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UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema addresses journalists after attending the meeting
UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema addresses journalists after attending the meeting

United Party for National Development (UPND) Leader Hikainde Hichilema has accused President Michael Sata of beginning the construction of his retirement home at a cost of K1.4 billion while he is a sitting president. According to the statement, this action is a violation of the republic constitution which only provides such privilege to a former head of state.

Below is the full statement

 

Press Statement
31st October, 2012

CONSTRUCTION OF FIFTH REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT’S HOUSE

Early this year, we alerted the nation that Mr. Sata had begun constructing his retirement home near state lodge illegally using government resources.

Government spokesperson Hon Kennedy Sakeni refuted our assertion and alleged that we were bitter and chocking with envy after the 2011 electoral defeat.

Lies have a very short life span and we have been vindicated.

Mr. Sata sent his uncle Hon Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda as a bearer of a message to Parliament to solicit for K1.4 billion for the construction of his house. Page 911 of the yellow book attest to this.

Our contention is that our laws do not provide for such type of expenditure. This is a clear violation of our statutes. Act number 21 of 1998, chapter 15 section 4a states as follows:

“assigned to a former President within a period of not more than two years from the date of ceasing to hold office, a furnished executive house built or bought in Zambia by the State at a place of the former President’s choice”.

Clearly, this is a benefit given to a former President not a sitting one. Is Mr. Sata a retired, sitting President? We are concerned that Mr. Sata has continued raping our constitution with impunity. If Mr. Sata had any sense of morality, he would have concentrated on paying retirees who have already worked for their money than paying himself a retirement prematurely.

We call on all Honourable Members of Parliament across political divide to do the honourable thing by stopping this reckless, proposed spending.

This level of self aggrandizement is unacceptable especially that houses for the second, third and fourth former Republican Presidents are not completed. If this reckless expenditure is not stopped in Parliament, UPND shall explore other democratic options available.

Hakainde Hichilema
PRESIDENT

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192 COMMENTS

  1. HH do you have proof or its like the sudan issue..? cuz if you dont have facts in place you will grilled I just hope you cry foul as you always do…

    • Check the Yellow Book and Zambian Watch Dog, they have posted the proof you need on their. I do not understand why ba LT have not done the same because this was provided to the media at the press briefing. The whole truth is there for everyone to make own judgement. HH is right, this NONSENSE MUST be stopped.

    • Yaba Ba Mulenga Kasongo Obama (MKO) mulebelenga ama articles yoonse not just headlines and rush to make a tribal hurt comment just because you see the name HH. He actually gave you the page number in the Yellow book

  3. THIS MUST BE STOPPED NOW THIS IS THUGGARY AT IT’S BEST .HOW DOES SOMEONE WHO HAS NOT EVEN COMPLETED HALF OF HIS TERM DO SUCH A STUPID THING.HE THINKS THE YEARS HE SPENT INSULTING LEVY AND RB HE WAS A PRESIDENT,NO.WHY ARE YOU SO IMPATIENT CNP?

  4. kwena chalikubaba mambala iwe.surely you will never be president for this country but only for tongas.too much ukubwatabwata without facts.your anger will oneday make you mad .

  5. We need concrete evidence not speculations. HH will be playing delaying tactics to go to court when he is taken to court for telling lies. We are still waiting for proof of the malitia story before we believe anything else.

    • Check the yellow book, evidence is there and walk if you can to the building site. You will find the site and people working on the stupid project. Wake up you *****.

  8. THANKS HH WE SHALL FOLLOW THIS ISSUE WITH KEEN INTEREST ,THIS MIGHT BE THE TURNING POINT OF THE PAYA FARMER FAILED GOVERNMENT THEY NEED TO PACK SOONER THAN LATER!

  11. Come come fellows…lets be objective about this…i dont like HH politics, but i shouldnt be blind to what is happening around me based on my hate…if there is any truth to this, Sata is then doing wrong…if this is yet another HH Sudan run…then HH is doing wrong-WAY FORWARD…Dr Jere ZP, the President said you shouldnt be influenced by politicans-send over your officers and investigate this claim…bring Sata or HH to book!!!

    • I totally Agree with you. It cannot be said more than this. Lets call a spade a spade. if Sata is doing this, then he is totally wrong and he need to be condemned in its strongest terms. Politics aside

    • Point on. I support the PF but I do not condone any wrong doings even from them. Yet again, until he gives us concrete information, I will not take Hakaivotela Heka’s allegations and this is another manufactured lie yet again, then cage the bastard this time.

