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Businessmen can’t make good Presidents-Fr Frank Bwalya

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FILE: UPND president Hakainde Hichilema confers with the then Alliance for Better Zambia leader Father Frank Bwalya
FILE: UPND president Hakainde Hichilema confers with the then Alliance for Better Zambia leader Father Frank Bwalya

Ruling PF Chairman for Media Fr Frank Bwalya has charged that UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema will never become republican President because people from the corporate world do not make good Presidents.

Fr Bwalya said Mr Hichilema should stop misleading Zambians that he will turn around the economy if he becomes President because businessmen cannot make good Presidents.

He said history shows that most people drawn from the corporate world struggle in politics and end up failing to become Presidents.

Fr Bwalya was speaking in Lusaka on Friday when he featured on a special radio programme on Hot FM in response to Mr Hichilema’s own radio appearance on the same station on Thursday.

“This man whom we call Mr Kalusa because he has always been losing elections was here on this station claiming that President Lungu has failed, I am here to tell the Zambians that they should not even pay attention to Mr Kalusa because he is a bitter man who is desperate for power,” Fr Bwalya said.

He added, “Mr Kalusa should forget about becoming President of this great country because the blood he shed after mismanaging the privatisation of this country’s assets will continue crying out to God and God will continue listening to those cries.”

Fr Bwalya said Mr Hichilema cannot make a good President because he is simply a dealer who is only good at selling things.

“This is why God will not allow a dealer to run this country because he will sell everything and give himself a cut, the same way he did with privatisation.”

The outspoken Fr Bwalya lashed out at Mr Hichilema for attacking President Lungu’s abilities to manage the country.

“On this same programme, Mr Kalusa was busy mocking President Lungu that he cannot manage the economy because he has never managed any business. You see, the programme with this man is that he is always motivated by profits. All he knows is to sell and earn a profit and this is why God doesn’t allow business men to rule nations because they are profit motivated,” he said.

“This is why God will not allow a dealer to run this country because he will sell everything and give himself a cut, the same way he did with privatisation.”

On the constitution amendments, Fr Bwalya said Mr Hichilema is being very ungrateful for stating that President Lungu has failed to give Zambians a people driven constitution.

“If a parent promises a child a number of items before going to boarding school and when school opens, the parent manages to give the child 80 percent of the items promised due to hardships and when the child reaches schools, he starts speaking ill about the parent and when the school authorities call the parent to inform them that the child was insulting them because he didn’t receive 100 percent of the items promised, the parent would feel so betrayed, I guess this is how President Lungu is feeling when he reads such comments from Mr Kalusa about the constitution.”

Fr Bwalya continued, “Mr Kalusa’s altitude can be compared to Umwana wa ndoshi (Child of a witch) because Umwana wa ndoshi eushitasha (A child of a witch is the one who doesn’t appreciate). With Mr Kalusa, everything that President Lungu does is wrong and this is why he will continue losing elections.”

118 COMMENTS

  1. The. ‘Father’ to PF has spoken. Just look at his children – Davies Chama, Chishimba Kambwili, Sunday whatever…
    Please stop abusing this is an honourable title.

    • Father Bwalya has bluntly put it as it ought to be delivered. Running a country is not same as running a business or managing a tribal program. Had it been the case, the likes US Corporate executives and investor know to be a Dollars Multi billionaire in the likes of Ross Perot, Mike Bloomberg and Mitt Romney to mention but a few could have already been statistics of White House tenants. American passed on Romney for a mandate on simple Obama for the same reasons. Bill Clinton who delivered a historic tenure of American success was not a businessman but a lawyer/ Governor. Britain’s Iron lady was never a business executive neither is Obama who has turned around the hell of George Bush for America’s prosperity. Public office leadership is about consensus and advisory period.

    • Running a country is not same as running a business or managing a tribal program. Had it been the case, the likes of US Corporate executives and investors known to be Multi billionaires in the likes of Ross Perot, Mike Bloomberg and Mitt Romney to mention but a few, could have already been statistics of the White House tenants. The know it all mentality and ill advise from irrational souls in the likes of William Banda, Douglas Shakalima and cadres such as Larry L Mweetwa (Cam Wanzelu) has continued to render ba HH a status of a political parody of doom and wrath. Dare not scheme violence to push for unjustified Government of national unity. I see preludes of gambling that route to own Calvary God forbid.

    • Ba senior citizen! Your support for RB did not help. Your damning Sata did not help. Just pay mmembe from your own coffers mune.

    • Senior Citizen … don’t make comments about issues you do not understand. Bloomberg was a successful public official in New York — a city that is larger in therms of population than Zambia. And what makes you think all American citizens who have ruled the U.S. never operated businesses? Stay well in foreign missions, old man!

