We Voted for Solutions, But They Chose Power
By Dr Mwelwa
We stood in long queues under the scorching sun in 2021, not because we were naive, but because we believed. We believed in a new dawn. We believed that the nightmare of joblessness, hunger, corruption, and tribal division would be replaced with unity, food on the table, dignity in hospitals, and hope in classrooms. But what we received instead was a cold betrayal.
Instead of solving our problems, they went to work on themselves. Instead of fixing the economy, they began fixing the system to entrench their stay in power. While we cried for medicine, they drafted Bill 7. While we asked for mealie meal, they spent sleepless nights polishing Bill 13. While we mourned the death of a former president, they saw an opportunity for manipulation and political control. They have written more laws to control us than policies to empower us.
Every month comes with a new scheme. A new plot. A new press briefing filled with justifications and diversions. Yet the price of fuel goes up. The cost of food skyrockets. Load shedding lengthens. Students still sit on classroom floors. Youths roam the streets with degrees in their pockets and no jobs in sight. The poor are dying in clinics without medicine, while those in power are busy calculating their next move.
They do not talk about your pain. They don’t gather to discuss the hunger in Chingola, the drought in Gwembe, or the mines poisoning our rivers in Luanshya. No. They gather to strategize how to clip the wings of democracy. They gather to plan how to disqualify opponents, how to paralyze Parliament, how to rewrite the Constitution in their own image. Every law they propose, every move they make, smells of fear—fear of the people they swore to serve.
What we see is not leadership—it is obsession with control. What we hear is not progress—it is propaganda dressed in legal jargon. What we feel is not governance—it is manipulation, suppression, and abandonment.
But here is what they forget: the people are watching. The same people who believed once can rise again. Because even patience, when tested too long, becomes resistance. We may not have microphones or armored convoys. But we have voices. We have votes. And we have the memory of what we were promised.
We voted for solutions. They gave us schemes.
We asked for freedom. They brought more chains.
We cried for dignity. They responded with deception.
One day, all the bills they pass will return to their doorsteps like an unpaid debt. Because you can manipulate systems, but you cannot silence a hungry people forever. Zambia is not their personal property. It belongs to the citizens. And the citizens are waking up.
Please stop lying here you never even voted for HH despite he won with a wider margin which may even be doubled next year.People who appreciate what HH has achieved is not you and you have never been Kawalala full of hatred. Keep lamenting. They will vote for him massively
What a mind job !! Zombie responses in unison as per: Hamusonda(e),Clayford Moyo,James,Citizen (of Zambezi) and more! Snap out of it. You have been had !!!!
Panyo Pako embecile!A tribalist like you good at disseminating tribal hatred and prejudices can never change.You really think everyone who voted for HH is Tonga?Asshole go back to school.I blame your parents and the education system you have in Zambia
Ba Dr Mwelwa, are you really a doctor ? You are surprising us dear. A doctor should not think like a primitive person. Are you sure you can’t see numerous developments in Zambia. The KWENYUS are too many to itemize. Please open your eyes and see what this government has done. The majority are seeing and appreciate the many good things HH and UPND have done. The confused minority you included have chosen not to see all these developments. It’s up to you most Zambians are moving forward while you are complaining unreasonably.
He was a PF consultant until the point when Lungu decided to come back. That’s when he run hard to SP. These fools they think everyone is as thick as they are in their heads. That’s why they kept Saying ECL even after he had been disqualified. He can’t tell us why his wife is appearing in court.
You didn’t even vote for anyone in UPND, be honest to yourself and the people.
The UPND project is about Power…to get the power , and to keep it in eternity.
A warped reasoning birthed from Harry Nkumbula’s rejection…for being a Colonialism Apologist. A sell out who made a deal with colonialists , but progressive revolutionaries saw through this and Kenneth Kaunda, Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe , Mainza Chona ditched him, and through ZANC and UNIP , Zambia was born in 1964. He retreated to his Tribal haven , and immediate post independence saw unimaginable Violence, which led to the One Party System in 1973..a ban on Multi Party politics which was tearing the country apart.
And here we are, the pre – independence Agenda is being resurrected.. Power, and power in perpetuity..
The same Politics we have seen from 2006, as existed in immediate post independence Zambia.
All the Bills being crafted are about Power.. how to keep power forever .
Such Primitive approach to Politics is not for this Age. We are a Democracy, and have evolved, and should live as a democracy.
It’s gratifying to see people like Dr Mwelwa bringing to the fore what the UPND is all about..It’s an agenda about power, and the Zealots are pushing the agenda everywhere.. methodically moving in all institutions.
We have eyes and can see…but they won’t win.
The Penal code Amendment bill 2024, to strengthen the law of expressing hatred, ridicule or contempt…seen through and rejected.
Non Governmental Organization Bill 2025 , seen through and rejected
Media Journalism Bill , seen through, and rejected
Bill 7 Constitutional Amendment bill, seen through, and rejected
Bill 13 , Land administration Bill ( to take over the country) , seen through and rejected.
The UPND project, and the Agenda is known..It won’t Succeed. All Schemes, Imingalato, to destroy our Zambia will be rejected.
And woe to those who follow blindly. Open your eyes!
The damage that the PF regime inflicted on the nation will take two generations to correct, that is, if we maintain regimes which care about the long term wellbeing of our country. If we elect another populist, kleptomaniac leader like PF, it will be one step forward and five steps backwards (dununa reverse).
Instead of lamentations, the learned Dr. Mwelwa should be offering solutions rather than a daily dose of woes. It is very easy to destroy (like PF did), but it will take discipline and perseverance (and time) to build what PF destroyed.
Not even Dr. Mwelwa’s choice of ruling party can undo in ten years, the damage that PF rule did. Having said that, I am glad that Bill 13 was rejected by Parliament.
@JMC
We had 27 years of Unip , from 1964 – 1991
We had the MMD for 20 years from 1991 to 2011
We had the Patriotic Front for only 10 years…and for Edgar Lungu, just about 6 years. Don’t give me that crap.
What did the PF destroy?
Ba Zambiano, PF destroyed the country in every facet of human endeavour. Socially, economically, morally spiritually, you name it. They killed the work ethic with their cadreism and tantameni handouts, insults became a currency (Why me is a living example), they looted the national treasury through inflated contracts (fire tenders costing USD 1million each which were later insured for a ridiculous USD25,000), they even managed to currupt the Catholic church (a priest in Kitwe was gifted a Mercedes Benz by a PF MP who is currently appearing in court for unexplained wealth. Another priest suggeted rigging the 2021 elections to maintain PF rule). The Catholic church is now a shell of its former moral self.
Under PF, the opposition were not allowed to campaign while the PF were in full campaign mode under the guise of inspecting development projects. The then assistant IG (?) Boney Kapeso was always threatening to break the bones of any who would dare protest against the PF government. So many lives were prematurely extinguished under the PF (Grazier Matapa, Chibulo, Joseph Kaunda, Lawrence Banda, young student Mugala, Vesper). There was the gassing which claimed over 50 innocent lives and we are still to get to the bottom of this saga.
The PF destruction was unprecedented. Not seen under UNIP or MMD and hopefully, NEVER to be seen again.
Need I say more?
We know that your people who once ruled us at one time defaulted in paying back the money they borrowed which even attracted penalties? This money ended up in their pockets.We are servicing a huge debt that that was gotten in the pretext of improving the facilities around the country eg Zambia Railways.Ask Chirwa about this ,120 million gone
PF destroyed everything, including some lives
UPND has outdone PF umpteen times over!!!
Ba Observer, back your assertion with examples like I have done.