  12. HH you insult and oppress women publicly – this is against the UN Declaration Against all forms of violence against women which Zambia signed up to – therefore, you should be arrested

    • HAhAHA And this time around we need a woman president in fact NAwakwi so that HH can have celebral malaria.pwepwpewpwepwpwpew lolest

    • @Janet C, please be Objective and dont divert attention to other issues not discussed here. Go check the Yellow Book page 911 the last activity! HH is not talking from without. I have just checked the yellow book myself and it is true there is a provision for construction of the Fifth Republican President House.

  13. What proof are you looking when the man HH gave you the page to read for yourself, zambians are dull and hurter, Please! reason and do not support you president blindly.

    • THE ONLY DULL PEOPLE HERE IS YOU !!! ….Act number 21 of 1998, chapter 15 section 4a states as follows:
      “assigned to a former President within a period of not more than two years from the date of ceasing to hold office, a furnished executive house built or bought in Zambia by the State at a place of the former President’s choice”.BABY STEPS (A)  IS MICHEAL SATA A FORMER PRESIDENT. (B) AFTER READING WHAT THE CONSTITUTIONS STATES HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY SATA’S MOVE. 

  15. #11 if there was any truth to this story HH should have given plot numbers and a picture. Because if takes a picture of someone else house he risks another law suit he cannot prove. HH please grow up. This is 2012 to 2013 minds of people have improved.

    • Kci…HH has brought this story and its on the table…he says is that OUR President is lying TO US on a very serious matter that boards on corruption…we need to investigate his seriously and independently through our police…the name of the Zambian people (thus our president) is at stake…evidence should then be harvested by the police…if nothing is there, HH should be taken to task and charged with a hard slap for bringing the name of the President in dispute.

  16. Kaponyas despite being in power, you still have problems reading. What evidence are you asking for when somebody has clearly told you where to get it. I thought being in power will at least inspire you to attend night school.

    Anyway according to HH’s statement this is what he said.

    ” Mr. Sata sent his uncle Hon Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda as a bearer of a message to Parliament to solicit for K1.4 billion for the construction of his house. Page 911 of the yellow book attest to this.”

    Now go to Government Printers and buy the yellow book and turn to Page 911 and find a Grade 7 to read for you and stop embarrassing the country please.

    • Mr you are wasting your time. Just go and look at the Human Development Index for Zambia. Its 0.43  Thats means 80% of the country is full of Morons with an average expects years in school of 7.9 yrs. Hence the country even managed to vote a Moron as president.

      Evidence:  http://hdrstats.undp.org/images/explanations/ZMB.pdf

    • Of all people,i would have expected a much more mature response.

      Have you even looked at the figures of the other presidents allocations for house? Have you also looked at the dodgy document with 708-715 items are missing? Have you also forgotten the confusion with the 3rd presidents problems of plots and housing issues? Maybe the previous government made a statutory amendment to ensure that plots are secured before presidents leave office. I personally think it’s a good move to save money,we have paid quite alot in rentals for former presidents and Zambians are in in agreement.

  17. HH, so what??? Its gonna be built anyways. whether now or when he retires. So, find something better to hold a press comference for.

    Ka sushi Kobe!!

  19. #4 when blogging lets learn to refer HH as he is not tongas as it adds tribalistic sentiments which we are all working on to irradicate in our speech to start with,Lets hear from the govt on the ethenticity of the story #3 are you HH himself? lets be objective, wrong activities should be spoken about and stopped, Lets blogg….

  25. Have we become defeatists? The man is telling us there is something wrong and all we do is condemn him, it’s true Zambians are dull, illiterate and completely useless!

  26. But is what HH  talking about true? If it is then HE MSC should refrain from such maneovres. Let him follow what the constitution says. If its HH who is just alarming the nation then he should also be arrested.

    Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia. 

  27. No. 15 HH has provided evidence which is page 911 of the 2012 govt yellow book unless you dont understand what a govt yellow book is. On that page it is clearly stated construction of the fifth republican presidents house K1.4bn

    • Is that evidence that Sata is actually building a house? Do you know what you are talking about? Yes the constitution says that but the proof is about whether there is any truth in what this perpetual liar and alarmist is saying. Let him prove that.

  29. Sata is either kicking the bucket or resigning. This is NOT coming from me but from PF itself. That is why they have started the war to succeed him. GBM and Wynter maize know about this and hence they have positioned themselves to take over and trying to eliminate each other from the contest.

    I’m NOT wishing SATA ill like he did to George Kunda and Levy + FTJ. This is Coming from PF itself.

    TB Joshua announce the day!!!!!

  30. This is really interesting to an analytical mind. There are succession fights in PF as we read between GBM and Kabimba. Then we read that the President has started contructing his retirement house. This makes one wonder whether GBM and Kabimba know something about our current president’s tenure office. Maybe he has hinted he will not stand in 2016 giving way to young ones to take over (I would support him for this) or they are privy to circumstances that may lead him or his family to ocuppy the retirement home. Our president is a man of action but this time he is acting too early. I still believe he has a chance to leave a good legacy if does the right things. This can also eliminate fears of harrassment once he leaves power.

