 We have a situation where now we have been subjected to six hours of Lord Shedding. Just when I was addressing you from wherever you are, there was an intermittent supply because I was cut off. Our power just went and so we had to reconnect ourselves to put ourselves on the generator and begin connecting with you wherever you are. Here is the point I want to drive home. The point is that I think the president must learn to tell the truth because when he said on the face of me that the problem Zambia was having was not water shortages in the Kariba but lack of machinery. In fact, when he was interviewed, later on in August, the president himself said there was a shortage of machinery at the Kariba. They were using one machine. His government has procured five more machines to curb the issue of electricity deficit. Now I want to follow each other very well here because on the other hand we are being told that it was a problem of machinery and on the other hand we are being told that it is low levels of water in the Kariba so which is which. The president has found himself on the wrong side because the president forgot that it is a government which has to coordinate things. His minister says there is low water. The president earlier on says we have managed to put up or to finish Lord Shedding within a year. And that is the same thing. That's the same line he transported when he addressed the European Parliament at the EU. That's the same line the president transported to Brussels. The president said among the achievements that he highlighted in his Brussels statement was that Zambia had managed to deal with Lord Shedding but today as we are speaking we are told that it is Lord Shedding plus plus. It is six hours. Now I want us to focus ourselves on one thing. I think this is very important. This is extremely important. And the important fact is that look Lord Shedding must be addressed exhaustively. Lord Shedding must not be addressed sparingly. Our colleagues in government are addressing Lord Shedding sparingly which is a very side development. We should tell the public the truth about what is obtaining because currently we must understand that the installed capacity of Zesco currently is running at 3400 megawatts of power. Zesco is generating 3400 megawatts of power. And the demand for the country, the demand for Zambia is about 2300 megawatts. And the caregiver which the president was talking about is having challenges with an installed capacity of about 1250 megawatts. Now, if our demand is standing at 2300 megawatts, why is Zambia entering into a new contract with Zimbabwe to begin supplying power to Zimbabwe? Why is Zambia supplying South Africa which has been having erratic power right now as we speak? They have got challenges of power with Zimbabwe and South Africa. Why has Zambia continued to supply power to Namibia? Why has Zambia continued to supply power through the CEC, CEC is part of the energy network. CEC supplies power to the DRC. Why can't Zambia reduce our new dawn leadership? Think of reducing the power outages schedule from at least 6 hours to even 3 hours. We understand they have got challenges and we are a realistic lot. Why can't they reduce the deficit or the electricity outage from 6 hours to at least 3 hours? How can they do this? They can do this by cutting down on the amount of kilowatts they are supplying to Namibia, they are supplying to the DRC, they are supplying to these other countries. Why should Zambia continue supplying power to our neighboring countries when we ourselves have got a challenge? Why should we continue doing that? Why? And the Zesco MD was telling us that what was going to happen now was that Zambia as a country was only going to experience no Lord's Shedding on Christmas, New Year and when they will play the World Cup. We are the ones producing power. Why should the same conditions we who are selling South Africa, because what they announced to us by MD are the same things that have been announced to the people in South Africa? Because even in South Africa they will not have Lord's Shedding on Christmas, they will not have Lord's Shedding on New Year's Day and they will also be watching World Cup just like we are watching. So, I think it's a question of making adjustments to what we are going through. One, we are appealing to the new dawn government. This is not about politics, this is about helping our country. There are some issues in Zambia, there are some issues in our country that must be bipartisan. There must be issues in our country that we should all come together and agree that here we should move as one. And one such issue where we should move as one is the same issue of a Lord's Shedding. Let us reduce Lord's Shedding in our country. Let us reduce the amount of power we are giving to those that we are selling. It will help our people because what Lord's Shedding does is a lot. Lord's Shedding does a lot, a lot it does. Lord's Shedding affects the barbershop owners, but they will not have a barbershop but they will have a lot. Because of Lord's Shedding. A poor people who wear avant-garde 6, is only going to catch avant-garde 7. Lord's Shedding, avant-garde 7, it is those who are doing saloons. Where a woman or the lady should have attended to about 6 or 7 clans, they will only deal with maybe only 2 clans because of Lord's Shedding. It will take 6 hours and you will discover that in most compounds our hours will be fairly productive hours. If they say power will go from 11 hours to 17 hours, what time will people wake? People who are waking in ummah chawama, power went for instance, it's going at maybe 11 hours or 10 hours. It will allow for about 16 hours. What time will those people in chawama wake? Because there will be nobody to go and do their saloons, nobody will go and do their 20 clans. So all these things are affecting the small scale trader. The small scale trader whom government has been saying they want to support. You want to support the Baba Shop owner. But how will that Baba Shop owner survive? You want to help the saloon owner. How will that person wake in a hour? So these hours that we are doing, we are killing the small scale industry. We are killing them, totally killing them and barring