By Mark Simuuwe | PF members forget easily; they do not know how much ECL lost in 2016, and 2021 even after succeeding in rigging by registration of infants and foreigners, and systematically marginalizing other provinces through voter and NRC registration.
If we removed those voters that may have succeeded to vote more than once through those NRCs bearing names of the same person we saw , the real figures ECL got could be 1million votes or less.
In the first place , in PF itself , he was not popular and that’s why the KAMBWILI’s used him as they believed he was going to be easy to remove after finishing Sata’s term.
Until the time elo atutubwike elo abasuma ( when he got resuscitated , he hammered them ) ! All those power hungry PF members like the Harry Kalaba, Kambwili’s , KBF and others scampered for their political life .
Further, in 2021, he tried all tricks and lost like no other president in the world today .
The margin itself both in the civil service, among farmers do not favour him . Even among the youths he grabbed meal allowances from , imposed employment freeze , and got jobs from by destroying the mine .
Sadly , he is still in the …paradise where he wants to hand over power to himself again as cheated by myopic power hungry guys like Emmanuel Mwmbas . He will be shocked in 2026. Citizens will retire him since he has refused to retire .
He is comparing himself to Donald Trump , whom he had bad relations with after chasing the US Ambassador from Zambia , and Donald Trump responded by downgrading Zambia’s US Embassy to De’ Charg’d Affairs ; under Donald Trump , there was no gassing of citizens , Ukwa bags , machetes , illegal Mukula exports , killing citizens, pangas , bloodshed , live ammunitions on the court premises , defaulting on loans , losing social cash transfer by theft , closing down media houses .
No!!
These were under ECL and he cannot compare himself to Donald Trump , a think-tank and a businessman like HH .
Even PF MPs don’t trust him . By the way , how many MPs in PF are talking about him for Presidency ? out of over 50 MPs who supported him in 2021, only less than 2 are talking, yet some power hungry colleagues surrounding think he is still relevant.
More over most of the PF MPs want to stand on UPND ticket and they know that PF is gone !!
From UKWA to Tonse , same reasoning, same tactics and same limited political scope ! They can’t jump above what we know . We have tested their brains and they have caused havoc through debt contraction and corruption!
The international community like the IMF , World Bank and EU abandoned Zambia and stopped financing us because of ECL’s corrupt administration. The UK even ask for the refund of social cash transfer .
We had the best of ECL’s of leadership when Lawrence Banda died , when he refused to pay 258,000 farmers their money after they supplied products to FRA.
We had his best when council workers went for 7-15 months salary arrears and ECL had no clue on what to do .
We had ECL’s best when he went on rampage closing media houses , when there was gassing in Zambia .
We had his best when he demoted Rae Hamoonga for disclosing that gassers were caught .
We had his best when he scrapped off meal allowances and imposed employment freeze and wage freeze .
We had ECL’s best when he shut down Indeni indefinitely, destroyed the mines , retired citizens in national interest, and threatened to dissolve the judiciary.
We had his best when mealie meal moved from k37 to K280 . We have never had such a percentage from independence.
Today , he claims he has changed , at his age ? As the saying goes , dictators don’t change , they only change tactics. And another we goes , “ you can’t teach an old dog new tricks “.
Beware of an angry and hungry bloodthirsty dictators!
