 ఆసనాటలు ఆనిటourt I may be wrong, but I think this is the first one, and today this is what we are going to do so you don't speculate what am I going to talk about. I will talk about the aftermath of the General Assembly, the residual matters that need to be dealt with in accordance with our constitution, with our regulations and certain procedures that need to be followed. For those who are not in the party, they may not be fully aware of what ought to happen after the General Assembly. And then I will also cover just a summary of what we intend to do for this country. I think it's important that we focus our business, our activities as a party, as a nation on those things that will better the lives of the people around. I see too much squabbling, I see too much greed in this economy, this country, especially from those that are even the responsibility of the public office. I see too much squabbling for better vehicles when there is no oxygen in the hospitals, and that's all they do. You open a newspaper, you open a social media platform, they are talking about things that don't benefit the people. I want us to change the agenda, I want this party to change the agenda. The agenda is to save the people's hand. I believe you agree with me. And I want to start with just that, then end with the stage after the General Assembly. We as a party have a passion on economy and jobs. Everything hinges on a functioning economy. I mean everything, everything. You want better healthcare, you need an economy run properly to support to fund healthcare. You want education, our children go to school, you need a functioning economy, well run economy, efficient prudent, without corruption to fund education. You want cheaper minimum, we need an economy run properly in agriculture to deliver more production at a lower cost to make every family afford three meals a day. You want to look after the sick, the weak, the old. You want social cash transfer. It doesn't drop from heaven. It comes from an entrepreneurial, well run economy with a clear vision and leadership and management capabilities. That's what this party brings to the table, to this country. So jobs and economy, business opportunities, very critical going forward into 2021, August 12, very critical. And I would like all our members to focus our minds on winning and after winning delivery for the people. All our members, especially the newly elected members. I'll come to that short. So the UPN has a clear and achievable agenda to revive our ailing economy and create millions of jobs. Millions of jobs. And indeed business opportunities for our citizens. We define jobs to mean a formal job, self employment, which comes through running your own small business, medium scale business, employing yourself, your family and other people. That's how we define jobs, income opportunities. So we are ready for that. We are well placed to do that. In that space, I want to share just nine pillars. Members of this party ought to familiarize themselves. You're the owners of these pillars. But more important for those that say things that are anchored on ignorance. And we forgive them. And that's what the short public office for. To project ignorance. How can you run a country like that? Never works and we've seen it fail. Never works and I'm grateful that Zambia have opened their eyes and ears. So key pillars of our economic recovery. We all know that economy, the lyric is gone. Nothing is happening. So we have a focal point or platform of pillars to revive our economy. Number one, we have a competent team in this party. Outside this party in this country. And wherever the skills may be. But the Zambian skills, competent. Starting with this party, very, very competent. That's number one. Because you can't implement anything without a team to do that. A dedicated team. Number two, we will focus on cutting waste. No waste for expenditure. No nonsensical luxuries. I shall repeat that. I shall repeat that. We will cut waste for expenditure. Consumption oriented expenditure. Focus on revenue best expenditure. And we will have to do away with nonsensical luxuries. When we close the general assembly. I did mention and I went on to say the same at Radio Phoenix. That under the UPN it's not possible for ministers to drive VXs. Three of them per person. Three of them. One is too much already. But three of them. But now I'm saying in case you didn't hear me well. Not a single VX worth millions of Kwacha in dollars. Two hundred and fifty thousand million. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The drive of such a vehicle must be ashamed. Because when they get sick they go to hospital. They die because there's no oxygen. So what's the value of your VX? Zero shame. I knew that even some members in our party who are aspiring to drive those VXs and started sharing social medias. We catch you. We now know what you are saying in public office. You are not different from this man for us. You are not different from this man for us. We see you now. We see you why you are campaigning to become an NMC man. Because this car that out there will not benefit from that VX. But this car that will benefit from oxygen will benefit from a scholarship or a child. This car that will benefit from other things. But I never say that you can't drive a VX. If you want a VX cut your own check. You are fine. Everybody is fine. Cut your own check. We are here to bring serious business to this country. Not