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President Lungu speaks during the Commissioning of Mansa -Luwingu Road in Luwingu on Monday, July 18,2016 –Picture by THOMAS NSAMA
President Lungu

THE cartel that caused confusion in the Patriotic Front (PF) and almost hijacked the party following the death of President Michael Sata has gone to the UPND and is now scheming to take over the opposition party, President Lungu has charged.

And the President has revealed that the UPND leadership is scheming for a government of national unity because they have realised that there was no chance for its leader Hakainde Hichilema of winning the forthcoming elections.

President Lungu said the PF had become more united and organised after the departure of a group of individuals who were of the miscued belief that they were the owners of the ruling party.

The President, who received a thunderous welcome from a euphoric crowd in Chililabombwe yesterday, said leadership was from God and those who were viciously fighting to take up the governance of the country before their time were wasting their energy and resources.

He said the UPND leadership had in him recruited a group of thugs who were rejected and chased from the PF because of their violent behaviour and was using the group to cause terror in communities.

President Lungu was received by a jubilant crowd in Chililabombwe and the people went agog after the Head of State and the First Lady Esther took to the stage to dance to the now popular “Dununa Reverse” campaign song.

President Lungu also cautioned Zambians against voting for the UPND because doing so would be endorsing gender-based violence as Mr Hichilema’s running mate, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, had a documented history of insulting citizens.

“The people who caused confusion after President Sata died in their attempt to hijack the PF have gone to the UPND. The PF is more peaceful and well organised now and we are going to win the general elections.

‘‘Some political leaders are claiming that it is their time to rule because they come from one region. That will never happen because Zambians are not going to vote on the basis of regionalism. The UPND has now become home of the thugs who were rejected and chased from the PF and they are using them to cause terror in communities,” President Lungu said.

President Lungu said the cartel had failed to accept the reality that he had been elected Head of State despite having come from a poor background and a poor community in Chawama.

And President Lungu has challenged Mr Hichilema to fix the problems he was having in his party before telling Zambians that he was going to fix the economy.

The Head of State said it was practically impossible for the UPND leader to fix the country’s economy because the economic progression in the last five years had been impressive.

President Lungu said Mr Hichilema and Mr Mwamba were ever claiming to be rich people in the country but had failed to reduce the cost of beef and mealie meal which were their main businesses respectively.

“They (UPND) have resorted to violence but let me state that very soon, they will be where they belong…jails. Watch out and vote for the PF because voting for the UPND would be selling and destroying Zambia,” President Lungu said.

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    • Why is Lungu Edgar so “concerned” about what is happening in UPND?? It’s reminds of a neighbor I once had in Zambia who always want to know we were eating!!

    • its called African politics u fool and up n down party is a threat to his continued stay…u want him to talk about Maliokela or kabimba

    • Your excellency President Lungu, that is an understatement. Truth be told that UPND has long been taken over by the most pervasive criminals hence the deals to exclude them from tax obligations. HH is just a window screen saver, the party has turned into a toxic concoction of the most useless species being. Talk of GBV, sectarianism, male chauvinists, xynophobs, Ruth Mbandulists murderers, swine flu thieves, crusaders, tax evaders, insurgents and every vice you can think opposite to patriotism. Vilimbwembwembwe mu UPND.

    • its called African politics u f.ool and up n down party is a threat to his continued stay…u want him to talk about Maliokela or kabimba

    • Lungu, surely you do not sound like the leader of this nation. Why worry about what is happening the UPND camp as though you belonged to them? Please spend your energy on reducing the inflation and the negative things which goes with a poor performing economy. Inform the nation how you plan to pay back the loans PF has accrued like sweets in the last five years.

    • What are you guys talking about? GBM always talks about PF so does Nawakwi so does Miyanda so does Hilary Clinton on the Republicans. Its politics!

