IN LAMBA WE SAY ‘AKABWELELA KALALYA’
BEFORE Free Education Policy was introduced, there were 600, 000 children in schools on the Copperbelt Province.
After Free Education Policy was introduced by President Hakainde Hichilema, the number of children who have gone back to school increased to over one 1.2 million children who are now back in schools, including the orphans from Chipulukusu, Kapoto and other vulnerable communities in the province.
For the former President to say he would abolish the free education policy if he will be elected president of Zambia again when he himself was a beneficiary of free education policy is recklessness of the highest order.
It further demonstrates that the former President has no heart for the children of the Copperbelt Province and the entire country.
What Mr Edgar Lungu should know is that people of Copperbelt and Zambia know very well that President Hichilema means well and has a heart for the people. Free Education Policy is here to stay and it is a game changer for many people across the country.
The statement by Mr Lungu and his team has exposed them big time by wanting to reverse all the good policies
President Hichilema has put in place such as free education policy, increased Constituency Development Fund (CDF), meal allowance, and banning carderism among others.
I would like to advise the great people of Copperbelt Province to take Mr Lungu’s statement seriously and understand that the so-called UKA was formed to come and reverse all the gains which President Hichilema and team have achieved.
Now I understand why in Lamba we say “AKABWELELA KALALYA.”
Never, never again should we allow people who did not care about orphans in Kapoto, Chipulukusu, and Lufwanyama to come and run our country again. If you read between the lines, Mr. Lungu's statement means
reversing a lot of things such as free education, meal allowances for university students, bringing back carderism, reversing NAPSA 20 percent partial withdrawal, taking back Mopani and KCM on its knees, stopping recruitment of teachers and health workers to mention but a few.