LET’S PROTECT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM MORAL DEGENERATION
Zambia is declining in all aspects, but we have focused so much on political and economic deterioration. Today, I want to address the issue of our youth, specifically students living in boarding houses. The reason being that we need to impart high moral standards amongst our youth as these are our future.
Numerous stories, including video postings, circulate on social media of our youths misconducting themselves, and we just laugh and brash it aside.
The concept of boarding houses, which is a good alternative as colleges and universities can not provide residential accommodation for students, has unfortunately brought a high level of immorality amongst our students. Landlords who are supposed to be guardians of these students are only interested in collecting rentals instead of enforcing strict tenancy rules to promote morality.
In the absence of the Ministry of National Guidance, the government has remained mute and is just watching immorality taking place in these boarding houses. Elderly men who are supposed to be parents and grandparents to these financially vulnerable young girls are at the forefront of exploiting and abusing them in boarding houses. Where will these young girls end up in the future?
We need to look at devising some form of regulations and introduce licensing for people running boarding houses to protect our young girls, including not allowing visitors at the boarding houses amongst other stringent measures. We can not just sit and watch seeing our children being abused, being destroyed in this way.
As the economic landscape gets harsher, these trends of immoral behaviour will be on the rise unless we arrest it.
Food for thought for us all and the ministries of Youth and Sport and Education. We need a healthy and morally upright society.
A report by the Ministry of Health showed that sexually transmitted infections are higher in the age range 16-25 years.
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
Let’s protect the young from moral decay coming from chikala Fred.
This man (I think he is a man) is so irrelevant that he would do anything to remain in the news.
CHIKALA
Upholding values and morality is not the responsibility of government alone but for each and everyone individdual including the youth. Parents, guardians and the youth themselves should have the responsibility to ensure that morality is promoted and with upheld. Equally, the church has been and will always continue to teach and spread the messages of upright living and people should respond by living righteously.
The previous government created the Ministry of Religious and National Guidance but what we saw happening despite creating this critical Ministry was the opposite. Instead, the PF political leadership and their associates tolerated and encouraged immorality, stealing, hatred, tribalism,
corruption, violence and covetousness among other things.
Fred M’membe is a desperate evil man who lacks morals and consciousness. He is always hallucinating and speaking nonsensical statements.
Fred M’membe’ s hatred towards president Hikainde Hichilema is exposing his bitterness, jealous and evil thoughts. His style of politics of spreading lies and propaganda will not bring down the leadership of president Hikainde Hichilema and his government.
The truth be told his Excellency President Hikainde Hichilema and his government are on the right trajectory of bringing development to Zambia. We should appreciate what the new dawn government it has done a lot of good things in the past two years. The government has corrected and fixed the misdeeds and economic mismanagement created by the previous government. The outcome of the investments and good economic management put in place by the new dawn government may not be realised now but its economic indicators of growth will bear tangible results in the coming years. On the other hand, we have seen significant growth in creation of employment opportunities for the youth both in the formal and informal sectors. When you plant orange trees or mango trees you don’t expect to start reaping the fruits in one or two years it may take a bit of time to start harvesting the fruits. Similarly, the benefits of what the new dawn government is doing may not be seen now or immediately but the positive outcomes and impact of development would be realised and seen in five to ten years time from now. The government is implementing short and long-term economic development agenda. It is only a foolish and insane person who plants a tree today and expect to harvest its fruits immediately. President Hikainde Hichilema has brought integrity and sanity to politics in Zambia and only the ignorant and enemies of progress cannot see the good the government is doing and has done.