 We all know, here on my immediate right, Honorable Chautika Khoma, one of the first members of parliament for UPND, many years chairman of information, he held various portfolios in the party, gained next to Honorable Khoma, his Honorable Captain Mono, equally former member of parliament for UPND, chairman of security defense. The Secretary General, member of the National Management Committee, colleagues from the press, obviously today is a turning point in my political career, because as many of you know already, last year in the run up to elections, I left UPND to join the patriotic front, but early this year I resigned from the patriotic front, both are the Central Committee members as well as a member of the patriotic, and therefore since that time when I resigned from the patriotic front, I've been an ordinary citizen in Zambia, but interacting with everybody. I wish first of all to offer my sincere apologies in the bottom of my heart for injuring the feelings of many of my colleagues in the UPND, in particular the feelings of his excellency, the President of the Republic of Zambia, the President of UPND, his excellency, the President of HACA in the HIPAA. Many of you know that his excellency, the President has been a friend from a long time ago. My childhood friend, we were at school together, we invested together, we were in the UPND together for a long time, and therefore he stood by me and I stood by him for many years in the UPND stretching over a period of more than 20 years. And therefore to have left him in the Eleventh Hour was injurious to him, and I would like Mr Secretary General to convey to his excellency the President my sincere apologies to him for the actions that I took. I regret that action and therefore Secretary General, please convey to his excellency that the chance can come, I am very sorry. Equally I would like to Secretary General convey also to the First Lady in Tintin, Ichilema, my apologies to her. You may wish to know that the First Lady, as my tribal cousin, was very welcoming to me. Each time I visited their home, I found it very welcoming, very friendly, and sometimes even at the community house, which is for some reason always cool of course, I would freely even enter her kitchen and demand for tea, and she would gladly do it. So she was at the head to find that the person that she trusted so much at the beach, the health bank, I will depart. So Secretary General again conveying my sincere apologies to the First Lady. It's your show now. Thank you very much SG for giving me this opportunity to be at this place briefly. Since my brother has already introduced a protocol of standing while talking, I will also stand. First I would like to thank you SG for having time in your busy schedule to host us at this Secretary General's office where I am rejoining my party, UPND. I am told at the end there will be questions, but some questions maybe I can answer them. But some of the media people maybe have not seen me for quite some time because for the past six years I have been an ordinary member and quite in the rural area in the trauma district. My name is Captain Kosmas Mono. I am the first MP for Sri Lanka for UPND in 2001. Meaning I joined UPND in 1998. In 1998 when it was formed UPND has been my party which has made me see the width and breadth of Zambia. In 2016 I resigned from UPND and towards the erections I was invited by PF to stand in Sri Lanka when they saw that I was a popular person there on PF ticket. I did that and complained on PF and lost. His excellence has brought a lot of change to Zambia. One, he has dematerialized the kadas. My dear those of you who have never faced PF kadas at close range, if you don't know how life is, how the crocodile lives in water, ask the fish. Those kadas were scaring me, not only to ordinate the citizens, even the police was running away. If you are working with your wife and you meet the commander on the road and because your wife you just have to give him a chance. Farms were taken, houses were taken, the rail lines were uprooted. Now if you look at what the president has brought. There is calmness, there is no cardalism. The involvement is of peace. I know those who are brutalizing Zambians are missing that scenario and they are complaining and criticizing. But I think this is what we, this is the Zambia we are all aiming for. Look at the fight for agonist corruption. Have you ever heard of the universe being a story? You are not talking of a primary school or a secondary school, a universe like that, all of it is a story. How many primary schools, how many secondary schools were stories in a similar fashion? We need to give the president a lot of support as Zambians. One of the critics was, I laughed, he was talking about how the president dresses when he goes to Pongwei to open farms there and whatever. Now, me I'm from military. We are taught how to dress according to occasions. You can't put in a suit when you are going to the farms. You wear according to the occasion. And I think our president is the most well dressed president to any occasion. We are aware of some of our leaders, former leaders who used to go and dance now in the neighboring countries. And they were there showing us that there is nobody to complain. I think let's not pay attention to some of these people. When a European is implementing these programmes like free education, they are jealous. No, now you have brought free education. There will be so many children, no classroom, what what have you. But you see, his excellence is very intelligent. He brings free education. More children have gone to classes. The classes are few. He has given them CDF to go and build more classrooms. Then what and buy more desks? He has recruited the teachers. What more do you want from such a man? Why should you keep opposing such a man? Surely you want him to come to your constituents and start building classrooms. I think he can't go that far. It's up to the communities now. The MPs, the headmen, the chiefs. Everybody in that community to see their priorities. If they have no classroom, use the CDF and build the classrooms. They don't need to come here. When they left, they injured our feelings. Indeed, they injured our feelings because we know what they did at an hour of need. We know how they sacrificed when the party was completely getting finished. They stood there. Every time Charles stood up, 26, 27 and going forward. You could see the courage of a man who is defending a system and institution which is at the rock bottom. Then you start wondering what courage has that man. Today, when I'm personally criticized for bringing in people like him, I keep quiet. I'm called all sorts of names. I just keep quiet. It's not because I have no feelings, but it's because there are certain things that I know what my attackers do not know. They do not know where this party came from. I want to tell you this. Every time when we are in a national management committee or we have a big meeting, that is all UPND, I look back and look at the people that are gathered there. Then I ask myself in my heart and say, how many were there when we started the journey. You find that the people that are there are from Madadeko. Others have come from the MMD, FDD, PF, UNIP. They are there. People that managed to cross River Jordan and reach the canal. Though that were there at the beginning of our journey, a good number of them are gone six feet under. So if our policy at the party was to just stand on ground and say, we are not going to receive anyone, we are not going to receive anyone, today we are going to belong to history. The dangers of history like every other party that you know about. But Hakain always told us. He said, you are criticizing others. You are taking others for coming in the party. Where do you come from? Then you realize, I was UNIP. You realize I was MMD. Then you realize I was PF. You do not want others to come in. You have heard of very good policies that were being illustrated by the gentlemen here. And you do not want people to participate in that revolution. You want people to start insulting the good policies that people are enjoying currently. I want to tell you this, much as you feel, there is time to sit down, enjoy. And then maybe when we are tired of enjoying, that's when we are inviting people to come and join us. No, the human being is a very strange animal. You close the door for them today, and you will find another door open somewhere. At the time when you start running to look for them, they will tell you, sorry, we are no longer part of you.