If you’re praised by everyone know your leadership is questionable – Sinda UPND
By Richard Luo in Sinda( The Mast)
SINDA UPND chairlady Roster Chulu says there are thorns in every good leadership.
Speaking during a Catholic choir festival at Chassa Parish recently organised by a Kapoche resident Eric Mwale, Chulu encouraged leaders to remain focused as it is normal for every leadership to receive criticism.
“Allow me to urge you this, I know you are leaders as choirs and while you sing you can be insulted that look at him, look at her as if they are the only ones. But listen, every good leader will receive throwing stones (insults) just like we see stones and trees in a fruitful mango tree. You will be criticised that you are not doing a good job. If it’s on a group you will be pointed that “mwaciona”(look at it). Just know your leadership is good. Don’t relax for there are thorns in good leadership but if you are praised by everyone just know your leadership is questionable,” she said.
Chulu also challenged women married to husbands who are not doing well financially to support them.
She said there is need for a woman to ensure her husband’s name is supported and protected.
“Let me talk to women. If you are doing well financially than your husband, let that success be seen through your husband and not yourself so that the name of your family is recognised because every family is recognised by a man who is the head of the house,” Chulu said. “When there is a contribution needed in an area and your husband doesn’t have money, give him and let him present it as doing so you are fortifying your home. And the respect given to your husband will overflow to you unlike when you show you can do it and your husband can’t do it, the family name receives shame.”
Chulu noted that before gender programmes came in, husbands were very hard working.
She said the gender agenda has made men relax and pave way for women when in God’s plan it is they who should lead.
“Gender has destroyed us. But let’s bear in mind that God created a man first and He has a direct contact with him. And we were created from a man and that we should be submissive to a man who is our husbands…” said Chulu. “Ngati mwamuna sakwanisa ise tikwanisa, tiyeni tibapase mphambvu ndipo dzina ya banja izaoneka. Lekani mphambvu yathu ikaonekere kwa mwamuna (If a man cannot manage and we are managing, let’s give them power and the name of our family will be recognised. Let our power be manifested in our husbands). Women, the UPND government has increased the CDF and there are a lot of programmes that have been introduced like loans, grants, empowerments of which if we take part our lives will change. Let’s not fold hands as those monies are meant for us, but because we don’t utilise them, they are sitting idle in local authority bank accounts.”
And Mwale, who plans to contest for the Kapoche parliamentary seat on the UPND ticket in 2026, said the government has the desire to alleviate poverty among citizens.
“UPND increased CDF so that our problems are reduced in our families and communities. But there are people who have been tasked to create a way for you to benefit by showing you what to do but they don’t, which is not good,” he said.
Mwale, who was represented by his coordinator Gibson Mvula, said he will continue to highlight to people what the UPND government is doing and plans to do so that residents of Kapoche can be part and parcel of beneficiaries from the national cake.
Mwale, who is also Eastern Province presidential mobilisation chairperson, assured the church that he would continue to cooperate with them as one of the stakeholders in good governance.
“We value the advice and services the church renders and this is the reason why even President Hakainde Hichilema respects the church because they mean well to the governance of this country,” said Mwale.
Meanwhile, parish chairperson Hapson Phiri
told the party that the church works with the government of the day and that they collaborate very well.
“We want to thank your coming and may you continue what you are doing. You need to be people who love God and the people themselves, and government and the church we work together,” said Phiri.
About six choir groups took part in the festival and each one received an appreciation in monetary terms from position one to six.