Friday, March 29, 2024

HH promises to cut Road Construction Costs by over 50%, blasts ECZ again

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HH adddressing the Kanyama small business community
HH addressing the Kanyama small business community
UPND President Hakainde Hichilema says he will reduce the cost of constructing roads in the country from the current 1,000,000US$ to 470,000$ per kilometer there by saving money for other pressing needs.

Mr Hichilema accused the PF government of letting the country creep into poverty because of their mismanagement of the country’s resources.

He said countries in the region are spending less money to build roads when they are using similar contractors to do the same work.

“You chew money and you allow poverty to creep in your country. The point am saying is that it costs 470,000$ to construct a kilometer of a tar road in the neighbouring countries using similar contractors here we are spending one million. We want to cut such wastage to bring the construction of the road to the regional standard so that we can save money,” he said.

Mr Hichilema also said ECZ should be treating the commission as if it’s their private kitchen.

“You can do what you like in your private kitchen this is not a private kitchen this is people’s money, it’s public resources. The second issue is the suspicions around the Dubai printing of ballot papers and those suspicions are known.

“One of the challenges that we understand the ECZ wants to use and create problems is to print more ballot papers and then allow them manipulation of these ballot papers into ballot boxes. We want a printer who will not print expensive ballot papers. They want to deny us the right to use phones in the polling station, voting is a public good, when the results come out in the polling station we want to do our own voter tabulations,” he said.

171 COMMENTS

  1. HH will root out the widespread corruption in the road sector. Way to go HH. A lot of money is going to selfish PF politicians through coruption deals in the road sector and all at the expense of clinic and hospital medication and other needs.

    • Lungu says that corruption is global. So his 50 % kickbacks are a global way of doing business.

    • HH himself is a product of corrupt. Therefore, he cannot claim otherwise…and this chap should learn to speak with respect for others…Zambia is not his personal property.

    • Be careful with political desperation prone to making pronouncements that are too distant from qualified project management and quantitative skills of engineering projects best practices. I’m retired professional Engineer that has handled countless projects from initiation to release. I have done a lot of Lesson Learned to caution you that cheap is not always cheap. Try another one young brother.

    • @Senior Citizen: Yes you are a retired Ars.ewhore! Yes you have got the wrong, bad and wasteful experience of stealing money by overpricing which we don’t want any more!! Just shut the fuc.k up you broke retiree!!

    • He is too tainted with 1990s privatization greed = corruption.
      He should return what he store first …corrupt *****

    • Why are the PF kaponya theives on this blog annoyed?? HH said he will save the country money by cutting the costs.

    • @Lungu. I agree with you not your name sake our incompetent president. Corruption has to be rooted out. The road construction sector has become lucrative due to the deep-rooted corruption that PF have infected it with. Millions and millions of dollars keep getting pocketed by individuals overcharging/overpricing.

    • Another sector you need to deal with Mr. incoming president is oil procurement. Including ERB, these chaps have to be audited and pursued with the highest order.

    • Wondering whether some of the comments here are written by people with good functioning brain. How does a normal frown at the idea of cutting costs by 50%? Unless one is a beneficiary of the corruption in Zambian construction sector.

    • @1,4 Senior Citizen. Roads cost $400,000 per Km from bush clearing to final layer of 40mm Tar. Why do PF roads cost $1million per Km? I have worked in the roads sector both in and outside Zambia and I know what the actual costs shud be!

    • HH doesn’t need more money in his pocket. He already has enough and to spare. We pay the price when we vote for poor people into office. Poverty is what perpetuate corruption.

    • @senior citizen, you know not what you talk about. It’s all about efficiencies and lower costs nowdays. Better stay in retirement

    • HH do your research properly. I am in RSA and those fingers are wrong. Do your research again. In fact RSA the rates for works differ per province. In Zambia we have the same rates from Nakonde to namwala. Don’t get isolated complicated road costs as a uniform for the whole country. Oh I forgot. It’s politics

    • What is the width of a road, depth of tar to compare an apple with an apple? one million per kilometer without knowing the width of a road makes no sense. Is it not a statement to create hu ha. HH can do a better job by being specific

    • What a shame! The man seems desperate with followers like you this is no different when the late MCS promised to turn around the economy in 90 days. The same HH still has the likes of GBM no wonder he is called under five.

    • How come roads are constructed for $200,000 per kilometer in South Africa? We are impressed with our new roads but $ 1 million per kilometer is just wrong. And we wonder why Zambians are poor!

    • It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting. ~Tom Stoppard, Jumpers

      It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph

      The purpose of an election is not to name the winner, it is to convince the losers that they lost. The winner rarely contests an election, the winner has little reason to investigate discrepancies. It is the looser that will always do this. Dan Wallach

    • HHSC, how do you root out corruption when you are a product of the same vice?

      I am personally not interested in what you promise to do but rather how you will do….. because every politician can make grand promises but few if any tell the people how they will achieve what they promise

    • Too many embassy and high commission staff posting nonsense just out of fear of being recalled back home. Blogging against UPND is their full time job.

    • THANK YOU COMRADE HH, THE IN-COMING PRESIDENT. YOU HAVE TOUCHED WHERE IT HURTS MOST FOR THE PF LOOTERS. CORRUPTION IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL THIS MISERY AND ECONOMIC DOWN GRADE IN THE COUNTRY. HH IS THE RIGHT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA.

