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Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has revealed that Government has sold the National Resources Development College in Lusaka to the Chinese.

Mr Hichilema also disclosed that the Government has sold land where the Lusaka Central Prison known as Chimbokaila is situated to the Chinese.

He said the Government sold NRDC to the Chinese’s AVIC International as pay back for the huge loans that the country has contracted from that country.

Mr Hichilema says Government is lying that it will construct a new NRDC in Senior Chief Shakumbila of Shibuyunji district but that the truth is that the Chinese are only interested in the vast amount of land at NRDC situated on the Great East Road.

He said if China is interested in development a new agriculture college in Zambia, it would have been prudent to rehabilitate the old campus infrastructure at the existing NRDC than building a new one.

Mr Hichilema said Government has sold NRDC to the Chinese and went and acquired cheaper land in Shibuyunji with the hope of shifting the College there.

He said the NRDC transaction is a just a tip of the rampant corruption taking place under the PF government.

Mr Hichilema charged that the PF government is busy selling everything that belongs to the Zambians.

He disclosed that the land where Chimbokaila Prisons is located has also been sold to the Chinese.

“They are selling everything, they sold NRDC, they have sold Chimbokaila and now they have corruptly finished all the tenders,” Mr Hichilema said.

He added, “What we have is a rotten government, a corrupt government to the core. Beyond ambulances procurement, fire tenders, auditor general’s report findings and fertilizer procurement, there is serious corruption.”

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105 COMMENTS

  1. This is what an opposition is expected to do, not silly arguments such as Lungu you are not the president while the facts are that he is. Your job HH for now is hold Lungu accountable for his decisions. If you go this path HH then you will win my support. Bushe HH waumfwa?

    • THIS IS A DISTRACTION
      HH YOU MUST EXPLAIN THE ACTUAL SOURCE AND AMOUNTS OF THE MONIES THAT YOU HAVE BEEN HIDING IN TAX HAVENS.
      ZRA AND OTHER AGENCIES SHOULD PURSUE THE MATTER TO IT’S LOGICAL CONCLUSION.
      SATA WAS RIGHT ABOUT THIS CRUUK

    • I didn’t see the sale tender. I would have applied to purchase as well; but, perhaps that is what raises the suspicion. Why sell privately if it is a clean sale?

    • Zambian are dull backwards

      I wouldn’t marry or touch One and coercion.

      Yes they will believe this drivel from HH.

      Honestly trust Lungu.

      Thanks

      BB2014,2016

    • – Sure sure you sell ZNBC to tu CHONCHO-LEE
      – Then you go on & sell Luburma Market to tu CHONCHO-LEE & have the local traders evicted
      – Gutted Lusaka City market was also sold to a kama CHONCHO-LEE woman
      – ZCCH-IH was sold to Israeli shelf company owned by Lungu
      – RATSA functions sold to Lebanese Lamise & Austrian company Kapisch which did e-Tolls which was rejected by South Africans

      – Now NRDC & Chimbokaila is being sold to tu CHONCHO-LEE
      – Next is UNZA & CBU. We hear of Police guarding house owned by CHONCHO-LEE

      – Lungu’s PF is the most use-less Govt Zambia has ever cursed to govern

    • The fact that HH says:
      They are selling everything…. tells you that he is desperate to score a cheap point.

      What does he mean they selling everything. Have they sold or about to sell his farm land too

    • I like the way Peter Sinkamba presents his cases, sounds more credible.
      Immediately I see such sentence like “…the PF government is busy selling everything that belongs to the Zambians.” without proof, then I am suspicious and I cant buy into these accusations.
      Also, considering the timing, this accusation is coming after the paradise publication which would, to many, appear to be a way to deflect attention

    • “Mr Hichilema charged that the PF government is busy selling everything that belongs to the Zambians”. Can one with brains compare the mines him and chiluba sold to chimbokaila and NRDC?

