MPS, LOCAL LEADERS DEFECT TO UPND IN BOOST TO RULING PARTY
Several Members of Parliament and local authority leaders have defected from the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) to the ruling United Party for National Development (UPND).
Those who have crossed over include Chitambo Member of Parliament Remember Chanda Mutale, Serenje Member of Parliament (Independent) Emmanuel Banda, and Muchinga Member of Parliament (Independent), alongside several key PF local leaders.
Also defecting are Serenje Town Council Chairperson Staivous Mulumba and Chitambo Town Council Chairperson Brian Mwelwa, both formerly aligned with the PF.
Speaking during the announcement, the leaders said their decision was motivated by the need to support national development and align themselves with the vision of President Hakainde Hichilema.
They praised the administration for its focus on economic recovery, unity, and inclusive growth, noting that working with the ruling party would enhance service delivery and accelerate infrastructure and social development programmes in their respective constituencies.
“We want to deliver tangible development to our people, and this alignment will help us achieve that,” one of the leaders said.
President Hichilema, flanked by UPND officials, welcomed the defectors, describing their move as a sign of growing confidence in the government’s leadership and policy direction.
Among those present were Kabwe Member of Parliament Chrizoster Phiri, Princess Kasune, Paul Kabuswe, and Frank Museba Tayali, among others.
UPND officials said the party remains open to working with leaders from different political backgrounds who are committed to national progress and development.
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Defections, they can be good, sometimes they’re not really helpful.
There’s a lot a Zambian Politician needs to learn.
Politics in a Democracy is a competition of ideas. It’s such competition which produces the best paths for the development of a Country. President Hakainde Hichilema is not the ultimate in the path for the Development of Zambia.
If anything there are very few original ideas which he has come up with from the time he became President.
Let me give examples of these to the Dull Opposition Party leaders especially the Lazy PF Members of Parliament, who have renounced memory and thinking.
1. Hichilema found CDF already in Place. He increased the Allocation.
2. Hichilema found Free Education from Grade 1 to Grade 9 introduced in 2011 . He increased it to Grade 12.
3. Hichilema found Social cash Transfer. He increased the Beneficiaries
4. Hichilema found various Social support programs under the Ministry of Community and social security, and other Social support programs under the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Disaster Mitigation under the Vice President ‘s office. He continued with these.
Examples of these are the nutritional support to Pregnant Mothers under the Ministry of Health through cooperation with donors, Feeding programs in Schools in rural areas, programs against malnutrition, keeping the girls in School, re-entry policies were all there.
Hakainde has made them more visible.
5. In the Agriculture Sector, Hakainde found the e – Voucher System which was started in 2015/2016. Piloted in 56 District up to 2021.
Hichilema wants to implement it in all districts.
6. Hichilema found Bursaries to University Students given to all Public Universities. He reintroduced meal Allowances, and made them more visible.
7. Hakainde found on going Projects in the Energy Sector, The Maamba 300 MW project, Kafue Lower Gorge 750 MW, and various Solar Energy projects. He is completing the Implementation.
8. Hichilema found the Lusaka Ndola Dual Carriage Road project on the cards , he changed it to a PPP.
9. Water Supplies in Communities through Bore Holes in Markets, and big projects like the Kafulafuta Water Scheme were started by others, he just finished the Implementation.
90% of what Hakainde Hichilema is doing was started by his Predecessors especially the Patriotic Front whom he can’t even acknowledge.
The only thing which I can attribute to Hakainde , as his original ideas, are the Skills training using CDF in Constituencies, Decentralized Desk provision using CDF for Schools and to some extent the 10% NAPSA withdrawals.
Hakainde has not invented a wheel. The ideas he is following up are initiatives by his Predecessors.
I laugh at these Dull Patriotic Front Members of Parliament who are completely lost.
The programs you are praising Hakainde Hichilema for, are actually your programs.
Stop lying to people most of these projects were just a name under pf without implementation.I ve been paying school fees for my kids in grade 2,5 and grade 6.Those who appreciate what HH has achieved is not you and you have never been.You don’t support his vision and you have never voted for him.Those who do will vote for him massively.You hatred can never win
@ Musonda
Show me a GRZ school where you were paying school fees for Grade 2, 3 and 5 pupils from 2011 to 2021.
No parent was paying anything.
Basic Education was funded under the GRZ Sector Pool Funding and other Grants.. Exercise Books ( GRZ – not for Sale ) and Reading Materials ( GRZ – Not for Sale) were provided absolutely free.
I challenge School Managers or any Teacher out there to point out a liar between you and me.
In Rural areas it has been extremely difficult to get Pupils into class. Most of the times Teachers were treated to empty classrooms. Government introduced Feeding programs in rural areas as an incentive to attract children to go to school. They also came up with a policy that no child should be sent away from school for not having a school uniform.
This was done under the PF government.
Food packs for Pregnant Mothers and other interventions under the Program against Malnutrition ( PAM) , food for work Programs and other Social Protection programs were all done under the PF government. I can go on and on listing the policies and programs done under the PF government.
The problem is that we have lazy PF MPs who don’t know why they are in Politics.. They can’t articulate the vision of their party and what they achieved when they were in government.
Further we have dishonest Traditional leaders who can’t tell the truth.
They can today dance for a 1 x 3 Classroom block, while pretending not to see a complete secondary school built by the PF just under their nose.
They can see the one who brings Desks to a school, but they can’t see the one who built the school.
It is not about who started what but who made viable and benefiting the majority.
All the past Parties in Government used the peoples money, we the tax payers. Our money! No one should behave as though the party brought money in this Country. No! The Government has its own money. Some things were put in place by our colonial masters and we are enjoying them.
PF brought in the idea of sontapo and yet UNIP did far much better. The Findeco House as just one example but mess up the economy just as PF messed up our economy big time.
Now the economy is much, much better not that UPND as brought its money into the Country but somehow put some controls to abusing the resources.
Lusaka is congested with business activities but we want to see the same through our the Country because Lusaka is not Zambia.
In short the party in Government once it has performed will attract politicians and investors.
Please stop saying PF or whichever party did this and that NO. It is the responsibility of the party in Government to implement and actualize the Government program.
You are saying that Hichilema is just completing what others started so you wanted those projects to be abandoned?
Government is not a political party bene it is a Republic or State which would function even when there is no Party in Office.
Government is State.