President Edgar Lungu has donated 500 bicycles to village headmen in Mpulungu District.
Delivering the bicycles, Presidential Affairs Minister Freedom Sikazwe said the President understands the challenges that traditional leaders go through when leading their people.
Mr. Sikazwe who is also Mpulungu Member of Parliament said the distribution of bicycles follows the pledge made by the President when he met village headmen during his previous visit.
“The President appreciates the challenges that you as traditional leaders go through when delivering service to the community,” said Mr. Sikazwe.
He explained that all the headmen are expected to benefit from the empowerment and urged them to care for the bicycles.
Mr Sikazwe handed over bicycles to village headmen in Sub Chief’s area in Mpulungu.
And Sub-Chief Kopeka thanked President Edgar Lungu for assisting headmen with bicycles.
He said the bicycles will ease mobility and enable chiefdoms to hold developmental meetings on schedule.
And Basilio Village Headman Matthews Mbulo said headmen used to fail to attend urgent meetings especially at the palace because they could not reach on time.
Sell your country to crooks for a bicycle……
Being illiterate is a blessing to the looters
HH should consult Dr Guy Scotty if at all these PF empowerment programs will have a big bearing on 2021 general election results or not. The Consultant must guide UPND before it is too late. It is like the recipients are appreciating greatly.
The audacity of using the tax payers’ money to gift the same tax payers leaves me mauless!
ITS OK BICYCLES WONT GET THEM ANYWHERE AND BY THE TIME THE ELECTIONS COME THEY WILL BE SCRAP AND WELL FORGOTTEN
are these bicycles a pf program or government program?
if those bicycles in the picture are the ones been given, why are they in pf colours?
Bushe aya manjinga ya chokela kuti? At least we can benefit from indirect jobs if they were Zambian produced locally. And why now? The timing is interesting! They are donated by the PF presidency so branded strongly after the party. MMD also painted schools, taxis and local buses in their baby blue…So may be next year we will be tungulu red! Bwafya!
Very sad people selling their souls for a cheap bicycle when they can get their own. These villagers should refuse to be bought like commodities only for the dollar to escalate to K50. Someone needs to tell these villagers that nothing is free and others are paying a heavy price for this. Retirees not paid, councils waiting for their salaries, no medicines in the hospitals, youths dropping out of schools no school fees, inflation going up. These are cursed gifts causing sufferings on many as money is diverted from addressing critical needs.
This open voter bribery using taxpayers funds for PF branded bikes in an election year.So unethical and so many conflicts of interests here.
Steal from one and lie to donate back to them and get praises in Africa – only in Zambia. kikiki. This kind of desperation is really bad and ugly. What donation naimwe?
The most useless President ever. Instead of creating jobs he has created corruption and hunger. This guy is useless. May coronavirus locate him before he kills more Zambians.
Thank you Mr. President for these bicycles. Many of us didn’t have transport to go long distance to the polling station in August so we were worried. Now you have empowered us to cycle to the polling station and vote you OUT!!!
Kikikiki….PF branded bikes
This practice is at risk of becoming a laughing stock after August. Kaleza.
Okay, I will talk about bicycles later but Hon Freedom Sikazwe, you are from Nkana east, Zesco power has gone again this evening in some parts of Nkana east. So how are we going to watch the Nkana game which ZNBC is television now. Please help us
COVID IS RUNNING WILD IN ZAMBIA
YET MONEYIS GOING ON CAMPAIGN MATERIALS BY THE MILLIONS
EVEN FUEL TRUCKS
DOES THIS GOVERNMENT HAVE A HEART HAVE THEY NO COCERN FOR THE DEAD OR DYING
IS THIS ELECTION ABOUT THEIR POCKETS AND NOT THE PEOPLE
The law says Chiefs should be non partisan but how is this going to be when they ride PF branded bikes which is openly campaigning for PF? Imwe ma nfumu olemekezeka please don’t be used in such an ileagal manner. These politicians are buying for themselves very expensive planes and cars but because elections are 4 months away that’s when they think you need branded bikes. Get the bikes and remove the pf material on these bikes. The law does not allow you to campaign for any party. It is like wearing a PF t-shirt where ever you go. UNIP used to give chiefs unbranded vehicles but now the chiefs have been badly down graded to branded bikes and the source of money for these bikes is very questionable. By the way does Mpulungu have 500 chiefs or is it Headmen? ConCourt we await your ruling…
The Chiefs and Headmen should just get the bicycles but on August 12, 2021 they should Vote wisely. ECL thinks Zambians are naive. They are not. On August 12, 2021 ni Water Melon chabe!
This is laughable…but we are docile and gullible people indeed….someone comes back after 5 years to bribe you with Chinese retro bicycles, why dont you tell him to give you electric bicycles or motorcycles since its your money he is stealing from the treasury making China man wealthy.
Chi koswe mumpoto
Meanwhile hh not even a bag of salt donated to less fortunate people. The boy hh had to be forced to donate cheap ebu soap last year for covid. Even when he did so he ensured he had cameras following him. What a sad man
Like any moving machine, these bicycles will need spares. Poor villagers.
This is why I call Lungu lazy because of such stunts …a smart leader would have set up an IDC bicycle assembly plant in Zambia instead but this clown is wasting precious millions of dollars importing bicycles from China and creating employment making some Chinese man even more wealth by giving his products to poor unemployed people in rural Zambia.
This is why I call Lungu lazy because of such stunts …a smart leader would have set up an IDC bicycle assembly plant in Zambia but this clown is wasting precious millions of dollars importing bicycles from China and creating employment there, making some Chinese man even more wealthy by giving his products to poor unemployed people in rural Zambia.
It’s a royal family inheritance that spans years and an institution that subjects have committed to upholding! However those with the privilege must not open doors to earn the institution ridicule and loss of esteem! If anything through their actions chiefs must be wary that they hold the keys to preservation of this traditional institution. It’s self guided actions which led to the abolition of this institution in Tanzania so chiefs must not engage in actions that may erode their subjects’ confidence as they very well know that their subjects do not share one mind! PF branded bicycles emblazoned with Lungu’s face are as worthy as the recipients!
Bribery on display
@Mwiche, bicycle to the stadium
OPPOSITION DONT NEED TO GIVE SALT AND GIFTS AS PF ARE DOING A BRILLIANT JOB
IN THEIR OWN SELF DESTRUCTION ……. SO CONTINUE USING OUR TAXES PAYERS MONEY
WE WILL GET IT BACK EVENTUALLY
Wrong headline: It should have been Bicycles Donate Mpulungu Chiefs to Edgar Lungu. Just a reminder that Maxwell Mwale a former Mines Minister went to prison over bicycles so don’t be fond of bicycles
Meanwhile KZ not a bicycle AND not even a bag of salt. If they would give me a bicycle with the ugly head of the president on it, I would spend money on a bit of paint to change that face into a devil with a tail!