Elijah Kabwe

This year I want to all! .... I'm going after everything I want and more.

@Malik_ZMB @lengs_lengy “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” 💯

Interest free, comes with negotiable payment terms and sometimes written off as bad debt. What a concept.

Buy her an atlas young king

How the outgoing MPs will spend their last week is reflective of how our Parly is, by turns, useless or harmful to Zambia. Last act is to rush through Bills, mostly dev in secret, whose fit for purpose they won't interrogate. What value do our MPs bring for money spent on them😪

@RasphordK You’re right, but you also need to understand there’s certain types you don’t argue with or stress your points to. It’s unproductive.

@ElijahKayKabwe1 If people don't engage, then society will rot. Someone must say it out! Silence in the moments of oppression means siding with the oppressor

Please and thank you. When I highlight an unmet expectation, don’t respond with “PF also did ABC.” There’s a reason we voted for “change.”

I always tell people this the firewood you fetched in dry season na same firewood you go burn for the rainy season... These Laws or bills been passed will haunt many in the future. Either you fix your future today or you will beg tomorrow.

Zambia has in recent days been flooded with disturbing revelations about the decay and rot that has engulfed our governance system. The speech by the U.S. Ambassador exposed what many citizens have long suspected: corruption is not only thriving, but those entrusted with power are either unwilling or unable to act against it. As expected, opinions have been divided. Many ruling party supporters have dismissed the revelations, claiming the Ambassador was merely frustrated for failing to push Zambia into signing a minerals deal in exchange for health financing support. On the other hand, many neutral and objective citizens have emphasized the importance of these revelations and questioned the President’s silence and indecisiveness on corruption under his watch. Some even argue that such silence raises concerns about whether those at the highest level may be benefiting from the same corruption they publicly condemn. Amidst all this, government is rushing several Bills through Parliament before dissolution this month. One of the most controversial is the proposal to make Chief Justices—former, current, and future—lifetime beneficiaries of taxpayer-funded benefits. This is deeply troubling. These are individuals who already earn substantial salaries. Reports in the public domain suggest that the current Chief Justice earns about K547,335 annually in basic salary, with an equal amount in housing allowance alone—bringing the total to over K1,094,670 per year, excluding transport, communication, per diem, and other significant allowances. Now, under the proposed Bill, a retired Chief Justice would continue receiving 80% of the incumbent’s salary annually—about K437,868 every year—on top of the generous retirement benefits already available. Similar provisions are being considered for former Vice Presidents and other top office holders. At what point do we stop and ask: who is government really working for? While these elite benefits are being prioritised, hospitals have no medicine. Clinics in rural Zambia still tell patients to “go and buy drugs” because all they have is paracetamol. Women walk long distances for maternity care only to find empty shelves. Some court buildings themselves, under the very leadership of these offices, are dilapidated and unfit for proper work. Children are still learning under trees and sitting on the floor because schools lack classrooms and desks. Meanwhile, the average Zambian civil servant survives on around K4,500 to K5,000 per month. Teachers struggle. Nurses struggle. Soldiers struggle. Ordinary citizens struggle. But the political class and top office holders continue designing laws to protect their own comfort for life. The rich must get richer, and the poor must remain poorer. Patients must keep dying so retired elites can continue receiving tax-funded luxury. Children must keep learning in poverty so political offices can enjoy lifetime guarantees. While politicians send their children abroad and secure their futures, voters in Sikongo, Sinjembela, and every forgotten rural district are expected to keep clapping for policies that deepen inequality. How did we even reach a point where we are seriously debating lifetime tax-free benefits for already wealthy public officials while citizens die from lack of medicine and businesses collapse because there is no reliable electricity? One day corruption and theft dominate national headlines. The next day we are told to support lifetime guarantees for the very people presiding over the same broken system. Are we really normal as a country to defend this? This is not governance. This is organised self-preservation by the political elite.

@RasphordK New solution is just not to engage

@ElijahKayKabwe1 That's the highest level of gaslighting. You can't point out the wrong ninshi you are playing politics

When in opposition, UPND members used to accuse the PF government of corruption. Tables turned. PF members are now accusing the UPND government of corruption. This establishes one common denominator. Both camps have a common enemy. Let’s now do everything we can to kick out corruption, regardless of which party is in power.

Only if he agrees not to die fast this time.

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More than 460 million Africans live in extreme poverty, accounting for 55% of global poverty. Here, government policies MUST be pro poor. Every government must work to lift these millions out of poverty. Anything else would be considered too fancy #nodignityinpoverty

@roza_peters I’ve also shocked myself 😂😂

@ElijahKayKabwe1 👀👀👀

Decided to go on alcohol break on February 1st, it’s really looking like I might never go back 😟

@Lutweetstru You should try and see how it goes. Just make sure you have stuff to keep you busy over the weekends. Also your friends should support you, at first mine were getting upset when I order tea and other stuff while they’re drinking “don’t be boring”

@ElijahKayKabwe1 I see. I’m definitely quitting too last month was pretty much my last but idk if I’ll be consistent tbh I want to go upto September so I’ll see.

@Lutweetstru The main reason was the hangovers , I just felt like my body started rejecting it , especially the fake stuff they make take 💀. Other thing was a ka small accident coming back from groove, that was the curtain closer.

@ElijahKayKabwe1 What helped you stop?

@applechews_ 3D views 😎

Always asked how dictatorships happen. Slowly starting to answer my own question.

.@elonmusk just crossed $800 billion — roughly 2.7% of the entire US GDP. The last person to hold that much of the American economy? John D. Rockefeller in 1913. It took a century for anyone to match him. Rockefeller had oil. Musk has the future.

@Subiilo Biggest hinderance to the development of Zambia.

@ElijahKayKabwe1 Simple mathematics here.. they want to be politicking all the time.

@Subiilo @Takunachola By all means do not engage 😂

@Takunachola @ElijahKayKabwe1 @KayomboKayongo Iwe ba makaka is a bot🤣🤣

Who's in charge of coming up with these same fima annoying bills kanshi, why can't they go pa ground and ask the common man what type of bills should be brought to the house.