AMUTIKE’S DELUSION, JEALOUSY, AND HALLUCINATION MASQUERADING AS ANALYSIS
By Professor Namukolo Miyanda, Pan-Africanist and Governance Expert
19th July, 2026
Oliver Mumbuna Amutike’s article of 18th July 2026 is not analysis. It is a hallucination committed to paper. Amutike’s article is not just delusional, jealous, and hallucinatory. It is inept. As the former MP for Mongu Central Constituency, Amutike is a political disgrace who possesses no moral standing to pass judgment on aspiring presidential candidate Brian Mundubile ahead of the 13th August 2026 general elections. His entire thesis collapses the moment it meets logic, evidence, and the mood of the Zambian people.
1. ON MORAL STANDING: THE DISGRACED CANNOT AUDIT THE DESTINED
Amutike speaks of danger while standing in the ruins of his own political career. He was rejected by his own party’s adoption process because his performance was indefensible. For five years, Mongu Central witnessed his absence of delivery. A man dismissed by his own colleagues for underperformance now claims the authority to diagnose the nation’s future. That is not courage. It is comedy. His attack on Mundubile is not principle. It is jealousy, born in the last National Assembly where both men served, and sharpened by the fact that one rose while the other fell. Amutike writes not for Zambia, but for Hakainde Hichilema’s attention, hoping to audition for a nominated seat if UPND survives 13th August.
2. ON HALLUCINATION: DENYING CROWDS DOES NOT ERASE THEM
Amutike argues that Zambians “do not want Mundubile.” This is a man arguing with reality. It is now indisputable that Brian Mundubile is more loved by Zambians, including most UPND members who now openly admire his following. You cannot claim “consensus” against a candidate who has drawn over 7.9 million citizens to rallies across three provinces. That number is not a whisper. It is a roar. To call it nonexistent is to hallucinate. Perhaps Amutike is writing from his “permanent shelter” in South Africa, where he risks confrontation with Jacinta Zuma of the March and March Movement. If so, he should return home. In three weeks, under Brian Mundubile, Zambia will be a land of peace, freedom, joy, and unity.
3. ON THE CIVIL SERVICE: REFORM IS NOT RUIN
Amutike’s most dishonest claim is that Mundubile threatens to issue an “economic death sentence” by firing civil servants. He deliberately confuses professional public officers with UPND cadres planted in the civil service to execute partisan agendas. No serious investor fears the removal of corrupt, unprofessional elements who serve a party, not the people. Investors fear what Zambia has now: a politicized bureaucracy where competence is punished and loyalty is rewarded. Mundubile, a senior practicing lawyer, understands the Constitution and separation of powers. His government will be anchored on unity, reconciliation, and prosperity. Each of those pillars demands a professional civil service, not the mafia-style patronage Amutike defends. His refusal to name the “other African nations” where his doomsday scenario occurred proves his argument has no legs. It cannot stand, so it runs.
4. ON MARKETS AND RULE OF LAW: THE ACCUSER IS THE CULPRIT
Amutike accuses Mundubile of planning to “militarize markets” with cadres. This is projection. Under UPND, cadres already control markets and bus stations through a so-called “smart management style” that silences traders. Those same cadres escort UPND candidates for nominations and issue public endorsements. If markets were free, why do they serve one party? Amutike’s claim that Mundubile will make cadres “more powerful than the police” is equally bankrupt. It is UPND that has weaponized state institutions, turning the police from protectors into persecutors. Zambians live in fear of the very institutions meant to guard them. Mundubile has promised the opposite: rule of law, responsible leadership, and constitutional order. Amutike cannot align his reasoning to the Constitution because he has never respected it.
5. ON DRACONIAN RULE: THE WORD AMUTIKE FEARS
Draconian means laws, rules, or actions that are excessively harsh, severe, and oppressive, and that word defines the last five years under UPND. While Amutike accuses Mundubile of authoritarianism, he ignores the legislation his own party has enacted. Those laws restrict freedoms of speech, assembly, and digital expression to the point that citizens now fear arrest for social media posts rather than for actual crimes. The same draconian spirit lives in enforcement. State institutions have been weaponized so that police turn victims into accused persons, and markets and bus stations are controlled by cadres who escort UPND candidates and issue public endorsements. When the law protects power instead of people, the system is draconian by design. The irony is complete: Amutike calls Mundubile a “threat to the rule of law” while defending a regime that rushed constitutional amendments and silenced dissent. To warn of future authoritarianism while practicing it in the present is not analysis. It is draconian logic. His entire argument is projection meant to distract from UPND’s record. Zambians are not experiencing the “peace and stability” he claims. They are experiencing hunger, anxiety, unemployment, fear, and frustration enforced by draconian laws and weaponized institutions. The people understand the difference between harsh laws and strong leadership. One oppresses. The other liberates.
6. ON THE ECONOMY: POST-PANDEMIC EXCUSES HAVE EXPIRED
Amutike says Zambia needs Hakainde Hichilema because of “post-pandemic recovery.” The pandemic ended four years ago. To blame it now is to confess economic failure. While UPND recites fiscal policy on spreadsheets, poverty remains above 60 percent. Mutendere, Chiwempala, and Mulambwa compounds still face water rationing, loadshedding, unemployment, and crime. The UPND excels at international travel, launching toilets, and TikTok videos. It fails at delivering food, jobs, and dignity.
Consider the contrast: Burkina Faso, run by a young man below the age of 40, is outperforming President Hakainde Hichilema, who is above 60 years. Burkina Faso has done this despite security challenges and with far fewer natural endowments than Zambia. Our nation has abundant minerals, water, wildlife, and arable land. Yet under UPND, we are lectured about “complexities” while our people starve. Leadership is not about age. It is about vision. Hichilema has had five years and delivered excuses. The Burkinabé leadership has had less time, fewer resources, and delivered results. The Zambian people are not blind. They can see who is working and who is wasting.
Amutike likens trusting Mundubile with the Treasury to “allowing a passenger to pilot a plane in a storm.” Let us answer him with “Animal Farm”. Under UPND, the pigs took over the farm promising that all animals are equal. Five years later, the commandment reads: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” The pigs sleep in the farmhouse while the other animals go hungry. The farm is not being piloted. It is being plundered. Mundubile is not the passenger. He is the farmer the animals have called to reclaim the farm from the pigs.
CONCLUSION: ZAMBIA HAS CHOSEN
Amutike claims Zambians “do not want Mundubile.” The crowds say otherwise. The suffering says otherwise. The empty promises of UPND say otherwise. Zambia does not want fear, hunger, and draconian laws. Zambia wants peace, jobs, and freedom.
Oliver Mumbuna Amutike should close his laptop, find a gym, and rebuild his body. His mind, corroded by jealousy and denial, is beyond repair. The people have decided. On 13th August 2026, they will vote for Brian Mundubile. They will protect their votes. The future is not given. It must be claimed. Kinako has come, and Zambia is ready.
AMUTIKE’S DELUSION, JEALOUSY, AND HALLUCINATION MASQUERADING AS ANALYSIS