    • In addition to selling strategic land and contracts to the Chinese and other foreigners, it is busy allowing money laundering at a massive scale.
      For a few dollars, Mopani is able to transfer billions of dollars every year to Switzerland.

      For huge kickbacks the Chinese are allowed to break labor laws with impunity.

      For a familariasation trip to China with a big shopping bag, some of the rulers are willing to allow foreign financial institutions , banks, insurance companies, micro financiers to externalise billions with paying any tax at all on Zambia.

      For a few free rides government is facilitating the land allocation to all kinds of Tom dick and Harries

    • How can it be payback for the huge loans when its not the construction company that issues the loan…the loans that we have got from China are worth billions of dollars. Yes there is corruption but why not instruct MPs to chase up this in Parliament.
      Dont do halfbaked investigations like Tayali…

    • And Haikande also sold Lima bank, ZCCM Ltd, Sun Hotels and many others and only him benefitted. So, he mighty speaking based on his own many years of experience selling public properties crookedly. Therefore, it is prudent to listen to him on this particular subject.

    • “Mr Hichilema charged that the PF government is busy selling everything that belongs to the Zambians.” What about the mines, did they not belong to the same Zambians? Paradise Boy! A thief on other thieves??? Which thief must we trust?

  2. Wamona nomba what u first started and thought it will end there…u sold the mines for a song and left most miners in misery. That’s why u can never campaign on the Copperbelt with your head high coz it haunts u to the core. You started the corruption when Chiluba gave u a contract of evaluating the mines. Remove the log out of your eye before u pluck out the one in your friend’s.

    • OOOH BUT I LOVE TO SEE WHAT FOOLS WRITE ! WAS HE A MINISTER, WAS HE PRESIDENT, YOU FOOLS WILL GO TO THE GRAVE BEING FOOLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SATA (MHSRIP) IS STILL LAUGHING AT THIS LIE THAT HE STARTED …………………

    • @Hamusankwa Hamadudu,
      My dear, where were you all these 20+ years that you are still talking privatization? Sad. Blame Chiluba and do not blame someone who at that point was just an employee.

    • @Hamusankwa Hamadudu.

      HH was never involved in the privatization of mines. Valentine Chitalu, Francis Kaunda, Nawakwi & Syamukayumbu Syamujaye, FTJ were involved in the dismantling of ZCCM.

      HH worked for auditing firm Cooper Lybranth which was involved in liquidation of failed ZCCM mines. Don’t be lazy to google. STOP peddling LIES to justify your thieving brothers who have looted the country.

    • true my brother. HH is the last person to educate us on evils of privatization. as a matter of facts he educated everyone on this subject on how to steal.

    • I dont know whether some Zambians live in dreamland. Time and again HH is accused of selling the mines. That is the most crazy accusation I have ever heard considering that it is a well known fact that HH did not have the final say who buys what but some gullible Zambians think that it is HH who sold the mines. If HH fooled the whole govt machinery to sale the mines for a song,then he has to be a very intelligent man who deserves to be given an opportunity to rule this country.

    • ZRA is silent because no law has been broken here, try your tribalism spin baba. Its not HHs fault that your are too dull to invest abroad. Just continue with fire tenders, ambulances etc its what you know.

    • HH was not the only one named in the paradise papers, the list contains even people from democratic countries and with low corruption index such as UK, DE, USA, etc.
      Have you heard any of those countries barking like you guys are doing?

    • Mr Chosen one even the equivalent of ZRA in Europe and USA have not yet done anything about it because they were not aware of this thing. It’s just been revealed by hard working journalist (unlike ZWD). Now that it’s in the open the authorities will make their move. You can’t arrest a thief if you don’t that he’s stolen.

  4. I’m gonna form a new taxpayer led NRDC (National Resources Defence Council) to defend our public assets from misuse,abuse and theft by govt officials.

