OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA
Dear Mr. President,
RE: GIVE BACK PF TO THE OWNERS
Two days ago, you addressed the nation in Parliament, speaking passionately about the rule of law, democracy, and good governance. Yet your actions continue to contradict your words.
Under your leadership, Zambia’s largest opposition party, the Patriotic Front (PF), has been systematically attacked, weakened, and handed over to a state-sponsored impostor with no grassroots support, no mandate, and no legitimacy. This is not democracy. It is political sabotage of the highest order.
This is not merely about the PF as a party. It is about what it represents within our democratic system. The PF is the second-largest party in Parliament and, in truth, the only real opposition force in the National Assembly. The next party, the Party of National Unity and Progress (PNUP), has just one MP. Dismantling the PF through manipulation, legal games, and state interference effectively silences the only credible voice that can challenge your administration in the legislature. That is not leadership, it is the slow, deliberate death of multiparty democracy.
What is happening is deeply alarming. The PF has not been allowed to function freely. Its internal affairs have been infiltrated and manipulated. State institutions are being used to fracture its structures, block its operations, and install compromised individuals like Robert Chabinga, who serves not the will of PF members, but the political interests of those in power. The courts, the Registrar of Societies, and other agencies are being deployed not to uphold the law, but to bend Zambia’s political future to your personal agenda. This is not governance, it is control by coercion.
What made this even more disturbing was your behavior immediately after your address to Parliament. The nation watched as you smiled and shook hands with Mr. Chabinga, a man recently recorded claiming that you sent him to bribe a judge in South Africa in the case involving the burial of former President Edgar Lungu. This is the same individual who has openly boasted of threatening diplomats, intimidating judges, and harassing citizens, all while claiming to be carrying out your orders. Was that handshake a reward? A green light? Or a public endorsement of his criminality? The Zambian people deserve answers.
Even if you despise the founders of the PF, Michael Chilufya Sata and Edgar Chagwa Lungu, you cannot justify what is being done to the party they built. You may not share their political legacy, but the PF was formed by the will of the people, backed by millions across this nation, and played a defining role in Zambia’s democratic evolution. To destroy that legacy for short-term political gain is to spit in the face of every Zambian who has ever believed in the sanctity of the vote.
Your actions are setting a dangerous and irreversible precedent. You cannot preach democratic values while undermining them behind closed doors. You cannot invoke the rule of law while employing criminal proxies to hijack political institutions. You cannot condemn one-party rule while constructing its modern equivalent under a different name.
Zambia needs a strong and independent opposition. We need real political alternatives. We need institutional checks and balances. Without the PF, the entire opposition landscape collapses. And when the opposition collapses, democracy dies.
Give back PF to the owners. Let the people who built it reclaim their party. Let its members freely and fairly elect their leaders. Let democracy function, even if it is inconvenient to those in power. You were not elected to rule unopposed. You were elected to lead within a democratic system that protects pluralism and guarantees accountability.
History is watching, Mr. President. So are the people of Zambia. If you believe in democracy, it is time to act like it. Give back PF to the owners, before it’s too late.
Respectfully,
Dr. Proud Moonga, PhD
Lecturer, University of Michigan
United States of America
Good Governance Activist
Long article with no substance
It is bigotry for Dr Proud Moonga to avoid dealing with the real causes of PF self created problems.
Indeed you are Lizard. It takes wisdom to see what is in article. I am UPND but don’t believe in things that take us back as a people. Instead of being confident of our work; we keep fearing PF as cowards like we rigged to win. It is a shame
It is unfortunate that Zambians differ over straight forward things. Debate is healthy but some things are straight forward. I have cancelled this Leadership from the Realm of the Spirit. I fasted 18 days until President HH was Sown in but only fails to take us forward but taking us backwards in 80s. Unacceptable. He doesn’t know that divinity took him there but now want to trust his strength. Sadly. Cancelled!!! God cannot be mocked
Diel never bragged about fasting, so did Jesus.
Are we called to change our leaders or pray for our leaders?
Biblical Basis for Praying for Leaders
1 Timothy 2:1-4 highlights the importance of praying for all people, including kings and those in authority, for the purpose of living peaceful, godly, and dignified lives.
Romans 13:1-2 encourages submission to governing authorities, as they are established by God for the good of society, thus creating a basis for prayer and support.
