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HH promises to reduce the cost of living

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Crowds at Mufulira rally this afternoon
Crowds at Mufulira rally this afternoon

UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema says he will ensure that the cost of living is made affordable for every Zambian once elected into office.

And Mr Hichilema said he will not remove vendors from the streets once he is elected president next year but that he will instead look for ways of empowering them with various skills to address the problem of vending.

Mr Hichilema said that the country’s poverty levels have reached alarming levels under the PF government.

He was speaking on Saturday when he featured on a programme at Ndola’s Sun FM.

“I will run government in a manner that will generate income for this country. I will lower the price of fertilisers as this will encourage more farmers to grow enough crops to feed this country,” Mr Hichilema said.

He added that he would ensure that he sustains jobs for Zambians by supporting businesses to grow unlike the current scenario where they are threatened with closure.

Mr Hichilema said he would ensure that the price of maize and fuel are affordable and that there is stability in the pricing of commodities.

He was accompanied by former first lady Maureen Mwanawasa, Lunte Member of Parliament (MP) Felix Mutati, UPND chairman Mutale Nalumango, and Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) president Charles Milupi, among others.

And ALVIN CHIINGA reports that Mr Hichilema says his party will avoid unnecessary by elections if voted into power.

According to a statement issued by the UPND media team, Mr Hichilema said this when he addressed a rally at Kitwe’s Freedom Park on Saturday.

Mr Hichilema said his party will also ensure people are appointed on merit and professionalism.

He said that there is need for better economic management to ensure resources are freed for investment in services
He said government needs to use the revenues it collects from the mines to invest in areas that will improve the general living conditions of the Zambian people.

And UPND vice-president Richard Kapita says Mr Hichilema’s preoccupation will be to improve the lives of all citizens if elected president, reports Chomba Musika.

He said this on Saturday when addressing a rally at Choma’s Lusumpuko grounds where residents braved the rains to listen to his message.

He was flanked by Choma Central Member of Parliament (MP) Cornelius Mweetwa, who is also campaign manager for the area.
Mr Kapita urged the electorate to vote for Mr Hichilema because “he has already been accepted by Zambians in all parts of the country as their next president”.

“Over 25 MPs from the MMD have endorsed HH…the whole world including the United States of America has agreed that HH should become the next president…what about yourselves,” he said.
Mr Kapita said Mr Hichilema, whom will ensure that farmers receive their farm inputs on time.

Other speakers were Pemba MP Mutinta Mazoka, and her Mbabala and Dundumwezi counterparts Ephraim Belemu and Edgar Sing’ombe respectively.

Kitwe's New Apostolic Faith Central Church in the morning
Kitwe’s New Apostolic Faith Central Church in the morning
Kitwe's New Apostolic Faith Central Church in the morning
Kitwe’s New Apostolic Faith Central Church in the morning
Addressing crowds at an impromptu rally in Chililabombwe
Addressing crowds at an impromptu rally in Chililabombwe
Addressing crowds at an impromptu rally in Chililabombwe
Addressing crowds at an impromptu rally in Chililabombwe
Crowds at Mufulira rally this afternoon
Crowds at Mufulira rally this afternoon
Crowds at Mufulira rally this afternoon
Crowds at Mufulira rally this afternoon

75 COMMENTS

    • HH has been very impresive in his speech delivery on the copperbelt. He has not been personal. He is not insulting anybody but is focused on his message, his manifesto, His agenda for the Zambian enterprise. He is a great leader with a great vision for Zambia. I am looking forward to a new Zambia with great promise and a lot of prosperity. Zambia will overtake Botswana as a shining light in Southern Africa in the next 8 years of Hakainde’s rule, just watch!! We are in for good days ahead of us!!

    • My view is that HH is the best candidate in the coming elections. I don’t like him per se but I am more interested in someone who is going to run the country along democratic lines and have a government that is accountable for their finances, socially and politically.
      However, HH needs to tone down his promises. What he is promising is difficult to achieve especially now that PF has taken the country deep into debt. The standard of living, fuel costs etc have already been set very high. How will he reduce them without affecting an already broke government. I know there is wastage and theft in government and once tackled would generate more income.
      His statement of not removing street vendors is disappointing because Zambian towns are filthy. very disappointing indeed!

