Emmanuel Mwamba Has Perfected The Art Of Political Deceit
….There is no verifiable, documented, or judicially established evidence that Zambia is under dictatorship, tyr
anny, or one-man rule…
By Magret Mwanza
Ambassador Emmanuel Mwamba has perfected a dangerous and cynical craft. When facts abandon him, he manufactures fear. When evidence refuses to cooperate, he replaces it with metaphor, innuendo, and recycled conspiracy.
His recent outburst alleging that President Hakainde Hichilema is “stealing democracy in silence” is not political analysis. It is political deceit dressed up as moral outrage, designed to rescue a collapsed political relevance.
Let us be clear from the outset. There is no verifiable, documented, or judicially established evidence that Zambia is under dictatorship, tyranny, or one-man rule. None.
What exists instead is a defeated political class, removed from power through the ballot in August 2021, struggling to come to terms with the consequences of its own record in government. That class now seeks to criminalise reform, demonise institutions, and portray accountability as persecution.
Mwamba’s narrative relies on repetition, not proof. He throws around names of institutions, courts, judges, statutory instruments, and constitutional offices without presenting a single binding judgment declaring the President’s actions illegal.
He does not cite authoritative court rulings. He does not provide comparative constitutional analysis. He simply demands that Zambians accept his suspicion as truth. Zambia, however, is governed by law, not by political monologues.
The allegation that democratic institutions have been “hijacked” collapses under even minimal scrutiny. The Speaker of Parliament, the Chief Justice, and the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission were not installed by fiat.
They were appointed through constitutionally provided processes, operating under laws enacted long before the current administration. To suggest that institutions become illegitimate simply because they no longer serve Patriotic Front interests is intellectual dishonesty of the highest order.
It is especially cynical for Mwamba to posture as a defender of democracy given his own political history. The Patriotic Front, while in power, normalised cadre violence, weaponised the police, intimidated judges, harassed the media, and treated state institutions as party appendages.
Opposition leaders were arrested, meetings were disrupted, and courts were openly disregarded. Mwamba was not alarmed then. His sudden discovery of “dictatorship” coincides neatly with his loss of access to state power.
On elections and by-elections, Mwamba again misleads deliberately. Electoral disputes in Zambia are resolved by courts, not by political press statements. Where courts ruled, those rulings remain on record.
Where the Electoral Commission erred, judicial processes addressed those errors. That is not tyranny. That is the rule of law at work. Dictatorship is when courts are ignored, not when their decisions are enforced.
Perhaps the most intellectually bankrupt claim is that President Hichilema “stole” the Patriotic Front. Political parties are not private property of disgruntled elites. The PF imploded under the weight of internal indiscipline, leadership failure, and refusal to respect constitutional order after losing an election.
Its endless court battles are self-inflicted wounds, not evidence of presidential manipulation. Blaming the President for PF’s collapse is an attempt to outsource responsibility for political incompetence.
On corruption and prosecutions, Mwamba again confuses accountability with victimhood.
Zambia established specialised courts because grand corruption had become routine under the previous administration. Billions were looted, debt ballooned to unsustainable levels, and public resources were treated as private spoils.
To demand immunity for politically connected suspects is not a defence of democracy. It is an argument for elite impunity.
The truth Mwamba cannot confront is this. President Hichilema did not dismantle democracy. He inherited a state hollowed out by recklessness, lawlessness, and contempt for institutions.
What the current administration has pursued is fiscal discipline, institutional restoration, and re-engagement with the international community to stabilise a battered economy.That process is uncomfortable for those who thrived in chaos.
This is why Mwamba cries dictatorship while freely publishing his attacks.
This is why opposition figures insult the President daily without being jailed. This is why courts continue to issue rulings against the state when warranted. Dictatorships do not permit this. Zambia does.
Finally, dragging the Church into partisan paranoia is both irresponsible and reckless. Invoking religious institutions to dramatise political desperation does not strengthen democracy.
