Patriotic Front (PF) Member of the Central Committee Raphael Nakachinda has said that Zambia’s economy is as good as nonexistent ever since the UPND took over the governance of the country.
Speaking at a media briefing in Lusaka today, Mr Nakachinda said barely 8 months after the UPND governance, the country’s economy is a national disaster as the cost of living has become extremely high for an ordinary citizen to afford.
“And if you may recall, we told the Zambian people that soon they will come back to us to thank us for quickly pointing out that this government has no direction,” Mr Nakachinda said.
Mr Nakachinda said it is regrettable that the country’s democracy is under threat in the new dawn government.
He said that the UPND government under Mr Hichilema are using intimidating tactics to silence people who are critical to their way of running the country.
Mr Nakachinda said that all Zambians are equal stakeholders and no one should be intimidated for expressing their freedom of expression.
“Zambia has always existed, but it looks Zambia was born the day HH was elected. We have had Presidents in the past, Presidents just like governments come and go, there shall surely be others and another is surely coming after HH is gone in 2026”, he said.
The PF Member of the Central Committee said that President Hichilema should not start blaming Zambians who are questioning him for his failure to fulfil his campaign promises.
He advised President Hichilema to learn from his Malawian counterpart who he said over-promised and scored nothing which resulted in widespread demonstrations in that country.
“He swallowed his pride by first dissolving the cabinet and openly apologized to the Malawian people, We should not be shy to borrow the Bemba saying that ‘INSONI EBUNTU.’ nga naufilwa kuichefya,” Mr. Nakachinda said.
And commenting on the arrest of Economic and Equity Party President Chilufya Tayali, Mr Nakachinda charged that his arrest his an indictment on President Hichilema.
He recalled that in 2015, while in opposition; Mr Hichilema claimed that he used to receive copies of sensitive security intelligence briefs before the commander in chief President Lungu then and yet no one arrested him. Mr Nakachinda has appealed to the international community to take a keen interest in what is happening in the country instead of only focusing on their business interests.
Meanwhile, Patriotic Front Media Director Antonio Mwanza has charged that there is no investor confidence in the country under the current Government.
Speaking on Live Radio Special Programme, Mr Mwanza said this is despite President Hakainde Hichilema dubbing himself the Chief Marketing Officer of Zambia.
Mr Mwanza said President Hichilema has since made 12 international trips with no investor coming into the country.
“There was a lot of talk about Investor confidence. The President dubbed himself the Chief Marketing officer of this country, he made 12 international trips with Zero results,” Mr Mwanza said.
He added that the Zambian People are dealing with a government full of fake promises.
Mr Mwanza bemoaned the Propaganda of labelling the Patriotic Front members as thieves, adding that the New Dawn Administration has failed to run the corruption fight because they accuse people of being corrupt without having evidence.
Mr Mwanza said digging into people’s homes with the hope of finding hidden money is a ploy to paint a bad picture of the Former Ruling party and that seven months since the New Dawn took office, people have been accused of being corrupt but no one has been charged or arrested.
“Investigative wings went to the House of former National Chairman Mr Samuel Mukupa they dug holes but they did not find anything. We want to reiterate what the acting PF President said, stop. “The President is saying those who stole, should bring the money. We as Patriotic Front have suffered the Propaganda blunt that we are thieves. We want to be cleared in the courts of law. Arrest everybody, take them to court, prosecute them and produce evidence,” he said.
And Mr Mwanza said the Government should stop Victimising civil servants and that the issue of trying to blame other people for failure to provide a service should come to an end.
He said it is therefore not right for Minister of Health Sylvia Masebo to say that Politics has taken centre stage in her Ministry.
Raphael Nakacinda is a cheap populist and megalomaniac with no political clout and economic sense.
Impunity
You need to repent for messing up the country……….
We cannot continue to be part of the 2.8millon. My wife and my 4 children have realised we were lied to . Its no longer 2.8m ….its now 2,799,995.
Too much lies
How I trusted and believed in HH. In him I was seeing redemption. In him I was seeing reduced cost of living. In him I was convinced things will get better. Never ever thought this man was lying between his teeth. Never put your faith in man…..my grand father once told me.
Hate him of like him….on this one Nakachinda is right. Twachula …..Lungu was a better evil than the current one.
Nakachinda is right…..Twachula!!!
We warned you. How can an economist president fail the economy
Politician tefintu
When we were voting out the PF last August we knew that these politicians are the same. We just wanted change of Government at all costs. But what I know is that UPND is better than PF. PF was a gang of merciless criminals never to be allowed back in power again. If the UPND proves to us that they are no different from PF by August 2026 we will show them the exit door
Oh, it’s president Nakacinda, who’s PF is going to make everything right. Like the last ten years when they brought the country on the brink of bankruptcy!
By the way, what are those binoculars doing on Nakacinda’s desk? Is he that blind that he can’t even recognize a visitor? Hehehe hohoho hihihi
Tell them off…this doom government is hell
Lower Zambezi, at your age with four voting children you expected an individual in HH to uplift your household economic woes? What hope is there for a school leaver?
THATS RICH COMING FROM YOU AND THE PF
WHO STARTED THIS ROT NOT YOU ???
AND YOU EXPE$CT THIS GOVERNMENT TO RECTIFY IT IN A FEW MONTHS
ITS GOING TO TAKE YEARS !! THERE IS NO OVERNIGHT FIX AS YOU ARE TRYING TO PORTRAY
AND WE THE CITIZENS ARE NOT GOING TO FORGET WHERE THIS HARDSHIP STEMS FROM
THATS RICH COMING FROM YOU AND THE PF
WHO STARTED THIS Mess NOT YOU ?
AND YOU EXPECT THIS GOVERNMENT TO RECTIFY IT IN A FEW MONTHS
ITS GOING TO TAKE YEARS ! THERE IS NO OVERNIGHT SOLUTION AS YOU ARE TRYING TO PORTRAY
AND WE THE CITIZENS ARE NOT GOING TO FORGET WHERE THIS HARDSHIP STEMS FROM
STUPID LT
We will never ever listen to the manipulative corrupt PF. If we need to air our grievances, we will speak for ourselves, not through the corrupt manipulative PF
@Miti
YOU ARE SPOT ON
We have a 5 year mandate from the Zambian people…………
Wait for 2026 …………..
By then all the tough economic measures now in place would have paid off………..
You have no chance, ba opposition……….
Come 2024, zambia will be a shining example of a successfull economic recovery……………
Now is your only chance to make noise, which is being ignored inany case…………
I wonder where Zambia would have been if PF remained in power. Clearly we would have followed the Sri Lanka way due to over borrowing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-25/sri-lanka-is-facing-clear-solvency-problem-imf-report-says
Nakalasa is ignorant to the fact that PF regime left the Zambian economy in the bottomless pit . The impact of Covid 19 and the current global inflation are not in his vocabulary.
These PF thugs think that we are foolish and that they will ever come back to power, wait and see. The economy is the way it is because of PF. PF used to call people and citizens ”Lunatics” when they advised them against over borrowing.
Which pipo are coming back to thank you? Name even one. In fact pipo are leaving PF in droves to join upnd. Have you not been seeing all those defections of former PF MPs with you binoculars?
Yes there are problems but disaster sounds bitter and just hate.
Those who are suffering are those who benefitted from the PF thievery. There was no real economic management by the PF govt. If they did why were pensioners suffering? why were councils three months in salary arrears? Why were they failing to farmers who supplied to FRA? Naka-Chinda is just a garrulous *****!