    • Senior Fimo fimo, we don’t care what useless examples you use, THE QUESTION ON 11/08/2016 WILL BE deciding between A DRUNKARD, LAWYER WHO HAS CHEWED CLIENT’S MONEY, SELF PROCLAIMED “CLUELESS ABOUT RUNNING A COUNTRY”, & now we hear, SPENDING NIGHT’S AT SOME CONCUBINE in Kabulonga, WITH A CABAL OF THIEVES & CROOKS
      VERSES A new leader WHO PROMISES TO REUNITE A COUNTRY, REBUILD IT’S ECONOMY, RESTORE SOME PRIDE in it’s PEOPLE!!! WE know which way we will vote!!

    • We can now all see WHY FRANK BWALYA was kicked out by the Catholic Church – HE is worse than Judas – He now proclaims someone to be a witch – so he does believe in witchcraft!! He was indeed a Wolf in a sheep’s skin – & he didn’t last long – God reached out to protect his people from this wicked man pretending to be a priest – we can now understand his slaughtering of a chicken in the crowd & REVELLING IN THE SPILLING OF BLOOD – WE SHOULDN’T BE SHOCKED BY HOW FAR HE WILL GO AS WE GET TOWARDS ELECTIONS – he will definitely slaughter more animals just to rejoice in the DRIPPING OF BLOOD!!!! All this in support of another pretender trying to cheat us about a TABERNACLE – It will be a TABERNACLE TO SACRIFICE POOR ZAMBIANS – we shouldn’t even touch it with a barge-pole!!!!!!!

    • If someone were to ask, which member of Zambian catholic clergy has done the worst, NO DOUBT, IT WOULD BE FRANK BWALYA – he is a DEVIL WORSHIPPER, People like Milingo only succumbed to human weakness, but even then, he respectably left to live happily thereafter, with his wife!!!

    • Ba Senior fimo fimo (as someone aptly called you), over the years I would have expected that you would have become an authority as a political commentator! Alas, it was not to be! On one hand, I agree with you that there are not a lot of supporting data world wide to show Businessmen become good presidents or leaders.
      However, in the US, Andrew Johnson a tailor by occupation became one of the great presidents of America. So too did Harding a newspaperman, Hoover (mining) jimmy Carter (farmer), George HW Bush (oilman).
      Senior Citizen, to enlighten you- did you know Truman did so poorly in business but sought employment in public sector to make ends meet yet became a great president!
      Whilst Romney made business experience the main reason to elect him. Without his business past or his…

    • Whilst Romney made business experience the main reason to elect him. Without his business past or his projections of business future, there is no there there. But history shows that time in the money trade is more often than not a prelude to a disastrous presidency. The less experience in business, the better the president. As for HH surely he will not be as disastrous as one busman, conductor, governor, deputy minister, minister without portfolio or even worse than one debarred lawyer/Jamisonian.

    • Thanks to Frank Bwalya and the PF media team for making the incoming president popular. Through your baseless slander of HH people are awakening to the fact that HH is by far better than the whole PF team put together.

      Only two words to describe failed Frank Bwalya. Deranged and deluded.

      I rest my case.

      2016 vote UPND for a better Zambia.

    • Let me also point out that bad business men are the worst leaders. Compare Mwanswasa and Lungu both business men in the legal profession. Mwanawasa was the best leader Zambia ever had while lungu a thieving business man has destroyed Zambia completely. Judge for yourselves.

      Frank Bwalya will soon be fired by Lungu and replaced with Muhabi Lungu because of his inability to critically assess the facts before he opens his mouth. How can he forget that Lungu was a failed business man who capitalised on swindling his clients to makr his business stay afloat. Lungu has shifted his thieving to swindling the whole country in broad day light.

      The more Frank Bwalya criticises HH on baseless grounds the more the zambian people scrutinise Lungu and dig deeper to find out what a scum he really…

    • Senior Fimo Fimo. Bwana!!!!! Law firms are run as legal business entities and not as you put sir. A lawyer or a group of lawyers will come together to form a practicing firm as a business named after them or any other name i.e. Shamwana and Company. The lawyers are called partners in their legal entity meaning, they own part of the law firm. Therefore, sir, ECL was or is it, he is a partner in that firm and that legal firm is ran a business. Please educate the fatherless father as well that, it is ECL and the type that make businessmen/women look bad as govt leaders. Think before you open your mouth or is it pressing your fingers on the keyboard.

