ZAMBIANS WON’T FUND YOUR AMBITIONS, KABUSWE TELLS SANGWA
MINES Minister Paul Kabuswe has told Constitutional lawyer John Sangwa that Zambians cannot fund his ambitions, arguing that the UPND and PF were not funded by foreigners.
Kabuswe has also advised Sangwa to abandon his “ka accent” and instead travel to the country’s remote areas and speak to the people normally.
On Tuesday, Sangwa said citizens should fund his campaign if they want him to stand for the presidency, as he believes campaigns should not be funded by external forces.
In an interview, Wednesday, Kabuswe said if Sangwa had presidential ambitions, he must be ready to mobilise resources.
He added that there was nothing wrong with getting help from foreigners who genuinely want to support with no strings attached.
“I don’t understand which world he is coming from because if you want Zambians to fund your ambition… Zambians cannot fund his ambitions, he must be ready if he has ambitions.
President HH ran UPND single-handedly for over 15 years; he was funding activities of the party and he was not being funded by foreigners, no. President HH has been a hard worker, a businessman and he used his own resources to run UPND for over 15 years. President Sata [was the] same, president Lungu, everyone. PF was run by its members as a family at the time, but anyway, I don’t want to talk about PF,” he said.
“As a party, you mobilise resources. How do you mobilise resources? You have to be creative; it’s not just about foreign funders. Even a foreign funder, if someone is a foreign funder and he genuinely wants to support your [party] without strings attached, why not? What is wrong with that? We have a lot of friends who are not Zambians who genuinely help me.
Can I refuse help because somebody lives in Congo? No, I can’t. I think he has a very strange understanding of Zambian politics. He’s the wrong guy to fit Zambian politics. He doesn’t understand what he’s doing. And he wants to go to other organisations. You can see that already somebody is thinking he is so marketable that any political party will just grab him and say, ‘come and stand for us’”.
Kabuswe also advised Sangwa not to go around the country with just his accent, but with a message.
“No, that’s not the way it works. Let him join a political party, go through the internal democratic processes of any political party, that’s the way it works. If not, let him form his own, that is the way it works.
So, I don’t want to really be talking about him, but let me tell you, he will lose wherever he will stand. Let him come, he will find us in the political field.
For you to be elected by Zambians, you have less than a year to go around the country, to go to places like… to go to all these places right across the country, to the remote parts, and he shouldn’t go with that ka accent of his; let him go there and talk to the people normally, not just speaking English in that accent,” said Kabuswe.
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He is a Zambian ,free to decide how he mobilizes funds and lastly free to stand on any political position, what’s wrong with that.
Am a Zambian, and can contribute to Counsel Sangwa’s Aspirations, which infact rhyme with mine.
If Mr Hakainde Hichilema bank rolled his resources for the UPND, it doesn’t mean every other person should do the same. Infact, I actually know of people who borrowed extensively for the UPND cause, and some have become paupers and destitute, and wallowing in debt. To say Mr Hakainde Hichilema single handedly sponsored the UPND for 15 years is Fake! A total Lie.
If wishes were horses?
Sangwapo is a Congolese we know him and that ka accent is from his Kasai background. Don’t start investigating him when its time for campaigns and waste his time.Its only in Zambia that any foreigner can just wake up and want to be the president. Immigration these are some of the cases you should be hundling not always waiting to be told by a minister what to do.If say I am Michael Musonda,definately,I know where my grandmother and my father `s graves are,I ve my uncles and my Aunties and those who died I still know where their graves are… I ve a lot of cousins both from my mother and my father`s side.We should not let another Mr Jamson trick us having only his sister as the only relative. Look at the confusion we have today.If we start investigating the whole government system checking who is a Zambian and who is not you will be surprised.The whole system is rotten and immigration is sleeping.The Zambia passport has just become a worthless document cause it can be obtained illegally.Its not respected overseas
HAAMUSONDA, all the bloggers have written sense. But iwe, you go straight into your tribal venom. What is wrong with you? An entire cow hiding in a monkey skin. Zambia does not belong to you Bantustans and Zambezi dwellers alone. We are one country.
COPY AND PASTE SOUTHERN PROVINCE.
REJECT TRIBALISM, CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION.
UMUFULO PA MUFULO.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Pany0 Pak0 you are one of the Katanga people masquerading as a Zambian.You think we don’t know you people?You are now many Including Muamba/Mwamba from Tanzania.Your life is about earning free money from the republic of Zambia when you are foreigners without doing anything.Let the truth be told without fear.You are fighting the current government more than Zambians themselves. People like you from Katanga don’t have peace,war is your other name.You really think that behavior we can tolerate it in Zambia?Real Zambians don’t make much noise like you Idiot.Come next year you will all run away
Haandigol for a long time I suspected you to be Kasai too and it’s clear that you are also.
You are quite right there is a shock coming in 2026 which no amount of funds will change
Sangwa must first of all speak his mother language so that we prove him to be zambian ,there is no way you can claim to be zambian when in your life time you have never created even a sentence in any zambian language, the guy is an imposter, and let him use his own resources to convince Zambians that he really zambian otherwise he should stop his agenda of wanting to be funded by the Zambians when he is a foreigner
I pledge a 1000zmw bwana Sangwa