  32. Mr you are wasting your time. Just go and look at the Human Development Index for Zambia. Its 0.43  Thats means 80% of the country is full of M o rons with an average expects years in school of 7.9 yrs. Hence the country even managed to vote a M oron as president.
    Evidence:  http://hdrstats.undp.org/images/explanations/ZMB.pdf

  33. sadly , i have come to a realization that this country will never be democratic or have meaningful developement. not in the near future. HH has said something that even my grade 6 son will agree is wrong. and we have people supporting that. these are the same poor chaps who can not even afford decent accommodation or send kids to decent schools. and you are there supporting something wrong. Shame

    • Ubuwelewele!! He needs to build one when he retires or two years from the time in came in office. Which part of the constitution don’t you understand? Sityopet idi.iot iwe…..

  37. am afraid this site is full of PF paid thugs like hamiyanze. who just live on insulting HH. surely what evidence are these puppies asking?. its high time i stopped blogging on this site. full of PF illiterates and fools.

    • Go to Zed Watch Imbwa where you have UPND madness at its best. Honestly speaking LT is more liberal when it comes to divergent views unlike ba Watch poppy who block people with views that may be anti Up and Down(UPND).

  38. The statement says “president sata has began…” meaning the structure is visible and if we are given the plot number we can just drive to see it. Or just provide as with a picture. But this I know will not happen because another law suit will come from the real owner of plot. What is being provided as evidence is Mr Sata sending his uncle to parliament. Did his uncle reach parliament? did he deliver the messege. What did parliament say?

  42. This should not be news. This is all hearsay
    Pathetic journalism, this should be at page 19 of a Newspaper

    These are accusation, that could be true and they could be wide off the mark, in short they are not worthy and should be treated with the utmost contempt they deserve
    Why am I commenting on this again?

    If such drivel issues fills the president or the leader of the opposition, God help us
    You should be headlining, on the projects what you have done to create jobs, what is happening economically, Investment etc

    This hearsay is collateral obsequious news that has only aroused people who are not as educated and are not fit to carry my bags when I am going to work

    Unbelievable

    Thanks 

    • I also need to know where you work. There is need to talk to boss. The levels of  your dullness are very scaring. truthfully speaking you have never made sense to me or any right minded people on this blog. What you term as hearsay is in the govt yellow book damn you. page 911 how stupid re you really ? 

  43. H.H lets monitor these masholi..its not fair the way Sata is conducting himself..let be careful his time will come..H.H VIVA

  45. H.H lets monitor these masholi..its not fair the way Sata is conducting himself..let be careful his time will come..H.H VIVA ,,UPND TIYEEE

  46. H.H lets monitor these masholi..its not fair the way Sata is conducting himself..let be careful his time will come..H.H VIVA ,,UPND TIYEEE..WE WILL MAKE H.H BE IN STATE HOUSE

  47. Awe bantambalukuta mwilapanga inganda ilyo muli mu ng’anda imbi. But it looks like ba HH nabo balebepafye mwe

  48. I have not read the Yellow Book. If indeed it refers to construction of 5th President retirement home then clearly this is illegal and immoral. If indeed the houses for last 4 Presidents have not even been constructed this is overly self serving for a President that professes to be a Christian (ie treating others equally to paraphrase a commandment from the Bible) and who undertook an oath to uphold the constitution. An objective clarification from State House (not recent Shamenda type re Miyanda) would put the matter to rest I am sure

  52. When politicians increase their salaries by 100% all morons said those were lies and they got the truth. stop arguing go to govt printers and u will get the details in the yellow book.

  53. # 41 IS A WITCH…BE YOURSELF,,BE REAL..YOUR UNCLE SATA IS A JUST CROOK MAN..UNFAIR TO YOUR CHILDREN..NO JOBS ..FOR THE POOR

  54. H.H lets monitor these masholi..its not fair the way Sata is conducting himself..let be careful his time will come..H.H VIVA ,,UPND TIYEEE..WE WILL MAKE H.H BE IN STATE HOUSE..MAY GOD BE WITH US

    • HH do not Tongarise things.Preparing for the future has nothing to do with the constution.Please Sat keep it up and build more houses

  58. Issue based criticism coming from HH. remind this presido without former classmates that he promised to uphold the constitution but has turned around as usual in his lies and deceit. kali kuti ka mmembe? nothing mu post

  60. Building material is escalating all the time. Thabo Mbeki started building his house when he was still in office without any fun fare. Jocob Zuma is busy constructing his! What is the issue here? Will building materials be cheaper then?

