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BALLY Hakainde Hichilema fixing the nation👋👋CDF at work

President Hakainde Hichilema umufyashi wamano at work ✊ABOLISHING OF IMPOSITION OF DEATH PENALTY AND CRIMINAL DEFAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT.

Fellow citizens,

Please be informed that this afternoon, we assented to the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill number 25 of 2022, abolishing the imposition of the death penalty in the Republic of Zambia, and the offence of Criminal Defamation of the President.

The Penal Code Act Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia by the President's assent have been ammended to repeal all provisions of the Penal Code Act which provided for the imposition of mandatory death sentence in the absence of extenuating circumstances.

Similarly, by the President's assent, the provisions of Section 69 of Penal Code Act Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia which provide for the offence of Criminal Defamation of the President have since been repealed.

Fellow Zambians, during our campaigns for the Presidency, we promised to amend all laws that inhibit the growth of democracy and good governance, impede human rights and basic freedoms. Today we have delivered.

Hakainde Hichilema,
President of the Republic of Zambia.

Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND government so far✊2022 key Budget and governance issues planned for done and dusted:

1. Over 30,000Teacher Recruitment
2.over 11,000 Health worker Recruitment
3.Imigration Recruitment
4.Purchase of extra turbines at Kariba to avoid the South Africa, Zimbabwe situation
5.Correctional service Recruitment
6. Payment of retirees
7. Transfer of CDF to all Council accounts
8.Reducing inflation to single digit
9.Basic needs basket reducing by K312.6 by October according to JCTR catholic research
10. Maintaining kwacha stability making it best performing currency in the world ever for Zambia
11. Reaching Staff Level Agreement on debt restructuring of PF $31bn debt

12.Making Zambia an attractive investment destination, with manufacturers of medicine and Fertilizer to avoid costly Fertilizer coming in the country

13.Making shoprite revise prices of commodities down ward due to reduced inflation

14.Paying over 115,000 Tazara workers

15. Paying 34,000 council workers their salary arrears

16.Recruitment of more council workers

17. Stabilizing salary payments on time at UNZA , CBU and Civil Service

18.Media Freedom

19. Freedom of Assembly

20. Accelerated Fight against corruption

21. Sale of fraudulent Gulf Stream as promised

22. Stopping payment of contractors who wanted to be paid for the work not done

23. Transparency in disbursement of social cash transfer

24. Stabilizing the economy for Accelerated development

25. Reduced cases of tax evasion

26. Putting board in institutions which were running illegally like ZAMSA , ZAMRA etc.

27. Army Recruitment

28. ZAF Recruitment

29.ZNS Recruitment

30. Police Recruitment.

31. Etc...

Now eyes on 2023 programmes....the country is on course.
Elyo ngufwe ati shani Shani uko.

Tatameni vs what president Hakainde Hichilema has done to protect the public resources of the Zambian citizens🤝👋💪👌✊👋👋👋 in Bally we trust.

Hakainde Hichilema Umufyashi wamano and the UPND government at work CDF Naifika uku , an excellent job from Hon Romeo Kang'ombe .

Fertiliser delay a result of protracted negotiations with ranking suppliers – Mweetwa



By F***y Kalonda



UPND spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says President Hakainde Hichilema has saved a lot of tax payers money by his prudent management of his foreign trips.

And Mweetwa says the delay to start distribution of fertiliser was a result of protracted negotiations the government had with ranking fertiliser suppliers.

“The President has been accused of spending a lot of tax payers money on his foreign trips. My response is very simple. This is one President who has saved a lot of tax payers money by his prudent management of his foreign trips. Number one, by travelling on many occasions on commercial flights meeting a cost which is less than 10 per cent of what the actual cost have been if he was flying in his presidential jet and go and park in Washington for one week, two days, three days, and be able to pay parking fees for the plane. And also, the President moves with a lean entourage like he’s in Washington. I think he’s just with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and maybe just the Minister of Commerce,” he said. “Two, if it were other governments we have seen before, particularly, the previous one [the PF], it would have been a huge team on arrival at the airport. It would have been bigger than the team arriving at the World Cup in Qatar, because a number of ministers and many of whom have nothing to do with those transactions would be there.”

