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President Lungu Asked To Hold Press Conference
Republican President Edgar Lungu has been called upon to consider holding a Press Conference to enable him interact with the nation as he addresses very key issues affecting Zambia.
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Governance Advisor Isaac Mwanza says while he appreciates the key role his Press Aide keep playing in expressing the thoughts and decisions of the President, it is very important that the man who Zambians elected themselves is seen to be interacting with the Zambian public.
Mr. Mwanza says he is happy that President Lungu has been meeting with various investors, foreign nationals and Chiefs at State House but he thinks the President has not lived his word of opening doors to his Office for his own citizens to meet and share possible solutions to challenges the economy and governance facing the nation.
He says the doors to State House have virtually remained closed to most of the citizens and what is more sad is that even his own representatives, the Ministers, few of them are approachable and are able to provide solutions to some issues affecting the majority of the voiceless citizens.
Mr. Mwanza says it is not enough to only interact with citizens when there are campaigns or political rallies in areas where the President is seeking citizens to elect his own people, the President must be seen to have a formal interaction where he can answer even questions from reporters, no matter how unpleasant the topic or question may be.
He has urged the Head of State to utilize a press conference as a political platform to condemn political violence and those who have been seen from his party to spearhead political violence or cause tribal divisions through their careless and unguided remarks.
Mr. Mwanza tells QFM News in an interview that since Parliament has also approved the creation of 5 more government ministries, the President must take the opportunity of the Press Conference to re-look at his entire Cabinet and do a bit of shake up to ensure Ministers stay alive to challenges.
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Onyx power @vampiros
October 4, 2015 at 5:46 am
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Onyx power @vampiros
October 4, 2015 at 5:51 am
Looks like the reporters are itching to go and eat biscuits at state house. Just ask your question through press and the answer will through that channel
Leadership is a serious matter
October 4, 2015 at 11:28 pm
Is it so scary to receive questions from journalists? What serious mistakes has the President made for him to be so scared of facing the Zambian people?
Just wait and see when campaigns start. Amos will be no where and President Lungu will again mingle with ordinary people but will again refuse to join other presidential candidates for public debate. Strange.
Ndanje kakhs
October 4, 2015 at 5:48 am
Holding a press conference is not a guarantee that your problems will disappear. Am sure some of you will just use it to embarrass the president
Chief of Grief
October 4, 2015 at 7:55 am
Word!@ khaks chachine iicho..
Onyx power @vampiros
October 4, 2015 at 6:04 am
Meanwhile Chelsea lost again at home to the sharp south hamps 1:3. Shame to all Chelsea supporters
Politics of insults
October 4, 2015 at 6:07 am
Hey onyx power so you even soccer fan. Viva man city. We white was the castle 6:1.
Judge Joe Bidden
October 4, 2015 at 6:25 am
I haven’t seen a president who fears questions like this one, what was he thinking when he wanted the presidency so badly? Should people be begging him for a press conference sure? ati humble this man is just afraid of questions and being put to task all he wanted was to be called the president thats it. This is 9 months in his presidency not a single press conference or address to his people. Iam even wasting my time typing WTF! This is Sunday I need to be watching games.
Politics of insults
October 4, 2015 at 9:02 am
What do presidents achieve by holding press conferences
mwansa
October 4, 2015 at 9:32 am
Every chief executive addresses his subjects. Even at home you talk to your children. Maybe your name tells it all and explaining to you is waste of time…
Judge Joe Bidden
October 4, 2015 at 10:32 am
Are you really asking me that silly question?
Czar
October 4, 2015 at 8:01 pm
Bro do you really think ECL cares what you think? No need to get yourself stressed over such.
Denkete
October 4, 2015 at 6:31 am
We’re r the stupid haters?
AMASHOKO KOPALA
October 4, 2015 at 9:07 am
JAH BLESS ZED WE GIV THAX TO DE MOST HIGH TO GV HAS DIS VISIONLESS PRESDO ……AYOPA DOYO LUNGU….
