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HH Promises to intensify the electrification of rural areas in Zambia

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HH and Team Campaign in Copperbelt Rural
HH and Team Campaign in Copperbelt Rural

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema and his entourage continued on the campaign trail in Copperbelt rural, where he has promised to intensify the electrification of rural areas in Zambia

Speaking at a public rally this afternoon at Mutaba grounds, in Kafulafuta Constituency of Copperbelt rural, UPND presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema disclosed that once elected President he will intensify the electrification of rural areas in the country as a means to boost economic activities. The UPND leader said access to electricity will help create jobs for people in rural areas by empowering small businesses such as hair salons.

Meanwhile, the UPND President has reiterated his desire to transform the economy through diversification programmes that will focus on value addition industries, and his commitment to revamping the agriculture sector by focusing on lowering the cost of inputs.

The UPND leader said his government will promote cattle rearing in rural areas with the objective of increasing farming, milk and beef production, which can then be exported to earn the country income.

UPND Copperbelt Province Chairperson Elisha Matambo also addressed the audience, saying that under the PF, the agriculture and education sectors have been neglected, hence the unprecedented levels of poverty in rural areas.

Mr. Matambo called on the UPND President Hakainde Hichilema, once given a mandate to run the affairs of the country, to pay particular attention to rural areas, especially given that he was also raised in the village.

Speaking at a public rally held at Mishikishi ground in Masaiti later this afternoon, Mr. Hichilema assured people of quality jobs once elected President.

The UPND President said this cannot be realised under the PF leadership however, due to lack of economic understanding and misplaced priorities.

He says his government will industrialise Masaiti District so that local people can have jobs.

Meanwhile, Mr. Hichilema says he will be a listening President, and that through the UPND 10 Point Plan, he will ensure that quality healthcare is taken closer to the people.

Also speaking in Masaiti the former Minister of Lands Gladys Lundwe said that Copperbelt rural is underdeveloped because of a lack of quality leadership and concerned President.

Ms. Lundwe appealed to the UPND President Hakainde Hichilema to ensure that the challenges facing residents in Copperbelt’s rural areas are attended with urgency once he is elected into office.

HH and Team Campaign in Copperbelt Rural
HH and Team Campaign in Copperbelt Rural
UPND Copperbelt Province Chairperson Elisha Matambo
UPND Copperbelt Province Chairperson Elisha Matambo
HH and Team Campaign in Copperbelt Rural
HH and Team Campaign in Copperbelt Rural
Former Minister of Lands Gladys Lundwe
Former Minister of Lands Gladys Lundwe
Part of the crowd that attended HH's Rally
Part of the crowd that attended HH’s Rally
Part of the crowd that attended HH's Rally
Part of the crowd that attended HH’s Rally
Part of the crowd that attended HH's Rally
Part of the crowd that attended HH’s Rally
Part of the crowd that attended HH's Rally
Part of the crowd that attended HH’s Rally
HH and Team Campaign in Copperbelt Rural
HH and Team Campaign in Copperbelt Rural

64 COMMENTS

    • What hammer. PF is already doing rural electrification intensively. HH and UPND can not cheat anyone, you guys have nothing to sell to the Zambian people but insults and lies!!!

      You will not rule this country because the majority voters have already rejected your insulting HH and GBM. It is HH and GBM who will tulula!!! The onus is on you guys as challenges. You have an uphill to climb. Remember, to beat a champion you need something new and you have none. The mood in the nation is not that for change. Sit quietly and listen, the nation is not crying for HH but only UPND noisy cadres are doing it.

    • When will these PF cadres learn that their Edgar is a Headless Horse, with a neck as long as an extension code into public funds thieving….Edgar has no capacity…He instead accuses HH increaseing the cost of bef…this guy is such a misearbel job in Zambia’s history, thriving on ignorance of PF cadrs… Let him also then lower down the cost of beer at Chawama Tevern for the drinkers to benefit from his good will as businessman

    • What others are promising, PF has/is already implimenting. He had nothing to tell the people about what he’ll do for them after he found that the PF has already taken electricity to rural areas.Vote ECL bane.