    • Fellow Zambians, i take strong contempt on the hate speech of one so called Bishop Chomba a known counterfeit and paragon of immorality in record time. Chomba’s rants at a mammoth and successful PF rally in Kabwe yesterday on Sunday, had no dividend or moral ground whatsoever in a democracy. President Lungu a genius lawyer and liberal democrat and Iron lady Inonge Wina as Chairman should strongly reprimand Chomba and deny him any future platform in the name of PF. This scalawag is certainly not what EL stamp need anywhere closer to the campaigns. I have reprimanded UPND cadres wherever seen showing hate speech such as calling Catholic devotee EL as Muslim and all useless smear vibe. We deserve issue based campaign and not hate speech. EL is on course and need just need to consolidate.

    • I strongly believe that while HH will make a monumental progress in a voter pull than ever before, but PF is certainly retaining the ruling mandate. The other participants are merely exercising their democratic rights but are set for the tail spend.

      But HH should institute some litigation against Chomba to help teach those who thrive on hate speech.

    • A Hero of Humanity is what Zambian electorates need and want.
      28 days left until Proven Failures (PF) are democratically voted out of power.
      The country doesn’t want a drunkard for a president who has no vision of his own.
      The Skeleton Key
      ~206~

    • Yayayaya..more lies and empty promises from a party that has failed to develop its own towns..Kalomo, Choma, Mazabuka all these are UPND strongholds but they are rundown and dirty towns what a joke UPND is how can any person with a good brain go and vote for a tribalist party with no genuine and honest development agenda..even MMD with Chipata is able to bring development there but not UPND to its own towns has failed…look at those crowds all are actually tribesmates of HH…Ive gone under cover to one of these and found 75% of those that attend are Tongas..dont be deceived I tell you come 20 Jan 2015 these UPND jokers will be shocked!!! Zambians if anything 75% of Zambians are voting PF!!!

      ****VIVA EDGAR LUNGU 2015****

    • Ba LT are u hired Guns for PF why dont you want to show the ndola massive rallies, of late your reporting is nauseating any way thank god u are not the only media ZWD and facebook are their to fill in the gap. via#### FIOLA

    • You are right Bricklayer. I never thought I would ever accuse Lsk Times of being biased but you have to question the motive to show the subordinate rallies and not show the main Ndola one. Not cool Lsk times. I would expect this from ZWD but not you guys. Very sad stuff.

    • PF HAS AUCTIONED ZAMBIA AT $7.5 BILLION SO FAR.

      The statement above is 100% correct as at 10 oclock Zambian time. PF is still selling Zambia to international shylockers for peanuts. The actual money that eventually makes it to Zambia is only a tniy fraction of $7.5 billion,enough just for the PF top officials to share and send their relatives abroad.

      To make matters worse, Chikwanda is still auctioning Zambia by contracting more debt each day that passes.

      If PF is voted into power, people of Zambia should expect the worst because, wage freeze will continue via massive devaluation of the kwacha, there will be more student riots as the PF government will have no money to sponsor students. Road development projects have stalled and not continue due to less funds.

    • Folks

      I have always advised those still supporting PF blindly to ignore my advice at their own peril.

      What I have said will surely come to pass.

      Here another twist to PF and Lungu ‘s dilemma.

      If Lungu wins, Bemba cartel want him there for a very short period before he can begin to wield more power and start giving jobs to his Eastern folks, they will take him out and replace him with one of the northerners, but definitely not Kambwili, or GBM.

      The fact is Lungu will be dead before the general election. He just a pawn for PF to coax Eastern province to join PF because they know that Eastern province is not quick enough to its mind about political parties.

      How ever PF has miscalculated as Lungu, is not as popular as RB was when MMD got him on board.Their move will…

    • PF SHOULD NOT FORCE THEIR INTO POWER.