    • you moron we nt talking about the cost of building materials here. Do you understand english at all, we re not  comparing the constitutional privileges  of zambia and south africa. Its an independent country with is own laws. how do you compare wat was done by south african presidents with wat Zambia presidents are excepted to do? Just becoz your neighbours children eat feces would let your children do the same? 

  62. HAKAINDE THINKS LIKE A COW FOR SURE, SO WHAT IS WRONG FOR SOMEONE TO PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE? HAKAINDE IS JUST DREAMING OF STEALING BECAUSE THATS WHAT HE CAN DO BETTER. ZAMBIANS WATCHOUT. GARRY NKOMBO SHOULD TAKE OVER UPND.

  63. Am lucky i am not Tonga otherwise I could have blindly been following this kangaroo called HH. The under 5 needs to go for anger management counselling. The Tongas thinks he serves their interest not knowing this chap is in politics only to satisfy his ego of amasing more heaps of money. He loves to be regarded as the richest Zambian which is his motivation. He loves to live in the world of fantacy and illusions believing that one day he will take residence at state house. Someone needs to wake him up from his slumber.

  64. Are these really checks and balances of the UPND?If they have proof,why can’t they just take this issue to court.I for one I am getting tired of these statements which these opposition parties are failing to prove.That’s why I really find it hard to accept what they say.

  67. Zambia a Nation full of id.iots. Honestly only a moron can support what Sata is doing. He is busy violating the constitution and here we have his sycophants supporting him. Honestly we should have a national conference so that we peacefully divide the country the way of Yugoslavia. Those who think Sata is doing the right thing can follow him to whatever part of the country he will end up. This sort of idiocy has gone on for too long!

    • A mad person sees a lot of people as not being normal. If you see too many people different from you then you re the one who is on the other side of fence.

    • DON’T SAY TO WHATEVER PART..WE DON’T WANT HIM IN BAROTSELAND, SO LET HIM HAVE HIS MUCHINGA AND RELATED DULL PROVINCES.

  69. What is problem with HH.Whelther house is built or not the fact will remain the same that Sata is entilted to his accomodation

    • I think you are missing the point. We don’t argue that he is entitled to accommodation. It should be at retirement and not while in office. How about the house for FTJ, LPM and RB, where are they. Let these past presidents have theirs erected first and he should wait for retirement as per Constitution.

  72. Show Pictures.
    Early this year, we alerted the nation that Mr. Sata had begun constructing his retirement home near state lodge illegally using government resources…(Show as pictures since you know the place and give us physical address.)….

    Contradiction:
    Mr. Sata sent his uncle Hon Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda as a bearer of a message to Parliament to solicit for K1.4 billion for the construction of his house. Page 911 of the yellow book attest to this.

    (I thought the house was already under construction why solicit money again. Zambian HH takes as for fools just like the Sudan story he brought out and later failed to prove. Het some fools here still believe in the big foolish boy HH.)

    • So you are telling me that you can’t ask for more money while construction is underway? whats wrong with you people god help us

  73. We need the proof. HH has adopted Sata style of issuing alarming and sensational statements. Does any Bemba man remember Sata, then just joined the MMD telling the nation that Kaunda had hidden weapons at Sindamisale? None were found. Tired of these politicians

  74. Can lawyer clarify how building a house now is breach of the constitution…if this house built is the property of GRZ until sitting president ceases to be in office? On ZWD I have read the Law in Question and Page 911 Yellow Book..it clearly state the former president should be built/bought a house within 2 years of leaving office. What is breach of law if it is being built in advance its still GRZ property until Sata retires. Actually building now saves GRZ a lot of money because straight from Plot One Sata goes into this house…NO GRZ renting Sata’s Rhodes Park home until the house is built as they did when Sata became President & State House was under renovations. Build now save money becoz what will K1.4bn house now cost to build 2016 or 2021? Make sure to employ youth “daka boys”

  75. If this is true then its not ok because a lot of people are suffering,there are a lot of street kids out there,where i work from along addis ababa road near Mandahill you can feel sorry for little girls and boys who spend their nights under the bridge.Pleas Mr Chikwanda and Ba president come up with something that can help the street kids.i really feel bad seeing them in that state

  76. a K1.4bn ($250.000) house is actually very modest for a former president! just make sure that house is built by NHA or a local contractor they employ youth. 

  77. You stupid Hamiyanze, why do you keep on insulting HH? You are so dull that you even get what HH is saying. Just keep quiet.

  78. @Mushota#42 Who invited you anyway to make some comments on this site? When I say that you make mistakes you reward me with insults and that is the whole mark of half-baked graduates like yourself. Look carefully at your constructions of sentences and take note that a lot of punctuation marks are missing. You also use qomas anywhere, even where some one is not suppose to pause and, yet you brag about working, may be counting your clients in brothels.