    • So he says a failed lawyer who runs an empty Taven is better placed to manage the economy? Frank doesn’t even 7nderstand that Zambian are giving themselves a people driven constitution not this PF one. We are waiting for a new regime 8n August to give us a real constitution.

  2. I am appalled at how stupid and judgmental this folk can be. How can he play with a Lunda name? Does he know its meaning? He should find something to do in life rather than exposing his stupidity everywhere. He even talks about privatization. Does he have evidence that HH had stolen. We need people who can fix the many problems confronting Zambia instead of people who do nothing, but to open their mouths and mislead others and manipulate them to hate each other.

  3. Mr. Bwalya you are mad as confirmed by Kambwali aba patili (Vicars) go mad after stopping priesthood its the reason you have been sidelined by PF. You are not stable and the party feels comfortable giving you that job of a cadre. Take time to listen to your nonsense, you surely believe me.

  4. What kind of leadership can a failed priest provide? Leaders are everywhere, church, business, law, Civil Society, Public service etc. Twisted reasoning we have in this country. And why can’t these people address issues instead of always talking about personalities. Dora says Kariba might shut down completely, let him address that issue and many

  5. Well, Mr Bwalya , am not sure about that , I think Silvio Berlusconi was of the longest serving Prime Minister for Italy and a very wealthy man indeed, whether he was great or not , you will have to ask the Italians who voted him in consistently and made him serve in four Governments. Say what you want against him, but the record speaks for itself.

    I think it is wise to Say Mr Hichilema and not Businessmen. Let us not stigmatize the trade. I think Zambia needs a lot of small business owners to create jobs and small business owners create a lot of jobs around the world. Let us not let our opinion of HH taint the noble trade of creating wealth.

    • @MMD Chief Bootlicker you very right by saying it is wrong to taint a trade. Any person in any trade including that of a priest can make a good president. It is not the trade but the heart,ability, will and intentions that makes one a good president. Father Bwalya here is wrong. Personally I think HH should not became president because he is greedy, bitter, manipulative, untruthful and most of all tribal. Chief Bootlicker, how did you miss out on the LT awards?

    • MMD bootliker the example you have picked is the best because it tells you why HH is not supposed to be a president.How many times has Berlusconi being put in prison for corruption.When you look at his statements it all about selfishnes and ever complaining

    • Bootlicker MAYBE YOU DON’T KNOW BERLUSCONI. PLEASE, REVISIT HIS BACKGROUND BEFORE, AS PRESIDENT AND POST PRESIDENT. I WILL NOT DUEL ON LECTURING YOU ABOUT BERLUSCONI, BUT, FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF. IT’S A FACT BUSINESS TYCOONS DON’T MAKE GOOD POLITICAL LEADERS. THERE ARE SO MANY EXAMPLES INCLUDING GEORGE BUSH WHOSE WAR IN IRAQ WAS MOTIVATED BY THE MONEY THAT WILL COME FROM IRAQ’S PETROLEUM REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY IRAQIS WERE KILLED. JUST IMAGINE SOMEONE EVEN THINKING OF BRINGING BACK INGLO-AMERICA THAT DUMPED ZAMBIA AT THE TIME WHEN WE NEEDED THEM MOST. THE PARTNER WE NEED AS AT NOW IS CHINA. YOU SHOULD AT LEAST MENTIONED JIM CARTER THE PEANUT FARMER TYCOON, THOUGH TOO MUCH CHRISTIANITY FAILED HIM.

    • The backbone of all viable economies is its SMEs run by ordinary business men and women. Now in Zambia we have those leading us saying a president can’t come from this grouping, how sad! And you wonder why Zambian businesses are not protected by thier government like they are in progressive countries.

      On another note, why is HH being made the main agenda when we have more pressing issues that we need answers and solutions to? We are in the midst of a serious drought, our minister of energy has said the situation at kariba is dire and yet we preoccupy ourselves with politics. These are the hallmarks of a careless and clueless leadership in my opinion.

  6. Bwalya please concentrate on buying auto spares in Freetown Kitwe. You have no right to tell us who shud or shud not be our President.

  7. The only profit under pf is massive looting resulting in high poverty levels. HH will be a better president. His profits will reachout to the poor.

  8. IF A COUNTRY IS RUN PROFITABLY LIKE A BUSINESS, IT WILL MAKE A PROFIT (SURPLUS), NOT A LOSS (OVERRUN). TO RUN A COUNTRY PROFITABLY YOU NEED A COMPETENT BUSINESSMAN TO RUN IT. PRESIDENT MWANAWASA PROVED THIS POINT. HE SUCCESSFULLY RUN HIS LAW FIRM AND FARMS. WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT HE USED THE EXPERIENCE TO TURN AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT HE HAD FOUND ON ITS KNEES. PRESIDENT LUNGU HAS FAILED TO RUN THE COUNTRY BECAUSE HE HAD FAILED TO RUN HIS LAW FIRM IF HE HAD ANY. HH WILL BE A BLESSING TO ZAMBIA IF A ELECTED PRESIDENT.

