 I condemned the people who booed President Edgar Chagwalungu at the inauguration of President Haga Ndehiji Dema. But I didn't hear anyone from the UPND condemning them. Today, I want to say, I feel pity for Haga Ndehiji Dema, that less than 24 months since being sworn in and people celebrating at Hero Stadium, less than 24 months later, people have the courage to stand straight, stand with their face straight to him, not hiding and booing him. I feel pity for him. The people who gathered at Hero Stadium obviously were from one party and that's the reason why they booed ECL. But what about the ones who booed a sitting president less than 24 months after being sworn in? What does that say? It tells that the Zambian people have now started to realize that what we said prior to the elections of 2021 has come to manifest itself. The devil you know is better than the angel you don't. And not everything that glitters is gold. The Zambians have started to realize that the angel is actually the devil. What posture does the angel has now started to show its true colors as the devil? Those of you who are as old as I am will remember that a founding father Kenneth David Kaunda sat on that seat of presidency for 26 years before anyone booed him. 26 years. It was only in 1990 and 1991 when people had the courage to boo Kenneth Kaunda. Ever since then, the five successive presidents ended their tenure without being booed. My friend has ended booing in two years. I shudder to imagine what will happen after four years. My appeal to president Againda is watch the space. At these meetings of his, what was he saying? When he went to Lusaka Correctional Facility, all of us believed he was going there to console those people. We believed that he was going to console our brothers and sisters to find themselves on the other side of the law. Instead, what did president Againda do? He seized that moment to issue threats. Threats against what he refers to as a thugs, PF thugs. A democratically elected president chooses to use a platform such as the one that he was offered at Lusaka Correctional Services to say these PF thugs have started regrouping. He even goes further to say, they are working free because of my kindness, otherwise they have all been arrested. President Againda, the freedom of association that Zambians enjoy is not at your behest. It is not because of you. The constitution of Zambia was first written when you and me were still in diapers or nappies. You and me did not take part in writing that constitution. Our forefathers decided that every Zambian shall have a freedom of association. And they did not say that the person who is elected president is the one who is going to give this freedom to the people. No, that is our constitutional right. And the threats of that nature shall not intimidate us. It shall not intimidate us and get it from me. We will not be stopped by you from regrouping. If you are going to a football match and you know the stadium you are going to use, both teams are allowed to go and test the ground. If the home team decides no, we will not allow the visiting team to test the ground, what does that mean? Scared little men. For you to intimidate us and tell us not to regroup, it simply shows us Againda that even your victory, you yourself know your victory was a fluke. You are so scared stiff to allow us to even admit because if we do, you know that the people who will listen to us, they will not boo us. Zambians must be assured that the patriotic front shall continue to regroup. As a matter of fact, ordinary members of the party, ordinary citizens have been beseeching us as to why we are not reorganizing. They have been telling us what are you waiting for. We here as a matter of fact have delayed what the Zambian people want us to do. Againda, we are going to regroup. Noyanda, notayandi, we shall regroup. We will even regroup in Wengwa. Againda, we are coming to regroup in Wengwa. We already gave instructions to our Kapa Belt Committee, our Central Province Committee, and our Lusaka Committee. Between now and 28th of October, we are going to show that we can regroup. Without money, we shall regroup. Our confidence is in the people. And the people, the ones who want to meet us, Againda, the democrat. And he wants to post us as a democrat. He even has the audacity to stand as a president and say, tiza chingami ingalato. Aka vinira uku, naise ta vinira uku. Tikasiri za tapinda muka kumbuyo, ta guida pakosi. Mutu ya kama yo mumukangoto. Himuloi. Mutu uja tamue nina anzingo. Mujai. Even in wrestling, there are rules that apply when you hold another person's throat. Because if you want to kill a person quickly, you strungo them. And you don't strungo them by holding the hand. You strungo them by the neck. For a republican president to stand in front of a crowd which includes young innocent children. And to say to them, nizamu guida pakosi. Where to, dear Zambia? Where to, my mother country? If the president is the one who's going to be introducing murderous tactics to people and encouraging murderous attack, if you hold somebody on the throat from the back, how do they defend themselves? I said scared little men. Scared little man. But now it is scared little murderer. A boxer has rules. You don't punch a person when they're giving you their back. Face them in front. Hitting somebody in boxing while you are facing their back is called a bad tactic. And it's a sign of cowardice. Harainde wants to murder us using dirty tactics. I thought that the name BMW was enough. But it seems like it is not. He is actually murderous BMW. I don't think any right thinking person in the world would tolerate any leader of any kind to issue such a threat. It is totally unheard of. It is totally unheard of. A lewe nidapo, a lewe nidapo. A kekera