the jokes we see everyday. Number three. We will stop the leakages caused by corruption. Simple straight. No need to repeat that. Zero tolerance to corruption. Number four. We will restructure the national debt to make it cheaper and manageable and in the longer term. Medium to longer term. Medium to longer term. From our economic revenue generation measures we should be able to live within our means and do away with unnecessary debt which have been number done to us by people we told in 2012-2013 not to borrow and they called us beta. The chickens have come home to roast. The debt mountain is insurmountable. The figures they were denying we told them now you have borrowed 16-17 billion. They said no. Now the figures are floating to well over 23 billion dollars. Your economy is only 27 billion dollars. So you are in debt. Even your chair in the house technically in financial terms it's ʻilipan konboli. Ka puna ka ʻamungandia. Ka mene muna zi gulila. People have put it on konboli. That's part of the national debt because the assets of this country are weighed against the lab villages. That is a meaning. We shall do that without fail. We have the capability, the skills. Remember, number one I talked about the competent team. We have those skills here and some of you who are willing and they are already offering their national duty services to this party through this party and we have a plan how to deal with that well ahead of 12 August 2021. You will see the pronouncements on the day we will be signing straight into business because we've been planning all these years. We've been working. We've been looking at what is going wrong and how to fix it and indeed we shall fix it. No question about it. Number five, we will diversify our economy through increased investment in agriculture and tourism in manufacturing, value addition. Right? And the digital economy which is a game changer. We will use science and technology to lower the cost of doing business to deliver services to our people. What are those services? Health services on the digital platform. You heard me. Health services. A doctor should be able to provide a prescription to a person in computer while the doctor is in Osaka but on the digital platform and the prescribed medicine will not be given through a piece of paper code prescription and asking a computer colleague of mine to go to a drug store which does not exist there. The medicine will be available in capital in Shangon. In Shisekano. Indeed. Indeed. Can you ask about that? Indeed. In Chif Kambombo. In Chama. Indeed. In Kaffa Mila. Leveraging on the technology to be able to deliver services at a lower cost. The doctor doesn't have to fly to a computer where there is no airstrip but can deliver the services. Connect what the doctor is doing with a drug supply system. What a beauty. It's real time. Meaning symptoms of time. Start visualizing how your life will change. Amina Zambia. Then you will have no doubt how to vote on the 12th of August. We have listened to too much noise. Everyone is just making noise. And noise meaning nothing. We want to talk solutions. We want to bring solutions, walk the talk. We will use that platform to deliver medical services, to deliver agricultural services. How to improve your production bank on that digital platform. We shall use it to deliver financial services. Financial services store in a market in Tamboli market next to a woman trader who needs capital. She will be able to access the capital next door to her store in Tamboli market because there will be a financial services center where it will be connected on a digital platform and she can access credit right next door to her store. I can go on. Sixth, we want to enable access to capital for zambian entrepreneurs. I touched it on the market as an example. But you cannot develop small to medium scale enterprises to create jobs for the owners and other people without capital, without financial support. And that's why I would rather a minister drives a high-lifes double cup. It has air condition. It is four wheel drive. What's wrong with that? And the savings from the VX we can provide the funds required to give soft loans to our small businesses. That is a fair. That's an equitable mutualization of natural resources. How many ministers are there? 2030. Why should they be coupling 20% of the national revenue when 17 million zambians are not even able to have capital at a fair price? Is that an argument we should make? I'm watching your social media platforms. I'm watching, I'm reading what you are writing there. I'm connecting to the names. Our agenda is not part of your agenda. I'm watching. Our agenda is those youth. Imagine. That's why I get tear gas. That's why I get arrested for treason, having committed no crime. And I come out and continue. It's for that woman who is pregnant with twins who I found in radio series. All her twins can have a better life. Mr.  