  79. Those of you who disputing what HH is saying, get a copy of the 2013 yellow book (budget) and go to page 911. Check on Head 51/07, programme 1012 and activity 716. The evidence is there in black and white. We do not need any further evidence. HH is 100% correct about what he is saying. I encourage fellow Zambians to go through the 2013 yellow book instead of just insulting HH. The yellow book is already in the public domain. It is not a secret document. Those who can afford, the document can be bought from government printers. You can also refer to the photocopy on the Zambian Watchdog.

  81. @Mushota#42
    You have no idea what hearsay is, I am sure it is a new catch phrase for my poor sister, Mushota. How can you say and I quote”These accusation are…” These, is a plural of this and the word that follows it must be written in a plural manner not in a singular form. In your case you do not know what to write except that whatever you write looks like it but it is definitely not it. Go to hell and register as a runatic case.

    • ARE YOU AN ENGLISH TEACHER? GIVE US A BREAK. THIS IS NOT A PLATFORM FOR TO YOU SHOW YOUR MEMORIZED WORDS. ITS ABOUT IDEAS NOT STUPID THINGS YOU ARE BUSY CORRECTING

  82. I really feel for Zambia with the comments I am seeing on this site. It would appear that people do not know what a yellow book. What the Minister reads in Parliament is just a speech and the yellow is the actual budget for the country and that is what HH is presenting as evidence. So for people to still be asking for evidence is really shocking to say the least. The other evidence is what the constitution say. there a lot of pressing issues that that money can be used for. And for The Real Steel -It is quite naive to think that the 1.4 billion is the total cost. that amount is just for preparatory works.

  83. Does it mean that Mwanawasa (MHSRIP) and RB did not care to build the said houses? Let Sata build RB and his own house then.

  84. @Goncalves#67
    I know who you are, come on, man post me something very interesting which I can drop at my dinner table tonight. You were formerly known as Livingstone, oh yes I remember you now. The world is too small we will meet each somewhere in your territory and I have an imposing character, anyone can notice me a mile away from him/her. I enjoy your arguments and I imagine seeing these views through your lenses so as to have a different perspective/understanding. Keep on sharing your unique analysis of these pertinent matters with us down south.

  85. You Zambians read the law about benefits for former presidents. The law states clearly that a house can only be built for a FORMER president AND NOT a sitting president. Houses for the second, third and fourth presidents have NOT yet been built but SATA is in a hurry to finish his house. Mind you Sata has just clocked one year in the office and he is already constructing his house. Why is he in such a hurry? Has he sensed danger ahead? This is the first time such a thing is happening in the history of the presidency in Zambia.

  86. BOOM

    I have told you many a times, to stop talking about me, you keep poking a sleeping lioness. what kind of a tool are you?
    You are worse than vermin, for vermin do not pretend to be what it is not. You are truly human garbage. You are a fraudulent, lying, predatory charlatan. You are of less worth than a burnt-out light bulb. You will forever live in shame. You have nothing to say that makes sense, I don’t want to keep stripping you, because I would cut anything that made your parents define you as a boy.
    You keep sniffing anywhere you see me, I don’t know what part of your body is massaged in doing so? You are an aberration, a boil that needs to be lanced. You are a poison in need of being vomited,leave me alone

    Thanks

  87. if you are saying zambia is full of morons it simply means your mother is one of them,your HH is one of them too,including the entire UPND who wants to rule zambia by winning only in one province.fikala fwenu ba UPND for your shallowness,who told you that you can rule zambia with only geting votes from southern province?….i cant take HHs allegations seriously knowing his bitterness and jealous,its sheer waste of time.the page he is refering to doesnt exist,cheap politics from this sycophant,and the so called educated tongas,maso yenu

  88. ASSIGNED TO A FORMER HEAD OF STATE WITHIN TWO YEARS OF LEAVING. The law is very clear on when this must be assigned. As to when it shall be built and how long it takes to build…………………. I remember this topic having come up during Mwanawasa’s and RB’s reigns both of which are still incomplete or not ready. So what does this say FWEMAZAMBIANS ARGUING!!!!

  89. If the constitution states that a house must be constructed for a former head of state, then what Sata ia doing as alleged by HH is good. How much money is government losing in renting that lodge for RB? Is it better to build theme houses or continue renting huge properties while their houses are under construction? I personally do not agree with the issue of building former heads of state houses but i guess it is ok bearing in mind that after they leave state house they need some respect and dignity. Lets be objective, if we want lets campaign for the removal of building of a house from Presidents enumeration

  91. As for HH you are doing a very good job keep on hammering the cobra head until all the poison is driven out of the head. The cobra head has a vernomous tongue and that tongue is no longer effective these days because people are now fed up with the catch phrase of ‘bitterness’ Hey kaponyas stay where you are because I will be offering free classes for late adaulthood education. You might stand a chance of enrolling at 3 top universities in South Africa whereby you can also stand another chance of studying at Yale,Princestone or Harvard Universities if you obtain super cum-rade in your initial studies.