      Zambians are not f00ls. Its not the big guys in uniform who dictate what extreme measures to take to restore Zambia’s democracy. It is junior officers who are equally ignored just like the majority poor Zambians.

      Sata and Chiluba wanted a third term. Remember what captain solo did?

      KK wanted to rule forever like mugabe. Remember those courageous junior officers who rocked KK ‘s boat until he accepted multi-party democracy?

      If PF rigs these elections, then their stay in office will be a thorny one for sure. All sections of society will rise up and instigate an atmosphere where a group of young soldiers will stage an attempted coup. The only difference this time is that PF top officials will be casualties.

      Ignore my warning at your peril!

    • PF President Edgar Lungu summarises issues to the people of Kabwe
      ”Zambia Railways HQ coming back to Kabwe
      Mulungushi Textile has a new owner through private public initiative
      We have paid the farmers
      We have reinstated the nurses”

      2015 vote PF(Edgar)

      I thank you

    • SUBJECT; PF PRESIDENT EDGAR LUNGU TO TOUR CHILUBI, LUWINGU, MPOROKOSO AND KASAMA
      Patriotic Front (PF) President Edgar Chagwa Lungu has commenced his provincial campaign tours by beginning with the Northern Province.
      President Lungu is on Tuesday 23rd December 2014 expected to hold two rallies in Chilubi and Luwingu districts.
      He will hold a Rally in Chilubi at 10hrs in the morning, and then travel to Luwingu and hold a rally at 13hrs in the afternoons in Luwingu District.
      On Wednesday 24th December 2014, Hon. Lungu is expected to hold a rally in Mporokoso at 10hrs and hold another public rally in Kasama at 13hrs.
      Acting President Dr. Guy Scott is expected to join President Edgar Lungu’s rally in Kasama.

      2015 vote PF (Edgar)

      I thank you…

    • LIES. HH IS CORRUPT! THAT CREATURE DIPAK PATEL IS HH’S CAMPAIGN MANAGER. THIS DOG WAS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT MINISTERS IN THE CHILUBA GOVERNMENT. HE GAVE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS TO HIS FELLOW INDIANS INSTEAD OF HARD WORKING ZAMBIANS WITH INTEGRITY. HIS HAS AMASSED WEALTH THEOUGH BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT HH? IT IS PROOF IS IS JUST ANOTHER DIRTY CORRUPT POLITICIAN WHO SEEKS TO ENRICH HIMSELF.

  1. Our President has spoken. PF promises Nsanda and Chungu that they put more money in there pockets. How does the whole country suffer because Nsanda, Chungu, Mwamba have to put money in they pockets. UNPD will try to help ordinary common people, PF is for the chosen few thugs surrounding Lungu. Vote for HH if you want at least a shot at equal opportunity.

    • Senior citizen thank you for reprimanding Father Chomba. I agree with you even though I am not a PF supporter. However, I strongly disagree that EL is a genius lawyer and democrat. Those two words cannot be used to describe the PF President. Is he a successful lawyer? Is he highly regarded in legal circles? Have you heard of any lawyer supporting him? I rest my case?

    • # 2.1 Professional,
      Beware of unsuccessful but prostrated campaign of deceit by those vainly laboring to paint EL black. I believe you know very little about the man other than the shove picked up from sole losers who fear they have lost the plot of controlling Government. FYI i have known EL at a personal level for over 18 years now. He is a terrific independent minded thinker you can only mistake for his meekness or humility. He is a simple and down to earth commoner but an intellectual you would appreciate engaging in a discourse. He Graduated with flying colors from UNZA in his LLB. his legal career has won many cases in courts. This is why for years he served as embattled Sata’s personal winning lawyer that was eventually targeted to weaken him after refusing to stop defending Sata.

  2. Joker !! This chap won`t go anywhere with his populist politics. I am just from Zed and from the way things are going he will continue being in opposition at least up to 2026. I pity the online UPND cadres who thinks they have already won these elections.

