At last, an objective UPND supporter!
I REMEMBER meeting President Anderson Mazoka in 1999 and that’s when my interest in politics and UPND in particular started.
Having watched the likes of Dean Mung’omba and Baldwin Nkumbula practice genuine politics aimed at creating a corruption-free society, Mr Mazoka appeared to me as that alternative for this country.
Despite the passing away of Mr Mazoka, I still remained faithful to UPND because I believed we were going to bring a breath of fresh air the country needed in its economic development agenda.
After waiting for more that 20 years, we are in government. I think the long wait was sanctioned by God for us to change our ways and learn from the mistakes of our friends but alas we are becoming worse than our friends.
In the case of Kwacha and Kabushi, we now look very childish, vindictive and desperate. What is this nonsense of appeal after appeal in the courts to stop elections? We are the party in government and we are scared to face Lusambo and Malanji?
Did we win genuinely in 2021 for us to be scared of Malanji and Bowman? We can’t continue using the Attorney General in political cases when there is a backlog of cases the judiciary should be attending to.
We are now under five juvenile politicians because we have transported our opposition politics into government! The people are interested in development and not cheap politics.
On the rule of law, we are becoming a laughing stock. Even lawyers like Sangwa and the Catholics that backed us are pulling out. The next to pull out will be the Europeans and Americans because we have started embarrassing them.
The other day, we arrested Sean Tembo, it appeared on
BBC, next it’s DPP security withdrawal and her running away from home and it was reported by BBC, next it’s Dr Sampa and his crew arrested for peacefully matching. What message are we sending out?
Our loss in Luangwa is just a sign that people are getting upset with us! Never say that former ruling parties cannot bounce back because the way we have done our politics in the first one year, no one wants to join us.
How is it possible that when people defect they are defecting to the Socialist Party and not to UPND?
A lot of independent people voted for us and if they are not feeling part of us then just know that they are with M’membe, KBF or back to PF. We need self-introspection
The IMF deal we have signed will come to haunt us. Kabushi has shown that even with teacher and health personnel recruitment people are more interested in their own living conditions than speeches!
Even during PF’s lowest point, I never saw anyone reject a chitenge material from Bo Inonge Wina! The reception we received in Kabushi and even Kwacha is a sign that if we don’t change, we should start packing. Zambians are no longer interested in waiting for tomorrow. They want things done today.
Let’s not even dare to implement some of the IMF conditions like selling off Zesco, the mines, harassing of trading companies for tax and increasing fuel and electricity tariffs.
In your opinion who is better to them? HH or ECL after they are denied fertiliser? By the way when are we buying the same fertiliser because “corrupt” Lungu would have been distributing fertiliser by now!
My fellow UPND members let’s pull up our socks.