    • HH cannot be democratic because his ascendance to Tonga supremacist UPND was by kinship and not democratic. Nothing good comes out of dictatorship. Everyone in Zambia talks Party Conventions; UPND? Big NO.
      Oh! Yesterday, I bumped into Zambian watchdog and made a comment seemingly pro-ECL? Guess what happened? It never appeared! That is Tonga systems for you voters!

    • Oh come on, labour and material costs are very similar in the region. Even if different, costs in Zambia can not be DOUBLE the regional average. The only explanation is rampant corruptions, and we are seeing it on the ground! People are stealing from road contracts. Even people with catering qualifications are all of a sudden road engineers…

    • But are HH’s figures correct, he is a chap who would like to mislead the nation by using lies. He did the same with the mealie meal shortage. His figures were wrong. He was relied on as a consultant by the Chiluba administration and I pretty sure he was giving wrong figures and the whole process was a mess.

    • You are right the cost materials varies slightly but even allowing your argument of variation in cost you cannot justify the fact that all the countries in the region are within the same price range per KM while we are more than double the cost.

      And that comparison was not made by HH himself. The current Minister of Finance bemoaned that fact only last year. At times we can all put aside our political affiliations and wear a National hat and start to want what is good for our country.

    • The reason PF road tenderprenuers are resisting.HH is dread of.shutting off their corrupt road project’s

      God d.deliver us from PF corrupt vampires. Holy Ghost fire rain brimstone asphalt on the corrupt PF road contract vampires.

    • Shichanda – Besides that, it is true that there is serious falsification in the road sector. However, this is an area where ECL is already addressing. The problem with HH is he has very little fresh ground to campaign from. PF under ECL is covering all ground. It is tough.

    • He said ‘similar’. You compare with a country that has similar conditions with you. It’s not like the baseless ‘sontapo’ slogan

    • local stakeholders need to file an injunction before the elections, action speaks louder than words.

    • Where is the evidence that roads in Zambia cost $1,000,000 per km? This is just political rhetoric.
      Let HH provide the evidence and maybe just maybe he might get my vote

  2. Kaponya (HH) you are truly dull. Your messages and threats carry no substance. Where have you done a road on your farms at a lower cost? Sonta po! How can you dream of reducing costs from your dull brain. No wonder GBM had a flop rally in Mushili Ndola yesterday. (HH) waste of sperm

    • HH is a very dull economist. He talks without figures…He should put figures on the table and then make a comparison on that basis…

    • The issue of costs is a matter of public knowledge – RDA do estimates of material costs per kilometer of roads and any one can compare these rates with whats obtaining in South Africa or any regional neighbour for instance. Reports of excessive road costs are are matter of concern even within the PF government. And an often cited factor is delays is sub-standard jobs that have to be re-worked. If you take a step back, its not difficult to see how contracts are given and who is really behind all this. With road budget gobbling more than 10% of the national budget, surely incompetence and sub-standard jobs and corruption can not be tolerated in Zambia. We simply can not afford to ignore this.

    • Kaponya (HH) 10 years as a Armageddon dictator at the helm of UPND delivering nothing but loss and reduced MPs from 40 to 20. You think the people will let you walk on Presidential red carpets when you’ve never been an MP, Ward Councillor or DA? You have no military record in Zambia Army, ZNS or ZAF. You’ve never been a civil servant or public servant. Your only achievement is Privatization. What can you tell us about road projects? Loser

    • 1. HH promises food security and stability once elected
      2. HH pledges to support small businesses
      3. HH promises to cut road construction costs from $1000 000 to $470 000 per kilometer
      4. GBM promises to end electricity load shedding within 2 years

      UPND promises to win the 2016 elections Sonta po!

    • HH makes sense most of the times because he raises issues that brings out thinking in the minds of many. That is the good part

    • Kudos is annoyed HH has exposed the theft in PF, this where this kudos survives. You now have to work for a living instead of living off proceeds of looting.

    • Corrupt Kaponya Lungu Kudos wants to continue pillaging Zambians through road contracts.

      Kachema musuma…..kontolola…..HH 2016!!!!

    • Kudos we understand you are related to these guys but Zambia cannot suffer. Just tell your uncle or aunty in government to start paying his/her lawyers upfront or even book their flight for escape on August 11. The Zambian people want there money paid back.

    • Kudos your contribution is based on hatred and not sense.Don’t use your skull to think.Late sata was the most undemocrtic leader and pf never went fo a convention.No wonder when the first convention eas held to choose his predecesor there was violence of epic proportions.

      Pf has failed to unite this country and what difference will they make after August 11th?If you are having 5 square meals there in Europe,think about the workers who have lost employment,thanks to the visionless leader at the helm.

      Your insults will not change the August outcome.Zambians are tired of lies,hatred,corruption tribalism and lack of vision.

      WE NEED A LEADER WITH A VISION ,ONE WHO WILL UNITE ALL TRIBES UNDER ONE ZAMBIA ONE NATION

  3. HH that is just a story! Practically you cannot do it. That is just a mayor story given chance you will never do it. Full of theories.

    • Mr kudos I thinking you are now becoming a liability to PF and LT.No one is ready to listen to what you write on LT.Lets debate issues and not personalities.you are de campaigning PF.