    • Facts are that Lungu misappropriated clients money. LAZ disbarred Lungu for THEFT.

      Let Lungu sue HH if this is not a fact.

      Lungu has now stolen the people driven Comstitution and given us PF chigamba document. Once a thief, always one.

      The records of privatization and payments made to consultants are there. HH should sue Frank Bwalya for the truth to come in the public domain. What role did HH, George Sokota, Valentine Chitalu, Francis Kaunda, Richard Mazombwe, Ronald Penza etc play? Who privatized ? Was it an individual or the State or the consulting firm?

    • you have said it perfectly,mwanawasa toiled for the money he made and the businesses he was running in his life,patrick junior said it in plain language when we were together at chengelo school,not after privatisation that is when you come out as the richest in the country you mismanage the wealth of the nation to your personal gains in the name of undervaluing the price of the mines by bringing your fellow dealers who fails to run the minesand abandon them later own ,which simply means the whole of the zambian economy will be for the dealers and gvt will have no say over that

    • @Manomambulwa

      That is the problem with UPND cadres. They think a government is a business. No it is not. A business is run to make profits, whilst a government is run to provide a service to citizens. Distinguish between the two. Businessmen, as Fr. Frank Bwalya rightly observes, and as was observed by the ancient Greek thinker Plato, have acquisitive instincts – instincts of acquiring wealth. Government’s role is to put in place a enabling environment that makes private businesses to thrive as government lives off taxes it makes therefrom which it uses to provide services or public goods to its citizens.

  9. Comment:Never shall we allow Zambia to part of HH’s business empire. If looted from privatisation as a chaiman what will Zambia become when he becomes presiden?

  10. If HH was a product being sold, it will be like UPND trying to sell a fridge to an eskimo. HH and Kabimba are unsellable products for Zambia. They should retire and leave others to try. I had respect for HH and voted for him twice. I am highly disappointed with the level of his leadership and i regret voting for such low leadership. 2016 HH wont see my vote. Mr Kalusa HH

  11. Its worrying that some senior PF members have been hiding evidence on how HH stole through privatisation for years now. George Mpombo was sent to prison for some small cash, Nevers Mumba whatever happened in Canada, RB lost immunity, then why talking about HH but no action and your first term is almost ending. STOP cheating us HH is a damn good man, its just Pull Him Down (PHD) syndrome. If you don’t understand his wealth, leave God to judge him. Moreover, HH doesn’t make it on top 20 in Africa. We Dangotes in our land too.

    • where is society house muntu wandi it was burnt to burry evidence by then there was nothing like external backups in zambia to retrieve data,that is where we could have gotten the facts,meridian bio back was deliberately liquidated as well as prudence bank,we knw all these things they played it so smartly with chiluba as though you are blind

  12. Fr Bwalya, I expect you to be fair and sincere. I also expect you to be above the Gal and Boy PF SGs. Respect professionals just like we respect your priesthood attack an individual never should u generalize.
    Thanks

  13. I’m a Catholic. But this priest………. uhm aikona mwe!!! To my knowledge, only priests have a verifiable record of being bad Presidents such as the former President of Haiti (Aristide).

  14. A successful politician should have good business. Pf is full of poor cadres , that is why national coffers have depleted through corruption and looting. B

  15. Frank Bwalya will soon follow his friends for deformation of character. HH was just appointed to sit on the board for privatisation and he was just an ordinary member and he didn’t make decision alone. And HH was that time only 26 years old who was not even known to FTJ for him to milk the govt. If Mr Bwalya has evidence against HH take him to police. HH is a succesful businessman because he is a fully chartered accountant and an economist while Bwalya jumped school through the window and sort refuge in the church. You are a failure. Mr Sata also mr Kalusa failed to win presidence since 2001 and he eventually won through lies. HH 2016

  16. When Sata said his Ministers were useless,this is what he meant! Though Fr.Bwalya was and is not a Minister, this talk can make qualify him into that! Why can’t you as party member in ruling party talk about what you have achieved to show that you have done something? Smearing HH with the privatization nonsense when we all know that he was not the one making decisions is not right. People have grown tired of this story which has not produced any proof to the public. I am neither UPND nor PF but I believe as a party in power you have things you can say to counter HH and UPND’s campaign messages rather calling names and spreading hear says. Lungu needs to sit up and reorganize his party especially the media wing because it is not doing him any good! Fr.Bwalya is that what you call Party…

  17. Why is it that every time HH says something or appears on radio, a small radio for that matter, the entire PF leadership goes into panic mode seeking to appear on same platform? Don’t they have enough public media that reaches the same audience as Hot Fm to use?

