 I want to say that I'm extremely delighted to be back at the Minister of Finance. This is the fourth time that I'm becoming a member of the team of the Minister of Finance. First time was when I just graduated from the University in 1979. My first job ever was here at the Minister of Finance. I came back later as an advisor to Minister Kateri Kalumba during the PRSP days, you remember, ST. Then I was back as Secretary to the Treasury. I was back as Minister of Finance and I'm back again as Minister of Finance. So I'm not totally lost. There are a few changes that have taken place physically and also in terms of ideas, but I have a very good understanding of this place because of the history that I've just indicated. I also want to thank the President, President Ichilema, for showing confidence that he can come back to the Minister of Finance to lead his economic team and all I can say is that I will not disappoint him and I will not disappoint the people of Zambia. We are here to do great things as an economic team under his administration. I'll come back to that point in a while. In the meantime, I want to say that the Ministry that I'm coming to is obviously quite different from the one I left in 2011 in terms of the economic environment that we are experiencing as a country today. The economic variant meaning that the cost of living is escalated beyond what we had imagined. Obviously, the exchange rate where it is today or where it has reached, none of us ever dreamt that a dollar one day would cost even 20 quater. Because those days, if it reached five or even six, they would be panic. But today, that is the situation. The dollar has become very expensive. But all this really, in summary, is that the people of Zambia are stressing economically. The people of Zambia are stressing. I must also add that this stress, this economic stress has its roots here in the Ministry of Finance. The stress arises from the fact that Zambia, over a rare to be short period of time, has just borrowed too much money. Borrowed too much money. Meaning that as we pay back this little liquidity for those running businesses to have customers. Meaning that it has become hard for the government to hire essential workers such as teachers, health workers or indeed even to provide meaningful salary increments to the workers of the public service. So that's the difference that I come to. It was not there before. And it is this difference. It is this stress that has led the people of Zambia, more especially the youth, to say to our colleagues, the ones who were in charge before, please go and take a rest. Let's try a different team. Therefore, this administration, we are focusing or we are going to focus a lot on economic issues. We don't care much about how your nose looks like. We don't care much about whether you are tall or short. We don't care much about what language you speak. That is not our politics. Our politics is what can we do to reduce and to remove the stress that the people of Zambia are experiencing? How can we create jobs for the millions of youth who are roaming the streets? Starting from those who have just ended grade 7, grade 9, grade 12, university graduates because unemployment is now right across the whole spectrum of society. So our focus will be how to generate, not how to generate but to generate jobs for the young people through number one. Those where government is able to hire or should hire, like teachers and health workers, within our means we are going to put a lot of, we are going to put some steam into that. We know that there are about 50,000 trained teachers alone who are out there looking for jobs in their teaching service and indeed those jobs are necessary. Those of us running rural constituencies, we know that teachers are desperate to need it. So we will do something about that problem so that perhaps in the next five years we can get back to normal whereby essential workers such as teachers, health workers are employed and put on payroll. That is the contribution of the government. But there is a limit to which government can do to absorb the youth off the streets. How many teachers can we employ? How many policemen can we employ? These are just thousands but we know there are millions of young people looking for jobs and those jobs must come from the private sector. So you see what we are going to do? We are going to do a lot to drive up the agenda in the private sector. We will push hard to make sure that our mining sector expands. The mining output has been stuck for the last 10 years at about 800,000 metric tons of copper per year. We are going to push aggressively so that mining output in the next 10 years comes to something like 3 million tons. By the end of this current mandate, we want to push mining output to something close to 2 million tons of aluminum from 800,000. Why? Because mining, as you know, is the one that gives foreign exchange, is the one that gives some employment, is the one that provides employment in many sectors that are related to mining transports, banking, insurance, repairs, spares, construction. All those are related to mining so we are going to push very hard for the mining sector. And the good thing is that the price of copper is projected to remain high for many, many years. This is going to be the new oil. In the 1970s, oil was the end thing. Now copper is the end thing because cars are no longer going to be used in petrol. They are moving towards electrical systems. So we are going to push the production of copper by creating a good environment for investments to be done. And you'll be amazed how much foreign exchange this country is going to make with this price of copper. You will not know what to do with the dollars that this country will be receiving. Our problem may just be the dollar becoming too cheap as we drive this process. We are going to make sure that there is value addition. We have to persuade credible investors to put investments into these multifaceted economic zones which have been dominant in the last 10 years. So that in those emphases, we can draw copper wires. In those emphases, we can do copper