 We never want to go. Our feet shall take us there. This is Kasundemwenda, the president for the Economic Freedom Fighters. Today we are at the University of Zambia, Great East Road Campus, and today we have come out of a concern of the abandoned hostels. We have learned with sadness that once upon a time over eight years ago, the government of the Republic of Zambia embarked on constructing 26 hostels for this big university, our biggest university in the country because there is actually shortage of bed spaces. Right now the University of Zambia has got over 30,000 students and those are all fighting for 3,700 bed spaces. This initiative was going to make this great university have an extra capacity of 4,160 bed spaces. Alas, that good initiative today remains abandoned for second and in serious dilapidation. We'll take a tour and see how much we are losing revenue, how much we are letting to waste the resources that have been plowed here and it's a momentary time to this government to know that as education has been prioritized, it is incumbent on them to start awakening this sleeping chance because education cannot be fulfilled without infrastructure and without the necessary needed materials, especially infrastructure. So today we are doing a tour of the 26 hostels abandoned here at Lusaka's Great East Road Campus for the University of Zambia. Let's take a walk and let's see. This is but just one of them of the hostels. They are 26 in Namba and they were going to boost and sort out the problem of accommodation which cannot be overemphasized because this country, the population for the youth is growing rapidly and the learning institutions cannot absorb them but today it is a forest of what once was a plan to increase the capacity of learning students under the government schemes and in particular the University of Zambia. Today this place, when you visit it, this is where I am right now. This is the ground floor for one of the hostels. It is overgrown by weeds and it's being used just like a toilet. You can't enter these spaces. They are all littered with fico matter. It is very unfortunate. Let's go to the first floor of this one of the abandoned and neglected hostels here at the University of Zambia. Zambia's biggest learning institution. These initiatives can, if actualized, can actually make our education sector improve abundantly. This was a project that was pegged at $53 million. Unfortunately, all that money is going just west. This is the graffiti and the rooms are just all littered with fico matters. To make matters worse, look, just all littered with fico matter. To make matters worse, these places hasn't even been barricaded so anyone can access them and do vandalism. These are initiatives that should caught us to expedite and finish so that the youth who are actually just in homes right now can be in school. Not everybody can afford to be in private learning institution. Some of us are products of public institutions like this one, the Kopa Belt University, Onza. Such a project which now is going to waste a koloso 26 hostels with capacity of 4,160 bedspaces. A bigger capacity than what the university has currently, which is only at 3,700 student bedspace capacity. These new hostels once completed we are going to absorb a much bigger proportion of 4,000, that's the other hostel, equally abandoned. And unfortunately when you abandon a construction at this stage, we know it becomes a wastage because those reinforcements that we are seeing are now becoming rusty. And before long those elements are being exposed to weather elements. They are being exposed to weather elements and before long this will be unusable. They will need to be broken down and replaced. All those reinforcement members. I can tell you as an architect to reach here where this structure has been reached a lot of money has gone in. All this now. This is wastage. And this project has stood for a very long time. Those others are still just with the columns there. Those look like pad foundations. Unless we have a spirit that makes us finish whatever we start. There is no way we are going to develop this country. Those are conduit pipes for electrical installations. We still remain unfinished. Even at the topmost floor here you still see that the whole place is just being used as a toilet, just full of fiko matter. You can see the mixtures, concrete mixtures have been abandoned. They are not being used. And these are the resources that we so much are running after to go and borrow. And when money comes we let it go to west like this, how can we develop? We need to change our mindset as a country and start using our resources properly putting money where it is most required. It has been for a long time that we have been starting things and not finishing. So we won't be surprised to hear that even this new government may come up with projects which they also want to finish neglecting these cardinal projects that were started not by the Patriot Front but by the government of the Republic of Zambia. These are not PF resources. These are resources for this country. These manis were borrowed and unless this government takes responsibility and start doing the right thing, we are wasting money and if we keep going through such circles this country will not develop. This is one project that we cannot overemphasize. Unless we start finishing so I'm challenging this new government that they have this project before they kickstart other projects they should prioritize this and make sure this when you leave the enforcement members like this to other elements you are wasting a lot of money or this burden like this we are wasting a lot of money and the time we try to start this project we need to redo a lot of works I can see those conduit pipes have even been cut these members this is wastage we cannot let as a country and I'm employing this government and us as the youth being the leader for our generation of youth my cry is that let this government preserve our heritage we want when the time comes for us to take over government we'll be taking over a government we'll prosper we don't want to spend all our time doing remedial works going back let this government take us forward not backwards the honeymoon is over it is time we need to see movements in such projects the honeymoon for this government we are emphasizing is over it is time to work and point to them where they need to work because I've been saying at the opposition and every corner of this country and show them how I have done this before we are not starting this on the UPND rest they take it aside and think it is something personal this is personal because it concerns our country Zambia and unless we Zambia stand up and claim that which is right for this country we are about wasting our time we'll be going through the same circles over and over so this project has stood for over 10 years and the population is unforgiving and we cannot continue in this same trajectory look like this this is very unfortunate we cannot continue this is Zambia's biggest learning institution and we have such seriously abandoned projects we cannot continue under this trajectory so the time is now and this government should quickly act and put resources where they are not what we are seeing where now they are just putting things we have seen a lot of misuse of the CDF money being given to people that are wasting it there are some bridges that I saw in western province that have been washed away and you could see as a professional that they were being handled by people who were clueless so even this money for CDF it is our challenge to this government use it prudently, professionally, expertly because these resources are borrowed from the IMF IMF will not forgive us they are unforgiving because they lend you money you have to pay so we are challenging this government let them be professional let them use these miga resources we have as a country apply it to enhance the lives of the youth but youths say but they chula sanasa now put money in the youths then this country will have a future we have lost a lot of time as a country and this time we prioritized the well-being of the youth itchalo chabu la youths tapadiko chingaya most of these people are getting shocked when they are moving around the country they are talking about the deals they are clenching as individuals and we are wondering why are they spending time clenching individuals deals when they are on public mission when they are supposed to be clenching deals for this country so this tendency I am speaking to the president talk to your ministers talk to your staff they are coming on social media telling us about the deals they are clenching personal deals the great people they are meeting out there they are not talking about the deals they are clenching for this country they are standing with prominent people and they are saying once we get these deals see how they are having connection so we are challenging the president let us put our resources only together when we act can we take this country far this has been custom when the president for the economic freedom fighters here at Great East Road campus of the University of Zambia where there has been actually shortage of accommodation where there are over 30,000 students 3,700 bed spaces this was a project of 26 hostels that was going to give us 4,100 bed spaces and that would have gone a good step to cushion the crisis that is here it is time to work it is now or never and whoever want to go our feet shall take us there God bless you all and God bless Zambia thank you