Mweetwa, at a briefing on Sunday, noted that some prophets of doom citing PF presidential aspirants Brian Mundubile, Geoffrey Bwalya and Citizens First leader Harry Kalaba “will continue to paint a gloomy picture about the prospects of a better Zambia”.

He said if what the UPND “has done in one year can replicate itself in the next three to four years, this is a government that would have fulfilled” its electoral commitments within its given mandate.

“We therefore expect that prophets of doom like honourable Mundubile, GBM, Harry Kalaba will continue to paint a gloomy picture about the prospects of a better Zambia. But even the freedom they have to hold press briefings, to occupy all radio stations like they did last week on Thursday, is an example of things that have changed in this country,” he said. “…He (President Hichilema) saves money and perhaps what we could say is that persons like my elder brother honourable Geoffery Bwalya Mwamba are envious that hadn’t it been for their political miscalculation, they may have been the ones that now that the President is in Washington, he should have been acting president and indeed vice-president of the republic of Zambia. But you see, political miscalculation is costly. That is why it is important to have foresight particularly to listen to what the citizens are saying and not what your fellow politicians are saying. Because sometimes we as politicians our view is blurred as to what the people on the ground really want. That is why we as UPND we are very mindful not to take citizens for granted whatsoever. We shall continue to listen to the citizens but more importantly so, we shall continue to do the right things for the nation in accordance with our electoral commitments one of which was to ensure prudent economic and national resource management in government like President HH is doing now with his international and foreign trips.”

Mweetwa wondered who would believe that President Hichilema has done nothing from the time he was elected into office.

“I think that we would like to urge the nation through the media not to be swept by this kind of political propaganda that is hovering around the country. The citizens need to take note that there is competition of identity particularly in the Patriotic Front ahead of their expected national convention where the leader of the opposition in parliament and presidential candidate for the presidency of PF honourable Mundubile, GBM and others have literally got no issues whatsoever to take government on seriously other than peddling propaganda. Who in Zambia can believe that President HH has done nothing in this country in the last one year and some months? I think without going through the catalogue of domestic issues that have been resolved, one can just see that those comments from GBM are laughable. They are politically motivated to try and make himself visible by seemingly attacking the government of the day,” he said. “From his statement, I think a number of you have read it. The only thing I personally picked was that whoever his speech writer is, wrote some quite good English but without substance. That is what I picked from the statement by GBM. As of my colleague Hon Mundubile who is alleging that the nation should prepare and brace for lawlessness, between 2023 and 2026 by the UPND, those statements are unpatriotic and dangerous to investment. Those statements coming from the leader of opposition are capable of frightening foreign direct investments because investors they begin to think twice that in the next few years to go Zambia will be politically unstable. Hon Mundubile will do well to remind himself that the leadership of President HH is anchored on the rule of law and not the lawlessness that they and them as PF orchestrated when they were in government. The only way, it would appear, PF knows governance is through lawlessness and violence and that is why he is positioning himself as a prophet of doom. But we are not surprised because even before President HH could be sworn in, even before the first UPND budget could be put into practice, Hon Mundubile and his colleagues had already predicted that UPND was a failure and started concocting a narrative that UPND would be a one term government.”

And Mweetwa said the government would continue to perfect the systems over farming inputs and ensure this year’s situation does not happen again.

He said he met with the ministers of information and agriculture to ensure the challenges in the collection and disbursement of agro inputs in Southern province are ironed out.