  5. @Dekede, its not the responsibility of the oppositions to hold pf or lungu accountable but us, u & me as Zambian citizens.
    I voted for pf and why should hh be held accountable for the mess up I did through a ballot paper?

  6. HH Oval head stop the under5 stories. We are not finished with you yet until you bring back the money you corruptly store with the mmd regime of ftj. Now we are able to connect all the dots properly because that evidence from paradise heaven was the only missing link. You can’t start talking about nrdc which is in the public domain already and decide to ignore your big loot. Stop kidding us and diverting the real corruption by yourself.

    • If it is real corruption let lungu and the ACC investigate him and arrest him if he is found guilty …….why don’t you call for such action ? Instead of making noise …

    • ….kikikiki…Sammy the plunderer is starting to sound a bit deranged to me. He has clearly run out of options and ideas. Can he show the nation the contracts of sale, please???? After the muzungus caught him hiding money and avoiding taxes, he wants to rush and point fingers at others??? Shame on you Sammy!!!!

    • With all fairness, if we have state agents responsible for TAX evasions, I am surprised they are not taking action.
      So lock him up if he has broken any tax laws, why do you stop at writing rubbish instead of taking action? Surprisingly enough, almost all bloggers are st.u.pidly asking HH to explain. Very few, if any at all, are asking the ACC to investigate. HH will not tell you anything beyond what he said yesterday, therefore, all the must.ur.bations request for him to explain are useless.
      Why has Kapamba Mulenga or Chanda and team kept quiet without commenting?

    • Ati our money, try fire tender baba.
      ZRA is silent because no law has been broken here, try your tribalism spin baba. Its not HHs fault that your are too dull to invest abroad. Just continue with fire tenders, ambulances etc its what you know.

  11. We’re actually just starting. Zambia is actually out for tender and the Chinese have already bought it to develop casinos, grocery stores, merchandise shops and hotels. Tiza pa m buka.

  12. HH is a great liar.HE NOW WANTS US TO FORGET ABOUT HIS HIDDEN AGENDA OF AVOIDING TO PAY TAXES IN ZAMBIA!!JUST BRING BACK OUR MONEY YOU STOLE WITH FTJ CHILUBA VIA PRIVATIZATION BADAALA!!
    PF Govnt hasnt sold NRDC and Chimbokaila.infact if its true that Chimbokaila and NRDC will be relocated outside town then its a good move because since the time KK built those facilities,no other Govnt has improved them so they are in very bad condition!!
    HH IS AN ANTI-DEVELOPMENT MAFIA BECAUSE HE KNOW TOO WELL THAT SUCH HUGE DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS DONE BY PF ACROSS ZAMBIA REDUCE HIS ALREADY LITTLE CHANCES OF WINNING THE PRESIDENCY!!!
    if its true then please PF Govnt go ahead and build new and modern NRDC and Chimbokaila.FOR YOU KAINDE,PLEASE PAY BACK OUR MONEY WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN HIDING IN BERMUDA!!

    • It’s the govt that wants to deflect attention from its own corruption. Ambulances, Firetenders, roads, fertilizer. Every dog has its day.

  13. How come this unrepentant chap has never commended Government on positive developmental issues that we have all witnessed under President Lungu yet he goes to praise foreigners? I dont even know whether this HH understands that Zambia has had serious and good politicians before who contributed to Zambia’s well being. The only thing this guy thinks about is the stolen money he has hidden in off shore accounts and thinks money can buy everything including souls.
    The chap has even forgotten that just last year, his own poor tribesmen in Namwala complained bitterly how he has stolen huge chunks of land from them for the sake of loving money. HH, you are pathetic chap this country has ever seen believe it or not. Why are you scared of having a convention within your dead UPND? Til you come…

    • …His company has not paid BP pensioners since 2005 or so. He even externalised funds from the pensions trust without informing Finance Ministry and the trustees. $400m or so….SAMMY MAKES FTJ LOOK LIKE AN AMATUER!!!!!