    • Good to see you back. Some of us thought you were Sata himself and had been buried at Embassy party, I guess you went to fix the squabbles in you party back home, ayi? Looks like the boat is sailing again. True a wanna be PF party and a wanna be Post Newspaer thing they can put HH in statehouse. I think UPND and ZWD will fall short. To go to State house you need landslide in Lusaka and copperbelt, I don’t see HH doing that. These guys are deluded

    • If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, definitely its a duck! Saulosi the PF chief bootlegging cadre is back, whilst Mushota Bantu converted from Pathetic Flabbergasted (PF), soon you, Katondo boys, Kudos and all gullible cadres will wake up from slumber.
      28 days left until PF is democratically elected out, counting down!

    • @saulosi well said and welcome back..I’m on the ground and keep telling the online community that the majority of Zambians don’t surf the internet let alone post on blogs and the majority of Zambians are poor people that feel and know they have a real voice in PF, the majority of Zambians are for PF please any reader here travel on any public minibus or visit any market in all the provinces of course with an exception of Southern and you’ll be impressed if you are PF as most people are for PF..HH is just wasting his resources … people are for PF I tell you…Zambians don’t want HH and don’t want a leader like HH that has a proven tainted past of tribalism and embezzlement that has left thousands destitute..

      ***VIVA EDGAR LUNGU 2015***

    • Saulosi Saulosi Saulosi

      Where have you been my dearest brother?

      Anyway Katondo boys and the Boostele team has done Job,

      Its good to have you back now and welcome to the Katondo boys and the boostele team. Please come have a glass of wine with us at CBI building in Matero later tonight.

      2015 Edgar has just won the elections

      I thank you

  3. As much as I am an HH supporter I find nothing informative about LT insisting on showing us pictures of crowds at rallies. Its enough to show a couple of pictures but lets focus on the massages the candidates are delivering. Policy and attribute difference is what the media should be educating the voters on. What do each of the candidates bring interms of character and achievements? Who are they and what kind of government are they likely to preside over? What can Edgar Lungu do to ensure that our farmers are paid? Why has the PFfailed to employ those policies now. What will they do differently I they have the answers why did they wait for things to get so bad before applying the promises they are now promising?

    • The UPND cadre now you are ashamed that Your Under5 HH is pulling very small crowds and you want LT to stop showing the truth about UPND? Is it not you UPND supporters who demanded that LT shows the rally pictures for UPND? LT has answered but still you are u turning on it. Useless cadres you are.

      Please LT continue showing us the crowds so that we know who is pulling the largest.

      Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.

    • 40% on the copper belt. HH is just past that. Those that are arguing do your own statistics ask about 200 people at random from different walks of life. you will be surprised by their responses. HH is wining this election bane. You can tale by the way people in these rallies respond. The people at PF rallies look bored, fatigued and waiting for transport to take them back from where ever they are collected from. on the other hand people in UPND rallies look engaged and are ready to vote for change of government. Observe and never waste your vote on a loosing candidate.

    • I want both pictures and message. It helps me to decide who to support on seeing both audiences of people living their daily chores and their businesses to go listen to the politician and the latter’s message. I think audience is an important part of democracy. I mean something is seriously wrong with a politician who only pools one person at his ‘rallies’!

  4. There are only three possible reasons why PF fails to pay farmers
    1) indifference -they don’t care about the poor
    2) incompetence- they failed to plan adequately and they don’t have the mone
    3) corruption- the money was there and was embezzled
    So Aba ma dizzy please tell the people of ZAMBIA which reason it is.

    • Zamcab, for the fifth time, hh will win this election without your vote. It is called democracy. For the sake of your healthy, be cool with this.

    • @kamwale last I checked the majority of Zambians are not tribesmates of HH which means majority of Zambians unlike you and your fellow UPND bloggers are definitly not going to vote for HH..mark my words mwana HH and you will lose come 20 Jan, 2015..dont worry ill bring you some napkins for your tears mwaiche wande..