    • I agree with SIDO MARK. If you haven’t noticed Kudos,2020Vision and the like there is a growing number of people against you. Who just don’t agree with you and you type of blogging. If you were smart you would have been presenting fact and non-insulting arguments to defend your incompetent Lungu instead of what you are doing. I also have strong ties to the PF leadership and people like you are going to cost them the election which is good because I do not think EL is competent enough to run the country. Even EK would be a better substitute

  4. Is the cost of cement, crushed stones, gravel bitumen, labour etc the same in Zambia as is in other countries? Leka boza iwe, ask Mulenga Sata he was the one on the roads board, if you are saying people stole then Mulenga is at the centre of it all, by the way he is now your darling and buddy

    • @5 Makanda, HH quoted the cost of roads in US Dollars, in case you did not notice! The cost should actually be cheaper since the Kwacha is losing value.

  5. HH is loosing this years election even if he promises heaven on earth. The people are not yet tired of PF.

  6. That is all he has. Promising heaven on earth when he runs is party and family like the devil. No wonder Tongas call him a god.

    • @8 kci: At least he is a successful businessman. You are not. At least he is rich. You are poor. At least he is knowledgeable. You are ignorant. At least he is able to articulate his ideas on how he hopes to improve the Zambian economy. You are completely clueless. At least…!~

    • Meimatunga if only his riches can buy him some charisma. You have to be charismatic to win elections unless you are Putin. Right now I am sure he is wishing he can exchange his riches for some charisma so that he acquires power; he can’t afford to lose for a 5th time.

    • @8.2 Skylights: You have my blessing. I have never met the gentleman. I don’t know him. I don’t know how tall or short he is. Consequently, I have no reason to doubt your assertion. I sympathize.
      For our brothers in the South, charisma is not what they look for in a leader. Wealth is the yardstick they use, when choosing a leader. Please note that in Mexico, it’s handsomeness; in the U.S. intellectual capacity. Whatever the yardstick, however, charisma appears to be the common denominator.

  7. HERE COMES UTU RAZOR TWAMISEBO (RAZOR-BLADE-ROADS). THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION COST WILL NATURALLY TRIM ITSELF AS MORE AND MORE, NOT ONLY ROADS, BUT INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND HIGH QUALITY ROADS ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED. ZAMBIA HASN’T GOT CRUDE OIL FOR PRODUCING BITUMEN WHICH JUST IMPORTED FROM SOUTH AFRICA. THE OIL THAT COMES INTO THE COUNTRY FROM THE FAR EAST IS ALWAYS SEMI-PROCESSED RENDERING IT UNSUITABLE FOR EXTRACTING MEANINGFUL TAR/BITUMEN AND MOST OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING COMPANIES ARE FOREIGN. SO, HOW IS HE GOING TO REDUCE THE COST OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION? ZAMBIA DOES NOT MANUFACTURE CIVIL ENGINEERING/CONSTRUCTION LIGHT AND HEAVY DUTY PLANT AND MACHINERY. THEY ARE ALL IMPORTED. SO, HOW IS HE GOING TO REDUCE THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION? DON’T BE CHEATED BY EMPTY TALK.

    • Good question Peter. Vote for him (HH) and you will see. Given the same company ECL and HH are at different levels. Lungu uses looted money to fill stadia with soccer spectators to win hearts. HH uses hard earned money to support growth of his business. Between the two I choose HH to grow Zambian economic development. Lungu is a waster.

  8. HH you are proving too excellent for these guys. That is the way to go our man. If you need more help we are there to provide help to manage this country prudently

    • Fully agree Mr. incoming president. This time the corruption crusade will be very vicious and ensure all culprits are brought to book. Please also extend the changes to the energy sector starting with fuel procurement, ERB and even Zesco need overhauls. Much of Zescos costs are unreasonable salaries and misguided procurement process through which people pocket money

  9. HH has hit the hornet nest (corruption).

    For Kudos: HH was my Ndola military training.camp mate.

    You specialises in mendacity, lies and.manipulation

  10. In HH’s world everything costs half the price. No wonder he privatized public companies for half the price. HH does your beef and daughters cost half the price also? How much does Tonga wives cost?

  11. Liar, liar liar lies. You shall wallow in opposition till you drop. This guy is full of fake and false promises. Have you ever constructed any road before? Have you done any feeder roads to your farm? You can lie to Kaponya’s like GBM not me. HH is full of empty promises with suspicious motives. Edgar beat you last time with little incambency factor, this time you will fall real bad.

    • Oh shut up! This blind support will not take tou and your relatives anywhere. Try to think when someone says something before you open your mouth. He is quoting percentages. If one road costs K2 due to its difficulty he says comparing with other countries in the region, it costs K1. Why then should we pay K2. You are the same people qjo export maize ti Zimbabwe and the Zimbabweans are buying maize cheaper than in Zambia.

  12. I like the promises am listening to I heard similar ones in 2011 about how the constitution would be given in 90 days, jobs in 90 days, corrupt elements arrested and sentenced within 90 days, Barotseland Agreement within 90 days, More money in the pocket…..so am listening to this album with a new singer…but the voice and the words are the same and we are tired…mwe bantu

  13. HH promises to cut Road Construction Costs by over 50% and how do you manage the velocity of the economy Mr ECONOMY yaba

  14. Fake Bloggers. Paid up Bloggers don’t debate. Most of them have one come on the scene because it is pay period

  15. Pipo still love PF.Ba scolt,ba Sampa,ba GBM u have lost.It was written that one of u’ll never be a president.Cibipila umwaice Mulenga Sata.Ifwe ni PF Mpaka litente.Why should i vote for HH who insulted ba Sata ati Chimbwi no plan?Kwena kushama ba Sampa naba mulenga sata.Ifwe ni PF and we still love PF.teti tuvote Kachema bcoz he si too bitter n pompus.Sonta epowaboma mune.Mpaka litenti

    • @Moscow(OP)

      Sata senior, the dead thug, in true satanic evil, mocked a dying man, Mwanawasa. Please accept that PF is an evil organisation and the earlier you shift camp and align yourself with those who love Zambia the better for you.