    • General

      These PF kaponya rats sing about the corruption of HH yet are not calling on ACC to investigate him, just shows that corruption is normal way of life for them….

  15. IM REALLY SUPRISED FOR PEOPLE TO COMMENT THAT GOVERNMENT AGENCIES MUST INVESTIGATE HH FOR HIDING THE MONEY IN TAX HAVENS. INVESTING MONEY IN COUNTRIES OR PLACES THAT HAVE RELAXED TAX RULES IS NOT ILLEGAL BECAUSE AN INVESTOR IS INVESTING IN A COUNTRY WHERE INVESTMENT RULES ARE ATTRACTIVE IN TERMS OF TAX IN THIS CASE. HH IS JUST AN INTELLIGENT BUSINESS MAN AND HARDWORKING, HE KNOWS HOW TO MAKE MONEY, HE KNOWS THAT IN SUCH PLACES(TAX HAVENS) HE WILL MAKE MONEY AND NOTHING IS ILLEGAL ABOUT THAT(UBUTUTU BUBI). DO YOU THINK BY NOW GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE NOT POUNCED ON IF HAD STOLEN OR HE HAD BEEN EVADING TAX. HH IS NOT AN EDUCATED ILLITERATE BUT AN EDUCATED LITERATE. THAT MAN YOU CAN SEE EDUCATION IN HIM. HH HAS MADE HIS MONEY AND HE IS NOT A THIEF AND NOT THESE ARMED ROBBERS OF POLITICIAN WE…

    • Any normal person would not vote for a crook who has not invested in his country…Let those people where he has hidden the privatisation money vote for him…Here we’re not talking about what is legal or illegal but the Substance of the matter…So on this one alone the Supreme Leader of the UPND HH aitaya…

  16. So, how come he never mentioned this all along?

    The dirty job of political lies: After being exposed for hiding millions overseas, you have to pretend to care about the billions at home.

    It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it. How many more stories does he have up his sleeve?

    • And what role did Zambia Privatisation Agency play? Wasn’t the sale clearly documented, tender process open etc… Once again again Zambians failing to deal with an issue at hand. You are free to ask HH questions any time. But Please, let’s challenge Govt on these 2 deals NOW. Is your hatred for HH so much that it blinds your sense of reasoning? Or are you counting such blatant corruption amongst the so called positive things PF has done for mother Zambia? These guys are looking at selling everything they can. HH is not in power and hence let’s demonstrate our love for Zambia by asking for answers from our Govt. Let them tell us if indeed they have sold our assets, why, how much, where the money is going, how the buyer was selected and how these deals are good for Zambia? If they give…

    • …Sammy was the valuation expert who recommended the selling price to ZPA and government. He would value a company at $2m for example and get his “international connections” he spoke of yesterday to buy it. Then they would re-sell it for five times more and share the spoils. Sammy the Plunderer!!!!

    • @spaka: Why waste time when he has covered his tracks like the sophisticated criminal/plunderer he is knowing very well that Zambia has neither the laws nor organisations to investigate him?? It is the population who will see his criminality and lose all confidence in him so that 2021 they won’t make the mistake of voting for a plunderer who tolerates tax avoidance, put millions out of their jobs, doesn’t support pensioners, no regard for villagers welfare (if he can do that to his own people, what about people from Eastern, Northern, Luapula-HE WON’T CARE!!!!). SAMMY WILL NEVER FIND A WAY TO ACCOUNT FOR HOW HE GOT SO RICH AND CONVINCE THE VOTERS, UNDERSTAND????

    • Citizen….

      Hehehe ati covered his tracks…..why not call in the fbi or Scotland Yard ? Hehehe so you are saying HH has outsmarted all dimwit thieving PF officials ?

