United States of America Under Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas Greenfield has congratulated President Edgar Lungu on his re-election, saying his second tenure in office is a clear manifestation of the Zambian people on his leadership.
She noted that although there were some flaws in the electoral process, President Lungu was duly elected and he is a legitimate president whom the US government recognizes.
“President Lungu you have been inaugurated and you are the President of Zambia known within and internationally,” said Ms Greenfield.
Speaking during a closed door meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York yesterday, the US Under Secretary of State for African Affairs said her government recognises President Lungu’s re-election and advised him to promote political dialogue as Zambia’s Head of State.
She however warned that the US government would not tolerate violence and political instability saying those that will found wanting will be held accountable for their deeds.
The US envoy said the US government has been keenly following the democratic trends in Zambia and that her government will continue to work with the Zambia government to foster development.
Ms Greenfield pointed out that the Zambian military personnel in peace keeping missions abroad were the
best the US has worked with as they have shown exemplary behaviour during trainings and other military engagements.
The US Under Secretary has since pledged her country’s continued financial support for Zambian military training and increase the number of personnel in various trainings.
She cited the Mandela-Washington fellowship programme as one of the programmes many Zambians have benefited from and more others will be engaged in.
And President Edgar Lungu commended the United States government for its continued commitment to Africa. Mr. Lungu has since assured Ms Greenfield that his administration will continue to promote democratic principles to in order to move the country forward.
He further told her that his government has in this vain given back media operating licenses that were suspended to some broadcasting houses due to unprofessional conduct which he said threatened the unity and security of the nation.
Recently , the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) announced that it has lifted its ban on the broadcasting licences on two community broadcasting houses.
IBA Chairman Justin Mutale, the IBA board chairperson , said the move followed the three Stations’ adherence to the operating licences they were earlier issued.
The three are the Itezhi Tezhi Community Radio Station and Muvi TV, respectively.
President Lungu also disclosed government will now embark on measures to improve the economic status of the country.
He explained that some of the measures his government will take includes cutting un necessary subsidies on fuel and electricity which he said will bring hardships in the beginning but will help improve the economic status of the nation in the long run.
This is contained in a statement from the Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda.
So it is and so shall it be. They see him ruling, they hating…
But peace and prosperity shall prevail for mother Zambia!
By African standards, to steal or rig an election is what it means to be duly elected. That is not democracy. Let’s call it something else instead.
I sense a certain amount of resignation in the statement, like oh well, if Zambians can live with it, so can we.
The flaws actually made the playing field uneven, but what the heck? There is nothing much of interest in Zambia (like loads of oil) anyway that we Americans can exploit. And you mortgaged your country to us via the IMF who have you very firmly by the balls, so we are good.
You sure guys that is not Jean Kapata and someone likes us to believe that HE Edgar is meeting with high level people in the US government?
Meanwhile HH sits on his Veranda preaching hatred. Will send termites to eat the foundation!
She said Lungu was inaugurated yes. And he is president yes. However the process was horrible. Yes. Therefore its same as HH riches, very questionable process.
Is not the same greenfield which Lungu refused to see in Zambia.I don’t believe the story un less it come from Obama’s mouth.I say so because i have a mandate by USA Government to finish the Mission. Lungu is not recognized as far as USA is concerned.
This is damage limitation guys. The truth shall be known when US publish their official status report on Zambia like they do every year.
That picture is fake but a photoshopped one. This time Under secretary did not even want to meet Lungu after he snubbed her last time she came to Zambia.
There more coming bad news coming for Lungu. The PF press and PF mouth piece are busy doing some damage limitations to avoid embarassing the illegal president.
This story is trying hard to counter The Carter observer mission which cast a huge doubt on Lungu’s election.
Meanwhile IMF has warned Lungu to observe rule of and make sure justice is seen to done. And its going to release money until Lungi shows seriousness.
So muzanya manzi
By Wanzelu
What a disgrace Lazy Lungu is …an absolute disgrace!!
