HH PRESENTS TWO IMPORTANT WORDS TO HELP ZAMBIA RESET
By Aswell Kazembe Mwalimu
WHEN President addressed the Second Section of the Thirteenth National Assembly on the progress made in the application of National Values and Principles, two words stood out.
Does, nagative-cadrism and making donations to ring any bell?
Mr Hichilema presented another great opportunity for Zambia to reset.
We have been too hard on each other far too long and forgotten to press the reset button.
We are One Zambia One, Nation, and One People!
So, when Mr Hichilema said, Negative-Cadres, I sense he had coined the right terminology to describe a person who commits crime wearing a political jacket in order to protect oneself.
We have wrongly used cadre to mean; a known hooligan or violent and armed person hiding behind a political party to commit crimes.
Mr Hichilema has set the right tone for the Media by coining the term, negative-cadrism!
Negative-cadres, illegally collected Council Levy from markets and bus station.
They illegally grabbed land and corruptly sold it for personnal gain.
Negative-cadres, were champions of violence and rained terror to silence members of the community.
They rode high horses backed by Political power and Authority above the Zambia Police.
Negative-cadres, were illegally involved in mining and harvesting timber such as Muluka and Rosewood.
They got rich quick without working!
Upon taking office, Mr Hichilema banned negative-cadrism!
He was advancing positive-cadrism which is essential for Zambia’s socio-economic turn around.
We cannot allow negative-cadres to dominate our lives again!
The second important word Mr Hichilema spoke was encouraging Zambians to push the agenda of home grown solutions to issues affecting us as a people.
Mr Hichilema called on citizens to support the Disaster Management and Mitigating Unit (DMMU) in times of need such as floods.
I agree that we have gotten accustomed to thinking the DMMU has everything at their disposal to attend to any disaster in Zambia.
But Mr Hichilema challenged us to reach out to one another in times of need by making material or financial donations to DMMU or direct intervention by visiting flooded areas.
Imagine if we approached national disasters or any other national problem with the principle of insurance, regarding financial support.
In insurance the unfortunate few (those that suffer loss) are always taken care of by the fortunate majority (those who suffer no loss at all).
I was encouraged by those two important words by Mr Hichilema.
I don’t know about you.
Remember, we are forever One Zambia, One Nation, One People!
AKM
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27/02/2023