  18. THE AGENDA FOR A BETTER ZAMBIA IS TO MAKE HH THE NEXT PRESIDENT. HE WILL MAKE ZAMBIA BETTER FOR YOU MR BWALYA. YOU ARE A JEALOUS PERSON AND PEOPLE SHOULD STOP ADDRESSING YOU AS ‘FATHER’ HH IS NOT THE ONLY OPPOSITION LEADER WITH GOOD BUSINESS.

    • This clown is so full of sh.it and hot air he should be called FARTER not father which is much more accurate!

      All he is capable of is producing VERY BAD SMELLS!

  19. With people who think like FB in positions of responsibility in PF, is it a surprise that the economy is bankrupt??

  20. No wonder Kambwili called this man mad in a radio phone in program when the fatherless priest was trying to publicize his doomed party. The privatization story is now stale, as this program happened more than 2 decades ago when HH was still only in his late 20’s. If HH manipulated the system, President Mwanawasa would have nabbed him or even RB. These two presidents had enough motivation to see this guy behind bars. Then came the cobra, Sata himself. He put up a futile investigation and came up with nothing to go by. To avoid embarrassment, Sata just ended up displaying HH’s financial statements. These guys have nothing to talk about but tribalism and privatization day in and day out. Its now sooo boooring !

  21. Senior Citizen, you hated Sata so much while supporting RB. You lost. Insulted Sata, you turned to HH or opposition. Now you are supporting Lungu. You talk a lot about tribalism as in your comment. I bet my last cent you are a tribalist. Your paper has been sued by Mmembe now you are soliciting for funds to cover this. Exposed former prisoner for theft of public resources.

  22. If Fatherless Bwalya and what other PF goons is to be believed, HH must be a genius. How else can someone steal money from the government and elude 5 presidents who have made him their number one enemy? From FTJ- he was called a monkey in a maize field. Levy, HH spurned his offer of vice president. RB- everyone remembers how Munkombwe, RB’s appointee failed to make a mark in southern province. For Sata, he was called Chimbwi no plan. The current president also wants HH’s ass in a sling. All the PF big guns are trained on one person. That is how much they want to get him. So why not use the privatization debacle to put him away? Where is the problem?

  23. Smear campaign indeed because the envisaged loss to HH’s UPND would be the most bitter pill PF would have to swallow! It was proven that Lungu pilfered with a clients money something that led to his suspension from practicing law in other words he was found wanting or guilty thus one can safely label Lungu a thief and records are there. As for HH its all about distorting facts which accusers fail to produce proof but continue with the onslaught of lies because they know how faint hearted us Zambians are easy to accept malice as absolute truth. PF strongman had to reprieve Lungu and despite attempts at demonizing HH failed to prove anything that would have appeased him greatly had he managed to arraign HH before the courts. His zeal to pin HH yielded naught and he might even have made his…

  24. contd….. journey to where he now is an utterly bitter man! Success has few friends and for HH it came at age 26 with right career and vision! Mr Frank Bwalya is the bitter person and God will judge him. With due respect Mr Frank Bwalya in his utterances must reflect that the opposition are not in the habit of ridiculing President Lungu’s stealing of a clients money and/or his escapades in casinos namufikulwa fimbi na excessive nwee which character one can easily collect a lot of data just by visiting and chatting with residents of Chawama. Restraint and intelligent issue based discourse should be the driving force. I feel Mr. Frank Bwalya yours is proven politics of the belly going by your route of hopping party to party, you are an embarrassment to politics, priesthood should have…

  25. contd…..taught you humility towards others, but lest many forget your favorable color red is favored in many shrines and your murdering of a chicken by wringing its head in full view of citizens including children while on campaign trail should in a way help Zambians understand the kind of heart beating in you.

  26. Levy Mwanawasa was a businessman and his young brother late Harris managed some of Levy’s businesses. Sata was a businessman for many years. Being successful in business entails having great business acumen, leardership and ability to manage resources/finances prudently which are vital traits even in national leadership or public service. As for father Bwalya he is a failed Priest, its in church where he was ordained to be a fisher of men but has abandoned his folkes to pursue a luxurious life. Father Bwalya is now a follower in Politics and not a church elder whilst HH remains a successful businessman like it or loath it. Businesses; small, large and medium are key drivers of an economy and partners of a Government in National Development they deserve appreciation.

