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Tough decisions will be made, some will be painful but necessary-President Lungu

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President-Elect Edgar Chagwa Lungu talks to Yepsanda Fire  Service CEO James Kamanga after a Business Breakfast meeting with Business  Community at Chrismar Hotel. Pic by State House ©2016
President-Elect Edgar Chagwa Lungu talks to Yepsanda Fire Service CEO James Kamanga after a Business Breakfast meeting with Business Community at Chrismar Hotel. Pic by State House ©2016

President Edgar Lungu has met business leaders at a special breakfast meeting at which he hinted at broad policy measures to accelerate economic growth and control spending during his next five tenure.

Addressing more than 70 captains of commerce and industry at Lusaka’s Chrismar Hotel today, President Lungu said he aims at creating a more stable and predictable open market environment with increased consultation between Government and the business
community.

“I have five years now which is sufficient time to take more decisive action. I will take measures to grow the economy and control expenditure. Some measures will be painful but they will yield results and by 2021, and people will reward us for having taken such action,” the President said to a cheering audience during a closed session.

“We have been constrained to take certain measures due to political considerations. But I am glad that one of the major benefits from the current constitutional order is that it assures stability in policy formulation and implementation because there is no fear of disruption in the Presidency, at least for a period of five years under the running-mate arrangement,” he said.

“Tough decisions will be made. Some will be painful but necessary. Business confidence has oftentimes suffered because of the frequent changes in the Presidency in the last seven years.”

The President said all the ministers he will appoint must be business and public-friendly because dialogue will be the hallmark of his Presidency.

He said all components of the IMF Programme will be mutually agreed saying Government and the IMF have made great progress and reached broad consensus on the key areas of the programme.

The Head of State hinted at a rapid but progressive migration to a cost-reflective tariff structure in the electricity and fuel sectors and the restructuring of the agriculture support programme under which government provides subsidies for seed and fertilizer.

President Lungu also announced plans to restructure the Food Reserve Agency into strictly an entity for purchasing strategic food reserves, a move that would reduce on FRA’s demands on the Treasury.

He said the FRA has done tremendously well in reducing crop waste and now we want them to reduce on its resource demands on the Treasury.

“Zambia is a promising economy in Africa and has attracted significant regional and international investment over the last decade. However, the past decade has also shown at various times how vulnerable the Zambian economy is to the global economic growth trends and has found itself amidst a global decline in commodity prices, emerging market interest and exchange rate price volatility and ever increasing electricity utility shortages due to slow infrastructure investment, thus not being able to keep up with demand from a growing economy. As a Government, we are here to listen to you and ensure that our local businesses are protected from the absolute advantages international companies have.”

Co-moderators of the business breakfast, entrepreneurs Guy Phiri and Mark O’Donnell delivered a message of congratulation on behalf of the business forum, which has organised itself as an independent think-tank to advise government on the interests of industry.

The business leaders told their stories of hope they have seen in the resilience of the economy under the difficult period of electioneering and general slowdown in the global economy.

“There was not much panic among investors during this period but instead we saw remarkable transactions by major corporations buying assets on the Zambian market,” said Mr. Caesar Siwale, the CEO of Pangaea Securities Limited, a leading investment advisor.

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    • K1 to $20 meail meal k 300 , load shedding, medication in hospitals, your carders violent , corruption, bankrupt economy, weak currency, 80% below poverty levers , know vision , illegal ministers. Long way to go mr lungu

    • I was perplexed on Monday at around 14hours (a working day & during working hour), to see a multitude of jobless people jumping out of their food-less homes going to celebrate on their empty stomachs in the streets….. for what? for more hunger and street roaming? some even celebrating to death….This kind of Ignorance in Zambia is not curable, its leprosy of the mind…… Just wait and see this is just the beginning and soon you hear that he and his ministers have increased their salaries including their emoluments. Weshamowe!

    • Do not tell lies, Governments do not negotiate with the IMF, The IMF tells governments what to do or the loan will not be released, Ask Greece, Its a more powerful nation than Zambia.
      Its the IMF that is always in the driving seat, Just tell the Zambians to prepare them selves for the bad times ahead, when PF was borrowing without a plan you did not know that such a time will come, Now those who thought PF borrowing was okay will be in for a big shock, bring it on let the people who voted PF feel the pain while the leaders like EL will be enjoying even gating cuts from the very IMF loan, the poor man on the street will be the one to bear all the pain, This is what happens when you let komponyas rule the country.