pesa. For goodness sake, that pa mupando, you're not the first. You are the seventh. And if you think you shall be the last wabedja. Wabedja. That is not your seat. We told you in 2021, naimu mazambians, you don't listen. We told you, we said, we know this man. The way he rose in UPND and came and took over and said, is what he is also thinking he can do to Zambia. Azabu edapo, azabu edapo, azakalapati. I'll come back to the issue of mingalato. But before I talk about that, let me just remind my friend Hagainde. He has told us now, give me time. Give me time. Give UPND time. Muzamba manji, manji manji, muzamba kudya, mande sima. Tuesday rice. When is the potato? Balanced diet, balanced diet. Not balanced diet. You afford electricity. You afford fuel. Boanji, boanji. I want to remind President Hagainde that in leadership there is also morality. Just like in ordinary life there is morality. President Hagainde in the run up to the elections in 2021, he told you Zambians, vote for me. Declare me at 12 hours. At 10 hours I'm elected at 12 hours I'm sworn in. At 14 hours the dollar will be 10 kwach. He did not say after you vote for me I will stake 10 years. No. He said within 2 hours the dollar, the kwach I will appreciate. He did not tell us that when you vote for me I wait for 2 years before the price of minimum becomes 50 kwach up to 50 kg bag. He said you vote for me in August. By October the price of minimum will be 50 kwach. He told you Zambians that if you are Mugulapa 15 kwacha elita it is because PF are allowing middlemen to steal 3 kwachas. So when you elect me the fuel price will be 12 kwach up to elita. He did not say after 2 years. But now after 2 years what has the reality been? Millimu which he found at 120 kwacha today is 310 kwacha. He did not say how increased prices this sort of can come and reduce them like his deputy president, vice president said. No. Fuel like I said was at 15 kwacha today fuel is 30 kwacha. Dabo. He found fertilizer. We were selling fertilizer on the open market at 650 kwacha a bag. Today it's 1300 kwacha a bag. Electricity. Connection fee from 750 kwacha to 7700 kwacha. And yet he comes to us and tells us Yembekezani Yembekezani I'm considering me I'm very visionary in the now and after. Da la uko. To put your hand down. I told you that in politics just like in ordinary life there is a value a virtue called morality. Once you promise a person and especially once you promise a people a country and they give you what you're asking for the presidency and you realize that that promise you made you're not capable of fulfilling it if you are a morally upright person what do you do? You resign. You resign. But if you are such a greedy person and you are afraid of resigning at least the next thing you do before you make another promise is to apologize. You apologize and say Zambians I am sorry I deceived you Zambians or at least if you want to hide that you are a deceptive person you say I didn't know I promised you but now I've realized no please that's what a morally upright person does you don't just hide your promises and come up with new promises nikuwana antupuba and yes you can fool some people some time but you can't fool all the people all the time you can't how can things be better how can things be better when we can see that the cost of production is increasing we advised him we said you cannot be changing the price of fuel every month you can't be changing the price of electricity every month because the producers of goods and services have a one year planning perspective you can't find a businessman who buys commodities today at this cost and produces without knowing what the cost will be for replacing those raw materials no people put prices based on the cost of replacement of raw materials and what is happening now is that all businesses are planning on the basis of increment of fuel prices on a monthly basis so they are taking the highest at the end of the year and passing it on to consumers because they have to survive who has caused that the so called economist and that is the same with all other commodities and with that in place he's still saying I'm visionary I'm seeing far now you see this is the danger of people who claim to see far if you put your perspective far and you don't see what is here you fall in the ditch and that's what's happening with this government they are thinking they are seeing far and yet they can't see what is right in front of them right under their nose we want a leadership that will look down under the nose and see the problems now fix the problems now for the future don't create problems now hoping that the future will solve itself no you can't solve future problems if you are failing to solve the problems now we also advised him we said we were not negligent when we slowed down our negotiations with the IMF we were not negligent at all we kept repeating this we said we did not agree with the five conditions that were given to us by the IMF and we refused to accept those conditionalities because we knew that they are going to hurt the citizens of Zambia we refused to remove fuel subsidies because we knew that many farmers will not be able to produce if the fuel costs increase we knew that with the increase in cost of fuel there will be increase in cost of goods and services I was in Ikeme in the village the other weekend and I said to my relatives there well done you voted here for UPND and now you have free education well done now my relatives in this village can go to school and they said to me free education when we can't afford fuel to take our children to school our children are just sitting in the village because we have no money to take them to school because of the cost of fuel because of the cost of transport in Kawata where I live children are being