Luangeni Member of Parliament (MP) Charles Zulu has described as historical President Edgar Lungu’s decision to empower village headmen in the Eastern Province with 9,000 bicycles.
Mr. Zulu said the bicycles which the President has donated to Eastern Province will address the mobility challenges that the village heads have been facing in a long time.
He said what the President has done to consider giving bicycles to village heads is the first of its kind in the history of the country.
He explained that President Lungu’s gesture is not aimed at getting any political gain but is purely a response to the request of village heads who asked him to assist them with means of mobility.
Mr. Zulu has since urged people to stop politicising the President’s gesture of giving bicycles to village heads.
“You asked the President when he visited the province last year, and today, he has responded to your request. So I am shocked that some people are saying the President has donated to the headmen because this is an election year,” he said.
He further pointed out that instead of people criticising the gesture, the President should be commended because what he has done is happening for the first time in the history of Zambia.
“We have had a number of Presidents as a country but no one has ever done what President Lungu has done, so we should all be grateful,” he added.
ZANIS reports that the Luangeni MP was speaking when he handed over bicycles to some headmen at Feni village.
The lawmaker has meanwhile cautioned the people in Luangeni to be on the lookout for aspiring candidates who will be peddling lies as they go in the constituency to market themselves.
“Zambia is a democratic state so you will be seeing people coming to market themselves but you should be on the lookout and avoid voting for those without a heart for the people, the kind that will just come here to lie to you,” he advised.
Mr. Zulu said aspiring candidates who will base their campaigns on lies will continue lying to the people if they were to be voted into office.
Meanwhile, a representative of about 150 headmen who gathered to receive their bicycles at Feni thanked the President for the gesture.
Headman Maulao said the headmen will now be able to carry out their duties without many difficulties.
When are the other bicycles in Southern province and North western arriving?? Rural transportation is a general concern across Africa
Very misguided MP, this is pure political event, even a child can see.
Luba Quombe tell the headmen to asked for it
Easterners with bicycles for campaigns remember Maxwell Mwale how bicycles ended his political career
Not political?
You can cheat a child or an adult who lacks civic education or is not well informed.
How convenient.
Last kicking.
The economy is in shambles he has no directions
When mmd did it it was ka
And you expect people to believe this donation isn’t a political bribe
Let the headman come to my place and talk about Politics!!He will be taught a crying lesson!!We cant be suffering while a few individuals are benefiting from tax payer ‘s money as though they are more Zambian than others.
What duties do headmen carry out? If these bicyles were given to traditional birth attendants or community health volunteers, yes, that wont be political….headmen, what duties>
As a people we are hard wired to do the wrong things
Why didn’t he donate two years B4 elections
However unintentional they wanna might make it sound,this is very political.Its like donating text books to school kids in an election year.
Surely its not he is doing his job as president
The president is just doing his job
Its not the work of the President to give out bicyles, start understanding how an ideal government must work
These people do not know how to appreciate. They prefer people are suffering
It is in order and not political. People should just appreciate
The president was acting right abdy no means political
THIS IS ALL LAUGHABLE KIKIKIKI
Thank you to the president for living up to his word
Some people sure. If the president is not working it’s a problem. If he does its a problem too
So, what Equitable Wealth Distribution matrix has President Lungu used to Allocate those bicycles to Eastern Chiefs, and from which resources; if they are from his own pockets, has he got an equivalent Tax certificate to support the cleanliness of the source of the Funds?
When are the People in the Northern, Southern and Western Regions receiving the similar gesture from the President?
These are his last political maneuvers.
When you realize you have not done what you where to do you start handing out cash and gifts.
” you can not fatten a cow on its marketing day”
The President is misusing Taxpayer’s Money to buy these bicycles instead of buying medicines for Hospitals and Clinics thru out the Country. Why buy Bicyscles for One Province in an Election Year? ECL is dishing out money during the PF Campaign in Provinces. People should eat this Money and on August 12,2021 vote 4 HH aka Bally and UPND. Buying Votes doesn’t work and Voters should teach ECL a lesson. To make matters worse ECL has already been elected and sworn in twice and doesn’t qualify for a Third Term. All right thinking Citizens should vote out ECL and PF on August 12, 2021. Corrupt ECL has miserably failed to manage the Economy.
Its Political So Eastern Province Is The Only Province With Headmen In Zambia Banch Of Tribalists. We Know What Is Going On You Will Still Fall
Josephat Kasonde they asked for it those headmen,
hahahahaha only in an election year. well let the beneficiaries enjoy but in five years the cost of not voting wisely will surely tell.
Civic education is still missing.
There were no bicycles in non election years and plentiful in an election year and it is not political? Monga bauza bana. Ati masobela bati
This is political, no two ways about it. And the MP even tells the people that the President loves them. So does it mean were bicycles wont be delivered the President does not love the people in those areas, in the first place procurement and delivery of bicycles is not the Presidents role, why do we then have the ministry of community development, this is an open campaign by the President.
This MP also, how can something donated by a politician not be political. And in an election year. This is Africa indeed
This is very good. The President h helped easy the movement burden of the village Headmen in Eastern province
Vote smuggling!
Kwena you are are right, the president has donated these njingas to address the mobility challenges. Kawiri kulebe ma roads for motor cars or buses or trucks, etc. But ma stetements yani sekesa.