Researchers, a colleague who's been with me in business and is of a different kind. From the years we were in school together in our Masters Program, we were together in business with friends, we do business together, and he says that point you made or followed, and you say that I will not be your partner anymore. And last night he called me and said, go and talk about it tomorrow. He's doing very well, he's sitting well with international investors. I said, yeah, our primary interest is the people of Zambia. Come on now. But we know how to relate this people of Zambia, what they want and how to make it available. Eight, we want to increase the exports. The bank of Zambia governor, when he was appointed, we gave him advice, he scorned on our advice. Last week he confessed, we told him that we are going to destroy the reserves, international reserves because you are not pushing the economy side, the production side, you are pushing the consumption side, you are using reserves to support the currency you are destroying. We were called names. Last week he confessed that the foreign exchange reserves are depleted to dangerous levels. Didn't we tell you what was your reaction? We have a remedy for that. We have a remedy for that. Many amongst many remedies for that is to increase our exports, to increase our foreign exchange endings. But we don't want to export raw materials, we want to export value added materials. Let me give you the simplest example. Combo needs minimum. All we need to do is to lower the cost of producing in agriculture. Then we can produce more maize, supply more millimetre to our people. First, that's our fiscal, the excess we export to Congo in millimetre, not in maize terms. And just that customer list is there. A Zambia warehouse full of millimetre, full of the code room, maize and everything. Just on our noses there, we earn a lot of money. That's all. Does it require rocket scientists to do that? Let me tell you something else. Which is gold on the surface. And we're already looking at what is not being done. We're not blaming anybody. You can't blame people who are incompetent. We knew they were incompetent. We've said it enough. Our energy is now to say, what are the solutions? Can someone tell me the price of copper today? The turn. $9000 per turn. Now, you have to dig there. The costs are very high. Let me tell you. There is copper on the surface which you can grow called cashew nuts. The price of cashew is over $10,000 per turn, more than the price of copper. It only takes three to four years and you have your production on stream. Slowly, diversification, clear mindset, looking at the value, more value. We spend the dollar on copper or on the dollar on cashew nuts. Our return on cashew nuts is more than the difference which you think is 10 minus 1. It's $1. It's not $1 because the cost of producing cashew is much, much lower than the cost of producing copper. And your differential is huge and it will begin to add on to your foreign exchange. Tanzania aims more than $1 billion from cashew. Our conditions for growing cashew here are much better than Tanzania. Their tips being made to revive cashew in western province is a child's play. That's a child's play. That's an example. Increase exports because after this press conference, someone will post on their platform that they were posting were seeing a Tongan national anthem. As someone said they were somewhere drinking, they came and found the last dance and said the whole national anthem was a Tongan. When the national anthem was Zambia, the rainbow. So before they ask that question, I want to say to them that do not worry about those minor issues. We worked them out already. We know what needs to do. These men and women know what needs to be done with proper guidance. They actually guide us. They guide me. But you have to know how to use the skills. So we increase exports. Why export maize to Botswana? They need stock feet. So who make the stock feet for me? For us. Our first trips around the country will be in the neighbors, neighboring countries, Congo. What do you need? Botswana, what do you need? Our trip will not be on the Gulf Stream. It will be on a, if you like, Zoom or another platform. That will be our first visit to the neighboring countries. And we will bring orders. This president will be the chief salesman for Zambia. The chief marketing officer for Zambia. Chief investment officer for Zambia. And we bring those orders for you now to manufacture. It's for the youth. It's for the medium scale. It's for the large scale. Then you sell. That is my job. Not to travel all over to look for social happiness. So time for that. Zambia is a headache. Last, we want to reduce taxes. To stimulate industries and to allow individuals and homes to take more money, to leave more money in their hands. Because from our intrinsic training is that money in the hands of the owners who earn it, the workers, the business people will be better used than money in a public place where people are pushing to buy the excess. So you leave more money in the hands of the owners who know how to use it better and they improve their lives. Simple thinking. So we commit to you. That's the last point. That's the last point. Now, once we have done this amongst others, having delivered the call over our intention to form government to enter public office, our economic revolution will arise. I have no doubt. I know some can't see it. I see it myself from A to Z. And many of these men and women see shared vision. So once we are done with these and others, we definitely are going to have an economic turnaround, an economic revolution. It will be a question of what have we achieved when but the targets will be there and will reverse the decline that you see today in this country. This will definitely put more food on the tables of Zambia. Affordable food. This will raise the standard of living for our people. All our people again. I'm not talking about a few buildings at Forest 