If you are old enough you will realise that this is the same hotel used in the Movie coming to America in which Eddie Murphy acted as a prince from a fictional African kingdom known as Zamunda….could it be Edgar was…..let me not say much I end here …you may complete the statement
@shameless 1.6 films in America are made in real places. There was a time we were told to vacate Mercy’s in Georgia to allow for the filming by John Travolta.
@shameless 1.6 films in America are made in real places. There was a time we were told to vacate Mercy’s in Georgia to allow for the filming by John Travolta.
Where is that photograph where Edgar Lungu is being greeted by United States of America Under Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas? Are you not embarrassed you had to be told to take it down? Shame on you. Are you now trying to rig the courtesy of the United States Government????
“Speaking during a closed door meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York yesterday, the US Under Secretary of State for African Affairs said her government recognises President Lungu’s re-election and advised him to promote political dialogue as Zambia’s Head of State.”
So this was a closed door meeting, how do we know all this? Is it coming from the Lungu Vuvuzela or HH lover Numbian Princess?.
No ideal election on earth. ECL made it to the top. ECL, my president, your president too! One Zambia, One Nation.
That last sentence in this report says a lot of things. Ba LT you shouldn’t have carried this story when you know its a press release from Zambians. Journalism yashino nshiku!
nabasela ba upnd bombeni ba pf kaili. fix the economy.
I wonder if Lungu is meeting any high profile people in the US and whether he will even address the UN general assembly! Its high time an assessment is made prior to undertaking some of these trips abroad to these august meetings when presence of the head of state is not clearly defined! My own opinion of this attendance by Lungu is a show inviting recognition of having been flawlessly re-elected and to rebuild his shaky confidence of return to state house as president of Zambia!
A very stupid president of a very stupid country leading his fellow stupid pfools.
Im very surprised you people still think HH won elections, he lost and come 2021 he will lose again. UPND had this last chance and the will not have it again. They rigged in southern province and they will not have the chance again. in 2021 all electrol officials will come from other provinces to man elections there then you will see the true picture you idi0ts. These Tonga teachers from SP will not be used again electrol officials again then you will see how you will lose.
Meimatungu,
Get like UPND used to photoshop pictures of crowds at there rallies. Elections are not won on the internet
This is the same woman who was ambassador in Liberia and turned a blind eye to the corruption in that country. The US is looking for markets for their products as they play catch up with China. She has no moral authority to speak. The flaws in hte process was rigging and is illegal. Just how George Bush stole the election .
To you not we Zambians, he is just a thief and that will never change. If i become president we will revolve his presidency.
thank you America for speaking loud about our last elections
Its Amos Chanda shouting, infact its embarrassing to tell that zambian elections were useless.
Can any reasonable person believe anything that comes from Amos Chanda?
This has been “spin doctored” to show the exact opposite of what was ACTUALLY SAID!
LT, just send this on to ZNBC. It was written for them, not you!
NO TRUTH IN THIS ARTICLE? WAIT FOR THE PROPER REPORT NOT WHAT AMOS CHANDA WANTS US TO HEAR. IN FACT THE PHOTOGRAPH IS A FILE PICTURE.
Its quite a shame with this Illegal President.
I hate Anus Chanda and his senseless propaganda, trying to sell Chakolwa Smelly Pants.
Who can say a thing and it comes to pass until the lord allows it.
HH, the writing is on the wall, everybody ha moved on on this election. It is time he comes out and talk honestly to his supporters and look them in the eye and say we lost. Lets mobilise for 2021. You lost in Lusaka, no MP , you lost on Copperbelt , again no MP.
If he continues his stolen election agenda , nobody is listening to that song. It is a waste of time and come on he can’t take for ever to mourn. Even Royal funerals do end and it is time to start organization the party. The fact that UPND has no MPS in Lusaka and Copperbelt should inspire HH to get out and work and find out why the failed in these areas. If he can’t do it, let him step aside and let young blood take over
We Zambians (at least those of us who voted) know that the electoral process had a number of challenges. The turn out was high in comparison to previous elections. The verification process needed all stakeholders to be present, etc. All in all a fair assessment from the Undersecretary. Time for the Government, MPs and those that lost elections to get to work. After all you all wanted to get into government to SERVE. So do the right thing.
