 Good afternoon our dear viewers and listeners. We are here at Kawata police station where one of our members and Honorable MP for Maloleh, Honorable Robert Karimi, has been detained. They are investigating him for a funny charge. They are claiming that there is a case of motor vehicle theft. We know the details. There is no motor vehicle theft. But this is part of the harassment we have come to know and we are here with various leaders that have been here some as the last three hours as shown. Our Honorable Robert Karimi, given we are now acting president, just to speak to this matter and the continued political harassment using law enforcement agencies that has faced the patriotic front having since 2021. Good afternoon. I wish to address myself first of all to members of the patriotic front. We have said time and again that we must brace ourselves for harder times to come. We have now become accustomed to appearing at police stations and appearing in courtrooms ever since August, September of 2021. And this is the price we pay for having led this country. This is the price we pay for running a political party in this country. This is the price we are willing to continue to pay for maintaining a democratic state. But this is a fight that we are willing to lose. This is a fight that we shall take to the heat. Every time when one of us is arrested we shall be there to give each other solidarity and to give each other support. By and large we know that a lot of our people who have been arrested have been arrested on some top charges. The case at hand now involving Robert Karimi, Member of Parliament for Manole is a matter which was presented to the police in 2020 and the police officers themselves said this was a civil matter and there was no criminality involved. They actually compelled the person who was reported now to go and have Karimi's vehicle fixed because he made an undertaking in writing that the vehicle Karimi's vehicle that he had bashed into he would have it prepared. And that while he was having it prepared he would make sure that Karimi has access to a motor vehicle, a Volkswagen which he himself handed over to Karimi and there is a letter to that effect. For the matter to become a matter of national interest now, four years later, three years later and for the matter to have been reported to four set quarters and not Fukawata police shows you that there is a bigger hand involved in this matter. And we know that this is just politics at play but I would like to assure the people of Manole that your Member of Parliament shall not be left alone. We are working round the clock to make sure that Robert Karimi does not spend more hours than are necessary in Kavata police. We are working hard, very happy that two members of parliament have presented their letters to provide surety to Robert Karimi and we are hopeful that within the next hour. Robert Karimi will be given his liberty, will be given his freedom. So what he goes to answer these issues in court. Let him go and battle it out in court. Let us see whether indeed there is any merit in what the police are doing over a matter of this nature. But I would like to just emphasize that we in the patriotic front are not going to give up. Those who think that by harassing us, by intimidating us, we are going to give up, sorry, we are doing this for and on behalf of the many million Zambians who want Zambia to continue to be a democratic state. We are not at any time going to give up. We will not look back, we shall just look ahead because we know that the Zambian people and God are going to vindicate us. A lot of our people shall face this harassment but we are prepared for it. We did warn Zambia that if you will slip over your rights and give leadership to these people what will before this country will be untold misery. Here we are now. Instead of people preparing themselves to subsidize the many Zambians on the millimio prices that will escalate, they are now busy harassing us, intimidating us and giving each other elephants even against the law. Time shall come for them to account as well. This I will say and I want to say, mark my words, time will come for you to account. Thank you very much and continue to support us, all of you, wherever you are. If you want democracy to thrive in Zambia, support the patriotic front. And if you are going to keep quiet and don't condemn this harassment and intimidation, you yourselves will have to one day come to reckon and you will be yourselves to blame. Thank you for your support. We shall continue to provide the leadership that you require. Thank you. Mr. President, maybe we use the opportunity, President Haga in the Chamber, the press conference at which he is alleging that we are not providing checks and balances and that we are not providing alternatives to the crisis the country faces. They refuse to buy soya beans, they say to be sold to the markets. And this high cost of living and the myriad of problems facing our country. Do we have alternatives? Are we providing checks and balances maliciously as a claim? All that Haga Indi has to do is to pick up the manifesto of the patriotic front. And actually we were worried, after we lost elections, we were worried that Haga Indi will go and pick up the manifesto of the patriotic front for 2021 to 2026 because in that manifesto we laid out very clearly what we should do to govern this country. Now, notwithstanding that, our members of parliament have made lots of suggestions. We the leadership of the patriotic front have made lots of suggestions. For instance, we told Haga Indi through our members of parliament not to get money from lying ministries, from Ministry of Home Affairs to give to CDF, from Ministry of Health to give to CDF, from Ministry of Local Government to give to CDF and then after that to use the same ministries to go chasing after the same money and telling our members of parliament. Every