19/11/2025
Trending on WhatsApp : WHAT MAKES UPND AND PF DIFFERENT
3 days ago I was on a car from Lusaka to Chipata.
One of the passengers was on Facebook: this was the same time president HH was stoned in Chingola. Playing the live video on his phone, the driver responded to the video. "Where was the UPND leadership in Chingola for the president to be stoned? Where was the party's security team before we talk about the police and all? The UPND youths? If UPND had supporters in Chingola, they were going to be the first ones to be stoned. This stoning of the president in Chingola, clearly shows the absence of UPND in Chingola. Let's just say Copper Belt.
You know what, UPND has failed to take care of it's supporters. The people who supported UPND are still suffering: some footing on an empty stomach, after the four years plus of the UPND in power. UPND supporters have been very loyal, yet the UPND leadership is doing nothing. Despite all that, these people are still hopeful. Once these people loses hope in the UPND leadership, there will be a serious protest vote come 2026. Because reading time, the opposition might not even campaign: the ruling party might decampaign itself."
"Actually, the voter registration exercise can't and won't be extended. Do you know why the voter registration period is short? This is what you won't like to hear. No new registered voter can vote for UPND. When things are okay, people have no time to register as voters. Whenever you see an increase in the number of newly registered voters, just know that people wants to vote for change." The driver further added.
This man went on and compared the two political parties.
"When PF was in power, it gave some contracts and jobs to it's members they fought with to win those elections. That's how politics should be. Charity begins at home. You can tell a failing government when you look at it's supporters. PF had empowered their people, so that they don't knock on doors, begging; moving from one office to another. UPND used and worked with the poor to win power but later went to eat with their rich friends after winning.
In fact, even a chairperson of a smallest market in PF had an influence to have their children and children of fellow marketeers get employed in Government or otherwise. Not in UPND, it is a government that takes care of the fellow rich people. Today in the UPND, a ward chairperson, Provincial chairperson, even a Provincial Minister etc. doesn't have any power/influence to help their supporters/supporter's children to get jobs or contracts. What kind of government is this one?
Truly, PF was a street party. But, the poor citizens were it's first priority. What PF failed to control was the unruly behavior of it's cadres. But, they cared for each other and protected each other from public shame. Money reached the ground too.
But for UPND, look at what happened recently, Matomola; one of the youthful supporters of UPND went to one of the offices and came back embarrassed and fired from the party as Lusaka IPS. That could not happen in PF. The bad part of reducing your own member to a fool in the public eye is same as un******ng yourself in public. The worst part is to fail to provide help to your people like Matomola as a party, in the name of fighting cadres yet it was the same people that made sure that your victory was secured.
Politicians shouldn't behave like civil servants. A lot of people take risks for these people to be in office. Otherwise, UPND behaves like a mayadi kind of a political party. You know, the mayadi people will always think that the Komboni people are lazy and not serious with life, yet they keep opportunities and connections to themselves and priotize hardworking to the Komboni people. Actually , the two don't eat together. That's why the money in the UPND government can't reach ku Komboni. The Komboni people are not empowered. Talk about the black mountain on the copperbelt, who is currently there? Imagine Jito, telling people what the government is doing😀, imagine Jito as special assistant and advisor to the president for finance and investment-what can he tell HH apart from speaking good English? I can't say much, but: HH is surrounded by a lot of young people who cannot advise or correct him." The driver turned the steering wheel and made a stop over. I needed to get some beer after hearing all that!
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