Has anyone ready the carter foundation report? Read today’s post! All what america is doing is diplomacy and I dont believe what this reporter has written is what was said. No matter the justification, this was a stolen election if not the PF would have allowed the hearing of the petition. In the meantime enjoy!
No one should ever think that Carter can have more insight on the elections that ourselves.
Let us not continue to look down on ourselves, as inferior people.
The us is right, Lungu was duly elected. The petitioners should have been courageous to present their case had had any grounds for their petition.
But all was born out of bitterness, envy and anger.
Now, you cannot go to court and present anger, bitterness and envy as evidence to support your petition.
This is why it flopped.
China@5 I totally agree with you. You people, honestly did you expect that American envoy who visited Edgar at a New York hotel to say to him that “you won a fraudulent election?” And I’m sure I’m not the only one who has noticed that from the time the President was declared “winner” he does not look all that happy. He’s been kind of depressed. Something must be wrong and every well-informed Zambian knows why.
It has been said and confirmed by observers, heads of states and their representatives. Time to move on.
Forget the bitter elements like warlord Kaponya (HH) and his stone throwers. Forget the Boer mafia mercenary types Gay Scott, Harlot Scott, Mmembe, GBV, Masebo and Rwandan genocide Bishop Chihana Chikkala.
Time to forge ahead as a nation. Time for us to take up our new offices and outperform the haters.
.For sure, move on now that you have stolen the vote twice for that matter but do not expect us to move on anywhere with your lot. We shall never forget or forgive. Move on, eat and still till you get tired but moving on and forgetting we shall never ever and there is nothing that you can do about it. Shame upon you to steal, enjoy, and ask the offended party to take it laying down. Put yourself in UPND shoes wenama we!
Where is Terrible NIO to respond to this sh.it from Kudos, the empty skull head – please come on and debate your way!! Well, I am sorry to hear that you have a terribly busy shift this afternoon at some restaurant where you work cleaning toilets in Botswana – working up to 3 am!
Oh poor Ar.sewhore Teribble nio – just go back home to Zambia instead erking a living by scratching your AR.SE in the Diaspora. Don’t be scared of the IMF that Lungu is courting – they will never help Zambia after all because the “medicine from IMF” might end up killing the economy all together.
Cherio Terrible Nio.
The official language of thieves: WE ARE NOT SORRY WE HAVE MUGGED AND ROBBED YOU. JUST COOPERATE AND MOVE ON. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER DAY FOR US TO MUG YOU AGAIN. Bemba thieves have funny twisted thinking!
How can something be legitimate if it has flaws. This woman is contradicting herself. An electoral process is meant to be free and fair; and without any flaws. I will pray for justice to prevail, and I know the Lord will hear my prayer. It is very interesting that people tend to think that their misdeeds will not catch-up with them. Where is FTJ Chiluba after all the money he embezzled? Lungu`s time will some at God’s appointed time. We will all have to answer to the Almighty Father for our deeds on earth.
You never get a flawless election anywhere in the world. Not even America. The recorded flaws should be a source of lessons learnt but not necessarily making the elections illegitimate. All observers updated that the elections were free and fair. In.my view I see no contradiction from the under Secretary. Time to move on in unison
Don’t you have flaws? Only God is perfect.
The language of thieves: no election is perfect, even if this one was stolen, just move on!
U Americans shld also advise lungu and his ECZ not to repeat thez flows in 2021… Because the same flows may cause violence there u shld be more concerned wth the causes and not the actual violence…
It is time to allow our elected president to rule in Ernest . We need to ensure he succeeds in the next 5 years by offering advice and support and where we find him wanting offer him constructive criticism. His success is success for all and certainly his failure is detrimental to all of us. Time for campaigns and squabbles is over and let us all unite in developing our country for the next 5 years. Removal of tariffs on fuel and electricity should be a must and should be done now. I will be more caucious with removal of agricultural subsidies e.g. on fertilizer.
Allowed to rule when the Lazy Bum’s chartered an aircraft and is already gone to enjoy himself in US…one wonders what this lazy tin’s priorities are!!
Nafwile fye mundeke umomwine!
