President Edgar Lungu has urged Patriotic Front (PF) structures to start mobilising ahead of the 2021 general election. President Lungu said that time has come for the party to take review of its performance and devise a strategy to enable the PF retain power.
Speaking when he addressed party members in Kanchibiya district, the Head of State said the mobilisation should not be taken only for campaigns, but as an exercise to grow the party. President Lungu also urged party members to embrace those who have shown interest to join the ruling party.
Meanwhile, State House has said that President Edgar Lungu will continue to undertake an audit of developmental projects around the country to ensure that are all completed.
President Lungu is concerned that developmental projects in Muchinga Province as well as other provinces remain stalled despite funds being disbursed to complete the projects
Special Assistant to President Lungu for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda said that the Head of State wants to ensure that developmental projects are expeditiously completed within the specified and contracted time frame.
Addressing journalists at Lusaka ZAF Base on arrival from Muchinga Province, Mr Chanda said the President will not allow any incompetence by civil servants and contractors in completing development projects so that Zambians can benefit from using them.
“President Lungu is concerned that developmental projects in Muchinga Province as well as other provinces remain stalled despite funds being disbursed to complete the projects, “ he said.
The Special Assistant to President Lungu for Press and Public Relations said the Head of State has since directed that Ministry of Finance and all spending agencies work together as one government functionary to ensure that infrastructure and developmental projects are adequately financed.
Mr Chanda said President Lungu wants all bottlenecks sorted out that are making projects to stall despite disbursement of funds by government to contractors.
He pointed out that if left unchecked the stalling of projects and extension of project timeframes can breed corruption in the procurement process and delivery of developmental projects.
President Lungu was recently in Muchinga Province to inspect and commission developmental projects in the region.
The President was received by Cabinet Ministers, Service Chiefs, and senior government and PF party officials.
To a liar one must be good at remembering. In one breath Chanda is saying and i quote ‘remain stalled despite funds being disbursed to complete the projects’ and in another ‘Public Relations said the Head of State has since directed that Ministry of Finance and all spending agencies work together as one government functionary to ensure that infrastructure and developmental projects are adequately financed’. I might have misunderstood him, I dont know.
This will cause unrest. A little too early for my liking
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Mr. President, first of all bring the economic sabotagers to books, starting with Hakainde who has been using Africa Life, Sanlam Life to evade tax and has transferred over K700 million during last 6 years and this is the same money he uses to fund his campaigns. Cut the head of the snake, Mr. President and this venomous snake will die a natural death.
He is a president of thieves and pf00ls only….ati Mr. president.
Last week he was campaigning again this week he is on the road…back at State House he fails to perform the simplest of tasks like getting rid of a corrupt cabinet minister instead he would rather campaign in 2019 for 2021…what he wants to do beyond 2021 is unknown.
“President Lungu is concerned that developmental projects in Muchinga Province as well as other provinces remain stalled despite funds being disbursed to complete the projects, “ he said.
The Special Assistant to … for Press and Public Relations said the Head of State has since directed that Ministry of Finance and all spending agencies work together as one government functionary to ensure that infrastructure and developmental projects are adequately financed.
Mr Chanda said President Lungu wants all bottlenecks sorted out that are making projects to stall despite disbursement of funds by government to contractors.
Look at the contradiction in one statement …you wonder what Amos is doing on a PF campaign trail.
Lungu is treading dangerous ground at the moment. He has been pushing the boundaries and each time thinking that he can get away with it. Things that he has done so far that even other great Zambia leaders have not done:
i) closed THE POST, thwarted and instilled fear in other existing media
ii) enriched himself beyond measure, thinks Zambians are daft and they will just let him walk away
iii) has put the judiciary under his spell
iv) is edging in and naming Zambian installations (a shopping mall) after himself while he is alive,
effectively making himself a God of some sort
v) has congregated bootlickers, conmen around himself and controls Zambian wealth as his own
vi) Lungu thinks that he can now do the big one, THE THIRD TERM, after disabling much of the
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vi) Lungu thinks that he can now do the big one, THE THIRD TERM, after disabling much of the
oppositions elements
I dread how the end of this self confessed thieving individual’s life will end. It will make Nicolae Ceausescu;s end seem like a Sunday morning picnic.
Iwe Lungu do you live for elections? You must be directing your cadres for service delivery not Ma elections Ala!
Hakainde is so desperate to hide his externalisation from Sanlam Life that he has fired the Zambian CEO of the company who is a seasoned banker and was an impediment on nefarious deeds of Hakainde and his minions Muna Hantuba and Valentine Chitalu.
HH is not the problem nor is he a solution. Zambia needs an overhaul. PF came in to make what was perceived to be a change but where are we now? On the event that there is no alternative maybe, just maybe UPND might be a temporal solution as Zambians look to a longer term solution. PF, in its form is a worse than MMD. Zambians deserve better. The country has never seen this level of economic mismanagement coupled with tribalism and deceit using Christianity as a wood wink. Detestfully orchestrated!
I DONT SEE PF IN GOVT BEYOND 2021. THE WRITINGS ARE ON THE WALL
Which writings?? upnd win in their stronghold and you feel change is in the air?? Check this-They also participated in Eastern local elections and LOST all of them. Sesheke simply means one thing: VOTING PATTERN WILL REMAIN THE SAME IN 2021; 6.5 v 3.5….
the voting pattern mighty remain the same but hw many will still vote for you in ur strongholds
Looks like it’s not only trib.al Hacks who is desperate for power.