The futility of a dog chasing it’s own tail is what this Dokota Moonga is doing.
Ba Dokota Moonga, have you considered the possibility that PF demise is a self inflicted wound? In the interest of the scientific process, please furnish us with the indisputable evidence that Chawinga is an HH or UPND sponsored agent. In order to effect a cure, good and accurate science identifies a cause. You have skipped this critical step. Chawinga is an intelligent man and can make up his own mind about what is truth. Chawinga supporting certain UPND policies does not automatically make him a UPND sponsored agent. Only cadres and idiots reason like this. PF failed to hold a convention. Even after collecting k200,000 from party presidential aspiratants. How you calculated that to be the fault of UPND is one fantastic leap of reason. PF have a culture of stealing (come to Zambia and visit Mr “Bonanza” in Chimbokaila prison) who withdrew eleven million United States dollars cash from Zambia’s treasury from a bank in Turkey, boarded and flew back to Zambia in no less than the presidential jet to avoid security checks at airports. PF has been destroyed by GREED and LAWLESSNESS.
So if you feel strongly enough about your wild speculation about HH and UPND, feel free to visit Chimbokaila prison. There you will find the reason why PF where it is today.
If I had that name, I would change it.
MOONGA, history will remember you as a true patriot. You have put your country first and stood for fairness. Democracy needs a strong opposition to flourish. When there is only one party Democracy, like in Zambia, there is corruption, selective justice, and gross incompetence. It will not end well for all those that have shrunk our Democracy.
REJECT TRIBALISM, CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
The problem is not interference by HH in PF affairs but rather the inherent leadership weaknesses of the PF. They lost the election in 2021 and since then have failed to organise a convention acceptable to all party members and elect a credible leadership. Essentially, the party was immobilised by their fear of “aba kasaka ka ndalama”, Mr. Lungu, the man who led PF to a humiliating election loss.
The general elections are less than a year and PF is still grappling with basic leadership issues. Blaming HH for the chaos in PF will not move the party forward. Mr. Nakachinda acted as undertaker when he buried MMD with the backing of PF. He was later rewarded with a ministerial post in Mr. Lungu’s cabinet. If PF is not careful, he will once again act as undertaker and bury PF.
PF need to urgently organise a convention even if it means shortcircuiting Chabinga by registering a new party. They need to be innovative and not just cry foul.
@ JMC
You are pretending not to see.
Hakainde won’t register another platform for the Patriotic Front members.
His government refused to Register UKA. Do you think he will accept to register another Party by the Core of Patriotic Front members.
His Courts have been ‘ caressing ‘ Patriotic Front cases from 2023. The Courts can’t even rule on a Consent Judgement.
You will see what he will do when Authentic Patriotic Front members attempt to Hold a Convention.
The man is beyond redemption..
We have eyes and we can see how Hakainde is obliterating the main Opposition Political Party, the Patriotic Front. He is a Problem to our Multi Party Democracy, to our Legislature and Judiciary.
Executive Misrule is beyond description.
Hakainde can’t fool anyone, except the Tribal Zealots in his Party, who think like him.. Always supporting nonsense.
The man has a phobia for Competition..
He wants to compete against himself.. When Harry Kalaba’s Democratic Party was gaining ground, he started his useless Mingalatos to destroy it. Harry Kalaba had to abandon the party to form the Citizens First.
He is daily locking up Opposition Political Party Leaders, for fake Offenses…Hate Speech, Sedition, Tribal Wars, Unlawful Assembly, and anything his Stooges can think of. From 2022 , the man has been detaining and imprisoning People at a rate Never before seen in Zambia.
Meanwhile he is stealthily wanting to change the Constitution, for a Hegemony which we all can see, except for his Tribal Zealots.
For me I have given up on this man. He is beyond redemption, and a danger to our Multi Party Democracy. I can’t even waste my time to listen to the noise he churns out daily, be it in Parliament or wherever, when he doesn’t mean a word he says.
He will talk about CDF , Cash for work programs, Imita Ufole, and Meal allowances for University Students. Am not interested in this nonsense.
It’s Strong Institutions of governance which create these. If you weaken Institutions of governance, create a dictatorship, with the Arms of Government in One’ s Pocket, without Checks and Balances, Turning Zambia into a large Choir of Praise singers or Zombies, what ever you do will collapse in a blink of an eye. It’s like building a house on sand.