    • There is nothing new this loser can do that PF has not already done or is on the verge of doing. Sela tubombeko iwe kaboke!

    • You always talk sense not this chakolwa Edgar kaloba wrungu whenever he opens his mouth and Suarez like dental formula its always rubbish.

    • PF is already doing that.. True next time sir. It very unfortunate that you will not og to state house. Dont think God doesnt like you. You are just not of the leader Zambians want. And God can not be taken for a fool. Sorry Vote ECL.

    • MAY THE GOOD GOD GIVE US HH AS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. ZAMBIA DESERVES A DESCENT ENVIRONMENT. ZAMBIANS ARE A GOOD PEOPLE, IT IS ONLY THESE WRONG LEADERS WHO ARE CONFUSING US, THE LIKES OF THIS HEARTLESS AND CROOKED EDGAR CHAKOLWA LUNGU. WE NEED HH TO HELP BRING BACK SANITY AND UNITY OF PURPOSE IN OUR COUNTRY. WE ALL NEED TO JOIN HANDS AND CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY IN BUILDING OUR MOTHER ZAMBIA. WE NEED A LEADER WHO WILL INSTILL A CULTURE OF RESPECT FOR ONE ANOTHER IN THE MINDS OF ZAMBIANS. NO TRIBE SHOULD BE TREATED MORE SUPERIOR THAN THE OTHERS. LET US ALL VOTE FOR HH TO UNIFY US AND TO DEVELOP OUR COUNTRY. VIVA HH VIVA!ZAMBIA FORWARD.

    • SOLE WILLIAM, PF IS ALREADY DOING THAT. JUST TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE. BY THE WAY, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT. SONTA PAMBI APASHILI IFILECHITWA. WILAIBILE MPEMBA.

  1. Mr. HH you do not have original ideas and nothing new to give the Zambian people. PF has already intensified rural electrification. You are time waster!!! All you and GBM know are insults!!!

    PF can sonta what is had done and can do and will carry the day because of that sontarisation!!!

    • What of the report that PF have totally failed to get an export for beef farmers because they totally failed to put in place quarantine and other disease prevention measures.

      They all to busy stealing eurobonds with over inflated road prices.

    • we dont need original ideas. these plans have been there. What we need is implementation bane… VIVA HH and team… doing us proud

    • Nothing New. I cant wait to send Mr Privitiser and money snatcher in hybernation. I agree with Wynter Kabimba in todays’ Post Newspaper that UPND will be no more. ViVa ECL. Genuine Leader. Viva ECL.

  2. Under PF, rural electrification has been intensified like never before. (HH) has no single original solution to Zambia’s challenges. Kaponya (HH) for him everything is “Me also” “Me too” “Also Me” “Me as well”.
    UPND have nothing new to offer the masses.
    You have chosen GBM to be your Running mate when you know very well that all women or 50% of the voters will not vote for gender based violence GBM. (HH) very poor planning. Kaponya (HH) no brains in your skull even Muliokela makes more sense.
    Fake promises how can you be a listening president when you don’t listen to the UPND founding members? You liar you’re an empty tin just making noise.
    Kaponya (HH) Sonta po! if you can’t move biyatch get out the way!

    • Before Hap Hazard Kaponya (HH), UPND used to be such a mighty party of intellectuals like Nkombo, Kapita now it’s just a dumping ground for retired, rejected politicians.

      UPND – Used Politicians for No Direction

      UPND – Under5 Phucks for No Development

      UPND – Under5 Pemba Nega-Nega Dambwa

  3. Look at the damage you have caused to UPND Hap Hazard Kaponya (HH). Anderson Kambela Mazoka is spinning and rotating in his grave. He can’t be proud of what you have done!
    How did you end up choosing GBM a violent Kaponya with sewage water in his head? A man who panel beats his own wife, daughter and workers.
    You have just lost the vote of 3 000,000 registered women. The UPND is under siege from Scott Membe Inc, Sata, Miles and Masebo.
    Nkombo is very quiet since last week’s choice of GBM. This peculiar quietness sounds like a defection in waiting
    Sonta po!

