Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba writes:
Here is why.
● NRC issuance selective.
● Continous voter registration exercise secretive without publicity or awareness.
● Staffing members of the Electoral Commission of Zambia with members of the UPND.
● Hiring a Chief Elections Officer with who was dismissed after criminal investigation.
● banning credible opposition, limit Opposition activities, ban public rallies, gatherings and meetings.
● Weaponise law enforcement agencies against political opponents.
● breach and ignore the Constitution..disregard laws.
● purge the public service and replace with a group from one region.
● man all key institutions with regional appointments to execute the mission.
● Amass wealth and resources to outspend and cripple the Opposition.
But what I know, whatever the tricks and machinations, is that God and the people of Zambia have a final say.
All hallmarks oof PF and the alebwelelapo ensemble
Emmanuel Mwamba has just reminded us of the tricks PF used prior to the 2021 elections, which they miserably lost. We witnessed all that rot, so Mwamba is only afraid that UPND would also fo that. Mwambaand his colleagues should just grow up and sort out the mess in the PF.
Only God can rule forever. Political parties come and go despite the period of governing the nation. Others did their part to develope the nation, they too are doing their part to develop the nation until that time comes when others will also take up the mantle.
Only political parties with a clear Succession plan rule forever!
UNIP is dead because KK had no succession plan!
MMD is dead also because of Selfishness with leadership positions!
PF is also dead because of lack of a clear Succession plan! You can already see how greedy some people are! They want uku impyana! They want to inherit akamupando from themselves!
UPND can only rule forever if they have put a solid Succession plan in place and stick to it!
If you compare some neighboring countries, you will learn that the same political party at Independence is still in power today! Why?
SUCCESSION Planning!
Myles Munroe said, Success without a Successor is Failure!
Everything crumbles for lack of continuity!
While it is impossible for anyone to rule forever, Zambia as at today 8th January 2024 has no credible challenger to the UPND.
Amasushi fye yeka yeka ati opposition? That’s why any stupid person can utter the rubbish in that stupid paper. STUPID IDIOTS.
This want to drag the UPND into the pf-Miles stupid stand off is synonymous to flogging a dead horse. These pf’s, most times I call them idiots but not today, should sort their internal issues quickly otherwise 2025 will come very fast they’ll still be in court screaming state sponsored shrinking democratic space. Watch this space!!!!!
To start with Mr. Mwamba deliberately likes to distort true information in preference to feeding the people with his cheap and false propaganda. We shall therefore not allow ourselves to be misled and cheated when we have the correct data. Here are the facts and not the falsehood Mwamba is feeding us with.
1) NRC issuance selective – It is PF which was selective because them, they were issuing to children (under age) and to foreigners. Otherwise UPND is busy issuing the new digital NRCs covering the whole country and updates are there,
2) Continuous voter registration exercise secretive without publicity or awareness – we don’t know where Mr. Mwamba lives, maybe he is still an Ambassador somewhere. I have just finished looking at an elaborate update on the continuous voter registration exercise which was issued on 5th January, 2024. In the month of December 2023 alone, the cumulative figure was 3,695, 1,955 being males and 1,740 were females. The highest District with the number of registered voters was Ndola which had 381 while the least District was Nakonde in Muchinga Province with only 17. From January to December, 2023, the cumulated totals were 28,728 registered voters of which 15,536 are males while 13,192 are females. Meanwhile the continuous voter registration exercise is currently going on in 20 districts in all 10 Provinces of the country. For those who are lazy to read, the 20 Districts are; Chipata, Chinsali, Choma, Chongwe, Kabompo, Kabwe, Kasama, Kitwe, Livingstone, Lundazi, Lusaka, Mansa, Mbala, Mkushi, Mongu, Nakonde, Nchelenge, Ndola, Sesheke and Solwezi, i.e. two Districts per Province. So where is secretive and lack of publicity here? Mr. Mwamba is just exposing himself as a chief liar.
3) Staffing members of the Electoral Commission of Zambia with members of the UPND – Maybe UPND members are better than PF members who were there, we still remember how they allowed a foreigner in the ECZ server room and started manipulating votes there. The same PF members started announcing fake results and none existent constituencies like Chitulika, something which UPND members cannot and will never do. Those are men and women of integrity; do you think Kasaro or Chipenzi can do such a thing? Never. We know that all the people you had planted at ECZ are no longer there but that does not mean that whoever is there is a UPND member.
4) Hiring a Chief Elections Officer with who was dismissed after criminal investigation – you are talking about criminal investigations, was he arrested? Was he tried? Was he convicted? Last time you were talking of his qualifications and now it’s his dismissal after criminal investigations, why can’t you be consistent in your allegations?
5) Banning credible opposition, limit Opposition activities, ban public rallies, gatherings and meetings – can you please tell us at least one credible opposition political party that has been banned in Zambia by UPND. When were the public rallies, gatherings and meetings banned? Maybe you need to tell us more.
6) Weaponize law enforcement agencies against political opponents – UPND is still using weapons and vehicles bought and left by PF, so when did they weaponize the law enforcement agencies against political opponents? Those are unfounded wild allegations.
7) Breach and ignore the Constitution and disregard laws – PF breached both its own constitution and the Republican Constitution more than any other party in the history of this country. PF and its cadres were above the law and were a law in themselves.
8) Purge the public service and replace with a group from one region – retiring people in public interest was the order of the day under PF and many people lost their jobs. This time, how many have you heard being heard being retired in national interest?
9) Man all key institutions with regional appointments to execute the mission – Sir, you are still heavy with PF hangover when some regions didn’t have any appointees in key Institutions, but this time, things are different. UPND is doing what PF failed to do, for example, you were only giving 1.6 to some selected constituencies, but UPND is giving 30.6 to all the 156 of them. Education which was almost un affordable under PF is now free under UPND. PF stopped the University Students’ meal allowances, UPND has resumed them. so which normal person can fail to like such a government?
10) Amass wealth and resources to outspend and cripple the Opposition – UPND does not even know the word amass, it is PF who knows it. They amassed a lot of wealth so much that some people are failing to keep it, they have to give other people for safe custody.