GOVERNMENT has described as ‘political blindness’ Patriotic Front president Michael Sata’s sentiments that he cannot see on-going developmental projects Government has undertaken throughout Zambia.
Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha said yesterday that every Zambian can attest to the number of schools and hospitals that are being built and rehabilitated.
Speaking during a phone-in Radio Phoenix programme on Friday, MrSata accused Government of using cheap propaganda by stating that it has built schools and hospitals.
“The development projects that Government has undertaken are very visible and the people of Zambia are appreciating. It’s only MrSata who is not a good leader who is not appreciating what the government is doing,” Lieutenant-General Shikapwasha said.
He said a good opposition leader appreciates even what the people in Government are doing, especially projects benefiting citizens.
Lt-Gen Shikapwasha said most of the hospitals such as the Lusaka hospital and the Chongwehospital are very visible because they are built on the Great East Road.
He said many high schools, too, such as Kacholola in Nyimba and Mumbwa, are also clearly visible.
Lt-Gen Shikapwasha said the mobile hospitals the PF leader is criticising are in the country and citizens are already appreciating the services.
He said the hospitals are on 4X4 wheels and will be able to reach all rural areas in the country.
On homosexuality, Lt-Gen Shikapwasha said Mr Sata should not try to run away from what he told Danish journalists that he would legalise homosexuality if he became president of Zambia.
He said Mr Sata’s sentiments of legalising homosexuality are demonic and he owes Zambians an apology.
Lt-Gen Shikapwasha said MrSata is on tape and it is insincere of him to accuse Government of selling propaganda on him.
He said Government will not be distracted by opposition leaders like MrSata from its agenda of bringing meaningful development in the country.
“Let him continue criticising us. He will never bring us down. We are a government that is focused on developing Zambia,” Lt-Gen Shikapwasha said.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
Mr. Sata flip flops all the time you don’t even know when he is telling the truth or when he is lying. What I have noticed though is Mr. Sata lies more than he tells the truth. Even his supporters are not sure whether to support or not and they don’t even know his opinion on any issue that they chant useless slogans and use emotional blackmail to runaway from issues they have been cornered on.
Mr. Sata should grow up and be mature on issues. The govt has done a lot for the people that he is lying by stating he is not seeing any of the things that have been done when many people including his supporters can see them. Mr. Sata’s kind of politics is very irritating.
Mr sata is right. Shikapwasha is lying.
This is the most rubbish politician human kind has ever seen. His stinks to the very core of his filthy body. What matters to this scams is linning their pockets and every zambian can attest to that stupidity. Poverty, unemployement, inflation lack of medicine in primary hospital are ever issues affecting people. He’s the least fool to talk about vision. He’s disfunctional and lack morals and least humility.
Shikapwasha nichikwao cha minister hiding in the skin of a Pastor. I would feel ashamed of him if he were my father especially when he opens his mouth. Anyway, he can’t learn and in my language we say, ‘Nichizende” and zende aliye mankwala. Good luck sir, we shall at the battle field.
Just like HOMOSEXUALS do not appreciate the creation of God of a Man and Woman for conjugal rights and for procreation, it is expecting too much for their no. 1 supporter and promoter to see any good in Zambia that is being spearheaded by Govt. The best govt and well meaning citizens of this country can do is ignore this pervert for now and speak our mind at the polling booth.
iwe chi shikapwasha wat development u r tokin abt.H.E mr sata askd were that development is takin place.coz pipo owez tok abt development blindly.viva sata viva pf.change is cumin
our kateka is right Mr shikapwasha there is no truth in you i ever wonder if you a are pastor or what are you in your right state or what. can you call that junk along great east road a hospital for sure you have shared the money that was meant for that junk with the rb of this world and don’t forget this time you will feel the heat kuya chimudala
it looks to me that the job of ronnie is to come back with an answer to whatever MCS says.what has ronnie done for zambia as politician.where is his constituency.we must remind our leaders to be MINDFUL of the reasons we elect them.i dont think we elect them to come and criticise the opposition all the time . we give them a chance to create policies that improve the live s of our people and to lobby govt as MPs to improve our areas in needy issues and to manage on our behalf our resources -natural and artificial.we put them in power to provide an safe and enabling environment for us. how often do we hear this .
Shikafimofimo, icimona ngepenga. We will vote Sata, whether you want or you don’t want. Ni donchi kubeba.
kwandagala uli wa chebe chi shichimona cha fake.perhaps the only development they have brought is fattening his nose
MMD ‘development’ is the same as carpeting a rotten floor. Eventually, the rotten floor will carve in, carpet and all then what happens to the house?
