‘SCORPIO’ VOTED ZAMBIA SIXTH PRESIDENT

Will Edgar Lungu Deliver A Militaristic Rule Or A Judicious One? 

 By Nyalubinge Ngwende

It would have been better to have United Party for National Development (UPND) leader, Hakainde Hichilema, win the Presidential elections in Zambia.

EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU!

Hakainde, otherwise known as HH, and his UPND team together with those who endorsed him put up a formidable campaign; it is the name of the game, a winner had to emerge.

The election is over despite four constituencies of about 91,000 voters remaining. UPND leader HH has already squealed “Edgar Lungu steals election” on the party’s website.

HH claims the election result was predetermined in favour of PF’s Lungu. Whatever that means, this vote had predictions.

The major prediction is one fact that cannot be ruled out: based on the love of the Copperbelt and Northern Provinces still have for Patriotic Front (PF) and late President Michael Sata, and the endorsement from former President Rupiah Banda for Edgar Lungu.

Edgar has won it, but there is still a lot to see out of this victory.

When I looked in the stars I saw Edgar is Scorpio, otherwise an Eagle. There are problems of full use of military ways in Edgar.

The nation still remembers the way he handled those deportation in Gestapo style. These deportations involved the Rwanda Priest from the Eastern province and some business brothers from Italy.

Lungu also behaved in a very illegal way over former President Rupiah Banda’s passport which was held by the state, refusing Banda to travel on international engagement on which he was invited in his capacity as former head of state.

He, however, still realises about people he has stung, but seems to say “it was their own fault”. Look at the way he got back to Rupiah Banda and asked him for huge assistance in the election.

Edgar was grounded and his campaign was running to a standstill, but when Rupiah Banda happily came forward and endorsed him, the PF candidate was airborne and looked organised again.

Was a big deal cut between Edgar and RB? What is that deal? We will never live to know, Edgar is a secretive Scorpio—whose way of doing things is so subliminal psychology, bordering on manipulation. That is the true nature of a Scorpio, it does not go for the target, but it attracts the target to its ‘shrewd’ ways. 

Some people say God was in Edgar’s favour, I say the stars were. He is Scorpio born on November 17, that is his Sun Sign and that is Zambia’s Sun Sign, too. What a coincidence, Zambia is also seen as an Eagle Nation, a perfect selection of the symbol by the founding fathers of the country.

Some people think the Eagle as national symbol was just an accidental pick, but Zambia is Scorpio, whose symbol is also an Eagle.

Edgar also militated his way to the PF candidature, putting blinders to anything that was happening on the both sides of the path, crawled all his way to getting what he wanted as those who opposed him got stung.

Those who stand in Lungu’s way will be fore warned to get the heck out of the way and if they do not, the man has the ability of sticking out his bite.

Edgar Lungu will have to learn to run an open government. On this he has even a lot of problems as can be seen from the way he behaved on the little task of releasing the road map on the constitution making process.

When UPND got out its roadmap, the whole PF campaign team alleged the opposition stole a government roadmap and told police to investigate and bring people to book.

Scorpios also makes people with a good understanding of the law, but may overprint the concept of justice to a point of using it for restitution. They are jealousy and seek revenge.

These are general characteristics, but let us wait and see if they manifest in our new President. Do not get surprised next time you see certain things come out exactly like analysed here. Bon Voyage!

NN

19 DAYS BEFORE ZAMBIA VOTES SIXTH PRESIDENT

>>What Losing or Winning Means to PF and UPND<<

By Nyalubinge Ngwende

Opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema may be the happiest to win an election on January 20, 2015, but turnout to be the most disappointed if he were to lose this time around.

He may still endure the pain because he has lost before and lost nothing in his livelihood. He can still milk his cows and sit on many boardroom meetings to make business decisions and see for once that maybe it was not meant for him to be President of this Great Nation.

But the UPND stewards might push for his standing down this time if he loses it. He will have to contend with the impatience of his aging MPs being in opposition almost for eternity and that of the younger MPs who feel they can command more respect and support more than what HH may have been managing. UPND will be tested for its real character.

Will it be Gary Kombo or Cornelius Mweetwa to lead the 'OUST HH' crusade? Or will they count the votes and see the small margin as something that could be closed and crossed in 2016 when Zambia goes to the proper election next year, 2016?

These are things that should be sitting on the side of the confidence that UPND has about winning this election and the fear of losing it.

Coming to the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) and its candidate Edgar Lungu.

If Lungu wins, he will pray to heaven for what God can do and be happy to be the sixth President. But if he were to lose, which is also possible, I fear he may lose everything, including his PF friends. 

I do not know if he will practice law anymore and still get the comfort he has enjoyed especially after being double minister and acting President.

On the other hand PF is a party that would find it difficult to stick together after losing. It has been in government for only a short time and exhibited the most potency for self-destruction or call it implosion.