transferred from schools where they were initially to be brought back close to home why? because we can't afford transport costs of what use is free education and by the way what is even that free education 200 kwacha per term 200 kwacha and Zambians are even singing free education 200 kwacha 200 kwacha free education when we can't afford fuel they can't study because the parents can't afford electricity I want to assure you Zambians but for as long as president Haga in the continues for as long as he continues on the IMF program even his so called long term vision is blurred and what he is talking about is just again like he talked about before elections Alice in Wonderland dreaming, dead dreaming he is just simply dead dreaming he was dead dreaming before 2021 when he said and when to reduce the price of millimiu when he was dead dreaming he said give me 10 years who told him that we want to keep him there for 10 years we keep him there for 10 years when he is planning to murder all of us by ringing our necks who remain by that time because he wants us at Dandaula he will do mingalatu na kumbuyo na kukama pa kus you cannot reduce the cost of living in a country where the production of the staple food is not managed properly you can't and you know when you are mythomaniac even when you try to tell the truth your tongue becomes heavy when you are allergic to the truth when you want to say the truth your tongue becomes tight because you just have the disease of telling lies when you telling lies then your lip and your tongue are free surely can you believe that the head of state can say when we took over there was no maze Nipresident Wabwa Njanama Boza Yasuo has he forgotten that his only minister of information Kassanda early 2022 was showing silos in Chisamba and she was pointing and saying this maze was from 2019 from 2020 from 2021 we can't keep maze for such a long time we have to offload it to the export market so that we create space for new maze Nipresident Wabwa Njanama but we didn't find maze kubede kwa mohiyomu kusampuya please dago mpa haga hindi now like I told you besides just increasing the cost of fertilizer even just the management of the procurement of fertilizer has become a problem in one year he has cancelled the procurement process three times issue tender people apply they evaluate afterwards no, cancel start again second one evaluate cancel and now we just yet they are short listing privately why are they doing that why are they doing that I want to commend you journalists keep your sources active as we have read today in one of the newspapers 7.8 million dollars is what has motivated the cancellation revival cancellation revival of the fertilizer procurement procedure people want to pocket 7.8 million dollars who is going to pay that poor zambians you will pay it in the increased price of maze and the increased price of millimeo enriching who the ones who are instructing start cancel start cancel and he is saying have a vision for the patriotic front in realizing that we cannot leave the trade in our staple food to the private sector alone we decided to invest in zambia police we invested in ZNS we invested in giving them capacity to grow maze we also gave them capacity to mail maze the reason why we set up milling plants in police stations in the police farms and ZNS farms was because we wanted these to stabilize the local price of millimeo that when the private sector increase the price of millimeo because of shortage of maze then we can instruct police and ZNS to release maze millimeo on the market to dump in prices that's how people who are visionary think people who think that's how they think they think now and plan for far they don't forget now and think far no now these who think far what have they done they have now told ZNS go and print bugs written for export how can zambia national service an organization that is paid by taxpayers an organization that draws money from you the zambian people how can you tell them that you export when the private sector is also exporting who's going to cushion the local market you can see that these blind people when I was a boy I used to be told the story of short people when a short person met you and they asked you how many are there how many are there how many are there because they don't have any vision whatsoever this is the reason they are pretending and saying don't worry we are not solving problems we are solving for far so that you don't realize that actually they are not planning anything because you will not hold them accountable let us see them changing things now we want a paradigm shift now and if they have failed the moral thing to do is to say there are many other things they can do and there are many other zambians who are capable of this running this country better look at the disaster that Hagarinde himself personally and this is not about his government he himself personally Hagarinde he did a masami murderous BMW last year you remember what he did before the planting season of 2022-23 what did he say farmers I have found a big market for soya in China this is a good opportunity farmers grow soya because there is a noxpot market farmers including myself even me I was deceived I was deceived I took 10 hectares of my maize field I said I am going to do soya when I harvested what did Hagarinde say not buying the soya and then at 11 kwacha 6 kwacha 4 kwacha who created poverty among those farmers mbmw mbmw I not use I say PF are delaying in removing Vedanta me when I come the first thing I will do is to remove Vedanta because Vedanta is a bankrapt group they are not mining and so on and so forth people are suffering because of Edgar Chagualungu he is in kuhutu with the Vedanta we told the Zambian people that look Vedanta gave us a number of promises