By: Anthony Bwalya – UPND Member
Let us be very clear from the onset, and state that it is the primary preoccupation of President Hakainde Hichilema and indeed the United Party for National Development (UPND), that we should create a society that works for everyone; and one that provides real opportunity for the youth to explore their talents and optimise their potential to succeed.
Let it also be know, that in an era where politicians find it fashionable to parade the weak and helples for political expediency, Mr. Hakainde Hichilema has never sought or attempted to use his position of privilege to exploit the vulnerability of those least fortunate for his political ends. Mr. Hichilema continues to provide invaluable assistance to a lot of hard-pressed citizens and yet he has never sought to exploitatively benefit from the fragility of the people to whom he continues to provide assistance. For him, helping people is not a political issue. It is Ubuntu.
And indeed, the much publicized case of Tina Kaluza, a supposedly talented young woman who wants to engage and explore the world of entertainment in Nigeria, is a very curious one. It appears that this is a young woman whose vulnerability was set up for exploitation by unconscionable, unrepentant, opportunistic politicians; who wanted to capitalize on the almost unsuspecting naivety of an honest young person, for their own floundering political ambitions.
The case of Ms. Kaluza is the perfect example of how the Patriotic Front (PF) have relentlessly persued an agenda of destructive economics, an agenda that has exacerbated poverty; as well as diverting opportunity and choice away from ordinary people and firmly placed the fate of the masses at the mercy of corrupt government politicians belonging to the PF.
The PF must be reminded, that since they took power in the summer of 2011, a staggering $2,411.26 has been stolen every minute; suggesting an unfathomable + $10 billion taken away from Zambians by corrupt politicians and their associates.
The Patriotic Front party itself, continue to illegally solicit for financing through the irregular award of public contracts; with over over $10 million thought to have been obtained by pawning our collective public interest for partisan benefit. The 2018 Financial Intelligence Center report revealed K10 million was illegally paid to the Patriotic Front after gambling with public contracts.
And it is this level of greed under the stewardship of the PF that has created the kind of destitution that Ms. Kaluza has found herself in, the sort of hopelessness that systematically denies, even the most talented of young men and women, an honest opportunity to pursue their dreams.
The PF and it’s leadership enjoy this kind of brokenness. It is this kind of systematic exclusion that gives them the perfect opportunity to prey on the susceptibility of innocent, often hardworking citizens, by parading them to the masses for their perverted political gain. This is why even President Edgar Lungu has no shame having his name imprinted on relief supplies to people whose suffering has ironically been occasioned by the lack of sound leadership of the PF. This is also why Mr. Lungu’s foremost disciple and bonafide bootlicker Mr. Bowman Lusambo, unashamedly goes into a constituency and distributes over K1 million worth of mealie meal and contemptuously throws money in the air for people to scramble over. Lusambo comes to Kabushi and parades our grandmothers and fathers for the cameras, not as symbols of timeless wisdom and wise counsel, but as apparatus of political opportunity for himself, President Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front.
This is the character and legacy of the PF – political opportunists and vultures, waiting to prey on the vulnerability of the next victim.
Ms. Kaluza provided them with that opportunity and they took it.
Mr. Hichilema will not participate in the open exploitation of a young woman, or indeed any other citizen who may require assistance, for political purposes. We will focus on creating society – wide systems that will be aimed at creating lasting platforms of opportunity for all, primarily here at home.
Indeed hh is above this type of parading even when he distributes mealie meal and calls the press he is not grandstanding his practicing Ubuntu. It’s a question of damage repair with glue instead of a stitch
While lusambo was bragging about this K5000, HH was officially opening a school and handover a completed school to the community in namwala. Throwing jabs at HH won’t mend the falling economy. Let’s face it this political stunt is blackmail made in China, kikikiki.
Ask HH workers at his farm and know the real miser, turrant, cruel HJ. K500 is all he gives them per month as salary.
HH won’t Participate in Politics of Exploitation, Sick Opportunism and Grandstanding.
