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You do not need to be a president to contribute to the nation – Chanda

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Copperbelt Province P atriotic Front Youth Chairperson, Nathan Chanda (left) confers with PF Media Deputy Director, Antonio Mwanza during the PF Copperbelt Mobilization meeting in Lufwanyama District
Copperbelt Province P atriotic Front Youth Chairperson, Nathan Chanda (left) confers with PF Media Deputy Director, Antonio Mwanza during the PF Copperbelt Mobilization meeting in Lufwanyama District

The ruling Patriotic Front on the Copperbelt says it is strange that people think anyone who contributes to national development has to be a Republican President.

In a statement issued Saturday afternoon, PF Copperbelt Youth Chairman Nathan Chanda claims that most of the people attacking government have no record of success.

“It is strange that we still have leaders who think their contribution to this great nation Zambia can only be achieved if they are elected President of the Republic. We say this because we have seen a trend of some selfish people who just want to criticize President Edgar Lungu without giving any practical and tangible solutions. All we hear is when “am President” will do this, will do that,” Chanda claims.

“The unfortunate part is that those speaking the loudest of changing things, were even given an opportunity to serve in government before, but we have never seen what they achieved and done for majority citizenry.
Today, Honorable Harry Kalaba was on Radio Icengelo, where he just centered on attacking the government. The question is what did Honorable Kalaba do to the people of Zambia when he served as Foreign Affairs Minister.”

He said that it is wrong to blame government on things that are affecting the world.

Chanda stated that Mr Kalaba as former foreign affairs ministers is better positioned to understand global challenges.

“Honorable Kalaba wants to blame the government over things that are global in nature and affecting not only Zambia but other countries.This is high level of hypocrisy which should not be expected from individuals who claim to be leaders. Honorable Kalaba has traveled the world over with government resources as foreign affairs minister and we wonder what has blindfolded this man. We expect a lot from this man who is now behaving like a misguided missile. His ignorance has been exposed to the world as he should be the person to understand better the global changes and challenges.”

“It does not need him to be Republican President to contribute to the development of our country. We have seen people who contributed immensely to this nation as ministers e.g. late Mr Michael Sata who before being President served as minister without portfolio. We have seen Church leaders, some civil societies , some people from some NGOs and even ordinary citizens contributing to the development of this country in their personal capacity.

My question is do we all need to be Presidents of this country for us to contribute to meaningful development? The answer is no Sir. He was the most travelled Minister and today cannot claim that those trips he made and got paid do not bear any positive fruits.
Our humble advise is better he concentrates on developmental issues in his constituency than enjoying the allowances he is getting on the same PF ticket he is calling names today. The ungrateful behavior he is exhibiting has taken away the hopes the electorate in Bahati had in him as he is depriving them of the much needed development following the petty politics he has started practicing,”Chanda stated.

26 COMMENTS

  1. When you return all stolen funds we will take you serious.

    • What a crack of sh!t! what are you talking about iwe ka Chanda? how many times has HH spoken and offered real solutions but Lung Wu and PF have called him bitter? Some have said “why is he talking like a President… we can only have one President at a time…”. Mulesumina uno mwaka its dununa regret….

    • Panama is a tax have and the Paradise Papers have confirmed that HH is among thieves who have hidden money there. What Hakainde doesn’t know though is that when he dies the money will grow wings too and die. But since he is CHILDISH he has not figured that yet.

    • STOP RESPONDING TO WHATEVER KALABA SAYS. HE IS A NONENTITY WITHOUT A PARTY. HE IS LOOKING FOR A PARTY TO ADOPT HIM AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. OKAY IN ZAMBIA IS IT NORMAL TO THINK LIKE THAT? NATHAN YOU ARE WISER THAN CK.
      ============================
      Double h could be like Dangote but no. He thinks he can rule over us with a blanket of thieving following him even abroad. Bapompwe like CK want to rule over us. Listen, MCS was one of his kind. No politician will ever be like Michael. Don’t pay attention to Kalaba.

    • “….Listen, MCS was one of his kind. No politician will ever be like Michael. Don’t pay attention to Kalaba….”

