 Our God and our Father, God of love, God of grace, the Creator of the heavens and the earth and everything that belongs in the heavens and everything that belongs to the earth. Our God and our Father, we are here to recognize you as the Supreme, the sovereign master, the Supreme Ruler, the one who has taken good care of everyone's life. I want to thank you for giving us this thing. We thank you, Father God, for the gift of life that many have not seen this day. Those who may have been there yesterday have not seen it. It is not because we are clever, Father God, but because we know that you are the one with the calendar of our life on earth and therefore ours is to say thank you even for the life of those that have departed from this planet. And Father God, may we lead to your love, may we do your will. In whatever we say, in whatever we do, wherever we are, Father, may we glorify your name. We thank you, Father God, once again for this day. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to meet in this manner. My God and my Father, you know that we were going to meet on this occasion. Father, we give glory to the footballers and allied workers union of Zambia executive that sent us a letter requesting to meritoriously honor the president and myself for the work that they have seen we have done in the sporting fraternity. We thank you, Father God, even for many others that have come to witness this occasion. Father, we pray that you may touch each and every soul that is here. Bless us, Father God, as we recognize you in all the events in the sporting fraternity, Father God, may we excel in all our sporting activities in Zambia. Thank you for the people that are recognizing those that have done well in this area. Thank you, Father God, for the media. We thank you, Father God, for everyone that is listening out there. It's in Jesus' name that we pray, leaving everything else in the hands of God Almighty to bless our country, Zambia, and indeed all the people of Zambia. We praise you. We honor you. We thanksgiving in our hearts. Amen. Thank you, Mama, for that powerful prayer. For those of you that were attentively listening to the prayer, this is a special occasion where the footballers, allied workers of the union of Zambia, are honoring the former president of the Republic of Zambia, Dr. Ajata Golungu, majorously for the works that he did in the seven years that he served as president. So that is why we're all gathered here. May I take the point to ask the president and former best lady and colleagues to please take a seat. At this point in time, I'll call upon the sixth president of the Republic of Zambia, Dr. Ajata Golungu, to come and give his welcome remarks. You can, sister. Please welcome. Good morning. Good morning. Some of you are from Zambia. Those of you who haven't made good morning remarks are from Zambia. Without wasting much of your time again, I will still invite you, that's the president, to come and make his former speech. But what's much speech do you want me to make? You see, yesterday. Sorry, that's my start. I don't know, I still can't do it though. Yeah, but I've never been seen. Provoking me to talk. And when I talk, they say, well, you see. Sorry, at this point in time, I'll call upon Mr. Alinos Chalue, the relative of Paus, to make a few remarks and make the former presentation. This is excellent. The sixth Republican president of Zambia, former best lady, Mr. Golungu, my colleagues that I've come with, media members of the press and everyone gathered. It is a humble honor to be part of this occasion. We've come here with my colleagues and I need to point out, first of all, that this was something that was long overdue. The honor that we want to bestow or to give his excellency is what is called the merit award. The first person or the last person that was honored by Paus, in short, of footballers and the light workers in Zambia was Kalu Shawaria for his services to football. Not only in this capacity as former president of FAS, but also as a footballer. So in 2019, we came up with an award or we came up with an idea to honor the former Republican president for his service to Zambian football and especially football players. For those that do not know, some of the service that his excellency has done for football is immense and I would like to bring to your attention one of the services that has stuck with us, myself personally, is his work, his pro bono work for those that can remember. His excellency did pro bono for the Gabon disaster victims and managed to help the families to get or receive some money to look after their families. We lost an entire team in 1993 and the passion that his excellency has always had for football and sport in general, but for the welfare of players is eminent from the service that is done, not only from that, but I just wanted to point out that, you know, that far to just take you back to, you know, so that people are aware that it is not only yesterday because of Chipolo Polo or the Copa Queens. No, it is service to football from decades ago. You know, he's been a servant of Zambian football and he's been a father to football for many decades. I would like also to point out that this award that we bring to his excellency and mom here, we've brought them. The reason why you're not seeing the entire executive of FAUSE is because this was done, we did this in 2019 while I was serving as General Secretary for the footballers and Allied Workers Union of Zambia, but at the moment I am former GS. I stepped out last year to try and pursue other avenues within football, so that is the reason why I thought, you know, I should mention, to say this is the reason why you're not seeing the entire executive, but being the founder, I thought it only wise because these small gifts have been sitting idle for the past three and a half years and I thought it only wise to say, look, before, you know, they get damaged or we don't want to honor people, there's a trend, not only in Africa, but across the globe of honoring people when they're late. And we thought it wise to say, no, we need to honor the president and mom while they are still alive. And I took that initiative with my colleagues here to say, look, let us go and see mom and let us go and see his excellency and present these things. So I'd like to point that out. I can't say much. I think the rest is to pass on the little gifts that we brought for mom and his excellency from ourselves, from the football. It shouldn't only be from the footballers and the light because it should be from the football fraternity and that is how we came. We came as passionate from the football fraternity, passionate supporters of football and passionate supporters of the welfare of athletes. With those few remarks, thank you so much. I'd just ask his excellency and mom to please stand and say after that presentation, it is only right that I call upon his excellency the president, Sixth President of the Republic of Zambia, to