Leaders must learn from President Lungu’s visits to constituencies

Dear Editor,

Political leadership is centred on rendering various services to the electorate. Zambia is not an exception.

There is a common tendency among some of our political leaders who shun visiting their respective constituencies and wards for instance. These political leaders include members of parliament.

During campaign period, these politicians promise a lot of things regarding development projects to woo support from the electorate.

When these politicians garner the much needed support, they emerge victorious by virtue of winning elections.

However, it has become a common trend for some politicians to shun visiting their constituencies thereby depriving the electorate of the much needed development.

President Edgar Lungu made a pronouncement that he would start visiting the constituencies so that he can personally interact with people.

Furthermore, this will help the Head of State assess performance of the lawmakers in their respective constituencies.

We are tired of these absent lawmakers in our constituencies.

Worse still, some of our politicians only make themselves available to the electorate during election time.

Some of our lawmakers holding ministerial positions give the excuse that they are preoccupied with the government tasks, but that is not good enough

This should not be condoned because we the electorate are being taken for granted by leaders we voted into power.