Get Involved Zambia executive director Father Frank Bwalya says President Michael Sata’s gesture to kneel before the Copperbelt residents for voting for him in the 2011 elections should be followed by delivering development to the area.
Father Bwalya says it is encouraging to note that the President appreciates the residents of the copperbelt for the support they rendered to him in order to assume the presidency.
He says the people of the copperbelt welcome such a gesture from the head of State.
Fr Bwalya it is also encouraging to note that leaders holding such high office are able to swallow their pride to thank voters for contributing to their electoral victory.
He says what is remaining is for the residents to start experiencing the fruits of development from the Patriotic Front leadership.
Fr Bwalya was speaking to QFM news in an interview.
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Well said Fr Bwalya….true the change we wanted was not seeing new faces or recycled faces but moving from paper work to practical delivery of services….PF should not take our respective vote for granted…. Days for change of government for the sake of it are gone…deliver or be delivered….make a change God will reward you for and people will respect you…politicians are like flowers, we will soon forget you once ruled Zambia….DELIVER, DELIVER Mr President tata Sata
Gud Stuff Fr. Bwalya,,,,Pliz we need the Mufulira – Sabina Road repaired soon as well as the Mufulira – Ndola,,,,we will not take this lightly …..This should be done before the rain season…that is then we will approved that thank you!**==**==**==
@ GNZ….the roads you just mentioned have already been repaired. It was done during the RB government. If its the MUF-NDOLA road, the contractor just handed over not more than 3 months ago.
@ Seasoned Engineer,,,,,if those you call contractors can’t fix these roads it better the contract is given to me…I feel for the Mufulira Residents,,,,,these road are messing up our cars, back bornes and so fourth….,,,,,
Has 2.1 travelled on the roads in question or just imagining things?
That kneeling meant thanks for delivering him and his family from poverty and you the voters continue in your abject poverty swilili.
Such gesture are nothing in themselves as they could be nothing but part of Dochi Kubeba, in this case another deceiptive way of not addressing the real issues which are job creation plans for the youths who voted. I would rather he stands and says how he will creat jobs now with proper time lines since he holds the budget, however he is still behaving like someone still in the opposition.
iwe father time will tell,\:d/ you supported him
LT, we know you are a PF satelite news media. You take exceptional criticism by Zambians to pin PF Sata on his failed promises to Zambians during his election campaigns. You accept watered down opinions from people like Mr Bwalya who is now joining many disappointed Zambians of the failure of Mr Sata’ promises. We the Zambians will continue to criticise PF Sata for lies that have now gone to Botswana, Malawi, South africa and recently Angola and last night on BBC MOCK OF THE WEEK mr Mugabe was rediculed as an African dictator whose recent friend is current Zambian head of state on a private visit to Britain this week. Lies will always be confronted by honest well meaning people not as a right but morally demanding honesty to come from a head of state.
May be the president has not had the time to visit copperbelt to thank the voters since he was elected; hence the kneeling.
The kneeling is a welcome gesture but just as Fr Bwalya has accurately stated, people on the copperbelt just like the rest of the country are starved of real development that will uplift their lives. The need for economic development of the copperbelt deserves immediate consideration.
The copperbelt remains the engine that drives the Zambian economy but the engine is not serviced at all.
To start with, the entire road network needs to be worked on: those connecting towns be made into dual carriage ways owing to increased traffic, improve efficiency and safety. Township roads and street lighting used to bring pride and cleanliness to the copperbelt and they need immediacy looking into.
If you fail to deliver development, there will be no excuse come 2016.
Walasa,,,,mune!!!
I LOVE MY PRESIDENT, WOULD EVEN DIE FOR HIM.
You shall die for him for sure!
Why just kneel before the copperbelt voters. Are they the only ones that voted. And people are there busy praising.
Fr Bwalya has a great point here. The best way to thank the CB community is to go the practical way of development which should be tangible. One can kneel by posture whilst the hear is standing. Sata should tell us his development plan well outlined than still playing politics.
Iwe @Nakucha, Sata was not a poor person even before he assumed office. His wife is a medical doctor and he had businesses even before. So your statement is untrue. Dont just speak from without my dear, olo ni jelasi ni sooo?
Hopeless father of street kids
So far as I predicted the PF gov has lived upto the standard of their preceding PF councils in the urban areas with negative development and massive failure clear to all before elections. Ironically, it’s in those areas that people gave PF a resounding victory. Is there wisdom in regret when people had the evidence and resoundingly backed the party bound to fail? Mr Bwalya was one who sacrificed his integrity by leaving his call by God to ensure PF win. He’s now trying to be diplomatic in language instead of admitting there is massive failure and he backed the wrong party.
F**kset, that is what my grandfather would say to this fella who helped cheat voters with st.u.pid impractical 90 day promises which they have proudly broken.
he only knelt because he had nothing to tell them, so its just another way of showing force innocence. he has done nothing for them so kneeling to me was a cover up. he is too old to think of developing the nation, next he will be talking about building rest homes because he is not too far away from getting into one.
well said the voice of the voiceless father ,expect some insults from unpd losers there fools who will never accept defeat viva presido sata and the brave father.
