Tuesday, May 13, 2025

State has fallen short of people’s expectations -Dr. Machungwa

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Dr Peter Machungwa addresses MMD members and officials when he was introduced as the adopted party parliamentary candidate for Kabwata constituency in Chilenje township in Lusaka6
Dr Peter Machungwa

Former Luapula Member of Parliament Peter Machungwa has charged that the Patriotic Front government has fallen short of people’s expectations.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Qfm news, Dr. Machungwa said it will be difficult for Zambians to have faith in a government that has drifted away from its campaign promises.

Dr. Machungwa’s statement comes in a wake of an appeal by republican vice president Guy Scott on Zambians to have faith in the PF administration stating that it is on course to implement its campaign promises.

The former Luapula Parliamentarian has described the Vice President’s appeal as unnecessary stating that government needs to get to work as opposed to offering lip service to Zambians.

Dr. Machungwa has singled out high unemployment levels as one area that needs urgent attention and further urges the government to accelerate the implementation of their employment strategies.

[QFM]

57 COMMENTS

  1. Ba machungwa ikalenifye naimwe.what advise can people hear from you?you were one of the MP’s who were chased by ba Sata.What can you tell us.

  2. Vi ndevu. What good can come out of Machungwa’s short-term thinking? One of the worst cabinet ministers in our country’s history wants to give a lecture on governance? And what’s with the lady on the right? She looks like a bulldog that’s chewing a live wasp…

  3. Nonsense… And what did you rubbish Machungwa do to drive growth, developement and employment in all your years in MMD governemnt ? Nil, Zero, Zilch, Nada.. You have done nothing in you own province you ungrateful prick.. Did PF create the unemployment levels and problems zmabia is facing? it was you and your MMD clowns that did it.

  4. Which “people”. Which Zambians do you represent? Please the people we have appointed to speak for us are in Gorvernment not you Machungwa.

  5. PF CHIMBWI NO PLAN IS LOSING IN CHAMA NORTH, LOSING IN SERENJE AND CAN’T NEVER WIN LIVINGSTONE.

    UKWA CNP IS IN A SPIRAL DOWN FALL COUNTRYWIDE!

    WE R ONLY BUSY PRAYING FOR ZAMBIA’S DELIVERANCE FROM UKWA. IF ONLY GOD CAN TAKE HIM HOME BEFORE 2013. THEN WE CAN BOOT THESE PA FWAKAS OUT QUICKLY BEFORE THINGS COME TO THE WORSTEST! AS THEY R ALREADY WORSE NOW!

    • Your hatred and frustration is so obvious. Your manner of expression makes you one of those who can never be taken seriously, like HH. Wishing death on someone makes YOU the devil.

  6. ba bitter lemon kabeyeni imyefu sha sapa sana .does it mean you don’t ba image builder ba mayo to advice you.maybe bali butuka after been beaten by lubinda.bakalamba kwena balimunyakula, lubinda
    30,000 votes imwe 1oo1 votes.by the way were is sinyangwe,chisha,brent ernest ,…………..mwalitalala bonse .

  7. ba machunga nomwanakashi mwiminine nao ku left amidabwa ati mukanwa mulefuma ifyabola. mulenka. she said ( awe ba machungwa mulenunka ukanwa mwe)

  8. I don’t agree with Dr. Machungwa for the following reasons:
    1. The uneployement rate left by the MMD GRZ was higher than what it is under PF GRZ because, effectively PF has created employment through the creation of Muchinga province and new districts.
    2. I am not aware of any massive retrenchments which could have resulted in  increased unemployment. 
    3. I know that the new mines in Luanshya and up the North-western province have been hiring workers.
    4. Soon, we will have a lot of employment when the new Lusaka water reticulation system project takes off, not to mention work on the Great North road and other roads in Western province. Dr, Machungwa should just keep his cool and see Zambia begin to develop.

  9. Freedom of expression in Zambia is treasurable. Let people enjoy their freedom of speech. Dr Machungwa has a right to speak, just as Dr Guy Scot has the same right to speak. Let us not insult them, but listen and reason with them.

  10. sadly, he is still correct despite what ever he did in the past!!! its been less than a year, things havent remained constant like when he entered government, things have changed…unfortunately not for the better but for the worse. sooo CNP all the way!!!

  11. What can you expect from this man, he was expelled from PF for attending that failed NCC. He is a very bitter man he can even kill…….

  12. @4. Digga, it seems you have a memory of a housefly. If machungwa and his mmd created the unemployment problem, I expect you to say the same about Sata, Scott, sakeni, Luo, gbm, chikwanda etc. All these trash was in power between 1991 and 2001. Machungwa was also a pf mp till the last elections. Tell us something we don’t know and not this rubbish. Sata has been all the three parties that have ruled Zambia. He is part of the problem and not the solution.

  13. Machungwa, what did you leave behind? But you also left high unemployment! You only managed to build a mansion in Lusaka when you were Home Affairs Minister. Hold on, people still have the mental set of the previous government. One year is not enough to undo what you did. Corruption in our heads, thats the seeds you put in Zambian heads.