    • CAN’T LUNGU LISTEN TO HIS OWN UTTERANCES? THOSE ACCUSATIONS HE IS PROJECTING TO UPND ACTUALLY TO HIM AND HIS PARTY. PLEASE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA, LUNGU IS SICK, GIVE HIM A BREAK!

    • If its true its the head of state saying these things then Zambia is a failed state to have such low calibre of a leader, But how did a country end up with such a leader and you expect to develop, haha my foot.

    • Kwena CHAGWA elo nomba wala enyala wila pali UPND!!!
      Wamona, ukula kasabana na mu Mafi efyo ifiloto , ule lota fye, efyo UPND ile ku posa mu chimbusu pa 11/8/2016!!

      The chant on 11/8/2016 will be “Flush ba PamaFi mu fimbusu, UKU NUNKA PIPI, KWA CHILAMO!!!!!”
      Who does CHAGWA THINK HE IS PREACHING TO????? The PEOPLE THAT HE IS THREATENING TO SORT OUT ON 12/8/2016???? Well, those same people ARE ON A MISSION, TO KICK HIS DRUNKEN A.,RS,.E INTO TOUCH ONCE & FOR ALL!!!!

      Vote WISELY 11/8/2016!! Vote ZAMBIA FORWARD!! VOTE UPND!!!
      “FLUSH BA PAMAFI ONCE & FOR ALL!!”

      #MURDERERChagwamustfall!! #PamaFikuyabebele!!

      I thank you!!

    • Surely is this the calibre of President we have? Let us not twist historical facts. Lungu became PF president after Willie Nsanda used his call boys with PANGAS to scare away all the other contenders for the PF presidency. Violence is part of PF DNA. Please can you discuss issues and tell us how you will fix the economy?
      Yes leadership is from God. But he also takes it away when it is abused. Look up King Saul, Nebuchanezzer etc in the Bible. You, ECL, have used God’s name to campaign. I will not be surprised if He takes it away and gives it to someone else!

  1. Why is the baga obsessed with UPND? Reminder mudala, you are PF president, UPND is in opposition. Can you give a clear roadmap of what you want to do for us to give you a 5 year mandate……..smh

  2. Mr. Lungu is a very boring man. The people he did not like in PF he “humbly” called them a Cartel. He failed to Unify our party after his selection. After they left to join UPND now he must start fabricating stories about them. He is such a crook. He said he wanted to continue Sata’s legacy. Where is Sata’s legacy if not his son, his nephews, his wife, and his friends? The people will speak….and let Mr. Lungu know the real Cartel that wanted power for just drinking vodka and dancing with other people’s women…9 days to go!!!

  3. What a welcome to the boarder town! Well said Mr. President, by the time this under 5 party will realise that the cartel was in charge it will be too late. I see GBM being installed as the new president just after the elections. What would happen to their supporters from their neganega corridors only God knows. Kikiki.

    • CHIBS YOU ARE A PATHETIC FAILURE IN REASONING. DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE WHAT LUNGU IS SAYING? POLITICS IS A DIRTY BUSINESS. THE UPND IS STRENGTHENED BY THE SO CALLED CARTEL AND LUNGU IS ONLY SAYING THAT TO CAUSE CONFUSION IN THE WEAK MINDED LIKE YOU.

    • Mr. President you are spot on. What hh is doing just for him to go to state house really exposes him that we cant trust him. Look st what he has done to the old members of upnd…. there no where to be seen. Where is Jack, Garry, Conilious etc Hh ‘s is a danger to the democracy of this nation.

  4. The problem with HH and UPND lie in the words of late emperor Haile Selassie;
    “That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained”. Problem: HH thinks only a Tonga president can solve Zambia’s problems.

