Opposition UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says farmers in Zambia are the worst hit by poor PF policies in the country.
Speaking when he addressed a mammoth rally at Chikupili Grounds in Mkushi South yesterday, Mr. Hichilema said Mkushi was a predominantly farming block and new what farmers want in the country.
“I am a farmer and I know what you farmers want because I am on the ground feeling the same pinch myself. I have just come from Vubwi and Kasenengwa constituencies in Eastern province where I had a wonderful reception by the locals there. The problem of the farming community are all the same everywhere I go. They are all crying about the late delivery of farming inputs and low purchase price for most of your produce despite the huge expense involve in farming,” Mr. Hichilema told the cheering crowds as he spoke mainly in Lala.
Mr. Hichilema said there was need to lower the cost of food production in the country through among other measures, lowering the cost of inputs and fuel.
He said as long as the pump price of fuel remained high in the country, all the other commodities including farming inputs, transport to the market, will remain high.
“The PF are claiming there is bumper harvest in the country. But the prices of all the commodities including mealie meal have remained high largely because of the cost of production dictated by high fuel prices and other factors such as high farming input costs. Some of you have even packed your tractors because of the high fuel prices in the country,” he told the crowd that kept shouting aleisa aleisa.
He reiterated the need for government to announce the floor price for maize and other agriculture produce even before the farming season so that farmers can plan properly.
“Now tell me who is capable of delivering farming inputs on time and lower the cost of food production in the country between me and president Michael Sata and his PF government who are just sleeping in State House? Mr. Hichilema asked the crowd that responded its HH aleisa aleisa.
Mr. Hichilema said Central province should replicate what they did in Katuba by voting for the UPND candidate, Agness Mambwe, as it was the in-coming government in 2016.
Mr. Hichilema caused laughter when he reminded the crowd that he was ever indebted and happy with Central province because they gave him his wife.
“This province is very dear to me. You gave me a wife and beautiful children. Now keep giving me more quality Members of Parliament (MPs) as payment for marrying from you the people of Central province,” Mr. Hichilema joked as the crowd burst into wild cheers shouting aleisa aleisa, and abesu abesu.
And the UPND candidate in the Mkushi South constituency by-election, Agness Mambwe, commonly referred to as the Princess among the locals, said she will do less talking but more work when voted on September 11th.
Ms. Mambwe, who is a former councilor in the area, said she knew the problems of the local people in the area having served as councilor in the same area.
“We have problems of feeder roads in this area. We have poor water and sanitation issues. We have poor health facilities that needed immediate improvement. And there was no better person to do that than your local princess, myself who grew and have lived with you throughout. I am your daughter and a mother and feel for our people here,” she told the crowd to much jubilation and chanting.
There goes under five again. HH is masquerading to be popular but come 2016 he will lose again. This is a politician who only managed to get 45,000 votes in Lusaka during the recent past national election of 2011 unlike his predecessor Anderson Mazoka who amassed 79,000 votes in the same province 13 years ago during the 2001 national election. HH is simply not popular.
You’re a bore. Why don’t you for once try to use even a quarter of your brain? You’re worse than a broken watch which at least gets the time right once in a day.
This man has lost it. He will never win rule Zambia. If only southern province was the whole Zambia he could have had won.
HH is better than the “shy president” in state house. Am in the Copperbelt, here its just Haleisa Haleisa, pf cadres continue cheating yourlselves that HH & Upnd are only in Southern province. Times has changed & now we want the true son of our Zambian soils with the mighty team of the likes of Dr Banda, Nalumango Mutale, Mr Kapita, Percy Chanda, Mr Chibwe etc to take up the challenge of developing Zambia. HHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
@Zedian,
You are a funny guy. Surely even a broken down watch gets the time right once a day. Others who use AM & PM modes like Sata get the time right twice in a day even in their sleeping state because of their followers.
WAKE UP ZAMBIANS, WE HAVE ONLY ONE COUNTRY TO PROTECT!
Go HH go. You are the only Hope and Help Zambia needs right now. People have now began to understand your message clearly.
Those of us who know you we know this is just dyonko to what these PF minions will hear in 2016. I will be in Zambia to drum up support for UPND and HH so we can rip these PF minions apart with proper pragmatic rhetoric they have never heard before.
