MUNDUBILE DEMANDS 20 HOURS OF POWER FOR EVERY ZAMBIAN AHEAD OF HH’s PARLIAMENTARY ADDRESS.
…….says expectations are high because this is likely to be Hichilema’s final address to the nation through Parliament.
Lusaka …………Thursday, 11th September, 2025 (Smart Eagles)
Mporokoso Member of Parliament Brian Mundubile has urged President Hakainde Hichilema to use tomorrow’s address to the nation as an opportunity for deep self-assessment, focusing on his government’s four-year performance.
Speaking to the media in Lusaka today, Hon Mundubile said expectations are high because this is likely to be Hichilema’s final address to the nation through Parliament.
He has called upon the President to assess how the application of the rule of law and constitutionalism has been implemented by his government in the last four years.
Hon Mundubile also expressed concern on the growing ethnic divisions in the country stating that citizens are more conscious of their ethnicity now than at any previous time.
He urged the president to reflect on whether Zambia has become more unified or more divided during his term, and to prioritise national unity going forward.
“The president must introspect on the need to unite this country. Is the country more united or more divided since coming into power. Even on the appointment in the civil service. He must introspect, look at how many PSs and directors are there. In Foreign Service, Let him look at that list and look at article 259.
It will be beneficial to look at the Judiciary, legislature, Executive and see if these appointments have been done in accordance with the constitution,” he said.
Meanwhile, Hon Mundubile has questioned the effectiveness of the Budgets that have so far been presented under the UPND regime.
He said over K800 Billion has been proposed but little impact has been seen in terms of development.
The Mporokoso lawmaker has also criticized the government’s reliance on the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) as a symbol of progress, noting that it accounts for only K20 billion of the overall budget.
He said real development lies outside the CDF and wondered whether the UPND has initiated and completed any major projects independent of the PF’s legacy.
“There has been a 100% increase in terms of budgeting. From K870 billion, CDF is only K20 billion. There is K850 billion outside the CDF. The fact that the UPND think CDF is the solution, that is where we disagree. What was done in K443 billion during the PF was visible. How much more would the UPND have done in that over 800 billion if they were sincere as the PF….,” he said.
And Hon Mundubile called for guaranteed access to a minimum of 20 hours of electricity for Zambians.
He said incentives given to energy traders conflict with citizens’ interests, and demanded reforms to ensure that energy policy directly benefits the public.
Hon Mundubile also urged the president to instruct the Ministry of Finance to allocate funding to key farming blocks across the country and promote industrialization through agriculture.
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Mundubile you claim to be in business and yet you seem not to understand commerce and the key elements of the current expenditure. Mr Mundubile do you understand that the current government is spending a lot on human resource development, which is a foundation of sustainable development? Think of the number of schools, in the country being funded quarterly to provide free education. Mr, Mundubile do you know the number students receiving meal alliances, which you failed to provide to our children in universities and colleges. Pretend not, I hope many you know that the work force of the civil service has increased by over 65, 000. What do you think the wage bill is? Note that your government was failing to pay council workers and retirees across the country. But this government is doing it. Your government was failing to service the debts, but this government is doing it. You government had a very small number of social cash transfer beneficiaries, and received very small amounts. But this government has increased the amounts and number of beneficiaries.mundubile, your government abandoned a lot of projects, but this is injecting resources to complete them. You can’t see all this happening because you use the defunct binoculars of nakachinda. And you are always suspecting HH of stealing the money, just because it stealing in your government was a normal practice
The buffoons are always against everything that HH does,. We all know the reasons why.
There is a big difference between the previous mundubile’s government and the current UPND government. In the current government we have more clinics and more medicines. In this government we even have cash for work. There is also more peace and freedom in HH government. The PF was a bad party. It’s good that It is dead. And it will never operate on its own because it is no longer registered. It is defunct and dead. mundubile’ should just join mulyokela as a secretary general
Mundubile thinks that this is the last address by HH to Parlianent?!! Nothing can be further from the truth. In fact, this is the last time Mundubile will be a Memver of Parliant never mind his other ambitions including that of Republican President. PF will not have a Presidential candidate in its current form, under which party will he stand as MP?