 kufilu mkna, kaka hiki kasu kiwa kama usitia sure, kwa wenda ka kota ka wenda sure, ekonomi kabina kani yaa, kumikini Karibe합니다. Kama ni kina, k paarunia kasi wenda. Kami kutiko kaja kapa kika wenda給 kapa kawa. Kasa kakafu hikanda 10 eni waja targo, kaka wenda na 9 eni. Umi na karibaba na kapa kaka kava. We can not say 10 if there is real justification for these power blackouts, the Lord shedding that we are seeing that has encumbered us, especially after we promised that we will not have them. The information that the media has propagated especially through the government channels is that there is no water. In the background here what you see this is the side of the trapped water of this big magnificent dam, the Kariba. This is not a small dam. This is the world's biggest man-made dam and is doing his job. I have been here several times. It is low but not as low as it is being speculated. I have seen it lower than this but what we have today is quite a lot of water which is still there and the generation is still happening. Of course there has been some reduction in general generation but there is still generation. Let me just give you a little more peak. This is the side of the dam where the water is trapped. There are a lot of construction works that are happening to increase generation definitely. We have been seeing this is the side that actually has not been publicized by a lot of people. Probably to give an impression that it is just now a dry hole. No, it is not a dry hole. There is water. It may not be a lot but there is water for generation. The part that has unfortunately become very popular by people trying to show that there is a total dry out is this other side where the water falls off. We have seen this on the side. We are actually capturing this from the Zimbabwean side. What we are overlooking is actually the Zambian side. So where the water is coming out from down there, the turbines, that's where they are and that's where generation happens and water continues on this other side. Just for us to have perspective of what happens at this power generation, Zambia is a big country which is upcoming and the Kariba Dam is just one of the places, the North Bank which we share with Zimbabwe and our neighbors and our brothers and sisters. We understand that peak Zambia generates in excess of 3,456 MW and our local demand, the amount that we use as Zambia is just 2,300 MW. That gives us an excess of 1,146 MW. This surplus is what we use to export to other countries, those which don't have. Among the countries where we export, there is Zimbabwe, we also export to the DRC, Namibia and to Boswana. Of course the generation at this place where I am, this is the Kariba North Bank, is about 360 MW. The Kafiwe Gorge on the other side there generates about 600 MW, the Mamba Koderees which is a co-plant generates, gives us about 300 MW. And if we look at our past history, we have actually been exporting an excess of just about 440 MW. Now, this causes us to start rethinking and understanding, especially when we want to challenge the incumbent president, President Haka Indeshlema. Our understanding is that energy is the lifeline of every country and if we have to develop a Zambia, we should have energy. Our fear is that if we prioritize exportation so that we earn an income, we are going to kill the local industry. Such that even when we have made the same money that we are craving for, we would have killed our own people's enterprise. And the country can never be developed by foreigners if the locals are not involved. So I'm challenging the government, let us prioritize the people of Zambia, let us make them be productive. Give us electricity not 12 hours, that is an abuse of authority, my brother President Haka Indeshlema. Let us have something, we are failing to work. I'm an architect, I'm supposed to be drawing this term, there is no power at my office, there is no power at home. There are people who are working in barbershops, saloons. Yesterday when we went to buy some relief with my wife, we went to Zambif. Zambif has with immediate effect increased all prices of their foodstuffs by more than 5 kwacha. They are saying they have to refrigerate those things and they are using gentsets. And those gentsets are increasing the cost so everything is going up. Meaning even our productivity is going down. If we are to have a future as a country, let us prioritize the local enterprise. Let us make sure that our people are not deprived excessively. The other thing I'll challenge my brother the President is that let us have truthful communication. If Zambia with all its abundant resources was given ample communication so that people are able to plan. Communicate, come up with a shed, do not that which is exploitative. But one that leaves people with opportunity to work. If you can cut even the load shed to something sustainable, you can be cutting even maximum 4 hours. 12 hours is killing the people. It is shutting down the economy and once you shut it beyond redemption, we will not recover. See how our kwacha is already planting. These are consequences. Already we are coming from low productivity. So I will challenge this government. We are here at the Karibada. Of course the water has reduced. If anything, if we have to go into details, the understanding is that the water which actually was the previous days when it had reduced to even 75.65, it has now actually improved. In the past 3 days I have noticed it has increased to 75.68 for the last 2-3 days. Meaning it has stopped going down. It rains season water is coming in. So I will challenge this government. Let it provide for the people first. The people of Zambia should be put first. I know this is part of the conditionalities that are emanating from the IMF. I know President Hakaende Chilema is not happy but unfortunately those deals he has gone. We are signed with the IMF where they are dictating how we should end, how we should use our own resources. It is very unfortunate. So I am challenging President Hakaende Chilema. Revisit the IMF. They will crush this country. We have been there to them before. They have crushed our country. Kawanda chased them. Chiruba chased them. Manawasa chased them. We saw that at the end after we chased them. We negotiated and were able to write for us to have that hippick. So we are coming from a place where we have worked with the IMF and we know how they engaf a country, strip it of its productivity and let you only live to fulfill that which