    • @ ZOZI-A-ZOZI,

      Did Sata leave us a better country? Don’t you know that the mess we have today are from the confused haphazard crisis destined works of Sata?

      A leader that was as confused as Sata is as worse as a person whose leadership is born out of and is for tribal causes of fixing imaginary sense of ethnic marginalization in a plural system. Ba Hichilema is better to serve as headman than a national leader of multi ethnic country in diversity. Look at the composition of his inner circle then tell an ignorant Zambian that UPND would unite the country.

    • Well the insinuation here by Father Bwalya by implication is that a businessman cannot become a President. Some bloggers above hve corrected that impression. Of course Sata may not be a good example of a businessman who became a President i agree.

  27. I thought Edgar Lungu has been a practising lawyer — a business man! Fr Bwalya is shallow-minded, an empty tin making noise. There are business men and women world over who have led their countries or states to successful regimes. What theory is this Fr Chakuti is hallucinating about? It is, for example, clear to anyone that Lungu is “desperate for power” considering the manner in which he manipulated other PF would-be presidents to become the party’s Republican president.

    • If you can call embezzlement “business”, then yes, our anointed humble and visionary President was “businessman”.
      Successful? No. He got convicted (twice) by the High Court.

  28. Comments from this bogus Bwalya are in fact very food, Mr. HH to the ordinary man like me, Bwalya is implying that you corruptly undertook the privatisation process. This issue has been too much in public domain. Given elections are around the corner, sue him for defamation so that you clear your name in court of law.

    Is this not the chap who used to have a party which after he could go no where he folded it and joined PF? Zambia is an interesting country!

    • @ Common Criminal

      Judas Bwalya “implies” and is not clearly stating factual wrongs done by HH. Can you sue somebody for defamation on “implied” grounds?

  29. TIMOR CONSULTING MUST LEAVE ZAMBIA AT ONCE – ZAMBIANS DEMAND!!

    Zambians are demanding the exit of Timor Consulting Company of Israel from Zambian soil as the said company is proving to be a threat to Democracy.

    The PF, for a long time now, have been rumored to have plans of rigging the 2016 elections, which explains their confidence at returning power despite the ever dwindling support from across the nation.

    President Lungu, through his press aide Amos Chanda, has written to Intelligence chief Samuel Nkhoma, asking him to sign a contract with a private Israeli company called Timor Consulting to help the PF win the general elections this year.

    “I wish to inform you that His Excellency Mr Edgar C Lungu has authorised me to engage the above named firm [Timor Consulting] to…

  30. “I wish to inform you that His Excellency Mr Edgar C Lungu has authorised me to engage the above named firm [Timor Consulting] to provide consulting services for the 2016 general elections campaign. To guarantee the highest level of information management and integrity of the project, it is desirable that this contract is signed under your auspices,” stated Chanda in his latter dated October 9, 2015 which he signed.

    Based on revelations of the letter from Lungu to Intelligence Chief Nkhoma, it is clear that Zambians want to be robbed of a their rights to choose leaders. It is clear that the PF want to impose themselves on Zambians, and Zambians will not allow this for any reason.

    An independent survey conducted by Kachema Kontolola Journalists, in Lusaka and Copperbelt, indicates…

  31. The case of the Office of the President (OP) agents being used to disfranchise the people is so unfortunate as these are the very people who should have been advising the President to do that which is right.

    OP will always be there through successive governments, Lungu is not a god for OP to go out of their way in rigging the election, so they should not panic and allow democracy to take its course.

    For now, Zambians are saying Timor Consulting Company should pack and go as they are a threat to our Democracy!!

    We have now launched this campaign which all well-meaning Zambians should get involved in…the “#TimorMustGo!!” campaign, which should be flooded on social media and any other media until our cries to preserve our democracy are heard.

    #TimorMustGo!!

  32. @james martin, beware of what you read in the Urinal Post. Let me explain why. Look at today’s edition of the Urinal. On page 8 under “Lungu using OP…” It starts by stating that Samuel Nkhoma (intelligence chief) said that he has not signed the contract with Timor as directed by Lingu because his office is a public institution and not a political party wing. these are Mmembe’s own words not those of Nkhoma. These words mean that Nkhoma refused to take orders from Lungu regarding Timor because he is a public official not a party cadre to take such orders. Now read further where the same Urinal Post and its urinal editor actually quote Nkhoma. Contd…

