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Socialist Party (SP) leader, Dr. Fred M’membe, has described President Hakainde Hichilema’s four years in office as a period marked by “rhetoric, lies, and arrests,” claiming the administration has failed to bring meaningful change to key economic sectors.
Speaking at the Socialist Party Secretariat in Lusaka on Thursday, M’membe alleged that instead of driving transformative progress, the UPND government had prioritised intimidation and abuse of state institutions.
He further claimed that Zambia had regressed in governance and democracy under Hichilema’s leadership.
“Truth be told, the four years of Mr. Hichilema and the UPND in government have been about empty rhetoric, lies, threats, and arrests of anyone exposing their embezzlement, fraud, corruption, tribalism, and many other failures,” M’membe stated.
He reiterated that the only significant changes the UPND administration could point to were intimidation, arrests, alleged abuse of the court system and Parliament, and a shrinking democratic space.
M’membe also criticized the management of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), calling it a scandal and citing the Auditor General’s report, which he claimed had exposed fraud and corruption in its administration.
He urged Zambians to support the Socialist Party’s mission to rebuild the country in a “meaningful and qualitative way,” promising a government that prioritizes citizens’ welfare.
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