  16. DON’T USE SATA TACTICS PLEASE, THEY ARE LONG GONE. ZAMBIA DOESN’T PRODUCE ANY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT WHILE SOUTH AFRICA YOU WANT TO COMPARE WITH MANUFACTURES EVERYTHING IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. SA STATE COMPANY MAKE MOST OF THOSE ROADS AND HERE THE COMPANIES MAKING ROADS ARE CAPITALISTS LIKE HH, THAT’S WHY CHINA WAS BROUGHT IN TO REDUCE THE COSTS. BASHIKULU BA SATA ALSO THOUGHT LIKE YOU AT ONE TIME BUT IT ONLY DOWNED ON HIM WHEN HE ENTERED STATE HOUSE THAT IT’S NOT AS HE THOUGHT. YOU EVEN MADE A BIG MISTAKE ON SUNDAY INTERVIEW ON MUVI TV THAT YOU SHALL BRING IN ANOTHER COMPANY TO COMPETE WITH ZESCO IN ORDER TO REDUCE LOAD SHEDDING. UNLESS YOU WANT TO KILL US COZ ZESCO IS CONDEMNED WHENEVER THEY HAVE WANTED INCREASE THE PRICE IN ORDER TO ABSORB THE OPERATING COSTS AND UPND YOU IN…

  17. HH is right. The cost of doing roads is below US$500 000 per km. Zambia is paying more to fund corruption of people involved. It is the beneficiaries of this corruption who do not see anything wrong with this! Bear in mind these are loans we are misusing in this manner. What a country!

  18. HH has officially gone insane! Is there any substance in this man? Present your manifesto to the voters instead of jumping like a headless chicken.
    Its clear to all now that the self proclaimed economist is the worst presidential contender Zambia has ever seen.
    This man will be lucky to even get 30% of the votes. President Lungu is way far ahead of these baf00ns. Does this man know that roads are in classes and categories? Just accept that Edgar Chagwa Lungu has out classed you chaps no wonder you have message the voters. 11 August 2016, we going to bury HH and eradicate him from our political landscape. We need better opposition not this Satanist, Mason, son of a devil!

  19. Most of the disruptive paid up bloggers have only come on the scene now. To denounce, deceive and insult. Desperate measures by the regime.

  20. Wonderful. We have detected 15 new contributors on this topic. HH has touched the corruption handle and it has sent shivers all over. Wait more is coming. Start aligning yourselves if you are clever. Those that survive on cheating and thieving shall wither after 11.08.16. We have had enough of criminals on the loose without any accountability.

  21. Yeah I feel people are out there to protect where they eat from. The country is finished and everybody is watching

  22. HH you got sun hotel at 5.6m dollars which was valued at 20m dollars worse more there were other bidders with the highest 18m dollars and 16m,14m with the lowest 9m dollars what can you tell us.what if you became president? Upnd no convention what’s that,dictatorship.

    • What is the panic about, HH is talking about cutting off corruption at RDA. what is the problem?? How are hotels comming into this???

    • @tim

      Absolute lies, and rubbish……..HH did NOT buy no hotel in Livingstone or elsewhere.

      We are talking about the corruption of PF on road contracts with PF cadre being road contract middlemen and tenderprenuers. They don’t want their egg nest to be flushed and scattered…..but it will be annihilated this August 2016.

      Welcome to a corrupt free Zambia where the nation will get value for money and people will have to work for what they desire to own. Its a level playing field.

      As for Lungu Kudos corruption, its time up!! And why has Lungu Kudos gone rabid?

    • Spake, yaku gwila pamtima ka? Whenever Lungu is talked about negatively, you add fire. When it’s HH, you are all up in arms with guns blazing. Please know that your counterparts will do the same. Hehehe. Politics! Vyakulolavye.

    • Nankwe Nankwe bane HH is very intelligent. Hummer them the most. I know the way they are coming out, they are feeling your heat.

  23. Governance is team work, this thing of i will do this, i will i i i is not the way to go Mr.HH.
    HH criticized Mr. Sata for taking RDA to state house, is he saying he will do the same or will he be sitting on the RDA board? Is he going to be single sourcing the contractors for the roads? If you can give me answers to these questions then we can have a debate.

    • @The Monitor:
      What an idi,ot you really are!! You can’t even feed yourself and have never managed a successful company so who are you give HH that cheap and stu.pid advice of yours?

  24. HH seems to have touched a raw nerve where the PF theives are eating from while the rest of the population wallows in poverty.

  25. Fully agree Mr. incoming president. This time the corruption crusade will be very vicious and ensure all culprits are brought to book. Please also extend the changes to the energy sector starting with fuel procurement, ERB and even Zesco need overhauls. Much of Zescos costs are unreasonable salaries and misguided procurement process through which people pocket money

    • But it’s a crop of corrupt chaps HH is leading, how is going to fight it? GBM, MULENGA SATA, M’membe, Mwaliteta and Scott are all corrupt chaps who might be led (God for bid) by chief corrupt director HH. Non of the guys mentioned has genuine money.

