IN August this year, the UPND’s campaign platform was chock-full of promises in which the party claimed would lead Zambia toward “socio-economic emancipation.” Now, three months later, as a by-election looms following the death of the late UPND Kabwata Member of Parliament, Levy Mkandawire and the party seeks re-election of its replacement lawmaker, many of those promises – some kept, others broken – have been thrust into the limelight as the party’s recent record is scrutinized. Which promises has the party broken? And which ones have remained as work-in-progress?The compelling scrutiny follows a laundry list of self-hyped promises made during the launch of the UPND’s election manifesto earlier this year. Among many others, the UPND said its government was going to “create millions of job opportunities for the jobless youths over the next five years; provide millions of housing opportunities for qualifying households in urban and rural settlements over the next five years; and connect yet-to-be-electrified additional […]
Will promises broken by the UPND have ballot-box impact in Kabwata constituency by-election?