    • Can you remind us what happened to Emperor Haile Selasie?
      Can I help to refresh your memory?
      Does name Menegistu Haile Mariam rings the bell?
      The problem is that ECL and you are good at quoting, but absolute rubbish in interpreting never mind implementing!!!
      By the way, where is now Captain Sankara idol, Comrade Menegistu Haile Mariam?
      After committing genocide of his own people in the name of failed ideology (socialism/communism) he is enjoying looted money in Harare in company of another “revolutionary” who is godfather of “humble”, “vise” and “anointed” CONVICTED EMBEZZLER.

    • IMWE’ PLEASE BA PANGA FAMILY SUPPORTING “FAKE SANKARA”
      Please give us a break from your ignorance!
      DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT LATE CAPTAIN SANKARA STOOD FOR??
      Knowledge is power, so do your research on a subject, before of parading your cadre like shallow thinking for all to see.
      1. Sankara would NEVER have supported or fraternised with a wasteful Lungu, who hires planes for dancing cadres/ wh0res, whilst his citizens starve.
      2. Sankara would NEVER have hired a Corrupt embezzling Lungu, who steals money from a law practice, & dips his fingers depleating our Euro Bond. Remember Sankara replaced the whole expensive ministerial fleet, with the simple Renault car. That is sacrifice young man, Not Chagwas extravagance, dancing, & Whisky drinking
      3. Sankara wou stay well away from P.F, a…

    • Continued;
      3. Sankara would stay well away from P.F, a violent panga weilding outfit, which sends its police force to shoot & kill an innocent mother for exersising her democratic right. P.F. does NOT understand democracy. What does one expect with Goons like Kaizer calling the shots?
      I could go on all day but will stop!
      My advice for you dull P.F. Cadre -” Captain Sankara” is since, like most P.F stone throwers, you lack analytical thinking, I will suggest you STOP desecrating Sankara’s name, & from now on address youself as “CAPTAIN FODAY SANKOH” as Sankoh shared many traits & ideals similar to yours, & P.F’s.

  5. Zambia: PF Lawyer Banned Over Client Funds

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    PATRIOIC Front chairperson for the committee on legal affairs Edgar Lungu has been suspended from practising as a lawyer with immediate effect on allegations of misappropriating money meant for retirees of Lafarge which was formerly known as Chilanga cement plc.

    This is according to a letter dated July 30, 2010 and signed by Law Association of Zambia(LAZ) honorary secretary Musa Mwenye and copied to all relevant institutions and individuals that deal with lawyers.

    • Instead of being negative you need to tell your supporters how to counter the PF strategies:
      1. Counter Nega Nega (CNN)
      2. Copy & Paste Nega Nega (C&PNN)
      3. Dununa Reverse
      4. Sonta epo wabomba

    • @ Spaka like lilo

      Truth?
      You are asking ECL worshiper about truth? His version of truth has been lost in the absolute vacuum between his ears.

    • @Spaka like lilo and @ Zenj: This is truth:
      Here are the TWO things HH and Nevers have failed to answer and WILL MAKE THEM LOSE next week;
      1. HH has failed to disavowal savagery against women by appointing GBM as vice President and has failed to challenge him on his violent past. IF UPND won power next week, how would GBM relate with German Chancellor Angela Merkle, Designate – President Hillary Clinton, and British Prime Minster Theresa May? Men are born through women. They are also raised through women.
      2. HH and Nevers have openly refused to separate secret societies from politics. HH intends to entrench the relationship between secret societies and politics. Nevers knows this but prefers to look the other just the same way he looked away when Bembas were being persecuted Mwanawasa…

    • To the biggest 1MBECILE on this blog
      1. Who has pardoned CONVICTED RAPIST OF A MINOR? HH?
      2. Who has CONVICTION record? HH?
      3. Who is using CONVICTED RAPIST to serenade him? HH?
      4. Who ordered MURDER of young girl? HH?
      Do your self favor, next time you crap, pull the chain and sing “… i am not worth of you…”!!!

