{"id":42141,"date":"2023-03-12T23:43:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T23:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/our-leaders-ought-to-be-compassionate-approachable"},"modified":"2023-03-12T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T23:50:24","slug":"our-leaders-ought-to-be-compassionate-approachable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/our-leaders-ought-to-be-compassionate-approachable","title":{"rendered":"Our Leaders ought to be Compassionate, Approachable\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>During his state of the nation address to Parliament, President Hakainde Hichilema challenged citizens, particularly our parliamentarians, not to be dead to challenges our people may be grappling with day in and out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn such uncertain times of climate change occasioning calamities such as floods, consider donating something in your local areas,\u201d he implored us, passionately.<\/p>\n

The president himself has set the bar sky higher when it comes to extending a helping hand to the vulnerable in society using his own resources without necessarily having to brag about it. He\u2019s not like most of these rich folks or wannabe politicians that want to eat alone with their kith and kin or indeed, side chicks!<\/p>\n

From time immemorial, Hichilema has been sponsoring hundreds of students in secondary schools through to colleges or universities even before he joined politics and ascended to the throne as president. Not so long ago, it was quite emotional to see him defy his security detail and protocol and hug a visionary impaired young man, one of the many beneficiaries of his generosity, during his graduation in Eastern Province.<\/p>\n

Apart from this, he has constructed deep tanks, built schools and clinics across the country and yet very few of us know about it his charitable exploits! What could be the reason for this?<\/p>\n

Well, this is exactly in line with what is expoused in the Scriptures. That the right hand mustn\u2019t know what the left hand is doing otherwise we would be trading an eternal reward for a temporal one!<\/p>\n

If we may digress a little bit, last week we found ourselves in a shanty compound in one of the constituencies in Ndola attending a funeral. Unfortunately, when some of the relatives of the departed one along with party ward officials attempted to call the Area MP appealing for help towards the funeral, he erupted into uncontrollable rage and fury!<\/p>\n

\u201d You should understand that an MP isn\u2019t a mobile Bank expected to fork out cash anyhow!\u201d he ranted in a cheap mobile phone as a timid party official listened, obediently.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to cut the long story short; a Mr. Simangolwa, a prominent local business man and philanthropist finally came to the rescue of mourners. He didn\u2019t only bring in firewood and food to the funeral house but even took a step further and hired transport to take mourners to the cemetery. What are we getting at?<\/p>\n

In these uncertain times of Covid-19 or natural calamities such as floods and drought due to climate change affecting our communities, let us learn to be each other\u2019s keepers as the president said. If any of us willingly elected to become servants of the people as Ministers, MPs or Councilors, we should expect citizens to \u201cinconvenience\u201d us with phonecalls at awkward hours begging for this or that help. We don\u2019t expect any sarcasm from any of our leaders otherwise we shall dismiss them as fraudsters that don\u2019t deserve to sit anywhere near the corridors of power. In our next offering, we try to find out from Mr. Bowman Lusambo where Los Angeles in Ndola is.<\/p>\n

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