The solace is that PF has been tested on this one, I mean confusion. But it has emerged shaky, exhausted from the near-sink but still rowing the boat and we do not know what has seemed to keep it together. Is it that it is a political party in power? Can they stand the confusion in opposition when there will be no longer anything to stick around for, something like ministerial positions and other favors that moths find in the closet of the rich?

Will those people who did not want Lungu to ascend to PF party presidency and claim a much contested candidature for presidency approve of his continuing at the helm. Will they not go all out and tell him "WE TOLD YOU SO". 

It is not easy to come out of a collapsed building, wounded and stay strong to retrieve some hope and valuable remnants, but only to be hit by another triple after-shock, and still stand again. PF came out of a serious succession infighting that has seen the party divided, with some people who were friends no longer embracing.

Will Mulenga Sata allow his late father's making-of-a-party just vanish in oblivion? Sylvia Masebo has been itching and Miles Sampa still does not believe that Lungu got the candidature by digging it deep out of his nails.

Then there is the Rainbow party in which Wynter Kabimba is a surrogate leader waiting as a vulture to consume PF disgruntles who may be led by Masebo or Sampa who are cooling waiting for their parliamentary term to end and decide the direction of things.

These are things that Lungu and his team must be ruminating over as they run this campaign that has been short of resources and seemingly a number of breakdowns which the campaign team has vehemently refuted.

I have left out the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) Nevers Mumba because all its members have chosen to sell their souls to either UPND’s Hakainde (no-middle-name) Hichilema or PF’ Edgar Chagwa Lungu. MMD’s Mumba is really running without the full support of his party members.

NN

ZAMBIA NEEDS PROSPERITY SOLUTIONS NOW

>>Never Smiling, Proud & Free In Poverty<<

By Nyalubinge Ngwende

We cannot continue lying to ourselves that we are a free and proud nation, when all we got is still the enthusiasm of freedom from colonial rule, yet we still cannot wake up smiling at the rising sun as a Zambia of choices granted its people an embrace of prosperity.

We cannot cheat ourselves any more that our mere beliefs in progress can produce best economic development realities.

Beliefs, like slogans, are just desires that do not give the country the best economic choices that can ensure the country do the right things to raise the money needed to build schools, build hospitals and ensure youth employment for thousands leaving secondary schools, colleges and universities.

NOWHERE POLICIES AWAIT ZAMBIANS

>>Plot .1 Candidates Lack Clear Value-Packed Policies<<

Mumba, Lungu and Sinkamba

By Nyalubinge Ngwende

We could vote to grow marijuana and get high by selling it for millions of dollars as propagated by Green Party leader, Peter Sinkamba.

Or we could all go back to mosaic times with a new Moses sent by heavens, United Party for National Development presidential hopeful Hakainde Hichilema where everything will be as cheaper as manna from heaven—cheaper fuel, fertiliser and Mealie-meal.

Or maybe we could get spiritual and kneel down to pray for a fortune, sharing in God’s favour enjoyed by the Movement for Multiparty Democracy candidate Nevers Mumba.

If not that then we could as well retain the legacy—a legacy of pissing off foreign investors with obnoxious policies while borrowing more for village universities and road-linked Zambia, yet fail to spend international bonus funds for greenhouse management due to lack of better ideas. This is the legacy on which the ruling Patriotic Front candidate Edgar Lungu is riding on.

Any of this is what Zambia expects after it goes to January 20, 2015 presidential elections caused by the death of President Michael Sata.

After listening to what our presidential hopefuls are saying, we are under no illusion to expect less economic development. This is because it is not the best best presidential candidate with best ideas who will win.

If it were not like that, then the electorates were going to listen to clear value policy messages and programmes differentiating those vying for the top office.

ZAMBIA NEEDS TO BREAK AWAY FROM BAD POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF 27 YEARS OF KENNETH KANUDA RULE

By Nalubinge Ngwende

Kenneth Kaunda

Zambia’s first president Kenneth Kaunda was, is and will forever remain a tyrant whose irreparable damage to the country’s political and economic culture will never have anyone take responsibility for, unless the country stops extoling this man and break away from his ways.  

The first step to severing our present and future from Kaunda’s bad examples of managing this country is to stop seeing him as an infallible hero and ask him to apologise.

A hero, he is, for being among the freedom fighters that fought for our independence. But a closer look at how he dispensed his power as the country’s first President, the heroism is lost. Kaunda becomes a villain that lost Zambia’s battles to safeguard democracy and ensure sustainable economic growth, leaving the country in an abyss of economic darkness and political intolerance. 

As first President of this Southern African Nation that had vibrant and intelligent opposition political leadership and seen as a very wealth newly Independent nation, Kaunda’s arrogance to monopolise/personalise ideas of running the country did extensive damage to democracy and economic activity of the independent Zambia.  

Kaunda authored and engraved the economic miseries the country grapples with today for the 27 years he remained President. Today at 50 years of Independence, the country still struggles to rewrite and offer solutions to the problems that KK created during his over two decades rule.