  18. I dont support HH. I support PF but on this one, HH has done well to talk about these foolish behavioural tendancies like rotten corruption. Yes, there are some good things that have happened in PFs tenure however, there has been sickening issues like the ones pointed above by the Under5. Total foolishness on the part of this government. Idi0tic to the core!!!

  20. NRDC….. Natural Resources Development College , not National RDC… LT mistakes like this are a put off to the reader.

  21. Building a new agriculture college in Shibuyunji is a very good move taken Government because that area needs development

  22. HH is so irritating.
    Today he tells us that govt is selling everything and yet he was so happy when Chiluba and company were selling far bigger assets.

  24. Well, what exactly is under5’s complaint? If this bedtime story for under5s is true, then under5 should be happy that the prison may be rehabilitated or a more comfortable one built somewhere else. Isn’t it under5 who complained about the conditions there? Let the Chinos do something nice and comfortable (soon) for his next visit there.

    • @Terrible: There is nothing wrong in selling dilapidated Govt buildings as long as it is done in a transparent manner, through an open tender system. Single sourcing is what most patriotic Zambians are complaining about. Govt buildings belong to the people of Zambia and not to any single political party or group of people. While you wish other people bad, always remember that prisons are for all of us including you. Not all who are in prison today are guilty.

  25. Kikikiki …. under5 naiwe, grow up. As you told Stephen Sackur, these things are part of democracy. Start by practising internal democracy in your party before you open your mouth.
    As for alleged corruption, start by cleansing GBM’s corrupt smelly bottom.

  27. “….Our client instructs that on the 2nd of October 2017, you addressed a highly publicized press conference at Chrisma Hotel in Lusaka where you published the following defamatory words in the said press conference knowing fully well that the said words were untrue, malicious and whose intention was simply to defame our client’s character…in that press conference you called our client a thief and a criminal who was freely roaming society knowing fully well that our client has never been charged and more importantly convicted of any crime let alone theft of public funds through Mwamona Engineering and Technical Services Ltd and in his personal capacity,” the lawyers stated…”

    Zambianeye on kambwili dues munir Zulu.

    If lungu is not a theif this is what he should do……

  28. These are half baked stories like always from HH, the truth will eventually Come out .
    If you ask about the location of nrdc and chimbokaila prison I would agree to have them moved ,we can not a farm college in the middle of the city and a. prison where chimbokaila is in this time and era,it made sense at that time when they were constructed and not now,as to who has bought the buildings go and ask HH.

  29. Tavern talk. As for the Chinese I remember how late Michael Sata used to tell us that his first task as president would be to chase away the Chinese “infestors”.

  30. Too much utupuba mu zambia. Someone is alarming you that your land is being taken iwe ati its ok i hear even in zimbabwe it happened the same way.bushe who bewitched us kanshi mwe bantu?

  31. Koma ngati nibeve!!!1. Return all the monies you accumulated when you were appointed liquidator by Late FTJ. KAWALALA IWE……
    HH has stolen more from Zambians than any other individual
    Nonsense

  32. @24.1 spaka like crying, first things first answer my questions. You climb up a tree from the ground to the branches not the other way round. Under5 said it himself, in trying to justify his cries to Stephen Sackur, he said all his (not our) problems can be solved by starting with basics, i.e. democracy. He must have been thinking about the “democracy” in his so called party, which really is nothing but a bunch of Donkeys who don’t know what they stand for or what they want, not even the meaning of basics like democracy or corruption or love for your country.

    • No mu chembele mr terrible , HH was thinking about the democracy shown by PF where anyone with presidential ambitions is sacked , expelled and threats are made on their life in front of lungu the corrupt thief…

  33. Zambians it is high time we stopped defending wrong doers, whether pf or UPND, let’s create a culture of shaming every body doing wrong things, that’s how we will enhance accountability and transperant, For Sure Sammy stole from Zambians and others are still stealing, so both must be condemned and blacklisted from taking part in future elections.