27. I'm not interested in lots. I'm interested in the child, in the woman, in the student. Instead of giving students a big bus, we will give them pieces, improved pieces, improved so that they can enter. So the bus to go where? It is COVID to go where? Also understand the environment to go where? But a better mirror allows a better BC will enable them to focus on their studies. Books, textbooks and other things. That won't a different sign. Mine won't. Mine won't again. Let me assure you there is no hatred. There is no brutality that can distract us from this agenda. No hatred, no brutality that will distract us from this agenda. Nothing from this vision. You can go and brutalize innocent in-laws of Etish. And by the way, that kitchen they are showing as my in-laws house, that is a village grass-starched kitchen which has the best ventilation and there are chicks in that house that are showing and demonizing Etish. My wife's cousins who are her uncle's children live in a better house. Just next door. But someone chose to put that as a house and make noise. My mother-in-law lives in a village, in a house which has self-contained toilets, water-bond toilets and a shower, everything. She is a rancher herself at 90. Give her credit. At 90 she is a rancher. So, just to make you feel at ease and not be digressed from that head. That's the head I'm talking about. I asked my wife to go and visit her cousins. She would take some media. Then hop over about 10 km away from there 15-20 km and visit her mother and you can take footage of her house. And you talk to her as generous. Is that what we want to spend time on? There was a crime committed there. First, Tatongo said no, there was no attack. A day later they said no, there was an attack but it wasn't the only one. There were attacks elsewhere. There should be no raids to people who are innocent. That is the issue. So, that's what I'm referring to. There is no hatred, no brutality that will divert us from this agenda. Nothing. Zero. We know whatever they do, we have a God, we have God. And he's a fair God. We know that we have God and he's a fair God and he will not allow his children, the children of Zambia to suffer any longer. They will not allow that. I want to assure you after our theme of office is over Zambians will remember how we give them jobs how we give them business opportunities how we ensure that no one beat them up in a market low and order and how their rights, freedoms will be protected and how they will not send night and days in few things police and jail cells for crimes not committed because the criminal justice system will be reformed to ensure that nobody is arrested before any investigation and anyone arrested is taken to court within the law 48 hours and they are given bail with almost no money involved so that they can leave the jail if it is a bondable or a bearable fence and will do two things. We don't punish the innocent before they found guilt two will decongest the prisons and there will be better food, diabetes and mattresses in the prison Zambians will remember for that they will remember for that I have no doubt in my mind and they will remember that they raised children during our time and raised them well and sent them to school they didn't have to have a father yes it's nice to have a father in the home they didn't have to have to do that right? even if a mother is a single mother she will be proud that during our time she is able to raise her children properly feed them properly send them to school with the support of the UPND government that is what you should remember that too we can visualize and we are confident to say it before we take office so that you can create an order a checklist then you can do an order trail so that you can do the order trail and you can do the order trail do your own order trail but we are proud we are confident we will deliver together we will rebuild our country we are the change that our country is hoping for and truly deserves we are the change that our country is hoping for and truly deserves that's our economic front that's our economic front now very briefly post-general assembly post-general assembly thank you to those who made it international management and all the structures below more importantly thank you to those that did not make it in that role but because there is a lot of work for you to perform outside of one body and that job is to work together to deliver UPND into government simple, great that is where these benefits I was talking about will come from unless and until we form government the logic is simple so for those that made it I want to repeat what I said it's your duty to reach out to others I've heard people say oh we did well we to arrive at Nyankula who did you Nyankula you should be cuddling that individual who is talented but does not make it and ask them to play a part in asking them so me I was elected have you seen me celebrate it is a heavy battle in my brain I'm not sleeping well because I'm saying we have to deliver that should be in your mind as well to arrive at Nyankula I'm listening watching on social media watching I'm listening reach out to everybody reach out to those who didn't make it chairman reach out to those you need them they are your machines to deliver what we want you are the district chairman reach out to those who didn't make it reach out to them soon you realize how heavy it is to deliver so may have known it from day one from