    • @Dombwa,
      Poor people celebrating!
      This should tell you something about Zambian virtues.
      Zambians value God more than wealth.
      Zambians value peace more than the food they eat
      Zambians value humility more than arrogance .
      Zambians value unity more than jobs.
      In short, what do you value yourself.
      There are places on earth that are rich but there is no peace.
      What is the point of bring a millionaire in Syria at this time.
      You must Aldo understand that rich people are not necessarily the happiest, on the contrary the opposite is true.
      In conclusions, Zambians would rather have God, and Jesus Christ their saviour than wealth.
      That is what explains to the joy you saw on the poor people.
      So, never focus on one dimension when you are looking at society.
      Otherwise you miss it…

    • @Dombwa,
      To continue..
      So your observation must help you to assist your political party leaders or leaders of the patty you support to understand that there is more life for a Zambian than just the economy.
      This why you may wonder why Zambians have rejected HH 6 times despites his claim to be an economist who claims he can fix the economy. Zambians look for a leader, who will look at their lives and not just look at their economy. A great lesson indeed .
      In conclusions, Zambians would rather have God, and Jesus Christ their saviour than wealth.
      That is what explains to the joy you saw on the poor people.
      So, never focus on one dimension when you are looking at society.
      Otherwise you miss it altogether .

    • Pay back for PF and Lungu ‘s economic mismanagement is now here bane..

      Prepare to fasten your belts even harder while GBM and HH will loosen theirs or even take their families abroad for good living.

    • Jacob@ get over it. ECL won the elections. Join the rest of us and let him run the country. I’m sure he will do a good job.

      Well done Edgar

    • @Peace for Zambia
      Who is more of a better christian between Lungu the drunkard who could not explain where he got 2.3million US dollars in 15 months and HH a non drunkard and whose source of is unquestionable

    • I did have so much respect for you as lawyer but please explain in what capacity are you holding that business meeting?

    • @1.15 Patriot,
      Your question seem to come with a certain judgement that matches your view of the two.
      Therefore I do not need need to contradict you. I hope your view matches the views of the majority of Zambians. Zambians have interacted with both HH and ECL and they better placed to answer that question during elections. If they view HH to be one who can promote Christianity in Zambia, then congrats to him.
      If they, on the other, hand thry think that it is ECL who can promote Christianity in Zambia then congrats to ECL .

    • @Peace for Zambia

      Did you know that when whites came to enslave us they first used the bible to indoctrinate us to point of submission to whatever evil they intended to subject us to. This is the same method African crooks like Lungu are now copying.
      During the campaigns Lungu was masquerading as a christian just to blindfold poverty stricken Zambians that he is the miracle man to solve all their problems if they worship him. And for sure illiterate Zambians worshipped him.
      Evidence that Lungu replaced Jesus could clearly be seen on vehicles reading” CHRISTIANS FOR LUNGU” when it should be christians for Jesus.
      To a certain extent we Zambian like peace BUT not at the expense hunger, disease and death caused by PF ‘s injusice and thieving.

      Now that PF has stolen over…

    • Now that PF has stolen over $12billion dollars in just years, Lungu has no chioce but to rush to IMF for $1.5billion in exchange for serious austerity measures which will take the country back to UNIP days of queues and worthless kwacha.

      Zambian economy does need a miracle man but a very thoughtful individual like HH and GBM to sort it out.

      Dununa reverse iyo yamba kubwela ka. IMF means K20 fuel, K200 a 25kg of mealimeal, expensive electricity, expensive education no bursary, $1 = K150 by january next year.

      Aluta continua Wanzelu. Lungu must fall.

      By Wanzelu

    • IS PEACE REALLY A GOOD PRICE TO PAY FOR INJUSTICE, LACK OF FREEDOM, LACK OF VISION, DICTATORSHIP, HUNGER , DISEASE AND DEATH while Lungu and his closest allies enjoy Zambians tax money buying jamesons?

      American, British ,French, Spanish, all of the western world said NO to this question.

      Only a people who want to live in perpetual poverty will say YES TO DUNUNA REVERSE.

      By Wanzelu.

