Comrade Rupiah Banda Does Not Deserve to Be Re-Elected

1. I cannot agree more.

2. Nafuti nafuti … better than Zondwa the snake:((:((:((

   • iwe mambala did you actually read through the article… brainless retard.

3. I had to check twice to make myself believe that am reding LT.

   The man has to go.Yes he doesnt deserve even a day in S.H after sept.20.Period.

4. honestly i scratched my eyes before reading this article from lusaka times… Wow. Anyway this article is full of substance and very precise… Though we need the constitution within the year 2012. Rhupia must go.

   • same hear, I thought I was dreaming i guess there is hope, though I do not agree with some of the points raised, but it certainly made good reading. it should be a political and constitutional requirement for ALL aspiring political parties to publish their manifestos atleast two months before election so that voters can make an informed decision instead of us witnessing blind loyalty as we are currently seeing.

5. RB nafuti,nafuti indeed everyone has the right to verbalize what they think just as the writter of this article has his own thoughts and agenda.I believe RB has done a good job and he deserves another five years not to bring in snakes in government.

   • Iwe Makala yobe

6. Well written article. One thing you people should understand is that RB thinks that us indigeneous Zambians are docile. This man thinks he can fool the 13 million Zambians. If one had to look at his so called projects then one will realise that this man is not up to no good at all. An example in question is yestarday’s official opening of Lusaka General hospital. When late president laid the foundation, he said the hospital will cost the government K5 billion but look at the figures Bwezani was mentioning yestarday. Even if its depreciattion of Kwacha gentlemen this man is a proper kwesa. He doesnt deserve re-lection.

7. RB is winning whether u like it or not.No last
   Minute tricks like parentage issue by PF will
   won’t work.SATA face RB at the polls .No Excuses!!
   Nafuti Nafuti.

   • *****

8. RB is winning whether u like it or not.No last
   Minute tricks like parentage issue by PF will
   won’t work.SATA U coward face RB at the polls .No Excuses!!
   Nafuti Nafuti.

9. He is going this year. There are so many negative points about this crook only the naive will vote for him. 

10. #6 RB has run the country very well beyond expectation ,that nonesense of nationality is none starter.Am sure you believe that SATA will be a better president with his questinable mentable status.

11. #8 This year he’s winning convincingly for own info.

12. What is reassuring is that most you chaps in those cold countries in the north you are not voters hence you are shooting in the air,your bitterness will have no bearing on the outcome of the elections .Only a handful of Zambians in Zambia read LT and Post shinda pepa!

13. “..the plan does not address any of the issues which are at the core of our beloved country’s socio-economic decay and backwardness, such as poverty, hunger, ignorance, illiteracy, disease, unemployment, disadvantaged children, crime, corruption, moral decay,..” What a dialectically inept analysis! E.g., I really did not know that “Creating a better health service for our people” does not address disease! Or “Building better schools for our children” does not address illiteracy!

    • dude, dont bother yourself with these chaps who believe that development can only happen wen someone comes to knock at your door and physically put money in their pocket. yaba, bloody embarassing! the whole seven point plan is strategic and will be broken down into operational viable aspects, who the heck has ever heard specifics being laid out in a strategic plan mwebantu??? the seven point plan is there to provide an enabling economic environment so that lazy chaps from PF can get off their a$$es and do something with themselves instead of waiting for that *****ic 90 day plan! Damn!

    • …and they will provide free inputs for 2 farming seasons!!!Whats the rationale for that?How are you doing Tange?

    • I would love to see MMD’s strategic plan for the last 20 years and actually compare it to what they have actually achieved!! Actually i think they have acheived quite a lot. 1. Sale off / liquidate all loss making companies without attempting to revamp them or build an enabling environment were they can be turned around. 2 Ensure massive job losses in the mining sector without alternative sources of employment for retrenches 3. Build a single general hospital in their 20th year in power subsidized by mobile clinics. 4 Revamp infrastructure by resurfacing 47 year old roads. 5 Reinforce equal opportunities by ensuring that the only way to get by is through corruption. 6 Uphold democratic rights by ensuring that national media is the gov’s mouth peice .7 unfortunately am out of space

14. I will read the article later, but whatever the author may be talking about, whatever he thinks are the weaknesses of RB, the always misguided Kyambalesa has not suggested a viable alternative leadership for the Zambian people to choose from. For God’s sake I hope he is not thinking, even remotely, that the alternative can be Mr Sata!

    • That is what he seems to be saying!

    • Katie Good, I’ve been following your postings since the weekend, I think. Thanks for bringing a fresh perspective to these discussions. And I can understadnd your English too. I think I have been out of Zed for too long. Please do not disappear.

      With respect to this article the heading is wrong and that is not untypical of LT.

      Thanks.