      ***VIVA EDGAR LUNGU 2015***

  5. That Bishop Ed Chomba is not a Bishop as he would holds himself out to be. For starters he was a clerk at the defunct Zambia Airways in the accounts department. He embezzled petty cash from QZ. Next thing was he emerged somewhere in Massachusetts proclaiming himself to be Bishop of the “World Church”, with full Bishops regalia. Whilst in that church,Eddie Chomba embezzled church funds and was subsequently excommunicated from the church. Next thing he was on the lam for committing bigamy in the United States. These are facts people, google the name Bishop Eddie Chomba and see what pops up. Now is this the calibre of people PF allows to stand on their platform and accuse HH of being a satanist? That Chomba is a petty international con man and it hurts me to see him use Gods in vain.

  6. Zambians you have a chance now to correct the mistake you made in 2011 by voting PF into power. If you vote for them again this time, then consider yourselves ‘testados’, stone headed people who never learn come out of their caves.
    On top of that, you will be committing an unpardonable sin which you will only have yourselves to blame for its consequences.
    If you resign to the use of proper reasoning in choosing a leader, then atleast, I repeat, atleast, choose someone who looks representable to the world. If that is even too hard for you… then we consider you condemned and doomed forever

    • LIES. HH IS CORRUPT! THAT CREATURE DIPAK PATEL IS HH’S CAMPAIGN MANAGER. THIS DOG WAS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT MINISTERS IN THE CHILUBA GOVERNMENT. HE GAVE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS TO HIS FELLOW INDIANS INSTEAD OF HARD WORKING ZAMBIANS WITH INTEGRITY. HIS HAS AMASSED WEALTH THROUGH BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT HH? IT IS PROOF HE IS IS JUST ANOTHER DIRTY CORRUPT POLITICIAN WHO SEEKS TO ENRICH HIMSELF.

  7. He is not addressing the key structural fundamental pillars of the economy to support that reduction in the cost of living He is not being sincere He needs to explain more to people things that go into that reduction the GDP real and potential Potential and constraints in resource exploitation in the Zambian scenario

    He is not being coherent in his speeches to fit in the current Zambia Scenario He has to move from the current paradigm and see what is possible He needs to see the Interest rates on both savings and borrowings current Inflation and structural capacity now

    True investors set residences in the country not two weeks in Zambia and another in home country to avoid…

  8. To avoid immigration Two weeks in Zambia Two weeks in Canada or South Africa where residence has been set You will not reduce the cost of living with such kind of investors There are not long-term They need to get residence and set havens

    not importing and bring project managers to run a eating facilities to support such kind of leaving for investor miners at Lumwana without moving their families to settle and grow the Zambia economy

    The behaviour has to change to settling rather that shantting in between Canada and Zambia or south Africa every after two weeks its cosmetic Investors True investors will set camp and grow the economy locally here

    Wake up

  9. Where did HH got wealth?
    answer: got a huge chunk when he sold selfishly lima bank, and mines belongs to zambians he is chuffin right now later ran away just came back when he smelled another opportunity to get more wealth z a billionaire but am ignorant about what he has done to us zambians.I can’t be fooled by HH mulyokela is beta no history of criminal activies.

  10. Where did HH got wealth?
    answer: got a huge chunk when he sold selfishly lima bank, and mines belongs to zambians he is chuffin right now later ran away just came back when he smelled another opportunity to get more wealth z a billionaire but am ignorant about what he has done to us zambians.I can’t be fooled by HH mulyokela is beta no history of criminal activities.

