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PF is not paying people to defect, they are attracted by massive developmental projects- Lungu

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President Edgar Lungu
President Edgar Lungu

President Edgar Lungu says his government stands ready to fulfill its mandate of service delivery to the people.

President Lungu said government has initiated and implemented a lot of projects since the Patriotic Front took office in 2011.

He was speaking yesterday afternoon in Chimwemwe Township in Kitwe district when he addressed a political rally.

tHE Head of State emphasized that the PF is not PAYING people to defect to the party but that people are being attracted by the massive development going on country wide.

President Lungu told the cheering crowd that the PF will continue working in line with its vision of delivering development.

He said the Patriotic Front belongs to the people adding that, no one owns the party.

President Lungu has further urged Area Members of Parliament in the Copperbelt Province to work with the grass roots in delivering services.

Earlier, President Lungu addressed Party members at Nchanga Mine Club in Chingola where he urged them to continue working in harmony.

45 COMMENTS

  1. What is wrong with us kanshi? everyday Lungu this Lungu that etc. Why can we just concentrate on things that matter like poverty, drugs in hospital, education, fighting corruption (maybe shaming corrupt officials by catching them on camera).
    I live in Australia but the level of politics is not like Zambia where everything good is a product of Mr Lungu and anything bad is opposition or the devil.
    People are sleeping on floors in UTC and rooms are shared by many people than normal. These are issues we should debate. Not Lungu.

    • The guy in a crook. He’s now even stopped asking the Nation to go for prayers because he knows most people are aware of the situation. The President/guy will just keep darking and diving all the way to 2021 and beyond until things just get worse. Lungu is trapped in his lies.

    • Lungu and his simple mind ….he cannot even dare not even whisper Zambias gigantic debt at a public rally or address people to try even to give them a false sense of hope that they will manage this debt ….all he knows is screaming building things. Let me quote a certain American when he commented on the debt acquired by the Trump admin in a short time…”put 1 trillion dollars on my credit card and I will show you a good time”…..Lungu is interested in showing a good time to the ignorant still cheering him

    • Mr President if you only remembered Form 1 civics. You should never borrow to spend but invest. This is saddening. So much money would have so many industries then we would have our own developmental projects from profits and taxes of those created institutions

    • Wasted years…yet the lazy man has never hosted a Press Conference at State House, his bootlicker Bowman even surpasses him in interacting with a live audience concerning national matters.

    • Lazy bum illiterate tribalist hooligan bully chief online messenger of the Tribal H-organization and son of a polygamist father who never taught him toilet training soiling in public Hagain!

    • He is very right. It’s the ibala attracting them. It’s better to go work where you can see a big crop to eat

  2. Charles you are very correct. I thought i was crazy to think the way you are thinking alas but now you have just validated my thought process. Zambians are mediocre to the core, so irredeemably bad.

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  3. And probably attracted by project kickbacks,shady tenders and other shady business tied to these “massive projects” too?

  4. @Charles,you stay in Australia but who told you that patients in UTH are sleeping on the floors?You are still in UNIP and MMD days am sure!!Zambia is a developed country now!!The PF Govnt has done a lot and still doing a lot!!

    • @njimbu what rock did u wake up on today,zambia is a developed country now?1.how many people have access to piped water and electricity
      2.how much money have we paid back from the massive.dept under pf
      and let.us not.forget.the misappropriation of funds meant.for development instead is used to cushion the lives of those in power and their praise team,i could care less who is in power as long as they stood for truth and equality,under pf cadres have more power than the police and they yield pangas still nothing is done

    • Ba Njimbu,
      I have been there to see my aunt who died 2 weeks later. Being a referral hospital, my aunt travelled to Lusaka for her cancer treatment. The doctor could not attend to her for almost 1 week until we intervened. Yes I found people sleeping on the floor and to walk to where my aunt was, we had to jump over some people laying on the floor. It was a congested ward. Normal capacity was meant to be 6 patients, but they seem to be like 18 patients in there. Not enough gaps between beds (e.g Mr Kabwili size can not fit). I did count including people on the floor to be around 18 people. I cried, yes I did cry after having been to the new malls and roads but hospital nikaya. I cried because the development is not real.

  5. Infrastructure with nkongole you have no clue on how to pay? I wish your infrastructure included housing for majority still people living in ramshackles.

  6. Why doesn’t Lusaka times report on more serious issues than this chap going on about his party or himself all the time. Very egocentric rat

    • The president is right and it is wonderful to know that defectors have recognised the hard work of the President and this government. Please do not report on Childish. We are tired of his tribal H-agenda and his supporters.

  7. Lungu don’t politicize these projects for PF’s gain coz they’re equally paid for by MMD ,nAREP ,Heritage Party and UPND taxpayers too. Its just wrong.