      Sata was an illiterate thug who has caused all this mess Zambia is in…he was so illiterate that he made a convicted fraudster , lungu , minister of justice….he was so illiterate that he thought Zambia can borrow unlimited amounts of money ….

    • This chanda looks under malnourished compared to that party hijacker tonio . Ninshi bena ba chanda bakabafye ba mposa mabwe all his life. If chanda level is to be a mposa mabwe (stone thrower) why should he wish everyone to have that life? What wrong with thinking big?

    • @1.6 Spaka
      Mr. Default Voter. What do you call double h? Intelligent?
      Look, before PF, was UPNDEAD. MCS never to over a party and made fail to achieve. At least ECL managed to take over from MCS formed PF and became leader and made it count. MCS was the people’s man.
      Why is that any one who beats double h becomes you inherent enemy? MCS was more reasonable than the perpetrator of violence. MCS was smarter than aisha and would never have helped sell the mines for his pocket.

    • BoSpakata thinks tribe first before he thinks issue. The hate for Sata is nothing but is from his blood. Even when the man is not here. I was under a ministry he changed for the best just as President Lungu is doing. Double HH is dull and will never have such opportunity because he is a thief who has shipped money to a tax haven. Ask him to bring it to ZANACO. If he fails you will know why.

    • Uyu mwaiche alitumpa. To contribute to the community is not to buy Edgar’s Portrait at K20,000. Nathan to contribute to the nation is to give K20,000 to your father’s village, not buying shoe polish for your president.

    • But only the president and his groupies can steal Euro bonds, sell mukula, give land to the Chinese, jail critics, buy wheelbarrows, inflate road contracts, waste tax money on weekly foreign trips, steal donor aid, burn markets and prime land, build mansions in Swaziland, print more kwacha, buy cheap Saudi oil that lasts for six days after years of negotiations…

  2. True dat bwana Chanda. Look at Lungu he’s presided over and even contributed to the slow slide of Zambia backwards.

  3. President Lungu has seen Zambia through hard times but he has put Zambia on the world map for developing the nation in such a short period of time. Zambia has changed tremendously and every visitor either local or foreign have attested to it but a son of a wizard cannot give praise because satanism is in the blood.

  4. Zambia owes $17 billion , blown in less than 5 years, yet lungu takes us back begging the IMF for a bailout….heck the theives can not even balance the budget , we have record number of unemployed and sky high cost of living, just 8 miles from his state house Zambians drink from shallow wells, in the last month lungu has awarded him self and inner circle pay rise and had just spent $4 million on a useless trip to the UN to talk about Mandela yet we have students starving at UNZA ??

    ……visitors to Zambia might see nice roads but behind that there is true suffering of the common man…..

    • Show me a country without debt and I will show default voters, losers and arsonists. These haters who come around when there is a bad headline for the country, tefintu.

    • Thorn in the Flesh

      Show me a country that has just spent $17 billion yet goes back to the IMF begging for a bailout and has some of the highest unemployment in the region and I will show you a failed PF GRZ…..

  5. In Zambia being in opposition means opposing even the good things government is doing, it means celebrating if government makes a mistake. In Zambia being in opposition means to pray for government to make mistakes. Worst of all it’s to use technocrats working in government but sympathetic to the opposition to undermine the government of the day. …it’s not only Upnd because even MMD and PF used this treacherous means to get government information and use it to their advantage.

    • The snakes are bitter and are actually negative publicity, a dark cloud over our land. Just listen to their expressed envy and jealousy
      Damn, where is GVBM?

  6. Chanda then why don’t you resign your position and contribute as an ordinary member. Also you you don’t need any positions to contribute to the development of copperbelt.

  7. Abena Sharon.
    Please report that issue of theft to the zambia police or we might think you are just telling lies.

    What if another person claims Sharon is one of those prostitutes in the night along addis Ababa drive without evidence? Me i would still not believe.
    So you may be true or the person talking about you may be true but it is difficult to believe without evidence.

  8. ECL has contributed his stup!dy and ignorance to the country. The chap is dull and a thief so his contributed the two most important characters that he has, what an !d!ot of a man pompwe

  9. These chaps are greatly dull. Its a pity that we breath the same air – total waste of space….. Why cant their president resign and let those with brains run the show.
    Disaster!!!!!

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