  11. Until when savings and revenues from sectors register you will always have that cry on cost of living

    For the sake of the naïve, cost of living is an equation that have to be fitted and balanced to have the desired well intended objective
    You shall not be in parity as long as your economy is FDI driven and most investors behave as shorterm opportunists not setting havens long time like Guy Scot here in Zambia
    Its like explain the Philips curve ,Keys. Ricardo barlo, the cost of production, the constraints theories and fitting appropriate policies accordingly in fiscal and monetary policy
    So far the political discourse of HH is shallow Only FDD Edith has said in coherent PFs

  12. HH has won this election but to ensure he lands in state house what’s being done to prevent rigging by the thugs? These megalomaniacs will stop at nothing now that Guy Scott has compromised his democratic and rule of law principles. They now have direct access to state funds and machinery to drive their evil agenda. What measures are in place to prevent PF from cheating? You can’t have a guy like Lungu, a clearly mad man foaming at the mouth and always drunk to govern a country.

  13. Lusaka times, you ve proved to me that you are the best online in terms of reporting. You report things the way they are. Keep it up.

  14. Whoever posted HH’s ndola clip rally did well to expose mediocrity at it best. HH is just a joker best suited for Lusaka Play house. he was busy shouting Pabwato dancing and …… So pathetic. Presidential material? NAY!!! Kuwayayafye. Those children are not voters mind you.

  15. HH’s supporters wat will you do to zambians if you had money like your fatherless under 5. Ask him, let him show us wat he hav so far done to us zambians.

  16. HH is Political Discourse needs to be dissected in view of Zambia’s outlook and avoid being taken for a Song

    Elementary economics in the calculation of Cost of Living using simple measures as Laspeyres relating to the consumption and savings negative propensity will show you why it simply does not fit in the Zambian scenario I will chose quality and substitute accordingly Has he given the figures for cost of living in Zambia Even a look at the simple ricardian model will make you see and see the false wood
    Policy makers work hard just like BOZ is to control Inflation which reflects the cost of living for many of our people

    Simple aggregation of cost of interest…

  17. HH WILL LOSE THIS ONE.I CAN SEE THAT.HH WON’T EVEN GET 30% FROM COPPERBLET.THEY GAVE STUNDENT MONEY AND BEER TO ATTEND KITWE RALLY..COPPERBELT PIPO ARE AWARE THAT HH SOLD MINES TOGETHER WITH THE BIG BROTHER OF MUTATI.IN COPPERBELT NI DONCHI KUBEBA.NOT ONLY THAT HE IS NOW ASSOCIATING HIMSELF WITH MMD MEMBERS WHO SOLD ZAMTEL AND ZAMBIA RAILLWAYS.PIPO DON’T WANT MMD TO BOUNCE BACK THROUGH UPND. .PF HAS SUPPORTS FROM POOR PIPO.ATLEAST POOR PIPO CAN SEE THE RAODS,SCHOOLS,HOSPITALS AND UNIVERSITIES. WAIT AND SEE ON 20TH JANUARY.VOTE EL

  18. HH is lying that he’ll offer free education.It’s not easy to have free education.Where is going to get the money?2015 is PF budget and nothing can change.Politicians should be desparate just coz they want to rule.I think HH wants to rule coz he is a tonga according to his pronouncements.A leader should not think like that.After the death of mazoka it was known that UPND could be only led by a Tonga.Public pronouncements were made in UPND.Sakwiba was chased,lubinda,patrick chisanga and other prominent members like Bob sichinga.Now HH wants to use Mutati just to smear the public that UPND is not tribal.We all know that mutati want a job together with other MMD members coz they know MMD can’t come into power.who can vote for MMD again?UPND should be branded Efintu ni Lungu

  19. It is amazing that pf bloggers only insult HH ,they have no issues to advance except to talk about hh . Talk about how your Pathetic Paya Farmer party under your petty thieving lawyer EL is failing to pay farmers on time.HAS LUNGU DECLARED HIS ASSETS DURING NOMINATION ON SATURDAY? HOW MANY CRESSIDAS, GUNS,PANGAS,AND SPEARS HAS HE GOT?

  20. The rotten taste of how PF lied their way to power and what they did to others and for themselves in the short three years still lingers in our mouths. God did not wait five years to hear our cries. Surely we have to embrace with all our hearts the great chance that God has given us to redeem ourselves.

  21. Politicians will always tell the few dull illiterate individuals what they want to hear. As for the common Zambian male or female just buy them alcohol and promise them that there is more from where that amount came from then they will vote for you.

