FIND TIME TO VISIT ECL TOO, BISHOPS URGE HH

IF President Hakainde Hichilema is able to visit former vice president Guy Scott, Zambians do not expect him to have difficult engaging with his predecessor Edgar Lungu, says the Bishops Council of Zambia (BCZ).

BCZ general secretary Bishop Able Kaela said Mr Hichilema was seen on Wednesday visiting Dr Scott when he has totally ignored the former president who has a wealth of knowledge in so far as governance is concerned.

He also condemned the chief government spokesperson, Mr Cornelius Mweetwa for dismissing a call by the opposition to have an indaba to find solutions to the problems that the country was facing.

Bishop Kaela said the called by the consortium of opposition political parties was reasonable owing to the economic problems that the country was facing. He said the problem with Zambians was that they do not want to work together because most people do not want to share the accolades especially the politicians.

“No one has the monopoly of knowledge to run government, there is need for concerted effort for things to work especially government systems,” he said.

Bishop Kaela said Zambia need a government that would take the opposition as a major stakeholder in the governance of the country.

He said a government must listen to the opposition, they were supposed to be consulted when things are not moving in the right direction.

Bishop Kaela said the problem that the UPND was facing was that they have categorised the oppositions as failures just as Mr. Mweetwa stated on Wednesday which was a wrong notion.