HH is Mean full stop
He is stingy.
H² cannot make the society that works for everyone.
He is stingy.
Look at the he parades students and pensioners for political expediency.
He is stingy.
He milked the hell out’a GVBM.
He is stingy.
He paradise papers and ICIJ database is evident.
He is stingy.
He is all over the show using UPNDEAD donor’s money.
Truely am liking this guy Anthony Bwalya, he is got some cool politics. As long as he doesn’t get power hungry, then UPND got an asset in him.
HH was invited to a fundraising event for the construction of a Seventh Day Adventist church in Choma on two occasions and on both he did not turn up but simply sent a chola boy to deliver K500 yet this is a man who claims to have plenty of money.
This is the true definition of a miser.
Thorn in the flesh, I know you are a diplomat, I know who you are so do not think i dont know you.
Really?
Are you serious right now?
Who the kcuf are you, nigga?
@1.6 He was also invited as guest of honour to a fundraising event at Rusangu university where he also contributed a K500. The man is a real economist, issues of scarcity I guess, or maybe there could be some secret behind his riches. I saw hh receiving a lot of gifts from party officials at a card renewal in Chipata, but why does he find it difficult to give?
Church buildings gobbling millions of kwacha to complete, what will a K500 do, can’t even buy 10 pockets of cement.
Pali nelyashi apa?? LT, please improve on your content.
Treasonable words Habwalya! Ichilema is not The President. He is a president of UPND!!!!
Anthony, on this one i agree with you. cheap politics at play here. some things are too petty to even report on.Tina naiwe, you mean there was literally no one to help other than HH. awe bane, lets not paint this man black when he is already one.
Anthony Bwalya is indeed a useful idyot. Hichilema is the father of pettiness, you just don’t know him. Soon you’ll discover the kind of person he is.
Money makes the mare go. HH is hyena scooper.poops scooper
Are you the elongated one ?
Ati Anthony Bwalya!! A bemba imposter.Stup!d
Why this woman did not go to president Lungu.
You are always talking and quoting figures that have been stolen by PF but you do not provide evidence to substantiate your arguments. Can you please me as a layman with evidence. Even if PF is stealing, I will not be convinced because of lack of evidence
Paying $42 million of taxpayers money for 42 fire trucks that should cost $15 million is not stealing????
I find it strange that it is becoming the norm in the country to ask for assistance from politicians. The begging has been elevated to a grand level using social media. This looks like a copy cat of the one touch guy – always begging for money from politicians.
I get the sense the young lady is playing Lusambo. Why give her cash if all she wanted was her ticket rescheduled.
Has no one told her about human trafficking ? She looks like she has a one way ticket to Nigeria and very desperate – recipe for disaster .
the only issue we safely can discuss about hh is eg hh is a theaf, hh is a tribalist,hh is a satanist, hh will not enter state house, hh is stealing mukula trees. asked why so and the answer was well, you well know that hh is too smart for our lads, well composed hh cannot be touched he is all smart locally and internationally so we dont have anything to use apart from those. ooh then continue de campaigning your party.
We have allowed politicians to be stealing from us because we beg from them. We should not be begging from politicians for handouts especially those in government. The money they donate is not earned money. They use public funds to advance personal interests. Just observe them when they leave power and see if they will continue donating.
Let us push these politicians to do the right things by providing an enabling environment for all to succeed than turning citizens into beggars.
In other societies begging like what the woman did is not allowed. You would understand a lame person. Yet, this is what PF is shamelessly encouraging.
The caption is what Akainde stands for.Is he not the chap who carries ‘sick’ cadres in a wheelbarrow to the clinic? Is he not fond of fake news on daily basis? Is he not the one who comments on anything as long as they touch the Republican President? The only thing he has refused to comment on for obvious reasons are his stand on Gay rights and whether he has sold his soul to the Liberal Network. By the way when is he appointing a VP??
HH IS USELESS! ONLY USELESS PEOPLE PRAISE HIM!