    • Yaba Ba at “Peace for Zambia” your analysis is as twisted as they come of course its structured not for objectivity …. For some reason you have placed yourself in the position of the Almighty like most PF cadres who were declaring that the light has won and darkness has lost and all such nonsense…. Nonsense because you cannot measure one true level of faith and judge another in comparison… its a flaw people get themselves into and the Bible cautions severally about individuals like yourself and “Christians for Lungu” (By the way Dr. Liya Nawa Mutale is just trying to get absolution from the BIG CEEC loan she has not repaid) … People who want to Scream their Christianity and how much they pray unlike others… even Jesus had a parable for chaps like you

  1. As a matter of urgency fuel subsidies should be removed and create a good environment for Zambian small businesses to thrive. on top of this if you tackled corruption and reduce ministerial expenditure, your 5 year term will be a successful one. We will support you every step of the way through out your term. Please also continue your One Zambia – One Nation motto as we need to be together more so now. Thanks

    • Do not tell lies, Governments do not negotiate with the IMF, The IMF tells governments what to do or the loan will not be released, Ask Greece, Its a more powerful nation than Zambia.
      Its the IMF that is always in the driving seat, Just tell the Zambians to prepare them selves for the bad times ahead, when PF was borrowing without a plan you did not know that such a time will come, Now those who thought PF borrowing was okay will be in for a big shock, bring it on let the people who voted PF feel the pain while the leaders like EL will be enjoying even gating cuts from the very IMF loan, the poor man on the street will be the one to bear all the pain, This is what happens when you let komponyas rule the country.

    • CIVIL SERVANT AZALILA WINA IF HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO STEAL LIKE VODKA CHAKOLWA RUNGU AND HIS PAMAFI COLLEAGUES …VIVA UPND

    • MaZambians muzanya manzi nomba! Whatever Chakolwa says, is what he has been told by the IMF if he hopes to access the $1.5bn for more dununa reverse economics.

    • The things he is saying will happen are in the tentative program agreed with the IMF at the last visit earlier this year. Whoever had won would have still faced the IMF. Zambia’s economic situation is in a precarious position.

    • IMF deal was agreed in April 2016 and delayed because of elections.But now that we are done with elections,its time to dance to their tune.They are coming before end of this year.

  2. one of the major reasons why the IMF loan cud not be put to gud use was the fact that zambia was also at the same time going thru the period of privatization, yes its true IMF loans in many africa countries have not yieded positive results and one of the contributing factors is that the funds by many govt, has been or was misplaced. for example in our case most of those funds where used to resastitate the mines and most of it actually went on payments of retirement packages for the retrenched miners during rivatization which even most of those retirees neva got and enjoyed,meaning the funds where misapriopriated and someone even benefited more (HH) AND NO INVESTMENT WAS MADE as per the initial plan. in our current situation weall kw that the major focus is on the economy and job creation…

    • You know Mr. Makasa you’re so dull that even your dog might sound informed. Don’t comment on hearsay from beer halls.

    • I AGREE WITH LUNGO THAT MAKASA’S DOG IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN THE OWNER. HOW DID THEY MISUSE THE EURO-BONDS IF THEY HAD THE CAPACITY TO MANAGE RESOURCES? LUNGU AND HIS MINISTERS HAVE PROVED TO BE INEPT AND INCOMPETENT. THEY HAVE DESTROYED AN ECONOMY THAT WAS DOING WELL, IT’S PIPEDREAMING TO EXPECT THEM TO HAVE THE CAPACITY TO TURN IT AROUND.

  3. Amano nayesa! What a pretender! Talking about something you don’t know and believe in! Reading a prepared speech!

  4. While I agree with this approach please take care and be careful not to bring hunger! You should agree to increase electricity tariffs and remove subsidies on fuel but in a phased manner. A rapid reduction will just cause an uprising and with the only 50% of voters on your side you need to be careful how bring people together to support you. DON’T LISTEN TO THE IMF or any of these WESTERN POWERS on GOVT to move of out agriculture business of FERTILIZER and INPUT SUPPORT and MAIZE BUYING bcoz that is the way to ASSURE FOOD SECURITY! They subsidise their farmers that and yet they would not like us to do the same! The hunger Zambia had under FTJ is due to failure to support small scale farmers who are now producing the excess maize we are boasting about and exporting!FRA is important just…

  5. WE THOUGHT THIS SNAKE CALLED IMF HAD BEEN KILLED BY LEVY MWANAWASA. NOW PFOOLS HAVE FLOWN TO NEW YORK & BROUGHT THIS BLACK-MAMBA BACK TO ZAMBIA TO COME & EAT OUR CHILDREN.

    IT’S IRRESPONSIBLE, STYOPET, CARELESS, ID1OTIC TO BRING STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES ON IGNORANT PFOOLS & THE MAJORITY WHO DIDNT VOTE FOR LUNGU.