  34. They are using consultants. These write evaluation papers on NRDC and the Land near Chimbokaila they then give PF various scenarios and get their fees its up to the PF to follow or reject the consultants options. So if they have chosen to sale to AVIC that cannot be the fault of the consultant. His is to make money that’s all. Similarly, for fire tenders and ambulances the business men simply tender and make an offer they have no control on the selection except to put in a better bid with clear financials prepared by a consulting and audit firm, once the bid is successful the consultants can then go and buy cattle land and even bid for president and appear on cnn, try to outrace the presidential motorcade that’s a consultant for you…

  35. Can one of the opposition MPs take this matter to Parliament and ask the relevant Ministers? This must not be allowed. Students must be in the forefront protesting this sale. I think we need to start holding rallies to protest against the Chinese. Those people are very sensitive to negative publicity, they will back out. Where is Laura, PEP, please organise these protests.

    • Lungu will say it not the jurisdiction of parliament just like when blocked the fire tender enquiry going through parliament….

  36. Unfortunately, one has to ask the origin of the speaker and the ceremonies that he attends before commenting, otherwise one would engage in headless debates as the speaker always has a regional and personal agenda and not really concerned about national issues, never mind the topic.

  37. For all I know these could just be rantings of a five time loser. Isn’t this the same guy who went on BBC Hard Talk lying that his “petition” is still in the Concourt when the same Concourt ruled it out of time. Didn’t he insult the judges for that based on their tribe? Or what was he insulting them for if not their final irreversible ruling? So now how do I debate his tribal sentiments disguised as NRDC or Chimbokaila and other topics??

    • “….So now how do I debate his tribal sentiments disguised as NRDC or Chimbokaila and other topics??…”

      Ba chembele mr terrible you don’t have to debate anything, lungu and the PF corruption marchinary have already sold the land……for all we know you are a benificary of this corruption Badala….

    • Development means land. Unless where you come from you do it in the skies. Right now I can see structures coming in a cemetery and when a developer gets that land your Upnd will cry crocodile tears that foreigners are grabbing land from Zambians.

  38. I have a notion that the money the Task Force on Corruption stashed by FTJ offshore could be the same money being connected to our own HH.

  39. How lazy can you be to simply research the truth? HH was not in government and never sold any mines. That was a government decision. He worked for a private company that was hired to work out the modalities from a purely technical business point of view. Auditing and asset ascertainment. Haters have a knack to stick to irrelevancies and false accusations without adducing evidence in order to further their political agenda of painting any challenger in the most extreme negative face as possible.

  40. HH is the most irritating human being on earth. Privatisation issues cannot come from HH because every Zambian knows he and MMD sold huge Zambian properties and made us poor. What is chimbokaila even if his story was true. Who pays to go to chimbokaila prison to attract the investors. If it was any other person saying this I can understand not HH. He should just continue talking about his petition of his lost elections. These are the people called POMPWE MUNSHIBILA INSALA.

  42. Am amazed at how some individuals here would still be supporting this PF government with all the corruption thats obviously taking place

  43. Amazed of what naimwe hh he is a bitterman for the first time jay jay i have read your very constructive post i like in your words half baked thats wat hh do tommorow he will hold a press briefing over the issue he is not sure of

  44. Worried you will not have anything left to sell if, by some unimaginable miracle, you make it to plot one, ain’t you HH? We know you’re not concerned about the wellbeing of Zambians. Much as I hate the thieving in PF, what you’re saying is not out of the goodness of your heart because you don’t have any.

    2021 vote for Chipimo based on morality.

  45. The government must have given these to Under Five and he would have invested using his Paradise money stored up offshore. That is the point Hazaluza Hagain is bringing up.

  46. HH kuwayawaya chabe, what about the mines you sold, the Houses etc. If you leave in a glass house do not throw stones. What about the Tax heaven you have been mentioned did you even declare that when you were standing for president and you lost for the 5th time YES FIFTH Time?

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