Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha has said Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata wants Zambians to suffer by calling on donors to withdraw aid.
Liuetenant General Shikapwasha said Mr Sata was being unpatriotic through his calls to donors to withdraw aid and make people suffer .
He instead appealed to Mr Sata to be patriotic and moot ideas which will better the lives of Zambians.
[pullquote]“Mr Sata should be patriotic. The Government is here to work with donors and it is the Government that sets the vision.
“Appealing to the donors to make people suffer by withdrawing aid is unpatriotic.
“We should be people of integrity and speak on things that will help people. Zambia is a sovereign State and if he has issues, he is free to go to any ministry and lodge a complaint,” he said.[/pullquote]
Commenting on Mr Sata’s statement that donors should put pressure on President Rupiah Banda’s administration, Gen Shikapwasha said the appeal by Mr Sata was not in the best interest of Zambia.
Gen Shikapwasha said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that Government was the one which set the country’s vision and donors were merely there to help it achieve the set goals.
“Mr Sata should be patriotic. The Government is here to work with donors and it is the Government that sets the vision.
“Appealing to the donors to make people suffer by withdrawing aid is unpatriotic.
“We should be people of integrity and speak on things that will help people. Zambia is a sovereign State and if he has issues, he is free to go to any ministry and lodge a complaint,” he said.
Zambians were looking for leaders who would better their lives and Government under the leadership of Mr Banda had made great strides economically and socially.
He said more schools, roads, health centres and various development projects were being undertaken countrywide.
Despite Zambia not being spared by floods last year, the country was able to record a bumper harvest, which was twice more than that of the previous farming season.
“This is a great achievement for our people as they will have more food. On the other hand if you go to the streets of Lusaka, even Choma or Livingstone there is traffic congestion a sign that more people can afford to buy cars. All these are indications that the Government is delivering,” he said.
He said what Mr Sata and his UPND counterpart Hakainde Hichilema should do was to encourage President Banda to work even harder instead of looking out for faults to advance their political agendas.
Gen Shikapwasha wondered why when there was a report of misappropriation of funds at the Ministry of Health, Mr Sata never condemned the acts.
He challenged him to come out in the open and publicly condemn the alleged theft of funds at the Ministry of Health.
On Mr Sata’s allegations that civil servants were delaying to get paid an indication that the Government was misapplying funds, Gen Shikapwasha who is Information and Broadcasting Services minister said the delay in the payments of salaries was an information technology (IT) problem which was being worked on.
Gen Shikapwasha said Secretary to the Cabinet Joshua Kanganja had explained and apologised to the nation on the delay caused by the IT problem which was being rectified.
“The delay for civil servants to get their dues has nothing to do with lack of money. There is plenty of money. It is an IT problem unless Mr Sata has a hand in messing up the IT. This problem has nothing to do with politics,” he said.
[ Times of Zambia ]
Big nose shikapwsha its because you are thieves thats the issue,every donor money goes into dora,bwezani and big nose shikapwasha and RP capital,each time you open your mouth you speak rubbish,save us your bad breath please.get a life fool.
Iwe chi Shika just shut up. I would expect your administration not to be accepting some of these donation anyway. After almost 46 years of independence and still depending on doners? My A double S!
Moreover, it’s lack of accountability and too much nchekelako within your gov’t that is worrying ordinary citizens. What more suffering can they go through that is worse than what they have experienced under you big nose?
So if there is no Donor money Zambians will suffer? It is better then we hand over the country to donors.We are not self sustaining & it jst shows what a bunch of inept characters Zambia has masquerading as leaders%-(%-(%-(%-(%-(%-(
Learn to be selfreliant, sata is right. Chi Shika you and your minions just want to be pocketing donor funds once received.
“This is a great achievement for our people as they will have more food. On the other hand if you go to the streets of Lusaka, even Choma or Livingstone there is traffic congestion a sign that more people can afford to buy cars. All these are indications that the Government is delivering,” he said.
Mwebantu when did traffic jams become a positve economic indicator? Zoona ni big body, small brain ici cimundala.
I should think all the $80,000 in FTJ’s account is donor money he pocketed while in power. If Sata wants us to suffer, let it be because zambians are suffering now under this govt. We r ready to suffer under his rule because he is more straight foward & open than you.
Please bear with Sata’s unpatriotism and hatred for the ordinary Zambian citizen. It is for this reason that he has married his deputy ichilema who has been threatening citizens with violence if they don’t vote him in. Sata’s unpatriotism is driven by absolute illiteracy and ignorance. This why he was being used to fight and destroy the spirit of independence by colonialists as colonial government police constable.
In the first place i want sober and educated minds here if any to take me head on. I say Sata is too daft to realize that:
(1)-His call for sanctions would directly affect the poor and little power actors
(2)-In a none unilateralist world order, sanctions do not work and are very expensive to implement
(3)-That politically instigated sanctions are a recipe for rogue states and suffocation of democratic space
(4)-That in a multilateral world order, the absence of consensus and moral ground turns the whole crusade null and void
(5)-That politically solicited hard times on the people do not guarantee the solicitor space or window to rule those forced in the squalor.
Zambians have a strong cultural legacy of not subscribing to external influence in defining their national destiny. They are very proud people with a resilient national spirit against externalities. They don’t take kindly collaborators of the imperial world. Look at some good precedence on this.
chimudala, you just want to be banking donor funds in your pockets no ways
Iwe chi “Senior Citizen”, shut up! Go back to MMD govt (Or maybe, go back to the land!) and tell MMD govt that they can easily recover that money by taxing the mines. Why depend on aid anyway? In any case, You guys will “eat” the loot as usual. So many donor projects which have failed eg – RDA etc.