15. #10 yaya, much as these people will not vote, they still have relatives in Zambia who would see sense in their reasons for not voting MMD.

16. Me am not voting including yaya. So the best person to analyse issues here is s person living in Zambia and a voter. Not all you here in diaspora you have no impact at all. HH has been thinking that a lot of people will vote for him looking at coments but these people are in diaspora.

17. RB is the best man at the moment. He has shown us a dyonko of what he is yet to do. Viva MMD, Viva

    • waba banoko ichikulu.

18. RB is going nowhere,imwe banyinenwe utunena,kanshi you don`t remember that mulongoti said it that you don`t just relinquish power any how.so comrade mulongoti was very very very right,you don`t just give up power any how so tuchili bonse guys,naiwe wewalembele amafi aya
    forget

    • You must be insane! Please debate issues, insults won’t take you anywhere!

    • Iwe Chikakal where did you get your name from bushe walikwata amso mu kanowa

19. Is this an extract from some political party’s manifesto? If so which one?

20. The worst form of desperation by the PF cadre Kyambalesa (another Mwachusa at work).

21. The writer of this article lacks several principles both for business, economic, political and ACADEMIC writing.
    The author has failed to distinguish between anpolicy and plan. Worse still the author has failed to show understanding of the difference between an activity plan and a policy plan.
    Ecomically the author has failed to show understanding of economics. It does not make economic sense to say, year1 I will be building schools and year2 I will be building roads, then year3I will attend to health and the year4 I will grow food.
    What will be happening to people’s health and and food security in year1 and year2; you let people die??
    What makes economic sense is to create a reasonable balance among the issues that affact the economy and society in general.

22. I thought this is called a “seven point plan” and not a “seven essays planner”, what a fallacy! Who would read all that clutter!

23. From #14, I have now read the article, but I have failed to see the connection to the statement by Comrade Kyambalesa that President Banda does not deserve to be re-elected. If anything most of the items listed by Kyambalesa are in line with RB’s 7-point plan, the detail may be different depending on the audience, e.g. launching a manifesto. I think that this was an essay written by a student which Kyambalesa has plagiarized and given a totally inappropriate political heading. My son does these essays on various topics quite often for his course, sometimes he asks me for an input from the perspective of my experience. Last time I gave him an input on Zambia’s mining history (including types of mine taxes), and the pros and cons of state ownership since 1964.

    • He is practicing how to write a manifesto and we are simply offering a review! LOL

24. For god’s sake i thought we had a national development plan which details all that and any reasonable party should bring to fruition what is contained in that plan which happens to be legislation and possibly do more.

    • Spot on.. every country must have a national development plan which every successive party tolls and works towards, are these guys saying they have been sailing the ship of mother zambia without a compass or map all along tossed where ever the wind blows?? SCARY stuff !!!

25. #20. You are not in zambian, are you sure of what you are talking about? Do you have children? Are you sure with the MMD in power, Zambia will develop? you guys think before you support. 20years no Jobs. think mwana

26. What is it really that RB has done to warrant re-election?.He has only managed to visit all the countries iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

27. # 13 Mbinji Mufalo,
    I totally agree with you.
    I wonder how the author managed to successfully confuse his logic assuming he had it.
    a) Increasing agricultural production and food security for all Zambians;
    (b) Building better schools for our children;
    (a) Creating a better health service for our people;
    (b) More jobs for all our people;
    (c) Building quality infrastructure throughout the country;
    (d) Reinforcing equal opportunities for all by providing access to productive resources such as loans, land and training; and
    (e) Sustaining and strengthening democratic governance.
    It is amazing that, refering to the above policy points, someone spent time to write an article that claims the issues of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease,etc. are not addressed.

28. Now that is what am talking about!!!HE.RB is clear and honest way of telling the people what you intend to do for them rather than 90 days hogwash without a feasible plan backing it up.All zambians be it in the diaspora or in Zambia know one thing for sure,the King Cobra has no clear point plan for the country other ”euphoria and hysteria” for the masses.I challenge all PF cadres,sympathisers if at all you have the ”balls” to give us a clear point plan on how the Snake intends to implement his 90 days rhetoric.  

29. Henry,

    How does privatising Daily Mail create more jobs and alleviate poverty?

    In June and September 2012 you propose free seeds and infrastructure development yet in January 2013 you do away with taxes required to fund the same projects. In June 2013 you will have no taxes to fund this dream team to look at our constitution. By January 2014, you propose home ownership schemes after you have just reduced your tax collection so you will not be able to build more houses.

    By September 2014, you have been in office for 3 years and Henry Kyambalesa is writing another article of LT on how you have wasted your time because you have not created any jobs and poverty is still alive!

    I think we are better of with RB’s 7 point plan as it makes more sense than your academic plan.

