Inconsistent Policy Pronouncements (Part 2): Kwacha Depreciates

AHEAD…

Post Script changed to ‘God Save Us’

ALSO AHEAD…

Bloomberg says the Zambian Kwacha is the worst performing currency in the World – except for the unstable Ukraine.

PLUS…

Can the PF gov learn something from Levy Mwanawasa’s legacy?

TRY AND ERROR
Kwacha Depreciates

By samimortal

The ruling Patriotic Front (PF), under President Psycho Mata, have yet again broken their own [world] record for mediocre governing. (the only thing missing is a second award to show for it 😀 )

Once Untouchable GBM, Touched!

CORRUPT CABINET
Justice Of Convenience

Thank God for the internet.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Judicial circus is in town. Allow me to take you for a tour – see the corrupt that run Zambia and…

– The brainless – that have now charged and suspended a ‘fellow corruptie’ twice in 5 weeks…

In the spotlight: GBM.

Two months after Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba’s resignation from Micheal Sata’s mediocre administration as Defence Minister, he has now been slaped with 8 charges that could see him locked up for a very [very] long time.

Amoung the 8 charges, is fraud and corruption.

Untouchable?

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) cleared GBM of all corruption charges in April 2013. In November, 2013 ACC refused to investigate GBM even after Vice President Guy Scott gave police a dossier in October, 2013.

Funny, GBM has now been charged with the same criminal offences that he was cleared of [allegedly commited] when he was acting President in 2012.

So why arrest him now [in 2014, 8 weeks after resigning]?

– Is it because GBM was really untouchable as he claimed during the endorsement quarrels with Hon. Miles Sampa and ‘Justice’ Minister Wynter Kabimba?

– Or Is it because ACC was ‘not allowed’ to investigate Ministers without the President’s permission?

(Wow! Bravo! We can really see that the Judiciary is ‘independent’, neh?

It’s nice to see Mr. Sata’s so “allergic to corruption” – he even hides it in his Cabinet 😀 )

Endorsement Choir Master

When GBM resigned on Christmas Eve last year, he touted the integrity horn. But I shot that down (yay me!) and I was right.

One moment GBM was endorsing President Micheal Sata for 2016, another moment he’s resigning.

There is no smoke without fire. [TWEET THIS]

(Folks something’s burning)

The “Micheal Sata for 2016” choir master sang songs of praises (hero worshiping) with a not-so-secret ulterial motive: THE PRESIDENCY!

Sadly, in the so-called ‘democratic’ party, the Patriotic Front President had another successor in mind.

Micheal Sata (left) and the Golden boy, chilling aboard the Challenger
© Post 2013

Beautiful Witch Hunt

Even when it’s evidently clear that the charges are a witch hunt from ‘above’, GBM’s still getting the special treatment.

If I stole K10 or forged documents [like GBM], police wouldn’t record a warn and caution statement against me, they’d arrest me! Instantly! (I know, it’s a cruel world)

Safe to speculate that the mild mannered witch hunt seeks to shake GBM alittle. But, that’s dumb of Mr. Sata because secrets are leaking into the public domain, slowly.

If this fuss goes to trial and convicts GBM, I’ll get a PVR decorder – just for the drama that will follow on ZNBC 😀

Zambia’s ‘Houdini’ Employment Figures

THE PATRIOTIC WAND

By samimortal

If you thought there’s only one Larry Houdini (magician), guess again!

(haunted music.. LIGHTENING.. church bells)

Behold! –

With approximately 2 years, 6 months and 19 days to go before the 2016 general election campaigns – President Sata has reiterated that he has created more than 300,000 jobs since taking office 27 months ago.

326,480 jobs to be precise.

*applauds*

8-months-and-23-days ago (on Labour Day), President Sata told the nation that ‘he’ had created 175,700 jobs.

Numbers don’t add up genius!

If any one outside Zambia needs to testify to the academic prowess of ‘His Excellency’ President Micheal ‘Chilufya’ Sata – [now] would be the right time [please].

If I Was Miles Sampa, What Would I Do? – 20 Reasons Why The Ruth Mbandu Murder Case Should Be Retrialed

IMMORALITY
The Justice Edition

By samimortal

He likes them dark. He likes them young.

Young… (cue dramatic music)

– Women.
He likes them. May be more than ‘like’, but following recent revelations, a question is lingering on our minds: is he cappable of killing to silence them?

He, who? (…cue sad music)

Matero Member of Parliament – also Commerce Deputy Minister, Miles Sampa, has been a person of ridicule in the past week by people “with nothing to do.” (ofcouse not my words)

Names like honourable hule (cassanova), honourable adulteror, honourable cheater, honourable sugar daddy, (add immoral word + “honourable” here) – were used to reffer to Hon. Miles Sampa, MP, on social media last week.

Smear Campaign?

I had an erie sense of déjà vu as the Miles Sampa scandal unfolded last week. I’ve seen a number of politicians accused of sexual immorality and – almost always – their reaction is to deny the accusations and attack the accusers of jealousy, small-mindedness and participation in a wider conspiracy or vendetta against them.

Herman Cain, Silvio Berluscony, Dominic Strauss-Kahn and Bill Clinton are amoung a few notables who employed the ‘victicm’ strategy. Safe to say, Hon. Miles Sampa is not alone in “this game of chess.”