  33. When contacted, Nkhoma said he has never signed any contract with Timor.
    Asked: “When did you sign the contract with Timor to help The PF win the elections?”
    Nkhoma responded, “Madam, you are talking like you have facts that I signed the contract.”
    When asked, “Are you saying that you Did not sign the contract?” Nkhoma responded, “I have never signed any contract and I don’t even know about this Timor you are talking about”. He said the OP was not a political office. “I believe you know the difference between this institution and a political party. This office is not a political party, it is a government institution. It is a public institution so I don’t know what you are talking about. Let me make it very clear that this is a public institution, it is not a political party…

  34. “….. Let me make it very clear that this is a public institution, it is not a political party. If you want any clarification, I think that is a political issue which is not my part,” said Nkhoma. Now consider the claim by the Urinal Post and what Nkhoma actually said, do you any similarity? No, of course not, what you see is an attempt by the Urinal Post to don their trade mark twisting of facts and words. And gullible people like James Martin fall for such lies. The lesson to learn though, is that the editor of the Urinal Post seems to have suffered brain damage as a result of stealing and drinking the urine of Davies Chama instead of taking it to the Kariba to reduce load shedding. Trust Urinal Mmember at your own peril, he thrives on peddling lies to The likes of uPMD cadres who…

  35. “…… Trust Urinal Mmember at your own peril, he thrives on peddling lies to The likes of uPMD cadres who cannot read and make independent judgements, preferring HH to think for them and mislead them at will as long he belongs to their ethnic group.
    Urinal Mmembers brain is actually damaged with urine fumes, is that the editor you want to lead you?

    • @ Terrible

      Great answer mate. Only one question, who did issue visas for Timor employees and on which grounds they are in Zambia?
      And before you crap as usual, read Immigration and Deportation Act provisions related to foreign nationals involvement in Zambian politics.

  36. Please Kambwili, in the name of the lord, can you help the people of Zambia to clear this faggot of a father out of this country. This Bwalya is a serious Chainama Hospital case and needs to be taken there in chains.
    HH can we find a way of stopping this chap vomit all that rotten wine he drunk while pretending to be a priest?
    These PF guys are so thick that they can’t see that the ABZ President is on a mission to disintegrate the party. Wait until he fires all the leaders one by one. Bwalya’s aim is to take over from sleepy Lungu. Just watch this space. He will try to be the running mate if that fails then Lungu is gone by the powers of the Holy Sea!

  37. Bwalya,ekapuba ,aka sushi bakwata mu PF.Kawelewele.thats why Sata had no time for this minion.if Sata was alive this minion would be nowhere .ignore this little chap

    • How can you ignore this scum? Every time lights go off, I remember that Sata-n appointed this Antichrist to be Board member of ZESCO

  38. Man of God or is it former man of God representing a party that governs a Christian nation is accusing a fellow countryman of witchcraft. The love for power is so great that God is being made a mockery of by all.

  39. HH has a house in Kabulonga that belonged to Ramcoz and shares in Sun Hotel international,companies that were privatised by him during the Chiluba regime.Is not that corruption?How can you be an evaluator and a buyer at the same time? So,Kachemas your small god is not clean at all.Ifwe Ni ECL chabe!!!

    • Ati ” Ifwe ni ECL chabe?”” ECL meaning “ELECTRICITY LOAD-SHEDDING!!! Continue with ECL at your peril!!!

    • If you have evidence of corruption by HH please do us a favour and report him to anti-corruption commission – otherwise you are just making noise – shut the f8ck up!

  40. This so called Father Bwalya is a useless ex-priest. No wonder the church did not find him fit to perform priestly duties. Most presidents are former businessmen. The current Australian prime minister is a businessman and Australia is doing well unlike Zambia ruled by a conman president who chewed clients money and he is still chewing public money thru his corrupt cadres like Keizer. Is is not corruption where state house now has become a den of thieves thru dubious contracts which are supposed to be handled by respective ministries. Bwalya, just shut up.

  41. Kamalata you r right infact in other countries for someone to become a president he shl declare his assents not a poor president who.s interest is to syphon tax payers money.

  42. Iwe bwalya am a business man and I kno I will make a good president and dat is jus gonna be upto you, if u hv issues with hh why cnt u deal with him individually? Why do you want to generalise? Its infact failed priests who do not make good politicians.

  43. ECL mukali mwebantu just after signing the constitution bill people have started running around viva ECL viva PF am ready to vote for you today tomorrow

  44. pipo are asking what is the way to go no rains to boost agriculture copper prices still very low what is your HH going to do ?constitution has been given what else are you going to campaign about?tell us the solutions to all the problems we are facing in the country

  45. What a hopeless country with such accursed leadership. The PF leadership needs to address real problems like the fact that most parts of Lusaka have had no water for the past 5 days. They have other pressing problems to address like the skyrocketing cost of living. Unfortunately they seem to be intent on making Hakainde more popular by attempting to debunk his message without providing a requisite message that will inspire and speak to the masses. This is exactly what RB’s minions did before his exit in 2011. It is unfortunate that African leaders have no capacity to learn from history. The PF should fix the mess they have created and desist from preaching hatred and other non issues in a bid for re-election.