    • Why the panic then?? All that should make the PF happy assured they are winning but instead they are hysterical, scampering like rays on fire, trying to scourge around for votes even trying to rig elections through prisoners.

      Ati PF are doing all that already.
      What of the report that this PF gov had completely failed to facilitate for the export of beef because non of them were prepared to do any work as they were all busy stealing the eurobond monies with over priced projects.

      Zambia has been banned from exporting beef.

    • You people who talk about Garry Nkombo do not know him that well. He has done very little in his constituency for the time he has been there (over 15 years!). He hasn’t even explained what he did with the constituency development fund meant for road construction equipment! He was even lucky to be readopted! He can defect if he wants so that Mazabuka Central tries someone else! He has been contributing very little to the President’s votes! He is just a selfish guy!

    • Kudos you can go and drown in your urine or hang yourself. Just move out of the way. The train of change is fast approaching. You like it or not whether you continue barking like a mad dog or not.

  4. Go on HH, make points where those with legitimate things to point at have lamentably failed! No wonder Sata called them useless! They can’t package campaign messages apart from personal attacks on HH and GBM!? “Intensify” means it is already happening but quicken and multiply – but how?? Revamping agric,what about the revived State Ranches,dip tanks,provincial and Vet labs being constructed and revived NCZ,cooperatives and FISP?? On top of that, roads to rural areas for easier transportation of agric inputs and produce! Aren’t part of these efforts evident is good maize harvests in times of poor rainfall? Education has been neglected? How many schools have or are being built,Universities including the one you hate most in Muchinga? But fi PF ndwii..GBM this,GBM that… no strategy on how to…

    • So many positives that PF can capitalise on! But fi PF ndwii..GBM this,GBM that… no strategy on how to market their good programmes. Sontapo without explaining your global plan and strategy?! Is that the only way you can campaign in a crucial election with newly registered voters with a new constitution requiring 50%+1?!

  5. I live in a rural area and there is no rural electrification that has been intensified under PF! When you contact Rural Electrification Authority, you will be lucky to even receive a response!

    • Belo yalila ngilingili…!!!
      Corruption/Manipulation OUT …… Good Governance IN
      PF Panga Violence OUT ……… Police IN
      PF Cadres in Market/Station OUT…….Councils IN
      Tribalism / Nepotism OUT…… Ubuntu IN
      Road block/RATSA theft OUT……Road Safety IN
      Abuse of Office OUT ……… Accountability IN
      Hunger OUT ……. Household food security IN
      Discrimination OUT…… Respect for All Races/Tribes/Beliefs IN
      Inflation/Weak Kwacha OUT………Prudent Economic management IN
      Madala 65 years retirement age OUT….Youths Jobs IN
      Lack of medicine OUT……. Good Health IN
      Private property inversion OUT…… Respect for property IN
      University closures OUT…. Good education IN
      Lungu~RB~Siliya~Kaingu~PF OUT …… HH~GBM UPND IN

  6. If were president of Zambia, I would make I win the forth coming elections at whatever cost, even if it means rigging. Imagine hh, gbm, and the others persecuting Bo Inonge and Lungu it’s scaring!
    There is no new policy proposition advanced by UPND, all they bent on us revenge…
    Iyii me I would rig the elections otherwise chi gbm can eat you!!

  7. My advice to HH is that should you become the next president, and you are serious about rural electrification, send some men and women to Thailand to see how they did theirs. There is electricity everywhere you go in Thailand’s rural areas, even grass thatched houses are supplied.

