YOU NEED TO MAKE ECL YOUR BESTIE, LUSAMBO ADVISES HH
…you have limited knowledge on governance while president Lungu has vast knowledge
Kabwe, Friday, February 24, 2023 ( Smart Eagles)
While expressing displeasure with the current state of governance, former Lusaka and Copperbelt Provinces Minister Hon. Bowman Chilosha Lusambo has advised President Hakainde Hichilema to make former president Edgar Lungu his best friend.
Hunger, lack of medicines in health facilities, high cost of living, escalated prices of mealie meal and fuel, tax holidays to mining companies and many other retrogressive developments have characterized the governance of the UPND “angels.”
Speaking when he featured on KNC Radio yesterday in Kabwe, Hon Lusambo lectured President Hichilema that governing does not work like the running of a private company.
“Governing is hard. Governing a country does not work like you are running your company. Governing a country requires you to understand the people that you are governing. And after you understand the people you are governing, you also have to look at the country’s economy,” he said.
“Economy, from what I know, the economy is made up of people. You can’t start talking about inflation, exchange rate, debt restructuring when people are dying of hunger. You can’t say I want to fix this before I come and look at the people, what if they die? If all people die, then who are you fixing the country for?”
He argued that one doesn’t need to be a graduate to be a good leader.
Hon Lusambo lamented that people in Kabwe are wallowing in poverty.
“You don’t have to be a UNZA graduate to know how to govern the country. You don’t need degrees for you to know how to govern. Governing a country implies that one needs to use the mind and heart. People are dying of hunger. Right here in Kabwe people are dying of hunger. We have noticed that the natural resources in Kabwe haven’t and won’t help the people. What will help the people is farming. What keeps Kabwe is agriculture,” he said.
“What President Hakainde Hichilema needs to do is to make president Lungu his best friend. Because Edgar Lungu knows how to govern the country. President Lungu has served as a Deputy Minister, as a Cabinet Minister…until he became president. President Edgar Lungu has been in government for 10 years, he knows how government ought to run. He once worked as minister in the office of the Vice President. He worked one on one with late president Michael Sata. This is why he succeeded, because he was taught…”
He singled out a number of mistakes that have led to the UPND administration to have the governance challenges it is having today.
One of the mistakes he singled out is the kicking out of the experienced people from the system and replacing them with people who have no idea on how the government is run.
“President Lungu is one person who used to listen to his advisors. President Hakainde Hichilema cannot tell us that he has known how to govern because he has never been in government. And he took people who have never been in government and gave them government positions. The people that we worked with are those that we found in government. The directors, those in the ministries as well as those in the provinces.”
“An example of the people President Hichilema gave a government position to who knows nothing is the Permanent Secretary for Central Province, my friend. He is my friend; he was a cadre in the political fraternity. He used to come at my house. We would eat together and drink together because we are friends.”