  14. What is the implemention strategy you academics!!!!…..we seem to be going out of our thinking…..PF is yet to clock one year in office….Dr…..mwalubana….Zambia education yama paper displays non thinker….alas you were in Parliament what happened then!!!….SHUT UP

  15. What is the implemention strategy you academics!!!!…..we seem to be going out of our thinking…..PF is yet to clock one year in office….Dr…..mwalubana….Zambia education yama paper displays non thinkers….alas you were in Parliament what happened then!!!….SHUT UP

  16. @20. Floyd. Indeed previous gov’t of president chiluba, party secretary general and minister without portfolio Sata, home affairs minister machungwa, his deputy sakeni, finance minister katele kalumba, health minister icasa nkandu luo! How things change but continue to be the same!

  17. Everyone knows there is unemployment in the land. Can you PHD holders provide answers instead of justing stating that which even PF itself knows. They inherited it and they are working to see a reverse of this situation. If you have no solutions, then let those implementing their ideas do so without your valueless comments.
    Don’t fool people, you were there, what did you do.

  18. Ba rebel MP epo bwaba? Mwamona ukushitekanya you are now languishing.You overated your popularity and that is why all of you tumbled terribly.

  19. Alimicita ububi RB…….ba Machungwa ainiii?? Amicita welcome mu MMD elo ukwisa miposa kuma constituency kulya yakosa ukwakweba ati nangu bawiso nindoshi teti uwineeeeee…….Kabwata,Lusaka central,Matero etc bonse mwebali ama rebels.kekekekekeke……Anyway that was the best he could do.even me i could have done the same.

  20. Ba Maorange, just keep quiet, where hav you been. When you lost the elections you went underground, elyo mwachukuka nomba. too late. ikalenifye.

  21. God. Please hear all these PF Catholic insults and remember them when you stand to Judge HECNP. 13/8/13, 01:30

  22. Where is your sister a PF rebel who was an MP in one of Lusaka township constituencies? Gone into oblivion? Mwilaponta!!!

  23. I cannot add more. The point is clearly reading all the above comments. Madalene Mandinmu Masuku must know that time to cheat people has gone. PF is also faced with the same doting challenge. Poeple are more educated via internet than PhD of Dr Petero ma dimu

  24. WELLSPOKEN DR, THERE ARE VERY FEW MEN OF HIGH STANDING LIKE YOU, WHO COULD VOICE OUT LIKE THAT. PF HAS LOST THE GOODWILL THE ZAMBIANS GAVE THEM.

  25. Machungwa is a character without integrity. He should not waste our time talking about anything in the political arena. He let us down immensely.

  26. Freedom of Speech in Zambia can only be enjoyed on the internet under the cover of anonymous blogging. We can not freely say the things we write on this blog in the streets of lusaka. However you can say those same things in democratic countries like Britain and the USA. Look at the threats by GBM against HH. Look at how many PF kaponya’s condone such threats. And they call Sata a democratic person and Chiluba as someone who brought freedom of Speech. What a pack of Sh.it!!! It is Sad that Zambia has continued on the same path it was on under MMD. The reason being, PF is made up of former MMD guys. They can rise no further than MMD. This is a fact you can take to the bank. Some of us are looking for radicle change in Zambia. We want to see a real civilized country rise up from the ashes.

  27. way to go Dr.Machungwa..soon all the townships will have street kids..!good criticism..the veep chola boy should just resign on moral grounds..

  28. You look like one of the Sakala Brothers Dr. Machungwa. Is that your wife to your left in blue? I pity you Doc. Your comments are unfounded. You sound so frustrated like tribalist HH.

  29. @22 rod, HH is the one who created unemployment in zambia. He killed many zambians through privatisation. He cared less about any other zambian, put his mind only to what was going into his pockets and FTJ ‘s.

  30. I almost commented when i read SATA instead of STATE iam allergic to titles that start with “SATA” but the wife tu machungwa ukukanya please

  31. These guys, HH, MaOrange and other MMD chaps believed in their self made dreams that MCS would never be president of Zambia, now they’re just waffaling as if they’ve never been to school.:(( They don’t know what has hit them. REBELS.

  32. Iwe kamachungwa, why did you ditch pf and prostituted with mmd? If pf wasnt quality as you wanted everybody to believe before tripatite elections, why get concerned with their perfomance. So you know pf has potential and capacity, no wonder you clung on despite the expulsion.

  33. LIFE, it’s so easy to see the wrong in others?? Mwaikele Mu power for 20years???? Now you are a person condemning your friends. Please Peter give us a break. Kuti twakusapa coz you are also a theft. Just shut up.

  34. @ 17 Christopher Mulenga. You liar, dont mislead the public that is suffering for being duped by your Yama Sata

  35. The look of that woman in the picture tells it all. Careful Dr. Machungwa about who has your back, because she is disgusted!

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