Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Those who had a hand in privatization will find it hard to campaign on the Copperbelt-Nathan Chanda

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Luanshya Mayor Nathan Chanda says the people of Luanshya are still feeling the negative effects privatization.

Mr Chanda says Luanshya residents have vowed not to entertain any of the people involved in privatization when they come to campaign next year.

He said the people are resolved that entertain people who played a role in privatization would be a betrayal of their collective history.

Mr Chanda who is also PF Copperbelt Province Chairman was speaking on Saturday when he met officials from the Provincial party Mobilisation Committee led by Kabushi Member of Parliament Bowman Lusambo who paid a courtesy call on him.

“ Mr Chairman, I have a message to you and through you to the Zambian people. The people of Luanshya have asked me to tell that they will not entertain anyone who played a role in the privatization programme. The people are saying their current suffering is due to privatization and so those who had a hand and are wishing to campaign here, they will have a difficult time,” Mr Chanda said.

He stressed that President Edgar Lungu is working hard to ensure that the economic fortunes on the Copperbelt is turned around for the better.

And Mr Lusambo emphasized that the party will ensure that it sends out a message of hope to the people of the Copperbelt as it mobilizes.

“We will tell the people here that only President Edgar Lungu means well for you, there other people are trying to get to State House so that they can privatize more state assets because that it is the only thing they know.”

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  1. Mr Chanda says Luanshya residents have vowed not to entertain any of the people involved in privatization when they come to campaign next year.

    HE MEANS ANY OF THE PEOPLE, DOES THAT INCLUDE THOSE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE PRIVATISATION OF COLD STORAGE? WHAT ABOUT ZAMBIANS THAT BENEFIT FROM THE PRIVATISATION OF GOVT POOL HOUSES, MINE HOUSES , AND COUNCIL HOUSES SOME AT GIVE AWAY PRICE OF K10.

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  2. Unfortunately the Zambian public has a short memory. Wasn’t it Sata and PF who sold a stake in Zanaco to rabobank? What about Zamtel which he almost flogged off? Isn’t ZNBC now owned and controlled by the Chinese? And national airports corporation on which the Chinese will collect fees? Unfortunately the people of Luanshya have no info on such matters. Enlightened citizens know that PF is the biggest mafia cartel this Country has ever seen. Add to that incompetence.

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  3. I do not get it, someone else did the dirt but you want to smear amaze on an innocent person, is this how ridiculous and shamelessly people have become.

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  4. Lusambo and kafupi should go back to school for them to understand what it means being an evaluator. Instead of showing their shallow thinking in the public. Learn to read for you to understand and not base your arguments on hearsay without evidence.

  5. Ba Lungu also had a hand in the privatisation of the state assets. He was a service provider just like HH. Lungu was a lawyer and HH a Consultant. Finite papito!

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  6. Now let us come to the definition of terms. It is important to be sober minded when using words because they carry weight. PRIVATIZATION in a free market economy is not in itself a bad thing. It simply means that the state provides REGULATORY OVERSIGHT but does not own the business. USA and great Britain are key examples. 90% of business are privately owned-PRIVATIZED. So PRIVATIZATION IS NOT EVIL. it is the way free market economies are run because business need a constant injection of capital which most govts cannot provide on their own. What is evil is POOR GOVERNANCE!! BAD LEADERSHIP!!

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  7. The level of desperation has really skyrocketed. People aren’t buying into this stale smear campaign of ten years ago. We have now moved on to bread and butter issues. What’s your strategy to revive the ailing Luanshya economy? And in Kabushi when do we expect the gutted market to be constructed so that the people have decent trading spaces?

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  8. Does this f00l understand privatisation? Doesn’t he know that his Lungu was involved in the privatisation of cold storage?

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  9. When Govt changes we will have to revise criteria once more on who can hold public office and may even who can vote! This mediocrity from PF is excessive. Do these chaps know that even Pres.Lungu participated in Privatization but has nothing to show for consultancy fees he received? HH is innocent,clean unless proven otherwise by courts of law!

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  10. Here we go again with these uneducated degenerate fools…here is the proof that this garbage was created by the PF administration, the privatization happened almost 30 years ago… Zambia belongs to everyone and anyone is free to go anywhere in Zambia, this is not 1950 guys grow up.

    Lungu you need to address this immediately these fools will send a wrong message.

    Your PF thugs will get the wrong message and start beating up innocent people.