30. wowww what a constructive analysis of RB failed political policies, the country will be in wrong direction if by any chance RB wins this election such policies have been tried before and they have failed.

31. The writer of the article above is dull, and a saddist to say the least. The 7 point plan is all encompasing, easy to understand clearly maps the direction of Government without having to reproduce a whole manifesto. If I may ask…which sounds better, the 7 point plan or the 90 days development plan, the village concerpt or the 5 million Kwacha minimum wage?

32. People like Henry should not be taken seriously.

    They are perpetual complainers with no idea of how to turn things around.

33. Ba lt naimwe wat an article,1st of o the 7point plan includes education health etc so wat d hell z he blabin abt.wat a last minute ploy to de-campaign HERB.atleast it’s the only party dat has told us wat dey have to offer.can the other comedians tell or show us their manifestos instead of taking pipo to court n crying parentage issues [email protected] G for grace Ka?

34. RB should have been precise or whoever writes him speeches. he should have been clear on what he wants to do and when to be held accountable by the voters. he failed to do that. he wants to do thing hapazardly like the way they have done the road rehab just before the elections. the MMD camp needed to plan well and catch the attention of the voters with a strong so called 7 whatever.but unfortun thats why sata says within 90days he can provide legislative and policy change that will provide a foundation for quick and precise national development agenda.not open endded projects. even project management does not support that. those are events and not projects. we need serious projects that will take this nation forward. vote for change to see this.otherwise good article by comrade kyambalesa

35. It will be very sad if the author will not realise that he blundered in his argument.
    The author failed to communicated (possibly he just thought about it but never wrote his thought down) the link between his views and RB’s points. In fact all that he talked about is only a part of what RB’s points have addressed.
    If people in PF will call this as ‘analysis’ then I understand why SATA thinks and behaves the way he does. I also now have an idea why Wynter confuses himself with court issues.
    I also understand why there has been exhibition of law analysis at the POST.

36. ZAMBIANS WE FORGET; FTJs VIEW…
    1. Soon after inuaguration RB increased salaries of ministers which LEVY refused and the same RB was against it during his campaigns. 2. Flying all over the world for no apparent reason. 3. RP SAGA/DORA. 4 Chiluba cases. BY is even boasting that RB freed him,.5 ACC ACT. 6
    Banda and Sons weapons, 7. NAPSA, 8 . Degree clause, NEXT…. selling of teachers houses,health workers houses and schools…..

37. RB deserves another chance.Unless Sata is a magician, The 90 days phenominon is a scrap.He is a worst tribalist among the presidential candidates who has lost credibility even from the POST now.He is almost a maniac.

    • Imagine Sata at the United Nations or the African Union as Zambia’s president!!! please image also matters

38. You pipo can debate all you want but bare in mind that Zambia is not just CB and Lusaka.what’s the sense of building so many schools but with no teachers,clinics with no clinicians,most health centres are run by watchmen and cleaners yet someone says there is development,clinics with no drugs.honestly,what us good about such developments???
    Argue all you want,pipos eyes are now open,even the uneducated in the Rural will not be fooled this time,RB is going wether elections are rigged or not,the winds of change have swept over the entire country.these last minute developments are (last kicks of a dying horse)

39. Henry, This is a poor thesis. The Government does have a plan, viz the Sixth National Development Plan. You conveniently make no reference to it.

    I would agree with you on one point, which you do not make very well and that’s on EXECUTION. But, the current Govt is doing reasonably ok.

    There are real impediments also that, again, you do not address. Let’s take QUALITY schools. You have to find good teachers. Building the schools and populating themeselves with the latest technology is not sufficient. Where is Zambia going to get these quality teachers from? Nigeria? Which itself learnt its teachers can’t read or write. You are being too simplistic.

40. MMD doesnt deserve another term. Unless you live in Mars then you can thnk RB deserves another term. Infact most of you supporting RB is because you have been appointed to positions you dont deserve. In short you have no proper qualifications. MMD is a wicked party.Now Zambians are determined to remove this evil next month.

41. #13 Mbinji Mufalo, you are right. What is worse about the article is that it is too quick to cut this and that tax/levy without explaining how the absence of such tax/levy would be taken care of. Again, typical tavern talk.

42. #29 Honest Zambian. You are really Honest. I like your points

43. #35, Clearly you lack knowledge and you confuse it with the selective lies that the Post feeds you. Let me guide you on your first point, when the Salary Bill went to the President for assent, he initially refused to sign it and sent it back to Parliament. The MPs both from ruling party and opposition (including PF) were unanimous that they wanted salary increments. They sent the bill back to the President for assent without amendment. This second time the President gave assent as demanded by the Constitution. CONTD.

44. DRC, you sound like a child perhaps undereducated or low on experience.
    I will just address one silly point you raise.