You guys namwiba sana! Lekeni Sata a solvee ama problems please….
Donor money has made most Zambians lazy and brainless with coupled with a GRZ which has ran into a rut.
Senior Citizen, i respect you Bro 4 your creation, but think and sit back may be in your room alone, after some time you will notice that life is beyond personal hatred. people don’t hate the govt, but its the people in the driving that are compromised that worries me.
how would you feel, giving what you have worked for to someone who throws it in to waste. buying expensive suits and high heeled shoes, that is very painful i tell you.
thats the problem with leaders and their band of followers who want change for the sake of it. they dont care if pipo suffer if that will earn them entry to plot 1. to call for donor sanctions insanity and senility. well donors never take demented pipo seriously. donors know rb and mmd mean well. donors know pf and pact are headless a waste of time.
Senior citizen #9, What ‘strong cultural legacy of not subscribing to external influence’ r u talking about? Come on blind man!!!! I for one think, we selling all privatising state run firm especially 75%share holding by foregn states is a first step in begging (in this case Chinese & Indian) to allow inculcation of their cultures. Have you ever been in Zambia? I worked at KCM in Chingola once recently & i can tell you INDIANS have better salaries & aboads than Zambian Enginners.Their families live amidst poor zambians.I thot most of our labour force is employed by the lowly paying& abusive chinese & indian firms. What do you call that blind man?I meet lots of Indians & Chinese in nit clubs ****ing our povert stricken sisters & breeding lost children in the gutters. Blindman!!!!!!!
I agree with no.1. Shikapwasha should not blame sata for their failures to pay salaries to the cival servants. RB and his crones have stolen all the money which was supposed to pay for salaries and they continue to ask for money from donors. Donors should not give money to zambia until after the election in 2011. As the mmd is going out in 2011 they will take all the money with them for their pockets as they will not have jobs. RB, Shikas should start taking their pension rather than mess up the country.
Ninshi mulelanda imwe. Can’t you reason enough to see that our roads are congested not because of the good economy but because of poor road network? We have few roads in Zambia and these roads have potholes such that you can not drive as per speed limits. With the potholes, Drivers have no choice but to drive slowly and with care, hence the congestion. Please stop that rubbish of Economy bla bla bla.
Senior Citizen says:
June 16, 2010 at 9:44 am
In the first place i want sober and educated minds here if any to take me head on. I say Sata is too daft to realize that:
(1)-His call for sanctions would directly affect the poor and little power actors
REPLY
Leaving scandals like M.O.H without the same approach done by the dutch would be like leaving a fire unattended next to a petrol station.
Kaboom a 10 Billion kwacha blowout allowed by MMD Government.
Now its your turn to reply Senior Citizen
After witnessing donors FORCE accountability on MMD GRZ over the M.O.H scadal, Do you Senior Citizen not approve of CLEAR ACCURATE AND ACCOUNTABLE USE OF DONOR FUNDS?
Senior Citizen says:
June 16, 2010 at 9:44 am
In the first place i want sober and educated minds here if any to take me head on. I say Sata is too daft to realize that:
(2)-In a none unilateralist world order, sanctions do not work and are very expensive to implement.
REPLY
You must of had your eyes closed on Uncle Bob’s nasty affairs.
(3)-That politically instigated sanctions are a recipe for rogue states and suffocation of democratic space.
REPLY.
Explain the suffocation of democracy by whom in Zimbabwe?
Bob or Donors.
Explain the suffering in similar ways by Rupiah.
Nobody can demonstrate without MMD police approval.
Nobody can hand out pieces of red paper without threats of jail.
People are threatened with RAPE.
Unarmed people are shot in the HEAD.
Senior Citizen says:
June 16, 2010 at 9:44 am
In the first place i want sober and educated minds here if any to take me head on. I say Sata is too daft to realize that:
(4)-That in a multilateral world order, the absence of consensus and moral ground turns the whole crusade null and void.
REPLY
Your morals on using money that has been unaccountable or misused by MMD over many many years is a shame on your religious beliefs.
If you can honestly say your precious demi Gods have never stolen an Ngwee then you doctors help as nobody can make you open that other eye and see the whole picture.
(5)-That politically solicited hard times on the people do not guarantee the solicitor space or window to rule those forced in the squalor.
REPLY
But the donor see’s and hears…
Senior Citizen think of how many scandals and theft of public money cases have appeared in the Zambian courts.
Who has been in control of the public purse?
Come its as easy as 1 2 3.
MMD yeah that’s who!
MMD GRZ take MMD members to court over stealing public money or deals of property for favors.
How funny is that for 18 years.
Change is needed from what has been going on for too long.
Talking about how one party who have been in power so long think they can change from what they are.
Explain that one Old man.
Acita ngo ulelala
SC would you allow a person who comes to ask money from you to support his family, to use that money on beer? This exactly what you in MMD are doing. Besides why have we failed to fund our budgets even after 50 years of independence? You have a brother who gets money from you each month but doesnt seem to sort out his problems, what do you do?
Zambian why are we so lazy , donors give us money to fight aids we blow it through workshops,every meeting held we want a sitting allowance above the poverty datum line can our President bring sanity by abolishing this allowances syndrome we have brought on selves!