A former freedom fighter, Isaac Kanyanta, has defended President Rupiah Banda’s government over the partial increases in mealie-meal and fuel prices in Zambian.
Mr Kanyanta said price increases could have happened regardless of who was the president of the country because of their global mature.
Mr. Kanyanta told ZANIS in Ndola in an interview that economies of the World equally experiencing a financial melt down which manifests in various of local economies whose solution does not lie in one formula but several targeting various sectors.
The freedom fighter’s emphasised that tourism must be supported because it creates jobs and could help absolve those being laid off in the mining sector.
He said food production in the agricultural sector was another solution because even when there was an economic problem globally, when citizens were fed, they might not feel the effects of the global melt down at family levels.
He said enhanced production of food locally could lessen the unreasonableness that characterize the justification for public demonstrations because public demonstrations do not add value to finding solutions to economic problems.
Mr. Kanyanta added that even people involved in public demonstrations need food to have energy to demonstrate though such actions do not produce food in themselves.
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just wants a job
He is just broke and wants a tractor…..INFECTED MEAT is re-dialing
#1 if you removed the ‘s’ after engine, you will have a cool name
These are the ones who were hiding when the real ‘freedom fighters’ were throwing stones !
##5. that is true ^:)^
unconfirmed news,zed 1-burundi 1,kaya ba zed!
Mukose nokukosa!bashetani.When fuel is being reduced in other countries you r busy increasing taxes.
These guys want us to believe that all those that were around in the 60s were all fighters. Some of them were call-boys
# 7. We should just start cricket or waterpolo ! These chaps are just wasting our money :-w
Imwe ba former FUSO FIGHTER or it FLEEDOM FIGHTER, we understand the global crisis even better, but the issue is RB has no GAME PLAN.
These are tough times and we need a presido who can commandeer his troops and see us out of this quagmire….
Gentlemen we are in dire straits and abena RB doesnt know what to do.
Spot on #10,just wasting our money and raising our BPs fo nuts.shud not even go to Ivoruy Coast,we will be embarrassed there.
Why not just say “some old man” ati freedom fighter….after more than 40 years of independence, we surely know all the freedom fighters. After 20 years, I will soon qualify as a “Constitutional Fighter” we helped stop the third term as Monks
#12 Sight-seeing yes, thats what Great Kalu, Lusekelo kamwambi etc like. Hey check out my new name !
#13 thanks, you are such a darling Engine Bbuloko !:x:x:x
Malabisho
Old man as much as we understand the global melt down and appreciate it, we are concerned with what the MMD govt. is doing. Can you, on their behalf, explain why they sold maize in 2008 to Zimbabwe and yet we are now importing the same maize at a great cost? What freedom did you fight for and where? What role did you play? Maybe you were just a whiteman’s tea boy. Find a better title for yourself and stop misleading the nation with titles you don’t deserve. In short “Shut Up”.
#14 Ba Molini, congrats for being a Dokota now! :* :*
As for RB, instead of wasting money on “Image builders”, lets him hire some of these bloggers as “Brain Builders” that would help Zed!!!
#14 What a team that would be ! Come to think of it…..what image did those guys build ?
Bye guys! Naya mukuchinja pad :-h
People please leave this poor man alone he was a First Aider for the Freedom Fighters.Some of you dont even have a First Aid certificate.. 😕
BA MAUREEN MWAYALUKA ITAKO NAIMWE..YASHANI?
INSTEAD OF BLOGGING,U R BOGGING…POSENI IFYA MANO
I USE TO TRUST YOU BUT NOW AWE.. :o:-\”
Mwaice Infected Meat wasamwasana. Yesterday you were winding people up and today you are doing the same.
We learnt from yesterday you are married to a Chinese and you will be 23 tomorrow. We now know you are doing your ACCA. I think you are the only person who is learned here.
Take your stu*pidity uko. Kaili nomucinshi tawakwata.
Your English is appaling for a person into accounting. One wonders how you even found yourelf here.
Dalo dalo, how can someone call himself Infected Meat?
Brock-ass vet.
zambia is 44 years old, how old is isaac kanyanta? how old was he at independence? he is just a time waster.
