 Let me show you what we don't want to happen under our government, which has been happening since independence. I think it's there. Can you see that graph? I'm not a lecturer. I know one opposition member calls me a lecturer. I'm not a lecturer. Lecturers are somewhere in the institutions of learning. But it's an illustrative point that I want to make. Paddle or duty was to stabilize the macro situation. And I'll come to what we've done around there. But this is the biggest ticket, colleagues, fellow citizens. And we must all work together to resolve this ticket and avoid what has been happening. You check that. It will show you from 1960. If we start, I believe it's 1973 there. 1973, you see a curve where the economy and bars was going up growth following year down. We grew 1974, 1975, the economy declined. It goes on. We grew again, 1980 there about. 1982, the economy went down. So what you see is a flat curve there, almost the economy remaining the same. Up to 1991, you can't provide for the people. You can't improve lives in that manner. It's there. This is not mine. Figures, these figures come from the Central Bank, Bank of Zambia, and the Ministry of Finance. To be specific, we shared this graph as we were attracting investment in London and elsewhere last week, only last week. But the message, you'll see what we're driving here. Now, come 1991, we grow in 1993, 1994, we plummet growth, plummeting it. You can go on that period up to, if I may say, 2001. 2001, you see the economy starts growing. Just be patient. We'll get there very quickly. Take interest. I know citizens, many citizens, don't take interest in facts and numbers. You can't run an economy, a country without this. I know we like to circumvent this. It doesn't work like that. So from 2001, we start seeing consistent growth. Consistent growth. Consistent growth up to 2010. You see that yourselves. 2011, 2012, we start declining. Please follow that graph. It's very important to the message we will deliver shortly. You see the economy starts going down again. And from 2001, we never had negative growth. Up to 2010, 2011, 2012, then after 2012, the decline in the growth of the economy commences. And it climaxed with negative growth for the first time since 1995. Please follow what I'm saying. Since 1995, we saw the first negative growth in 2020. There you are. You can't pay retirement benefits. I'm sure you are surprised why we were not able to pay retirement benefits in that period, since 2011. I'm sure you are surprised or you are not now that I've shown you that that's why meal allowances were withdrawn from students. That's why in that period free education was withdrawn. Probably slightly earlier. I'm putting things in context. Now, what else did you see in that period? 2001 to 2011, we had cleaned the debt. The balance sheet debt came down. 2011, 2012 to 2021, the debt came back with the vengeance. We cannot serve our citizens in that way. This is what happened to me. This is what happened to me. This is what happened to me. This is what happened to me. You can't live like that. You don't know what you're talking about. You can't live like that. We don't like graphs and numbers. You can't run a country without numbers. You cannot run a country without numbers. Then you are a joker. You are just a joker because you cannot run a country without knowing that if you borrow too much and you consume that money, you get into debt trap. You have to calculate. You must put most of that money into revenue generating. When you revenue generate, you can then support CDF to a tune of 28.3 million quads. That's how it works. You need to know the numbers, please. You need to know the numbers. You need to work out what the weather is likely to be before November so you can plan properly and as the drought comes, you do need numbers, please, otherwise people perish. I was on the farm when someone was preaching, talking about graphs and numbers. All we were showing is that this is how we move from independence to where we are now and there's something wrong there which we need to change. That graph shows us that we've not been making the right economic and social decision. Now we must make the right decision. We made the right decisions by introducing CDF at this level, 28.3 million quads. And you will see that this number, these graphs will show by 2026, you will see that there will be desks in classrooms, no child will be sitting on the floor. You will see that internet wings are there and there's water. You will see that the children who were not in school will be in school. You will see that there are enough classroom spaces. That is what numbers do if you know how to use them. If you fear numbers, we have introduced free education. We can send you back to school and learn some more. It is my prayer for each and every one of you that God may make each one of you his instruments of peace in the landscape of head trade and the vengeance. That God makes you instruments of tolerance in a culture of hypocrisy and deception. That God makes you instruments of forgiveness of lies and falsehood. That God may make you instruments of discernment and the right judgment in an atmosphere of great provocation. At the close, my dear young people, I wish to state and defend all priests in the archdiocese of Lusaka in particular and in the world in general. A priest is not a joker for heaven's sake. Not a joker for heaven's sake. A priest is a shepherd. He speaks from an informed perspective, performs for amusement and at a fee. To judge who is a real joker, a priest. This is not necessary. What wrong did the priest do? Just for me, I'm telling you that people in these locations, they don't understand the graphs. How they understand easy, when you provide food on the table for them as per your promise and it becomes a Lucifer. Come on, I am at a pain. The Zambian people are at a pain. But we want to warn you, the ruling party, that you're not going to win over this. If you think you're going to intimidate us to a place where we call, where we fold our hands and what you will continue to do as you please, you have mistaken big time, stop that. It's not necessary. These priests that you are insulting, they are men of God. And they live with the people in these locations and hence they know the suffering that the people are going through. That's why they are talking and they haven't started talking now. They have been talking even before Mr. Akai in the Echilema was born. So you cannot be calling them Lucifer for just saying that the things out was what he said is false. No, what he said is true. Because even me, I didn't understand those graphs because they were flawed graphs. And this is not the first time that the president was issuing a false graph. That was false. Do you want us to bring 100 economists, independent economists, to come and tell you that those were false graphs? It's not necessary. As a ruling party, you shouldn't be in the forefront of promoting the couch of insults.