  6. MY PRESIDO!WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO CREATE JOBS & LOWER THE COST OF LIVING?WE ARE FED UP OF “CARTEL”, IN THE MORNING,”CARTEL”, IN THE AFTERNOON,”CARTEL” IN THE EVENING!!!WE WANT BREAKFAST,LUNCH & SUPER.YOU WERE “POOR” ALRIGHT BUT IN 1 YEAR 6 MONTHS YOU ARE NOW A “RICH-MAN”, & WE ARE POORER!!!

    • Has he used some of his riches he has stolen from the people of Zambia to renovate only one school in Chawama? No! That money belongs to the Zambians. He has not even paid taxes to the profits he has accumulated in a space of 1 year.

    • @ Kilo if only you could also highlight the major developments that the current govt has implemented, you could easily see that and point at however, like your leader who is not objective you have chosen not to see. So let the head of state communicate to the nation so that people know that bena kaponya hh are a threat to a nation. For them lying is a way of life.

  7. Lungu has promised to sort out and punish civil servants for identifying with UPND

    Ma civil servant mwazimvelela…….it now you vote for UPND or you are sorted out by ECL PF.

    Its your life and your families at stake….its either you survive with UPND victory or perish if PF Lungu wins.

    The die is cast and the VOTE is yours. SAVE YOURSELVES…..vote Team HH/GBM.

    Choose life and avoid death…..run away from death of having Lungu back to torment you…..VOTE UPND!!

    • Your lies will not change anything,it is too late now,people knows the truth and the truth is that HH has nothing to offer and Lungu is walking the talk!!!

    • Great. Why wasting time and voting for him. PF supporters, follow advise from your fellow 1mbecile “Truth Hates” and stay at home. Lungu has already won this election!!!

    • This time we imbeciles will do the Nega Nega thing to the one you regard as your small God. Me and my clans people will also be voting for ECL.

  8. Lungu can only convince *****s and blind followers. He talks nonsense all the time he speaks. The guy needs to go for mental assessment. Failing to reduce mealie meal beef is as a result of a bad economy that he has created and that’s exactly what we are saying: removing him so we can control and grow the economy and subsequently reduce commodity price. He does not even understand how economics work.

  9. there is one thing I have liked and observed over the song “Dununa reverse”: people have tried to find an alternative better song this time around but have failed. Even the opposition had no option but to copy and try to change it to “dununa forward”. the artist and party should proudly say “we originate while others imitate.” the song is amazing. congratulations !

  10. what was the campaign message at this rally? ..UPND? tell us your next agenda,not Sata’s vision ! UPND bla bla bla

  11. Lungu has threatened to sort out Opposition parties, civil servants,teachers, policemen, pf supporters etc. Farmers,miners,students, unemployed graduates etc are unhappy with Lungu & PF rule. So who will vote for Lungu and PF? The only people who are supporting Lungu and PF’s rule are the ones eating with him. Surely people enjoying Lungu and PF gravy train are very few. The whole country is suffering and clamouring for change so Lungu cannot win this election. Election Rigging on its own without popular support will not enable Lungu to retain power. U cannot stop an idea whose time has come. Forward with Zambia,HH & UPND.

    • To make matters worse he has even threatened the God of Christian nation Zambia by his pretentious Christian behaviour and churching in vain! So who will support him? But if God be for Zambia who will be against her? Not even Lungu. Rom.8:31

    • You sound so sorrowful and self comforting. HH will never be president for as long as southern voti@g mentality remains tribal.

  12. This Lazy Bum Edgar has absolutely nothing whatsoever to offer the people of Zambia…if he did he would be sharing his vision or he talks about is the other Party…imagine Trump talking about Hilary Clinton at every turn.

  13. Zambia shall sort this small dictator instead, the Zambian army are organising them selves to arrest these few corrupt ringleaders in the armed forces who have accepted to be used to destroy our peaceful nation by lungu. Any president who is going to rule this nation from 11\8, will be only through free and fair elections or risks to be arrested by the Zambian army.

