KNOW YOUR PRESIDENT: PERSONAL PROFILE FOR MR SEAN E. TEMBO

1. Sean Enock Tembo (SET) was born on 30th of March 1980 in Jabu Village, Chief Kapatamoyo, Chipata District of Eastern Province of Zambia, from Mr. Gideon Tembo and Mrs. Vaida Tembo.

He is the 5th born in a family of 9, of which only 4 are currently surviving. His father was a Miner and worked for Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), Nchanga Division in Chingola before his untimely demise in 1989 when SET was 9 years old.

President Sean Tembo grew up in Mtendere Compound of Lusaka and he started his primary school in 1986 and completed his Grade 7 as one of the best student at Chitukuko Primary School in Mtendere, Lusaka. He later proceeded to Kabulonga School for Boys in 1993. In his Grade 9 exams, President Sean Tembo was one of the best students in Zambia and was admitted to Hillcrest Technical Secondary School in Livingstone where he completed his Grade 12 in 1997.

While at Hillcrest, Mr Sean Tembo was one of the best students and obtained a number of awards and also represented the school in several national JETS Olympiad competitions.

2. In 1999, at the age of 19, Mr Sean Tembo was enrolled in the Bachelor of Accountancy programme at the Copperbelt University (CBU) in Kitwe where he was consistently the best student during his 4 year tenure at the University.

While at Copperbelt University, President Sean Tembo enjoyed several best student scholarships including the Citi Bank best student scholarship as well as the Bank of Zambia (BOZ) best student scholarship.

3. During his stay at CBU, President Sean Tembo was the Managing Editor of the Campus Herald Magazine, which was a student magazine with a monthly circulation of about 10,000 copies and was widely distributed to secondary schools in the entire Copperbelt Province. In his 3rd and 4th years at CBU and due to his outstanding academic performance, Sean Tembo was appointed as a Tutor for 1st year students in one of the most difficult courses in the School of Business; BS140, Mathematical Analysis.

As a Tutor, he was put on the University payroll and drew a regular monthly salary in addition to the upkeep allowances that he received from the Citi Bank and Bank of Zambia Best Student Scholarships.

4. On completion of his undergraduate degree programme at CBU, President Sean Tembo was the best graduating student and was awarded the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA) best graduating student award with a cash prize of K1 million (un-rebased).

While writing his last examination paper at CBU, Mr Sean Tembo had 7 job offers from reputable companies and institutions including Konkola Copper Mines Plc, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bank of Zambia, KPMG, Citi Bank, Deloitte and Copperbelt University as an SDF. He eventually settled to join PricewaterhouseCoopers which is an international audit & business advisory services firm, where he worked until 2004.

5. While working at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr Sean Tembo was sponsored to go and pursue the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualification by his employer at the Zambia Centre for Accountancy Studies (ZCAS), in Lusaka.

While studying for his ACCA at ZCAS, Sean Tembo obtained several worldwide best student awards in various courses and walked away with more than K5 million (un-rebased) in cash prizes from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, before completing his ACCA qualification in record time.

6. In 2004 at the age of 24, President Sean Tembo left PricewaterhouseCoopers and founded ENOSYST AM, his own audit & business advisory services firm.

In 2005, ENOSYST AM established an office in Gaborone, Botswana and in 2008, a third office was established in Johannesburg, South Africa. The firm specialised in the provision of assurance services such as statutory audits, forensic audits, operational audits etc, as well as economic and financial consultancy services to various clients including governments and quasi-government institutions in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Kenya, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. This exposure gave President Sean Tembo a deeper understanding of the social, economic and political landscape of Zambia and the region.

7. In 2008, President Sean Tembo decided to take a short sabbatical leave from running his firm, to pursue a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from the University of Derby in the United Kingdom, where he also graduated as the best student.

8. In 2015 at the age of 35 and after successfully running his firm, in three countries for more than 10 years, Mr Sean E. Tembo MBA, BAcc, FCCA, FCPA, FZICA, decided to partially retire from professional work. He now runs his firm, ENOSYST AM on a part-time basis and also runs a hospitality establishment in Lusaka; Palm Valley Resort which is 62 room facility with conferencing, two restaurants, a Spa and outside catering. He lives on a farm in Ngwerere, in the northern part of Lusaka City where he keeps broiler chickens with a maximum capacity of 60,000 per cycle. President Sean Tembo is happily married to Dr. Lorrita Kabwe-Tembo, a Consultant Cardiologist at UTH and they have five children.

