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I’m Back Because My People Are Suffering – Lungu

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…“announces” his return to save Zambians from HH

“If HH was asking me some things, he wouldn’t have made certain mistakes and we wouldn’t have the problems we now have in the country,” says Edgar Lungu.

Speaking at a United Kwacha Alliance (UKA) rally in Kitwe’s Kwacha township yesterday, held under alliance member Citizens First Party, former president Lungu bragged that he had experience, so he knew what he was talking about.

“I’m back, and I’m better because I have experience, and I have friends in UKA. We will give you better leadership. I’m very happy that I’m back,” he told the crowd. “Lekeni ukulandalanda guys, nimbwela. Naimwe lekeni ukuvokavoka nimbwela. Mwilalilalila, nimbwela mwebena Kwacha, mwebena Zambia.” [Stop talking too much and complaining; I’m back. Stop crying, people of Kwacha, people of Zambia, because I’m back.]

He said when UKA forms government in 2026, they will listen to everyone.

“We will be listening to all of you and things will be better. We will fix it. When I see my people suffering, I am not afraid. I’m back because I’ve seen how Zambians are suffering,” he stated.

Likening the situation to a marriage, Lungu said that when parents marry off a child (daughter), but she goes to suffer, parents should tell their child to leave that marriage.

“Let’s start from where we left in 2021. If the person you left in 2021 is still there, just go back pantu ulya mwaufisheko umwana mu 2021 uwachunsu nafilwa [because that person with long/uncut hair you married your daughter to has failed],” Lungu said mockingly of President Hichilema.

UKA Chairman Sakwiba Sikota claimed that fuel would not be this expensive, and the country would not have a power shortage, if the UPND government had accepted Russia’s offer to supply fuel and dock its power ship in Mozambique to supply power to Zambia.

Facts do not, however, support Sikota’s assertion. He was seemingly referring to Karpowership, the Turkish, not Russian, company that builds and operates floating power ships and once supplied power to Zambia during the electricity crisis of 2015 to 2018, under the Patriotic Front (PF) administration. The PF did not pay for the power it imported from Karpowership.

A slew of other alliance party leaders spoke before Lungu, rallying around complaints about the high cost of living, hunger, electricity shortage, and accusations of the UPND government lying to the people.

Some said President Hakainde Hichilema was a skillful liar who used his lying prowess to get the presidency and has continued to lie.

Collectively, the speakers told the rally that Zambians had made a mistake in voting for Hakainde and the UPND and should correct that in 2026. “Come 2026, he’s going whether he wants or not.”

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