  6. …continued.. FRA is important just find a way to manage it well. It is the surest market for small scale farmers! Yes reduce government expenditure not only on Ministers and foreign trips but also on unnecessary projects especially in areas where you will never be appreciated but pay more attention to NW Province! They seem to have genuine grievances rather than some other areas which have consumed huge chunks of infrastructure projects but still detest your party!

  7. Truth be told. African problems can only be solved by Africans. The so called EU and US have their own top priority agenda, right now they own our Copper and IMF will came to increase the debt york even further. Why would they want to change that status quo? We are exactly where they want us to be as ’21 century slaves’. Those of you celebrating, ask yourselves a simple question, could they accept such an election in Europe or US? And BTW Kabila will soon do the same in Congo to continue the supply chain of raw materials. Africa this is your century, wake up people.

  8. Hollow promises as long as their intend in govt is to amass wealth at the expense of the poor majority. He wants the poor to tighten their belts when his wealth will multiply tenfold.

    Go on PF cadres celebrate the GREAT LEADER! What a country this is! By the way the petition by the UPND is doomed as right now these thieving cr00ks have probably continued to cover their tracks and destroyed evidence, e.g. producing fake so called G12 docs, etc.

  9. Lungu wants IMF money to do what with it? Does he now have a vision on how to fix the broken economy? Its Chipante pante all the way. Without a Vision we are going to perish. Cry the beloved Zambia.

  10. Now you idoit who is asking about the elections in zambia, you wanted HH TO WIN? TONGAS dont force zambian to love or voting for HH to become president, no .that man is dull, pompers, boastful ,show off and zambian dont like this type of leadership.and for own information, zambian dont hate Tongas, or UPND, BUT the big issue is on that Hakaifotela eka and fat GBM OR GBV. MAY IF HE HAD CHOSEN OTHER RUNNING MATE ,WOULD HAVE GONE IN THE RE-RUN .

    • It just shows from people like @shi.changwe that people were voting against HH and not necessarily PF and its failures. Now the reality is that HH is gone then they realize that there is nothing positive to talk about ECL and PF. Their problem now is that this will be the same or worse for the next five years, they will fail to justify PF’s failures and will try to be HH in every PF’s failure…….

    • For you a re-run would have been the desired outcome?

      One of the serious problems Zambians suffer from is latching on terms whose meaning they don’t know. The use of the compound word re-run makes shichangwe feel noble and educated.

      Not only are we cursed with the agony of using a foreign language for communication but poverty has denied us the ability to think critically.

  11. So Mr Lungu, you are now saying all your election promises are going to be REVERSED !!????

    IMF will tell you to fire 50% of government employees and a Cabinet of no more than 25 and you have already AGREED ???

    No more FISP for the one million farmers you promised to extend it to ?

    We have already seen the LOAD SHREDDING and water shortages are back worse than before.

    What else have you neglected to tell the people that you are now going to do?

  12. Most of HH supporters including HH himself have always thought the main thing to a Zambian is economy.
    Economy. It is just one of them – not even major. There is more to life than cash and carry or pick n pay.
    So, help you to assist your political party leaders or leaders of the patty you support to understand that there is more life for a Zambian than just the economy.
    This why you may wonder why Zambians have rejected HH 6 times despites his claim to be an economist who claims he can fix the economy. Zambians look for a leader, who will look at their lives and not just look at their economy. A great lesson indeed .
    In conclusions, Zambians would rather have God, and Jesus Christ their saviour than wealth.
    That is what explains to the joy you saw on the poor people.
    So, never focus…

    • Look at the PF kaponyas who think when someone says economy they mean pick n pay and cash and carry.
      Yaba.

    • hahaha, but you @Peace for Zambia, you are such a a**. Brainwashed by religion…lol. Apply your theory with your own children at home, stop working, don’t buy them food, and just tell them to pray to God, and you will see how they will behave towards you…..

    • Peace for Zambia – Just see the responses from losers. That is why they will continue losing, they can’t take advice. You have captured the situation so nicely, and they think just because the majority of the population is illiterate therefore, one can just promise heaven on earth and people will believe you. These are very intelligent people and have their values.

    • Which intelligent people who can’t feed themselves?

      Your problem is, you assume everyone who criticizes Lungu is a UPND surrogate. There some people who are genuinely concerned about the course of Zambia’s history.

      Fact: Supporting ECL does not give one exclusive access to better education, better health care, better jobs, etc.