#21 sorry was just thinking aloud. nshakabwekeshepo. mwe tako mwe
actually when you use that calcultion, you will find flaws in the Fuso Fighters story.
Would be interesting to know what this man currently does in order to understand why the ‘freedom fighter’ tag is necessary for this story. Is it the only achievement that lends him credibility to comment on the issue or is there more to the story that has been edited out? I fail to see what relevance his being a freedom fighter has to do with price increments. It would also be fascinating to know why he thinks tourism will be immune from the financial meltdown that he cites as being a primary driver for growing numbers of job losses.
He is just a useless old man seeking some change from RB’s mfuwe extravaganza!
Folks,grow up pliz………thanx for ya attention!!!
Not every one weh call himself a freedom fighter did really fight fe freedom. Nuff a dem loved to stay in de camp while de real fighters did deh pon de front. Thats why de real freedom fighters dem ahready got killed in de struggle, seen?
” He said enhanced production of food locally could lessen the unreasonableness that characterize the justification for public demonstrations because public demonstrations do not add value to finding solutions to economic problems. ”
Neither will tourism – unless you want people to earn some foreign exchange so they can import maize from some unspecified country.
Only expansion of Zambian agriculture (and no, getting foreign farmers over here to farm for you is not the same thing) will make more food available and reduce prices. And lower unemployment at the same time.
WHEN COPPER PRICES GO DOWN RB AND HIS TEAM SAY ITS GLOBAL,YES WE AGREE BUT WHEN FUEL PRICES REDUCE RB AND HIS TEAM GIVE THEMSELVES CREDIT TO SAY WE ARE THE ONLY ONES TO HAVE REDUCED FUEL PRICES-WHAT NONSENSE IS THIS.WE KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING,MAYBE YOU CAN MISLEAD THOSE WHO VOTED FOR YOU NOT US.WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR WHAT YOU WILL SAY THE MOMENT FUEL PRICES ON THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET START GOING UP.LETS WAIT AND SEE.
Ba LT,
Why allow porno attached to a noble Passport conference call debate on your site? I click the listen to link only to get porno pictures pop ups.That is not honorable to the blog many are starting to call their meeting place on issues.Please detatch the the debate from porno or knock it all together.
just looking for a job from RB. he don,t know what his talking about. poor on him. maybe he is not real Zambia.:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((:((^:)^:-@ he drinks tea only that why~o)
Useless job seeker. Being old upstairs does NOT mean being a freedom fighter. :”>
Ok, and even so … so what if you are freedom fighter. Your media access freedom is a wastage old man! Learn to consult with your grand children who are fending for you before you bwata anyhow! What sort and flavour of freedom did you fight forth??? Ulimbe mudala!
😮 chankalipa maningi. Old freedom fighter; how do you look at the Magoye scenario? Where your RB got:
PF 169 2%
MMD 1,578 15%
UPND 8,433 81%
HP 149 1%
Void 114
15% of the votes be let people buy Mealie Meal at K100 000.00; how much is that in Zim Dollas. Will you even be able to count. You owe me a persona apology feeeeedom fwater!
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its just hunger mudala.
Can this old man tell us how many white people he fought with to prove to us that ,he was a freedom figther.LT Please find out b4 you publish the story,we are not in hollywood where comedy is rampant,did you go to his house to write a story or he just stormed your offices? what does he understand about global crisis if it has never happenned in zambia back to 1960’s.shut up mr old and leave this issue to graduates.
#1 TO 37 YOU AR ALL S T U P I D ZAMBIANS :(|):)):)):)):))
This freedom fighter does not have the intellectual capacity to comprehend and fully understand economic issues. We have been using this “global financial fimo fimo” as an excuse for far too long now. RB has no game plan, Period! Lets not lie here. Ati Freedom Fighter?? Is this the freedom he fought for? :-w
The GoDs MuSt Be CrAzY PaRt VI. somebody who fought for “our” freedom can’t stoop so low.He is a senior street kid looking for attention!We the post Independence Generation wont take any of such nonsense. This is not Zamnia One comedy site. Ba LT please choose what is news that can be news, This man is a joker.