UPND AWAITS POLITICAL TSUNAMI, TONSE ALLIANCE IS THE WAY TO GO – MSONI
By Fox Correspondent
THE Tonse Grand Alliance is the only promising alternative for Zambians as opposed to the deceitful UPND government which had promised many things but has ended up delivering nothing but poverty, injustices and lies ahead of the 2026 general elections, All Peoples Congress (APC) party president Nason Msoni has charged.
Msoni whose party was part of the UPND Alliance, campaigned and supported President Hakainde Hichilema in the 2021 elections, now wonders how the UPND would win elections next year when poverty levels have trippled compared to the way they found it under the previous administration.
He says there was no way President Hichilema would win when people were sleeping on an empty stomach, where hospitals have no medicines, and police have increased its brutality on citizens.
He says the sustained culture of impunity and extrajudicial killings going unabated is also worrying, while President Hichilema’s government is quiet about it.
Msoni noted that the UPND administration under President Hichilema is facing a serious political tsunami, which is unavoidable at the moment, looking at how broken the economy is.
“Surely UPND and President Hichilema are gone and gone out of the political spectrum. They have impoverished our people. They have suffocated our people. Even dogs now can’t bark because of hunger,” he said.
He wondered how President Hichilema would face Zambians to talk about his successes when the cost of mealie meal, which he found at K120, is now costing at K460 and in some places at K510.
Msoni said Zambians have been introduced to the life of a prisoner, whose eating habits were now regulated.
“In UPND, people can’t eat the way they want. People can’t buy mealie meal the way they want, it’s either they don’t have money or there is no mealie meal. If they are lucky to find some, then it’s expensive. Even the ZNS mealie meal is not available. That is why you have people waking up as early as 03 to queue for the commodity,” he said.
Msoni believes that the Tonse Alliance will do things differently to address critical issues of poverty, unemployment, dwindling health service delivery, comprehensive agricultural service delivery, and pursue a genuine fight against corruption without political undertones.
“One thing this arrogant UPND administration has forgotten is that the biggest opposition it is facing now is not politicians in the Tonse Alliance as individuals but the people of Zambia whom they have subjected to hunger, high cost of doing business, killed investment opportunities and a poor or dead health system. It is the poor people whom they have decided to punish through expensive farming inputs, it’s our rural population whose expectations have been buried. Tonse is now a vehicle Zambians have chosen to use for redemption from the 2021 mistake,” he said.
Hichilema has certainly lost it by demanding and insisting that he should only be addressed as Mr President and nothing else. He is more preoccupied with personal aggrandisement and massaging his own personal ego but at the expense of the suffering majority citizens. What a tragic betrayal to the people of Zambia. He is a mistake we must correct at the 2026 general elections.
The winds of change have arrived. Next year, we will have a new government.
Abash witchcraft and sangoma bodyguards.
Abash tribalism, corruption and oppression.
Vote like they do in Southern province.
Vote wisely in 2026.
There is no Tsunami coming, the man should stop hallucinating. There is no country in the world which maintains prices of commodities at the same level for 10, 15 years, bufi ubo. You are always complaining and yet your friends are crying. Go to Zimbabwe, Malawi or DRC and see if you will find things any better there, our friends are three four times worse than us. Why do you think people flock to Kasumbalesa to sell their commodities? Zambians smuggle commodities out of Zambia but there is no commodity that is being smuggled in, this shows that despite the complaints, prices of mealie meal are far much better here than in our neighboring counties. So tell Msoni that sitifuna musokonedzo, we are better off with HH and UPND than with visionless PF/Tonse, 2026, ni forward chabe.
I agree with you ba Citizen. Why can’t Msoni go and live in DR Congo where “presumably” cost of living is cheap ? Don’t intertaine these clueless, arm chair critics good for nothing idiots who condemn everything, everyday without providing solutions. A one- man party ati we are opposition party???? Shame. Try farming its good ka?
This is all our so called opposition can offer.
Malice and bitterness.
No solutions to people’s challenges.
Just give us patial withdraw again we will vote for HH
There’s nothing like TSUNAMI in Zambia. Infact TSUNAMI is very dangerous because it kills. It killed alot of people in some of the countries in ASIA. So no need of TSUNAMI.
For the issue of unfulfilled promises as you have indicated, for me as a citizen and voter I tell you what I have seen in the promised promises which have been fulfilled, unfulfilled and those in progress ( work in progress – the immediate , .middle and long term.)
1. UPND promised free education. It has been fulfilled. Free education is here and schools are full to capacity.
2. Restoration of mealallowances in Public Universities. The meal allowances that was removed by PF uncle Nkandu Lou is back and this time not only to UNZA and CBU students but almost all Public Universities. Promise fulfilled.
3. Increased CDF from PF K1.6 million to more than K30.6 million and being given to all constituencies without segregation. Promise fulfilled. Infact it is not only the increment in the CDF but most classroom blocks, health facilities, desks in schools, sponsored children to boarding schools and also to various skills trainings centres,
4. Restoration of the rule of law. No more KAMUGODI TSUNAMI where citizens were brutally murdered and illtreated. Promise fulfilled.
5. Removing cadres from markerts and bus stops where they used to collect the revenues. Cadres in PF used to collect funds from traders, travwllers and bus owners instead of the council’s. Council workers used to go for months without salaries because one of their source of income was benefiting PF cadres and their senior members without legal mandate but with impunity. Now councils country wide are collecting revenues from the markerts and bus stops thereby improving their service delivery and also their financial base. Promise fulfilled.
6. Debt restructuring which the PF who brought it failed to negotiate after defaulting but UPND has managed to clinch a deal with a number of our creditors. Promise fulfilled.
7. Employment creation. Almost all the ministries have been employing and numbers are there to prove. Promise fulfilled.
And many more.
Not fulfilled promises.
1. Cost of living. Yes the coat of living keeps going up but with the interventions they have put in place I see the situation improving as we go by. The issue of drought, fuel and loadshading. Alresdy there quite a number of projects answering to these problems. Some are short and others long term.
2. The exchange rate is not coming down this is another issue that is compounding even these other issues mentioned above.
Otherwise UOND is doing extremely well and our future is bright under them. No need of TSUNAMI. Tsunami is dangerous and destructive.