      When ECL messes up, as he has done in recent past, everyone suffers: critics and surrogates alike.

  13. If by any chance some you get a chance to travel. You will get a chance to see the world from a different perspective. Hopefully, maybe then you’d be able to make informed decisions in your house, in your town and in your country. People wait for EU, US or IMF to tell them what to do while proclaiming to the world that they are a sovereign nation. Think about it, a sovereign nation which can’t fund its own budget, its health care deliver system etc. Our young people are right now getting a raw deal. Soon we will reach a point of no return. No insults please, respect the objective perspective or disagree respectfully.

  14. Yaba…. Long time bloggers, ndobo. Nubian. Chief bootlicker. Wanted. Nastro and Mushota, I rest my case. The journey has been long. Known you bloggers since 2008. Am done, love Now and Then

  15. @peace for Zambia! Christianity has nothing to do with docility of Zambians. You like it or not most zambians are gullible illiterate people whom politicians have told that they must embrace and accept suffering because it is more peaceful than wealth but meantime the same politicians like Kambwili and Lungu are busy amassing wealth and preaching tribalism and the poor souls are busy cheering! Ati “we are peaceful nation”! “Tulo”!

    • On the contrally religion has everything to do with ones mentally enslaved mindset…how can you believe in something you can not question!!

    • If the majority of Zambians share your view, then congrats to you.
      Remember, politics is about public opinion. Not what you as a person wants.
      This idea that unless someone thinks like you, if not they are dull , is not the best way to look at things.
      Such way of looking things has helped to keep some people away from wining?
      If you think you are right, why should you stop others from thinking they are right regarding their view.

    • Ba @Peace for Zambia, if i borrow your point “This idea that unless someone thinks like you, if not they are dull, is not the best way to look at things”. Then why do you Minions condemn the people of southern province on the way they express their choices in the ballot. Why call them tribal just because they think differently from you? Mr. Christian Man, is your point just good for you???. If so, in your faith its called hipocrisy.

      And always remember that the majority is not always RIGHT……

  16. There you have it…all those manifestos were simply lies – now he has even the nerve to mention IMF, when are Zambians going to wake up; if Lazy Lungu did attend that debate this would have come out after being quizzed – could not have changed anything but at least you know where you stand …its time to tighten belts whilst they BUFFOON Kambwili and him loosen theirs.

  17. He said all components of the IMF Programme will be mutually agreed saying Government and the IMF have made great progress and reached broad consensus on the key areas of the programme.

    What does that mean? Anything positive?

  18. we shall see who has the last laugh by 2021. one section of voters or the other.
    personally i would like to see you get some money out of that Lumwana mine for the people Mr President. Africa’s second largest copper producing country still getting loans from the IMF… SHEEEEEEEIT..!! by way the every new cabinet minister should be under 45 yrs time get some new blood and ideas for this backward country of ours. if see ministers of the Hon Chikwanda’s age in office ..i will curse you.!! chikwanda should be out farming and contributing to the country in other ways not still trying to work out the budget.! SHEEEEEEIT..!

    • Nzanzi – Clearly you do not understand economics — the world’s most developed and powerful country feeds on China — a country placed below it in economic strength and power.

  19. Always IMF,LOANS,GIFTS,BEGGINGS is it not time to think of doing things yourself,52 years of independence still depending.

  20. I totally agree with you Dombwa at 1.4.Most of those people who went out to celebrate did not actually know exactly what they were celebrating for.And most of the people voted either on tribal lines or ‘ukuli chimwela’.It’s very unfortunate. People are supposed to vote for a person who they think will steer the country in the right direction. I’m afraid to say we are finished as a country because it is most likely that the future elections will also be based on tribalism,wako ni wako. It will be very difficult to erase this bad spirit which has befallen our beloved land.

  21. It’s called “Politics of Poverty and Hunger” or call it “The Demise of Promise” – besotted numbskulls celebrating power by proxy, tha IS africa; U vote a great Mandela in b’cos he’s black and all he achieves is Truth and Reconciliation, the rest all stayed the same but for a few white men in black skins; KK, he runs down a sparkling economy to bare bones, U shout “wamuyayaya”; They are busy flogging your Country to the chinese and “ifintu ni Lungu”, MCS talks of “infesters” and turn-coats them into “Investors”, now the IMF is coming, as one greek said – Tsipras has made a zambia out of his motherland, Portugal and Spain are in great pain, all in service of the “Not-so-great powers” that control the world bank and IMF….have fun bane 🙁

  22. “We have been constrained to take certain measures due to political considerations” – in other words, we campaigned on lies and screwed the Zambian people to win elections but now, F!CK them, we have 5 years now to screw them more….

