 Hello viewers, it's K.E. Felix here and I welcome you to my YouTube channel K.E. Felix Inspire. I'd like to say a very big thank you to all of you for the support and the contribution you are giving to this channel. If you are new to this channel, please do not forget to subscribe and hit the bell icon so that you get notified whenever I post new videos. Stay tuned for more details in this report. Colleagues in government, I want to address you over this issue. Please get politics out of Fisheb. Take politics away from Fisheb. You are going to divide this country very badly and you are going to destroy the peace that this country has enjoyed over the last over 50 years that we have been independent. Where I come from, they say, aka sosakabie kamunda. Meaning therefore that food is extremely important in one's life. Meaning therefore that if one doesn't eat or if the nation doesn't have food, then we have a problem. Then we'll have a very big problem. Two days ago or three days ago, I did make a by the way statement concerning and advising the minister of the Kopa belt to immediately lift the illegal, and I'm calling it illegal because the minister of the Kopa belt has nothing to do with Fisheb. Fisheb is supposed to be administered by the camp extension officers and the district agriculture officer, the DACO, through cooperatives. And I don't think the provincial minister is defined anywhere to have the powers to serve suspended the distribution of Fisheb. I did advising my dear brother and friend Honorable Mark Tambo with due respect. Two days later he called for a meeting where he asked the provincial agriculture officer to explain and come up with ways of how they are going to resolve the issues surrounding this year's distribution of Fisheb or fertilize and seed as it were. I was extremely disappointed. And not only me, as I speak to you, I have received so many more people, so many farmers from within Luansha coming to my house literally crying. And listen to this. Farmers literally crying at work and with Wapa Patatula and Dileniko to allow what we buy. The minister and the DACO announced that this year's distribution will be as follows. 80% of the fertilizer will be given to new cooperatives and that 20% will be given to old cooperatives. My dear brothers and sisters in government, don't go this route. Please stop this proposal. You are sending the poor farmers into out poverty and you are killing their families. You are killing the economy of certain towns and urban areas. Look, Fisheb was introduced to help the viable but vulnerable farmers. It was not introduced to help your political cadas or to help people that helped you from government. I have said and I want to say it again. That Fisheb was introduced by late President Patrick Mwanawasa, state council, may he so rest in peace. And throughout the MMD regime or the MMD era, they started with about 200,000 farmers. And by the time MMD was leaving office, they were giving 500,000 small scale farms. When PF came into office, the 500 farmers that MMD had left on Fisheb were not removed from the Fisheb beneficiary. They were never even tempered with. What PF did, dear colleagues, was that they wanted to increase the numbers of the beneficiaries. Because the program had proved that it was a worthwhile program that had even resulted into a bumper harvest under MMD. And what PF did was to build on these numbers so that we could record more bumper harvest. And true to this, PF throughout their being in power recorded bumper harvest year by year increasing on the numbers. Do you know why? They did not temper with the 500,000 beneficiaries that MMD left on the list. Because as far as PF was concerned, these were benefiting from Fisheb. We are not MMD kadas, but we are zambians, viable but vulnerable farmers. They increased the number to 1,000,000 beneficiaries. By the time PF was leaving office, we had 1,000,000 beneficiaries. And these 1,000,000 beneficiaries were not drawn from one political party. The cooperatives were being formed through the DACOs, through the camp extension officers. And they were being identified and allowed to apply to increase the number from 500,000 to 1,000,000. But today, UPND, you want to politicize Fisheb. You want to politicize Fisheb. Yes, we've heard of so many of your kadas in the blooms on social media complaining that you have not paid back to your kadas in structures who had held the party for a long time and were up to you from government. Don't follow that trajectory. Don't for pray to that kind of nonsense. And I will call it nonsense. Because the people, the 2.8 million people who voted for you were not members of UPND. Among the people that voted you were ordinary citizens who don't even involve themselves in parties and politics, but they just want the best for this country. Among those are the beneficiaries of Fisheb. But today, UPND, you want to take Fisheb to give to your kadas using the new cooperatives that you formed. From the time you came into office, you've been telling your kadas, no form cooperatives. Every time they complain, form cooperative will help you through cooperatives. Then you speak Zambians as stupid that you go and say Fisheb 80% will be given to new cooperatives. Who are these new cooperatives? Your own cooperatives. We have already been told that what is happening in the townships and in the compounds is that every cooperative that you feel they are PF kadas or they are people who are supporting PF, they are telling them we are not going to deal with you in as far as Fisheb is concerned. You are forming cooperatives comprising of, you are digging your own grave. Because they said they were being handled under MMD, they were being handled under PF. Don't politicize Fisheb. Ababan tumle fukfumia po, these people you want to remove. I've got children in school. I've got families to feed. They also have to survive. For instance, in run constituents, my former constituents, the mines used to employ about 25,000 miners. Today the mine employs less than 1,500 miners. All those were miners have shifted to small scale agriculture and they are the main beneficiaries of the Fisheb in run constituents. And I think they are able to sustain their lives. But you want to remove those people and put your own people. Remove 80% of the old cooperatives and bring in 80% of new cooperatives. I want to remove the farmers. I don't feel like I want to say, have mercy on the people. Ababan tumle fukfumia po, the only thing I want to do is buy children shoes and send them to school. If you want to bring in new cooperatives, please just increase the number and bring in those new cooperatives. Muifunia plama cooperatives are new. You cannot come and say this thing at the 11th hour. I want to say this. Ababan tumole fukfumia po. They are preparing because they know that they will pay 400 kwaq and they will have six bags of fertilizers. And then from nowhere, suddenly puh, you tell them no, you are not going to give you this year. We are giving new ones. They don't have the time to organize the money to buy the fertilizers at 1100 kwaq. One would need, if they were to use the six bags they were given, 6600. Where do you expect the poor people to get 6000? Ababan tumole fukfumia po. And then you want to tell them in November that we are not going to give you fertilizer. We are giving new people. And how do you know that the new 80% cooperatives you are giving are actually even farmers? If you are not careful, you are going to reduce on the level of production. You are going to, this is going to affect the bumpers that we have always, because some of these people don't even have farms at the moment. They are going to sell this fertilizer at exorbitant price and there will be no production. I have said it, you PF never removed the list that MMD left. Why are you removing the old beneficiaries and wanting to bring, it is all politics. And my advice to you, honest advice, in earnest, without being Mauritius, I am appealing to you, my dear brother Mutoolo, Minister of Agriculture, stop it. Stop it muana, stop it muana, if I want to Mutoolo, I hold you in my esteem muana. But if it's not right, it's not correct.