alloys. You see that lock there? It looks like gold. That's a copper alloy. Copper mixed with something else. Which currently is imported? Our job is to make sure that items like those. Items like fridges, which result of copper. Items like stator motors. We are going to push to make sure that those populate the special or multifaceted economic zones so that you, the young people, have a wider choice of jobs to get into. These juices that we import from South Africa, whether it is mango juice, whether it is orange juice, whether it is purple juice, we want to be the ones exporting those items into South Africa, into Europe, into the Americans. So there's going to be aggression to make sure that we produce these items in large quantities, very processed within Zambia, and export. So this cotton will make sure that our farmers get good incentives to grow cotton so that it is spun here. Out of that, we make clothes. Out of that, we are the ones to be exporting jeans, t-shirts, shirts, bed sheets, and so forth. So this is just a brief flavor of the gender that we have to drive the economy to grow. Ten years ago, people were saying economic growth didn't matter. Now you have seen for yourself what happens when there is no economic growth. You have seen for yourself when there is negative economic growth. Look at the poverty that is there. That is the image. Because when there is no growth, it simply means there is no, the ending power of the country is going backwards. And when the ending power of the country is going backward, what it means is that on average, each one of us would be poorer than before. That's why these economists would tell you that the capital GDP, or the average income per person, it has gone down. And that's not surprising because the growth of the economy has done what? It's taken a nice night. So our challenge is to stop the economy declining, put it in the opposite direction very aggressively. And I want to say we are benchmarking ourselves very aggressively. Benchmarking means what we intend to be in the next 10, 15 years. We want to be like Mauritius, we want to be like Malaysia, we want to be like Thailand so that the wheels of the economy grow. It's no longer about saying I want to economic growth but really want to transform. So this is what the leadership president is bringing to the table, how to transform this economy beyond anything that you've ever seen before. It's a very aggressive, very aggressive. Now, to my colleagues here in the Ministry of Finance, you've got a flavor of what we are aiming at. And we are the ones to facilitate that by making sure that money that is wasted and frivolous things is now invested into things that matter. When I talk about, for example, when I talk about producing 3 million tons of copper, there is a role for government, there is a role for private sector. Our role as government is to make sure that this infrastructure going to where copper holes are discovered. You can't say there's copper there but there's no road going there, there's no power going there. Yes, copper is there but you will not be able to mine. When we are talking about tourism, it's not good to say we have animals, we have Victoria Falls, we have this and that. These items are in the bush. How do you go into Ljur where I come from and say, one tourist, where are they going to sleep? Under the tree? Yes, they can sleep under the tree but they live very little men. So the idea is to make sure that infrastructure, which is the responsibility of government, SD, goes to where it can unlock investments. That's our duty at the Minister of Finance. Our duty is to make sure that we collect taxes so that we can train our people, train the young people, they are skilled so that all these investments that we are talking about, the Zambians are not bystanders. Zambians are participants because they can supply, they can work, provide professional services. So that is the agenda, Mr. SD. The money is going to be utilized carefully on things that assist the social sector, on things that generate more revenue for the country so that growth keeps on exploding. Wastage is to come to the end. As you see me here, I say that the 10 years when I was a private member of parliament, representing the rural constituents, for me that was very good training. Very good training because when we talk about shortage of teachers, I've seen it. Schools where I went, primary school where I went before going to secretary in Hillcrest and Livingston. That primary school today is a basic school. But the number of teachers who are there are less than the number of teachers who are there when it was only up to grade 7. So that's why we heard the President talking about taking money to where it belongs. That is us here at the Minister of Finance. No useless seminars, no useless tips because that money must be saved to go to where the rural people are suffering, things that I've seen with my own eyes in the last 10 years. Many of you have never slept in a sump. I've slept in a sump. Maybe one of these days we should go to sleep in a sump so that you see what we are talking about. Issues of corruption. No one will protect you. If you are found in corruption, straight away to ACC. No one will protect you. So if there were schemes like that, say bye-bye to them. Issues of failing to deliver service come tomorrow, come tomorrow. License is taking 7 years to produce. I've seen this situation like that. We are going to agree, ST, we'll call the private sector. What kind of services do we deliver here? ABC. We agree that if an application for a particular license or something like that, if all the paperwork is correct, we have to commit ourselves that within X number of days, without question, this service must be delivered. If we don't deliver, the one who is supposed to deliver on that, we have to answer questions. Serious questions. Serious questions. Omission agenda. I believe we've already started some of those things, but we are going to push very hard to make sure that we provide service to the people of Zambia. Let me end here because I've actually gone beyond what I intended.