Convicted hardcore swindlers and a drunkard as president,Zambia is indeed a country with no morals.
Ala twacula muno na Lungu uyu …..
PF can tell the world that they won but we know they have a stolen victory. PF can not tell God the same because he knows what they did. Zambia’s history shows that those presidents who helped in stealing or ruled through the same had troubled lives and in some cases are no more
American should teach us democracy, not encourage us to continue rigging elections. Which American personality is this?
America should teach us democracy, not encourage us to continue rigging elections. Which American personality is this?
somebody wrote that UN and USA only get active when war breaks ie: Rwanda, Syria,Somalia, Kosovo but keep a blind eye at what is happening in Zimbabwe and what has happened in Zambia until things start to happen then they can send peace keepers to make allowances.
“This is contained in a statement from the Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda”……The official liar issued a statement.
LT can simply counter check that with the US Embassy.PF thugs think the US government can contradict their own people.(The Carter Centre).Not possible.
Actually the woman never said that its ka Amos who is making up this stories and don’t be cheated Chakolwa Kaloba Wrungu want to remove the subsidies on electricity and fuel to enrich himself. Mind you Chakolwa is HIV positive. Maybe he mighty even be called to answer the sins he has committed before he even finish his term.
Press Statement
John Kirby
Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson, Bureau of Public Affairs
Washington, DC
The United States is disappointed that politically motivated violence and constraints on media freedom have continued after Zambia’s August 11 general election.
We are especially concerned about the Independent Broadcaster Association’s August 22 suspension of three broadcasting licenses, which is a continuation of a troubling pre-electoral trend of restrictions on independent media voices and freedom of peaceful assembly. Zambia’s proud democratic traditions are not enhanced by such restrictions, nor will they help the country to unite and move forward.
At a time when Zambia’s judicial authorities are carrying out their constitutional duties to rule on a challenge…
to the election results, we call on political actors to meet and seek reconciliation in a display of leadership.
The United States remains Zambia’s single largest bilateral donor and is committed to the country’s economic and political development.
# KUDOs waba ban0k0 ich1nyo ubukulu kwati mwau wa nkoni ich1ny0 ukusasamina kwati li lemon ic1ny0 uku talalila kwati cibimbi and satan upon you or musatany0k0.
to the election results, we call on political actors to meet and seek reconciliation in a display of leadership.
The United States remains Zambia’s single largest bilateral donor and is committed to the country’s economic and political development.
America has a long standing history of never congratulating thieves, whatever it is they may have stolen. Edgar Lungu stole this last election. They should not go out of their way, breakaway from their long-standing tradition, to congratulate Lungu for stealing an election. If they do, they would be setting a bad precedence. Lungu, himself, has already set such an ugly one for our country.
This story is a blatant lie
What she means is that crooks are good to do business with. They embrace dictators in Africa, they are easy to manipulate to suit their agendas. The Scandinavians closed their embassies in Zambia due to theft of aid. This theft of aid is happening in other projects. So although flawed it suits them
@21 Chipman
Who is them? Do you mean the Americans?
If there Americans respected his presidency and were serious about these expressed sentiments they would have had a low ranking official meet with a President of a country. At the very least it would have been the UN rep. A breach of protocol is a signal in diplomacy.
No one can take the americans seriously because we all know that the americans waited for lungu to be inaugurated before issuing out statements like this. They played it safe because had it been HH or muliolela who won they would have said the exact same thing they are saying now only after that person was inaugurated. How can america criticises a government they will be working with or trying to work with? Remember also that amerians have nothing to gain from a poor country like zambia which will soon be ballocked by the IMF. They are happy when you have clueless dull presidens like lungu becuase their imf and world bank will have a field day suckign you dry
So america is saying that a president who is elec ted from a flawed system is duly elected and this to them is democracy kikiki the world has gone bonnkers
Mandela was on American terrorist list until 2008. USA supported Apartheid regime which terrorized the whole of southern Africa until 1990’s.
CIA was actually involved in his capture in 1962 before being sentenced to life in prison
CIA/America’s involvement in the killing of Patrice Lumumba is well documented.
