 The people of Zambia voted in the UPND to form government in order to express the challenges that the PF government had had and not for them to be giving PF excuses. Literally everything that has happened over the last 16 months has been blamed on the previous government and yet it is UPND government. This to the CF shows that the UPND was not ready and is still not ready to govern. You cannot continue playing a blame game and calling SEVO7's names when they are the ones who tend up with large numbers to vote for you. 2. Mining Corruption That is our first quantum, ZCCM, IH and TAS. At a time when we are in an economic crisis, it is very unfortunate for the government to trade the 20% of the gold and shares we hold in the first quantum mine for royalties. This is akin to a person winning a lottery and giving the winning tickets to a stranger to go and redeem the prize and then asking the stranger to be supporting you with an upkeep allowance from the very process of the lottery. My jokes, that signifies diminished capacity to reason. We are at the verge of collapsing economically and instead of government fighting to increase its shareholding to at least 49% of this government, this government is seeking to sell off its shareholding in exchange for royalties of 3.1%. This is not just a bigger mentality of moving from having a place on the table and sharing the spoils to sitting back and getting hand-me-downs. Ironically, the logic at play is equally in total contravention of even the UPND 2021-2026 manifesto on page 11 bullet point number 5 under mining. It is a policy and plan to facilitate local ownership and increased participation of Zambian players in the industry. It is certain that the action the government wants to take is at variance with what the crafters of the UPND manifesto are in mind and more importantly, what the people of Zambia voted them for. Perhaps this explains why they are reluctant to bring this issue on the floor of parliament for further debate, to adduce that this was shared by PF shows a clear absence of leadership of impeachable proportion. It is a fact that ZCCMIH is a 20% shareholder in Kansai region in mind. It is also a fact that $2.8 billion was paid out to face quantum minerals and related parties. And it is also a fact that $750 million was placed in equally related parties without following governance and KMP's Treasury policy. It is a fact that the actions that this mining house has been engaged in has robbed the nation of billions of dollars that any leadership that does not have its hands less with corruption should have sought to recover rather than going round with a begging board seeking an IMF loan of $1.3 billion, which will end up being the space over three years. It is clearly, I mean this deal I will test one time, it is clearly showing you that the UPND government is not interested in fighting corruption from multinationals. They are rather interested in fighting corruption from politically inclined individuals. They would rather fight corruption with the individuals who they think are in politics and from multinationals they are shying away. These are jokes of the highest proportion that we have seen in this country. This first quantum ZCCMIH, high transaction is nothing but a scam. And I would like to call out the so-called ban to come clean and ensure that it stops this daylight robbery of national wealth. May I also call upon our corporate partners to take a keen interest in this transaction as we know that if this happened in their countries, whose directors would have been serving at least 20, 25-year jail sentence and is some jurisdiction, these two would have attracted a death penalty. Let us stop this reckless transaction that clearly points in the direction of a peasing election financiers. If it is wrong in the USA, if it is wrong in the UK and if it is wrong in China, and even wrong in Switzerland, then it should also be wrong in Zambia. No matter how low one's self-perception may be, this is wrong and it is criminal. I am asking the president on behalf of you, my colleagues in the past, to stop this criminal transaction. We are asking him to stop it before we start commissioning our investigators to look at the shell corporations that are benefiting from this heinous crime and help the citizens by addressing the challenges of Copani corporate minds and KCM, which are further causing a third strain on the people of the Copa belt. If Copani is not managed well, we may end up having another wrong issue in the forever, where the mind is flooded and we can no longer be able to carry out any mining activities. Please get your team to find a solution for the mind, Mr President, not using institutions that supported your campaigns over the years, but those that want to do general business and are ready to pay taxes, like any other investor. If they are able to pay taxes in Chile, they are asleep, and Tanzania. Why shouldn't they do the same in Zambia? Why? May I also say a warning on those involved in the SCCM-IH scam to come clean? And avoid the blood of the many Zambians falling on their hands, as this will cause untold hunger and in some extreme cases loss of life. And as they reflect, I encourage them to read Exodus 34 verse 7, in case they don't know the script, I can look it for them. The Lord visits the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children in the third and fourth generation. The further question to those entering into these deals, time is unequalising. You will soon be caught by the