  22. @MOSCOW(op)
    IF PF IS FAILLING TO SOLVE A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM OF FINDING MONEY TO PROVIDE FREE EDUCATION IT DOES MEAN THAT EVERYONE ELSE IN ZAMBIAN IS AS DULL AS PF CADRES. HH KNOWS HOW TO FIND MONEY AND SINCE OBAMA HAS ALREADY ENDORSED HIM IT IS EASY TO GET INVESTMENT FROM USA. PF IS FAILING TO FIND MONEY BECAUSE DONOR COUNTRIES DONT LIKE DICTATORS WHO BEFRIENDS OTHER BAD CHARACTERS LIKE MUGABE OF ZIMBABWE,WHO HAS BECOME THE GODFATHER OF PF AND LUNGU RECENTRY WENT TO ZIM TO CONSULT THIS MONISTER.SO YOU SEE MY FRIEND, HH IS LOVED BY OUTSIDE WORD BECAUSE OF HIS DEMOCRATIC ATTRIBUTES,WHEN HE TALKS OBAMA LISTENS AND DECLARE HE IS A GOOG MAN.

    • @JOXER
      ZAMBIA’S ECONOMY SHOULDNT DEPEND ON FDI’S COZ THEY CAN RUN AWAY ANY TIME AFTER MAKING THEIR PROFITS. WE NEED GOVT DRIVEN COMPANIES TO CREATE ECONOMIC ORGANIC GROWTH FOR ZAMBIA. WE NEED STABLE ECONOMY AND NOT THESE INVESTORS TO BE BLACKLISTING GOVT WHENEVER WE WANT TO GET EQUAL SHARE FROM OUR WEALTH. HH, FDD & MMD CHAPS COLLAPSED OUR ECONOMY BECAUSE THEY DIDNT WANT TO KNOW WHAT PRIVATIZATION MEANT AND THEY ONLY MINDED ABOUT THEIR POCKETS!

  23. Zambians should be careful who they vote for. Last week Wednesday before parliament adjourned, UPND MP, Garry Nkhombo was on the floor of the house when he insulted a PF MP callling him chika***la. the MP who was insulted did not say anything. Nkhombo did not have the decency to apologize. Imagine if an MP can insult a fellow member, what will happen when they are in power. UPND are so full of themselves.

  24. HOW MANY HEADS OF STATES AND GOVERNMENTS VISITED ZAMBIA DURING PF RULE? NONE EXCEPT A FEW FORMER PRESIDENTS,ITS ONLY AT THE FUNERAL THAT WE SAW A FEW STATES SENDING THEIR REPRESENTATIVES.EVEN AT INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR IN NDOLA PF FAILED TO GET ANY HEAD OF STATE TO GRACE THE OCCASION AS BEING THE OLD TRADITION.THIS IS PARTLY THE REASON PF IS FAILING TO FIND MONEY,THEY ARE DICTATORS WHO DONT BELIEVE IN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE,,LOOK AT HOW EDGAR LUNGU ASCENDED TO PF PRESIDENCY ITS A SHAME,VOTED BY NONE DELEGATES BY RISING THEIR RIGHT OR LEFT HANDS OR LEGS,WHATEVER.THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY CANNOT VOTE FOR EL,,BECAUSE HE REPRESENT NOTHING BUT POLITICS OF THE BELLY. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN PF NOW IS SIMPLY, SAFE THE PARTY AND MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO,,,KEEP YOUR JOBS AS I KEEP MINE.

  25. of all the things HH is promising how come he has never promised us that he will stop, expose and bring to book the PF govt for what he alleged them of training militia men in Sudan. if that was true how come he has never mentioned it this among other useless promises he is telling us. Obama won the US election by going against the war in Iraq. so if HH is not a lair he should tell us the truth. All you chaps busy support HH are just thick in the head and forget very easily. For me this chap is a hypocrite and a desperate man who wants plot one so badly and some *****s have fallen for him.

