President Edgar Lungu has been conferred with a status of Honorary Freeman of the City by the Lusaka City Council.
The Decision to honor the President was arrived at by the Local Authority during a full Council Meeting because of his effort to improve the lives of the people in Lusaka District and the country .
And speaking when he received the honor President Edgar Lungu thanked the Lusaka City Council for the gesture .
President Lungu says he is determined to make Zambia a better place for all.
He said during his tenure Lusaka has experienced rapid development and that this will continue to happen across the country.
President Lungu says Zambians should work together to fight vices such as the Covid-19 Pandemic which has negatively affected the economies of the world.
Speaking earlier Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa said President Lungu has been working for the wellbeing of the people since he was a member of Parliament of Chawama.
Mr. Sampa said the Head of state has also come up with various initiative to help the country such as the use of technology in the delivery of service to the people.
He said the timely release of Constituency Development Fund by President Lungu’s government has allowed the council in Lusaka District to implement various development projects.
Mr Sampa said President Lungu has also built many mini hospitals across Lusaka District which has allowed people in the compound to have access to health services at their door steps.
He said President Lungu has also helped a number of schools in Lusaka District to increase their enrolment capacity .
Others who have received this status from the Lusaka City Council before are former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela , former President of Mozambique Samora Machel and the Zambia National Soccer team among others .
A very well deserved award. Our president is a great man who has done amazing things especially for lusaka. Drive around and see the great infrastructure development under his leadership. Never in history has zambia ever experienced such levels of progress. It is good to see that miles sampa behaved himself and was actually told to turn off his phone during serious parts of the ceremony. We are drinking to this achievement tonight. I have already ordered 20 bottles of don perignon. All are invited. Contact me for more details
A very well deserved award. Our president is a great man who has done amazing things especially for lusaka. Drive around and see the great infrastructure development under his leadership. Never in history has zambia ever experienced such levels of progress. It is good to see that miles sampa behaved himself and was actually told to turn off his phone during serious parts of the ceremony. We are drinking to this achievement tonight. I have already ordered 20 bottles of don perignon. All are invited. Contact me for more details. X
A very well deserved award. Our president is a great man who has done a lot. It is good to see that miles sampa behaved himself and was actually told to turn off his phone during serious parts of the ceremony. We are drinking to this achievement tonight. I have already ordered 20 bottles of don perignon. All are invited. Contact me for more details. X
Meanwhile HH has been conferred a title as superman for the SDA church. Can you imagine
Tonight we are drinking. If your wlfe or girlfriend has told you she is visiting friends or family this weekend, be rest assured that chances are that she is with us. Do not worry she is in safe hands.
What does that mean yama?? Are u taking recognition of his works or as free man free man?? Some honors kuti waluba.
Lungu has bewitched Zambians
Did mailosi ask for help to clear garbage?
Congratulations Mr. President. Indeed you deserve this honor from great people of Lusaka. The city of Lusaka is uplifted to another standard than before.
AN EXCELENT LEAVING PRESENT INDEED
Sh*t, this is nonsense. This guy has no vision to create jobs. He just lacks leadership skills, is out of touch with his own people and here you are butt licking someone who has done nothing but put Zambia is serious debt and yet enriched his pocket with kick backs from China and his questionable pocurement strategy. This is ludacris! Shame on you ba council. This would make sense to make him a Chawaman , not because he has done anything meaningful but because he used to live there.
Congratulations mr president
He deserves it from Cholera city and on behalf of the clean and friendly city Ndola we say congratulations your excellence that honour from Cholera
Mr Lungu thinks HH is a freemason, hence his clamouring for anything he thinks is to do with being a freemason……
These are accolades that befit an outgoing leader, congrats to Miles Sampa and his team for this initiative
If you throw it in hot water straight away, it jumps out, but if you put it in cool water, it stays there. As you heat the water gently, the frog feels amanone and stays until it is boiled to death. This is how dictatorship grows on people. It takes a great man to remain level headed while they are being showered with praise and honours. This is how Mobutu, Amin, and all dictators in Africa started. Mr President, beware. Fimo mulekanako. Developing Zambia is not by charity, it is your job and you are paid a salary for it.
