Newly appointed State House Special Assistant for Politics Chris Zimba says he is humbled by the appointment and that he is equal to the task.
And old social media posts in which Mr. Zimba sharply criticized President Lungu’s leadership credentials have emerged following his appointment.
In an interview, Mr. Zimba said he is both honored and humbled by the appointment.
“It is both an honor and privilege to be asked to serve. All I can say is that I am equal to the task and I am looking forward to adding value to the office,” Mr. Zimba said.
He added, “politics is everything for me. It’s my bread and butter. That is my water and that I what I eat every day.”
Mr. Zimba stated that he was not expecting to be appointed.
“Honestly I had no idea about this. Even this morning I had no idea that this appointment was coming. I just got a call and was asked to be ready for a swearing-in ceremony,” Mr. Zimba said.
And some old social media posts in which Mr. Zimba called into question criticized President Lungu’s leadership style have resurfaced hours after he was appointed.
The posts mainly on his Facebook page are from around 2018 and question President Lungu’s leadership style.
In one of the posts, Mr. Zimba called President Lungu a corrupt leader.
“A corrupt President with abnormal wealth cannot teach us to fight corruption. Lungu needed to repent on yesterday in Parliament.”
That will always be there.
My advice to the young man is all that he wanted to tell the president should be spoken to him without fear. Let him revisit his old social media posts and speak to the president without fear.
He can do a better job
Where on earth is the special Assistant to the president appointed like this?
“. I just got a call and was asked to be ready for a swearing-in ceremony,” Mr. Zimba said.
Only a confused dictatorship would ask you to turn up for a job like this without consultation
I have a feeling Chris Zumani Zimba is a regular blogger here. Am just trying to figure which pseudonym he uses?
Obatala you think?
Mr. President rescind this descsion. This ka guy will be a spy for the opposition. He also has a lot of hate for you . You have brought an enemy in state house. My advise is please from now own watch what you eat and what you drink. Take my advise seriously. We need you for 2021
The good things that Chris will not change what is in his heart snd hopefully he can change the heart of Lungu. Mind you Lungu stole from a widow, that is the kind of heart he has. Lungu is a sworn and practical tribalist ( look at appointments across government)
Easterners are fake and double faced individuals…never trust an Easterner and they’re very good at pretending..he was anti Lungu just for the money becsuse i believe he was getting a brown envelope from Kambwili…this Zimba moron also looks like is a crook maybe even worse than Kaizer….watch this space…dont say anonymous never warned you guys…this Zimba guy will soon grow big headed even worse than Kaizer Zulu
Sebana wikute politics straight from the munkombwe school of hard knocks, GBM called them tukabwalala, 2 days later he was singing praises for them, what’s the name of that former FDD spokesperson now pf whatever, Chris is not the first to eat his own vomit and won’t be the last , Zambian politics is like a dog chasing its own tail, round and round we go style of politics.
We are a shameless aimless society.
This is just PHD nothing else.
Take PHD as “Pull Him Down” in this context.
Congrats young Zimba.
He should advise the President with Facts Not Emotions or telling the President what he wants to Hear. The Social Media Postings should be the Source of Dialog and the start of his Job.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT’S POLITICS OF ‘BREAD AND BUTTER’ INSTEAD OF PRINCIPLES… TODAY HIS WORST AFTER APPOINTMENT HIS THE BEST AND THIS CALIBER OF POLITICS IS WHY OUR COUNTRY IS RETROGRESSIVE.
He has been confused by Lungu especially because he is a poor man.
If I were him I would refuse the appointment but all he can see are dollars ahead. They make him unable to reason.
Was State House aware of these strong views? Was a background check done or the job offer was made before vetting, the usual incompetent way of working? How can anyone change such fundamental views expressed less than a year ago?
In any case if both gentlemen were principled then the job offer was not going to be made in the first place and in the unlikely event that it was (as was the case) the other party would have declined the offer.
This is fine. Just look at Antonio Mwanza, Dora Siliya shani uko… onse na mazina ya kumayadi. Uyu a zumilatu ndithu!!! Wamona te?
There goes the proverb that says..
If you can’t beat them, JOIN THEM
Life is premised on the belief that people change, it’s the reason we repent our sins. Edgar doesn’t need praise singers because he has enough sycophants. I hope the young man will add value to Zambia and not to the person of Edgar Chagwa Lungu. People who deserve admonishing are those that pretend, like Tayali because he doesn’t want to talk with food in the mouth. Chris, please don’t fall into temptation because it’s very tempting to work at State House
Osa zinama baba he will be another praise singer. Even Kambwili if appointed would be a muzungu Wanga inside state house
This proves that 99% Zambians are job seekers ready to jump at any job opportunity readily available even when we have no ideal what that job is all about.