I have closed my ears to what Hakainde says,
On 13th August,2026
On my Ballot
Will be
Hakainde’s Executive Misrule
Nellie Mutti ‘s Parliament
Mumba Malila’s Judiciary
Institutions of governance
Which have been turned into
An Axis of ….
The Axis will fall on 13th August,2026
Whether with CDF, Imita Ufole, Cash for work, or Meal allowances for University Students
The Axis is falling
Hakainde’s Zambia is not what I ascribe to.
It should go at Next year ‘s Presidential and General Elections.Period.
Thank you.
This guy thinks when he puts PHD after his name that make wise and he starts off with writing a very long useless artle. What dead boss, Sampa and the rest of PF where sleeping when ELC was busy killing PF. He’s busy writing he doesn’t even know that his dear boss didn’t trust any among others within PF and was busy trying to recruit a leader to replace him.It now looks like PF constitution died. To ELC he took it PF was his personal project until Miles took it away before losing it to Chabinga.
Some so called Doctors say and do things without reasoning. How can he ask the leader of UPND, to go and settle issues in the opposition political party? That’s buffoonic type of thinking. Why can’t he question Sampa over the issue? Even frgs know that Sampa used the PF constitution and his political right to organize the over delayed convention which ushered him as PF party president. Other members tried and tried to challenge his presidency but failed, for he maintained that the convention was in line with the PF party constitution. Unfortunately, Sampa, being Childish and carelessly proud, he started conducting himself away from the party membership expectations, and as a result he was expelled from the party. And since the convention was legitimate, the central committee and executive still remains legitimate and legally recognized PF party.
In all the above HH was never involved. Ask Sampa himself, he will tell you the truth.
This fake doctor is infact attempting to abuse the office of the republican president. As doctor he should be researching to find out the causes of confusions in PF, analyse them and then look at the solutions. Bwana doctor, haven’t you recently heard that;
1. KBF had claimed to have been chosen anointed for PF and Tonse alliance presidency by ECL?
2. Shishuwa shishuwa had claimed that he was a secret loved disciple of ECL, and that was confidentially anointed and set apart as a chosen one to take over the PF presidency?
3. John sangwa, mudolo and ngambo, were the only ones that impressed ECL, to organize and lead the PF. And that no any other member in the central committee was considered or regarded worthy. Bonse abashala ati ECL alebamona fye bungwele.
So doctor, use the knowledge that you acquired from school, colleges and universities properly, before even birds put in the set and matrix of unschooled Buffoons
In fact PF is lucky we hv HH as president. If the Chabinga way is how he is going to disturbilize Pf so that the mafia party does not ever return to power, then PF must actually thank him, bcos if not for HH, we the members of UPND together with all other well meaning Zambians wanted PF dead like yesterday, dead and burried. Including many of its top leaders. You see, we cannot have a political party in the country which when it gets into power rules the country with violence, arrogance, Impunity, lawlessness, disrespect for citizens life and rights, steals national resources, plunders the nation ‘s economic base. The existence of such a party in opposition causes anxiety among us citizens in case one day it bounces back in power. We are supposed to be 100% feeling free with the good UPND in power but bcos of PF in opposition how can we? It means some day we risk going back to the merciless rule of the mafias. So if our wishes to hv pf banned as a political party after 2021 elections, at least it is good that HH is containing PF using Chabinga. They should never ever be allowed to bounce back, never. Oontaining PF will never mean destroying democracy in Zambia. Democracy cannot be championed using mafia style parties like PF. Let HH continue his Chabinga style, and kill PF. This will allow the growth of well meaning political parties in the space presently wrongly occupied by this enemy of the people, PF
It reminds me of King Cobra : ABASAMBILILA EFIPUBABA FINENE .CAN WE ALLOW GRADE 12,s TO STAND FOR PARLIAMENTARY SEATS. EDUCATION TITLES ARE DOING NOTHING FOR MOTHER ZAMBIA
But PF is the very definition of confusion. I wonder what a confused dokta can teach in Michigan. Sata said you kaponyas can rule the country, so the Ponya Front was formed, and even the ascendancy of kaponya Lungu was through confusion.