  14. That’s a big & gravel mistake to tell GOD that he hate ZAMBIA.Real leadership come s from GOD & who are you to challenge GOD?????do not judge Tata please!!!!!!!! count down vivi PF

  15. On the morning of 13th August 2016, the media Headlines will be ITS EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU FOR PRESIDENT, ZAMBIA HAS SPOKEN!

  16. The numbers are looking very good for ECL and numbers don’t lie. Even if the country voted the way they did in January 2015 where the turn up from PF strongholds averaged 29% while the turn up for the competitor’s stronghold averaged 52%, ECL will still win. Unfortunately or fortunately, there will be no apathy come Thursday next week people will come out to vote in numbers because there is no confusion in the Party and only one voice is coming from the PF.

    • @ Baffalo,

      You are very right my friend and we cant agree more than what you have observed. President Lungu will win with a landslide victory because he has demonstrated and proved what a serious leader is. Come next five years, ECL is transforming Zambia to another level where every child, man and woman, old and young will live their dreams, I have have seen this in him and no will stop him.

  17. Come on people UPND can’t destroy Zambia apart from Southern province which we must take over or turn the southerners into watch towers when there HH retires. They won’t have anyone to vote for.

  18. COUNTDOWN 7 DAYS OF WAITING
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    Your Excellency, you got that right and right now I am not worried about the cartel and UPNDestruction because they do not mean a well and a thing to Mother Zambia. Let the UPNDown worry about the self inflicted wound. Zambia is bigger than these little mashabe goons.
    We are determined to deliver indisputable victory in your hands come 8/11. We, the patriotic Zambians understand that the fight is in and at the ballots. Nafuchi na fuchi. Monga Boza ayi, No-match- HH retired. Ndabezitha ECL! Viva ECL! Wena We Ndlovu Bayede Lungu! Bayede Lungu!

  19. @Kopala for ECL

    Thanks bro. I am a Lusakan but I was in Mikomfwa, Kantanshi, Chimwemwe and Kabushi over the long week end. The PF grip on the CB for ECL is still very tight

    • hahahahahahaha!! Poor chap. We are even tired of the massive rallies we have been having as UPND and that is why you dull PF people are jumping up and down over one massive rally full of poor people who do not even intend to vote for your dull Lungu. I admire your faith though. Keep it up.

  20. Hi the UPND Chaps are hinding heads in the sad. I magine one UPND Chap has bet with me that he will give me one pin if PF wines and I will do the same if UPND wins. The question is are these chaps blind? Nangu bukopo can’t you just see what is happening? Next week there will be alot of sucides. Chemists plz keep away doom from shelves to save lives of our UPND brothers and Sisters

  21. PF you only have 691,200 seconds of being in power . come 12/08/2016 you will all be on the run for terrorizing the peaceful Zambian citizen .

  22. the only where PF is winning is if God has forsaken us. But our rosaries and prayers will destroy whoever will be involved in rigging the elections . May there bones scatter in the Vic falls … by fire Amen

  23. …average IQ for those in attendance at the rally is 47…and that’s the sort of message they like to hear…..despising the opposition…if someone talks about inflation, GDP, budget deficit they will be lost and get bored…meanwhile we wonder why we are so poor among the riches…good climate…plenty natural resources….is it a curse or what..??

  24. PF cant win this election no matter what! They have tried to blackout UPND on ZNBC but the massive support UPND is receiving everywhere is frightening!

  25. MR. PRESIDENT DONT WASTE YOUR TIME ON UPND AND ITS LEADERSHIP EACH TIME YOU ARE ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL. JUST CONCETRATE ON YOUR MESSAGES OF DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES. AFTER ALL YOU HAVE BEEN SINGING THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY WON THE FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS CLEAN WHAT REMAINS TO HAPPEN ON 11/08/2016 IS JUST A FORMALITY. WHY WASTE TIME ON GBV EXPERTS AND COMPANY RECEIVERS ETC. THE CARTEL THEY ARE NOW A SHELL OF THEMSELVES YOU HAVE MANAGED TO DISMANTLE IT. WHY WORRY NOW. BOLA BANSI. GREAT KALU SAID SCORE BOARD 11-0

  26. So Mr Lungu is now the judge? How will he send people to jail?
    LUNGU must be caged before he lights this country in flames. He has threatened a lot.