The killing of Muamar Gadaffi, Saddam etc are recent atrocities which cannot be ignored.
America’s foreign policy is warped & therefore their recognition of LUNGU does not add to legitimacy of his victory.
If LUNGU/PF genuinely won, why was he scared for evidence to be presented in a court of law.
Confidence in JUDICIARY, ECZ, PRESIDENCY, PARLIAMENT, POLICE etc, has been evaporated & there’ll be so much apathy in all future elections that there’s a risk of…
The fact that this statement is issued by Amos Chanda would make anyone doubt it’s credibility. And the fact even he Amos Chanda is hinting at and referencing ‘election flaws’ and ‘closed media’ means these issues were the major topic and Lungu may have been given a beat down on them.
These press secretaries in Zambia have a poor reputation of issuing lies and spin doctoring everything so much that they can deny that someone is sick even when the doctor is in the process of signing a death certificate.
And what’s more, there is no independent media to verify the statement because The humble one, aka Kim Jun UN of Zambia has silenced them all. It’s ridiculous to think these guys can even walk with their heads high without any shame – they know they never won any…
Democracy is an American thing. They sold us on it. Let them not be seen to undermine it anywhere in the world; certainly not to embrace Edgar Lungu’s ‘Fast Foods Restaurant’ type, which he says, he wants to teach the whole world.
America was never founded to be e democracy. America was founded as a republic to distinguish it from the monarchy that it had been. Count how many times the word ‘democracy’ is mentioned in the American constitution.
@28.1 K Mwika.
Who says America was founded on democracy? Whether founded on democracy or not, America is democracy’s principal advocate; its chief exporter and most eminent guardian.
This is a lie and pure propaganda. The election was disputed and a Petetion was filed with Concourt. The Petetion is pending and until the Petetion is heard and determined nobody can say Lungu genuinely and legitimately won this election. The onus is on Lungu to prove that he genuinely and legally won this election. So far Lungu has failed to do this and instead he has connived with Concourt to block the Petetion. This suggests Lungu lost this election and even failed to meet the 50% + 1 Vote threshold. The Petetion Hearing will prove this and for now Lungu remains an illegitimate President becoz he stole the 2016 election.
“…Despite flaws in the process, President Lungu was duly elected and is a legitimate President of Zambia”…
No way such a bullcr@p statement is coming from an American diplomat. Just read it again and see the PF political machine DNA written all over it, trying hard to legitimise Lungu’s stolen elections. You can f00l your cadres but you can’t f00l fair and progressive minds.
LT is misleading readers by adding ‘- US government’ at the end when it’s in fact Amos Chanda’s statement.
CONT .. there’s a risk of wrong/evil/unpopular leaders being voted into power.
Even a dove realized that the election was stolen & could not fly away in protest.
IN SHORT, THE USA GOVERNMENT HAS PROVED THAT HH IS TELLING LIES ABOUT RIGGING.
Amos Chanda should tells us what are these flaws and by whom? Lungu and PF are already hounded by the stolen elections. If there are electoral flaws why can’t they be corrected? What is the illegitimate Lungu govt going to do about these flaws? The USA govt will not recognize the illegitimate Lungu govt until the Petetion is properly disposed off. The USA govt is a firm believer of Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy and there is no way the American govt will endorse electoral fraud and the violation of Petetioners’ rights. The only solution is for the Lungu govt to correct the flaws. The biggest flaw is the Election Petetion filed with Concourt. Without hearing this Petetion and determining it otherwise it is true that Lungu stole this election and as such will remain…
Obnoxiously cheap propaganda!
The message by itself confirms that they had to really give thought the question of the legitimacy of this presidency in the absence of a determination by the ConCourt.
The US will issue a different statement for the similar situation in Gabon due to the differences in strategic importance.
The flaws being refered to here is the situation where a presidential candidate for a known party goes to interfere with the announcement of elections results. That kind of electoral flaw is what saddened the Americans.
Imagine you are having xex with your wife and at the same time telling her that if the child won’t be a boy them it’s mine. When your wife goes to the labour ward you and go and start shouting at the midwifery that she must deliver a baby boy or else I won’t accept it. That was the conduct of under 5 politician in the last elections. Very &stupid to say the least.