  26. Nasty! He lies through his teeth. I am not impressed, try something else. Aisha, ulabeja maningi anso. Elections are just around the corner. Watch your mouth lies like that won’t gonna work. Kindly fire your advisors, they may be pro PF. Filthy liar.

    • How on this very good earth, do you honestly think I wanna engage with you slow thinker rants and shallow thinkers? Just listen to your failed sucker telling lies. Okay, Edgar is hereby and forthwith endorsed. Viva ECL. I just verified my credentials with ECZ. Mwanya!

    • How on this very good earth, do you honestly think I wanna engage with you slow thinker rants and shallow thinkers? Just listen to your failed sucker telling lies. @ Chilyata say that again, this time in all local languages. kikiki! Little Devils.
      Okay, Edgar is hereby and forthwith endorsed. Viva ECL. I just verified my credentials with ECZ. Mwanya!

    • How on this very good earth, do you honestly think I wanna engage with you slow and shallow thinker rants? Just listen to your failed sucker telling liers.
      @ Chilyata, say that again this time in your mother’s tongue and all local languages. Kikikikikikiki little devils sound like their father SATAN and GBM!
      Okay, Edgar is hereby and forthwith endorsed. Viva ECL! I just verified my voters credentials with ECZ. You have secured my vote!

    • How on this very good earth, do you honestly think I wanna engage with you slow and shallow thinker rants? Just listen to your failed sucker telling liers.
      @ Chilyata, say that again this time in your mother’s tongue and all local languages. Kikikikikikiki little devils sound like their father SATAN and GBM!
      Okay, Edgar is hereby and forthwith endorsed. Viva ECL! I just verified my voters credentials with ECZ. You have secured my vote

  27. Oh lord let Your Fire destroy the works of darkness and burn up Your enemies, in Jesus Name. Let Your Fire be a wall of protection that surrounds HH and keeps HH from getting harmed from the arrows of wickedness. I bind and break the spirits of Ahab and Jezebel, PF manipulation, thuggery, slander, shiftiness, beguilement, enchantment, calculated deception, dishonesty, fakery, dupery, underhandedness, confidence trick (conman), sanctimoniousness, corruption, skullduggery, hypocrisy. I bind kings, princes, and world rulers for each spirit here named. I strip each spirit and his hierarchy of power, armor and rank, and separate each from the other. I speak confusion to the ranks of the enemy, and declare their assignments against HH are hereby rendered null and void.

    • Good luck with your prayer. ECL to win again. After 11th August, 2016 most of these seemingly intellectuals will go into hibernation until 2021.

  28. HH failed to negotiate for a good deal for us Zambians during the privatization of mines. What makes him think he clinch good deals for construction of durable roads?

    • @Marc

      How does it feel to be a liar…to have malice aforethought?

      HH was not part of the Mines Negotiating Team. I was there. Grant Thorton, Deloitte, PeatMarwick and other accounting firms offered valuation services, whilst law firms offered legal services.

      Like Lungu-Kudos you really think all Zambians are cheap to be thrown some red herrings?

      The issue at stake is road contract corruption….and you and your corrupt friends are running helter skelter fearing a drying up of your corrupt source of lavish money. Game over!

  29. Lungu ye Lungu ye Lungu ye uletufwaya kwasila, HH ask membe he will tell you that ka post takaleenda awe too bad for you I feel so sorry for this year isn’t yours again

    • And you are one of those benefiting from the corrupt Lungu-Kudos I presume. The rest of the people who do not benefit from corruption and have to pay high prices of lunch, breakfast, saladi, unga, sugar, soap, mazoe, bread, bus fare, medical costs will vote with their pockets!!

      Of course those of you benefitting from corruption especially road construction, markets, bus stops will vote for Lungu-Kudos. And that is the way it is for even thieves band together.

  30. Isn’t this the same HH who lied to the whole nation that Zambia was exporting maize at $200 per ton and importing the same maize at $500 per ton? And he didn’t even apologize after it was proved beyond all reasonable doubt that Zambia, in fact, had surplus maize stocks and wasn’t importing any maize at all!Is this the man some naive bloggers are taking seriously? And where are the figures to support what he is saying?

  31. Ok,can all those who are saying it’s not possible to reduce the cost explain why. Mind you any serious government can adjust,waive taxes or do what ever to reduce the cost of imported materials.For my sake please just convince me educated people that HH is bluffing.

    • @Ichishinka

      When you ask the right questions, you move ahead in life. And you have hit the jackpot. Taxes. You left corruption.

      Taxes load project costs by not less than 40%. Duties and VAT on bitumen. PAYE on labour. CT on income. Equipment taxes.

      The worst culprit is corruption. Kill corruption and you are light years ahead.

      But its a tough battle as the corrupt don’t give up their gains easily as you have witnessed from Lungu-Kudos and the tandem of thieves of Senile Citizen, 2020 corrupt vision

  32. This election year, I have seen more insults from upnd cadres than pf cadres. I guess the calibre of cadres in pf has improved. What has happened to the calm and rational upnd supporters that delivered good debates on L.T? The tide is certainly shifting or has it shifted already?? Good luck to you all with your campaigns.

  33. How on this very good earth, do you honestly think I wanna engage with you slow thinker rants and shallow thinkers? Just listen to your failed sucker telling lies. @ Chilyata say that again, this time in all local languages. kikiki! Little Devils.
    Okay, Edgar is hereby and forthwith endorsed. Viva ECL. I just verified my credentials with ECZ. Mwanya!

