ZAMBIA IS NOT A PROFIT MAKING VENTURE – KAFWAYA
…as he adds that Zambia is a service provider to its people
Lusaka… Thursday, January 26, 2023 (Smart Eagles)
PF hopeful presidential candidate Hon Mutotwe Kafwaya has castigated the New Dawn Administration for burying their heads into the highly praised IMF program to sort out the economic challenges that the country is grappling with.
Hon Kafwaya said the IMF is an institution based on profits adding that Zambia is not a profit making venture.
He wondered why the IMF is tying their help to the debt.
The potential PF president said this when he featured on 5FM today.
“IMF is an institution which is based on profits. Zambia is not a profit making venture. Zambia is a service provider to its people,” he said.
“And then you say we are looking to IMF. And how do you solve debt by borrowing further for God’s sake? If IMF was happy to solve our problems, why should they insist that we must borrow from them for us to be on their program?”
Hon Kafwaya said the UPND government has just made the debt level in the country escalate.
He said the UPND has nothing in terms of infrastructure development to point at if they are to claim that they built anything out of the debt.
“So what program is that? Increasing our debt? … come and borrow money from us then we will help you. If you borrow from China you’re in trouble, you borrow from India you’re in trouble. It is going to two years now there is no IMF solution. You could have heard in the assembly there the minister saying no ba PF mwalifilwa ukukongola kuli ba IMF ifwe natukongola,” he said.
“You have just made the debt become bigger. And unfortunately, you are not building anything from that debt.”
Hon Kafwaya suggested that government ought to use home grown solutions to sort out the economic challenges.
He also said that there is a lot of money that goes into the treasury from the toll gates.
“How many toll gates are there between here to Ndola? We have got three toll gates… how much money goes into the treasury from these toll gates? It’s a lot of money. Let us be patriotic,” he said.
And Hon Kafwaya denounced all the things that are retrogressive in the governance of the country.
“Where you see tribalism my friend, it is bad for our country. Where you see corruption, it is bad for our country. Where you see malfunctioning institutions, they are bad for our country. When you see lack of service delivery when the government should be delivering services, it’s bad for our country. Where you see children going to school hungry because food is so expensive, it is bad for our country,” he said.
We want ba teacher baleya nabekuta. Abana ba sukulu nabena nabekuta elo mwachita deliver free education.
You can’t be saying free education when pupils are hungry. Even the President has said in newspaper today that people think better when they have eaten. When people have eaten that is when they think straight. But what are the people going to eat when you have increase mealie meal prices?