In their f00lishness PF minions including their president are busy arming us with brilliant information with which to hammer them hard.
Sata the captain is sleeping on duty while the boat is slowly sinking. All this is good news to us in UPND for its not our fault that PF is busy lying that the Sata is fit when its common knowledge across the world that Sata is ailing or dead.
Bebe HH bonfwikishe.
Viva UPND…
Times have changed bwana.., keep singing your myopic theory of HH’s popularity. We are moving forward and this time Zambians are above board. For all of you that wish to ask a leader of what modern economics will he/she implement, think forward and HH is one of those you can ask. Let such folks put themselves on the platform from wherever they come from and talk.., than talk tribal trash! Grow up Sir, the colonialists managed to drive a wedge among tribes/ethnicity and we better come out of it NOW. Been long time coming! Ethiopia a country which was not colonized, today has a rural farmer check the price of their products on international market (NY stock exchange price) on their mobile phones. And for Zambia, a PF govt sets a floor price which may not be market value. One Z One nation!
there goes another idiot again, refering to old statistics
So this arrogant attention seeker is still going around spreading his cheap rhetoric to the gullible ? Anyway it is an open secret that even in 2016 he will be shedding tears like he has been doing in the past 3 presidential elections.
@Saulosi so HH already tried 3 presidential elections? Sata was 6 not so?
I don’t think HH is arrogant compared to your Ba Sata, ask Kabimba or GBM.
@Nostradamus
Good point right there.
Saulosi jinga wewe kabisa.Endelea kulamba hizo m*atako chafu za PF.
@ Saulosi
If you expect anybody to take you seriously, PLEASE post your comment(s) on the democratic process applied in sacking of your duly appointed and never elected to anything Kabimba and subsequent childish tantrums of your good friend from Post.
Otherwise, you do not just sound shallow but irrelevant as any other paid-up cadre from any party.
mammoth??? or curious and BORED on-lookers
I for one I could easily for any Zambian who is clean than waste my vote on a thief , who has plundered Zambian mines just to benefit his pocket , unless Zambians are fools then can vote for some one they know will take away all that they have
Well spoken, my brother.
How come you fell for Sata the real thief who literally stole K2,000,000,000. from merzaf housing project and sold all government houses to himself and his Kabimba?
You are just one of the kembos enjoying the PF ‘s friuts of theft.
HH akutimbani pang’ono pang’ono.
LT’s definition of mammoth is amazing! I wonder what they would call a rally where HH attracted 5000 people?
Is Lusaka Times also a UPND site or maybe the truth is just taking shape? just asking
@Gershom
In case you did not know, LT has been PF since its inception otherwise it would have been blocked like ZWD.
Thanx HH…….continue slow BUT SURE thts how life goes. Go on you ve my Vote. We love you !!!
@Anderson Chisala
These PF minions are feeling the heat now and have nothing to say apart from the same useless mad slinging of theirs.
The tribalists ,the Bemba clique no amount of hate will stop HH from grabing it this time around.The time for liberation is around the coner.All the oppressed tribes in Zambia are going to gang up and we shall see how many you are since yu claim to be many.
@sido mark
Brilliant comment just there.
@Sido Mark, even if you gang up against the bembas, you can’t beat them. They will just clobber you. I am not Bemba but I know they widespread in Lsk, CB, Luapula, Northern, Muchinga, and part of Central. Besides what do you expect Sata to do when certain pipo never voted for him. When he tries to appoint someone from opposition regions to be incorporated into government, you the opposition refuses. So what does he do? Get people from where he got the votes from.
Why block my comments LK.i din’t insult.
@Sido Mark,
You are here or are you sleeping like Sata who I believe was looking for his SG Kabimba only to be told that Chikwanda gave him leave!
This HH needs a serious brain scan. Am very uncomfortable with his thinking and the way he approaches politics. Does he really think he will ever rule Zambia? If cows were allowed to participate in voting then UPND and his HH will have an easy go into power. God anointed certain tribes to rule while others need to be ruled especially the cattle herding ethnic group. He makes me sick and sometimes a source of comedy whenever am bored. Keep spending your money and never get to the gates of State House. You can not come to address a poorly attended rally while drank with mabisi.
You stick. Ulimbwa!!!!!