give his acceptance speech. No, I'm not sure. I learned about this thing yesterday for Nancy and I tried to be as formal as I could be. So in the night, I was doing a speech accepting great honor. But the speech is, it's very difficult to speak about passionate things like football because football brings all of us together. So I've already spoken to you guys inside and may I simply say welcome. All protocols observed and once more to you, Sir and your team, most welcome colleagues from the football fraternity, the soccer fans and those who joke with me on Saturday morning. I'd say you're most welcome. The media too, you're most welcome. We are without you and we are not as simple as we should be because we thank the media. Even when you say things which are hurting to us, the media is good because we talk about you whether they talk bad or good things, at least why should they go out. So you're welcome guys. On behalf of my dear wife, the former face lead, she's actually the 60th face lead. She's the 60th face lead. It will help us if you go out. The 60th face lead. And for me, the 60th face lead makes sense that you distinguish us from those. I wish you great humility to just say I'm very grateful to Mr Chalwit, his team and everyone else who is behind the idea of recognizing us and the resilience to just stay back up here to come and play It's troubling because sometimes it's getting a little more more system, you are used to it, but there are issues. Some people want to push it down, but he works with football and it's legendary. So Mr Chalwit also, at least with my two push-ups, we know. So, like you all said, I'm informed that this is the highest honor, recognition your union can conform on an individual. And I'm humbled because I know that I was contributing in a great way. I've always loved being with people, but people bring me more people than ever. So, me and my wife are truly humbled by your recognition of our modest contribution to this much-loved football and the development of football in our country. Of course, along with it, the welfare of the footballer. The welfare of the footballer. In greeting you, I say, here I am, a tenant to a footballer. It shows that football can give you a livelihood. Football, to a pack-a-muffin, to a co-star to win a win. All those people playing football in Zambia, in Africa, in Europe are recognized because they are backed by people like you who give them the courage to play football and also give them the right thoughts so that they are able to use the money that they get in investment like this. You know, we have tragic cases where footballers, they are miserable, they've been lost along the way because they've not been guided properly. But with your union, things have changed. A lot of people are doing very well and I think we should thank you for that. The game of football brings us together, regardless. You saw yesterday, it's where they came from. And I'm very excited. So, this year I'm saying so because Zambia is a political taker. Football is a take a shot. Ranking, football number one, it's not how you see it. But I think football is indeed a great activity that has encouraged us. Your admirable guest is timely, coming just five days after, just five days long, five days away from 20, this is 20 August, 2020 is like 20 August, we are having a women's World Cup. And this is a very important event, a World Cup. So, Copper Queens will make their maiden appearance in this prestigious global competition for the very first time. They will play Japan. But they've made us proud. So, as a country, we are so proud of these Copper Queens and I think they've meritoriously achieved their level and let's give them support for the very first time. Yeah, for the very first time. And it's not only the girls going to the World Cup, the big German, you saw that. Yeah, forget about the poor officiating. So, I think for the very first time in the country's history, we are very proud to mention an account of the achievement of footballers, particularly the women. And I would like to dedicate this award and recognition to the Copper Queens. And in educating this award, I would urge them to cheer them all the way through, all the way through to the end of the tournament. But I know they can make it. Yeah. And I'm saying they can make it. Why? They beat the German. And the German never number two in the world. In the whole world, the world will be the German. So, we can beat number two. We can beat number one. So, I think they will pull a lot of chapters with the girls, believe you mean, especially if you watch them and you support them. And they know that we are watching them. And these days of social media and the simultaneous communication, I'm sure you will be sending messages to the first social media, say, Womba, Womba, Womba, Womba, Barbara, Banda, Kinkwa, Manaka, so on. So, the people that are your last night, what day is it now? It's Sunday. What day is it now? South Africa. Let me congratulate you for the pro-boys, for qualifying for the 2023 Hollywood Beds, Kusafa Cup five in South Africa. It's not easy to beat South Africa and South Africa. But I did it. They were down to one zero at one time and they came from behind. And that shows the spirit typical of Zambian footballers, typical of the Zambian session. Never said die. So, but it's a real song. We have no doubt that our boys will bring back the trophy, home, after comparing the sources tomorrow. Brutalic and nine. Somebody, we saw it for ourselves. So, this will be the seventh time. Seventh? I don't know, I'm not too sure, but they will lift it. Whether it's the seventh, sixth, or eighth, they will lift it. And anyway, let me know what you think. And it just concludes by saying, I wish the footballers, and I like the way has been done, gentlemen. Before the base, I will continue to pursue the noble objective of looking into the world of footballers. And indeed, in the industry of football, I can only age for what means Zambian, particularly the Corporal citizen. Support your effort in whichever way possible. In my own way, I will support you by encouraging you to do the investment that most footballers have done. You can't understand this one. It's just beautiful. But I'm from you, coaching them back here, the union, the other industry, they tell their workers, stop being a miner, you don't want to be the destitute. So, you, your members, you should be taught that you're actually a reserve pitch up goer, parts of that are reserve pitch up goer, Zambalou, and all those other boys. You don't have to be the landlord, the mentor, you know, and so on. So, I can only thank you guys. And we, and the ask that the good old omai to continue blessing you, and to guide the new. And for politicians, A big hand once again to the 2020. At this point in time I'll ask the six presidents, the Republic of Zambia and the the sixth facility to position themselves and take have a conference session with the Board of Bowls.