By Amb Emmanuel Mwamba
UPND Manifesto a Shameless Copycat of My Project 2026
When I arrived in the USA, for the first time in many years, I had plenty of time to rest and think.
I used the opportunity to ran a special series of programs in 2025 called “Project 2026”.
I outlined the following;
1. Raising to 10,000 mega watts generation capacity
2. 20 million metric tonnes of maize, making Zambia a food basket for the sub-region
3. Copper, Gold and Cobalt set up processing plants.
No original thinkers in UPND. I outlined how it could be done.
Watch the vidoes on the link below;
Project 2026 and Beyond; an ambitious socio-economic and political manifesto unveiled by Zambian diplomat and opposition figure Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba.
Framed as a comprehensive “social contract” and alternative development agenda for Zambia, the initiative was officially launched in April 2025 through a series of broadcasts on his online platform, Emmanuel Mwamba Verified.
●Economic Transformation: Described as a revolutionary program to emancipate Zambia’s economy, it focuses heavily on pluging revenue leakages, ending illicit financial flows, and reversing what Mwamba characterizes as unfair tax incentives given to multinational mining firms.
●Self-Reliance: A foundational pillar of the project is a commitment to move away from heavy dependence on foreign aid and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans. Instead, it promotes aggressive growth in domestic revenue mobilization.
Key Policy Pillars
●Education and Skills: The plan proposes a deliberate, significant shift of public financing toward STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TEVET).
●Fiscal and Tax Reform: Mwamba advocates for widening the national tax base while simultaneously reducing standard tax rates to 15% or below. The goal is to aggressively scale up the country’s tax-to-GDP ratio to over 25% within a few years.Resource and Sector Expansion:
●The blueprint outlines massive targets for production and revenue generation from local industries. This includes boosting agriculture to reach 20 million metric tonnes of maize, alongside scaling up the livestock and fisheries sectors to generate billions in domestic revenue.
●Energy and Infrastructure: The strategy calls for an immediate renegotiation of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to correct revenue losses suffered by the state utility company, ZESCO, and focuses heavily on building extensive national infrastructure.
EM: who do you think you’re? What a plonker!
Comment from the lost dog
hahaha haha…..Ba Emma nabo,OK then you are OK with it!Good manifesto then Ba Emma..hahaha bwafya
Is it not supposed to be the other way round? April 2025, when UPND has been in power since August 2021.
Ba fugitive nabao…trying to suck oxygen
The things HH put in the manifesto are the things he has been talking about ever since he took up office. It’s you who is good at plagiarism. By the time you will come home will be maybe 2041. Mukose bane. The man beats everytime
@Kasusu, you are 100% RIGHT. Soon you will just hear ba Mundubile that the manifesto HH has is what they have. If they have what HH has, then there’s NO NEED OF THE OPPOSITION BECAUSE EVERYTHING HH HAS ALREADY DONE it .
ONE will get ZEROES IN THIS ELECTION.
Let them just prepare for 2031.
I guess the reason they are NOT EVEN FUNDING MORE IS VERY REASON OF TRYING TO PREPARE FOR 2031.
Emmanuel Mwamba, you are a pathological liar, a hypocrite, and a shameless individual. For years, you have thrived on manipulating political leaders through politics of appeasement simply to gain relevance and recognition. You are among the individuals who misled the late former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu and contributed significantly to the decline and eventual collapse of the PF as a governing political force.
Your claims about the so-called “Copycat 2026 Project” and allegations that the UPND copied it from you are nothing more than political fiction. On what basis do you make such assertions? In terms of intellectual capacity, political innovation, integrity, leadership, policy formulation, articulation of socio-economic strategies, and implementation of economic reforms, neither Emmanuel Mwamba nor the opposition political parties can be compared to His Excellency President Hakainde Hichilema.
President Hakainde Hichilema has redefined political leadership and governance by setting standards that many in the opposition struggle to comprehend, let alone match. Faced with this reality, individuals like Emmanuel Mwamba appear overwhelmed, resorting to baseless accusations, misinformation, and political fantasies instead of offering credible alternatives and solutions to the Zambian people.