“Going forward starting Monday, I would like to encourage farmers to go to their various points of collection and smoothly collect their inputs, those that have not yet collected. Out of the 27,000 farmers for instance in Choma district, more than 20,000 have already collected. But we want every farmer to collect. That is why even where the majority have collected, we shall continue to perfect the systems to ensure that 100 per cent collect. I would also like to indicate that that scenario was caused by government’s desire to clean out and rid out ghost beneficiaries from FISP. That is why the system went electronic through Smart Zambia but technology as we know it has its own challenges, that is what caused the delay,” he said. “Going forward, it is expected that farmers will collect their inputs on time before the planting window closes. The planting window ordinarily closes on the 15th of January, so we are still within the planting window. But we are being mindful that because of climate change challenges, of sometimes unpredictable weather and rainfall patterns, it is better that our farmers get the inputs early for the season. Let me also clarify this, that the delay to have started the distribution of fertiliser was a result of protracted negotiations that government had with ranking fertiliser suppliers. The metric tonnes that are required to satisfy national fertiliser demand was initially pegged at US $553 million, at the prices that the suppliers then had pegged their commodity. And government had to grind its negotiations slowly until a savings of a US $123 million was met. Actually, 153 million dollars was saved. So you can see this amount of money which was saved…”

Mweetwa added that he has a dossier ready to be presented to the country should President Hichilema fail to address the country before the New Year as expected.

“…so this amount of money that was saved if government had rushed into exorbitant contracts...We thought as a party this should be enough and we are aware that the government is putting in place mitigation measures to ensure that this scenario of this year does not repeat itself. Two things, one government is encouraging local production of fertilisers and you have seen brand new companies opening. Number two, it’s to proactively be able to engage into the importation of fertiliser without…because as you know it takes more than 10 months to transport fertiliser from the Middle East to Zambia. And so Zambia, the Zambian government was in a difficult situation negotiating for these prices because if we did not buy, the suppliers, it would have taken another 10 months to wait for that fertiliser but your government is doing their best as demonstrated…” said Mweetwa. “So progress is being registered in various sectors and I am aware that the President of the Republic of Zambia may address the nation before we start the new year…In an event that the President gets held up, I have a dossier which I want to present to the nation before we go to 2023 so that we take stock of what has happened in 2022. What the government of the people has done, where success has been scored. Where challenges have been observed. What we expect to do in the year ahead…”

Umufyashi wamano Hakainde Hichilema giving us great Hope ✊ All is well.

Just in case you missed it👇👇

Hakainde Hichilema writes

Today I assented the National Pension Scheme Bill into law. This provides an option for partial withdrawal of benefits by a member. The Bill has also revised the penalty rate from twenty percent to ten percent for delayed payment of contributions.

Furthermore it provides for a waiver of penalties arising from delayed payment of contributions.

This was part of our campaign commitments that will enable employees to start investing part of their pension funds early in their working lives.

Hakainde Hichilema
President of the Republic of Zambia

Bally president Hakainde Hichilema does it again ✊✊✊ Tulipamulilo,ichimbilimbili chilebilima.

President Hakainde Hichilema BALLY wins the best Africa's President of the Year from the Africa Leadership Magazine.we salute you wemufyashi wamano wee🫡🫡

MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCES - HON TUTWA NGULUBE

December 3rd,2022

LUSAKA - The United Party for National Development UPND receives the news on the untimely demise of former Kabwe Central Member of Parliament Hon Tutwa Ngulube with shock and disbelief.

Hon Ngulube ably played his role as not only a politician but also a citizen who wanted the best for his country.

The Country still remembers how the late former lawmaker almost single handedly led the infamous Bill 10 Constitutional amendment crusade. He did it because he believed.

We shall forever live to remember Hon Ngulube for his contributions towards the growth of the country’s democracy as a man who was never shy of stating his position ,unpopular as it might be.

On behalf of the party and Republican President Hakainde Hichilema, National Management Committee and indeed on behalf of the larger UPND family and Zambia in general,i wish to offer our condolences to the Ngulube family and wish them God's comfort and blessings.

To the PF, receive our Condolences on the demise of one of your senior members as we mourn with you.

To the Law Association of Zambia and the entire legal fraternity, kindly receive our Condolences with our ultimate sorrow.

We urge the nation across political divide to mourn the late former lawmaker in love and humility.MHSRIP

Issued by :
Batuke Imenda
Secretary General - UPND Zambia