Heed Mpezeni’s timely rebuke

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Heed Mpezeni’s timely rebuke

By Daily Revelation Editor

Paramount chief of the Ngoni people of Eastern Province, Mpezeni, in the most honest and unambiguous fashion took on Green Economy minister Mike Mposha and his Eastern Province colleague Peter Phiri, and literally told them to their faces that he was tired of being told the same empty promises without seeing their fulfilment.

In the video that has gone viral, the paramount chief is heard while seated in his office chair, telling the ministers, who appeared bewildered at the frankness with which the chief countered them, that they had brought up more promises without living up to their earlier promises to build a dam in the area.

He said he had nothing to say about the new promises as he had heard the same repeated stories before which were never fulfilled.

What Mpezeni is saying is representative of the complaints many have been raising in this country when it comes to the penchant by politicians to make false promises, only that the millions may not have the same platform as the paramount chief to drive the narrative in such convincing fashion as he did.

It seems the unfulfilled promises had bothered the traditional leader so much so that he was just waiting for the right opportunity on when he would hit back. And indeed that opportunity did present itself, in a very open and transparent fashion before the cameras so that all the people could have the occasion of hearing a paramount chief address the concerns of the millions before the very people who make the same promises.

Hats off to Mpezeni at least he used his huge platform to advance a just cause for the good of the public, unlike the many who can simply endure silently until they are given the opportunity to air their grievances in five-year timelines.

But there is a huge lesson in what Mpezeni did which Mposha and Phiri can draw upon, and more generally the President and the government they serve under, that leadership should be more about fulfilling the promises to the people as opposed to just making them. https://dailyrevelationzambia.com/heed-mpezenis-timely-rebuke/

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