you have borrowed from them. Let us make sure we do not end up there where our country is totally destroyed. And also one thing I want to challenge the president, youths were promised a lot of jobs. There are over 5 million youths who are unemployed right now. Those little droplets in the water of 40,000 that you are talking about is not helping much. Most of the youths are self-employed. They are hustling and working on their own. This means that their livelihood right now have been cut off completely. Do you want them to become criminals? If you will shed them the whole day, what do you expect them to be doing right now? What do you think the youths are doing right now? They are becoming criminals. They are losing out. What do you think is happening to those people that are doing businesses? So we have caused this disruption. That speech that you sent Mr. President yesterday you acknowledged disruption. Don't even acknowledge. You have to reform. This is not a minor disruption. This is a huge disruption which is the first state of people who start dying. So we are challenging you. In that speech you gave it was empty. There was no guideline when electricity is coming back. There was no guideline on what really you are doing. It was just so empty and we need to be getting assurance from you as the head of state. So as economic freedom fighters we are making sure that you fulfill the promises especially as empowering the people so that they can self-develop. This reliance on the West will keep borrowing and will be sinking deeper. It cannot work. Development is end by the people themselves working hard. This total reliance. So you see we borrowed a little from the IMF but the loss that we are incurring every day as a result of this Lord shed who soon surpass even that little money we borrowed. Let us move steadily as a country. Let us be patriotic and let's make sure that the decisions we are making are in the interest of the country especially the youth. They are the backbone of development. If you have seen even in your appointments you have left out the youth all the PSA just accept a few drop here and there the youth are still languishing in the streets and with this introduction of this Lord shed the youth are literally dying. They are literally dying as we are on the ground. Already the farming has failed so they are hoping some of them have started popcorn machines. I passed through some place now they end up just planting that popcorn unfortunately they don't even have fertilizer. So this is a time we call Mr President revise that schedule. It is not a reflection. I know the IMF has taken power from you. They are dictating what should be done. That's not how to run a country. The people of Zambia voted for you they voted. Those deals you are even failing to disclose. If I'm lying make public the IMF conditionalities. Make public so that people can see because some of us have an understanding and we know you have compromised by those documents you have compromised. You have also compromised on the value chain minros the next generation minros for the heavy batteries. We are aware you have compromised. You have given the rights for the future to the US. In the value chain we are just spectators. We have got a nickel mine the biggest in Africa and yet there is even no industry coming up for value addition. You talked about 700 jobs. What is 700 jobs? Again it's 5 million unemployed youths. So we are challenging you Mr President. This is a mandate that has been given to you how I tell you by the people of Zambia and it is up to you to seize the opportunity and serve the people prudently. It takes a leader at his firm for this country to move. I also take this opportunity to remind you that there is no one who gets everything perfect at the first touch. That's a water. There is a lot of water. This side which is being popularized as it has dried is not true. We have seen you have made appointments. You appointed those ministers. We do not expect those ministers to be perfect. What you should have been doing should have been moving those ones that performing. But you keep defending even mediocrity. We tell you there are no medicines in the hospital. You keep defending. You are not elected to be a defender. You are elected to be a vision carrier a representative of the voice of the people of Zambia. It doesn't mean when you are in power you stop listening. Keep listening Mr. President. This country is relying on you to guide it. We are coming from a bad place and fortunately we are sinking even deeper. I'm challenging the youth. Let us work hard. Let us emancipate ourselves. Let us be patriotic to this country. Let us do everything. Let us not give up. It is not end of the road. Let us not be lazy. But above all let us also be preparing for a life beyond the incumbent president. One day presenter can teach them at the end. It will now be a time for the youth to take over. Each generation should choose its own leaders to preside over their affairs. So I'm challenging the youth. Be involved in the things that are happening in this country. Be part of the solution. Be part of the politics. Together we can move an agenda of self emancipation using our local resources. We are an endured country but our mentality has been one that keeps putting us down because we believe too much in what others do but we fail to believe in our own ability. So I'm challenging the youth especially. Let us be bored. You can join economic freedom fighters. This is a party for the youth. We are objective. We are moving around the country moving consciously equipping the youth realizing that we also have a role if this country is to see development. We are here at the Kareba Dam. You are there where you are. Let's keep talking issues. Let's keep advising the president and let's keep matching strong because this country depends on us. Let me also give you another look right now. That's the side. This is the Zimbabwa side on this side and then this side is the Zambian side. This is although this hopeless in where we are is a nomans land and you can also bring your families here for tourism. All these things this is one of the wonders of the world. There is no bigger dam you find in the world than this and it's in Zambia and you haven't been here. So bring your family here. Come and educate them so that they can know the greatness of Zambia. It's because sometimes we do not equip our own people that's why they grow up thinking Zambia is so underprivileged. This