  27. What does one vote for in Lungu and PF? What are they offering to the people of Zambia? Lungu should tell us how is going to reduce cost of living, reduce load shedding and the price, create jobs, increase salaries of covil servants, manage the economy better, get rid of violence and lawlessness etc. That is what we want to hear. Leave UPND to sort out its own problems. HH and UPND can do a better job than violent Chakolwa Lungu and his Panga Family.

  28. EL are u crazy??? Is it HH responsibilities to reduce prices of his goods while he is paying tax that you EL & your stooges are misusing??? Flying musicans on govt helicopters & using govt money for PF compaigns…..how arrogant!!!!

  29. Be concerned with PF, kambwili wants to take over, we have no leadership problems in UPND hh is in firm control. Should PF loose this elections lungu’s position is in danger, he knows it.

  30. 8 days before retirement to some. surely it may be a honourable career to continue as a shepherd than to be in state house.

  31. A few days to go before elections, is this the best Lungu can say on the way forward for Zambia? This is it?
    Lungu says “… the UPND leadership is scheming for a government of national unity…”
    Looks like someone has to explain to Lungu that a Govt of NATIONAL UNITY IS A GOOD thing for any Country, so long as it has a plan.
    Lungu believes and says “… The Head of State said it was practically impossible for UPND to fix the country’s economy..”
    Someone needs to inform and explain to Lungu that IT IS PRACTICALLY POSSIBLE to fix the economy. It’s all about planning and execution.
    Lungu says “ .. THE cartel that caused confusion in the Patriotic Front (PF) and almost hijacked the party following the death of President Michael Sata has gone to the UPND and is now scheming to take over the…

    • Cont’d … over the opposition party..”
      Someone needs to explain to him that it none of his business.
      Someone has to explain to Lungu to tell the voters what plans he has for Zambia. So far he clearly has NO future plans, but he would rather talk about the past.

  32. Abena Chililabombwe niba kamushi naimwe, they have never seen an aircraft b4 and for them to see 4 choppers was quite amusing. Serious minded people cannot tolerate Lungu because under his administration, this country is headed for a total disaster. What is so special about Chililabombwe, a small town which has been ruined by excessive smuggling of mealie meal ? And that is what people call production and development? What a shame.

  33. “The UPND has now become home of the thugs who were rejected and chased from the PF and they are using them to cause terror in communities,” President Lungu said.
    The reading of the statement above is total Lia from a Head of State. The truth of the matter is that GBM, M.Sampa, Mwaliteta, Mukata and many others that left the PF were not chased or rejected, they simply resigned from their ministerial positions when PF still needed them and went on to defect to UPND. Why didn’t Lungu fire, reject and chase them from PF and their ministerial positions? Now that there are out of PF they can be labeled as violent and causing terror in communities whilst it is the opposite. Where was it reported that the UPND cadres were caught shooting the PF if not the other way round? LUNGU must just…

  34. I know UPND cadres hate to accept this fact. Whens the last time you saw Nkombo, Cornelius Mweetwa et al on stage campainging ? Look around guys, your party is fully infested by the infamous ‘Sata Family Tree’ aka The Cartel. Meanwhile Rest in Peace Ruth Mbandu. ECL 2016 nafuchi nafuchi !

  35. if UpNd cadres can beat some one to death for supporting another party, while in opposition, what are they capable of doing should their party win the elections?
    PEOPLE FROM OTHER REGIONS SHOULD NOT ALLOW upnd TO WIN THESE ELECTIONS.

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