Not consulted! You have been corrupted bro. If I were you, I wouldn’t have taken the offer.
Truth be told,Kaizer Zulu was the odd one out among all presidential political advisors from Kaunda to Sata.Can somebody single out one presidential political advisor among former Presidents who behaved like KZ?
For KZ,even if it was the work of his enemies, he did very little or none to do damage control. His interview with Costa on Diamond TV compounded the already volatile situation.
To Chris,as a youth and a millennial,show the world what millennials are made of.Forge ahead and don’t let you past posts on Facebook or any other social media distract your new appointment. That was then, you had reasons to do that( I hear you were an Advisor at NDC) and now its a different challenge altogether. We are all human beings before assuming office.What matters is the legacy one leaves…
Sharpshooter you are displaying the same con fusion Zimba is showing in accepting this dollar attractive job
Mini Mihova..
Which confusion? Encouraging somebody to forge ahead in the midst of hurdle does not amount to confusion.A good number of CSO like SACCORD,FODEP and Operation Young Vote have lauded his appointment. I personally want him to deliver and not grow ‘wings’ and disparage everyone.
There’s plenty of confusion in your post above. To pick them out. Firstly you call Zimba a millennial is he. Is he youth? I’m only three years older and I work with 20 – 25 year old millenials whom I can refer to as youth. As for advising Zimba to forget what he wrote sometime back because he was working for a different boss:
Principles don’t change because I’m working for a different company or person. You are basically advising him to go with the wind
If someone is as directionless as you are advising Zimba to be how can he steer the president on the correct path?
I end here
There’s plenty of confusions in your post above. To pick them out. Zimba being a millennial can he be youth? I’m three years older and I can’t be youth but I work with 20 – 25 year olds whom hr refers to as youth. As for advising Zimba to forget what he wrote sometime back because he was working for a different boss: wow what’s needed as an advisor is a person with principles. And Principles don’t change because I’m working for a different company or person. You are basically advising him to go with the wind
If someone is as directionless as you are advising Zimba to be how can he steer the president on the correct path? And how can Zambia be on track?
I end here
There’s plenty of confusions in your post above. To pick them out. Zimba being a millennial can he be youth? I’m only three years older and I work with 20 – 25 year olds whom HR refers to as youth. As for advising Zimba to forget what he wrote sometime back because he was working for a different boss: wow This post is all about principles
Principles don’t change because I’m working for a different company or person. You are basically advising him to go wherever the wind blows.
If someone is as directionless as you are advising Zimba to be how can he steer the president on the correct path? And how can Zambia be on track?
I end here
By accepting this appointment Chris Zimba has lost his soul and all honour. Accepting an appointment from ECL and his PF now is like swallowing poison. ECL is the winner here .He has silenced a critic and finished him off for ever.Educated professionals are the real problem in this country. They discreetly admire corruption and it`s perpetrators while publicly condemning them.How troublesome!
mitimiti, I totally agree with you. this is how governments finish off unprincipled anti government voices. bring them on board.
There is nothing wrong in accepting the appointment if he is determined to do what is right all Lungu needs to do is see the better side of criticism and work with that. Sometimes taking the negative in a very negative way only cripples you personally. Let us not chastise the young man because he was once a critic of Lungu because this is his chance to put what he saw wrong in Lungu right. Kudos to Lungu for this appointment because he did not get a bootlicker to advise him and that is what our leaders need to be doing because a bootlicker only says yes all the time to please his master due to fear he may lose a job. leaders need strong and objective people to offer guidance, rebuke, correction, advise as well as support. Lungu did not get a cader and that is good
Chris never mind the neysayers but show what young people are capable of doing when graced with such an opportunity as yours. Don’t be like bootlicker ntewewe who has sold himself.
No interviews , no screening , just get ready for swearing in eh? ..Shuwa shuwa is that how it really happened.?
Reminds me of regimes like that of the dear leader or the great leader.
Those social media posts are scathing. If Zimba is genuine he should not have gone along with the ‘instruction’ to get ready for swearing in. I’m wondering whether the presidents advisors had made him aware of these social media posts?