  92. Iweee… Kamu mushota have respect for male folks, you are just kama very simple urgly bitch and whatever you thought foolishly thats what you are *****, appreciate the free advise or you end up being a single useless old kwark..!!!!

    • You certainaly sound like your name, cuz no resepctful Zambian man, bred in a traditional Zambian way would insult a woman the way you have done. And Mushota should just keep quiet for being insulted? Discuss issues and not insults, this is not a gabbage place were pple just want to be loose…we should not be seeing people’s ugly selves, that is reserved for onself and on’s private other. What is wrong with expressing the views, the way Mushota expresses hers kanshi, Zambia is a democratic country, if you don’t like it don’t talk to her… period…hailing insale in public is cheapo.ISSUES bane issues….. we are tired of this tribal insane sentiments and insele, spare us… Discuss issues……

  93. @ Mushota, I really like your analysis for once you have made me proud, Lets discuss issues, these personal attacks can make permanent hatred,Sata can sink HH, he needs to be Objective and discuss real issue….Sata is wise he does not need anyone to build a house for him, he thinks ahead.

    But Mushota, on BOOM ..you have been to hard on him (BOOM), your words were too hard, please tone down, we love your word skirting not strong worded exchange.
    Thanks.

  94. Wise thinkers will easily see the childishness in Hakainde’s lamentations. Experts in inner healing will agree with me that HH will need to face some inner conflicts or else the pressure to run the whole country, with a variety of people and challenges will break him down.

  95. @Mushota#84
    Oh yes, what do we have from my little jelly in Europe? Come on, sweet I do not remember talking to you or you meant communicating your usual rhetorics via internet to you? Oops, be careful you might end up biting more than what you can chew. Well, hahaha once again well done I can correctly see that my student Mushota is undergoing through a gradual improvement in inserting full stops, bravo.On the issue of redefinning my new assigned identity, don’t you think we should consult before you convince yourself that you have correctly defined me without being emotional or biased.

  96. @91. Leave HH alone. Worry about your tribal warlord, Sata. It Sata who is “sitting on a volcano”. His words not mine!

  97. @MUSHOTA#84
    Hello there, surprisingly enough my little jelly, stay away from assumptions because you are responsible for reducing yourself to a liar. This happens when one draws up pseudo-facts about someone or somerthing, yet when anyone weighs the costs and benefits more unsubstantianted stories are exposed. My little jelly, please use facts not anger that way you will bring out your true character. Your reputation will not be brought into disrepute. Remember, always say that do not bring my name into disrepute. This is the correct way my little jelly.

  99. @94 Vilifier, I don’t know what part of the USA you are and only hope you have not been affected in any way by the destructive ‘Superstorm Sandy’. Take care and God bless.

  100. I like the ka signature , ati
    Hakainde Hichilema – PRESIDENT , instead of Hakainde Hichilema -President Of UPND

  101. Well done Sata if the story is true, this is what we call strategic planning. A lot of money is wasted through property rentals.

  102. The problem with Problems Forever (PF) Party cadres is that they believe in what is written in the Past news paper and they cannot read and write.Recently the watch dog exposed the Sata house story and challenged the government to deny it.We have heard nothing from the Problems Forever government on this issue.The question to the minister of finance- What you write in the yellow book is that what you expect to spend as a government? Chose your answer below:
    A) Yes (B) No (C) Maybe (D) All of the above.
    This question carries the passing mark for 2016 elections.

  103. WHY SHOULD GRZ BUID A HOUSE FOR A SITTING PRESIDENT WHO HASNT YET RETIRED??????????
    Our contention is that our laws do not provide for such type of expenditure. This is a clear violation of our statutes. Act number 21 of 1998, chapter 15 section 4a.Page 911 of the proposed yellow book have set aside k1.4Billion

  106. Simple; Probably illegal but definitely logical and morally right. Just come up with a Statutory Instrument to clarify or correct what the constitution says; also can cabinet office justify this activity by telling us how much much they are spending on rentals 4 Regina, Maureen and RB/Thandiwe so that rationale is we do not go that route…

  107. It is like you get a job today and you apply to get your pension when you have not even served your full period of service. If the conditions stipulate that you get your pension after 25 years of service so be it. This is purely violation of conditions of service. If this is what is happening then all the employess in Zambia should force the government to pay them their terminal pension benefits even if they have not yet reached their 25 years or 55 years of service. Stop condeming HH.