  8. HH, you have the heart of a lion. You have determined supporters like wounded buffalos. Your support resources are larger than an elephant. Go, go, go. Go, Go, go….. everywhere. Hakuna kulala……bombard the rural areas with REAL and commitment. No lies or donchi kubeba incarnate of sonta po (nothing but lies…. they don’t talk about massive debt).

    By the way HH and GBM tell voters the unprecedented massive debt Lungu has accumulated which he won’t even pay. A large chunk has gone to corruption.

  9. Rural electrification rates in Zambia are at 4% and will remain low as long as we have persistent load-shedding. PF should have diversified electricity generation ages ago instead of being caught pants down while focusing narrowly on road 🙁

    • Sometimes you guys speak like you live on planet Pluto. Since when did 5 years become a decade. Only in UPND and HH reasonong!!! How do you expect PF to have done this things a decade ago when they have only been in power for about 5 years. I think it is HH whose has his pants down because he has found himself with no new issue to tell the Zambian people. His speeches are not inspiring but boring. He cannot move the majority voters to trust him. The problem with UPND you talk too much. We had advisd you the last time but you never listen. When you talk too much, you ears and eyes fail to see clearly.

      ECL is doing this steadily and listening. You guys are over excited thinking you have already won. The dance has not started and you will get tired and lame when the real thing starts. So…

  10. BRING ELECTRICITY TO RURAL ARAS SO THAT VILLAGERS CAN BE EMPOWERED TO RUN
    BUSINESSES LIKE HAIR SALOONS? CRAZYYYYYYYYYYYY

  11. HH will whitewash Edgar Lungu and his visionless PF in the upcoming general elections for sure.

    • HH is only a dreamer and perpetual loser. Unfortunately, even his followers have caught the losing virus and are already cheating themselves of winning. You truly think ECL and PF are so dull to sit idle and allow you to win. You are all big jokers. ECL proved he is a formidable politician than all those guys in HH camp. He beat them when he was considered a nobody, this time he is a mountain and you will fail to move him. When you asked fdr 50+1, you dug your own grave. It is even harder than last time for HH to win. Just wait and see!!!

      Abakali Tabalandalanda sana!!!

  12. Were is the guy going to get the water to fill up kariba dam for hydro power I think h.h the next promise is will bring Jesus live not even in hd but in fresh and blood

  13. Is it true that copperbelt PF structures are doing donchi kubeba to their Party by chewing and not sharing the money to mobilise and ferry people to PF rallies. … as reported by the pro PF daily nation? I keep on saying that PF is on shake ground on the copperbelt. This rematch seems to favour HH

    • HH and UPND are trying hard this time to win but they cannot because they are not good politicians. You have to put up something special to change the CB to favour HH. HH is so stingy and everyone on the CB knows this. They only attend his road shows out of curiosity and to pass time.

      The CB is solidly behind ECL and PF because they speak their “language” HH is fighting with sarcasm and hatred, which does not work on the CB. He needs to prove himself beyond merely insulting Lungu. This is because people wonder why they hate him so much personally. It is like he slept with their wives. this is not a personality battle, but issue battle. Lungu is proving to be more sober than HH and GBM who are filled with so much hate. We cannot afford Zambia to be ruled with such an attitude. Zambia…

  14. Ati HH will fix it. Hehehehe. The only thing HH can fix is Dr Canissius Banda. He is good at fixing his loyal leaders. He did not warn Dr Banda who was visibly shocked and embarrassed by his “friend” at Mulungushi right in front of party cadres and cameras and even Priscilla Isaacs and Judge Chulu. What a way to treat a loyal friend! How cruel! Ati we had already consulted and agreed, whom is HH kidding? We can see how devastated Dr Banda is, even taking 48 hours to go and pray, another way of saying he is going to cry over it. Dr Banda is not even at campaigns! If a person can betray his loyal friend in that cruel manner, you have to crazy to try and entrust him with the leadership of this country. He can equally abandon us.