  26. @musankwa
    Garry Nkombo is tonga and he did not insult anyone because chikala in tonga is not an insult,,,chikala in tonga is simply a shallow well near the stream where people draw clean water for drinking.

  27. kikiki ati Obama has endorsed HH.Kwena ba UPND supporters u’re desperate zoona.U think Obama will waste time of endorsing HH?This why we tell that, u suffer from inferiority complex.Obama doesn’t support anyone.Even an American ambassador of USA confirmed that.America is not like UPND supporters desperate for endorsements.Don’t even cheat yoself!!Just work hard america won’t give u free food.Musunga anikonde type of HH supporters.We can’t trust u coz u may sell zambia to whites.Most UPND supporters suffer from inferiority complex including HH hence thinking bembas don’t want him to be a president.Desperate moves bcoz he became president through tribalism.Only a tonga could lead UPND!!!!It’s not easy to trust such a person who came into politics through tribalism otherwise he cause…

  28. musankwa u are plastic,i was also listening the pf mp told upnd mp and i quote,ikala panshi,meaning sit down and the upnd mp replied and said ikala iwe wiine,meaning sit down your self

  29. UPND overrates itself very highly.It can’t win elections period.MMD may come second.Things now have settled and HH is crying right now.I agree with bloggers saying HH is using mutati to save the Bantustan party.It’s well known that UPND is supported by bantustan who can even travel from kalomo 2 Lsk just bcoz of HH.For them it’s about ruling.Why should we vote 4 HH jst bcoz he wants to rule?How many mines did HH sell?why should he be in alliance with MMD who sold zamtel and finance bank on the song?We thank ba sata pantu zamtel is the best mobile network provider and cheap.U can call the the all day without worries.For me i don’t trust HH coz he may sell Zamtel,Zesco,zambia raillways and other govt companies.HH wants to be a bilionaire and make sure a tonga also rules Zambia.

    • He will sell all those and bring in Service Providers from West.

      This is a lost individual who will do and say anything for votes.

  30. Just when I thot Guy Scott had the only marbles in pf !
    Bam, here comes Golom Scott no balls hanging, waddling with chakolwa at his side – Jesus wept !

  31. …“he has already been accepted by Zambians in all parts of the country as their next president”.

    “Over 25 MPs from the MMD have endorsed HH…the whole world including the United States of America has agreed that HH should become the next president…what about yourselves,” he said.

    Wait a minute! Are’nt these same MMD id!ots we gave the boot in 2011? mmmtsssss!..malabishi !

  32. Saulos, Kudos,Vision 2020 et al

    Spicing democracy, nothing to offer as disciples of failed PF govt.
    Zambians and the world endorse HH as the next Zambian leader.
    Viva UPND, Viva HH 2015.

  33. Anyone else but definitely not the PF candidate and his thugs! I feel we should try HH, after all it will only be for some 18 months!

  34. Message to PF. “Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.” Now can take your failed policies and feed them to your indoctrinated cadres with some luck you might get some people willing to be fooled again. The minority however know that your polcies are what landed us in this sory state we find ourselves in. Can’t pay farmers, health services in shambles. Failing to deliver higher education, chronic shortages of utilities contructors waiting toeBen paid. State of Zambian government is an embarrassment really. You guys need to embark on an apoapology tour.

  35. Mwanza it is you and your upnd who are plastic, your mp insulted, we will request Hot FM or Parliament radio to play the recording. Typical of you upnd with pompous, arrogant and full of nothing but hot air.

  36. why are some politician promising to reduce the price of Millie meal but pay the farmers well? How is he going to afford free education- nursery to tertiary?Empty promises everyday ba under five

  37. The funny thing is, in as much as i feel HH is the “best” candidate so far, i strongly believe EL could also make a great President!

    El may not be as calm and collected as HH where delivering the messages are concerned, but don’t rubbish him to the bin so soon.

    For me, i would risk any of only the two of them!!!! Anyone else is disaster in my opinion!

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