The current political mindset is colonising Zambia for the second time!

Dr. Haabazoka is right! We need an indaba where we can discuss Zambia’s social economic development challenges! “The country did not educate us so that we just cheer from the stands!”

By Mpandashalo Mwewa | Chief Editor.

Lusaka, Nov. 22 – After going through Dr. Lubinda Haabazoka’s write-up that has since gone viral, I realised that there are many Zambians out there who share my views on why Zambia’s fight against poverty reduction has stagnated.

Zambia needs a rather radical political mindset to develop Zambia. The people in government today, are the same ones who vehemently opposed the implementation of NHIMA, a universal health coverage initiative by Hon. Dr. Chitalu Chilufya, that has since come to their rescue following President Hichilema’s decision to take a cadre to the Ministry of Health.

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Dr. Chitalu Chilufya was a transformative leader who has changed, forever, the health sector in Zambia. He helped dramatically increase the number of doctors, physicians, mid-wives, nursing staff and laboratory assistants that government has trained and employed to respond to a critical health worker shortage in the country’s national health programs.

Our national deficiencies point to lack of leadership. In my world, leadership is the ability to identify and put those with the technical know-how and ability in key positions needing such expertise.

Is Nelly Mutti the best candidate for the position of Speaker of the National Assembly? Is it right that the political corruption debate surrounding a professional Eng. Peter Kapala should persist to benefit a few selfish individuals at State House?

To answer these questions, let’s look at Dr. Lubinda Haabazoka’s latest article and I quote…

“It’s a bit shameful for us as a country to wait for foreign diplomats to speak out before we can cool down! Ideally as a nation we should focus on things that build and not divide us! And instead of:

◼️shooting at children when dealing with smuggling of mealie meal, see a way in which you can empower citizens to export the same mealie meal.
◾burning Zambian citizens’ camps who are trying to make a living by mining their God given gold, you should clamp down on big firms who run away with millions of dollars in unpaid taxes! A Zambian can never be an illegal miner in his own country!
◾sponsoring factions to destabilise opposition political parties, that money should be spent on uniting citizens so that we tap into the knowledge of each citizen to ensure development in our country. How can the Kwacha trade at almost K24 with the abundance of natural resources!
◾chasing after small rental taxes from the already over taxes citizenry, we should be developing ways of benefiting from our God given resources as a source of government revenue!
◾confiscating property from Zambians in the so called unexplained wealth, why not give Zambians assets so that they can create wealth? We are the only country at the moment that believes that it’s only foreigners who can make money in a short period of time and not Zambians! I have heard of civil servants who have Honda fits forfeited to the state and foreigners given a mine for $20m only to make $200m in a year!
◾demolishing houses of citizens in their own country in the so called unplanned construction, we must build for the homeless!
◾spending time and money on lawyers in courtrooms, we should use the money to fund small businesses!

Even my kid understands that t1he head of the legislature is wrong! Such a person despite her credentials has failed to run a powerful branch of government!

It’s now an embarrassment! Ireen Mambilima would not have behaved in such a manner! Instead of our learned population putting this in order, some are supporting it! By supporting such illegalities, we are rendering our country into banana republic status! Let’s hit on the breaks countrymen and women!

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We don’t love ourselves! We don’t deserve each other! We don’t deserve our own country! We are foreign to this land! Because we have opened ourselves to criticism!

We need to learn from Zimbabwe! Zimbabweans are building mansions while we are filling our court rooms and prisons with people that want to build houses. We need to change! We need to refocus! We should not compete amongst ourselves! We should compete against the whole world!!!

Definitely Mainza Chona or kenneth Kaunda did not dream of this Zambia. A Zambia of childish politicians who can meet at a location and declare themselves a leadership of a political party? Politicians who despite going to school fail to defend the Constitution that they themselves wrote? A state that is talking about torturing its own citizens!

Who did we wrong to arrive at this? Am deeply concerned! When shall we grow up as a nation? Just look at our social media idols? Those days growing up we would idolise the Dean Mung’ombas, the Nkumbulas! The Lawrence Katilungus! We wanted to be like them! We wanted to make this country great! But today I can hardly recognise my own country!

Our preoccupation should be how to create generational wealth! IMF, France or whoever is heading our debt restructuring thing is wasting our time! $15bn is peanuts for Zambia!

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“It would be a waste of time to get the debt restructuring without creating the necessary production capacity in the country to repay the debts when the repayments are due!”

Let’s pay off that debt using Sugelite and other minerals! If we give each other tasks, within two years we can pay off whatever we owe! Let’s have an indaba where we can discuss this! This country did not educate us so that we just cheer from the stands!”

If you share our beliefs and principles that development must be driven by Zambians through policies that seek to systematically monetise our local resources, please remember to follow our online presence: https://urlz.fr/mDSf. We need a radical change of mindset to develop Zambia.

About Woodpecker’s Digest: We are an online portal for analytical commentaries on topical issues of national interest and for articles on personal development and health! Journalism maintains democracy. It is a great tool for progressive social change! We, therefore, see it as our job to put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.