  15. What HH has committed against his loyal vice president Dr Canissius Banda is same as murder in cold blood. The good doctor may not have been killed physically, but his heart has definitely been killed.

  16. OUTGOING PRESIDENT LUNGU SAID GBM HAS MILLERS ALL OVER WHY CANT HE REDUCE MILLIE MILL PRICE? HH HAS A LOT THOUSANDS OF CATTLE, WHY CANT HE REDUCE THE PRICES OF MEAT?
    I WANT TO ASK PEOPLE IF THEY HEAD LUNGU SAYING HE HAS HIS OWN CAMPANS AND WHICH ARE THOSE? HE IS SILENT- NIKABOLALA. HIS DAUTER TASILA HAS INSAPATO CAMPANY WHY NOT REDUCE SCHOOL SHOES?
    LUNGU GAVE MORE THAN 100 SOLAR GRANDING MILLS WHERE IS THE REDUCTION OF MEALIE MILL? SHAMELESS AND UNREASONING MAN FORGOT THAT HE THE PROBLEM OF HIGH MAIZE PRICE IS DUE TO LUCK OF MAIZE. WHY CANT HE GIVE GBM FRA MAIZE AND ELECTRICITY FOR FREE SO THAT GBM CAN GRIND MAIZE FOR FREE? THE PROBLEM IS MAIZE AND NOT GRINDING MEAL. EQUALLY WITH HH GIVE HIM FREE DRUGS AND CATTLE FEED FOR FREE SO THAT HH CAN REDUCE THE PRICE OF MEAT

  17. HH can’t export his beef because his animals are diseased and he is telling villagers who only knows how to rare lice and bed bugs to keep cattles for export.Kikiki

  18. Intensification and load shedding due to insufficient power sources Mr President does not go together.

  19. This is not something new that HH is promising. PF are already way ahead with electrification. UPND, don’t you have own ideas? Talk about something new and see if we can believe you. Meantime, ECL continues scoring important goals. Viva ECL, Viva PF.

  20. Ba under 5…
    The pf government our working government is already doing the rural electrification so ka boss ka ba under5 if you have nothing to say please shut your sata.nic mouth

  21. The familiar salute…Hail Hakainde!…reminiscent of the salute of fascist Germany, Hail Hitler! This is what to expect from HH…authoritarian rule. God forbid!

  22. I feel sorry for hh he is being misled. Why did the govt introduce the RURAL ELECTIFICATION AUTHORITY? To my simple understanding, it is to electrify the rural Areas of Zambia so if hh can stand on the podium and say I will intensify the electrification of the rural Zambia, then he doesn’t know what he is talking about. Let him bring issues which the PF govt is not doing and not what he is talking about. Zambians are very clever.

    • Agreed. I doubt if he is aware that there is a Rural Electrification Master Plan (REMP) whose main goal is to raise the present access to electricity in rural areas from 3% to 30% by the year 2030. If this access to electricity is low by his standards let him say so and by what percentage. Not too long ago even areas like Chilenje, Matero, Bwacha and many others had no electricity and were electrified by the MMD under Chiuba, 30 years after independence. if a country wants to improve its access to electricity percentage the cheapest solution is to electrify its peri urban areas because they are near the national grid. About 50% of urban areas have been electrified. This information is available on the internet and you can only be fooled if you chose to be.

  23. Amano nga yapelela do a bit of mwembeshi. This guy HH is copying and pasting all that ECL is doing. He has nothing new to offer and Zambians are not about to change government yet. Those who are being led by this blind fellow who cannot see that this country has moved to another level in development risk falling into a ditch of embarrassment on 11 August. The chap is clearly in denial. What a shame!

  24. I think HH is very determined to be president. I see that he IS VERY SERIOUS WITH DEVELOPMENT. I think I will vote for him because he has shown consistency, ingenuity, bravery, issue based campaign since his nomination, maturity in debate, issue based campaigns, and above all VERY SOBER AND ORGANISED MESSAGE AND CAMPAIGN SYSTEM.

