelings were hate swept
Mumbi, Zimba, Patel, Nkoma, why me all wept
Oh! How you double abducted Jay
Not from home but from death bed to say
Others, regular victims of brutality and dehumanization you made
Mmembe, Nakachinda, Mwamba, Lusambo, Munir and many a mate
Those whose property you foreclosed
Simply because by your associates you were told
Indeed between now and then
You shall posture but in vain
Because thirty six months will not be outdone
By twenty four months with many of them having you under the sun
Pontificating and bragging over what only your heart will wish
And yet nothing that you will have kept on your leash
Million words you shall speak
Rumble, scramble and tremble
Because only the clean plate can squeak
As the greasy ones make trouble
No one shall have to remind them
That deceit in your political life is the theme
That self praise and self aggrandisement your regime
That through false promises you captured the youth
And yet when it all mattered they were of no use
Will they not remember how you often retort
When challenges of the country you fail to spot
“Twalikalapo kale akekala pesa?”
Reminding of MCS’ advisory support
“Umunthu uyuumfwa ichalo chila mu fwisa”
No one will belabour the point
That PanAfricanism you fought
That against all odds a foreign base you allowed
Which all your predecessors upon frowned
That your friends from the West you brought
To shore up their hold on Zambia’s resources of all sort
That tax holidays to them you gave
When against Zambians high taxes you drove
That the National Day of prayer you cursed
And yet with glee, church functions you graced.
Oh! how it shall be remembered
That your predecessor’s strategic food stock you dismembered
All for your insatiable appetite for cash
Which however only in offshore accounts you stash
Leaving Zambia to consume which to dogs is poison
Oh how not to be reminded
How many a Zambian firm you grounded
Increasing the cost of the basic need basket
Increasing the costs on which business is founded
Increasing the period of darkness
Sending energy to power your neighbours’ business
All because of your insatiable appetite for makwabo
They shall only stand aside and declare
“Chakulemena chibbuddu yebo”
And you will mistake for a snare
For you have always had paranoia
We all will remember words of the founder
“All are my children but one whose name is yonder
Shall divide the family!”
Oh how true the words of old:
“Umukulu Apusa akabwe
Tapusa a kebo”