Woooooow to that Country whose leaders have no vision?All they do is praising themselves ignoring how the economy of the Country is nose diving. Kwacha K21per dollar u defaulted tell us how u remove us from this messy? The don’t provide answers???All they do is make donations everytime u wonder where they are getting this money? It’s so sad????
Pot holes ,rotting garbage ,endless hawkers on Lusaka streets ,plenty of slums and cholera is what you call improvements? Lungu deserves to be fired.
congratulations your excellence
I think Lungu as mayor would have been exceptional but as president just please resign and let a better person lead our country. You have tried and failed.
But ba Mailosi na party yabo they can’t stop flooding in the 21st century and can’t even collect garbage, mapotholes mbwe but they are busy giving each other fake honors
Before honouring Kaunda
A great man deserves to be honored congratulations your Excellency
BEFORE MENTIONING KAUNDA..LET’S NOT FORGET HE BROUGHT THIS COUNTRY FORM
RICHES TO RAGS
Congratulations your Excellency. You deserve the honour .Thankyou!
Recently I went to a local court in Lusaka’s Chilenje area. I asked to use a toilet. I was given a key to the toilet and OMG what I saw in that local court toilet left me shocked. This is a Lusaka local court where people go to seek administration of local justice. This local court is not even able to keep a clean and functioning toilet. I understand the Minister of Justice is the area MP in the area. One will not be surprised if the Lusaka City Council will honour the Minister of Justice for keeping local courts in Kabwata and Chilenje in such states!! What is the department of public health of Lusaka city council doing? We should not be honouring sub standards and infrastructure which are so dilapidated and are a health hazard to citizens!!
One Sampa is just an bootlicker and attention seeker ..he is like those rats that chew your toes in the middle of the night whilst soothing your wounds so you don’t feel the pain, I mean why wont you give an incumbent President freeman honoury when he has that status for the whole country.
Our president HE ECL he deserves it congratulations sir
Pathetic.
From thieving to comedy.
Vote wisely.
He deserves it congratulations my president
what do you expect from an impulsive , childish clown of a mayor? he wants to be running mate! and all things being equal these 2 will cease to occupy any public office in Zambia ever again, August 2021, God is on our side.
What do you expect from a clown who has plagued the nation in serious debt, stealing mukula money, 48 fire tenders money, the mysterious mashroom house’s etc, he is indeed a free man, who can touch him? He’s superman, he should do a book titled, ” how to loot national treasures whilst *****s are clapping”.
President Lungu deserved all the awards because he is the best leader for this country. He initiated projects to uplift people not only from Lusaka but from the entire Zambia.
Wide roads, flyover, bridges, schools, hospitals, and other infrastructure projects have changed the look of the capital.
We see the visible outcome from empowerment schemes especially for women, also Zambian women participated in 50 Million African Women Speak (50MAWS) for creating business opportunities.
Several development projects in Lusaka especially the Project for the construction of Kabwata Development Youth Center created a learning platform for thousands of youths so that they can learn skills like IT that requires for getting jobs.
Let us all appreciate the hard work President Lungu and PF are doing to uplift the people of Zambia.
I think the other city council should also do this honor as President Lungu deserves love and respect from all.
We cannot forget the work done by the President in rural areas, better roads, clean drinking water, providing mobile towers, and what not he has provided for the rural people.
What a load of b.ull! Such nonsensical bootlicking should end. The human development index tells you otherwise in relation to Zambia. Only ECL and his cohort have ‘developed’ – and they think Lusaka is ‘Zambia. Even in Lusaka, those dodgy structures do not translate into any meaningful uplifting of the living standards of the so many people. Visit all the other provincial ‘capitals’ and other small towns and you will think you are still in 1955. The glare of superficial lights in Lusaka is ‘development’ for some. You measure development by what has happened to most people, including the most vulnerable, the provision of basic services, the environment, the buying power of the currency and current citizens prospects for the future