Daily Nation Newspaper

Analyst Ng’oma slams NDF critics

- By SILUMESI MALUMO

CRITICS of the just ended national dialogue must be ignored because they do not mean well for the country, a political analyst Alex Ng’oma has said.

Dr Ng’oma told the Daily Nation in an interview yesterday, that doomsayers would be proven wrong because the NDF adopted clauses that would bring hope to the country’s peace and unity.

He said it was being irresponsi­ble especially for people who did not attend the deliberati­ons to talk ill about the outcome of the NDF.

Dr Ng’oma who is political science lecturer at the University of Zambia, said that it was prudent for the nation to ignore destructor­s of the wellbeing of the country.

He said Zambian people must ignore mere critics that would not have any

The adoption of the Constituti­on amendment bill, the Public Order Act and the electoral system are critical to the nation. The same people who have been crying for this issues for long time have changed colours today and we do not know who they want to please,”—

impact to the national developmen­t.

Dr Ng’oma noted that it was embarrassi­ng especially for people vying for

Dr Ng’oma.

higher office in the land to be always negative on issues that could change the welfare of the country.

Dr Ng’oma said doomsayers do not mean well for the nation, saying that it was prudent that the nation supported the clauses that intend to bring sanity in the country. “It is embarrassi­ng to see people who did not even attend the national dialogue to talk ill on issues which were adopted. These people do not even know how the clauses were adopted.

It is important that Zambians ignore critics who always want to say negative things on issues that will bring change to the nation.

“The adoption of the Constituti­on Amendment Bill, the Public Order Act and the electoral system are critical to the nation. The same people who have been crying for these issues for a long time have changed colours today and we do not know who they want to please,” Dr Ng’oma said.

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