He is a devoted Catholic and his hobbies include fishing, safari hunting, playing golf, and is an avid gun collector. He also enjoys an occasional Mosi Lager in the company of good friends.

9. As a contribution to public service, President Sean Tembo has previously served in the Zambia Police Service, Lusaka Division as a Romeo, where he rose to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police, before leaving the service in 2013. Despite his limited financial resources, President Sean Tembo has also made several donations to various charities including the sponsorship of a 5 year programme to award cash prizes to best performing students every term at Hillcrest Technical Secondary School in Livingstone, as well as Gaborone Secondary School (GSS) in Gaborone, Botswana. These scholarship programmes, albeit small in nature, had the effect of motivating pupils to achieve higher levels of performance not only in the final grade 12 exams, but throughout their secondary studies.

10. After his semi-retirement at the age of 35 in 2015, and with plenty of time available on his hands, President Sean Tembo decided to contribute to the governance of Zambia by joining active politics. His initial plan was to join an existing political party which advances progressive ideas that have the potential to uplift the living standards of the Zambian people. After reviewing the plans, operations and democratic standing of existing political parties at the time, it soon dawned upon President Sean Tembo that he may have to consider starting a political party from scratch, as nothing that was available appeared tenable.

11. In October 2016, President Sean Tembo organized a number of other progressive Zambians and together they started the process of forming the Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP). The Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP) is a nationalist political party which believes that Zambia can only be developed by Zambians using the abundant Zambian resources. The party was formally registered in the in 2016 in accordance with the Societies Act, Chapter 119 of the Laws of Zambia, and is also duly accredited with the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ). On 18th November 2017, the Party went for a convention that was held at Mulungushi International Conference Centre (MICC), in Lusaka, where Sean Tembo was elected as Party President with a 5 year mandate until November 2022. On 12th October 2021, the party took part in the general elections and came out 13th out of 16 political parties. Subsequent to the general elections, the party resolved to dissolve all its structures and is currently reconstituting new interim structures in readiness for internal elections in November 2022.

12. The Party’s four core values are Patriotism, Accountability, Competence and Courage. The Party’s vision is “to have a Zambia where the poorest person has an average monthly income of K10,000.00, inflation is below 5%, average commercial bank lending rates are single digit, the Gini coefficient is less than 0.1, Per capita income is above US$20,000, the least educated citizen has a full grade 12 certificate and Zambians having a life expectancy of not less than 80 years”. Sean Tembo strongly believes that Zambia has the necessary potential to make this vision a reality.

13. During the PF regime, the party undertook a number of activities to hold the then PF administration accountable, which included the fire tender protests of which 42 were planned and 12 have so far been undertaken. On 7th March 2018, the Police prevented the Party from undertaking its 13th protest against the $42 fire tender scandal, for no valid reasons. Mr Sean Tembo subsequently decided to take the Government to court, on behalf of PeP, under cause number 2018/HP/490, for violating the Party members freedoms, rights and liberties to association, expression and assembly as guaranteed by articles 20 and 21 of the Republican Constitution. President Sean Tembo personally represented PeP in this matter at the High Court, up against the entire Attorney General’s chambers. He won the case and was awarded a total of about K450,000 in damages and costs, which the Government has not paid to date. Ostensibly out of spite.

14. In addition to providing checks and balances, and unlike the majority of other opposition political parties that only point fingers, President Sean Tembo has ensured that the Patriots for Economic Progress has actively been providing alternative solutions to national problems and challenges. In this regard, PeP has so far developed and presented a PeP Alternative 7th National Development Plan, PeP Alternative National Budgets for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. The party is currently working on the 2022 Alternative National Budget which will be shared with the Minister of Finance under the UPND administration, as well as other key stakeholders including Parliament.

15. With the PF out of power, President Sean Tembo is positioning PeP to be the main opposition political party to the UPND Government. Already he has been very vocal over President Hakainde Hichilema’s decision for Zambia to get an IMF loan and to put the country on an IMF program. President Sean Tembo strongly believe that this is a very retrogressive idea by the UPND administration, and it will bring about untold suffering on the Zambian people. He believes that Zambia has huge potential in all sectors including agriculture, mining, tourism, arts etcetera, and all that we need is a competent President who can convert our country’s huge economic potential into actual wealth for the benefit of Zambians. SET believes that he is that President. With SET, Zambia’s future will be set.

For more details about Sean Tembo and/or the Patriots for Economic Progress (PeP), please visit us at the Party Secretariat on the first floor, Pangaea Office Park, Arcades Shopping Mall, Great East Road, Lusaka or by email directly to the Party President on seanetembo@gmail.com