Africa-Press – Zambia. Former Kabushi Lawmaker Hon. Bowman Chilosha Lusambo has described President Hakainde Hichilema’s address to Parliament on the National Values and Principles as a ‘TALK SHOW’.
Speaking when he featured on Muvi TV’s Special Interview, Hon Lusambo said there was nothing new said by the President as he merely repeated what was delivered last year.
He said the country was expectant to hear things such as measures to be put in place to curb Gender Based Violence needed. “He needed to talk about the laws they want to put in place so that would be offenders can be deterred,” he said.
And Hon Lusambo said the protection of the girl child in unsupervised boarding Houses needed attention from the highest office of the land. He said morals is not only on the behaviour part but also on the activities in the country.
“We saw the Appointment of Judges we wanted to know how they applied. We saw the President talking about cases being concluded in 90 days are we going to be seeing due process of the law,” he said.
He said the issues to do with fertilizer and single sourcing in which a supplier was single sourced was supposed to be tackled by the President.
And Hon Lusambo said the New Dawn Administration made a mistake in scrapping off the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs as it could have help them with issues of Values, Morality and and Principles.
“In our country, we need to be progressing not the other way round. In PF, we had a ministry Of Gender and the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs. The Issue National Values and Principle, we had a ministry handling such issues. We had officers in all the 10 provinces. It was a strategic ministry which could have helped President Hakainde Hichilema to tackle the Issues of Morality, ethics, values and Principles. It helped change the mind-set of Civil Servants and General Citizenry. Even the Ministry of Gender, it was instrumental in helping reduce numbers of GBV,” he said.
Meanwhile, Hon Lusambo said the UPND is not on the right track to reducing the cost of living. He said President Hichilema is aware of the challenge but he is failing to do the right thing. He wondered why the people of Zambia should struggle to buy a bag of mealie meal.
“The trick on mealie meal is just on FRA who buy maize from farmers. The FRA should not sell maize to millers at a higher price. They should sell the commodity at a subsidised fee. We pay tax so that we can cushion on the poor people of Zambia. Big Companies Such as KCM , Mopani are supposed to pay tax so that Government can use the money in field.
He also mentioned that the current Government must stop taking comfort in the Ukraine and #Russia war as the reason for their failures. “Why are we talking about Russia war with Ukraine, let’s talk about how are we going to give our people food. We cannot allow ourselves to be cheated beyond the limit. Whether they are fighting, us we should give the people what they want. President Edgar Lungu was leader under difficult circumstances,” he said.
“It was under President Lungu’s administration that we had army-worms, we had drought, we had floods, we had loadshedding until billions of dollars was invested in the energy sectors to end it. Those were difficult circumstances. It was under President Lungu that the pandemic broke out and yet he offered leadership throughout. But this UPND government says things must get bad before they get better. What happens if people die before things normalize! Who is to benefit?”
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