PRESIDENT HH’S ENGAGEMENT AND INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD: A DEMONSTRATION OF DEDICATED LEADERSHIP
Other than carrying a lean delegation and reducing on lavish travels and spending, since assuming office, President HH has demonstrated prudence, dedication and forward looking to achieve a better Zambia for all.
President HH has attended two big world meetings in New York (USA) and Glasgow (UK) and in both has been consistently in touch with his people at home briefing them of all his engagements and activities while there through social media.
Surprisingly, the man has used these two meetings to market Zambia’s trade and investment potential and political stability of the country key to safeguarding that investment and trade for the world to appreciate.
This is transparent and accountable leadership which has been lacking for years now in Zambia as such trips’ knowledge ended at leaving the country, attending the meeting and coming back from.the meeting and issuing statements when going out and coming in the country from such meeting, everthing else was a secret.
While his fellow leaders left the meetings countries immediately after these two meetings, President HH remained behind lobbying for his country and winning potential investors to the country as seen by the newly signed agreement on green economic growth between UK and Zambia.
Which other country did that when they left immediately after the meeting others might have gone shopping instead of marketing their countries.
This is unheard of of any head of state and govermnet sacrificing his leisure time meeting other corporates, institutions, individuals and leaders with the sole purpose of marketing his/her country abroad on the shorelines of or after such global meetings.
Since independence, this type of dedicated leaderahip to national duty has rarely been demonstrated in Zambia.
Many global leaders do take whirlwind meeting attendance approach despite some going their to doze after spending so much state resources to attend these meetings.
A country can only win investment if the leader is engaging and interacting with various global institutions that matter both broad and locally.
Those who have been used to running secret and unaccountable government systems are even complaining when President HH convene a media brief to feedback the nation of his activities and account for his time abroad.
To this end, President HH has demonstrated true leadership anchored on openness, transparent and accountability and his ministers must emulate him, though some have already become expensive to meet or even share national discourse.
Continue the hard work for the country President HH.
I submit
McDonald Chipenzi