    Travel by the President and indeed government officials.

    How do you think you participate in world affairs to which Zambia is a member e.g. UN, SADC, AU etc.

    How do you think you attract business and FDI without lobbying the Chinas of this world.

    Trust me, son, the benefits may not be easily discernible, but are real. And I think RB is actually good at this.

    Even in your personal life learn to NETWORK. You will be amazed by the outcome.

    Stop whinging and learn.

    Contd.

45. CONTD FROM #41: The Constitution demands that the President must give assent to any bill that Parliament sends back to him in this manner, or he must dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections. Now democratic theory is that MPs are representatives of the people and if they insist on something, democracy demands that the President gives in, and therefore a democratic President should not overrule the “people’s desire”. Also due consideration is given to the Constitutional crisis that may arise from dissolving a freshly elected parliament, and the cost of new elections of course. The rest of your points are ALL baseless innuendos from the Post and don’t deserve my comment.

46. I would have loved if the author could have also explained revenue collection plans. We can also have precise plans of what we want to achieve but must understand all these need revenue. When you take off school fees and the like you need money to support that. Where will the money to pay retirees come from? Everyone dreams of owning a flat screen TV but just the mare dream and want doesnt deliver it. You need resources to get it.

47. And let me just inform you that I have worked in a global business. Upwards of 40% if my time was spent away from home. That is the nature of most businesses. And believe me that business class travel and 4 star hoteling, car rental etc.

48. this man has a good vision for zambia. every1 can c that. but mcs has noting to offer the pipo. let him tell us wht he intends to do 4 u. sata is a loser

49. I am very suprised how bloggers are intrpreting this article. Though not precise, there is sense in it and only HH has that plan for Zambia. Unfortunately, some of us have realised how it has costed us to have so many iliterates around that even my own relatives would vote for a snake to go to plot one. Based on that, i will be very happy if RB wins though my vote is for HH come rain come sunshine. Atleast i will be not part of the clue that wants our nation to be with these old and good for nothing Rhodesians.

50. DRC IF WE COULD HAVE FEW ZAMBIANS WHO DO NOT FORGET EASILY THIS COUNTRY COULD HAVE DEVELOPED INDEED. I LIKE YOUR COMMENT .

51. I have said it before and i am going to say it again that indeed zambians are too docile and lack character.Its a fact and on record that out of the four presidents that the country has had perhaps only one is really zambian.There is no point impeaching RB now when he is the serving president.we can vote him out rather than underhand methods.Why are we always ruled by mistake.Kaunda was a mistake cos Mainza Chona should have been the one,Chiluba was a mistake because Arthur Wina should have been the one, Mwanawasa was a mistake because he wasnt even in gvt then, worse still RB had retired

    • yep you said it all baba you said it all, this is what happens when people are fed up, they just want change regardless of who is leading. if Sata goes through he will go through not because he is the right man for the job (we all know what he’s capable of) he’ll go through because the people have been pushed in a corner after 20 years of empty promises.. thats all.

52. Greed is killing our mother Zambia.Young people are suffocated and risk even dying if they are not careful,where is Baldwin nkumbula, Paul Tembo,Chigaga,Mpenza etcAll these had potential to be presidents of our country.It will take abald president to institute a proper succession if younger brainy leaders for our country.Right now all of them are rushing for a chance to steal from our country.No one looks at future generations.Look at how land is being allocated to foreigners.DO WE REALLY LOVE OUR COUNTRY?THEN AGAIN WHAT IS THERE FOR US TO LOVE/

53. Ba nkambo, you have simply expanded on RB’s 7-point plan, so no new ideas there. The reality is, there is NOTHING any party will do that RB is not already doing. They’ll simply repackage MMD’s ideas as their own, but perhaps more clumsily given their nearndathal mentality. RB may be elderly but he is a modern Prez who is savvy and understands what it requires to take Zambia forward. The path the country is taking is what the Asian tigers we admire so much took – no 90 day wonders, simply smart, out-of-the-box thinking, and some strategic hard work, not the blind, unsustainable “hard work” some fella is credited with when he was at Ministry of Health. Next time please, declare your allegiances before clothing your thoughts in some rose-tinted, shallow academic analysis.

54. THE ARTICLE HERE IS VERY CLEAR AND VERY GOOD.I CAN SEE PEOPLE ATTACKING IT WHICH TELLS ME SOME ZAMBIANS DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR THEM.THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE ARTICLE, THOUGH NOT FINAL IT CAN BE IMPROVED UPON.DONT CONDENM BLINDLY…BE OBJECTIVE

55. # 12, Yaya. hear,hear.