arm of the law and you may end up paying dearly when the UPND is voted out of office. Please take time to look at Tanzania and see how the left-person magu 400 mining houses that have perfected the art of tax evasion. You too will one day pay the price. I always tell my colleagues in the Central Committee, never be too friendly with the bed you are going to eat. There is nowhere you can fight corruption when you are always having cocktails with the mining corporations. How are you going to fight them because you are always eating cheese and caviar and all that kind of stuff with them? Chibae le shifi, all through and through. Three cost of living. One of the campaign messages that resonated well with the people of Zambia and caused them to move in their houses in favor of the UPND in the August 21 general election was a promise to the government was a promise to address the cost of living. Today, we are told that Zambia's charity is the best performing across the continent and that we have a single digit inflation and yet the cost of living keeps increasing. With the poor management of the pharma input support program it is projected that next year the situation will be even tougher for the common man to afford even a single meal a day. We have families that are rationing others eat today the others eat the following day it is happening here in the world where people are rationing meals if you have eaten lunch it means that you are in this house and you have to make sure you eat your lunch around 16, 17 hours that is happening but our leaders when we say this they are saying that we are just making it up they are just trying to make popular statements because for them now they have become they have to drink wine to have a bit of appetite but they are forgetting that thousands are languishing in poverty millions in this country are languishing in poverty and they don't have means in which to end their living so we want governments to address these and such agent issues and not them opt to give foreign large corporations the macron sessions while taxing their citizens into object poverty today a 25 kg bag of breakfast meal meal is going at over 170 kg and by this time next year this time next year it is projected to be around 250 kg just how many citizens will be able to afford it at that amount even factor in the scarcity of the commodity all into reduced supply in 2023 58 years after independence as a nation to fail to feed our citizens access to food is a basic right that each citizen must enjoy and is the duty of any responsible government to protect that rights farmer input support program it is clear that government has failed to provide leadership in the agriculture sector which is one of the pillars in the economic recovery plan as well as the 8th national development plan how does the so-called methodical government radically move from having farmers receive 8 by 50 kgs of petalizer per farmer to having 4 farmers sharing 1 bag of petalizer even in Unipi they were getting proper bags of petalizer as opposed to these jobs we are seeing in the nation we are facing a lot of problems what are they doing for 25 years in opposition what are they doing how does a leadership that claims to be profanly start distributing inputs a week after the rain have started falling how does a government that claims to have the interest of the people at heart just to wake up and emphasize the provision of legumes simply because they do not have enough followers in that province. How does the government that has morality and the sound leadership send its leaders senior advisor to start distributing fertilizer to chiefs at the night leaving out the subjects. This is what they were doing. They started giving out fertilizer to chiefs in eastern province giving out the subjects, giving because they had the paramount chief spoke. So in the night they began giving fertilizer to chiefs and then they continued playing games around. But if you give the chiefs only, they're the only ones ever in man. How does that translate in helping the small scale farmers? Pusha man sumunga vaso mbola. In shipping the small scale farmers have vaso mbola. Those are bad politics for UPLG. Those are bad politics, very progressive politics and they have to come to closure. The 2023 farmer input support program has been nothing but a total failure of the current administration. The process of allocating fertilizer distribution has been riddled with corruption of a grand scale. This is another area we would also like to call upon our corporate partners to take interest in. If there's an area where corruption has manifested, it's in the fertilizer deals. Why were they cancelled in tenders? It tender comes out they cancelled. They were cancelled because their friends were not winning the tender. They were not interested in farmers receiving fertilizer on time. They were interested in their friends receiving their cash on time and they are calling themselves leaders. They are calling themselves leaders. I would like to assure the farmers that our citizens first will share in your pain we feel your pain and would like to assure you that we know that over 70% of Zambia's employment is through the agriculture sector and therefore we treat you with respect to the same. Our solution to the issue of farmer input support program is to ensure that we capitalise nitrogen tenders of Zambia and introduce more fertiliser companies that will be able to support farmers increase the output and also create an enabling environment