Fantastic – Lungu has been made to eat the humble pie in the USA. The Americans are the masters of such games. This Rat and Caterpillar eating Mother Fuc.ker Lungu has been forced to meet with the with US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas Greenfield – the very person he refused to meet when she was in Lusaka.
Lungu will NOT and will never be accorded an opportunity to meet the US President. They believe he is nearly equivalent to US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs BUT far away from the President Obama, so he has to made do with the Zambian equivalent of Under Secretary at Foreign Affairs. That’s the best picture Lungu will take back to Zambia for the meeting he hired the Jet for. Linda Thomas has put him right in his place. Kekekeke
The Agony is the embarrassment and shock which Lungu got when he hired an expensive Jet with concubines and PF minions to the US and the highest person he was made to meet was US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas Greenfield – the very woman he snubbed in Lusaka.
The DULL Zambian PF President got lost and didn’t even realise how he was terribly humiliated with fake diplomacy which the Americans played to his face. His poorly and ill educated followers were just too excited to appear in a picture close to the only white woman in the entourage that turned out to be nothing but a waitress.
Apparently all the PF Kaponyas back in Zambia are very excited about the picture and have hailed the trip as successful. Please look at Lungu’s hands in the picture….the id.iot has…
Yes indeed there were some flaws:refusing to accept election outcome before votes are even cast, interfering in ECZ work on grounds of suspected rigging but proving nothing,beating and chasing away polling agents of another party from polling stations so that they don’t witness the voting and counting process,unprecedented voter turn out of 72% in strongholds of one party above national average of 51%,unusually low votes for an incumbent in opposition parties strongholds with unusually high numbers of spoiled ballots. With all these anomalies, Lungu won and they failed to prove otherwise over two solid weeks!! Despite all these,Lungu won and ““President Lungu you have been inaugurated and you are the President of Zambia known within and internationally,” said Ms Greenfield.
Show me one election that had no flaws in any part of the world, including America itself. Flows do not only affect a particular contender, or favour one candidate.
In the flaws that were raised in the passed elections such shortage of the G12 forms in some totaling centers, there was no evidence showing that such flaws favoured any particular candidate.
The USA is right, Lungu was duly elected, and the result was a true reflection of the will of the people of Zambia.
The petitioners should have been courageous to present their case had they had any grounds for their petition. But all was born out of bitterness, envy and anger.
Now, you cannot go to court and present anger, bitterness and envy as evidence to support your petition. This is why it flopped.
Congratulations to…
HH must sober up. This is like a soccer match :you win or you lose. Being bitter will only make 2021 impossible.
But hakaivotela humwine is the most unlikeable people to ever walk Zambian land. MHRIP
Flaws such as one voting six times without polling agents, and others noticing, opposition claiming victory before cast, failing to present even one piece of evidence during petition, people ignoring disobedience call, loser claiming victor’s votes and other not worth wasting time on
God bless Zambia
@42 Advanced Gov
And many such like, all, not some, flaws, piled-up to the skies; most laughable indeed.
Almost 30 people sacrificed in the week of the inauguration
You mean still sacrificing even after they lost?
Pay back time kabili
Thanks america. A pardoned criminal will remain a criminal in the mind and hearts of the vict
What is good about it is that someone who thought he could use falsehood, manipulation of the court system, attempting to connive with some elements at LAZ and many more to try and steal the victory was stopped.
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President Lungu is indeed a leader with qualities that speak of mature leadership.
HH has said all manner of insults to ECL, but President Lungu has ignored all of that.
You know there is a principle in life; that don’t ever restless with a pig, both of you will be dirty but the pig will enjoy it.
President Lungu is indeed a leader with qualities that speak of mature leadership.
HH has said all manner of insults to ECL, but President Lungu has ignored all of that.
You know there is a principle in life; that don’t ever wrestle with a pig, both of you will be dirty but the pig will enjoy it.
@6.2 Neo-Chilyata aka HH, I cannot make head or tail of what you are talking about. It qualifies as ranting and does not deserve a comment from me in case people can’t tell the difference.
