 We are here to deliver a memorandum of demand demanding that the Zambian government and the U.S. government publish details of the two MOUs. Number one on Africa and the second one on EV battery value chain. We are here with the senior leaders, but we will speak in this form. Senator Jim Rish. Well done, senator. For telling us things that President Aga Indihejidema has always wanted to hide. You are a brave senator. Then Zambian members of parliament emulate Jim Rish. Tells the truth all the time. No matter how painful it is, tell it as it is. Jim Rish disclosed the whole international community that they had a boy in Zambia called Aga Indihejidema, who was going to fight to wage a war against what America considers the intrusion of China in Africa. Well done Jim Rish because we have always wondered why in this country Aga Indihejidema has not been willing to disclose the contents of the meetings he's been having whenever he travels. Jim Rish did well by informing us that actually Aga Indihejidema is being used in this geopolitical space that he is going to stand up and fight China. As Zambians we get extremely concerned by this. And this reminded us of the fact that in April this year the Americans, not the Zambian government, but the American government disclosed to the international community that they had entered into an agreement, into an MOU with Zambian to establish the Africa. Why were we given that information by America and not by the Zambian government? As patriotic front by the end of April 2022 we politely wrote to President Aga Indihejidema asking him to make a full disclosure of that MOU. Unfortunately to debt President Aga Indihe has not done what any civil servant is obliged to do to respond to any letter written to the presidency or to government by any citizen. He has chosen to keep quiet about it. So we thought this is another opportunity for us to come to the Americans and say since you are the ones who told us that you entered into an MOU with Zambia on the Africa can you give us full disclosure what is contained in that MOU? Over and above that it also reminded us of the fact that when President Aga Indihe was in the United States of America he and his counterpart President of Congo Chisekendi were standing behind their ministers, supervising their ministers as they were signing an agreement and this agreement is to do with the 21st century minerals, minerals for the future. Cobalt, copper, nickel, lithium. Now these are the minerals that Africans must jealously guard and we have seen that they are African countries such as our sister Zimbabwe where the government of Zimbabwe has said there is no body who is going to be allowed to export these minerals especially not lithium because they know that these materials, these minerals are the minerals that are going to engineer the growth of any economy going ahead. Now why is it that President Aga Indihe went and signed that agreement without even bringing it to the Zambian parliament? The parliamentarians of Zambia do not have an idea what is contained in that agreement. Now because it was signed with America and because we know that the American law allows for any American authority to disclose such public information that's why we have come to American territory. We are here demanding disclosure by the American people based on American law because when we try to apply Zambian law, Aga Indihe will hide behind no there is no freedom of access to information but for the Americans access to information is a right and we as Zambians have a right to demand that Americans must make a full disclosure on that MOU whereas all of us in Zambia are suffering we are also at a loss to imagine how Zambia and Aga Indihe is actually losing its sovereignty and this is a big issue yes my colleagues are talking about electricity about lack of drugs and so on and so forth but what is even more important is our own freedom our four bears fought for independence because they wanted us to govern ourselves and now we are giving our sovereignty now we are allowing Americans to dictate upon us now America is telling us which countries to be friends and which countries to be enemies we demand that this information is made public yes my colleagues have spoken about electricity yes when we have a shortage of electricity we expect a responsible parent to say I am not going to give away the little silver or the little sugar that my children have to eat it is only a very responsible parent who would want to please people outside at the expense of their own children and you say if we can't cancel these agreements when we produce more electricity there will be no market my foot, why would you even think that you are going to produce more electricity if your citizens who have perished because they have no electricity they have no jobs what kind of work thinking is this but I want to say that all this is because of the IMF agreement it is nothing to do with Zambia it is all to do with the IMF conditionalities and we also demand that the IMF agreement must be made public let us read the content of that IMF bailout package for them to be bragging and saying the PF failed over 7 years and we managed over 2 months yes you managed over 2 months and you are not responsible and you are not caring of Zambian people the patriotic front refused to sign that agreement because we did not want to give away our sovereignty to the IMF now we have also heard that America has pledged 55 million dollars through the IMF to go to African countries why is the American government not giving that money directly to African countries why are they using the IMF how come? because they want to capture Africa and we stand firm today on the 23rd of December in the Lord's Year 2022 we in the patriotic front together with our colleagues in the opposition political parties are saying no to the selling of Zambia sovereignty we heard President Haga in the bragging that in the previous regime there was a war between Zambia and Congo and that he went and negotiated that and it ended can he also disclose what has happened to the borderline hasn't he given away part of Zambia what agreement has he entered into with Tisekedi because for us we had already started those negotiations what is it that he agreed with Congo for us we made it public that yes there was an issue there we had to protect Zambia's integrity and territorial integrity but for him he says we negotiated can he please disclose we want him to tell us what is the content of the agreement he entered into with President Tisekedi over the borderline without bringing it to