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Hamududu with journalists
By Derrick Sinjela and Ashton Kelly Bunda
PARTY of National Unity & Progress (PNUP) President Highvie Hamududu’s visit to farmers of Kalumbila area of North Western Province was a success and has been described by the party membership in the province as a long overdue mobilisation and familisation tour.
Earlier, flanked by PNUP Secretary General (SG) Kasote Singogo and Lusaka Province Coordinator and Chairperson for lands Kauta Mantunta Mwale, Mr. Hamududu shared a message of youth progress, with Radio Icengelo journalist, in Kitwe during a spirited mobilisation exercise on the Copperbelt and North Western Provinces.
As Zambia commemorated Youth Day on Friday 12th March 2021, themed: “Enhancing National Development through youth partnership,” Hamududu an economist by profession encouraged young people to work hard.
PNUP on the road
“Our youth, the wheel of progress is coming your way. In wishing all youths across Zambia, a Happy Youth Day, we would like to encourage our hardworking journalists, who work so hard, but don’t get the value equivalent. Many young people in Zambia today, work for less. These are the backbone of this Nation’s future. All of you our youth, we wish you a Happy Youth Day. Please know that the wheel of progress is rolling your way,” said Hamududu, seeking to be elected as Zambian 7th President on Thursday 12th August 2021.
Highvie Hamududu with Kasote Singogo in the background
President Edgar Chagwa Lungu equally led Zambian youths in commemorating the annual Youth Day at the freedom statue on Independence Avenue with Minister of Youth, Sport and Child Development Emmanuel Mulenga, Cabinet Ministers, Service Chiefs, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, senior government officials, and Patriotic Front members.
Edgar Chagwa Lungu Friday 12 March 2021
And in delivering a homily to mark the commemoration of the youth day celebration, held at the Freedom Statue, Zambia Air Force Deputy Director Major Arnold Simbeye urged the youths to use this year’s Youth Day commemoration as a platform to air out there cries and desires.
Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu with Zambian Youth at State House on Friday 12th March 2021
“We thank you more sincerely your Excellence for government’s good will and support in seeking to alleviate the many challenges that our youths of today are faced with, among them being unemployment, challenges in accessing good education, business opportunities and many others, ” Major Simbeye said.
On Monday 25th January 2021, Party of National Unity and Progress Mr. Hamududu viewed the 2021 tripartite election as a people affair and not one benefiting politicians.
Rebranding from Party of National Unity to PNUP at Mika Hotel, boasting of his party’s readiness to effectively participate in the Thursday 12th August 2021 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government election, Hamududu said the August 12 polls must not be business as usual.
President Highvie Hamududu’s visit to farmers of Kalumbila area of North Western Province with Secretary General Mr. Kaosote Singogo
“The Zambian economy has been on a downward spiral because of the unclear, unpredictable and inconsistent economic policy positions of the PF government.
This gloomy economic situation prevailing in the nation cannot continue beyond the forthcoming tripartite elections. Zambians must vote for the PNUP as, all factors kept constant, our party leadership’s free market economic policies will transform Zambia within 36 months,” bragged Hamududu, an economist by profession, and formerly served as the longest chairperson of Expanded Parliamentary Committee on Estimates. .
Looking back to four years ago, the former United Party for National Development (UPND) Bweengwa Member of Parliament (MP) Mr. Hamududu officially launched a new political party called Party for National Unity (PNU) on Tuesday 2nd May 2017, flanked by .
Addressing a news conference during the launch of the party in Lusaka today, Mr Hamududu who served as MP from 2006 until 2011 when the UPND declined his application to recontest the seat said the aim of launching the new party is to unify the nation.
Party of National Unity and Progress (PNUP) President Mr. Highvie Hamududu with Secretary General (SG) Mr. Kasote Singogo in Kalumbila area of North Western Province
Mr Hamududu, a UNZA trained Economist outlined the PNU aim as promoting the true spirit of national unity and inclusiveness in all spheres of national building.
“It is not a secret that Zambia is currently highly polarised and if not managed well, the country could end up in a chaotic position. The two main forms of polarization that are causing anxiety are political and economic. The country is being torn apart by political extremism that has little room for political dialogue in the country,” Mr Hamududu had pledged.
Unveiling Mr Anthony Lusaka as the party’s Interim Vice President, Mr. Hamududu said the Party for National Unity would present its political and economic programme dedicated on closing both the political and economic divides that have beset Zambia.
“This will be undoubtedly be a tomorrow government driven by a tolerant, democratic, unifying, pragmatic and futuristic team. After 53 years of Independence, the country is getting bitterly divided along tribal and regional lines and there is no unity of purpose across the political landscape. Politics have become more divisive, violent, petty, personal, ethnic and non-issue based,” Hamududu said.
President Highvie Hamududu launches Party of National Unity (PNU) Zambia with Anthony Lusaka as Vice President and Kauta Mantunta Mwale on Tuesday 2nd May 2017 in Lusaka’s Sunningdale residential area.
Hamududu added, “The 2016 general election was the worst demonstration of the above, threatening the very fabric of our cherished national unity. 50 years after Independence the much preached about economic emancipation that was promised at Independence is a tattered dream at best.”
Party of National Unity and Progress (PNUP) Lusaka Province Coordinator and Chairperson for lands Kauta Mantunta Mwale interacts with the women membership in the North Western Province.
“The majority of our people are not meaningfully participating in economic activities. Debt levels are again at an all-time with foreign debt being calculated at over USD 6.7 billion as at end of 2016, created by unprecedented levels of economic mismanagement,” Hamududu said.
Mr Hamududu said, “Personal and personal related emoluments account for approximately 50% of government budgetary revenue, starving the transformative and inclusive development agenda despite the positive economic growth rates in the recent past. The latest poverty figures reveal that 40.8 percent of the country’s population.”
He said under PNU, they believe that the next 50 years shall be the best that Zambia will ever experience.
“We invite every Zambian, regardless of tribe, race, creed and gender to come as we endeavour to fulfil the vision of the founding fathers of our great nation that envisaged Zambia as a land of work, joy and unity. We will soon be unveiling a balanced and an all-inclusive interim executive committee that will lead the party towards an elective national conference,” Hamududu preached an open door policy to growing the PNU, which has since rebranded to Party of National Unity & Progress (PNUP) on Monday 25th January 2021.
Party of National Unity (PNU) Zambia President Highvie Hamududu (Centre), Vice President Anthony Makuwa Lusaka (Left) and Secretary General Kasote Singogo (Right) Picture by Branding Zambia 2014