  11. Get back to the compaign promises tapes or CDs.
    Rewind and view again. You ought to have nailed 3/4 of your 2016 promises by now.
    You know that in politics $#!+ don’t come easy.
    I will be judging your performance May/July 2021.
    Up the sleeves; the ride gonna be bumpy, y’all.
    You’re lucky sodomite kleptoh² is a due thief, a pompwe at that.
    He is no contest.

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  12. I’m in Luanshya, and I can safely that, Luanshya is no longer a PF stronghold and we demonstrated that in the parliamentary by-elections in Roan constituence when we opted to go for NDC. In 2021, we’ve have decided to go for UPND whether they campaign here or not.

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  13. Nathan- If you want to talk about privatization that’s fine but remember your president was involved in the privatization also.
    I know it hurts your eyes to do some research.
    One quick reminder: Zambia belongs to all Zambian’s don’t get big headed.

    Let the people express them selves and campaign any where they feel like campaigning.

    PF must Go.

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  14. The PF has not realized the they are making HH more popular by bring something useless like this…because everyone knows that HH is clean.
    Let them talk and help HH win…

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  15. Corruption scandals: 48 Houses Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco Loans Corruption scandals: 48 Houses Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco Loans

    Please stop saying the “people” when it’s just you and your crooked PF friends.

    It’s not really fun anymore how staggering the the level of mediocrity in PF rank and file. This guy is trying to insinuate that HH was the entire government of MMD and its ministers. He has no idea that the MMD government folks like Sata are the ones who formed PF. He also does not know that right now Lungu is sold away the remaining State companies to the Chinese like ZESCO, ZNBC, National Airports to name but a few.

  16. Corruption scandals: 48 Houses Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco Loans Corruption scandals: 48 Houses Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco Loans

    Here’s is the simple explanation for you and your kind of what happened about the failed Zambian privatization program:
    1) KK had run these public companies into the ground, bailing them out using borrowed money from IMF and World Bank while they made significant losses; 2) When MMD and FTJ came to power, they wanted to restructure these debts; 3) Part of the conditions were to offload these companies and selling off onto the market; 3) Their market value was terrible and no one would buy them due to debt and liabilities outnumbering assets; 4) To attract buyers, IMF and World Bank ordered the MMD to sell at giveaway prices with incentives like no tax for years until the companies broke even and started making profits; 5) Consultants (local and external) were engaged at exorbitant fees…

  17. Corruption scandals: 48 Houses Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco Loans Corruption scandals: 48 Houses Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco Loans

    …5) Consultants (local and external) were engaged at exorbitant fees due to urgency and criticality of the program schedule… most local consultants’ job was to interpret the contract into Zambian corporate laws and negotiate price. Ultimately the decisions were made by the govt; 6) Although individual companies were sold out at giveaway prices, collectively enough revenue was raised by the MMD; 7) Then came the looting and stealing by the “ntola fye” Bemba mafia of FTJ and his minions who stole everything leaving nothing for the Zambian people. The rest is history as they say.

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  18. All the tribal upnd supporting goats, especially those in diaspora keep shouting that even lungu played a role. I don’t see lungu owning any company or house that was part of privatisation. Instead of hh answering the zambian people he has, as expected, deflected or avoided answering the questions. The chap is so guilty that he runs to court to make nawakwi keep quiet. Why is hh desperate for people to stop asking questions? An innocent man wouldn’t be bothered. Hh your end is near.

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  19. The pot calling the kettle black. Tell us who are you? Account for your wealth. Not a single income tax record at ZRA of Kaizer Zulu or any one of your companies before PF formed government. Financial guru, business genius tell us how you did it on a government salary? When you’re done calling me names/ insulting me (PF default setting) respond to the question. Tell us..

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  20. @Deep South, PF Pvt Ltd preys on the ignorance of illiterate Zambians. Take note of what the party in itself is comprised of__’a group of illiterate peasants in suits’ that have no track record in any given industry.

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  21. Even those who stole from the widow must find it difficult to campaign the whole Zambia.

    Nathan Chanda must be on weed therapy.

    PF must pack and go next year.

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  22. Kikikikik…SO Even His Excellence the Commander in Chief of ALL (ARMED FORCES) will not be allowed to campaign on CB because he was involved in privatizing COLD storage. This ka TINY Boy NATHAN , does not even hail from CB… At least LUSAMBO who hails from there…ALL THE SAME WE ARE ALL ZAMBIANS = NOTHING LIKE NO GO AREA…..