Politics of insults
October 4, 2015 at 9:11 am
I remember a time when I went to secondary school and expecting the headmaster calling for a school assembly on my first day of reporting being a Monday to no avail. Came Wednesday and then Friday nothing. And I asked the seniors why the headmaster was nt addressing us and I was laughed at and told that my young boy this is not primary school or nerssary. The headmaster only addresses us when it is very important otherwise the notice board is there to keep yourself informed or ask your grade teacher. Same goes with opposition of today. Too basic what they are busy calling for. This is not primary school.
Judge Joe Bidden
October 4, 2015 at 10:35 am
It’s nursery not nessery… PF.
kashimbi
October 5, 2015 at 11:48 am
Why are you scared of adressing the masses?? Talk to us, engage us, we want to see your faces and get sense from your talks. That is how you built trust from the masses that you actually are Leadership quality and so we should have faith in your policies!In the absence of all this, 2016 you ll be in for a rude shock bane.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 4, 2015 at 9:31 am
Kiki a case of dullness being labelled as humble. Lungu has nothing to tell you and I. He already told you that he had no vision. Do not waste your time with this bozo the clown excuse of president. Just ensure you have your voters cards ready to vote upnd in 2016
kakolwe
October 4, 2015 at 9:41 am
Am sure the moment the president holds a press conference, the Kariba dam will fill up nd dollar rate will come down and copper prices will rise. Vote UPND for weekly press conferences and their president telling you to be a fool if you ask him about his privatisation source of cash.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 4, 2015 at 9:45 am
Simply Zambians who put him up there deserve to have their questions answered by a man who claims to serve them. Do you know that it is through communication that people are able to come together and solve problems. Now if you are a so called humble chap with huge matobo and choose to remain quiet how can we know what your plans and solutions are so that we offer alternatives. Lungu doesn’t realise that he works for zambia. Vote hh a real servant of people
kakolwe
October 4, 2015 at 11:11 am
Hi NEZ! Wakula mambala! No usual sarcasm nangu wabepafye pail “real servant of the people”. That is as good an assumption as it may apply to any aspirant.
So we are all agreed that a presidential press conference is but, just a chatter box panel at which courageous journalists ask the presidency grueling questions for the fun of it and watch the subject either fumble or redeem himself? A battle of wits in rhetoric that yields not results but end in verbal duels and promises.
Judge Joe Bidden
October 4, 2015 at 10:42 am
@kakolwe a well informed nation rallies behind it’s leader.
kakolwe
October 4, 2015 at 11:02 am
Granted!
Ministerial Statements, Press releases, press conferences, etc are, but some of the many means by which the nation is involved. I may also love to see at least one muli ba PF mwe!! Surely BaSata came & went, baLungu has come: ZERO ukuyamo mu state house grounds? Maybe bayopa kubatundila by a kamonkey?
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 4, 2015 at 12:04 pm
Ok so you are telling me lungu can during campaigns stand in front of people begging for votes but then shun the same people once elected by failing to.address them. How pathetic and selfish
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 4, 2015 at 12:05 pm
How many Zambians can read press statement in English and have access to such content kiki do you see how foolish you look defending stupidity
kakolwe
October 4, 2015 at 3:58 pm
The same number that can attend the same press conferences and ask a limit of 20 questions can read the same press releases. Now I see how foolish I look answering foolish questions from an incoherent fool whose reasoning is monodimensional and ends at ‘vote UPND’
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 4, 2015 at 4:28 pm
You clearly have been away from zambia for too long such that you have forgotten the social make up of your country. I recommend you travel asap and spend Atleast 2 months. If majority of people ask that lungu addresses them and he shuns them but goes to new York to address foreign nations what does this say about the humble dull man? Is he scared of questions kikikikiki 😂
Kalikonga
October 4, 2015 at 11:53 am
Bane, let’s just learn to work hard and not blaming others like bena Lungu but its their to be consernd with the welfare of the Zambian people and if they fell us, we will definatly vote them out of the office.
Stanzo
October 4, 2015 at 12:09 pm
JJB with your idol NEZ you think that your unprecedent yapping should make unimpossible to possible. What about the press conferences. Those are just academic exercises where questions are asked which cannot even be addressed
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 4, 2015 at 12:19 pm
When there are problems in your own house do you say addressing them is just an academic excerise and leave them to fate? Wake up iwe
Ndanje kakhs
October 4, 2015 at 1:59 pm
I can reply expertly knowing well that I can’t do it.why’s HH boycotting the day? Is he disappointed with Jehovah?