It corrodes national cohesion. Zambia’s democracy is not perfect, but it is alive, functioning, and governed by law, not by manufactured fear.
Zambians must reject this propaganda with the contempt it deserves. Not because government is beyond criticism, but because democracy dies when deceit is allowed to parade as truth.
The real theft here is not of democracy, but of honesty. And that theft has a name.
Emmanuel keeps undressing himself in public, all his lies and propaganda have not brought the intended purpose. These are very poisonous people who have no heart for the country but HH is not their match. He’s turning Zambia around and they have nothing credible to say because the people have now realised that Emmanuel was the head of LIES & FALSE department under the PF.
An undocumented or imaginary political aggregation that depends on a fugitive from the law as their spokesman.
That gang of thieves is going nowhere.
Emmanuel Muamba/Mwamba is a Munachusa from Tanzania whose survival relies on deceit to secure his meals.He became accustomed to receiving unearned money in Zambia without any effort.President Lungu was aware of who Muamba/Mwamba was and dispatched him to South Africa and Ethiopia to continue his practice of obtaining unearned money.He preferred to keep this individual at a distance.
These individuals often attempt to appear intelligent, yet they excel only in rhetoric and deception directed at the public.The PF was merely a criminal regime.
A lot of people don’t listen to him anymore. Like you have rightly pointed out one can not distinguish lies from truths in his postings. If he can spend just a bit of time in healing his party pf which is bleeding seriously. than propagating all the half truths, that could be a welcome move.
Most Zambiains are way ahead of Mwamba, because they’ve a lived experience from 2021 to date: they would not want to go back to chaos. Remember, Mwamba used to leak information from cabinet and Sata fired him quickly
Most Zambiains are way ahead of Mwamba, because they’ve a lived experience from 2021 to date: they would not want to go back to chaos. Remember, Mwamba used to leak information from cabinet and Sata fired him quickly. Pf is a shell, hope they fix it, unlikely
So, Most Zambiains are way ahead of Mwamba, because they’ve a lived experience from 2021 to date: they would not want to go back to chaos. Remember, Mwamba used to leak information from cabinet and Sata fired him quickly. Pf is a shell, hope they fix it, unlikely
Magret Mwanza the Fake has reappeared!
Emmanuel Mwamba is real , physical .. we know him and have seen him.
Magret Mwanza doesn’t exist, just some of those Hakainde Propagandists, most likely with a desk at Statehouse churning out fakes … hiding behind North Eastern names like haaMUSONDA the Tribalist. The same Rogue Columnists like Timmy, and Farai … Can’t waste my time reading your article HaaMagret HaaMwanza.
ZO don’t start again.
Allow me to express my views.
We can’t just have one line of thought from Praise Zealots.
We also need need to be allowed to comment.
Bring me back!
For what duration will you continue to act foolishly? A reasonable individual eventually grows weary of endorsing absurdity. I have recently come to understand that individuals like you do not represent Zambians. You are outsiders who have been profiting from the Zambian government without contributing anything. It will never succeed, PF cadre; continue to dream.
He ran away when the law was slowly shutting the door on him and left his sureties with a K50,000 burden on their back; left his wife and children – the foolish coward – and abandoned everything and everyone to hide outside the country and propagate unsubstantiated lies like he always did throughout the previous six regimes and except for KK and LPM, the rest enjoyed his dribbling and rigging.
Now the Ila man had a solid she’ll around him and he couldn’t wriggle through like he did with the rest.
So he expects to get sympathy from ordinary Zambians after failing to panenka the international community.
The lazy lout skimmed government after government without working a single day, even managing to build a house in New Kasama, the politicians’ compound?!!!
I look forward to the day the law will catch him do that he can go to jail like 60% of his cohorts in PF.
If only HH and his elder brother Jack Mwiimbu were an experienced politicians he would not have sneaked out and neither would the likes of Kaiser Zulu, JJ Banda, Tayali, or even the Lungu Family of thieves.
Time will tell. We sit, pray and watch.