If indeed Hon. Sampa is a victim of a smear campaign, who benefits from tanishing his name? I should state that both the antagonist and the protagonist in this case have been lying.

Let’s make sense of this annoying distortion that can’t allow a bereaved family peace:

Genesis

Well, thanks to ‘Honourable’ Sampa’s threat to sue the Zambian Watchdog over a false report, the Watchdog in return leaked information on his libido escapades with his varying young ‘concubines’.

GBM RESIGNS: PRINCIPAL OR OPPORTUNISM? | RARE BREED OR ROYAL EGO?

INTEGRITY (Part 3)

By samimortal

The resignation of Defence Minister, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba (GBM), from Micheal Sata’s administration has come as a ‘shocker’. I must confess, this is a very rare gesture amoung Zambian politicians.
░ READ ░░██░░ Integrity (Part 2) ░

Reasons? Anybody?

It’s no secret that President Sata’s got issues with almost-just-about everybody!! I mean everybody. (yeah. .talk about being a **blip**)

Inconsistent Policy Pronouncements

UNCOORDINATED GOVERNMENT

By samimortal

The ruling Patriotic Front (PF), under Micheal Sata, have set a whole new standard [world record] for mediocre governing. ( the only thing missing is an award to show for it 😀 )

ZAMBIAN NURSES STRIKE: Labour or Devil’s Advocate?

Dude ‘talking’ to a nurse at UTH

. . .Ohh dear!

Stephen Masumba ► “just living my lie. . . my lie. .my life”

Sports deputy minister Stephen Masumba (L) and Lance Armstrong (R) showing off their controversial accolades

. . .Ohh Boy!!

2011 EDITORIAL FLASHBACK: THE ZAMBIAN WATCHDOG WAS RIGHT ABOUT SATA

INTEGRITY

Today, my heart bleads for the dead PF youth — who has died for Micheal Sata’s attention.

What a ‘real’ President should do

Mr. President, when there’s despair (‘Panga-monium’) in the city, atleast issue a press statement – even if you don’t really mean it. . . thanks. — Citizen

For immediate Release
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON
VIOLENCE IN PF THAT IS ENGULFING
THE NATION

PF and Debt: Champions In Opposition, Losers In Government

DEBT WATCH
Message To PF

After 49 years of independence, our GDP’s is laughable.

Compared to our East African friends, you’re either the dumbest or the most insensitive

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THE LEAD: Lusaka, Zambia — A top U.S credit-rating agency has revised Zambia’s credit outlook to negative from stable.

Standard and Poor’s – one of the top three credit-rating agencies in the world – cut it’s credit rating outlook for Zambia to negative, saying growth in the government’s planned spending for next year will boost debt.

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Priorities

The problem with popularist governments – is that they think they can fix everything wrong – instead, they end up messing up everything.

Running a nation is like managing any other business out there. Money comes in from production and money goes out on expenditure.

What’s Good For R.B Should Be Good For Sata

HYPOCRISY
Behind The Mask

– “A gateway religion to heaven” (So we say)

[Christianity]

– Naïve, kind, generous, wise, civil, unconfrontational, thoughtful, church-ie… (you get the picture)

…It’s all ‘God-bless-you-God-bless-me’ and ‘God-loves-you-God-loves-me’ to say the least – but for others, it’s the necessary mask to make-ends-meet.

THE LEAD: Lusaka, Zambia — Amid wide spread national wage disputes, Republican President Micheal Sata has reportedly increased his salary for the third time in two years.

The K414,406 ($77,000+) per annum increament which duarfs his predecessor (Rupiah Banda)’s K164,000 ($30,000+), was done right in the middle of the striking nurses and council workers. Today (October, 16), Shoprite workers who downed tools—have been sacked.

In 2011, when the incumbent President was in opposition, he vigorously opposed the-then President’s proposed salary increament; who inturn, back-pedalled.

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Lowest paid in SADC?

President Sata’s K414,406 ($77,634) salary is no where near Obama’s $400000, Cameron’s $226,751 or Putin’s $115,000 annual salary; Sata is way out their league, on ‘all levels’, so-to-say. (economy inclusive)

Micheal Sata isn’t the lowest paid head of state in Southern Africa. Robert Mugabe comes in at number one with $18,000 – which was $20,800 in 2009.

(regardless, everyone knows the big boys have ‘other ways’ of ‘fund raising’)

It sounds petty to question the number one citizen’s paycheque – owing to the fact that he ‘serves’ us.

But, if our number one citizen bullied the former number one citizen into recinding the same decision – and – the fact that our poor ecconomy isn’t taken into cosideration; he should be held to the same standard.

Blame Game

The notion that the standing orders commitee of parliament was responsible for the salary increament of members of the executive and legislature, hence “the president’s hands were tied” – is absolute rubish.

The Finance Minister’s authority to sign the the statutory instrument into law is deligated from the President.

‘Ten Commandments’

This is clearly a manifestation of a be-it-me-or-be-it-none childish tantrum. Saying “I’ll follow the ten commandments” to the cameras, should atleast be followed by action in that direction. (no pun intended)

President Micheal Sata A.K.A Psycho Mata (now you know)