  23. The problem we have in Zambia is some people believe so much in a fallacy that if HH becomes President things we change overnight. Unfortunately or fortunately he must pass through elections where the majority(50 + 1)decides who should rule Zambia. Let HH pass his ten plan points to PF for them to study and see if there’s anything new that they can implement, do a postmortem and scrutinize it. Maybe its workable.

    • My brother, I got six points at Grade 12. Even if I gave you all the books I read and you went through the exact path I traversed in my education. You will not get six points. Everyone one has there own capacity, uniqueness.

    • My Gm friend, Is it a hidden secret to PF when HH mentioned of minimizing foreign borrowing and try to generate funds locally, especially from mines to fund for the projects, if there is no money you don’t start the projects? Now ECL wants more money from IMF when the Euro Bond loan repayment is approaching fast….

    • ManB – “….try to generate funds locally”. So, in the meantime life stops until we generate funds locally? It is not that simple my friend, and we know and that is why we fault HH. He, than anybody, knows better that that is not so simple. What do you have to do and how long will it take you to “generate those funds locally”? What happens in the meantime? We are all striving for economic independence my friend – and we have no choice but to borrow. The difference: the terms we negotiate, the priority areas we apply the funds, and above all, discipline and accountability.

  24. Am concerned that some people can only see color BLACK all the time. They want to make ruling difficult forgetting the consequences are mostly painful to the vulnerable, the poor you and me. I have said it before that you and me should not sink so low as to be used to fight and spill blood on behalf of some one’s desire to be in state house at all cost. When there is nonsense going on in the country, No one is spared because even the rich shall leave their businesses in search of a hiding place. SAY NO, I CAN NOT FIGHT MY OWN BROTHER FOR YOUR SAKE!

  25. Your Hakuluza Humwine introduced street kids by stealing money from those companies which were privatised and most of our fellow citizenry lost everything at the expense of HH. Most of them died with nothing their children who could have had an opportunity to go to school could not because all the money HH got AND BUILD HIS EMPIRE. Sorry the spirits of the dead will not rest and allow him to rule this country, NEVER, NEVER.

  26. @Peace for Zambia. I totally agree with you, thats why even the Bible says in Mathew that what can it profit a man if he owns the whole world and loose his soul?

  27. @Dombwa: Eishi…my head is spinning. Zambians value poverty! I cant see this country going anyway with such dumb people who value anything that resembles poverty and hardship. Meanwhile your President has already made a U-turn and warning you of severe hardships ahead. At least HH was promising you a life. How can someone value peace more than food? Don’t you know that its food and prosperity that brings about peace? You dog, no wonder fake pastors in Zambia are laughing all the way to the banks because they sell you a non-existence commodity called “HOPE” I pity your dependents if you have any…..that you starve to death in order to have “peace”. How stupid can one be.

  28. Now this is when zambian will face reality.
    Anger will be on rampant,cost of production in any sector will go up,
    Fewer maize on the market because not every farmer will afford to grow maize due to high cost of inputs.As for PF cadres,they will have been used and dumped forcing them to become criminals.Familys will be fighting over nshima.a lot of parents will resolt to taking their siblings to government schools as they will not be able to afford private schools.
    We need a redeemer urgently.

    • HH is on record of having promised to increase electricity tariffs when he takes office, stop writing like people just rejected a savior for a Judas.

  29. @Observer,you claim to have six points at G12 yet you don’t even understand how the government works. The ten point plan can be forward to technocrats at ministry of finance and national planning for a feasibility study. I know UPND’S election defeat to PF is a bitter pill to swallow.Lastly,the folling made my wine taste even better,Sylvia Maroads,Charrotte Scout,Mwenye Musenge,and Davis Mwila who was defeated by a person he fired.

  30. How can IMF be killed with silly, stupid, lazy people like you who knows nothing except insulting and shooting down even the best programme one makes you good for nothing cadres. Get used ECL is ruling until after 5 years, so what you can do is to support him for the betterment of mother Zambia and you who does nothing in your life just waiting for HH to come give you handouts which he has failed to give to his workers and relatives.

  31. I know that ka guy he used to fix cell phones in Kitwe he’s the guy who got the Ndola Kitwe dual carriageway contract ati fire services CEO

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