You have brought up a crucial word. Is this man GENUINE? Kaya. Will Lungu be getting genuine advise? Can you be advised by some one who was insulting you? Yes you can get advice from him from a distance but when you bring him close he will want to lie to keep his newly found fat allowances
he fact that president ECL failed even to condemn the conduct of Kaizer Zulu at least even once, speaks volumes. He has even failed to fire him. Instead he only removed him from being his political adviser. The president has only acted to save face and to prevent him from further losing votes on account of Kaizer being political adviser. Is it that the president is scared of kaizer that he even makes sure he is not fired but removed quietly without telling the nation the status of Kaizer in Government? we need to know kaizer’s status in government, that is when we can know whether the president acted because he was not happy with kaizer’s behavour.
The fact that president ECL failed even to condemn the conduct of Kaizer Zulu at least even once, speaks volumes. He has even failed to fire him. Instead he only removed him from being his political adviser. The president has only acted to save face and to prevent him from further losing votes on account of Kaizer being political adviser. Is it that the president is scared of kaizer that he even makes sure he is not fired but removed quietly without telling the nation the status of Kaizer in Government? we need to know kaizer’s status in government, that is when we can know whether the president acted because he was not happy with kaizer’s behavour.
If it’s true what “motormouth Ka TAYALI” is saying that this new Special assistant supports L.G.B.T causes, then this is damage limitation by Ba J0n@, as J0n@ knows since he started vundu with the U.S by lambasting Ambassador Foote, U.S has gone into OVERDRIVE exposing J0n@’z illicit dealings like Mukula, & J0n@ is cr@pp!ng himself as more revelations of illicit Plunder will drip slowly & damaging into public domain, as we approach 2021.
SURELY J0N4 MUST HAVE BEEN AWARE OF ZIMBA’S SOCIAL MEDIA CRITICAL POSTINGS, UNLESS DUE TO BEING VISIONLESS, & CH!PANTEPANTE’ THEY JUST GOT A BUNCH OF BEMBAR & NYANJAR NAMES IN A HAT, & PULLED OUT A LUCKY DIP!! Wouldn’t put that past a clueless visionless P.F.
Wouldn’t be surprised to find Zimba is one of the most critical bloggers of the…
Cont;
one of the most critical bloggers of the Plunderers Federation -(P.F) on L.T.
our society has become unprincipled especial the so called educated ones. see what is happening in parliament ,because of using double hands others end up in prison. this one will shock you how he is going to sing praise songs for the appointing authority. watch this space. even for him he must know that this a trap.
When did he change his views about Lungu – considering he was asked to come for a swearing in ceremony on the same morning? Very unprincipled in my view.
The appointing authority was also ‘kamikaze’, deciding at the whim for whatever unknown considerations. It doesn’t matter that he has a Ph.D in political xcience, that is academic, this is more ‘dog eat dog, in ECL’s regime. Zimba should have shown more integrity by declining the appointment.
There’s plenty of confusions in your post above. To pick them out. Zimba being a millennial can he be youth? I’m only three years older and I work with 20 – 25 year olds whom hr refers to as youth. As for advising Zimba to forget what he wrote sometime back because he was working for a different boss: wow
Principles don’t change because I’m working for a different company or person. You are basically advising him to go with the wind
If someone is as directionless as you are advising Zimba to be how can he steer the president on the correct path?
I end here
Wow dude wasn’t even interviewed for the job! He wasn’t even vetted. This is what you call a dysfunctional government at its worst. Truth that the Office of the President, the intelligence community (aka the ‘shushu’) is dead. They didn’t even vet his social media posts that were critical to their god! If we had a hard hitting independent media in this country, they would be asking him the questions everyday about those posts. And they would have been calling Lungu ‘corrupt’ quoting him every time they write something about him.
“. Even this morning I had no idea that this appointment was coming. I just got a call and was asked to be ready for a swearing-in ceremony,” Mr. Zimba said.
What??!! A President whose corruption you loathed just a minute earlier calls you a minute later to come and be sworn in and join the corruption. You agree immediately without another thought and start donning your suit? Man you couldn’t even say let me think about it and consult my family?
So to you corruption is only when you are not the one reaping the benefits? So your criticism was actually lobbying? Then Habanjoka will be absolutely pissed off, he lobbies by praising the corrupt to nonsensical levels.
Kikiki!! , junior j excellent
How many are serving jail sentence for defamation of EL
the boy called corrupt. In fact corript thief.
All those that are in jail or lost jobs for insulting el must be forgiven unconditionally
A mocking bird is caught by throwing grain at it. It will come down from the tree and caught in the “gonda/ulimbo”. That is what ecl has done to Chris Zimba. Chris Zimba as a critic of Lungu and his administration is finished and ecl will do with him as he pleases. He can now be sent on dubious assignments for the boss and will never decline. Adios Chris!