  109. Short sightedness ba Kabwa; if a former president will be given a furnished house after two years; do you think it will be built after two years? Thats why zambia is in a mess as far as infrastructure is concerned because you africans do not know the difference between forward planning (short term and long term). He will one day be a former president, so why not finish all the houses for the rest now? Atase; ati educated!!

  110. Guyz you are quite gullible and thats an understatement. The provisions in the YELLOW BOOK copy provided by ZWD appear to be facilitation for a plot. Lets look at the facts in on that page. 1. The former presidents from the 2nd to the 4th have all been accorded 2.5billion in this budget. 2. The insertion of the issue at hand from 707 and jumping to 716 where the mention of the 5th presidents house is mentioned is quite suspect,looking at it from an AUDITORS eye. 3. Is there no change in how former presidents houses are built? considering the Embarassing situation of our 1st President staying in rented house.

    But like most issues,this one Zambians see sense in it.

  111. HH is right but PF cardres are defending the indefensible – LIES FROM AN OLD BEMBA MAN. Our constitution has been disregarded many times without number by our president. This is yet another evidence of breakng the law. Yet we read Kaponyas defending the wrong. Am not bemba but I know Bembas have high morals where LIES BY AN OLD MAN is condemned robustly to preserve the wisdom of OLD PEOPLE as source of wisdom. However, here we have a ‘mouse in a clay pot’. Bembas can not throw stones into the clay(LIES) pot for fear of breaking the pot.

  112. This is a very childish statement written by an under5; the language is very very unstatemanlike i wouldn’t be surprised if this HH is also contributing writers on those editor’s choice feeble minded articles on watchpig. Compare the youngman’s Chipimo’s professional letter and under5’s here which one would you take seriously??

  113. Utter nonsense! Why would President Sata build a house for retirement when he doesn’t plan to retire?

    …ndesekakofye.

  114. @ J?nx Popo -My  beloved Zambia. We are now all thinking like the president. Change the constitution using a Statutory Instrument???. This the shallow suggestion on LT comments. Do u know what an SI is? Why did we have to spend all the money spent on constitution making process if it can be amend using an SI. Too much disregard for the law in Zambia. It has even gotten Dr Jere a promotion. The president is a law breaker and rewards those that break it as well.

  115. This is yet again clear evidence of abuse of office by President Sata, at the expense of job creation for the youth who put him into office. Every single blogger on this site who calls himself a Zambian and is defending this type of behaviour must pause for a moment and think about the effects of the President’s behaviour on your less privileged brothers, sisters, cousin, nieces, nephews and childhood friends in Zambia before blogging. Parliament will have to step in and restore order if we are to have some semblance of rule of law in our Country. This behaviour from our President is an affront to all well meaning Zambians. 

  116. 1. Hon Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda may be President Sata’s uncle but this fact is irrelevant in this issue and therefore the relationship should not have been mentioned.

    2. Act # 21 of 1998, chap 15-4a: “assigned to a former President within a period of not more than 2 yrs from the date of ceasing to hold office” does’t imply it can’t be built during the president’s tenure. The house can be built now and “assigned to [Mr. Sata] within a period of not more than 2 yrs from the date of ceasing to hold office”

    3. HH mentioned that “houses for the 2nd, 3rd & 4th former Republican Presidents are not completed”. Considering the time it takes to build a house of a former president in Zambia, the current government maybe in order to start now.

  117. If HH is confident about his Plot 1 prospects in 2016, he should have applauded this move with a hope of making Mr. Sata a former president then.

    HH’s glossary: illegally, raping, impunity, reckless expenditure, self aggrandizement

    The law has many ways of interpretation. But if you are a fault-finder, you will find fault in anything. It is good to give people a benefit of doubt and that they may mean well at times. To me I do not see anything wrong to start building a house for the president now. Actually, he is supposed to move into the home a day after leaving office. So when do we start building?

  118. When do we start building indeed, after the president leaves office? What is wrong is giving the retirement home to a seating president. The problem with thinking such as that of HH is that there is lack of planning for the future. Chiluba died without seeing his entitlement, Mwanawasa’s family is still wating for their entitlement. Banda is living in a house he built while in office “without” using government funding. He is still waiting for his entilement. We should learn from history to prepare for the future. 2016 is here and if HH you are not preparing now, 2016 will leave you in the dust. PF or other governments will call you bitter in 2017. Be prepared. Plan for the future. The only message you have given today is that you do not know how to prepare or plan for the future.

  119. Zambian concept of time:

    Appointment Time is 14:00 hours. A person leaves home at 14:00 hours and arrives at the meeting late. Normal?

    Retirement Home to be assigned to the former president is within 2 years of ceasing office. The government starts constructing the house after the president ceases office and hands over the keys to the house 10+ years later. Normal?

