Politicians taking to propaganda

I WRITE to first and foremost wish you all a happy 2021. It is indeed by God’s grace that we have managed to be here and yet again engage one another as we head towards the August 12 general elections.

Indeed, the road has not been smooth and it is getting even worse the closer we get to the election date, with political media teams engaging the general citizenry at all levels.

One notable system however is where, instead of the real politicians to come forth on radio and TV programmes to engage with us the citizen and tell us why they are relevant going into the general elections, most or none have fallen short of that much needed hope.

Media personnel of most of these political parties many times do not even respond direct questions that do not need explaining, meaning their presence on a political programme is not only wrong but even wasting listeners’ time they spend to ridicule Zambians or to show their level and calibre of political dullness.

It is therefore just prudent for politicians to tell us right in our face what they are going to do for the general welfare of this nation than attacking people who are not part of the guests.

Zambians should be wise enough to see and not be told who can be a better leader after the elections because the writing is on the wall.

I therefore caution political media teams to stop politics of propaganda and engage us on issue-based politics and stop mixing government programmes and party programmes, we are not zombies who should be engaged on that low level of politics.

I also caution all those aspiring to stand to know that Zambians have moved on and know right what to do and when to, so, just make sure you market yourselves well and stop the politics of propaganda.