  34. Interesting period the next 90 days will be. The PF began on a 90-days bag of promises; and UPND is offering it’s bagful of promises to be actioned in the next 90 days!
    Of particular interest are the many new bloggers (or redefined titles) on LT……any measure to reduce public expenditure is the mainstay of any government worldwide. Good luck to Mr Incoming President:)

  35. The promise of pies in the sky and sugar candy mountains acometh! Sacrificing quality for mediocre works all in the hope of cutting costs yet increasing the cost of repairs and short road life spans! Typical of the Southern close fist syndrome where they live on tight belts when they can live better- to hell man!With such faulty economic comparisons, i shudder to think what this job on training presidents will be experimenting- seeing that he is a munshebwa!

  36. @Chikaaala =Chilyata what a cretin of epic proportions you are, I think at birth you were actually a piece of feces but your poor mother mistook you for a baby out of desperation…you see some of us know how to deal with blood thirsty animals like yourself..I would gladly make you do 1000 frog jumps with your balls tied to your heels..an animal or rather a piece of shiiite like you deserves special treatment…

    As for Hungry Hyena (HH)what can he do he can’t even grade the roads on his dirty farms. Non issue!!!

    #HungryHyena(HH)MustFallForThe5thTime

    2016 ECL nafuti

  37. My advice to all Zambian people, please people go to your brain settings check if your device is using PF. If not, your device may be at risk due to UPND virus. What you should do is, ‘ Open settings, go to southern province deactivate Hakainde Hichilema, wait for Mr Edger Chagwa Lungu to activate as default. Then go to parliament settings and delete all UPND Mp’s to allow PF Mp’s to activate default. Do it before Zambia goes to hell…………..

    • The Campaign strategy of PF has ALWAYS anchored on grand deception. Donchi kubeba and calumny.

      In their desperate hope to cling to power they have employed a host to demons to spread mendacity and outright lies to hoodwink Zambians. Remember that satan, Chomba, whho claimed HH was a mason and when HH cut a writ to bring him to book, Chomba tail in between apologized. And to know who sent him, it was when Kudos-Lungu appointed him PS energy.

      With no hope remaining they are cooking up a privatization lie that is devoid of any logic.

  38. Judge for yourself and download a World
    Bank report which gives the average road construction cost per Kilometer from 40 countries and covers costs for road rehabilitation, strengthening, periodic maintenance,
    reconstruction, improvement, construction,etc from this link: https://www.google.co.zm/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.worldbank.org/transport/roads/c%26m_docs/kmcosts.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiP3vPNm-TMAhWBnBoKHewJCNAQFggXMAA&usg=AFQjCNF9cLVoxHT-koSaIizNOJob7efbQw&sig2=zKN4D4v0sLir8ORXIljzAA

  39. Bitter goons like kudos are ranting day in day out, it’s true, this is a paid up troll, he must have made enough to last his entire retirement after 11th August, we voted PF, which has proved to be gonga!!! There many who feel like me, who were sweet talked by PF.

  40. Since na basontapo Edgar Lungu for president ECZ,as opposed to HH here, concentrate now on voter education on referendum
    There has been little voter education on referendum from either ZNBC or Post or daily mail Only scanty short messages engulfed in the party campaigns
    There are no bill boards or adverts in streets educating on the same One way will be also to engage public in debates to simply create awareness before 18 august

  41. THE WRITING IS ALREADY ON THE WALL EDGAR LUNGU HAS WON ECZ CONCENTRATE ON REFERENDUM

    IT IS CLEARLY FROM GBM MEETINGS ON THE COPPERBELT BALI MUBWATO ALL THE WAY TO KASAMA

    HH HAS CRUSH LANDED IN MASITI SOMEWHERE IN TEKA FARMS TERIBBLY BAD ALREADY

  42. To be a UPND cadre is a disease called shikiness. How can a normal human even begin to defend HHs lies and pipe dreams? HH has not given comparative figures in the region, he just said roads cost Usd1million instead of Usd500,000. Even if he gave comparative figures, they would have to be verifiable e.g. by quoting an authority on road construction in the region. There are many credible and easily accessible construction magazines or websites from which HH could quote. Has he compared fiscal conditions like taxes, availability of road materials, skills, machinery etc? Has he considered the transportation costs of both equipment and materials in a country where there were no good roads until PF built some? Contd…

  43. Has HH considered the geographical size of Zambia compared to other neighbors? If his figures are taken from Mongu Kalabo road, does HH have an idea what it took to build that road in the flood plains? And the many bridges? And that in the sandy terrain there are no crushed stones, you would have to get the stones from hundreds of miles away, and equally transport all equipment and materials all the way from the line of rail? HH, if you are an economist for real, quote us real figures and quote your sources of information. Otherwise we will continue taking you for the greedy and boastful liar that you really are. And just the boasting about his wealth puts me off about this boy, and many others agree with me.

  44. Who does not know that road construction has been a conduit for corruption. HH is right it has to be addressed with the seriousness it deserves. But this causes Mulenga to panic too.