    HH I really thought that you could bring change to this mentality. Now you are fighting to maintain the status quo of the Zambian time concept.

  120. A former President’s retirement home must be ready for occupancy when the president retires. A sensible and prudent government should plan for that. Hence, the current PF government is doing the right thing. We have all seen how KK suffered for a long time in a rented house. Up to now the late FTJ’s home and late Levy’s home have not been built. At this rate, RB may have to wait for another 10 years before he can even ask for his retirement house. Is this what HH would like to perpetuate? Sata has seen all this, and is playing it safe. The constitution should include such a provision and state a standard reasonable package to ensure that a sitting president does not abuse the system and build himself or herself a palace.

  121. Well, interpreting the law is quite a task given anyone can superimpose his side of the story. However, if we decide we are going to be pragmatic we need to look at all the contexts involved, the page 911 (sounds foreboding!), the Act and the purported uncle entering parliament with a bowl in hand…

  122. I thought HH would have also complained to former presidents for having violated the constitution by not building houses for formers presidents within the stipulated time- 2yrs. Did HH look at the other side of the coin before issuing this statement?

  123. It is sad that people want to defend wrong things. The president will never say in his life again, unless he commits crimes that will make him not enjoy his retirement. I think there are priorities that the money could have been used for such as paying farmers, buying drugs for hospitals. Why is he rushing to retire before he even works. I just he will not go as far as even order his casket and tomb stone because this is what this amounts to 

  125. bo HH just start preparing for 2016.We shall wire u again.Bo HH u r just a small bitter young man.U claim to be rich,but u r very dull

  127. HH are informing the nation or you just want people to kill Sata without proof?If not than give the Zambians full details,such as where the same house will be built,who approved,when will it be built and so on and so on,the list goes on and on………………..

  130. At least he won’t have reason to ask for a third term.I don’t see anything wrong with building a house.HH grow up boyi.

    • Iwe kapenda you must be dull.how can you supt a practice that is against the law.the law says a house is a benefit to a former president.you mean you cannot read or your tribe is blinding you

  131. Please Bembas stop insulting and disrespecting the Tonga speaking people they are not your tribal cousins. Tongas are just honest and down to earth people and you must not feel intimidated by them. They are welcoming and accomodating people as evidenced from lots of Bemba’s living in Tonga land. For once please lets not be tribal and racist becuase this is being uncivilised and intolerant. Zambia is for all Zambians and let us not divide the country with this tribal attitude. There are a lot of intermarriages nowadays a sign that Zambia is one. I just hope that those who hate Tongas feel the way they must feel…shameful. If you think bemba is superior go speak it in Mongu or Kalabo, then you will get the answer.

  132. The K1.4 billion budgeted for and showing in the yellow pages is for construction of houses for  retired Presidents. It is not meant for seating president but for retired/ deceased President. No where does it state that the money is for seating President Sata and if it did would be unconstitutional. Of the 4 Presidents only Kaunda’s has been completed. Mwanawasa’s is yet to start (I believe), while for Chiluba – it should never be built since he is dead and that right does not extend to surviving beneficiaries of retired Presidents – this is very different from serving President that dies on duty (Mwanawasa). Banda has yet to select ground for construction. The K1.4 billion is estimate to cover Mwanawasa, and Banda house. As for Sata there is nothing wrong in putting an estimate of K1 

  133. Not only do Zambians have poor reading culture, they also have poor memory. When RB increased salaries for MPs and the presidency, Zambians and the POST condemened day and night. When SATA increased the figures RB left by 100% no one said a thing and HH was attacked when he revealed this information. For as long as we don’t condemn what is wrong, Zambians shall forever remain poor. We are not helping SATA or the PF by supporting even wrong things. If HH said in the Bible John 11:35 reads “Jesus Wept”, Zambians would ask for proof and for pictures of the verse. How amazing! for once LOOK AT THE MESSAGE NOT THE MESSENGER.

  134. HH has given us proof that Sata is an outlaw. We must stop him now before the funds are wasted on a project which is outside the law.

  136. Michael, i hope u are not planning to do what HH is saying. If u do as zambians we will not rise from our knees until the lord answers our prayers. how many hospitals are going without basic needs for the patient? the list is endless. talk about roads in zambia, No operating ambulances anywhere,ect ect, now how can a sane president start building a mantion for his family at the cost of the citizen? my prayer is that all this is lies. if this happens mr president the blood of all those children dyng in our hospitals due to lack of vaccines and decent facilities will be on your head.. we are hopeless as zambians because of the selfishness of our politicians all we can now do is ask god all might to help us..we will continue to pray untill the lord scatters all evil politicians.just watch!.

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