Former Zambia’s Ambassador to Ethiopia Emmanuel Mwamba has opposed the Government’s decision to hike fuel prices amid the removal of subsidies on fuel and electricity.
Petrol has been increased by K3.54 ngwee per liter from K17.62 to K21.16 while Diesel has been increased by K4.56 from K15.59 per liter to K20.15.
Liquefied Petroleum Gas -LPG- have also been increased by K4.47 while prices of Kerosene have remained unchanged.
Speaking when he featured on the Friday’s edition of the “Let the People Talk Programme on Phoenix FM” on Friday, Mr. Mwamba questioned why the UPND Government is not reducing fuel prices as it promised during campaigns.
He said President Hakainde Hichilema, when in opposition on many occasions, explained how he would facilitate the reduction of prices of essential commodities.
“President Hakainde Hichilema spoke to Zambians many times telling them how he would reduce prices. You have seen in a video how he was calculating fuel price reduction. There are many videos, twits and facebook posts showing how President Hichilema would reduce fuel prices,” Mr. Mwamba said.
He also spoke against the Government’s decision to deal with the International Monetary Fund.
Mr. Mwamba alleged that some of the solutions the government has instituted to the country’s economic challenges will leave the country into worse troubles.
He said Zambia has the potential to find solutions to its economic challenges without involving the IMF.
Mr. Mwamba said economic challenges Zambia is currently experiencing were caused by the IMF who downgraded Zambia and other countries to a middle-income country in 2017.
“The trouble from the IMF is that as Zambians we don’t seem to learn from our critical relationship with the IMF. The IMF in the 1990s where we lost the industrial base because they imposed on us the privatization programme. It is the IMF programme that took us to the Eurobond,” Mr. Mwamba said.
He added:”We wanted us to be borrowing with the IMF and the World Bank and they took us to the market. Ten years later they are blaming us for accumulating the debt yet they are the ones who sent us to the woes.”
Mr. Mwamba said the PF objected to some of the conditions given by the IMF such as the removal of electricity and fuel subsidies when it almost clinched the IMF deal last year.
”We wanted us to be borrowing with the IMF and the World Bank and they took us to the market. Ten years later they are blaming us for accumulating the debt yet they are the ones who sent us to the woes.”
Mwamba you have no shame indeed..Zambia is broke because of your PF which you were part of you in no position to lecture anyone.
Hh is a natural born liar. The people that voted him in are gullible childish people. They are now suffering. As for me, my life is even better since leaving govt. I am making more money as I am now concentrating on my businesses.
Chancer Emmanuel Mwamba is still there. These are the people who together with moribund Kaizar were saying PF would win the August elections, they could not listen to voices of reason at all. They kept misleading their not so sharp President of theirs. I am happy that the lesson was clear , resounding, and elaborate and will be repeated in 2026 without a shed of doubt
fellow citizens i would like to speak a neutral citizen who is also with a fair understanding of where we are coming from, one the PF did excellent well with infrastructure development than ever done since 1991 , but sadly president lungu killed PF through a number of reasons e.g:
1. He wanted to run for the third term which we could not allow him
2. He decided to ignore all the complains about cadres and few corrupt Ministers , also allowed cadres or connected individuals to take up all Government projects
3. Also allowed Chinese and others to exploit our country by wrong pricing etc
But Also that the Issue of Electricity and fuel increase is the issues that they have pushed from MMD time to PF and now UPND , but the Ignorance of UPND and lack of governance experience or…
Yes, HH will reduce prices. He has a five year mandate. PF promised more money in peoples pockets and that promise was unfulfilled for ten years but UPND is serious and different. Subsidy removal is necessary, PF did not refuse the IMF program because of empathy for the people, they were looking at elections where they still got wired
Us as Zambians are comfortable with the subsidy removal despite the expected price hikes it will bring, however, we are aware that the removal of subsidies is for a good cause. We will have over 40,000 of our brothers and sisters employed, more over the price hike is not permanent, lest PF starts misleading people
#3 Edwin Zulu…yes Lungu ewatelela such problems. He had intellectuals like Dr Bwalya Ngandu but he put hope in the likes of Bowman
Which Mwamba is this, is it the same guy who was fired by Sata. I am just asking
PF in government was a disaster, even the caliber of their diplomats was extremely questionable, it was mostly praise singers for Edgar, no quality
Spitting images. Reminds me of one Alfred ZIMT Zulu who commented on anything and everything until the high court put him in his lonely and miserable, right place
Irritating to say the least.
Chibuye, how can I be moribund when I am doing better than you and your entire f00Iish family. Don’t be a mbowlo. Come to chita Lodge I beat some sense into your chi big head
Wrong platform koswe…this is useless.
What will it take Get rid of Morons like Emmanuel Mwamba .These are the Charlatans who wanted Edgar Lunga that travesty of a Man to rule Zambia for another 5 years.
Edgar Lungu and his Corrupt Criminal Enterprise of a Government fought for 5 years to get an IMF Deal ,with no Joy .Zero Credibility.
Mwamba was fully supportive of that back then ,what has changed now ???
Did this fatguy Mwamba forget that PF promised “more money in your pocket in 90 days” and never achieved it in 10yrs? Shameless hypocrites .
STUPIDITY AT ITS BEST ”
“when I am doing better than you and your entire f00Iish family.”
JUST A MOTOR MOUTH LETS HOPE THE FUEL PRICE SHUTS HIM DOWN
PF! You seriously amaze me. The UPND alliance has not yet started implementing its budget and yet you want to see change of things under your budget which was not even going to benefit the masses. Just shut up and judge at an appropriate time. By the way, forget about bouncing back. I would rather look elsewhere if UPND lliance failed!
At 21 kwacha a litre for fuel is world price, as for getting loans from the world bank we are doing that because our Zambian govts in the past have borrowed the money and not paid it back , if you borrow money you must pay it back, not hope its just forgotten about, which is what UNIP and PF thought, so we the people must accept that and pay off the debt. as for subsided fuel and power, well get into the 21 century start huge solar farms the sun is free, we have the grid in place, keep the Chinese out of project they are our worse enemies , as for fuel how can you sell something cheaper that it costs to buy. maybe its time Zambian’ s took the bus to work instead of driving ones car, remember global warming is real and here to stay.
Outside government, fuel in ZAMBIA was the most expensive in the region. Inside government it becomes the cheapest. And the dull flies still follow the corpse.
By this time next year…………
Some of these chaps will be reduced to street corner speakers with no audiences…
Things will have improved and people will be too busy getting on with their lives to listen to these clowns……….
BALLY THE LIAR, ARE HIS REAL NAMES.
The only good act Mwamba ever did in his sorry treacherous life is struggling Kafupi Chiluba to death! The Ka chap is a stinking tribal bigot and rigged elections before. Never trust “Ka mutu ka toho ya lilete la mutuba”.
Mwamba wants to make Noise just because he thinks he is a front runner for the PF Presidency? It will be nice to see him get the position, so that he kills that Party Completely.
Truth be told, HH lied about reducing fuel price. This is a fact, no matter how LOUD you try to justify the LIE. The common youth on the street did not vote for higher cost of living.
Ba PF you are talking too much. Keep your energy time to justify your action is coming soon ba kabolala imwe.
KZ we know you are always at Chita Lodge in Kafue chopping very fat ugly cheap prostitutes. This is the time to adhere to your medication. your time to dance is slowly approaching. ukachinoma iwe ntomba matipa