11/09/2025
I have failed to sleep 😴 Let us speak honestly.
I speak not from politics, but from experience. As the Man of the Year – Humanitarian Award Winner 2025, I speak on behalf of the people I stand with daily: the students, farmers, marketeers, patients, and ordinary citizens who carry the burden of this nation quietly and with dignity.
In our history, good leaders have lost the trust of the people not because they lacked vision, but because those around them — particularly some Ministers — failed to tell them the truth. They filtered the voice of the nation and painted a picture that is not the reality ordinary Zambians are living. When a President is misinformed, the consequences are felt across the entire country.
Your Excellency, President Hakainde Hichilema your legacy is yours alone. When your term ends, you will not go on to become an MP or a Mayor you have already reached the highest office. The title you will hold forever is former President. The state of the nation will rest on your name. Meanwhile, some of the Ministers who surround you today once benefitted when you were still losing elections. They did not carry your burden or your shame. Some may change parties tomorrow. Some may even try to become Presidents themselves. Loyalty in politics is rarely permanent.
But the people, the farmers, marketeers, students, and workers they remain. Their struggles are real, and their voices deserve to reach you directly, without distortion or fear. Praise-singers are many because they want jobs, but flattery does not solve national problems.
The electricity situation is not just an inconvenience — it is endangering lives. I have personally seen patients on oxygen lose their lives because machines cannot run without power. Dialysis patients miss treatment because there is no electricity or they cannot afford transport to hospitals. If some Ministers were asked how many people have died due to power shortages, they would not know — because they are not close to the suffering.
Farmers are facing difficulties that threaten our national food security. Students are failing to write exams because their parents have not been paid after selling maize. My phone is full of messages from young people students afraid to speak publicly because they cannot access those in leadership. They cheer when they see you, but if you sat with them privately and listened, you would be moved by their stories.
Those young students who praise you because they want to make their own names and images for the future have no clue how even their fellow students are struggling, oneday day give out your phone number on your page Mr president and ask people to send you problems directly.
Zambians are incredibly understanding they do not complain about government actions but simply need timely support. Imagine, Your Excellency, if Americans had to endure four years without proper electricity would they spare their President?
The cost of living has become unbearable. Many families are doing everything possible just to survive. Our town centres are swelling with homeless children and adults searching for a way to live. Crime is quietly rising, yet these truths rarely reach your desk. On top of this, even communication networks are unreliable, though some may advise you that everything is functioning well.
These issues are not political attacks. They are the lived experiences of citizens who love their country. Therefore, we ask, with respect but also with urgency, that these matters be addressed now, not later. Every day that passes, more lives are affected. We speak because we believe in Zambia. We speak because we want to be proud of the story we write together. May our leaders hear the people. May our country rise. And may your legacy be one that history remembers with honor.
Mr. President, protect your legacy. Learn to release those who are failing the citizens. What happened in the Copperbelt was not just politics — it was the expression of a gap in leadership connection. If a leader is not serving the people, let them go. If it takes replacing an entire cabinet for the sake of the nation, then that is leadership.
If the citizens were to vote you out tomorrow, you would retire peacefully but these same Ministers would continue with their political ambitions. Do not allow them to gamble with your legacy. Put them to task.
Just in case no one has told you the truth Mr president this is where we are as a nation pa ground.
I have spoken enough, Your Excellency. Good morning from one of the Lasitiboniz.
