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President Hichilema thanks UK for consistently supporting Zambia

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President Hakainde Hichilema has paid homage to the British government for the unwavering support it has continued to render to Zambia.

Mr Hichilema says the British government has not just been consistently supporting Zambia, but that the two countries have continued to enjoy the good bilateral relationship for a long time.

ZANIS reports that the President said this when United Kingdom (UK) minister of Africa Vicky Ford paid a courtesy call on him at State House , yesterday.

“ The British government has been supporting Zambia in almost all the sectors of the economy including education, health and other sectors.

“ The British government helped to train men and women in uniform on how best to maintain law adding that nine months ago the situation was different in terms of maintaining rule of law, “ said President Hichilema.

And the UK government says it will continue to strengthen and deepen the bilateral relationship it has with Zambia.

Noting that for the past two days that she has been in Zambia, UK minister of Africa Vicky Ford says she is delighted to see the fruits of the UK investments in the country.

She said her government remains committed to invest in areas such as education, health, tourism and other private sector investments trade.

UK and Zambia both take education as a priority , she said adding that earlier yesterday she had a privilege to visit a school in Chongwe District where she was moved by the pupils’ passion for education.

Through the UK investments support for girls project in Zambia a number of children will be supported in Muchinga province

The visiting minister last night in Lusaka launched the a new British Investment International (BII) , making Zambia the first country globally to have the first fill of the programme.

B.I.I brand is now the new name of the organisation which is the UK’s Development Finance institution, were UK will invest in infrastructure, technology and in the education sector of middle income countries like Zambia.

The programme in Zambia will play a key role in the green growth compact such as in the investment of renewable energy and agriculture, among others.

28 COMMENTS

  1. Sometimes he wears face mask sometimes he doesnt …please just get rid of them…even in Parliament its the same thing you can not even hear what the MPs are saying

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  2. Kaizar Sosala: He likes white people yet you yourself in the UK , not just in UK but in the UK working for a White Man,Renting for a one room beloging to a White Man, Shopping in malls built and beloging to white man, Using a train buit & belonging to a white man. You also flew there using a white mans aeroplane. So, who between you and HH likes white men more?

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  3. WHITE PEOPLE HANDED OVER TO US A VIABLE ECONOMY WHICH SLOWLY BUT SURELY WE DROVE INTO THE GROUND
    Why Condemn them ?? what would we be with outside assistance

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  4. Thanking UK for what…..HH is a demagogue…he is thanking people who have been stealing our natural resources for years

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  5. The British made Zambia to be one of the strongest colonies in Africa. We had currency before other African countries.

    “England is the mother of parliaments”.

    But I have a bone to pick with them. Why do they never give us Magna Carta?

    Zambia and the United Kingdom is cococho namuchila wambwa. Zambian phrase Meaning Friendship that will never part.

  6. The British made Zambia to be one of the strongest colonies in Africa. We had currency before other African countries.

    “England is the mother of parliaments”.

    But I have a bone to pick with them. Why do they never give us Magna Carta?

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  7. I feel for the frustrated UK based impostor who claims to use VPN stuck on UK flag for 10 years UK is tough if you’re daft and lack skills…really laughable.

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  8. GAVE/ STOLE OUR NATURAL RESCOURSES WHAT A LOAD OF CR*aP
    DID THEY STEAL IT OR DID WE GIVE IT TO THEM, IF WE GAVE TAX FREE CONSESSIONS AND EASY TERMS
    WHERE DOES THE FAULT LIE ??
    HOW STUP!D IS STUP!D SOME ARE

  9. They are thieves, baka bwalalal….. They stole our minerals, they took us cheap labor to develop their countries. Why should we thank them? For what?
    Infact we must take them to the International Criminal court for crimes against humanity.

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  10. Check Bowman Lusambo displaying a one-man protest post for U K minister for Africa Vicky Ford to see. Thought former president Edgar Lungu does not need the West. Protesting to Chinese would be more meaningful. Alas!, the British know Lusambo in person as to type of person probably PNG to UK. Ignorant and hypocrisy – worse blinded by inferiority complex

  11. All those praising the British here are really shallow. You went to school hoping to get an education but ended up brainwashed. Our president didnt get a well rounded education at UNZA.
    Please Do some research and stop seeing things from your colonial master’s point of view: that is what brainwashing does to most muzungu wanga Africans. They admire their colonial master toe to hair while hating everything about themselves. Read Marcus Garvey. When a person thanks the British for consistently supporting Zambia and forgets their consistently draining Zambian resources for 400 years then you can see he doesnt have the guts to stand up to his colonial master. Kagame stood up against France and Rwanda is recovering while you waste time making noise about the British leaving you with an…

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  12. Yes When a person thanks the British for consistently supporting Zambia and forgets their consistently draining Zambian resources for 400 years then you can see he doesnt have the guts to stand up to his colonial master. He went to school to learn how to count but not what he is counting.
    Kagame stood up against France and Rwanda is recovering while you waste time making noise about the British leaving you with an economy. They didnt. They left you with an economy dependent on them like South Africa has now. The economy is for whites, parliament is for blacks

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  13. All those complaining about the UK stealing your minerals………

    Are you that du.ll to be duped out of your minerals all your lives ???

    You are very du.ll , with an inferiority complex………….

    That’s why you see plots when ever you see a white man…..

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  14. If a neighbour across the road has a fully developed orchard…………

    But is too dull , corrupt and greedy to make any use of the orchard……….

    Darn right I will convince him so I use his orchard to better my house hold……..

    I am not the salvation army……

    That applies to countries , you snooze , you lose………..

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  15. convince him you say in your attempt to sanitise Europe’s invasion of Africa.. Which
    coloniser convinced any native? The coloniser who always sang about human rights,arrogantly raided other people’s property after killing them plundered everything they owned. The human rights he preached about were only his. No sane black man can sympathise with the coloniser unless one without hindsight or foresight

  16. The down votes don’t lie. People have lost confidence in upnd. Continue lying to yourself that I am in uk..that is whole point of vpn. To avoid any legal repercussions and being hacked by f00lish upnd. I am here in Lusaka. I warned you that I would not sleep until upnd are out

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