the day I decided to help the public I knew how tough it was and I said we will be tougher we will be equal to the task but we need others to work with us so I will return to this a little bit but let me just comment on PF dishing out cash and price all over the shop I ask you the question those fellows you know them before they went into the PF government five years ago they have capacity to dish out cash so where have they found the cash the economy has declined from 6% to minus 4% where have they found the money it is stolen money there is no doubt about it it is stolen money this is Aryan culture to this country you are going to spoil your children they will start stealing from your bedroom very soon because they think that your bedroom is a bank account is a bank vault you are destroying the moral fiber of our country people who wait for their money never use it that way never those children you are spoiling let me tell you you are buying beaimers 4 and they are 14 years old you are bewitching them they will never ever run homes and families properly when you are not there to steal any more money after close home as people teach your children to focus on school not luxurious expenditure so since we know it is not their money here is my counsel here is my advice take the money when they offer it to you take it they offer you to my hundred tell them you have 20 waters in the family can they give you 10,000 they give you 10 they give you 10 say oh naibara neighbor in the controller one area he passes it at 20,000 we are young people we are young people take the money take the buses honestly where does anyone who have nothing before they went to government can dish out these things buying mini buses for friends we want to teach the people of Zambia how to fish how to farm they can have every day and they can fish every day rather than only giving them in the last 2 months before the election imagine the Ramas they will not give you money they will not give you money so take the money take the buses take whatever they offer you and ask for more that is my message they give you crumbs after stealing your bread they steal your bread then they give you crumbs and say praise me there is a young man I see out there on the copper they are behaving like just a rock many say they behave like a rock I am not here to mention names because I will lose track of I told you hatred brutally to not change our focus so even that should not change our focus so touch your bread they offer you crumbs I am even encouraging things now steal from them yes that is your money steal from these people ministers who are getting money still from them then you came to your neighbor so they can buy me meal but when we come in they will be not stealing because because they give you crumbs opportunities for change come to August even they give you gifts of anything we are very very we are very very we are very very we are very very we are very very very very good back to NMC we have the most diverse NMC the most diverse we are competent members down provincial teams up to the branches competent yes this is what others have failed to do to bring the whole country on the decision table we have done it Nika Jionkochabi when we adopted the European cabinet to reflect the first of zombie everybody will be there I am repeating what I said before so we are lucky we are grateful but that is because of deep thought processes that went into designing the ballot paper designing our objectives so I want to thank everybody who managed to agree to reunite this country because that is what it is all about to reunite this country to rebuild it on the other side of the coin one side is to reunite the country the other side of the coin is to rebuild the country to these economic measures that I talked about people ask me are you alone I am not alone who can deliver alone there is no one even those who are asking me are you alone even you asking me we are together with you to work this journey to deliver this country we are together we are together so I am not alone we are a great team empire empire so that is the team I am talking about Zambia united Zambia united so what I am talking about breath of fresh air we will focus on unity and not divisions we will focus on inclusion not exclusions we will focus on equity and not segregation what a joy what a joy now we start now the journey to follow the steps after the general assembly which is now NMC pool and we begin to bring people together into their best areas to deliver to you for the people of Zambia win elections and deliver the country today that process begins to show that we are not alone and in accordance with our provisions of the constitution a decision has been made many decisions have been made in consultations with many inside and outside the party but today we are only announcing one decision the rest will come we don't have to call a press briefing every time we are doing but today's announcement is very important because the vice president in the name of madam mutalena we celebrate please let us maintain social business as well as some thank you very much thank you choir thank you very much we have time to sing and to dance as long as you keep your social distance I see you are closing in everywhere there we want you to be alive please spread out we want you to be alive because there is no point you are happy today tomorrow you are gone you will not see the better days in a few