56. I feel very sad when i see young zambian youths going astray.
    my fellow youths look at this;
    Micheal Sata is not a leader, he has been suffering from diaherria of the mouth for quiet a long time now.
    is he not the one who said chiluba was not a thief? is he not the one who embraced xavier chuungu in 2006? youths lets take time to analyse about the pasts of the presidents we want to voe for. you will loose nothing if you know the truth about them. Lets not be bilnded with false promises of more money in your pockets, ask them how??? lets debate issues and not fake promises.

57. All the points by Prof Kyambalesa can be done or initiated by the man of action within 90 days! Look, you dont need a year to privatize Daily Mail or enactment of FOI bill. Within 90 days from Oct to Dec , taxes can be discussed and lowered so that by the time we start 2012 fiscal year, there is already more money in the pocket. Within 90 days the new team to adopt the constitution would have started sittings! You dont need to wait up to 2013 prof. VIVA PF!!!!!!!

58. @Limpo cheerz… Some short sighted people are still defending RB ……..

59. This articles is only good for submission in an economics assignment and even then i would give the writer d+ mark.  This person clearly has no idea about the works of gvt. you do not privatize all the public media houses because its nice to do.even the bbc is gct owned. what you do is put legislation to make them autonomous. next this guy say he would reduce VAT and direct  taxes. HA – and from his own pocket i asume he will get money to inprove infrastructure and school etc. lastly his criticism of the seven point plan is dry and totally without sense. the seven point plan is very good. the only thing i would say is how exactly does RB plan to achieve this.    

60. Actually i have read the article but soon i will,from the headline i think there is an error and it should be”Comrade Rupiah Banda  Deserves to Be Re-Elected”. Therefore comrades lets vote for HERB these people whom i wont mention are jealous of HERBs sustainable policy and programs,the man is hardworking,determined and people oriented president. He is our president now and he will be in the next 5years.RB nafuti nafuti

61. i have wasted minutes reading an assignment of which the assignment question was   ” with Examples outline a schedule for implementing projects,programs and policies in Zambia”.  And the article is part of the answer to that. shockingly this student called Kyambalesa thinks Reverting to the provision of a seed and fertilizer subsidy at 50% should only happen in 2014,so does it mean that there will be no food production now and in 2012,2013? come on Mr student pull up your stockens. its Bwezani all the way.

62. Henry is simply trying to dress up the 90 day miracle claims by his idol Sata. And see where it has left him. That 90 day miracle phenomenon claim is just bogus. Henry, you are deluding yourself, that staff is specifically to impress the blindfolded.

63. In short, even Henry himself, knows that his article is hogwash, just to dress up fakery. See where Sata is driving the seemingly intelligent.

64. Sata’s curative herbal economic portions, as administered by his Kamchape – Henry Kyambalesa, are more deadly than the disease. Those who drink this tincture of delusion have themselves to blame.

65. For Kyambalesa to have written such a piece must have only come after consulting the witchdoctors bones. Why else would he opt to defy sheer common sense and logic?

66. kYAMBALESA, as much as it is within your right to consult any witch doctor you may choose to visit prior to penning your articles, you however, must not assume that all of your readers share the same restriction afforded by your nighttime consultations – Bone thrower.

67. These elections of this year will finally send Sata into retirement, where will go, what will he do? I propose that he be given a consolation prize to be the chief mice digger at Chitulika village. Any seconders?

    • I second.

68. Henry Kyambalesa should be ashamed of demeaning his own mind at the expense of a senseless pasting galore. Here is a man who should be doing some thinking of his own who gets hypnotised by a Cobra then pastes the 90 nonsense on LT. KyambaSatana please wake up.

69. Is Winter Kabimba a Lawyer?Which Law School did he attend?A lawyer who doesnt know how to sue!Shame

70. I wonder if the President has a competent team of advisors around him. A look at his 7 point master plan looks it was prepared by a grade 9 pupil. The are no implementation and monitoring mechanisms put in place. Those paper tiger experts surrounding RB are just there to mislead and make his chances of retaining power almost slim. Look at what this boy Prof. Henry Kyambalesa has put forward its put in a logical manner and its comprehensive. Why cant govt make use of such experts vast knowledge to find a lasting solution to our many problems. Those men surrounding Rb are too much for themselves. They think know it all.

    • ewee check the 6th national development plan. ulichikopo..

71. #68 Latest news from Lusaka is that Wynter Kabimba has lost yet another case in the high court where he was trying block RB from standing as president on MMD ticket,Wynter is a f.o.o.l indeed.

72. #69 The president has a team of highly educated ,well informed advisers thats why the country is doing so well economically ,only Power Failures can not see this which is a shame indeed.