Too early to start mobilising, just concentrate on working for the people bwana president!
No third term
I have always write that in Lusaka, c/ belt, eastern,Muchinga,northern and luapula , ECL and PF will win with good margins.
Sample are there to point to.If voters apathy will be absent,ECL will get 45% only in 4 provinces.People love PF only few pockets of disappointment have crept into some people ‘s mood. Believe it, campaign time is another season.
So ba UPND don’t cheat yourself.IF ANY YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHY IN OTHER PROVINCES PEOPLE CANNOT VOTE FOF YOU.
Just deliver to your campaign promises or you will be chucked out in 2021.You have disappointed us
Or did you know that only in southern Province is where no by election has been conducted? In 9 provinces by elections has been occurred repeatedly since 2014.The UPND has been losing elections,it be parliamentary and local government.PF has been winning.Even Bahati parliamentarian by election UPND will lose.so I don’t see UPND wining General in 2021.
Maybe by using new strategy , lightening and killer bees as you demonstrated in Sesheke.
This total clown of a president only finds his voice when elections approach, visionless f00l.
….mukafwa na BP yama….
Anyone who does not have BP at the corruption and theft in this govt is as !d!otic as Lungu and I can see you, Mr. Zambian Citizen, loves how this clown is running our country into the ground, nephew.
A country in the ground with single digit inflation and a stable currency?? Corruption which doesn’t yield convictions except humiliating the targeted individual?? Democracy yakwishibila kubukulu tefintu!!
Ba Zambian chakuti, how has the single digit inflation improved the livelihood of the average Zambian? Has the single digit inflation resulted in the reduction of the cost of doing business, fuel, electricity and so on? Why do you talk like you are on drugs and live in Dubai?
The only reason corruption cases do not yield anything in this country is because there is political interference and that is why you can have Chitotela still in office because his !d!ot boss will not suspend him as provided for in the Anti Corruption Act. Broaden your knowledge mune, your source of news should not only be ZNBC, Sunday Chanda and that hopeless SG of yours. Ati stable exchange rate loool! Stable at K12 resulting in very high cost of living. Are you PF supporters honestly ok in your heads? Its like being kicked out of your five bedroomed house, shift to a one roomed kaboba and then graduate to a two bedroom house and get excited and content. Jeez. We want the economic foundation left by MMD where things were affordable with subsidies in place not this nonsense. Aim high…
Is that call gonna apply to other political parties as well? Or they will be blocked through the usual POA?
Political inventory has to take place before I give PF or any other party a vote. My vote will not be cast on rhetoric and euphoria. I will base my voting on certain salient features such as corruption fight, education,health and other social activities that are important to citizenry. The top on the agenda is the fight on corruption. How has PF faired before I give the a vote? Have they shielded elements who are supposed to be in jail? What checks and balances have the opposition provided in the fight against corruption? A vote decides the strength of leadership. If we assemble crooks we will reap crooks. Crooks and corrupt elements use the vote to have access to national treasury. They have done so in the past and they are doing it now. They capitalize on gullibility and ignorance of…
Yes it is good for the president to order his party to start mobilizing country wide in readiness for the 2021 general elections. Now this should be applicable to all political parties to go round mobilizing their structures and recruiting more members to join them if they so wish. The political playing field must be leveled. Why only PF should be allowed to mobilize while others have to wait for the campaign period to be declared three months prior to the elections date? If they try go and meet their party structures or even conduct elections to elect party officials it is called unlawful assembly and the public order act is applied strictly. At the end of the day this parties are accused of failing to practice or implement intra party democracy within their parties, yet they are not…
….If they try go and meet their party structures or even conduct elections to elect party officials it is called unlawful assembly and the public order….WHEN DID UPND EVER DO THIS???? Give us dates iweeeeeee…….
Zambian Citizen, if you moved away from ZNBC and actually followed news on other media you would answer that dull question you have asked.
Its very simple. MMD was having internal elections early this month and it was well publicised. PF has been having local and provincials and its well publicised. Just tell us when upnd ever had theirs…..
“Projects in Muchinga and other districts have remained stalled despite funds disbursed to complete these projects in the district”. The language of a thief to impress poor masses. Where do you channel the money you claim to disperse end up? THIEEEEEEEEEF
The biggest thief is HH of the UPND who has hidden the privatisation loot in the paradise papers because of his greedy and bitterness and it is the reason the majority of the Zambians keep rejecting him but for his group think mentality UPND danderheads and sycophants
…..yawwn….like that “FTJ is a thief” rubbish that ended with no results??? Won’t work again my man. Anti-corruption has to border on laws today. That’s why we have ZP, ACC, DEC, FIC and the COURTS to do that job. Not media attacks on people you hate-just don’t work anymore….
It’s right to take stock now. It’s time to prepare an account of achievements in good time.
When you eat alone, you will be the only one super excited. Too much hunger, cadres can barely lift their party symbols. The party is surely hemorrhaging only a few adults with a lot of kids in attendance. No wonder the man is talking about mobilization. I foresee this party cadres getting crushed if they continue perpetrating violence, there number is dwindling. That protest in Lusaka had very people despite being in their stronghold probably many quit the party because disappointments
It’s a DUNUNA REVERSE WITH THIS FOREIGNER! REFUGEE BY ORIGIN.
Foreigners can never make good presidents of any country. They simply don’t belong.