They are throwing dirt in people’s eyes by building Potemkin villages.
In rural areas were i work from. There is food security, pipo are buying cars, motorbike and improved houses since 2007 when i joined grz. Poverty is only with pipo in town and rural who can’t farm with fisp prog.in place.
the government should be for all, should not discriminate on sexual orientation, tribal, origin, ethincity etc. We have a government for RB, GK and top leadership who are seeing development now because they are first class citizens. When they need medical attention they are flown abroad, their children are oversees, they are above the law etc. Just wait minute Shikapwasha and you will wakeup to the truth
Shikapwasha is right , you dont need a rocket scientist or specs to see Lusaka Ganeral Hospital. Sata has nothing to discredit the GRZ on. He is just enticing the un educated Zambians whose state of minds/IQ you can tell by their contributions on the blog.
VIVA MMD & RB
Whenever Chikapwasha opens his mouth, it is dirty coming out. What a Rev. and Minister? Anyway, there are no people in MMD to be ministers that’s why Rupiah is now getting from UNIP where Mkhondo Lungu comes from.
WIND OF CHANGE IS COMING
VIVA SATA AND PF 2011.
BEWARE OF A SMALL TRIBAL PARTY WHICH JUST DIVIDE THE VOTES.
Sata and his PF supporters, including Fr.Bwalya, Bishops Duffy & Mpundu , cannot deliberately burry their heads in the sand & pretend they cannot see events in their surroundings. This clique of politicians & Priests use the Church to cheat catholic believers that RB’s Govt is doing nothing for the poor. We offer these preachers of doom and hatred the following facts: In 2010 a road contractor hired to broaden part of Great East Rd from Lusaka up to Lukwipa’s area worked on a package that included tarring an access road from the base of Manenekela to Mumpashya Hospital which is run by the Catholic Church. The hospital serves the needs of Rufunsa people & road accident victims on GERd. The Post can drive there, verify this fact and tell the truth. What will Sata & Compay say?
BaShikapwasha sata umwine alikana ati what benefit can he (sata) get if he legalised homosexuality? I respect Sata fo 1 thing he is the only oppostion leader who has kept the mmd worried and they are always talking about him daily making him more popular. Am sure MMD leaders are not sleeping well, they have night mares of sata ruling and ordering their aressts
we have had homo’s in Zambia before , if any of you were there during our teen time days of the late 80’s and early 90’s will agree with me, i don’t want to mention names but many have passed on and if you go to prison baba you will be received with open arms by the boss ati ka virgin kaisa. so let us not beat by the bush and find the cause of it can it be an illness or they do it for the sake of money. we also had a minister in chiluba’s government who was married to George mermigus (may his soul rest in peace) the first owner of carousel shopping center,so please stop the nonsense of homo that homo this , even the bible talks about it so what is new about it maybe there god made john and peter and your God made Adam and eve.:((:((:o:-?:-?
Sata is not a very observant fellow. Up to now he has not noticed that the PACT with UPND is over. It is not surprising that he has not noticed the developments going on.
Iwe chishikaps who told you, that 4x4s doesn’t need service? Those mobiles hospitals are a waste of national resources whether they are are 4×4 or not means nothing to us.Government will fail to maintain them. If you can’t maintatain the existing structures, that only need painting how are you going to maintain those mobile hospitals?.And mmd you shuold, even be ashamed to talk about development in the country. In those hospitals there is no medicine and no medical staff as most of them have left the country due to poor mmd polices. This is why whenever Kafupi’s heart needs to be checked he rushes to South Africa same with Rb’s knee when it starts jerking he always goes to south africa.What you are referring to as development is total rubish because you mmd guys don’t use those…
I was in Mongu in the last few months it’s worse than what it used to be when I was a child. Back in the early eighties it was booming and very neat, but now it’s like a village. This is what 20 years of MMD is regarded as development. When MMD came into power these schools should have been built then today Zambia was supposed to be a super economy. So what development is this that is move at a snails pace which is only concentrated mainly in Lusaka, and a few other towns.
services in zambia. Your children don’t attend the schools you are talking about they are all abroad.Whom are you fooling here? Sata is very right in his statements. Stop provoking the already volatile situation just enjoy your last days in government as we are determined to usher in a new government that will respect us not you mmd full of thieves. We have always said building schools roads or indeed hospitals is the job of any government in power.Why do you want us to praise you for the things you were put in office and paid for doing? It’s like telling your children to praise youfor buying them food. Thats the duty of every parent and they deserve no praises from their children for doing so.Stinking hospitals, no medicines and specialised equipment to use.
