People’s will irrelevant to HH, says M’membe
By Tony Nkhoma
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema and the United Party for National Development (UPND) consider the will of the people as irrelevant, Socialist Party (SP) 2026 presidential candidate Dr Fred M’membe has said.
Dr M’membe said it was evident that Hichilema and his administration behaved as if the will of the people was irrelevant and as if governance was a game of force rather than consent.
“Take, for instance, the rejected bills. Parliamentarians who are the people’s representatives have thrown these bills out, yet Mr Hichilema and the UPND administration decide to send the same bills back for what they’re calling consultation,” he said.
In a statement seen by The Mast, Dr M’membe questioned the kind of logic Hichilema and the UPND were using and who they were trying to consult.
“If the elected representatives of the people have already rejected the bills, what is there to consult on? Who exactly are they consulting, and why waste taxpayers’ money chasing dead proposals?” he said.
Dr M’membe said Hichilema and the UPND were proving to be a leadership disaster.
He said Hichilema and the UPND were pretending to have a master plan for the country when all they offered was empty talk and deception.
“They are directionless, clueless and shockingly arrogant. Day in day out, they are only delivering political and economic blunders of catastrophic proportions, yet they boast around with misplaced confidence,” Dr M’membe said.
He said the UPND was always wanting to have its way even when it was absolutely clear that there was no way to do anything sensible or meaningful.
“Why is the UPND so arrogant, so incompetent and so obsessed with forcing its unwanted agenda on citizens? What type of governance is this? What type of leaders are these?” Dr M’membe wondered.
He said Zambia deserved leaders who listened, not rulers or tin-pot dictators who bulldozed their way through failure.
Dr M’membe said people were tired of the UPND thoughtless system and arrogance of leadership that was destroying the country.
