FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: 13th May 2025
ZAWAPA CONDEMNS VICE PRESIDENT NALUMANGO’S REMARKS AS AN ADMISSION OF FAILURE — CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION
NDOLA, Zambia – The Zawapa – Zambia wake-up Party is deeply disturbed and outraged by the recent statement made by Her Honour the Vice President, Mrs. Mutale Nalumango, in which she declared that Zambians will remain poor even after the UPND government is removed from office.
As Secretary General of ZAWAPA, I, Reverend Gabriel Muyembe, wish to make it unequivocally clear that such a statement is not only a betrayal of the public trust—it is a direct admission of failure by the UPND administration. If the Vice President and her government have lost faith in their ability to uplift the Zambian people, then they no longer have any moral or political right to remain in power.
This defeatist and careless remark is evidence that the current leadership has completely run out of ideas, out of empathy, and out of touch with the reality of ordinary citizens. How can a sitting Vice President look the Zambian people in the eye and declare that their suffering is permanent—even under a new government? That is not leadership; it is surrender.
This statement is not just shocking—it is unacceptable.
We, therefore, demand the immediate resignation of Vice President Mutale Nalumango and the entire UPND leadership. Zambians deserve leaders who believe in their potential, who work tirelessly to change their circumstances, and who understand that poverty is not a prophecy—it is a problem that must be solved with urgency and resolve.
Leadership is about accountability and responsibility. When you admit that you have failed, the honourable thing to do is step aside and allow those with vision, energy, and compassion to lead.
ZAWAPA is ready to offer that leadership. We believe in the people of Zambia. We believe that poverty can and must be defeated. And we believe that real change is not only possible—it is necessary.
The time has come for the UPND government to go.
Ends.
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If you check the calibre of the people Hon Nalumango was addressing you will conclude that they are not the type of people who would take Nalumango’s lamentations as what you purport it to be.Nalumango was being poetic,even philosophical in her lamentations for a society that has failed to pull together to find solutions to our common dilemma of poverty.Our poverty Knows no political party and is no respecter of any one of us
It is only when her lamentations reached the least educated among us that it was regarded as an outrageous comment.Can you demand a resignation after one’s prayer for his/ her country,surely!!?
The Vice President was misquoted by those whose intentions is to mislead people on the message she was delivering.She simply advised that removing a government may not solve the problem of poverty in Africa.But what may matter is to strengthen policy frameworks on poverty alleviation.She talked about her interest to hear about solutions and not resolutions in tackling poverty alleviation.Some politicians especially from the opposition fail to tell on how they may improve the poverty issues but they instead talk about change of government.She asked experts to advise on the strengthening of policy mechanisms to formulate poverty alleviation strategies.She did not really mean her government doesn’t have solutions.The government of Zambia has so far put up a lot of efforts to improve the quality of life for the vulnerable people in the country