country has got money in excess. If we can just be serious believe in ourselves, work hard. Avoid being compromised. My big brother Hakain Lechidema made a mistake. The moment he became president he rushed to compromise himself. The West can never develop us. China can never develop us. Those are partners in development and we should be meeting them as equals work with them as equals not to give them the rights. As long as they are developing they will not need to see us develop because we are the suppliers of raw materials. So it is just common logic that the West cannot make sure Africa develops. When did we get independence almost 59 years why haven't they made even a single African country develop? Why are we all still third world? It's deliberate. It's competition. If we develop where will they get the natural resources? So we shouldn't take it with child's gloves thinking the West will come and hand the development to ask it to never work. Emancipation is so fought for. You have to fight for it. You need to work. You need to awaken. You need to be patriotic. You need to be sovereign. Unfortunately, our president I have a problem. I like him as a person but he is so compromised. He can't even fight his own minister. He can't even just say you have those powers mandated to you by the constitution. Crack the whip. Let people see that you are the one they voted for and you can deliver. We keep telling you about medicines you can't act. Now they are even lying to you probably about even the Kareba. Take a trip. Come and see for yourselves. Come and interview the engineers on site like we are doing. Get facts also on the ground directly people are misleading you Mr President. They are making the people suffer. People who you promised to uplift out of poverty. So take a walk Mr President. Move away from where you are. Move across the country. Get the things first hand and you will see that we are missing out as a people to develop substantially. So this is where we are. It has taken us to come here. I know you can come here even with a helicopter and come and verify if what we are telling you is a lie. Instead of people lying to you for whatever reasons. I also take this opportunity to remind you Mr President. The road that leads to this place is very bad. This Yavonga road is bad. It needs attention. We still pay two fees. But we don't know where that money is coming. We are waiting for that change. It's 2023. We need to start seeing that change Mr President. The water comes from. I could have taken you closer but they are doing rehabilitation so we are not allowed to get there. But this is the side where the water is coming. It's an infinite. This is the biggest man made dam. It goes all the way. There is water and the rate at which it is moving it is not bad. In the past three days this has been filling up because of the rains. It's now at 75.68 for the past three days. Probably today I haven't checked. It could even be at 75.69 so there is no need to starve our people. That's abuse of authority. Even if you have got the powers to do that that is not right. The same way you said that it's unacceptable. It is still unacceptable even now. Please don't force us to start organizing to vote against you by 2026. Because we have no choice. We can't continue like this. You can't even give us a deadline of when this same roadshedding is ending. It's ununderstandable. You can't sacrifice your own people by exports. Fuebe netula survivor. You know in the bailout there isn't much. So giving power to the IMF to be dictating what you should do Mr President that one is a no no. And we are challenging you. Please we've seen this decision. Let the people have electricity. Let the people develop on their own. You want to employ them. Stop even singing about the 40,000. There are too many people who are unemployed in this country. Singing saying you have created employment. That should not even be a thing you should be talking about. You haven't created employment. We are still a lot of employed people. And this crisis will crash people. I keep echoing this. If you don't rescind this decision Mr President you are killing people. Even in hospitals I was listening to news I'm hearing now even drugs in hospitals are going to waste because some of them are vaccines and they need to be constantly refrigerated. Medicines are getting destroyed in hospitals. Medicines are getting destroyed in hospitals because they are not gensets in those hospitals. I hear even bodies now are getting spoiled in mortuaries. Mr President 12 hours is not practical. It is an insult to an intellectual IQ. So please rescind it. It shouldn't have even contemplated. 12 hours is abuse. So I'm challenging you as a man as a fellow man. Please reconsider this you are killing our people. 12 hours they can't handle. They can't take. Some of you don't know what this means because you have got money, you have got gensets and you are leaving off government taxpayers. Some of us don't get paid by government. We are feeling the pinch of this. I can't even work, I can't even meet my deadlines because there's no power. And don't think people change and start doing other things. People have tried things, things have failed. Some of them finally had something to do. Some of them I made like what this particular chips. They can't do that. Some have started well doing. They can't do that. So what do you think people are eating and most people in Zambia are hand to mouth. They make money today. They take that money instantly. But as things are right now people are starving and you are sending people to their early graves. So that's that. We are at Karibadam and we thought we should update you that we have water. It could not be in excess but this is water that is generating electricity and we have electricity to sachet the local demand but we are having this crisis because we are busy selling electricity at the expense of our people. At peak as a country we only use 3,456. At peak we only use 2,300 megawatt and yet we produce an excess of 456. Of course we are not producing 346 but the amount that we are producing is more than enough that this country requires. So it's a challenge Mr. President. Us will keep reminding you because it's our duty and it is up to you to listen and to do that which is right because you are voted for that. This is Kasuande Mwenda. Wherever we want to go our future will take us here. We have the hope that refuses to die and we believe that one day zambia upikred.