constituency you must buy a vehicle for the police, every constituency buy an ambulance, every constituency go and build schools. What are you doing? All you're doing is getting money from central government and giving it to poor members of parliament and giving it to councils when you haven't built sufficient capacity. This is the reason why even the utilization of the CDF is dismo and this is going to create even more corruption than ever before. We also told him Aghanist buying fertilizer at 1,050 kwacha from his friend Alpha. We told him that if you buy this fertilizer at 1,050 kwacha then the price of maize in 2023 would be no less than 250 kwacha. They mustn't brag and say they are giving money to farmers. All they are doing now is to try and compensate the farmers for the escalated cost of production. After they increase the price of fertilizer what do they expect? Do they expect the farmer to produce the maize at 180 kwacha a bag? Of course not. It was 180 kwacha when fertilizer was $650 a metric ton. Now that it's $1,050 per metric ton, naturally the cost of maize has had to increase and farmers even the $280 they are giving you is not enough. I am a farmer myself and the cost of producing one bag of maize from last year's prices is more than 300 kwacha. So this has been created by Haga India himself. If he says not giving him alternative policies, we are giving him except that he has put cotton wool in his ears. He is not willing to listen and the reason for that is because Haga India believes that the world evolves around him. This is the reason why even Bradzen says other presidents are admiring what he has achieved. What has he achieved? What is it that he has achieved? Simply for giving me allowance to students at university he thinks that he has achieved. He hasn't achieved anything. He said going to address students at CBU and universities one of his kind which has never done by any president to him that is a very big achievement. But that is what you expect if a person is not supposed to be a lecturer and becomes president. He goes on a press conference for a president where he is supposed to outline his policies, give us the direction of the country, give us concrete achievements that are going to trickot down to the living standards of the people. He starts giving you graphs. So the people of Zambia are disening people and they hear all the different policy alternatives we give to Haga India but he does not listen at all. We have been advising him. We also advised him against making all these international travels. A man has been in a state house for 20 months only and yet he has made more trips abroad than Ed Galungu made in 5 years. What is he looking for? He is calling himself the chief marketing officer. Where are the ambassadors? If he himself is chief marketing officer and you go to every country where there is a foreign trip he must remove those ambassadors, bring them back to Zambia because he wants to be ambassador. We give him alternatives but he doesn't listen. Now the time is here. People will start to ask him those questions. Time for reckoning has come. And please, please, please. Let me invite on your board. Please, please. Let's Haga India and this government go and buy soya beans from the poor farmers. My heart bleeds where I am standing. Honourable. Muamban the honourable. Look, we struggled. We suffered as if to make people die this fight from growing maize. For a long time farmers in Zambia knew piz and farmers only knew that growing maize was the way to go. But we went down to the grass roots and told them look you can make money out of soya beans. And the production of soya beans has gone up. In fact tripled since we started that program as PF. Now that the people have bought in the growing of soya beans you go and tell FRA not to stop. And you say you are president leading a country. In Sonya wuntu. Kavie nmuesh ta soya beans kubantu. Look, in fact FRA by now must be transiting into an agriculture marketing bought. This issue of FRA just buying for strategic reserve must come to an end. Because if the poor people if you want the poor people to become more productive you must provide the market. If you go to the rural areas you find if you push to Tefionai cafe because there are no people to buy. Now we provided the market for soya beans. Muaisafuniaa po. If you know me when I was in Zambia at Mukesa Chula soya beans have been growing. Soya beans we are not going to buy. The private sector but it's time to abuse the farmers. You know they buy those things if you have Fualasalaula. How can somebody be encouraged to grow soya beans again? No. If you buy soya beans if you buy soya beans we are not going to buy soya beans. We are not going to buy soya beans. If you buy soya beans deep in the rural areas what are they going to do? The private sector doesn't even reach those areas soya beans are not going to get soya beans. Please. If you buy soya beans you are going to get it. People take advantage you need to know but if you buy soya beans people are gonna take advantage you need to know you have to be aware of it. Our client has a great advantage because if you buy soya beans production we can say if you don't want to buy from the poor people remove that ban for export. Let them We export the soya beans, China is buying soya beans, Tanzania is buying soya beans, but you want to say FRA will not buy soya beans, but there is that ban, go and have that ban lifted so that the people can find their own market. But the best way to do is please buy soya beans through FRA, because by now FRA must be gravitating to becoming the agriculture market involved. FRA is a very excellent idea by KK, MMD came and abolished it. How do you promote agriculture without the market? So by FRA, soya beans go and buy soya beans. Soya beans go and buy soya beans, but you want to say FRA will not buy soya beans, but you want to say FRA.