What development is Ronnie talking about ********* who fled the country when Captain Solo announced that soldiers have over throne the FTJ regime when he was ZAF commander…the question is can Ronnie tell us what developmental issues has RB initiated from the time that he elected president of this country…the hospital in great east rd was started by the late Mwanawasa including all the schools and the district hospitals,RB is even failing to do township roads in lusaka,ring roads to reduce congestion etc…SATA has losts of vision and is well prepared to lead this nation than RB…his focus has been very consistent with his deeds,same language that the zambian people what to hear…the party Manifesto and the PF WEBSITE that was launched are a milestone to secure win
The all copperbelt province has only one dialisis machine and patients have to queue as if they are buying bus tickets at kmb.Look at roads in zambia? In chingola you need an helicopter to go to Buyantashi from town centre and indeed many places. How may people can afford helicopters in zambia? It’s you mmd thieves. The dilapidation of roads in zambia is country wide.Zambia looks like we have just come from a civil war. Poverty ekufwa ati development just shut up.Development is not limited to bringing mobile hospitals or building schools. If people are wallowing in such abject poverty no employment at all, it is useless to talk about such. Sata is more close to the people, he knows what is required for this country not you thieves. You are always in the air flying like bats to nowhere.
Even me, i dont see those developments, may be its because i stopped watching ZNBC?
Ba no 18 which planet are you coming from?The new pact ,now is not between upnd and PF. It’s amongst the people themselves.Forget about upnd/pf pact it does not exist any more. People are busy going round the country sensetising the electorates that, the pact is yourselves to vote against mmd in this year’s general elections. It’s not about sata/hh no but the people because they were the initiaters of the pact.Already there is copperbelt and eastern provinces’s pact among the the people.The people have resorted to work together irrespective of what party they belong to and vote for a credible presidential canditate of their choice.This does not include mmd’s Rb, without leaving their respective parties. Efyo ileya nomba.This is the NEW pact amongst electorates themselves, chapwa.
#25
be rest assured that #18 is on this planet otherwise he would not have contributed on LT. He is also more sensible than you are because it is Sata who is still insisting that he is awaiting a communication from UPND for him to acknowledge that the PF/UPND pact nolonger exits. Don’t illusion yourself about an imaginary pact with the people. Call it a pact with your supporters who include homosexuals. In this year’s election people will still vote for MMD, UPND and PF. And it is common knowledge that MMD will win easily. It is also common knowledge that PF/UPND PACT would have fared better against the MMD than they will do individually. Only a few f00ls – at the post and some bloggers here will deny this.
If you don’t watch ZNBC and all you know is your kitchen and the street conner where you buy a copy of the post then we will excuse you for not seeing the economic break thru Zambia is experiencing and the developments taking place all over the country. keep dreaming that Sata is closer to the people he hacked in Chawama, to the people whose houses he demolished in Kanyama, to the people he calls Nyamazai, the people whose paramount chiefs he wanted abolished, the people he calls tribal, the people who hate homosexuality. Keep dreaming mate.
What development is chikapwasha bragging about? Poverty and unemployment levels are soaring. I don’t need to watch ZNBC to see development but I should be able to see it through the way people are living.Dora sillier abolished APU claiming she had built enough schools to accommodate everyone,her campaign plans have failed because infrastructure is not there. So which development are these chaps talking about. Anyway,voters will tell you that you have done nothing come 2011.
Mr Sata should take a drive to Chainama to see the new hospital.
#27 Ndate Sicaba
Darling your hatred other human beings will crash you if you don’t change ASAP, smell the coffee mate MMD is on its way out. We know you’re a UPND tribalist but as they say ‘ if you can’t beat them join them’ you know as much as i do that your party can only win in Choma or Monze so stop hating and join the winning team.
Ndate Sichaba or whatever, we don’t need a binoculars to see the poverty in zambia. If you are on mmd pay roll am sorry things won’t be the same for you. What development are you talking about which only mmd boot lickers are able to see than the general public.People need jobs, good roads,good health facilities for all not mobiles hospitals and habouring criminals. Privatisation of key industries to be done transparently not at state house.Stop killing innocent people.Development should be taken to all corners of zambia even where the ruling party is not popular to be appreciated. Most of all government should represent the wishes of the the people not mmd and its tandem of thieves. Its now 47 years of independence we are still going to South Africa for treatment. We can’t even compare
shikapwasha is an i…dio…t!
zambia to Rwanda the country that had civil war. They are more advanced than us.So what are you telling us here?We helped to liberate most of our neighbouring countries just compare their infrastructure to Zambia. Up to now no proper national stadium only bluffing just because you are on mmd pay roll.Its a shame for anyone to support the mmd goverment. Take time and go round the country you will see for yourself if you are not blind the high levels of poverty in zambia. People have have no choice but to feed on anything.Many times we have heard or read about people having eaten poisonous roots thinking its food. Most grade twelves are the ones doing security jobs where they are paid salaries some people use for ten minutes talk time.And you are foolishly sayig their is development.Nonsense
Stop the lies! In what way is Rwanda more advanced than Zambia? Rwanda’s economy is just a 3rd of Zambia’s. Whether it is Agriculture production, manufacturing, electricity generation, telecommunications etc Zambia beats Rwanda pants down! Rwanda’s economy is in the same league as Malawi’s.