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  23. At this point i can say, in a very neutral manner, that PF is loosing the presidency in 2021 but UPND will loose parliament majority. Both should start thinking of coalition government. HH has Edith Nawakwi on his side indirectly. Had this been brought up in place of the treason case in 2017, things would have worked somehow. Now its very late. UPND has cant win majority MPs. Even simple majority. Zambian is heading towards coalition government.

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  24. Only *****s would buy such talk! Are you saying Ecl former MMD members and MMD itself won’t campaign on the kopala? People should think before making foolish and shameful statements for political expediency!!

  25. Privatisation was a success. By 2010 our economy had recovered and growing at more than 7% and reserves at 4.8 billion dollars. Zambian has just collapsed and PF what to sift blame. Where are the reserves and last year economy was growing at less than 2%

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  26. Those that had a hand in gassing will find it hard to look citizens in the eyes and those that didn’t bring culprits to book will forever be responsible for those atrocities.

  27. Kaizer, I told you last time that you should hold a press conference or go to radio and make specific allegations then you will be given an opportunity in court to give evidence. Don’t hide here!! You will do a service to the nation if you do that. Ask Nawakwi how it’s going for her.

  28. Great message on the copperbelt. Poeple are stll suffering coz of some sellers.Use it and the man will run away>he gets annoyed coz he benefited a lot.

  29. IN BLACK AND WHITE HH THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF ZAMBIA FINITO. THAT PRIVATISATION TOOK PLACE 29 YEARS AGO, YOU WERE ALL ASLEEP? DONT HIDE BEHIND PF NAWAKWI, TELL US THE OWNER OF THE 49 HOUSES, TELL US WHY THERE IS LOAD SHEDDING IN THE COUNTRY, TELL US THE STOLLEN MILLIONS INFIC REPORT, TELL US WHO WAS THE GASSER, TELL US THE ONE WHO WAS BURNING THE MARKETS ARE? IS NAWAKWI THE OPPOSITION PARTY OR SHE IS PF.

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  30. SO YOU WERE ALL ASLEEP UNTILL WAKEN UP BY FAKE NAWAKWI. WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SMERA HH WITH, GOD HAS ALREADY SAID YES FOR HH TO BE ZAMBIAS PRESIDENT. JUST PREPARE TO SCAMPER. WHAT A WISE PRESIDENT HH YOU ARE GREAT, ALL THOSE EVIDENCE YOU BROUGHT OUT AND PEOPLE ARE SO DULL TO CONTINUE MAKING NOISE WHEN THEY FAILED TO TELL US THE GASSER, THE OWNER OF 49 HOUSES, FIRE TENDERS, ETC. CAN YOU DO WHAT HH DID WITH THAT EVIDENCE I SAW FOR SURE? NOT PF, NO RECORD. SHAME.

  31. Those people (allegedly ) who had a hand in privatization are a far far far lesser evil than those who’ve now collapsed Zambia’s economy and mortgaged our future with unsustainable 70% debt to GDP.

  32. And then imwe bamene ba PF you preach one Zambia one nation. Copperbelt is for every Zambian your Worship including HH. You people have personalised this country and made yourselves small gods. just prepare yourselves because very soon things will start falling apart for you.

  33. Waste of time spending time reading what Nathan Chanda and the likes are talking about. Chanda is so scared to talk about uncle Chikwanda, Dr. Katele etc. Coward. Lets sensitize people why they shouldn’t vote for PF. It is very clear that there is no money in the pockets of people. If by chance you are given the money by PF, take it and use it and don’t vote for them because you’re being bribed. It is temporarily money that come once in about 5 years.

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  34. Corruption scandals: 48 Houses Social Security Cash Luxury Presidential Jet Ambulances Fire Trucks Mukula Trees Ndola-Lusaka Rd Malawi Maizegate Fuelgate Swaziland landgate Zesco LOAN- HAS ANALYSED MORE SENSIBLE.I 100% AGREE WITH U.THE PROBLEM IS WE ALWAYS REMOVE THE ROOT OF ALL THESE ISSUES.EVEN THAT KANUKA IMBWA KZ IS WRITING NONSENSE. WAPYA IMBWA IWE.I HATE THIS MAN KZ WITH A PASSION.

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