YOUTHS MUST INSTEAD PICKET UPND MPS TO BACK BILL 10

Dear Editor,

IT is clear that Zambian youths do not know what they want from their leaders. If they did, it will be easier for the government to design policies that would support youth activists across the economic spectrum. Today, some youths want to protest against Government’s running of the nation’s affairs without specifically stating that which it has not done or have done wrong. Isn’t this playing to the gallery?

One would have expected youths to be advocates of the enactment of Bill 10 into law because the bill takes care of their participation in social, economic and governance affairs of this country.

If they were serious about real participation in politics, they could instead of fighting Government which is pushing this bill to ensure that youths take back their rightful place in the governance of this great nation be asking hard questions to the leadership of the UPND as to why they don’t want youths and women of Zambia to have their dignity and positions guaranteed in the constitution by amending it through Bill 10.

The UPND leadership must not go scot free on this issue. The justice minister and his government have been amiable on the amendment of the constitution through Bill 10 by publishing the proposed bill.

It is high time youths and women call for a meeting with the UPND leadership and demand that its MPs support Bill 10 in Parliament.

Let us not be heroes on wrong things, we can be heroes on nation building through engagement with the authorities. Youths’ participation will only be meaningfully achieved if there is a legal framework. Great opportunities for youths not so? The choice is yours, take it or leave it. ENOCK KAPITOLO CHULU, Lusaka.

Let us not be heroes on wrong things, we can be heroes on nation building through engagement with the authorities.