Does sata even have a plan or understands how to create jobs? i doubt by know zambians would have seen a road map….alas nothing but confusing of the highest order.
@kanyakula the high levls of poverty in zambia is above siple politicking on the loose of UPND. this is s serious matter and should not be trivialised…..people in zambia are dying big time and we need PF to work…..in hospitals we have no medicines and can be seen from documentaries from MUVI TV…we need sata to work extra hard and perform in any case only upnd lost…many other parties lost so for you to single out upnd only brings to the foe how we tend to be narrow minded on serious national matters…….
father bwalya who has given you to be the copperbelt spokesperson
Father Bwalys was born, has lived ans worked in the copperbelt. As a copperbelt  resident he has a right to speak out!!
DON’T EVEN SAY COPPERBELT RESIDENTS. I FOR ONE, AM NOT INCLUDED. IT’S THE CALL BOYS & JERABOS HE WAS KNEELING FOR.
THESE R JUST UKWA GIMMICS !
WHERE IS 90 DAYS !?!?
COME 2016, COPPERBELT IS NOT WITH YOU !
REMEMBER: IT’S 50% + 1 VOTE !!!
VIVA NEVERS MUMBA !
UKWA has no muscles to develop zambia.
DONT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE MAN ON HIS KNEES, YOU WILL BE SHOCKED THAT HE’S ONLY WORKING FOR HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
Go and kneel before the people of Western Province and thank them for voting you into office. At the same time, ask for their forgiveness for your deceit. I am sure they will find it in their hearts to forgive you and give you a second term. Swallow your pride and say, “Muniswalele Malozi, Nimifoselize Sha”.
90 days was an attraction which not even children can believe. I am happy that the road construction to from Kasama to Malole and Mbesuma and from chilubula to Mumpolokoso is progressing at a good speed, of course started by the MMD. I was never a supporter of Ukwa but his govt is only in govt for a few month and they cannot do everything in 90days, only immature people will not understand political language, the best we can do is ask them to give us Zambians their plan for development. Promises not backed by action is not healthy for any country.Â
keep up the same spirit father,we need serious change not words on paper
Faza Bwalya, you keep dreaming. Â Only a f00l would think that Sata will deliver jobs.
Father Bwalya is one of those very few souls in our country who have forced me to swallow my words of criticism. I’m under no illusion about Father Bwalya’s loyalty to Sata in person and I have no problem with that because that is his basic human right to like and support whoever he wants to support. However, Father Bwalya’s words have always been words of wisdom ever since Sata came into power. If Sata listened more to Father Bwalya instead of the ‘holier-than-thou’ POST newspaper, Sata’s leadership of the country would be a very successful one. Father Bwalya is more useful to Sata than the bunch of thieves and fornicators who work in his government and in PF. Given Father Bwalya’s sensibility I don’t think he would last in PF because PF doesn’t like clever people.
nkachinda # 25 very good point…’90 days was an attraction which not even children can believe’. too many crying babies on this blog. if you believed that things can change overnight then your thinking capacity is kafwafwa. Pipo saying sata had cheated the pipo of western province are also no sincere .. looking at the results from this province ,sata was third .but the way they cry as if he was no. 1
He makes much more sense when he does NOT strangle a chicken!
Hope the PF will bring development to the CB. Some chaps are so selfish they built Manda hill and Arcades in the same road almost next to each other
Here is a message to Father Bwalya.
Wealth does not come from God, there is no magic involved. What it involves, is standing up against the trillionaire banking dynasties and their bottomless greed to control the planet.
Every year, Zambia is losing $1.5 billion in mining taxes and dividends that are not re-invested in the Zambian economy.
That is where development is going to come from – MONEY.
So if Father Bwalya is serious about ending poverty, he like all of us, needs to put the weight of his Red Card Campaign behind getting the taxes that belong to the Zambian people from the mining industry.
We Need To Tax Them. The minerals already belong to the people of Zambia in international law, now we need to keep hold of them.
the kneeling meant his family n him will get better health services from India even for transplants..hahahah..nothing serious about it..
Criticizing while wearing kid gloves, you can only hoodwink members of the clan who have no capacity to critically analyze issues. VIVI Muchinga clowns.
I agree that this chap “He makes much more sense when he does NOT strangle a chicken!” Soon he will learn that as a so called man of God, it is not good to go to bed with politicians of a questionable past
sata should not hoodwick pipo by useless knelling instead he must fulfill his nemerous false promiseshe made. Sata please stop yo neuseting money tricks and get down to work. Sata has continued to behave as if he stil in opposition.
Let us give PF some time, they will indeed deliver.Â
Catholic church practices urk me mwe. Kneeling before the CB, why? Every part of Zambia pt him into office.
Father Bwalya beginning to realize he supported the wrong man.
Please advise our republican president MCS that Mpombo type(kneeling) gestures does not bring development, what we need are concrete plans for development. Very soon the call boys he is kneeling before will tell him off if he does not bring development. Even the so called father Bwalya will soon be irrelevant if he keeps on heaping praises where they are not due.
good thing about the catholic clergy is, they always speak for the poor unlike tuma born again pastors who lie every minute just to extort a few pins from their poor congregants. Development ll soon come.[-(
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