  45. Have you watched one of the UPND campaign videos? HH is depicted as telling us that he will rule by God’s guidance! My foot! Since when did HH associate himself with God? Or he is copying from Edgar Lungu after seeing how Lungu’s true belief in God has blessed him? Look HH, just a few months ago you refused to pray for rain because you simply don’t pray, we have never known you to be prayerful, bushe fyonse ni copy and paste, mr HH? You are just empty rhetoric Sir, and we are not paying attention to your lies? Is it possible for a truly prayerful man, a man who believes in God, be so boastful of his weAlth? I mean just look at Dangote, he has so much money maybe a million times your wealth, and he has remained humble, like Edgar Lungu kikikikikiki. Boss, you are headed for political…

  46. …Armageddon!
    HH does not connect with people even if he tried it’s just not in him. If you don’t connect with people no amount of good or false messages, good or false campaign messages will not work for you. Just heAr what the marketeers who sell groundnuts on the streets Re saying about the wealth that you boast about. Not complimentary comments, I can’t use their words for fear of being immoral like GBM, and I Didn’t realise that they are actually annoyed with HH.

  47. I have said this time and time again…no way can a road cost a whooping $1million/km its either laziness or just simply greed…just the politicians do not care because its “boma” money. To start with govt itself can do a lot by reducing the cost of road construction; Road construction should be just that…no emphasis on job creation, if a contractor can use a machine that only requires 3 workers instead of 10 with shovels that should be encouraged. Even by simply strategically locating bitumen depots all over the country that will greatly reduce transport costs to sites.
    Contractors who implement innovative value engineering methods or cost management systems to reduce costs yet not compromising quality should be rewarded.

  48. But hh is stupid…This is the same man who is telling us that we are not going to be eating roads…So for him to say what he said exposes his foolish.

  49. HH’s message is very clear here; take away any businesses or contracts managed by people from eastern or northern provinces. If you can’t read the message you are blind and lack foresight. The people from two provinces suffered persecution between 2001-2008 at the hands of a tribal regime. The cartel and its accomplices in UPND have failed to penetrate northern and eastern provinces, they have now resorted to attacking ECZ. To the cartel my message is this; the bones of FTJ and those you persecuted will rise up to fight you on 11th August, 2016.

  50. What HH did to Zambia is worse than corruption, worse than aggravated robbery and an other small crimes that you can talk about
    What HH did to Zambia falls in the same category with murder and treason.
    It is better to be poor with integrity than to be rich without integrity
    HH has no integrity- Many Zambians have died because of him.
    The Bembas say:UWAKALEMA TAKALEKA

  51. HH was not MMD but what was stolen is there for all to see. HE WAS NOT MMD.
    If he stole when he was outside, I’m thinking aloud “What do you think he can do when he is inside?”
    ECL is a devil we know
    HH is an angel that we don’t know
    The English say that: A devil that you know is better than an angel that you don’t know.
    Satan used to be the chief angel and today he is the chief of all evil.
    HH and Satan are inseparable. This is a Christian Nation.

  52. Satan, I raise my shield of faith and stand now to resist you with the Sword of the Holy Spirit that proclaims you as a false god and an accuser of brethren. I am a child of the living God. I proclaim that your works against HH are absolutely and utterly destroyed in Jesus name. I refuse and break the power of all curses, hexes, vexes spell, incantations, psychic power, works of witchcraft, voodoo, satanism, cultural spiritism, marine spirits, household wickedness, demonic evocations and mental manipulation sent to distract or destroy HH in the name of Jesus Christ. I refuse and resist all demonic arrows and bows of curses sent against HH from enemies. I command all those powers to go into everlasting bondage in Jesus name. I pull down and burn up all ungodly alters and shrines…

    • I pull down and burn up all ungodly alters and shrines erected against HH’s progress. In this campaign and vote, HH will be head and above and not below. Every curse pronounced against HH, I break, resist and render of no effect in Jesus name. Let every spirit of Balaam hired to curse HH’s progress be destroyed in the name of Jesus.
      God, father of our Lord Jesus Christ, I militate against anyone, anything, any power, any demonic agent that has made its sole business to malign, mudsling, gainsay, spread lies, trickery, falsehood with malice aforethought against HH and this election. You eternal, immortal and invisible God, I release Your sharp arrows , glittering two edged sword and whirlwind to go forth as lightning into the heart of the HH’s enemies and persecutors in the name of Jesus…

  53. I wonder the quality of roads this man is thinking of. Construction costs are high and the only variable wold be labor. Are you saying you will abolish the minimum wage?

    • There lies the problem…go to Europe and see how the relay urban roads using a maximum of 5-6 muilti-skilled workmen …simply create tangible job opportunities elsewhere through smart policies.

  54. UPND cadres your president is wrong, see the following extract from a research found on http://www.treasury.gov.za/publications/igfr/2011/lg/13.%20Roads%202011%20LGBER%20-%20Final%20-%209%20Sept%202011.pdf

    “Roads are expensive to develop and maintain. According to the Centre
    for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the total asset value of
    South African roads in 2010 has been estimated at R1 trillion, with the
    value of the paved road network probably making up about
    80 per cent of this (about R800 billion). New roads and major repairs
    of existing roads typically cost about R3.5 million per kilometre for a
    lightly trafficked paved rural road, while constructing and maintaining
    heavy freeway structures can cost tens of millions of rands per
    kilometre.”

    So once more HH…

  55. HH will use molasses to build roads that will last only 5 years. You get what you pay for. MMD roads are no longer looking like roads after only 5 years. There is competition in then road sector and USD1m reflects true market value for the quality of roads we are getting.

