blasé 🇿🇲@pureblase
You need a suit for a job interview and hire a tailor who promises: “I’ll make you a sharp, affordable suit for just K2000. I just need the money up front to buy a business from another tailor.”
You pay him upfront with high hopes. He buys the business.
He finds the workshop in chaos with huge debts from the old owner. So he cleverly pays off debts, upgrades machines, improves quality, and transforms the business and makes real progress.
But your promised K2000 suit? It’s still not ready, and now costs more. He says, “Look at the great workshop now, be patient.”
You appreciate the improvements, but you hired him for the suit you were promised, not the full workshop makeover, however great it may be. You’re still stuck without what you paid for.
The tailor’s bigger achievements are good, yet he failed to deliver on the core promise to the customers who put him in business.
So here is the main question: Why should voters fully trust the new promises if the old ones they were voted in on still haven’t been delivered, no matter how great the overall progress? In addition, hypothetical, if another 5 years pass and the old promises and the new ones haven’t been delivered but Zambias GDP doubles, would you consider that a successful term?
Kindly engage with both those questions.