months from now it's our duty to make sure you are safe as well that's responsibility as leadership I want to congratulate madam narumango you deserve it I know you fit the role and we form a team most and foremost to reunite our country and then to we can rebuild our country we will have to depend on the rest of the other colleagues across the country we want to show the people of Zambia that we can bring them together what the ugly things I see when somebody was addressing a meeting in Chibata talking about marginalizing certain groups ethnic groups from leadership who are they who are they because in Salata it's Salai yok it's Sumafie across the country in Yonkola so we want to show the people of Zambia confidence that we can reunite this country and draw the best skills from wherever to rebuild our economy to rebuild our social fabric our health care our education our agriculture to create jobs and business opportunities and to look after the week in our society we are determined to bring back happy faces amongst our people I will give Madame Narumango a few minutes to accept or deny she may deny the responsibility to accept or deny and I am told after that the master of ceremony will guide us so please let's give her a few minutes to answer to the call of duty to serve the people of Zambia thank you thank you very much that's an exatoma cellular Mr President Mr President members of the NC provincial chairman the leadership colleagues from in the district chairman Lusaka district and any other district officials that may be here from other districts from the constituencies of Lusaka colleagues from the world the branches ordinary members I don't know whether to call this time Mr President over okay I don't know whether to say this is overwhelming I don't know honestly I was listening to you Mr President when you say you didn't celebrate you look at my face I don't know what you see you probably see a black because that's exactly how I feel this is not failure to appreciate all of you Zambians that have supported you know the cause for me it is the cause this is not in alumango position this is our position except somebody has to sit in this chair I don't know whether to say fortunately unfortunately it falls on me I will not deny Mr President I I accept the responsibility why my confidence hello hello thank you Mr President this is really not easy stopping I hope we will do better Mr President I was saying I accept the responsibility why because my strength and confidence is in these people my confidence is in all of you all of you it means you are not in the structure I am standing on the root and the root is you you are the anchor you are the strength I call sometimes president I call him our two I accept to be a small two in the cause a two is something you use you don't even ask whether an axe is enjoying it or not but it's you that sharpens the axe it's you that keeps it in shape for you to be able to achieve the cause is not the president not for me the cause is for every sunday to take this leadership I was I think I whispered to the young man next to me there Levy I said this speech must be again changing to any doubt in Thomas if today colleagues from the media you put this message clearly and the people have heard the interpreter here is interpreting properly it must make the sunday the sunday is for them it is president and I'm glad to serve under him from the shackles of evil this is the only word I can use to describe the environment today it is evil there are many shoots of evil whether it's violence it is evil whether it is corruption it is evil whether it is theft it is evil evil evil is the description of the current government tribalism is evil name whatever they are doing I don't know whether they can talk about the road today I don't know because I haven't seen the roads the roads have also become evil from Mr. President shortening this I would just like to thank everybody that has shown confidence that I can stand sit next to the man of vision the visionary but for me just if you don't clap because I need you all the way I need each one of you Munji I need you all the way man aango this is time to work Mr. President when you call another press briefing there will be the media only because the rest will be in the field because all of us must be in the field taking this message to every corner of this country that is the way I am happy Mr. President to accept this position I am happy colleagues I am happy zombies I am available thank you so much thank you very much a few minutes ago a few days ago thank you chair of the party a few minutes ago a member of the NMC and now the vice president of this grand party thank you very much Mr. President to say it is a call to duty and that's for everybody else before I became a UPND president I was just an ordinary member talent sits in the ordinary members many people said I took up with you I was doing work as an ordinary member I didn't need to be an NMC member I didn't need to be anything I was just an ordinary member but the people decided to give us this floor not abuse you will not abuse your trust to go out and work the process is now kicking this was the first key process post general assembly we don't need fanfare for the rest there is absolutely no need to lobby the campaigns are over within the party there is so much campaign so much lobbying so much is not necessary you don't have to lobby for what is yours it comes she