73. This is well thouhgt attempt of the economic prosperity roadmap. It is only MC Sata and PF Government that will be able to strategise and follow such similar programs. May I be allowed to add what most Zambians are also expecting from PF.1. Reintroduce the windfall tax and review the entire mining tax regime. 2. Embark of quality job creation targeting the youth both qualified and non qualified.3. Review the role of ZDA and the investor blue print adherence. 4. Reintroduce the national airline and emabrk on building modern airports both international and local to boots agriculture effort and tourism sector. 5.Ensure the role of MPs is revised and enshrined in the constitution. 6. Implement decentralisation and make local Government autonomous. I have many but gone campaining. Vote PF, Sata

    • Well outlined, but a few thoughts: 1. why introduce a tax that already exists. 2. The schools, hospitals, mines, agricultural activities, road construction etc the country is building are to create jobs (count how many people will have jobs) – how else do you hope to create employment other than by doing this? 4. Using whose money are you going to re-introduce a national airline – we are communists and Zambia Airways was enough. The private sector have enough incentive to do so . 5. the roles of most public workers should definitely be revisited; like why should the MP stay in Lusaka instead of his constituency.
      You do have nice ideas; you could possibly perfect them for 2016, except try not to re-invent the wheel when it has already been done

74. I cant believe bloggers are arguing on the points raised in this article!! the article is timely and all politicians must have time frames for doing things. the issues in the 7 points are the same issues that the country has been fighting for since indepedence. We need to be specific with what we actually want to do. This is the same principle we use in our personal lives. you cant say ‘ i want to be a better person’ you need to state how and the litmus to use to do that. unfortunately all our politicians dont have that and the nations will only progress when we become more specific with our problems

75. This is the last August MMD will exercise and abuse Zambian power. Time for MMD to leave office has been confirmed today by MC Sata successfully filing in the nominatin papers. Vote pa bwatooooooooo on 20th September 2011. If people can be frustrated by insensitive politicians even in places like Britain, what can stop the long suffering Zambians? Liberation has come and its through PF and Sata.

76. Your plan is half quarter good but mainly it is a disaster henry. To me it appears to be a socialist manifesto! My brother to be honest with you, such a fiscal approach where you are just expending without investing and or expanding the revenue base is a straight call at Greece’s door: Bankruptcy. They sound good but not everything that sounds good is implementable. i honestly never saw in your plan any measure to increase government revenue. Reduction of cabinet and foregn missions can’t bring fiscal balance and you risk macroeconomic mayhem!

77. Ministerial positions must be reduced. Office of the DC removed etc. Fellow Zambian, we can save a lot of money by doing this, on average the cutting of positions will save upto 2bn a month ( e.g SALARIES. DC = 73X 10M= 720+ M per month, Ministers saving another 500M) and other running costs fuel, security etc. Beloved we need to change as a nation. we know that DCs are politicians in civil servant garments and they are not relevant. they just duplicate duties which other officers can perform. Lets look beyond our own interests, let peopple work for money and not just getting tax payers money for nothing. we work for our money they too must find something else to do

78. #30 you are spot on. If RB wins the country will go back to worse times than 1991. I feel sorry for our rular relatives who always keep asking for financial assistance from relatives in Town and yet they choose to vote for a failled Gvt who wasted huge resources on a failed constitution. The much talked about developmental projects are actually being abandoned after the contractors get away with huge sums of money. I have examples of alot of school and road projects in my province that have been abandoned but contractors with the so called high connections to …….. have gotten away with our hard earned tax payers money. So my heart bleeds when I see comments from MMD vuvuzelas. You do not just grade a road with no designs and no plans. Shame on desparate MMD Gvt and poor Zambians

    • Your logic is a paradox. RB has in power since 2008 and the country is doing better than when Mwanawasa led it, how will it suddenly get back to 1991 levels of development? That doesn’t make any sense. The World Bank, IMF and any rational human beings would probably disagree with you. Look your entitled to an opinion, but to say things will get worse? I’d love to see what economic metrics you’re using to come to this conclusion….oh wait, you’re not using any….you’re just giving a normative opinion with no grounding in reality whatsoever.

    • Nice one thoughts, we need more Zambians who can think logically like you!

79. Note the 90 day gaps between successive dates he has mentioned. That is how Kyambalesa wishes to interpret Sata’s 90 DAY envisioned miracle crusade policy. Henry, do your self a favour, don’t worst your time by trying to make sense out of nonsense.

80. the 90 day hogwash is just that rubbish. Nothing can come out of it.