Lima
October 4, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Ayopa vamulungu anyway guys as one nez put it 2016 is around da corner it do in numbers and vote, wina azalila ati mooooooo
Kwati like so
October 4, 2015 at 2:17 pm
Ba presido ba pa zed. Kikikikikikikiki face the media
Vigilant
October 4, 2015 at 2:23 pm
Ok The President Is Pursuing Capitalist Ideas At The Moment And Not The Pro Poor Socialist Ideas In Their Manifesco, This Is Causing Problems For Pf To Articulate Issue, A Gud Leader Best Tool Is Let The People Govern, He Wants To Dictate,
kambole chisha
October 4, 2015 at 2:43 pm
I wonder why these pf leaders fear to be interviewed or to hold a press conference. From sata the most useless to the press to lungu. Recently, ECL chickened out of a prestigious BBC interview at the last minute after confirming participation. Press conferences are good vehicles to communicate to citizenry and the international community. It is also a mirror to view yourself and your performance. Perhaps i know the reason ECL is afraid of the press….CORRUPTION, INEPTITUDE, NO DIRECTION, FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN among others
kakolwe
October 4, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Prestigious BBC interview!!
Prestigious!!!!
Iyo kwena!!
Czar
October 4, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Inferiority/colonial reasoning. What is “prestigious” about BBC? What is the percentage of Zambians that listen to that program?
Galilea.
October 4, 2015 at 4:19 pm
The president need to come out of his shell or cacoon and interact with news reporters. People given to issue press statements have not helped him.
How does people do what he wants when he has not spoken to them?
May he be couragious and hold a press conference on the current situation.
Is he still trying to tell us that he can not do it bcoz he has no vision?
His handlers must do something to build his image over such primitive tendences.
Judge Joe Bidden
October 4, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Good points.
Czar
October 4, 2015 at 8:08 pm
Same should be told HH’s handlers concerning his image as a man of the people.
Galilea.
October 4, 2015 at 4:27 pm
However, ecl is good but it seems people aroud him are bent to have him be rejected by people so that they take up an opportunity to replace him.
Shi ali
October 4, 2015 at 4:59 pm
I concur wth u kambole de man ws definatly scared,he knew dat he ws goin 2b in tough tym wth qustins,,,
Hanangandu Hamududu
October 4, 2015 at 8:04 pm
After all, whatever he will say, you are ready to oppose him. It doesnt make sense you are looking for faults from him. God will punish you for hating an innocent person, thats why some people they call you satanists, you fit to be in this group.
Sandra
October 5, 2015 at 12:36 am
LUNGU doesn’t care about the Zambian people as long as he is president of Zambia. He only becomes active when there is a bye election and I consider it deliberate not to hold a press conference, he has just returned from US using a very expensive plane and chickened out from BBC INTERVIEW. WHAT HAS HE ACHIERVED????? Nothing except showing off. He is a waste of time and space in state house
Hanangandu Hamududu
October 5, 2015 at 5:51 am
Am surprised! This hate for president Lungu started before he even became in power, how can it be like this?
kasantana
October 5, 2015 at 8:24 am
No one hates Lungu but his character. How can he be so dumb as the country sinks?
Amake Mwana
October 5, 2015 at 8:41 am
2016 vote Hakainde Hichilema For President. Viva HH, Viva UPND!
poly
October 5, 2015 at 8:44 am
WAIT! The man is still doing dress rehearsals for his first press conference.
kakoma brian
October 5, 2015 at 5:10 pm
mr president am very much concerned with what is going on in this country.i want to know the reason why the meal-mile has been hiked from 60kwacha to 80kwacha for the 25kg today in all the shops now.however,mr kabwili has urged all the mealers to to stop hiking the price.
kindly your exellances let government officers start monitoring these rwandis stop raising prices.
kakoma brian
October 5, 2015 at 5:15 pm
we love you but if anything we shall change our minds sir.work on this creature of hiking common goods in this country,putting our thought together its not a big deal the ball is in our hands .