2024 LABOUR DAY Celebration
POLITICAL AND HIGH COST OF LIVING
Like many Companies and Political parties, today UNITED LIBERAL PARTY which is a proud alliance member of UKA matched from Lusaka civic Center to Freedom statue to join the rest of Zambians to celebrate this year’s Labour day, though we in ULP have nothing to celebrate about because our Brothers and Sisters have been subjected to a harsh Economy.
One cannot separate Politics from Economy because the falling of our economy has been created by President Hakainde Hichilema and UPND Government.
Further to this ,rights to assemble are on a downward slope by not allowing opposition Political players to hold physical public rallies, that alone is sending negative indication to the outside world especially to the international community that the ruling party is authoritarian hence it will scare away potential investors because they are watching how this Government is denying the opposition Political parties.
A country like Zambia should not even need to frame its foreign policy to attract investments NO Good governance itself will attract it.
President Hakainde Hichilema prior to 2021 General elections he promised Zambians that he will lower the cost of living and the fuel pump price was among the list of items he promised but the opposite is what is happening,we in the UNITED LIBERAL PARTY and a proud alliance member of UKA we want to tell the President to UKA (rise) because he is still sleeping and the prices of our households items are being increased everyday. This has never happened before where the cost of living has become unbearable.
Let me now outline what we will do as ULP
EDUCATION
We in ULP through UKA will bring free and quality Education where Teacher and pupil ratio will be manageable through the Ministry responsible not what we are witnessing Under this Government of President Hakainde Hichilema.
CDF
We in UNITED LIBERAL PARTY believe that this programme of Community Development Fund should be distributed to all the Zambian People in all the Districts of this Republic not in a family or close associates of a Minister, like in the case of Information Minister Mweetwa where Village headmen in Southern Province rose against Him over the distribution of CDF.
This year’s Labour day celebration is a myth to all of us including the civil servants because the cost of living is unbearable.
Issued by
CHISALA KASAKULA
UNITED LIBERAL PARTY
VICE PRESIDENT.
Ba Chisala Kasakula you show your ignorance bwana…
1. Its hypocritical when you start the article with a statement
“Like many Companies and Political parties, today UNITED LIBERAL PARTY which is a proud alliance member of UKA matched from Lusaka civic Center to Freedom statue to join the rest of Zambians to celebrate this year’s Labour day, though we in ULP have nothing to celebrate about because our Brothers and Sisters have been subjected to a harsh Economy.”
Why did bother to join the Labour day March (not match as in football), if you dont support the act of marching from Civic Center to the Freedom staute? We seem to do things because someone else is doing it and dont stop to ask ourselves why we are doing it. We will steal or support thieves and when we get to heaven wonder and complain to God for punishing us for having stolen property. Yet we gladly helped, part took and accepted stolen property.
2. Great that you accept “equal student teacher ratio” but ask if you even know what that means? But we get the gist of what you probably meant.
However, infrastucture is lagging to make that a reality. Its been lagging from the 1970s due to the fact that after indpendence and introduction of free education by UNIP, investment in school infrastructure was low. Even efforts by the world bank in the late 1970s to assist in this regard was far out stripped by the school student population and was not enough. The current schools dont even have enough desks. Hence the UPND approach to start with the desks and finish off the structures that PF was not able to do.
The needs can never be fully appreciated in this regard and so decentralisation through CDF and drive capacity among the community to supply some of these services (building schools, desks) be done at community level. Remember government is the largest driver of the economy. Let the money go right down to the community so that capacity/money is spent in the districts where Government has struggled to get money to as when contracts are given to a contract in Lusaka (very little remains in the district) if a contract is local then that person will spend that money in the district. The concept is slow in the uptake. Our culture is the issue. We want to spend those loans on consumptive projects that build infrastructure which over time will yield a base for growth.
3. Pls dont misunderstand what CDF is. Its not for sharing. Its a means by which public resources are direct to the community to stimulate growth directly and community ownership of public structures. Most structures are vandalised by the same community as they perceive the infrastructure as “government” divorced from them yet the concept is “government is us” the people.
So again your understanding of policy is shocking at best and its sad that you even suggest that you lead a Political Party. What is disappointing is that we have so many people whose perception is that Government its their ATM. Yet other suffer tax deduction and payments to sustain others whose understanding is this.