  8. What might help Zambia is to have a leader who will have even 1% clue of how to just about know how to manage the country for the good of the Zambian people. Clearly that is the problem because there isn’t one at the moment and things will just get from bad to worse. The trouble is Lungu despite being inept from the start, he’ll want to carry on anyway. What is even worse is that he will keep talking to those who support him blindly.

  9. Attracted by massive developmental projects! My foot! Development projects over which they borrowed funds massively and have failed to pay back! And have now resorted to outright thieving ways of raising funds by charging already impoverished citizens on internet calls.Landeniko fimbi bakateka wesu

    • Internet calls charging. Have you understood what it is all about or you are used to talking anyhow on anything.

    • I have been made to understand that it is all about “saving” jobs at MTN,Airtel and Zamtel.Again I say “my foot!”. When did this government start caring about saving jobs? Didn’t they send Post newspapers employees on the streets after disregarding a court order which said Post operations should not be stopped pending an appeal hearing?How many institutions in this country owe the ZRA much more than the Post newspaper but have not been closed? Do not insult the intelligence of Zambians.They maybe docile but not so dull.

  10. This guy Jonathan Pombe, has a perpetual hangover, & is now far removed from reality.
    KEEP DRINKING BABA, THE DOCILE ONES VOTED FOR YOU!

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    More like “they are attracted by massive corruption”… it’s a scramble for bribe and inducement money; everyone wants to go and share some of the loot before the dust settles in.

    Agree with @Charles above about the infatuation with Lungu… I have raised myself before on several occasions. It is no wonder these dimwits think they are small gods, untouchable and to be worshipped. Report on real heroes and their stories, those who are making real change in people’s lives.

  12. Inkongole is for everyone to pay unprecedented development “because of the able leadership of edgar chagwa lungu the great leader of this indebted nation”.
    Start by telling us who is involved in the sheddy 42/42 fire tenders,ndola Lusaka carriage way,ambulances ,mediocre roads being constructed corruptly with a 1.5 year lifespan.

  13. Ichalo Banthu!

    Ichalo tefikulwa!

    Yes, the road is done but at what cost to the nation? Malaysia is telling China they can’t afford certain Chinese projects! What makes us think we can afford?
    You were busy doing comboni roads at inflated prices per kilometer instead of prioritizing Important Economic Roads like Solwezi-Chingola! You started by wasting time using Road Pave until one Mulusa had to walk the entire stretch for you to get serious and do the road! Do you want us to thank you now after you have bankrupted the nation? When you see all former Finance Ministers sounding alarm about our precarious debt situation, it’s time to bring them all on board and map the way forward! That road will not spur the development we want if economic fundamentals are not in place. It’s no…

    • @ Mr Disaster
      Unfortunately we are not Malaysia, we are Zambia sir! Just in case you are lacking on this one most Zambians have sending their children to Malaysia for University Degrees because of the massive development Malaysia has recorded using borrowed money in the tune of USD240 Billion!! Even the USD 22 Billion Malaysia is trying to cancel, maybe that new President doesnt understand a thing. Am sure he will change his mind and allow the loan to proceed.

  14. Those that defect to Pf reveal the ‘defection fee’ themselves..Communities are aware of the massive corruption in Pf and that development in only in areas that voted for Pf. Elsewhere projects are on stand still.

    • @ Lisa, Chingola Solwezi road is not in PF strong. Go to Choma today and see for yourselves how the town has changed. The most expensive road in this country is Mongu Kalabo road. Make informed decisions.

    • Upnd will always be like a sign post. …it doesn’t move but points to a destination it will never be. Your friends are on the ground but you just keep on whining. Even a court case which you’ve been calling to be heard can’t take off because you want it adjourned.

    • Hatribes will NEVER appreciate! I am glad HH will NEVER be president! We will send him into retirement in 2021. If he chooses to do the last kicks of a dying horse to Zambia, to try to destroy Zambia, this time we will lock it.

  15. Some people are surely blind. how can someone question this Government’s commitment in building Schools Hospitals etc etc and yet it is vivid for every one to see. We may have not so much money as a Country but where the little we have is being utilized can be seen. Problem is we want to listen to propaganda from one man out of the many in opposition, the one frustrated man who wants to lead by hook or crook. A man who shall NEVER see anything good coming from the PF. As evidenced from Mwanawas’s quotes this man thinks he is simply the best there is and yet there are many more like him or indeed better.

    • I was trying hard to understand you Pink Toe, now I get it! HH is a loser and he will NEVER be a president! Maybe a section leader in Namwala or somewhere else in the Sewer Systems.

  16. PF cadres just eat with your Lungu, we have heard for ourselves PF leaders telling the people that they won’t see development if they don’t vote for pf. Zambians need to wake up from their docility, you cannot eat or live off infrastructure. A big chunk of the population can’t afford a car or even a plane ticket to be getting excited over structures for foreigners and the rich to enjoy

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