By Emmanuel Chilekwa
We use $78m to get a jet, $42m to get wheelbarrows which are insured at just a fraction of the cost, then we celebrating to beg $2m from Japan. What did we use the Euro bond for? We owe a single country, China over $6billion.
FIC reports that $520m (K6.4billion) gone down the black hole through corruption, plunder and so forth, no urgency to pick up the culprits, but cops armed to the teeth have time to efficiently lock up one PF trained insultant from Luanshya as if insults do show on our faces or stomachs.
Meanwhile ZESCO is hell bent, with suffocating ill intent to cripple the nation, ERB held a meeting with energy players to slap a 95% increase which the players rejected in a meeting lasting whole day.
Tomorrow Boss1 comes to be told that the increase has been shot down.
In the homes, poverty has increased as communities continue failing to have just a meal a day because they can’t afford a bag of mealie meal.
Those charged with recoveries of looted resources are running away from getting FREE evidence of who owns the 48 mushroom houses in Chalala.
Forest 27 is up for grabs by those close to corridors of power.
No one wants to account for Copper and Mukula revenues.
Politicians preoccupied with changing the Constitution to weaken Parliament and the judiciary so that one man can become the alpha and omega.
If we were on auto pilot, we could have been better off but we are just being dununad into reverse everywhere you go.
Not sure how the huge debts shall be repaid. We continue to blame HH for the bad weather and skyrocketing mealie meal prices.
Anything making sense does not rhyme sensible to those we danced for to govern our welfare in 2016. I gues we were bewitched and the voodoo doctor passed away, so no reversal but continue being dununad with no end in sight.
We still should not lose hope. Let’s pray for these looters to one day go.
Mr Chilekwa, you must be ashamed of yourself by claiming that you can’t see what the Euro bond and other monies have gone. From the time the PF took over power, Zambia especially Lusaka has tremendously bee transformed. How many universities, Hospitals, Schools, Roads, Airports, Power plants, dams etc have been built? Yes, there may be some corruption but something has been done unless you just want the government to put good on tables for all Zambians. I’ve the experience of living in all successive governments of Zambia but there there has never been a time when all families managed three meals a day even in years of no drought. It was probably only during colonial rule and a few years after our indipendence. How about now with the drought? Zambia has been blessed with great resources of water and water is the cheapest source of energy generation. MMD was in power for 20yrs, how many power generating plants did they put up and how nany has the PF government done in only 5yrs of being in power? The effects of the drought can not be ignored and let’s us not use the situation for political gains but come up with ideas and measures to overcome this situation. Let us overexagerrate the the situation by telling lies. We been condemning all our leader in the past but just to come and over praise them when they are gone and Im sure we shall the same with our current leaders. The promises we are being told before but have we seen them in action? Tha aim and preoccupation like some one has already stated is just to assume power at all costs.
I can’t believe that Emmanuel Chilekwa has written this. Emmie, what do u want in life? Are u sure u know what u want? What hv u learned from so many years of reporting on Zambian politics?