HH AND PF’S CHILUFYA CONFER
President Hakainde Hichilema conferring with PF Mansa Central Member of Parliament and Former Health Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya during the labour day commemoration being held at Kawole stadium in Mansa of Luapula Province.
The UPND New Dawn government as part of its decentralisation programme has been holding various national events in different provinces across the country much to the appreciation of the citizens.
In the past, national events were only being held in the capital Lusaka, a situation that saw other provinces lag behind in terms of social and economic development.
Dr Chitalu Chilufya writes:
Statement on Labour Day Celebrations in Mansa
Mr President, I am exceedingly proud and grateful that you are our esteemed guest in my humble constituency here, Mansa Central.
This very one act of your deliberate act to pick Mansa for this auspicious occasion of national labour day celebrations, is the microcosm of your broader strategy of promoting inclusivity and national unity using the Presidency.
The 2025 Labour Day theme: “Shaping Zambia’s future of work through home-grown solutions for inclusive economic growth” is not only appropriate for the hard working people of my constituency but is a summon to all of us to translate the natural resources in Luapula in to jobs; this includes our minerals inter Alia Sugilite and manganese. Value addition to our natural resources will be facilitated by an urgent upgrade in electricity, for instance upgrade of Musonda falls station; a direct line from Pensulo to mansa.
Further our arable land and huge water bodies and swamps are opportunities for home grown solutions for the future of work for sustainable economic development.
Your mere visit is a major statement of intent and action that demonstrates that we can only grow as one inclusive, united, indivisible nation if we deliver economic opportunities evenly to all our regions.
Inclusive economic growth entails a recognition from all of us that we can only share wealth and not poverty.
In recognising this, we all must subscribe to a broad-based national economic agenda that leaves no one behind.
Your deliberate decentralisation of national events such as this one, like the Women’s Day; and Youth Day before this, must translate into real economic decentralisation from the activity- saturated Lusaka and other urban centres.
To achieve homegrown solutions for inclusive economic growth, we must set for ourselves a non-partisan developmental state that invests in people, creates opportunities for all and where all of us can derive the real democratic dividend.
Decent work and labour rights are inalienable human endowments without which it shall not be possible for our population to thrive.
I encourage Your Excellency, to continue with this remarkable spirit of pursuing virtues of an inclusive society.
Good politics but someone somewhere is boiling in the heart.
HH’ vision for development in the country can be seen and witnessed through the CDF achievements.The youths are getting some survival skills in various trainings on skills training.The infrastructure development throughout the country.We have seen Police stations and posts done, hospitals and clinics done, transport services to constituencies offered.Pupils are attending classes freely with good provision of desks and teachers employed and deployed all over the country.The drought relief support has been observed all over the country.Poverty relief support has occurred allover the country.The UPND government is seriously committed to the needs of the people in the country and including the rural areas.It is just a lot to say.People must be listening attentively when the President talks and we must follow the path, the country can be developed by all by increasing our out put in all sectors especially in agriculture because there can be food security.The environment is now very anabling to stimulate high production of food.The Mansa visitation by the President on the labour day was extremely exciting and gave hope for the country as a whole.The message was loud and clear on labour matters and unions.The opposition was able to have a talk with him in a brotherly and cordial warm and polite condition.The chiefs were happy too.The workers had a wonderful labour day graced by the President.
Whatever else UPND may not have achieved, UPND has brought sanity and order in the country. We will ever support the party to keep away ”commanders” and ”Americans” in public places out of our sight. We are able to walk freely with dignity in all places without hearing horse voices of those stinking PF thugs and cadres. God answered our prayers. Women can walk freely without prescribed dress code from the PF thugs and cadres. What a refreshing development!