  46. The interest of a businessman is to make more profit at all cost and HH is unexceptional.
    Look, out of all riches plus investments outside the county if not mistaken has never shown any gesture to the poor in communities and it is from this back ground that we can see he real cares for the needy.
    What is likely to be seen of him is to consolidate his outside investments and probably pave way for exports to Zambia and kill our own Industries.
    I do not know whether has even contributed a single window to his Chief’s Palace or Clinic at his Village to show the Zambians that he has the country at heart.
    If it means anything he could have started showing his good will away from his province but this demonstrates that the man will still remain one sided and unbalanced.
    Therefore…

  47. In Zambia we simply have petty people who aim at destroying each other so they can remain in Power. Frank Bwalya is just there to make sure Lungu and PF stay in power. If we were a critical and serious nation, we would not have allowed Lungu to even serve in any public office after stealing a client’s money. Have we forget Lungu was a crooked lawyer who even lost a practicing certificate. It is a pity that even well informed people like Frank Bwalya are still claiming HH was responsible for the privatization, like he was the one making decision. The miners are losing their jobs today and who is to blame for the current bad policies? Frank must concentrate on telling the populace how the PF will fix the declining economy because that is what people expect. I would rather have a…

  48. Lungu and HH came to presidency thru death. Why should sympathy be more pronounced to lungu than HH? lets just accept that HH is not going anywhere.

  49. Why should people worry about this Bwalya guy who wanted to be a priest simply becoz he knew he wasnt going to fend for his own children… now busy commenting on others failures and success story yet you failed in your capacity as Priest…… You must be bitter because you must tasted that you missed longback but too late Leave politics to the politicians ..

  50. Frank Bwalya if a business man can run a company without it collapsing, what can stop him from running the economics of a country and guiding it through properly? now lets talk about failed priests and politics. You failed as a priest because you did not have the calling; you loved the world and not the WORD. the president is a lawyer and we expected law and order, what are we getting now? dictarorship, lawlessness and gross misapprpriation of funds under his rule.

  51. BWALYA YOU ARE RIGHT HH IS A MISER WHO DOES NOT EVEN PAY HIS WORKERS AT THE FARM. THE SAMEW WITH GBM THESE 2 ARE ONLY INTERESRED IN MONEY GBM SHOWED THIS WHEN HE WAS DEFENCE MINISTER HE HAD CONTRACTS WITH FRA AND ZESCO SO THE DUO MUST NOT CHEAT ZAMBIANS. WE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT ITS ALL ABOUT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. WHY DID GBM MOVE HIS TRUCKS TO SOUTH AFRICA ITS COZ HE COULD NOT GET GOVT CONTRACTS AS FOR HH WHAT HAS HE DONE FOR ZAMBIANS. I ADMIRE DANGOTE

  52. Mr Bwalya conveniently forgets that his own president is a failed businessman who stole a clients money and consequently lost his practicing licence. A licence that was only restored through political pressure mounted on LAZ. Now look at where the country is.

  53. Zambia’s Population is way more than New York City. Twice as much…!

    MWENYE WROTE:
    Senior Citizen … don’t make comments about issues you do not understand. Bloomberg was a successful public official in New York — a city that is larger in therms of population than Zambia. And what makes you think all American citizens who have ruled the U.S. never operated businesses? Stay well in foreign missions, old man!

    Mwenye, Did you mean to say New York State’ which actually is as good and big as a country?
    There is a difference between New York State and New York City. New York City is just one of the many cities within New York State, as Lusaka is a City within Lusaka Province. However, The state capitol city of New York state is the city of Albany, a city located north of New York…

  54. Zambia’s Population is way more than New York City. Twice as much…!!!
    Mwenye, Did you mean to say New York State’ which actually is as good and big as a country?
    There is a difference between New York State and New York City. New York City is just one of the many cities within New York State, as Lusaka is a City within Lusaka Province. However, The state capitol city of New York state is the city of Albany, a city located north of New York City, some 150 miles away, or 2:30 hours drive.

    According to World population Review ****
    Zambia Population 16,211,767
    New York CITY Population 8,175,133
    New York (STATE) Population 19,889,625

  55. You can’t compare Levy,Sata to hh coz Levy and Data here businessmen who understood the system , structure and how government operations or functions, hh has no idea how the government system functions its a big problem.

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