@Jojo
Of course people of your calibre with a warped small brain would not understand pragmatic political rhetoric because your small brain is wired to understand BUFI told by PF -CNP
An anus cod jojo has spoken. No brain at all
You are right, HH will NOT RULE Zambia maybe because HH will GOVERN or LEAD if Zambians give him a chance. We Zambians do not want to be ruled. We are so tired of being ruled as if we are robots.
Take HH to court if he stole anything. Do you think Kabimba, George Chellah and even President Sata would have let him scott free if what you are accusing him of were the case? Do you really think Stella and Jere would have let him go scott free?
Hate will not take you anywhere. False accusations were made even against Jesus.
For your own information, many other companies other than Grant Thorton, participated in the privatisation programme. Ernst and Young managed Kapiri Glass which has remained closed due to sabotage by workers who were not happy with treatment by Ernst and Young.
if all monkeys will be allowed to vote then pf will still be in power come 2016 and for hh the most strong man is out of pf so its only thieves to cheat pipo any one who is a farmer easly can agree with hh we want zambia to be saved from these stupid monkeys how can a president choose to do his work in secrecy and fail both national and international duties to hell with pf viva hh viva upnd
You are spot on.
HH put up valid points. They need valid points vis: Was it OK to pay me K400 to go and visit a prostitute in Lstone from home? Its best to subsidize production Bwana!! Poor farming policies? But they have produced a number harvest. Yes Madam aspiring canditate, those are the roads of is bringing!!!
2016 will be the end of HH as he will lose a national election for a record 4th time . UPND is on a downward trajectory and with Government Workers for the first time being well paid one wonders where HH will scrounge for votes . The reality is that UPND will as expected only dorminate in southern province.
Sata lost seven times until kabimba hatched a plan to bring in Tanzanians , sats’s relatives to come and vote.
Bumper harvest. Period. Setting floor prices is only valuable if you have a harvest. Fuel price has nothing to do with PF, market influences the price. There has been no detail provided from this campaign as to how they can or will influence the price of fuel. HH needs to utilise his economic theory to this situation. How will he keep fuel price down? How will he set the floor price quicker? Which method will he use?
You see this is the problem with Zambian politics. Parties need to be analysing what is current and then debate what they will do to put it right by applying that economics and farming expertise we know HH has. A bit more polish and shine HH. Otherwise good points raised and also very well done is using what he is good at; farming.
@Patriot Abroad
You are so ignorant about energy related issues in Zambia. If PF is not directly involved in the pricing of fuel, then why was Midland Energy formed to act as an agent for fuel procurement on behalf of the government? Why is Midland Energy part of illunda Chalo company owned by Sata?
If PF has no hand in the pricing of fuel, why is fuel is price still high when in most developed countries its falling due to the fall in the price of crude oil?
Get your facts right before spewing rubbish here to mislead people. Any way you won’t manage to mislead them because we are on the ground to stop PF-CNP lies.
Stop lying. 50% of fuel prices have everything to do with government. For example, Government charges 25% duty on Indeni feedstock this gets reflected in the retail price. It is government that stops OMCs from importing finished products from cheaper sources.
Bumper harvests-gone, record forex reserves- gone,voters goodwill -gone,regional goodwill -gone.
Next to be gone will be the regional export markets for zambia’s poor quality maize and even God will pull back the rains due to bad PF policies.
Farmers in UK over produce and end up throwing/destroying a large amount of their produce. The European Union give Grants to farmers to do this. Over production of food affects supply and demand ratios. The price of produce is set by these fluctuations. UK Farming sector has been hard hit by their efficiency in farming methods, leading to large output into an extremely competitive market. UK farmers compete also with foreign imports. This affects their livelihood.
To counter this, there have been large campaigns encouraging people to Eat British. A slew of Farmers Markets/shops have opened so that farmers can sell direct to people usually at the weekends. Zambia can get a cautioning from observing how effective farming can lead to overproduction.