    Surely those opposing him are just PF and they feel offended when he is laying out his programme. I have been neutral for sometime, but now I am beginning to fall for HH.

    I have not heard any mature campaigns from PF except name calling, kaponya-ish language, smear campaigns against HH and GBM, AND MOST OF ALL A DISORGANISED AND SELFISH campaign message.

    I have not heard any smear campaigns from team HH, they are serious on the ground, and have moved on…

    • He is determined tribalist divisionist and selfish man. He will not become Republican president due to that. If you have not heard the names HH and GBM and other UPND people call ECL, then you do not follow what UPND is saying or you are deliberately being dishonest. Dishonest has become a hall mark for UPND.

      Ask you HH why he did not refuse to be appointed as UPND leader purely on tribal grounds. Do you think that is correct thinking? HH does not refuse this nor does he deny that he came out smiling from the privatisation of our companies. He self confessed this. You UPND are trying to defend him but he cannot defend himself.

      Zambian are equally determined to stop this tribalist and selfih man from being the Republican president. No amount of insults or road shows will help him and…

  25. When we say HH aitaya people think we are just jealous of him ! Next he will start saying he will set up road infrastructure ! This is the result of too much copy & paste. So you mean REA is just a decoration ?

    • PF and ECL are going no where but remaining in power. Your Hail Hilter (HH) and his NAZI SALUTE is remaining in opposition and a new political party will take its place after August !!!

      First change your evil symbol of the NAZI Party. You are telling us how evil your intentions are. God will not again allow this symbol to reign and torment humanity!!!! That is why HH is called a cultist. He knows why that symbol stands for. It is for the dark world lovers.

  26. TIME FOR CHANGE – NO MORE RITUAL KILLINGS
    TIME FOR CHANGE – NO MORE HIGH COST OF LIVING
    TIME FOR CHANGE – PAY FARMERS ON TIME AND GIVE HUNGER A RED CARD
    TIME FOR CHANGE – IMPROVE SERVICES AND DEVELOP ZAMBIA. GET RID OF THE DRUNK
    TIME FOR CHANGE – VOTE WISELY AND VOTE UPND GET RID OF Ba Sangwapo and Sontapo PF
    VOTE HH AND GBM
    VOTE HH AND UPND
    VOTE FOR CHANGE

    • We shall never allow this Hail Hitler (HH) and his NAZI salute to rule Zambia. Hitler hated the government of the day in germany and told the people he would bring change. he did bring change of hatred, death of millions of Jews, war and general world suffering. This is similar to what you call will bring change. Zambia is in mood of change. You all got it wrong. When the tine of change s ripe, it is very easy to see. Zambia is clam and enjoying peace and progress.

      HH has made a mistake of teaming up with haters who have no other reason for change but just because they hate an individual (ECL). It is not that he has failed, but that he beat them unexpectedly and have failed to accept that. It is the same with Hail Hitler (HH) and his Nazi salute, he was beaten by the man you considered…

  27. When HH says he’s gonna be a listening president, does he imply that he has been a dictator all along?
    Rural Electrification can not be expedited before the generation is improved to support the rural Electrification program which exercise the PF are already executing at quite a good pace.
    A BIRD IN HAND IS the PF whom we have tried and PROVED their worthy and are busy working up to this minute. NI SONTAPO. VOTE PF and EDGAR C LUNGU.
    If you think the supersonic speed you are preaching is gonna work for you, MUKANAYA UBUBISHI IMWE BA upnd.

  28. You pay 3% on your electricity bill to fund rural electrification. The MMD came up with this brilliant idea but unfortunately ZESCO did not utilize these funds on rural electrification but on urban electrification and hence the formation of a new body, Rural Electrification Authority. It is nice to accelerate rural electrification because that is the only solution to poverty alleviation. Kofi Annan called it energy poverty. But how are you going to fund it if the present arrangement is insufficient? That is the issue.

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