Africa-Press – Zambia. 1. Good morning Mr President. I trust that you and the first family are doing well. Myself and my family are well and we are extending our warm greetings.
2. Mr President, first of all l want to congratulate you on raising such a strong young man such as Lt. Habwela Hichilema, whom, we are told recently passed out as an officer in the Zambia National Service. That is no mean achievement, and must be recognized as such.
3. However, Mr President, l am alarmed by some of the public pronouncements that you have made regarding your son, in the recent past. More especially your statement that Lt. Habwela Hichilema will not be getting a salary from ZNS.
4. Mr President, your son is not a boy anymore, he is now a man. And men have needs, both financial and psychological. If your son is not going to be earning a salary, then how is he going to meet his financial needs? It means that you will need to continue giving him handouts from your pocket, just as you have done from his birth.
5. The question is; for how long are you going to meet the financial needs of a grown man? And have you ever thought about the possible adverse impact on his self-confidence among his peers, for a grown man to still be relying on handouts from his father for his upkeep?
6. Mr President, l applaud you for keeping your family, especially your children, out of politics so far. But you are now reversing that achievement by allowing politics to interfere with the personal development of your children. Since your son has chosen to join the military, let him curve a career for himself in that direction. Let him earn a salary. Let him raise a family. Let him be his own man.
7. Otherwise, you risk turning such a vibrant young man into a sissy-boy who will never leave his parents home. You yourself are where you are today because you charted your own path at a young age. You earned your own income and started your own family from your own pocket. So why not give Lt. Habwela Hichilema the same opportunity? Why do you want him to be working for free and feeding off your handouts? Where is the logic in that?
8. Mr President sir, if you insist on the current path, one day in the future, you will regret this decision. When you wake up one morning and realize that your now 50 year old son is still living under your roof. Still relying on you to give him handouts so that he can meet his daily financial needs. But it does not need to end like that.
If, in retrospect, you now realize that your son being commissioned into ZNS has raised too much unnecessary controversy, then let him resign so that he can choose another career path. But whatever the case, let your son earn his living. Let him be his own man. You will thank me later.
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