President Edgar Lungu is this Thursday expected in Uganda for a two-day state visit.
President Lungu is during his visit scheduled to hold bilateral talks with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni.
According Zambia’s High Commissioner to Tanzania and accredited to Uganda Judith Kapijimpanga told journalists in Kampala today that President Lungu’s visit is important because it will revive relations between the two countries.
Mrs Kapijimpanga said Zambia and Uganda have enjoyed warm relations which need further strengthening.
“We are calling this visit by our president symbolic because it will revive the relations between Zambia and Uganda which had stalled,” she said.
She said Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last visited Zambia in 2004, while the last Zambian head of state to visit Uganda was president Frederick Chiluba in 1999.
Mrs Kapijimpanga said president Lungu will use his visit as an opportunity to also revive the Joint Permanent Commission between Zambia and Uganda which ceased to exist.
She added that the head of state will also explore other areas of cooperation between the two countries in areas of health, agriculture, education and defence.
“There are intentions to revive the joint permanent commission which has died and we are looking at cooperation in health, education and agriculture.
We also have intentions of our defence collaborating with the military or defence force’s from Uganda,” she said.
Mrs Kapijimpanga said as part of his state visit, president Lungu will visit a drug and chemical factory in Kampala that manufactures Anti-Retroviral drugs.
What can he possibly learn from a dictator? His choice of visit raises eyebrows.
Not to mention the large entourage that will accompany him.
It’s as if this president had never been abroad prior to assuming office. It’s as if he wants to make up for lost time.
Lungu likes associating himself with old African Dictators, he has a good relationship with Mugabe and Dos Antos and now he is dating Museveni.
I wonder what he is learning from these old and undemocratic leaders.
I hope Joseph Kony will not be in town to welcome PF leaders who he consider “brothers” for similar ideologies.
Some Ugandans in Zambia had a huge laugh today when they heard of this visit
For clinical reasons which may lead to low sperm count, some young Ugandan men are choosing to freeze their sperm for a later date.
Maybe he is going to learn just that.
A man is diagnosed with a deadly illness. He has to undergo treatment for several months. But there is a lot at stake. He will lose his sperm count. The quick solution? He decides to deposit his sperm at a semen bank where they are frozen.
Ugandan men are waking up to the fear that they might not be able to have children when they want them. As such, they freeze their sperm for future use.
Years ago, it was unheard of. However, with technology advances, manhood has been redefined
Is it true hes going out again or just a rumour or am I dreaming?Hes ever on the move?
Ba Zambia finshi mulefwaya natwishiba fwe bene eeeeh Lungu eeeh Lungu eeeh Lungu eeeh Lungu eo tulefwaya x2 via singing kansi ni malabishi yeka yeka useless President
What is ka Lungu running away from? He can’t seem to stay put and keep his butt at home. If The country was going through unprecedented economic prosperity and no social problems at home, I can see how he can justify all this aimless vagabonding.
These trips are extremely expensive. Does Lungu really have to travel so often??? Cacilamo mwe!
he is good father of zambia according tome
Why shouldn’t he travel nanga nimwana wanyoko chi kala.
This is the best head of state Zambia will ever have in many years.
ba Tutu,
I can’t argue with your statement. Another way to say exactly what you just stated is, Zambia is doomed. if Lungu is the best we’ll ever have
This afternoon I watched John Kasich, Ohio state governor who is one of the US presidential aspirants for 2016 elections. He was launching his bid and he said his vision was to restore the great country of the USA and added that no one has the right to pass on debts to future generations.
In January this year Zambians put their trust in Lungu by electing him president but within hours he betrayed that trust by declaring publicly that he had no vision for Zambia. State house is like a holiday resort and the man is flying to other countries more often than any of his predecessors under the pretext of ‘holding bilateral talks with his counterpart’. How are these so-called bilateral talks with the Ugandan dictator going to solve any Zambian problems which visionless Lungu is running away…
Everyone has the so-called useless visions. You expected John to say I will plunge America into darkness?
There he goes the utterly lazy bum Edgar…expect to see him dancing on the airport tarmac in Kampala..this bum is truly allergic to his office!!
Mr president you are running away from road shedding
Sata must turning his head with shame and anger to see the party that he suffered for ten years under the hands of Ruphia and MMD. The things that late President Sata changed which were a source of corruption are back under this clueless and visionless leader. Kasumbalesa and Nakonde. Border crossing into private hands of corrupt company with links to Ruphia and his son
Lungu is corrupt to the bones just he showed us how he miss used his client’s money and just as he is misusing the Zambian citizenry money through un baked decisions under the influence of alcohol and un necessary trips . Remove this deaf and unteachable and un intelligeable drinkable
So when is He going to visit Zambia?
Most probably next 31st February
GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT, MADAM. MWANAWASA VISITED UGANDA. EVEN BANDA DID.
And I lived there for years!!!
ah ka Lungu. He’s what in nyanja we call, wopanda pake. useless.
Leave him to travel , it’s part of his job description…. ala. He has not even been to US and Europe yet!
That’s because those countries won’t give him a visa or put him up for free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uyu Chi Colour ukwenda enda nge ule.
What a hopeless, hopeless, hopeless leader. Does this man know that some miners died at Mopani? One would think that he might want to spend time at home and take care of business.
it is up to all of us to educate Zambians, especially those at home, about the importance of voting wisely. Twitter, facebook, Instagram, whatever, here we come. People we need change and we are the ones that can make the change. its been done before and it can be done again.
Lungu should be visiting with progressive and visionary leaders like Kagame and Kenyatta and avoid dictators like this overstayed Ugandan M7.
musiyeni uyu muntu ayende! imwe khalani na kusauka kwanu