them. Government must rethink this decision. Government must at least think, even if it's for domestic consumers, let amacombon, let misses, let chawama, let chipulwusu, let all these compounds, amacompons, let them be given a flexible schedule. If you know it is misses, if you know in Muwalinda, if you know in Muisa, give them flexible schedules the way you have done. The way government has done with the industries, because this loadshedding is not for the mines, the loadshedding is not for the industries. This loadshedding is for us domestic consumers. Therefore let the government think of the people in the compounds, they are the ones who are running the saloons, they are the ones who are running... I am a butcher, I know of the guy called James running a butcher. le e to bring Lord Shedding, you didn't tell us the truth, now people are injured, help people in the Mrs, our submission, my submission is that Abena chawama, Abena garden compound, Abena kūku, Abena khipu lukusu, Abena my teneke kumansa, Abena entwana kanem mūka amukasama, but they have on some compounds which you call shunti compounds, where you call them low density areas. Baleke nibakwate Lord Shedding iche pereko, firafi nemu perema industries, we can't have a country where abasungu or those who are involved in mines, these who are coming from outside, they are not affected by this Lord Shedding, but we are affected as a people, this has to come to an end, let our compounds be taken care of. If pateela, I saw on the schedule, where wachandu utila, wachawama imue Shedjienu, this time wachawama na imue n'chama la itiaya, hospitals must be spared, we need hospitals to be spared because even if they can be in chawama, even if those people can be in karikiriki, even if those people can be in those other compounds, these are human beings, these are human beings who have to be listened to, who have to be helped. Government must listen to the downtrodden. Government must have an ear for people who are suffering a lot. Mu di iwa panga for four months, Lord Shedding iwa panga for four months, six hours, aba ala chula sana, wamu garden compound, wamu n'chawama, aba ala chula wamua rinda, aba ala chula, it's people who are coming from compounds, aba ala chula sana, our appeal is that government should consider a flexible program for those who are in the low density areas to save their businesses, because if you don't do that, aba ntu mu ala wepa aba le lulisha, mu ala aba shika aba le lulisha, elo government, the decisions what you are asking about me, government must feel for its people. This issue is very critical, and we want our government to come out in the open and be truthful for once, learn to tell your people who voted for you, ello aba me vote tell about government, it is those people, wumu n'chawama, aba n'chawama, it is the people in elinda, it is the people in kanyama, the people in mandevi, the people in chippugusu, the people in kawama, the people in luangua township, these are the people who voted for you, eba wumu n'chawama to go and cast a vote for you, they are hope was that you are going to live a liberated life, they are hope was that valaikara konga aba ntu, we are asking you government, begin taking our people seriously, fidewa mifu o daily, help them, live your life that is liberated, that is your job as government, you can just keep or bring a blanket thing, utila imu e wumu nsenomba, what will happen is six hours, six hours no, kudia aba reyan nama babasho, they are those who are running amas alone, they are those who are running amabutalismakonga aba ntu for their sake, amabutamu a rilunda kale, on the energy sector, I am coming back on this very soon, amabutamu aba lundi na kale, what you need to do now is to ensure that aba mma compoundi, lekena vene nomba, mba pemu ine gopanonu, it is the only incentive muala aba pela, lekena aba riluma kene inga kalaba, lekena aba riluma kene inga aba rik woodlands inga aba kavimba, lekena aba riluma a yadi maka blonga, lekena wong fe brand of this Lord Shedding, but aba riluma compound, running small businesses, the job of government aba nene nuku ruanda they did the same, aba nene nuku kigali ruanda kugaana they did the same, Zambia must emulate if is sumabala kopa, good things we copy, those that are not good we aba ho or we take or we detest on this particular score we are asking government to revise the schedule and be merciful to the people who are running businesses in the compounds let them come out with a program that is proactive that is poor centered i am grateful that we have been together on this journey i'm grateful that you have followed me along this journey and you have followed us this is our principle as citizens first we want all of us to work together we want us to move together we have only got one Zambia and we do this not out of malice we do this because we love our country we do this because Zambia is the only country we have and that is why it is important for us as a country to live in unity for us as a country amanoma ambu uluwa when you are in government it doesn't mean you have the monopoly of wisdom that's why you need to listen government needs to listen to all the players bakfili vashat on lord shading businesses will go down some businesses will even die as a result of lord shading let's government come out with a plan which is going to sustain the small scale investor those in the shanty compounds let them be given a proper schedule even three hours if you can't reduce for us because you don't want to reduce your profits come on Zambia you are a parent so even ourselves as a country it is important that we begin sharing it is important that we begin looking at our own domestic issues before we worry about Zimbabwe but Zimbabwe they are busting a good trailer from next week or the other week they are going to they are going to stop lord shading because Zambia will be giving them power how can they not be giving them power when we ourselves they are struggling with power our government ought to be serious let's be serious for once let's look at our domestic affairs and let's look after our people may god bless Zambia may god bless each one of us as we go through this very challenging time god bless you thank you so much