Just out of his stup1d stealing heart…. jokes
We commend His Excellency for fulfilling his promises
Is history repeating itself?
In 2011 the UPND accused the MMD of looting the national treasury in the run-up to the elections.
UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma said the UPND had evidence that the MMD gave bicycles meant for the poor people.
Kakoma disclosed that the MMD had forcefully gotten bicycles from the ministry of community development and social services, and redistributed to the MMD candidates to entice them to vote for them.
Kakoma in an interview with QFM radio further discloses that the MMD had also gotten money meant for women’s clubs to aid its campaigns.
He said that the action by the MMD cannot entirely be described as corruption, but also plunder of national resources for selfish gains.
Kakoma warned Zambians against voting for a political party that is plundering…
Only a f00lish upnd diasporan can have a problem with this kind gesture. Some of them have never even sent mere salt to their relatives in the village and yet herr they are saying ny0. Fuseke
Only a f00lish upnd diasporan can have a problem with this kind gesture. Some of them have never even sent mere salt to their relatives in the village and yet herr they are saying rubbish
Those bicycles must all be retrieved from those campaign agents called headmen and be given to the needy as soon as that would be practically possible
What a coincidence that we are months away from elections and bicycles are donated in eastern province to garner majority of votes. Why wasn’t this donated In previous years
Who the hell is lungu kidding. The twat needs to be eradicated together with his minions and that orangutan
The President is splashing campaign materials and some one is calling it development. All the 9000 bicycles will have punctures on 12th August.
Nachemwa kuseka kuti all the 9000 bicycles will have punctures on August 12
Is it just me or is every PF minister/ vuvuzela a basket case? They all carry a stupidity trait. Could it be incest? @Luangeni Member of Parliament (MP) Charles Zulu is a typical example of enemy of the people. What a foolish boy. Your children must be proud of you.
ECL will also provide maintenance and repair money? By expressing ‘shock’ at people saying this is a political move, the MP has even dug a bigger hole – it merely confirms that IT IS political. His boss thinks he is dressed in fine robes, when he is actually starkers!
YOU CANT REFUSE! THE DONATION OF BICYCLES IN EASTERN PROVINCE AND ALL THE OTHER RECENTLY WTTNESSED IS PURELY POLITICAL AND BRIBERY AND OPEN CORRUPT PRACTICE OF HIGHEST DEGREE.. IT IS NOW APPARENTLY IN PUBLIC DOMAIN THAT OUR COUNTRY HAS A LOT OF MONEY THAT GROWS ON TREES MANAGED BY THE PRESIDENT AND ONLY SEEN AND HARVESTED FROM THEM BY THE MINISTERS AND SENIOR PF OFFICIALS. OH THE MINISTERS ARE THE DIRECT PURCHASING, ACOUNTANTS , DISTRIBUTORS OF NATIONAL RESOURCES TO PURPORTED NEEDY COMMUNITIES INCLUDING CHURCHES… WHEN YOU VISIT ANY PROVINCIAL OFFICE YOU ARE TOLD THERE IS NO FUNDING! IT WORSE AT DEBS OFFICES. BUT SEE HOW MUCH IS BEING DISHED OUT ALMOST EVERYDAY BY THE MINISTERS AND SENIOR PF OFFICIALS IN THE NAME AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESIDENT. OH ZAMBIA HAS A LOT OF AND I DONT…
The President SHOULD Be REALISTIC THAT THE SO CALLED NGO OR REGIONAL MILITANT AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION FORMED IN EASTERN PROVINCE WHICH HAS STARTED PURSUING THE NOTION OF ONLY HAVING CAMPAIGN AND VOTING FOR LUNGU ONLY, IS DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY . IMAGINE IF THIS PRACTICE STARTED IN WESTERN, SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PROVINCES A LOT REGIONALISM STATEMENTS WOULD HAVE BEEN PRONOUNCED . BUT SEE ! TH ORGANIZATION TO SPARK REGIONALISM IS ALLOWED IN EASTERN PROVINCE AND IT IS BEING EQUIPPED . THE BICYCLES ARE SENT THERE BY PRESIDENT TO DISTRIBUTE THEM TO VILLAGE HEADMMEN TO STRENGTHEN THE WAKO NDI WAKO . THE PRESIDENT SHOULD Not ALLOW THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH TYPE OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR SOONER OR LATER MAY LEAD INTO FATAL REGIONAL AND TRIBAL CONFLCTS
Ubupuba bwaso bukapwa lilali….this is purely a political move by ECL and yet you have a stupid inept Minister in Charles Zulu talking absolute nonsense that this isn’t.
Why act now Lungu? Why now….this is pure desperation on his part knowing come August azalila… tides have changed. Please vote for wisely. Vote HH.
Ubupuba bwaso bukapwa lilali….this is purely a political move by ECL and yet you have a stupid inept Minister in Charles Zulu talking absolute nonsense that this isn’t.
Why act now Lungu? Why now….this is pure desperation on his part knowing come August azalila… tides have changed. Please vote for UPND. Vote HH.
Give HH a chance to see what he can do for mother Zambia. I’m sure this guy will surprise many.
And by the way , we are in the midst of the Corona virus. So why not donate bikes to essential health workers who badly need such help. Now that gesture will be NON Political.