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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>FORMER defense minister George Mpombo says the new dawn government must focus on implementing its campaign promises this year. Mpombo says the UPND campaign promises are slowly gathering dust, adding that the new dawn government must refrain from what he termed the unproductive blame game.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment must seriously address the crippling abject poverty and penury; their defective self-praise is not inspiring. Self-perdition and annihilation as so far as its performance remains a monumental epitome of failure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mpombo charged that the theatre circus of political propaganda and retribution against the opposition was squandering UPND\u2019s political capital and setting it on a path of political self-destruction.<\/p>\n

He further called on the former ruling party, the Patriotic Front to be focused and remain relevant in politics. \u201cThe PF on the other hand should remain focused, remain relevant and offer checks and balances to the government as they wait for 2026,\u201d said Mpombo.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. FORMER defense minister George Mpombo says the new dawn government must focus on implementing its campaign promises this year. Mpombo says the UPND campaign promises are slowly gathering dust, adding that the new dawn government must refrain from what he termed the unproductive blame game. \u201cGovernment must seriously address the crippling abject […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-12932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nUPND\u2019s defective self-praise is not inspiring-Mpombo - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FORMER defense minister George Mpombo says the new dawn government must focus on implementing its campaign promises this ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPND\u2019s defective self-praise is not inspiring-Mpombo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FORMER defense minister George Mpombo says the new dawn government must focus on implementing its campaign promises this ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-02T19:51:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-02T20:18:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/01\/img-61d20865de147.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"479\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"UPND\u2019s defective self-praise is not inspiring-Mpombo\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-02T19:51:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-02T20:18:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo\"},\"wordCount\":170,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/01\/img-61d20865de147.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnds-defective-self-praise-is-not-inspiring-mpombo\",\"name\":\"UPND\u2019s defective self-praise is not inspiring-Mpombo - 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