Mr. Hichilema said the current situation requires serious and immediate action, and a series of measures big and small. For example, it requires an end to waste.
“We have talked before about how Government costs are far too high, with Government living beyond its means and leaving the Zambian people in poverty as a result. We have compared the cost of the generous vehicle allowance senior government officials are entitled to, which includes two vehicles, maintenance and fuel costs, to the cost of teachers’ salaries and sinking boreholes. For the cost of just one car we could pay 50 teachers on K5,000 a month for a year. Think about the knock on benefits if this money was spent on teachers and education, compared with when it is spent on buying an imported car.” Mr. Hichilema said
In a Facebook posting, Mr Hichilema said looking at the bigger picture, there was need to open up sectors that offer strong prospects for growth and job creation.
“In the UPND we see particular opportunities in this respect for tourism, agro-processing and technology for example. By providing a stable policy environment, consulting widely and incentivising investment and business start-ups in these sectors we will not only move Zambia forward, but also greatly accelerate the pace of growth and the outlook for our future including creating jobs,” Mr. Hichilema said.
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Will comment later, need a cup of coffee now. Has anyone seen my wife? I miss her, today I wont talk about the PF economy i want my wife.
5 missed calls and 2 text msgs. I looked for you like a needle in a hay stack.
Hip hip horaaaaaay! Viola! 🙂 You told me to find you in that shop something like Foschini, came there no sign, tried the opposite one MiLady also no sign, then left to meet the boys for drinks.
You didn’t bother to call me. Nkafwa nechikonko ine ka. Nalichitako ichimpwena panono that’s why we lost each other. But those are the effects of spoiling me rotten. I ll give you today for a pint or two. Mailo ni two by two daddy. Door na door frame, lock and key.
Yeah now you are talking, a drink can do. Definitely Saturday need to be indoors.
And you forgot to ask me?
Let me listen to her excuse for the absence. I may just recommend her creativity!
Yes. Its nice to have you in the ‘public domain’ dear Sister Beautiful Moma.
Lol @kakolwe. Life swallows me sometimes. No creativity my dear. I missed you guys and your crippling jokes.
Jus get a room bane,
No we have a house in Ibex.
LOL. Just stop.
You need to visit our mansion,mwatumwenamo sana. Bushe ifwe tushita zenke kwati imwe.
Foolish pf idiot. Commenting with your stupidity because this article is pertinent to upnd. Get a life and take your personal dirty underwear elsewhere.
Ba President, may you please give us the name of the car whose value is as follows:
50 teachers @K5,000.00/mth X 12mths = K3,000,000.00
= USD 408,163.27
ya colour shani iyi motoka?
That’s sounds like he is talking about the price of a second hand Airbus A380-400
That’s the economist talking and people say HH is smart. How can we trust a guy who doesn’t even know the price of a prado.
Wamuchaya mambala! Kikikiki! Abosabosafye uyu muntu kwati nikachema.
abosa bosafye,alebepa ba upnd cadres.Let him just go and count cows
Apa pena HH apeba, I have been checking the closest car with such a price tag is a 2015 Lamborghini Aventador with a whooping price tag of US400,995.00! HH chaume where on earth did he see such a car in Zambia!?
That is ZMK 2,947,313.22!
In his dreams maybe or he is just telling us that he will be spending that much to buy one car in his govt of dreams
Sata equally used to cheat people that the govt of MMD was too big hence campaigned on reducing size of cabinet and save cost to channel into national development and poverty reduction but the opposite happened. HH even before he becomes president we can see the incompetency and does he expect as to vote for him
Awe guys, mwimushinsha talapwa ukunya umuboys. I believe HH is so spot on about this. He says the cost of 1 car + fuel + maintenance + allowances. Surely, HH is right. These guys fill up their tanks even for to go & scratch their balls in L/stone from LSK. They send the vehicles for service every 3000km in pretence of having the next new one! On tourism, he just supported PF’s roads for opening up the interior Zm. At this rate, I may move with HH. He has talked TANGIBLE alternatives.
something positive but not enough to win my vote
You chaps before you excite yourselve: HH said,
“…We have compared the cost of the generous vehicle allowance senior government officials are entitled to, which includes two vehicles, maintenance and fuel costs, to the cost of teachers’ salaries and sinking boreholes. For the cost of just one car we could pay 50 teachers on K5,000 a month for a year”
If the cost of 1 car is K3,000,000.00 and Govt are entitled to 2 cars, therefore, each official spends K6,000,000.00/yr to run & maintain those 2 cars!? Does It make sense!?? Before you call us fools again.
The smart ones answer me, are you and HH saying each Govt official spends ZMK 6,000,000.00 to run and maintain those 2 cars per year? That is, half a million every month? If HH has messed up with maths stop supporting blindly just because he is UPND leader.
Just as much as I support check and balances from HH, if Cabinet Ministers are 22 then 22 x K6,000,000.00 = K 132,000,000.00/annum on their vehicles! that amount I havent included other Govt officials like Permanent Secretaries etc! Lets be realistic.
Judge, are you OK today? How does 6,000,000 be half a million? At what point are we seeing this differently? The cost of this vehicle includes all other overheads. For the year, the new prado will have bought itself 30 times over in running costs.
ZMK 6,000,000.00/12 Months = ZMK 500,000.00 (Half a million) per month per Govt Official.
@ kakolwe natotela sana!
Ba jjb wil make a tribunal for u !
😀
But the fact is that you Pfool and you fintu ni inswa gemason you colapsing the economic
Whom are you talking to? What are you implying? Try to make sense someday! In the meantime, get to Dorm Tamane School for tuition. You will meet your peers at kindergarten.
HH has no direction. when ngos and other oppositions condemn govt he supports, when they change he also changes. when they praise govt he stays mute and when govt do a positive thing he condemns.
Just like what you say that edger has no vision, hh too has no direction and it’s proven.
May I say HH is an economist from beyond us, where all items are priced beyond redemption. The only other person who can tell us about HH is George Mpombo. Just wait for a blog from Uncle George………..
If that’s how he was valuating govt assets Zambia would have excelled by now. When he is condemning others he over price items and when it comes to privatization he undervalues assets to his advantange. Nanga ni hh wanyoko
Dis economy has been pushed into a mess. Poor fellaz can even stand n defend dis nosense. Wat a pipo ! Yo finance mister cried foul way back wen captured in dat recording dat ifima project takuli nendalama. Theres no money, eeeh its a chimbwi no plan !
Its always the case with politicians sata too used th same theory bt wen it came for practical he fumbled..
Where is my post ba tumfweko.
Pf cadres let’s support wth sense,u are jst cadres suffering.no employment and meal meal z xpesive busy supportng bwaana jermison