and of all these promises including paying suppliers and paying taxes of all the promises Vedanta had even one promise and what did Hagarinde say I will remove them in 2022 what did he say I will remove them these people me I am going to remove them I want these court cases to end I will remove them I am not bringing back Vedanta now this year what is he saying today what is he saying I am bringing back Vedanta because they have promised that they are going to invest 1 billion and they will be better under us people who everybody knows are bankrapt I am sure that some of you remember what Edgar Chagualungu said he challenged Hagarinde when Hagarinde was opposition leader he said you Hagarinde don't lie to the Zambian people these people have promised you money and you are even telling them at no 100,000 dollars you are cheaper now we are being vindicated you can't hide lies you can't hide lies for a long time the truth will always catch up and on behalf of PF I have to say we condemn the decision to bring back Vedanta and we stand with the people of Chingola and in regrouping we shall also go to Chingola to go and talk to the people in Chingola I once asked our chairman for mines Honorable Musukwa he appeared on 5FM I'll ask him to appear now on even more radio stations so that he can give the Zambian people all the technical aspects of this Vedanta business so that Zambians can see that actually we're being shortchanged over this Vedanta business this is simply another channel of siphoning money talking about siphoning money I want to talk to my friends and when I say friend colleagues I don't mean it in bad faith when I say friend they have my friend and this friend I'm talking to now is my friend Kavesha Kavesha you've had a very distinguished legal career highly distinguished gentleman but my friend for your own information if you're not aware you are being trapped and you may be alone the ones who are trapping you will not be there you Kavesha Mulilo as attorney general of the Republic of Zambia you are legal advisor number one to Hagainde and to Cabinet and you know better than many other Zambians and many lawyers that the concept of the nole in court is not an acquittal this is the reason why when I was arrested myself in the hands of Neli Muti I told the NPA I said I don't want a nonsensical nole I refuse you either arrest, convict me or acquit me because a nole is not an acquittal what we've been observing in the recent past is theft open siphoning of public resources we saw this happen in the Hatembo case those fellows who are implicated in the Hatembo case they were not convicted no where they acquitted they were released on a nole what that means is that at any time in the future the state may rearrest you and prosecute you it means that you still have this issue on your head now for you to go and start sitting attorney general with people who are carrying nole and you enter consent and we say we will compensate you don't think that Hargainda is the only person who has the propensity of digging the past and especially because of Hargainda's conduct you can also be less assured that the next government will have people say ah ah and they will dig and they will find that you you are the one who is entering consent judgments over these noles you give people 6.4 million each on a nole of the treason issue in Mungu none of those people are acquitted no the next government might open that matter again and say we want to investigate how this matter was conducted how was the sixth president's safety impaired when that happens what will happen when you have already paid people 6.4 million and by the way if indeed your government is a just government why don't you list down all the people who are on nole because there are many in this country there are many people who are on a nole people who are arrested they were put behind sales behind bars and the state preferred to enter a nole why don't you list all of them and compensate all of them why are you being selective why only your friends, your relatives why? and also beyond that Kavesha having been minister in that ministry I want to tell you that we know that there are people on that compensation and awards fund from way back in the 1990s who have yet to be paid the retirees are on that same list why is it that you have not cleared the people that the government owes from many years ago but you are paying these ones now why? where is justice why are you not following the principle in first out now you are following the principle of last in first out why? this as far as we are concerned is simply looting looting there were 13 people who were involved in that matter 14 people involved in that reason matter one has said I will not start this matter until after I have left office kumaziko eno vuti kaya nina mulanduna bomba for which I am president but because I am president nika choka u president I will bring back this matter I must be compensated now out of those 14 one says I will come back nika choka u president then there are 13 kavesha why only 10 why are they not on the list why are those 3 not on the list atoni general tell us why those 3 are not on the list and don't tell me that they didn't come to you because that was a group action it wasn't individual action it was group action when you preferred nole on all of them it was all the 14 you can't peak willy nilly tell us the reason why the 3 are not there and I leave this to you tunalists nika choka u president find out what is the difference between those 10 who are on that compensation list and the 3 who are left out find out and write the story that is total looting and I want to assure you my friend kavesha this matter will not rest it shall haunt you I may be there I may not be there but I can assure you it shall haunt you