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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Governance Activist Pamela Chisanga says the government should create a platform where citizens will agree on a roadmap in the constitutional amendment process.<\/p>\n

Ms Chisanga said that for a long time now, citizens have allowed a group of people or a party in government to determine the roadmap to have a constitution amended.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time around what we should be saying is that any government in power should be able to faciliate and upport the process for citizens to be able to set the agenda, a roadmap and be able to develop the constitution ourselves, and we shouldn\u2019t be waiting for government to give us a roadmap instead what we should be doing is to push the government to create an environment by setting up a system and process where we come together as Zambians and identify a platform through which we will be able to formulate a roadmap that will lead to the development of a constitution,\u201d she said<\/p>\n

Ms Chisanga explained that if the constitution amendment process is left upto the period of elections, it will not be a people driven constitution, but it will be an election posturing constitution because people will be responding to pressure with the view that there are elections coming up and people would want things chaged in the constitution, so, the only things that will be changed are those that will either leave people a little bit happy that the constitution has changed and if will probably make it possible for those in power to stay in power.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ms Chisanga mentioned that it\u2019s only the United Party for National Development \u2013 UPND who can tell the nation as to whether MacDonald Chipenzi is a member of their party or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only people that know the truth if Mr Chipenzi is a UPND member is Mr Chipenzi himself and the UPND members, becuase if all remember very well Mr Chipenzi was nt allowed to participate in the Elections under the UPND ticket because he was cited as not being a member of their party,\u201d she said<\/p>\n

\u201cI am one of those who believes Mr Chipenzi would actually surprise many interms of his performance at the Electoral Commission of Zambia \u2013 ECZ as I don\u2019t believe he will have a bias, from a personal point of view, I have interacted with Mr Chipenzi on various platforms and with different people from different political parties and he is a very different person from the person that we see in the media, that I truly believe, there are things that I cannot devouch here but I do believe in what he has portrayed, and am not going to judge him based on things that I haven\u2019t seen nor heard from him, am judgimg him based on what I have seen of him and heard from him, that\u2019s the basis am making the judgement,\u201d she said<\/p>\n

She stated that being aligned to a political party should not be a problem nor a limiting factor interms of people serving in various position, however, they should be a distinction at individual level where one distinguish that the place where one is and the role being played is not for the political party one supports because supporting a party doesn\u2019t mean that you are a card carrying member nor a post holding member of a political party just because one believes in the ideologies of a particular political party.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs things stand in this country, we all have our alignment in terms of who we support, and at personal level one should be able to say they will support the good things that they should be supporting under this government which is being run by the political party that one supports, and one should be able to comment even when the political party they support make a mistake,\u201d Ms Chisanga said<\/p>\n

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