 ទ ៀៃ ទ ្ទ ទ ៀទ ទ ទ ឩ ្ទ ឵ះ ឲៀ ទ ៀ könnenas ᵠៀទ � 게임 y turned ឲៀ។។, ឣeleps ᐙappe ឯ council. �이크업 20 When you look at all these Bemba ideals, they are telling us one thing, and that one thing that they are telling us is that it is very, very important to accept advice. It is extremely important to take advice and to think through the advice even before you respond. I have been following the sentiments that are being made as regards the increase of your prices from 22 kwacha to 26.6 kwacha per liter. What is the implication of this increment? The implication of this increment is that all prices of commodities will shoot up by about 30% to 35%. It simply means the bag of mille mille will go up, the bag of a pocket of sugar will go up, cooking all prices will go up, transport costs for individuals or human beings and for goods will also go up. Meaning therefore that the cost of living is going to go up by about 30%. We do sympathize with those in government and listen very carefully my dear brothers in government, the UPND. Running a country is not making profits. Running a country is not about making profits or making your balance sheet look good or only wanting to have micro parameters in conformity with the expected international standards. But running a country is about improving the living standards of the people. In improving the living standards of the people, what is more cardinal is that people must be able to meet basic needs, more especially food. Because without food, clean water, no man can survive. Now, if your citizens are failing to afford basic food, basic essential commodities, then you must check your leadership. You must think why am I a leader if the people cannot afford basic commodities. We know that this increase in fuel has been necessitated by a lot of factors. One of them is the going between Russia and Ukraine, which has made oil prices at the international community to shoot up. I have said and I want to say it again. The situation that has presented itself is an extraordinary situation. It's not an ordinary situation. Under enormous circumstances, ordinary situation, people can say no, we cannot bring back subsidies. Because we have to build the economy or probably we have to conform to some required benchmarks by many people that we are borrowing money from like the IMF in enormous circumstances. But what we are being faced with is not a normal situation. It's what we can classify as an images situation. The people of Zambia, their living standards have been going down. The people of Zambia's disposable income has been going down. The civil servants, i.e. the teachers, the policemen, the nurse, the miners And almost everybody who works have had their salaries or earnings stagnant for a long period of time. But the essential commodities are going up. Now this has even been made worse by the increase in fuel prices. It is against this background that some of us are saying Let's look for money and subsidize the price of fuel. Please, those in government, don't be arrogant. Don't overlook advice. That's why I said This is what has happened to a lot of governments by the time you realize you are already out of government. Like I've said, we don't want you to fail your PND. But please, don't be arrogant. Don't be arrogant. Subsidize the price of fuel. And get your cadders out of this equation. You see, the way government has behaved in the last five days it's like you are trivializing the issue of price of fuel, the increase in price of fuel. How can you honestly be allowing cadders at the IPS for Lusaka province going to address the nation about the price of fuel? You go and get the chairman of energy in your party to come and address the issue of fuel. Don't make mistakes that other people have made in the past. Separate the government from the party. This issue has to do with the government. And we want communication to come from the government and not the party. Statements from the party are just making it worse. And making you look disorganized. Because when you look at the statement that young man gave IPS Lusaka province what Mr. Komaseid and what the chairman of energy said and coordinated statements. Mr. Komaseid says no, we have to fulfill the conditions of the IMF. The other one says no, our manifesto says we shall charge cost of fuel we shall charge cost reflective tariffs. The other young man says something else. Come on UPND you can do better than that. You can do better than that. Where is the chief government spokesperson in all this equation? Where is the official statement from government in all this equation? We don't want what was going on in the past. We are saying let's stop kardalism. Kardalism is not only insulting or what but it's kardas political party members wanting to speak on behalf of government. That is also a form of kardalism. My dear brother president HH you can do better. Stop the kardas from commenting on important national issues. Let these statements come from the chief government spokesperson or the minister in charge of that particular ministry. You are trivializing the issue of the suffering of the people as a result of fuel prices. And this is not ordering well with the citizenry. Like I've said we don't want you to fail. But the point is that we plead with you to unpack part of the feeling of what to say. It's when you're in the city and you're thinking that you've finished your council. You've finished your council. You're saying that you don't want the government to say it. And that is when you're wondering if you are in the city or not. If you are in the city or not. If you are in the city or not. ста ṁ ṉan ṉere ṉi ṉn ṉuṣva dz Instant day the government wants to throw land between the people and the people the people are complaining it's not too good for a government Is this the F claiming It's not too bad for the government one government is supposed to decide you let before you by rebelling and when an extraordinary situation presents itself, please make extraordinary decisions. Look for money, like I advised in my previous discourse that look, there are certain things you've budgeted for in the budget that are not a matter of life and death. The country will not negatively be affected, but it's a chance as a result of the Don't be capitalists, don't run the country like a business, strictly like a business where you want to see profits. Don't be capitalists, don't run the country like a business, strictly like a business where you want to see profits. Don't be capitalists, don't run the country like a business where you want to see profits. Don't be capitalists, don't run the country like a business where you want to see profits. Don't be capitalists, don't run the country like a business where you want to see profits. Don't be capitalists, don't run the country like a business where you want to see profits. Don't be capitalists, don't run the country like a business where you want to see profits. Don't be capitalists, don't run the country like a business where you want to see profits.