  56. My fellow Zambians. Please wake up. Do your ever wonder why the majority are poor? Corruption is at the center of every department in society. Let us not pretend all is well. If you decide to burry your head in the sand to avoid the truth, try ignorance. Ubututu ebwalenga tulemona thieves getting away with crimes before our eyes.Levy Mwanawasa started the fight and you called him names. You saw how he did it and we ended up having too much money in the Government institutions which the controlling officers were even afraid to spend it any how.

  57. Uko with yo substandard roads. Were did u Eva construct a road? We r not voting fo u ewe. U stole from privatization, u think we r stupid to trust u with constructing infrusture? U r dreaming

  58. THANK YOU COMRADE HH, THE IN-COMING PRESIDENT. YOU HAVE TOUCHED WHERE IT HURTS MOST FOR THE PF LOOTERS. CORRUPTION IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL THIS MISERY AND ECONOMIC DOWN GRADE IN THE COUNTRY. HH IS THE RIGHT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA.

  59. Pfools will are going to shut all your corruption loopholes’ which you are accessing through your road contructions when our HH come into power.

  60. Pfools will are going to shut all your corruption loopholes’ which you are accessing through your road constructions when our HH come into power.

  61. YES HH IS KNOWN TO CUT PRICES OF THINGS AND HE IS 100% CORRECT.
    HH IS KNOWN TO HAVE CUT THE THE PRICES OF MINE ASSETS BY UNDERVALUING THEM
    DURING THE PRIVATASION ERA.
    HH IS KNOWN TO UNDER PAY HIS WORKERS WHEN OTHERS ARE PAYING STATUTORY MINIMU WAGES
    HH DOES NOT SALE ENOUGH CATTLE TO THE ZAMBIA PEOPLE DESPITE HAVING PLENTY, HE ONLY
    SALE SMALL QUANTITIES.
    HH DOES NOT WANT SHARE ANYTHING HE HAS WITH OTHERS BUT CUT THE QUANTIES.
    SO DONT BRAG THAT YOU WILL CUT THE PRICE CONSTRUCTING THE THE TARRED ROAD, YOU
    WILL ONLY UNDERVALUE THEM AND POCKET THE DIFFERENCE LIKE YOU DID WITH ZCCM PRIVATISION.
    WE KNOW YOU ARE GOOD AT UNDERVALUING ASSETS.

  62. WHO IS RICH HH AND DANGOTE BA HH TO MA CHANGE BAKWATA MWE BANTU THOSE WHO ARE RICH THEY DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT BEEN IN POLITICS

  63. Boza, wenye, ubufi, mulabeja badala. You must tell us how you will do that. We do not want roads which will be redone when you are nomore a president in the event that you form government. Cheap is not always cheap it is actually expensive.

  64. HH is a dull economist indeed. His comparison with neibouring countries on the cost of road construction is
    like he is in Malawi saying this year my government will have a bumper harvest and will have plenty mor than Zambia when at least we had some bit of rains here whilst knowingly very well that Malawi has been hit by the drought. Bostwana currency for example much stronger than any SADDC or COMESA hence the cost reflective in Dollar will be much lower.
    He claims to be an economist, but am doubting he credentials.
    TELL US SOMETHING ELSE YOU WILL IF NOT AMASSING MORE WEALTHY AS A HARDCORE CAPITALIST YOU ARE. ZAMBIANS BE WARE. SELAKO MBOMBE, KABILI SONTA APOWABOMBA. EPO MPELELE

    • HH is not mentioning local currencies, he is mentioning US dollars. If a road in bots costs $600,000 /km and Zambia costs $1 million/ km, which is more expensive??

  65. I went out for a drive on Sunday, travelling along the Great East Road I saw a sign directing people to turn left to go to Chalimbana University. I noticed that the road to the university was lovely and new, so I decided to turn onto it and have a look. The sign informed me that the University was 7km up the road. I drove the road and along the way I past a few houses. Sure enough 7km later I saw a sign advising me that the university was on my right. I didn’t see any university (but anyway maybe it was behind some trees). About 200m after the university the road ended!!!
    Now my point is, what is the point of that road? From what I could see there was no university if there is it is a small one with less than 5000 students the number of people that live along that road was 2000 (max)…

  66. cont. So we went and built a 7km road at a cost of USD7,000,000 that is going to serve 7,000 people. Most of whom are going to be unproductive (GDP) wise for a number of years. I would have rather that 7km of road was put somewhere that was going to allow immediate income generation.

  67. My party UPND has lost direction because of the lyks of Scolt, Sampa, GBM, Namulambe and Mwaliteta understands the manifesto of UPND more than the HH and our founding members who can not tell the pipo what they will do when voted into office. remember that these guys are failures there DNA posse failure in them.

  68. The cost of roads depends on factors like road width (e.g. 200cm to 300cm lane), thickness of gravel layer, plus cement used to reinforce it, the terrain (sandy like the Mongu-Kalabo, mountainous which needs blasting rocks), thickness of asphalt or concrete layer, and number of lanes.

    The question Mr. Hichilema should ask is, why would the road in the SADC cost less than in Zambia? My investigations shows that most roads in the SADC region are of short lifespan and easily deteriorate. They are usually 8 to 12 mm thick asphalt/stone surface. For instance, in Malawi there are less than 10km of roads with over 30mm asphalt, and those are only found in Lilongwe and Blantyre. But if we are to consider the cost of rural roads in the USA, Canada, Japan and Europe, most two-lane asphalt roads…

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