the attention of parliament all these questions must be asked and unlike my dear fellow citizens join these people that you see here join the people who are here this morning because these are the ones who are patriotic we are patriotic to an extent where we are willing to be arrested we are willing to be jailed we are willing to lose our lives because our forebears lost their lives to protect Zambia not to watch Zambia being given away by an individual purely because he wants to get praise and when he hears Europeans praising him then he thinks he even goes to the extent of saying other people are asking me how I've managed my God there have been African presidents who have said before the moment you hear a Muzungu the moment you hear an American the moment you hear a Westerner praising you as president you know that they have captured you so for them Jim has told us that actually Haga indihilema is captured now if our president is captured where will we go the best is to say Buona go and continue to receive personal praise from Americans but not at the expense of Zambians there are many other Zambians who are capable of performing the function you are feeling to perform the form even better than you Haga indihilema so if you want to receive praises please leave that job continue to be a motivational speaker and go and speak in Washington go and speak wherever you want but don't betray the sovereignty of Zambia this is something that we are willing to die for our forebears died for this country and we are willing to play our lives for the sake of our future generations we do not want to be blamed by our grandchildren where were they when Zambia's sovereignty was sold we want to be there to stand on the right side of history so please Americans I would like to say to you Michael Gonzalez I haven't had the opportunity at all to welcome you but now I'm saying welcome to Zambia and you have come to a sovereign state and we demand that you as ambassador of the United States of America cause for full disclosure on the issues we have raised we want the MOU on the Africa release it to the public of Zambia as quickly as possible we want you also to make a full disclosure on the MOU that was entered into recently in Washington by President Haida in the President Chisekedi we want to know what you have agreed about our mineral resource those mineral resources are not for Haida in the Indian region those are for Zambians and Zambians are protected by the institution called Parliament unless Parliament expropriates money no one is allowed to if they cannot expropriate money how come they can expropriate minerals without going to the representatives of the people let the Zambian Parliament be told what they entered into what agreement is this failure of which we shall also say that the Americans are complicit in trying to create another America in Zambia we don't want them to govern us we want to govern ourselves we fought for independence from the British not for Americans to come and govern us but to govern ourselves for all of you, my dear brothers and sisters Merry Christmas I know it is not going to be merry for a lot of us but all I can say is let us pray to God that come 2023 probably the Holy Spirit may enter some of these people selling our Zambia sovereignty and they start to realize that it is God who bestowed this country upon us it is God who allowed us to have our independence in 1964 and nobody must take that independence away from us we must continue to be a sovereign state this is very important I want to use these words this is very important very important Mulea Kutika very important thank you very much thank you Chavulanda Pakalam Banganshi Kussefia Inshikungkuluia Christmas Inshikungkuluia Niue Muleaia Muleaia ma condition to remote Chavulanda chine chine nomba itwemba tchitila ukulirila kusiri noko kone milomo eitwefutuia isapano kulirila nomba kulitata tatanan tomuishive ushetata niue uletila kutina shiti shama laiti konganya ni po kutula ushetata niue uletila te mula handu nangutaku limiti mutipatala konganya ni po mulefufine ureawine eti loronabi kakuriya eti loronubon beshanganshi Chavulanda iti peshama no kwena itibemba tchine chatuevo kutila pukusushe lungu kwena mo Eroka bidi ukupesha tchibola ukupesha tchibola perera pope Banda kutibata yo ureawine itibemba tchimoka tushefom ureawina ukupesha tchibola kumosuela Pakueba tchimu kese muipushavuino ukupesha tchibola kwena tuariku peria mafasiriti yo nse nomba Amarizauti arikuisa Iti rei lengu wari po keria mafasiriti nuku yabonfiawa yabonfiabuino tsi arikuisa Fuevantumunochalo tuletshula tuletshula etu entungu lushi chatila ei limiti hati hati posteku amano kutibata yo Tua suke nomba kutibata yo uishu bantu panote paritata nipari uishi wabantu bambi pano nipachalo tchimbi epo tuwaisa muku dirila kwena lalatua suka ushecha rotshesu itza zambia tuwala tsu suminisha ukukon kanyapo ukuyamuri inenshila yamwevena zambia entungu lushi nuku sumina tuletsumina nga batiro wunga na buchiramo utengo na ifuevene wunga tushita tulamona nga muatila transporti kwena ya nina inana muli basi nibu liabushiku nafumine panuusmi duku isamutawni na isa tinana kuchirengi okonji kala muli mini basi nani umfu iranama tuyandi nani mwenana mensoyandi efi avantubane tsu ulamu isa muli chinochalo entungu lushi muwebotua sarire muwebotua pela makaya kuhu entungu lushi muwebotua sarire abantubarafakun sana naa tasha kanawez ukulapone binokilas if you can speak in Tonga too our people briefly just on the end of your message and the saka msazanda which we are celebrating Christmas ja kutangu na nanda kubaba hrumbaba acting president butwa sindi gila kuno wemba siya wama wama gwa wama amerika kutubabore wabuie ena madi benazambangu bere dugu bere hiya jinija Christmas waga hindi waga siya wama amerika na jaga wabutu soto wabu ola kutubuie windi nani waba acting president batija nchubeni muli muwebaba benzuma wakurumte wakumpuro koso ababa wajagu jipata tunaguniwa meyenda jinija Christmas anuwe kamba wutika tiki kutubu e dugu bere hiya ture kagugu ture turaisi wembutu ari kuriaga hindi jinkua guni nape soto amirabaga hindi iti reima no mudia aguniwa wamutinda wawibegu tanze guno irishupita hindi o mumu garingaringa mumu tendere munkegu kujisokone market kujimuemu munkegu dambu munkegu mongze munkegu mongu wujipata Christmas wantu anuwe meyenda inzima a meyenda a soto jinija nakuji tika jinija Christmas kamba wakutiniwa pamari kubamaguwa onotuanda kubuia wamaguwa ino njumumunina marie eno kumuzu waku amerika utubuure mutere kubere hiya muntreso kutabe 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