Editorial comment: Zambians should never miss Pharaoh’s pots of meat now!
Those who are familiar with the story of the persecution of the Isrealites in Egypt don’t need a binoculars to understand why Zambians should ‘never miss Pharaoh’s pots of meat’ in the midst of hardships.
Zambia is officially a “Christian country” by constitution. Christianity is the state religion in Zambia according to the 1996 constitution, and the vast majority of Zambians (95.5%) are Christians of various denominations, but many other religious traditions are present.
To have a short memory of how our freedom was threaten because of the rising cost of commodities, is not being different from what is written at Exodus 16:3;
The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”—New International Version.
Borrowing from those words, some citizens feel it would have been better to continue with caderism while eating bread and buying subsidised fuel than enjoy freedoms.
We are not saying President Hakainde Hichilema is Moses, but there is a lot to learn how suddenly a man sent to rescue the children of Israel was condemned because things became harder shortly after leaving Egypt.
In the same vein, some Zambians today seem to lose sight of the persecution they went through at the hands of the Patriotic Front.
Today, the same people who oppressed the weak want to be the loudest to say they have solutions to the problems they created.
How come they never wanted to be held accountable for numerous decisions, some of which are now before law enforcement agencies?
To ask the people to move on from the past without providing answers to questions that have been hanging changes nothing.
Robert Heinlein said, “a generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.”
And we are here to remind them and those who want to regret making change that, if ever we should try to condemn Bally, those who mistreated should not be the ones to speak for us.
We should never again trade freedom for bread and wine.
We have been on this path before. At the start of 2000, Zambia was one of the Highly Indebted Poor Countrys(HIPC).
Late President Levy Mwanawasa took over a broken economy, broken health care system and “an almost broken everything.”
The same could be said when Frederick Chiluba became President.
What followed is still there for us to see.
Rather than join the queue of people complaining without offering help, look at the abundant natural resources at our disposal. Look at the amount of rain we have received.
This is pretty much like manna in disguise.
We are not refusing that the UPND government should not be held accountable yet to be fulfilled promises, but we must recognize his five years ends in August 2026.
To call Mr Hichilema a failure before even reaching half of term is being immature(no apology attached).
How we react to the challenges we’re faced with now will determine the kind of future we are preparing for our children.
Once again, don’t join the bandwagon of Pharoah for his stubbornness only led him to a humiliating end in the red sea.