HH has nothing new to offer!those farmers he is talking about are being paid within a week or 2 by FRA after supplying maize!PF is too strong in those Bemba speaking areas!out of 5 by elections on 11/09/2014 HH’s UPND may only get the Zambezi seat!UPND or HH only has southern Province,so surely how can he win in 2016?PF’s farming policies he is critising here are being appreciate by many farmers!am not a PF cadre but I see HH never ruling Zambia as he is not liked by many voters across the country like Mazoka was!I even wonder why UPND cadres keep on dreaming of winning with HH on top when his statistics are getting bad by day!recently out of 25 local Govt.by-elections PF got 18,opposition 7,really this shows how popular PF is!mark my words,there will not be change of Govt in 2016!PF…
Hungry Hyena (HH), The messages targeting farmers are good way of connecting with the grassroots. For the first time you’ve started understanding what issue-based campaigning is all about.
But you’re still Under-5. Make it known how you would reduce prices of inputs and fuel? Now that you’ve gotten the concept of issue-based campaigning, you need to undergo yet another 5-6 rounds of being beaten at the polls then maybe on the 7th attempt Zambians can consider you. 2041 is a bit far. Till then keep dreaming cowboy!
Sata is one of the Greatest leaders in the world.Lets honor him when he is alive.HH behaves like a rat.I hate pipo who talk about tribes.We are one.
Sata ni kiongozi mjinga alitaka urais just for prestige.
World over no nation has been ruled like Zambia with Michael Sata as president. Mr Sata does not appear in public, address public meetings, see or talk to citizens, hold important meetings for the world to know call accredited diplomats to Zambia in his addresses. Instead we hear is hiding, sick or on working holiday. This is how docile Zambians can be, this is how Mr Sata has termed us all as his property. Like a curae he has lost his speech in turn of events. We appeal to one above Michael Sata.
Am neither from Southern nor Western part of the country-am actually from Northern part and strongly believe HH is the man. HH speaks truth and is a man of integrity, unlike the PF batch whose foundation is built on lies and deception. People, lets give this young, educated economist and successful farmer a chance. To hell with these satanic snakes called PF, we are exhausted of their lies…….mwee!!!
@zezemba
u are spot on my man. I totally agree with you. We cant have these lunatics continue plundering our national wealth more especially after sata decided to live in caves hiding and biz working hard from 5he caves like they say. So the quacks that are seen in public are biz looting our national coffers. Pf is just a bunch of kaponyas. I still don’t understand how zambians made this terrible mistake of voting for sata. After changena mu state house chabbalala. Chili ndwii
For sure move on ba HH. We will forever b behind you !!!
You can continue supporting a non bankable project such as the UPND for as long as you like. Majority of Zambian’s have shunned supporting UPND since 2006 when HH took over it’s leadership and this explains why it only has 18 % national support. UPND has past it’s best and will not win a national election for as long as it fields an unpopular candidate like HH.
Come 2016, HH will disappear from the political arena. I feel pity for this Tonga bull. Maybe he needs to have his b***s enlarged so that he can stand up as a man. I also wonder why he cant have a nice haircut or hairstyle. Does he sleep in a kraal for his hair to look like that? Maybe that is part of his juju to improve his political prospects. Am not surprised why we have an increased fatal road accidents.
HH tiy nabo ba koswe.
akakena kalayumfwa ask mangango people the will tell you
HH IS GOING INTO STATE HOUSE COME 2016,I WONDER WHY PEOPLE KEEP INSINUATING THAT HH STOLE WHEN THE MAN IS CLEAN AS PURE WATER.HH WILL NOT RULE BUT GOVERN GOING BY THE HIGH RESPECT THAT HE HAS FOR THE ZAMBIANS.YOUR INSULTS AGAINST HIM WILL NOT TAKE YOU ANYWHERE,IF HE IS NOT AN ISSUE WHY SPEND TIME TALKING ABOUT HIM,HA WHY NOT CONCENTRATE ON A DEFENSE AGAINST THE POST WHICH HAS NOW STARTED UNLEASHING VENOM ON THE KALOBA PARTY PF.
HH will only go to State House in his dreams. No wonder he is such a bitter person as it has dawned on him that it takes more than an economic manager to make it to plot 1. UPND failed to win a single ward election in Mkushi-South out of 5 wards just a fortnight ago and one wonders how it is going to emerge victorious next week. UPND is a very weak party on its own outside southern province and if anything they may only manage to win 1 seat next week out of the available 5.
Is that crowd part of 16% of total national population? or would it add up to to 17.01% if combined with souther province? Please educate me.
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