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UPND castigates PF Govt for failure to distribute inputs to farmers

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The UPND has castigated the PF government for its delay in ensuring that farmers receive their farming inputs.

In a statement UPND Chairperson for labour Percy Chanda said the PF Government has been very irresponsible, insensitive and cruel to the farmers.

He said the lame excuse by government where they want people to believe that they are broke does not hold water as money for President Lungu’s aimless journeys seems to be available.

Below is the statement as issued by the UPND.

Thursday 8th December 2016

PRESS STATEMENT

IT IS BEING IRRESPONSIBLE FOR PF TO DENY FARMERS FERTILISER WHILE YOU ALLOCATING MONEY FOR ESTHER LUNGU AND LUNGU IS BUSY GALLIVANTING

Weaning a child can be very tricky; a mother cannot just wake up one day and say “you today you will stop feeding from my breasts because I want to start dancing DUNUNA REVERSE”. The possibility is that the baby will die from malnutrition and other complications; therefore it has to be gradual while the baby is being introduced to other food supplements.

This is the case of the Fertilizer Support Program (FSP) in Zambia. The PF Government has been very irresponsible, insensitive and cruel by weaning off small scale farmers without caution, because it wants to go and dance DUNUNA REVERSE.

The misery and hunger that will follow this irresponsible action of withdrawing the FSP program will starve people to death. It’s unthinkable to withdraw the FSP abruptly and in the cruelest manner ever witnessed in the history of humanity.

The lame excuse you, the PF want us to believe is that there is no money to support this program and yet we have seen the same Government willing to spend huge sums of money on giving free sanitary pads and another huge allocation for the first lady on her gallivanting errands.

Day in day out we are seeing how the President is abusing National resources moving aimlessly from one country to another. And Bwana Mutati you say you have no money to support people’s lives? What a joke.

What you have done by removing FSP from peasant farmers is sentencing the poor people to death by starvation.

Tell us what makes you think that our young school going children all of a sudden need sanitary pads? Or are you just trying to be cleaver enough to build numbers of votes as you hope to take over the PF in 2021?

Imagine in your own “clever” thinking a girl going to school on an empty stomach but only to be given a box of sanitary pads for free. Bwana Mutati imagine the same girl failing to pay your new hiked examination fees but each month receives a box of free sanitary pads.

Surely, is this normal thinking or sheer confusion of thought on your part as Minister of Finance? If you are not careful Bwana Mutati you are about to make history as the worst Minister of Finance ever served in this Country, just as your boss is the worst President Zambia has ever had.

A hungry person is an angry person, and therefore the consequences that will follow leading a hungry Nation will haunt you forever. You cannot just wake up from your slumber and start removing subsidies and expect normal people to be happy with you and your Government. You might be okay but think of others.

You cannot do what you are doing to Zambians, the majority who are unemployed and live on less than a dollar per day. Yet, huge sums of money are being wasted on globetrotting and paying the first lady, this is immoral.

I know since you have joined PF you have no sympathy for the poor, as cruelty is one of the qualifications of being a good Minister in PF. Stubbornness is another qualification. Look at how the President is enjoying himself at the expense of the many poor Zambians. You can’t tell me that you will distribute seed in the remaining time. Unless if you just to fool people and waste money.

No wonder our efforts as you UPND to show you how to manage the Country properly are frustrated by few individuals who have no mercy for poor but mind about their tummies so much.

But one Day HH and his team will show you how mange the country that will make all Zambians a happy people of this great Country.

Percy Chanda
UPND – Chairman for Labour and Social Security

17 COMMENTS

    • Percy Chanda: I thought you have been instructed not to take part in any Government Functions. Fertilizer is being distributed by the PF government so please stay away as instructed. You see what your instruction has done.

  1. Really? @ Danielle, if you can’t believe this statement then we don’t know what you are using for thinking. Maybe you are one of those people with down syndrome!!!

  2. Party Statements should be issued with the seriousness they deserve this is a serious matter and should not have been written in this manner. I question if it went to the communications committee of the UPND for screening. Very Few if any party in Zambia follows this simple protocol. … hence the reason we read many misguided and poorly put together statements…. 🙁

  3. If the statement was not issued with words spiced with insults against the Head of State I would have agreed with this Hachanda. I am affected and when I enquired on the delays I was told that there was an audit going on. So I have just bought from the shops. There’s a trick where cooperative officials buy all the inputs using fake names and then sell the items at commercial prices.

  4. Oh Mr. Chanda so there is a government now, a few days ago your Katuka said all of you should not recognize the Govn. of the day, now what is this? Which farmers are you talking about when you stopped Princess from attending planting flag off for the farmers. Yes it is true UPND is an under five party or a chicken without a head who cannot differentiate white from black.

    • @Lemba, I forget that Upnd had vowed not to recognize the current government. And since HH has “declared ” himself winner can he distribute the inputs to us?

  5. Complete Rubbish from someone who claims to be a Chairman for Labour and Social Security of the main opposition party.

    I am not encouraged that things will improve with this party in Government.

  6. Fertilizer is now reasonably priced,for how long Will the government continue subsidizing nthe same..You are making people become lazy.That is why in colonial days those above 21 years were made to pay 10 shillings per year as. tax and they worked hard to find that amount. Your Kaunda came and abolished it and introduced coupons. Think of it for your own food. Rubbish.

  7. UPND didn’t recognise the self imposed PF government. It would be folly like PF cadres who believe their government is working well, not to be criticised. PF government is for half of Zambia, the other half is represented by UPND whose main responsibility is to provide checks and balances including criticising it.

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