Anyway, just to clarify for you, I am not in Botswana cleaning toilets. I am very much in Zambia and living well. And I provide employment and income to several domestic workers whom I am told that I pay and treat better than HH does to his workers. Surely you can tell the quality of person that I am from my civil language. Those who clean toilets use foul language, like you. Also those who clean toilets, like you, do not know and thetefore do not appreciate the respectable parts of their mother where they came from.
@Hon Terrible Nio:
You have come back from cleaning toilets now – welcome back! You can ONLY cheat Rat and Caterpillar eating grandmother that you are in Zambia. Of you course you are busy cleaning toilets in Restaurants in Botswana. You don’t need to be embarrassed – you left the country to erk a living by scratching your Ar.se hand to mouth every month by cleaning toilets. That is what you were born into and it is the job you are best suited to excell into. Unfortunately, it is a curse you inherited from your evil and wicked grandmother and which you will pass on to your great grandchildren and their children! Rat eating Ar.sewhore!
Anything else, Mr Neo-Chilyata?
@Hon Terrible Nio:
Anythything else – Nothing at all except your Ar.se puffing sh.it!!
Americans are sharp. Their Government is great. They are good at diplomacy. This is the same lady our President Mr. Lungu did not meet when she came to Zambia during election campaigns. Now we get to New York hoping to meet bigger bosses than she and who comes to meet us? the same lady we could not meet in Lusaka. It is through her that we now send statement to the US government on how we will tackle the economy by removing subsidies etc. Nxt time we should accord due respect to our visitors. America is a big nation. You dont snub it’s envoys.
@49, now that is warped thinking and it can only come of UPND motor mouth. Boss what you are saying is not logical. If the Americans thought Edgar snubbed Linda, they would have snubbed him too. But instead Linda paid a courtesy call on ECL and they had frank discussions ti hear each others viewpoint. The summary of it all is that America congratulated Zambia and President Edgar Lungu in particular. The failure to read things correctly is what greatly contributed to the umpteenth electoral loss by one HH. What species of humans are you guys kanshi imwe ba UPND? Look the fact is that UPND is now irrelevant to Zambia no matter how relevant you want to sound. No more diplomatic dinners they will not attend.
@50 Terrible
What a cocktail you are presenting here! Please give us the facts from your own view point regarding what happened when the American dignitary you are talking about visited Zambia. If what Zambian Family @49 is saying is what transpired, then you have not, in any way assailed his view point.
Interesting that Namibian President reportedly snubbed the Astoria Hotel coz of $10 000 per night charge. Comparatively Namibia is an upper middle income country but their president opted to stay ina $1 000 place. Beggar Zambia on the other hand even out did itself and chatered in addition. Kaya.
“Despite the minor insignificant flow of Rigging the elections president lungu was otherwise elected president” ha ha ha!
Insult him as much as you can Edgar is president. As for Obama not meeting Edgar this is not important and it just shows that you have got a bad complex.
USA confirms that someone is impotent
Amos Chanda was being economical with the truth. According to todays Times, ECL complained that America was being too hard on them
Is CHILYATA normal? I am sure even the wife/husband is bored and looking for se.x elsewhere.
Waldorg Astoria Hotel in New York is one hell of an expensive hotel in the city, just what they hell is this i.diot doing lodging there? He flys by hired jet and lodges in the most expensive hotel, I mean, what manner of masalamusi is all this?
Country men and women, brace yourself for HARDTIMES.
Now that PF has won the elections, NO MORE FUEL AND ELECTRICITY SUBSIDES. How cheap!!!!!
It is almost impossible to rig an election in Zambia! You cannot rig an election when the Commonwealth and other international observers are watching and the opposition is there to tally all results! UPND will never make it as government in Zambia as long as we live!
Who was the photographer? Whose photo is it?
Namibia’s President Geingob refused to stay in the Waldorf Astoria because of their ridiculously high rates (he elected for a cheaper joint meantime). This is the trend of African leaders who are realizing it is not exactly rocket science to actually concentrate on service and not claiming exorbitant entitlements. By the way, Namibia mostly fund their budget from own resources…