81. The problem with armchair critics like the writer above is that they think they know better than those actually implementing programmes. A proper analysis of his writing demonstrates that everything he says above is covered in the so-called 7-point plan! He is mixing up a plan with a detailed programme of action. The two are not necessarily the same, although the Plan gives birth to a programme of action.Okay, this is a democracy; so let the debate continue…

82. Only fools can attack such an article.You must all know that among all the presidential aspirants no one is perfect.they all have their good and bad points,strong and weak points.While appreciating their strong points we need to be reminding them of their weak points too.Otherwise we will make the same mistakes we made on Kaunda and Chiluba who took us for a ride believing they were Gods and in the process they became corrupt fearless and knew no bounderies while we continued hero worshiping them for doing nothing for us

83. We made them what they became.Sodont just support, look at the other side of the coin as well and put the checks and balances

84. LATEST: THE LUSAKA HIGH COURT HAS THROWN OUT WITH COSTS THE PETITION BY PF AGAINST THE NOMINATION OF PRESIDENT BANDA. Expected comments by PF cadres on LT: We expected it, the judicary is compromised. Our comment: Listen to what the judge said, on your national broadcaster ZNBC (all radio and TV channels), on MUVI TV, on Mobi TV, and many other radio channels. Tomorrow is Nafuti Nafuti at the Supreme Court.

85. RB U HAVE MY VOTE

86. This has to be the most pathetic political ‘analysis’ and rebuttal I’ve ever seen. A first year in university can do better than this!

    First if you want to critique RB’s policies you need to analyse the 6th National Development plan which is very long term, looking as far into the future as 2030!

    I don’t see monetary policy mentioned here, the ‘analysis’ of fiscal policy could be written by a 9th grader……seriously increasee windfall taxes and reduce PAYE? Wow so ground breaking! So intelligent, man….you should be nominated for a nobel prize in economics for this!

87. These quick fixes wouldn’t develop Zambia. Zambia needs structural change and thats what RB and his FM and CM have been pushing; creating an expansive mining sector+ infrastructure that enables indegenously owned businesses to be built around these industries creating a large ecosystem……letting Zambian’s benefit from the minerals exploration and mining value chain. Agriculture is also a fast growing sector in Zambia, infrastructure will only make this a more appealing investment for both indigenous Zambians and foreign investors. Where I believe more can be done is to get the mining companies to once again develop and operate quality primary and secondary schools as was done in the past by companies like Anglo American etc.

88. Kyambalesa, a Professor of frog ecology and PF sympathiser, is at it again. Empty and without substance like his serpent master

89. The writer of this article is pf, no wonder. Go commit suicide boyi

90. Honestly, this article is also just another wish list. Obviously we all want free eduction, free healthcare, low interest loans for tertiary education, better roads, lower taxes, no tv levy…but tell me something mr. author… where is government supposed to get the money from? borrow? like our Greek, Italian and American counterparts? its all well and good to dream up some utopian society, but lets be realistic. RB has done an ok job in his time of office and for me fully deserves a 2nd term. I think this plan you presented would actually bankrupt the country in less than a year. lets be responsible when trying to progress our country

91. # 87. Thoughts, you are using great expertise in this discussion and I would not be wrong to think you are an economic expert. Your analysis is spot on and would pass for a wall street comment. We need all the brains we can get in this country.
    A warning to all those who think that the one who leads this country after 20th September will have it easier because the economy is for the first time in an upward swing – you need to get this one right: things may not get easier! Recession appears not to be over and globally big economies are in major turbulence and we may feel the effects. To press on in these times we will need proven leadership – RB and the MMD has this far faired very well in keeping an environment that still attracts investment even in uncertain times!

    • Sata can do it in 90 days,unless he meant 90 years.

92. # 82 Chills,
    You must be PF. Whenever PF fails to analyse and think they are good at insulting. And the reason why they insult most of the time is that they see that as the only logical thing they can manage, not analysis.
    I have never seen any PF cadre/supporter who makes rational analysis, though all of them claim they are OK.

93. All the schools, hospitals that this so called president is opening where Mwanawasa’s plans. You give credit to the person that starts something not someone that just comes grinning holding a scissors and cuts the ribbon. What kind of president will say “even if we don’t have doctors and nurses at the hospital at least we have a hospital” Does it mean patients can go lie down at the hospital and miraculously get healed. Each time I hear and read a Zambian supporting RB I automatically know his IQ, very very low. We seriously need someone like Magande to build schools because the majority of the so called educated Zambians need to go back to school or just introduce ‘Common Sense’ as a subject in schools.

94. Let me Congratulate Lusaka Times for publishing this article. I thought I was looking at a different website.

95. Henry well done. Even in a company you dont come up with strategies without mentioning how you will achieve the goals and spacific period. This is waht RB has done.

96. Too much verbatim here, are you people happy the way the government is spending your money? if yes then “RB” if not lets try the other options!

    • We are very happy bcoz the money is being spent well.

97. Utter rubbish where is he going to get the money for this plan!!
    Why don’t you chaps ask him probing questions…don’t just cheer, who is going to build all this; his mates!!
    WAKE UP!!

    • how do you wake us up while you yourself are still sleeping.infact u hav just started dozzing,pls dont sleep!!!!!