Stop the lies! In what way is Rwanda more advanced than Zambia? Rwanda’s economy is just a 3rd of Zambia’s. Whether it is Agriculture production, manufacturing, electricity generation, telecommunications etc Zambia beats Rwanda pants down! Rwanda’s economy is in the same league as Malawi’s.
Development or no Development KK, my point is RB is better both as a person and to have as a national leader than one MCS. Given the choices we have in this year’s election I would rather pick RB because I believe he has done wonders in two years. If we had him as President in 1991 followed by Mwanawasa (or Mazoka) or vise versa probably we would be better off. I do no believe our answer to our problems lies in Sata and PF. sata and his team just lack the quality we need in leadership to steer this nation to a higher levels of economic Development. RB is not doing that badly. I wish HH and UPND could join MMD and may be have him as president in 2016. I am not sure whether he has the political clout and charisma to sell UPND and himself to really be a political force in our politics…
I have noticed that all bloggers who like to label others as tribalists are either retarded or lack the capacity to debate issues. I therefore elected a long time ago never to respond to them.
#35 Ndate Sicaba
Don’t be silly, when you come here spreading hatred and bigotry you should expect us to call you by the right name whether you like or not. Some of us have been here long enough to notice shoots of hatred and in particular tribalism and make no mistake mate we don’t toralate such vices on this dignified blog.
Well said Ndate sicaba. PF is shivering like dry leaves when they see the schools, roads, hospitals etc that are coming up. They know that people are changing allegiances because of these developments. That is why Mr Sata would rather not “see” them. We are not there yet, much remaqins to be done but the country is firmly on the right path. However, the people are comfortable with MMD because it did not promise them to eradicate poverty in 90 days. That was a PF promise which voters did not believe in 2008 and will not believe now or in future because they know that it is an illusion of Mr Sata.
By the way, PF, do you still believe that you can eradicate poverty and put more money in people’s pockets within 90 days of Mr Sata coming to power?
Iwe Chimsana if you have been here a long time ago why bring in tribalism when no blogger has mentioned it. You are the one who is a tribalist. You think critising Satana is being tribal when he is the one who called HH and Tongas tribal. noone calls you a tribalist for your negative comments on RB. Let bloggers critise and praise the politicians freely without being labelled any names. grow up if you are old as you claim.
#39 Puchukwe
I suppose you still young to appreciate my point and probably you’ve never even heard of Mapatizya formular. I will leave it at that for now, come back after you’ve read brief history about your party and how how HH came to be UPND President.
SHIKAPWETETE IS CONFUSED COZ HE KNOZ SATA IS PRESIDENT IN FEW MONTHS TIME. THESE I.D.I.O.T.S SHUD BE ASHAMED. IF U AR STRUGGLING TO POINT AT DEVELOPMENT FOR THAT MATTER IN LUSAKA…WAT MORE IN FAR PLACES LIKE KABWE , SHANGOMBO? YOU AR BUILDING HOSPITAL BUT THE LARGEST REFERAL HOSPITAL UTH PATIENTS AR SLEETING ON THE FLOOR…..WAT DEVELOPMENT AR U TALKING ABT?
Bloggers, its sad for me to have noticed that we have not matured.There are no more intellectuals just a big divide between PF and MMD Supporters.Cant we debate issues on their merits?
#9, if we chose leaders on the basis of their physical features, like big nose, big mouth even rotten teeth, some parties would not have leaders at all. Even in our families, there are differences in physical features among family members, are they therefore less important than others? Let’s learn to debate as intelligent humans, with well thought out ideas.
#19, What is more costly? Maintaining an aeroplane or a 4×4 vehicle? If mobile hospitals are bad and are a waste of resources, why have you let all former governments not close the Zambia Flying Doctor Service which operates on the same concept as mobile hospitals but only more expensive to mainatain? I believe a plane is more expensive to maintain than a vehicle. I have noticed our PF friends are challenged in analytiks.