By Nyalubinge Ngwende
AS we have entered 2014, ZAMBIA does not deserve FRUGAL KIND of LEADERSHIP. At this time and era when NATIONS are making PROGRESS with GREAT IDEAS of CREATING NATIONAL WEALTH and their LEADERS are admired for taking 21st Century DECISIONS and INSPIRING their citizens to be ENGINEERS who forge TOOLS for production, ZAMBIA cannot afford to REMAIN BEHIND.
AS we have entered 2014, ZAMBIA does not deserve FRUGAL KIND of LEADERSHIP. At this time and era when NATIONS are making PROGRESS with GREAT IDEAS of CREATING NATIONAL WEALTH and their LEADERS are admired for taking 21st Century DECISIONS and INSPIRING their citizens to be ENGINEERS who forge TOOLS for production, ZAMBIA cannot afford to REMAIN BEHIND.
As we wake up this 2014, may we look to the
GREATEST HOPE that our FAITH will not FAIL US to see DIVINE INTERVENTION for
the WRONGS that those who were hard to hear made in 2011 when on that September
20th day went to vote for the PATRIOTIC FRONT.
May the SPIRIT of this GREAT NATION ARISE
and SPREAD its STRONG WINGS and SOAR like an EAGLE!
SOLUTIONS to young people's problems of
UNEMPLOYMENT must not be stage managed on television WITHOUT any SUSTAINABLE
POLICY DIRECTION for JOB CREATION. CASUAL WORK must not be the PRIDE of ZAMBIA;
the country needs CLEAR TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRAMS that have a MULTIPLIER EFFECT to
give hope to every USEFUL YOUNG PERSON to see OPPORTUNITIES that are CLEAR and
NOT GUESSES. WASTING OF RESOURCES on youth programs that GIVE LESS RESULTS must
be ABANDONED forthwith. If Constituency Development Fund has not turned
FORTUNES for young people to be PRODUCERS, may it be REDIRECTED to buy TRANSFER
of KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS from China, India, Japan and Malaysia. We cannot have
polytechnic institutions that NEVER INVENT or produce HUMAN RESOURCE able to forge
not even DECORS for a MODERN BUILDING.
WE need NEW THINKING in ENERGY PROGRAMS that
do not just take away space and 
change the RESOURCE BASE on which our RURAL ILK
depend for their lives without giving them the PRIDE of OWNERSHIP. This country
is a SHAME of its ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, power lines pass over several villages
and that GRANDMOTHER will pass on not KNOWING ALTERNATIVE cooking energy, when
all around her there are abundant means to produce the COMMODITY cheaply and
put it in her hands.
change the RESOURCE BASE on which our RURAL ILK
depend for their lives without giving them the PRIDE of OWNERSHIP. This country
is a SHAME of its ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, power lines pass over several villages
and that GRANDMOTHER will pass on not KNOWING ALTERNATIVE cooking energy, when
all around her there are abundant means to produce the COMMODITY cheaply and
put it in her hands.
NEW ENERGY PROJECTS must give our YOUNG
PEOPLE hope like that of a TONGA boy in SOUTHERN PROVINCE who wakes up every
morning DREAMING to be an animal husbandry expert or VET DOCTOR because he
grows up UNDERSTANDING COWS and BULLS so WELL; It must EXUDE HOPE like that
found in a NGONI boy that wakes up to be an ENTREPRENEUR in agriculture commodities
like COTTON and GROUNDNUTS, because he grows up knowing the DYNAMICS of growing
these CROPS.
OUR ENERGY programs must INSPIRE young
people to become part of the BREAKTHROUGHS—finding and engineering new sources
from whatever material that exist around their BACKYARD like the BILL GATES of
this WORLD that are putting everything that they turn their eyes into IMPROVING
the COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY. Our graduates in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING must be
scouring our peripheral areas for OPPORTUNITIES to setup GREEN ENERGY projects
to supply tourism sites, fisheries ice plants and wild fruit beverage
processing plants. If it means stealing or buying technology so that our
GRADUATES can have it, may ZAMBIA go into deeper DEBT than at this time when
BORROWING is for paying back POLITICAL FRIENDS for favours they rendered during
ELECTIONS!
This NATION needs ENTREPRENEUR
opportunities that give a LUSAKA boy the courage to BECOME the RICHARD BRANSON—owner
of the Virgin Group of Companies. If it means government finding a way to GROW
such youths, then we need a MINISTER of YOUTH who does not just talk SPORTS or
become a SANTA CLAUS of distributing money. We NEED to put MONEY in projects
that are GROUND BREAKING and become MODELS of WEALTH and JOB CREATION.
The INSPIRATION for a GREEN REVOLUTION is
already there on our NATION FLAG. MAY we invoke the spirit of our GREEN
BACKGROUND of our FLAG to INSPIRE us doing something GREEN that will make this
country PROUD.
BUT it must be realised that the PATRIOTIC
FRONT lacks what it takes to do this. Already it has showed that the only way
to BUILD our country is by running around to borrow. It is far apart from
DIALOGUE so that it can LISTEN to citizens with the HEART FOR THE PEOPLE and
HEARKEN PASSIONATELY and work together with the AFFECTED to find solutions to
PREDICAMENTS. How would one mean if the IMPASSE with the NURSES has ended up in
DISASTER? This was all the MISTAKE of taking WRONG DECISIONS. If government
leaders create problems in an INSTITUTION that did not have problems and FAIL to
RESOLVE those PROBLEMS, it becomes very HARD to see how they would identify
INHERENT problems that have kept OPPORTUNITIES from its people.
There is NO COURAGE that CAN SURPASS that
of THE HEART that BEATS for the GOOD LIFE of the PEOPLE
May the SPIRIT of this GREAT NATION ARISE
and SPREAD its STRONG WINGS and SOAR like an EAGLE AGAIN!
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