98. says who…his the man he deserves the 5years

99. And which Comrade deserves to be elected?Ba Sata?

100. Yes, Ala Bee does not deserve to be re-elected. Most of these points are counterfeits of the UPND manifesto. So give the vote to HH and UPND.

101. we made up our mind just when mwanawasa left us……PF

102. There were times when Henry used to write sense, but this is the most useless contribution ever. Henry this is YOUR manifesto, do not impose it on another. The point you should be making is analysing how each of Mr Banda’s plans fail to progress Zambia and then why. For example, do you really think that privatising ZNBC or Times of Zambia is better than quality education? Then you say that we have had this wish list since independence. You too had a wish to graduate with a PhD since you started school at 6 or 8. Did you stop school because you had no PhD by the time you were 15? Development is progressive and it never ends. It is 1000 years since the magna carter in UK and yet the British have not arrived yet and are still going by the SAME ‘wish list.’

103. He was elected with the mandate of continuing where Mwanawasa left off, so what is wrong with doing what he promised? This time round, he is asking to be elected on his own merit. If you told someone that you would deliver a message for them, and you did that, it would be foolish for the person you hand the message to, to doubt your capability to deliver the reply, would it not? RB has delivered the first message, now he is asking to go a second run. Judge what he has already done in 3 years (2 budgets) against what others are just promising.

104. Hey who is this one who has just given PF some bit of oxygen,they are loving it as if some one has promised them some votes.mery very soon you will cry and leave this blog as every election year.

105. Author’s argument is too one-sided. He disqualifies one candidate and then leaves the readers in suspense as to who, among the other candidates, is the author’s candidate of choice. If RB does not merit being re-elected, then who among the other candidates is more deserving and why? For one thing, RB is a known quantity and the others are unknown variables. It’s said that the devil you know is better than the angel you don’t know. While RB may not be as good, he may still be, at least in the minds of some, “a lesser evil.” If RB’s plan to develop the country is not good enough, then who, among the other candidates has a better plan? And in all fairness, why has the author decided not to talk about the other candidates???

106. I would love to see MMD’s strategic plan for the last 20 years and actually compare it to what they have actually achieved!! Actually i think they have acheived quite a lot. 1. Sale off / liquidate all loss making companies without attempting to revamp them or build an enabling environment were they can be turned around. 2 Ensure massive job losses in the mining sector without alternative sources of employment for retrenches 3. Build a single general hospital in their 20th year in power subsidized by mobile clinics. 4 Revamp infrastructure by resurfacing 47 year old roads. 5 Reinforce equal opportunities by ensuring that the only way to get by is through corruption. 6 Uphold democratic rights by ensuring that national media is the gov’s mouth peice .7 unfortunately am out of space.

107. whether you like or not, RB is the best man for job, viva RB, come 20th September, we shall all be smiles and the PF and the Post will be shedding bitter tears.

108. Ba fee .color with your rubbish. Rb he has not told us how much all this will cost

109. windfall tax eh what will happen when copper loses its value like it has done before. surely policy point are different from action points. you get all those details from the MMD manifesto. read widely and you wont show your foolishness iwe kasai ya solo

110. BA SATANA the public media was created to propagate government ideals who is going to talk about a primary school which is in rural fimpulu in milenge u think the post will do that mwabelela ama lies

111. Shallow thinking, Henry

112. The 7 step of action is a brilliart step but it does not go far enough to make MMD accountable because they do not say what they will do to achieve the stated objective and when they will implement it.
     (a) Increasing agricultural production and food security for all Zambians;by?????
     (b) Building better schools for our children;by????
     (a) Creating a better health service for our people;by ?????
     (b) More jobs for all our people;by ??????
     (c) Building quality infrastructure throughout the countryby ??????;
     (d) Reinforcing equal opportunities for all by providing access to productive resources such as loans, land and training; by ????????and
     (e) Sustaining and strengthening democratic governance by ?????

113. Continued from #112 to put a spin on the above; (a)We will invest in irrigation projects in partnership with the private sector (b) By renovating schools, provide computers in schools(c) (d) We will promote small businesss procurement in particular by giving government contracts to small business willing to employ more staff, we will also ensure that jobs are given to Zambians by restricting foreign work visas(e)
     We will require full, online disclosure of all government spending and contracts above ZMK5,000,000.00
     No space for spin.

114. RB is right man 4 this years election bcoz HH is not stable(easly taken).Sata has got no leadership qualities.But atleast we have some up coming leaders such as Magande and Milupi.

115. I think Sata is not a presidential material!!he’ll just die of BP this year when he finds out that has lost 4 the 4th (fourth) time.

116. This year ni pankoloko bane.I have been a bonafide member of MMD since 1991,what can you tell me.viva RB/MMD.

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