didn't lobby anybody so let's get on with the work because in that continuous campaign more than lobbying creates the divisions creates the camps and there is no room for those camps but not get on with the work we will rapidly run through the processes on your behalf we just carry a delegated authority from yourself from the branch officials from just a sympathizer of UPND mind you the people who win as elections many of the millions don't even carry a cut of UPND those are the ones through you that have given us this delegated authority consultation is the key so please calm down let's lower the temperature let's get in the field as she said you'll be alright key things for us to form government that's the objective the pillar so let's get in the field so i want to sit down and say to madame alamango thank you you are not the daughter of kaputa yes you are but you are a daughter of shangombo chama you are a daughter of sisekano someone knows why i love sisekano through the pools of water and when i arrived i saw a beautiful grass that i've missed on my ranch i brought my cattle here kashiji where is the child where is the victim to get there you are the daughter of nika lambia you are the daughter of nikoya you are the daughter of the sengar people and the sengar people there's a difference the sengar and this lambia you are the daughter of munduk let's move on direct of ceremonies we are done with the business of today we are done with two mezahulu people of sambia the sengar people the sengar the sengar people we are done we are done with the business of today we are done we are done you are the boss ladies and gentlemen another round of applause for the president another round of applause for the vice president Utu Pu Duan Amayo We wanted to take questions earlier but because we have been swallowed in the canvas of history today because destiny has opened its home to our aspirations as a political party to Asia leadership that cares for humanity. I have proposed to the president which he has seconded that any questions can be submitted later on for now we would like to let this simmer and be able to close maybe two just two, we don't want to be accused of a bad start the president has suggested that we take two questions one lady, one man if there is any media only please and related to our activities for today media house so please come to the front sir I need a lady I need a lady to come just two questions in the interest of time please now he is starting we need a lady now after him may I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election as a you can be president they also congratulate madam for president my name is Afonso from the new media newspaper Mr president indeed you did announce that being elected to leadership especially your position is a heavy burden I just want to find out from you Mr president how has been your life under the leadership of the UPND secondly we said one question in the interest of time thank you so much president president I would like to find out among the nine strategies that you mentioned you talked about the issue of debt but in a country which is so indebted like ours where we have seen the external debt combined with internal debt go to over a trillion how do you we have heard your famous strategy so we have not heard exactly what you do to ensure that the debt situation is tackled so I would like to find out what are the strategies you are putting in place to ensure that this debt will have is tackled to continue the development of the country I will speak loudly I will speak loudly thank you very much Afonso you vision leadership is a heavy burden how has it been for you in the UPND very simple answer I said it before that many people want to be president political parties but very few are presidents of viable parties because it is tough I said you have to dig down into your values into your commitment to the people of Zambia into what you believe in and then work diligently work hard there is nothing called lucky doesn't exist you have to plan you have to execute it is a heavy burden it has been tough but I think what we have done to bring the party to where it is today is an assessment you can all make on your own when we took over this party we were 27% of the national vote today you know where we are over 50% of the national vote that is not a job but it is not me alone it's the team is cuddling each other guiding each other and telling each other this is unacceptable because it hurts the people of Zambia so let's work together you have to work together but I think you have to work together you have to work together because you have to work together you have to work together because you have to work together we are on top of it we are on top of it we are on top of it believers, thank you very much President, President of Parliament past and present NMC members members of the media ladies and gentlemen it's been a pleasure to have you here today to join us as history was made as a new dawn for Zambia awaits and we are here We thank you for today, we thank you for the wisdom for today, we thank you for the grace of uniting us as a party, we thank you for the vision that has been cast and as you declared in the book of Habakkuk, write down the vision and make it plain, that he that sees it may run with it, Lord we see the vision and we shall run with it for a better zombie in Jesus name. 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