Zambia: Nawakwi Accuses Pres Lungu of Being Insensitive

opinion

It is shocking that while the country is sinking in a deep social and economic crisis, our President has the pleasure to fly around to see the The Holy See leaving behind a crisis at UNZA and CBU.

Let me be very clear, no one says the President shouldn't see the Pope, NO, we just strongly believe that the President's number one priority must be to attend to the urgent needs of his people here at home before he decides to fly around. The money that he is using carrying a huge contigent of Government officials and PF cadres to Rome could have better been used to pay the students at our two public universities and avert the retrogressive and unnecessary closures. The man is indeed callous! No wonder he preferred to use millions of taxpayers' money ferrying PF cadres to Heroes Stadium to append his signature to the Amended Constitution while pregnant mothers in our clinics and hospitals are forced to use buckets and jik when delivering.

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