Respect Traditional chiefs -Kitwe DC

Let me take this opportunity to caution some opposition political leaders who are demeaning the role of the traditional leaders they play in the national development of the nation at all levels.

The opposition political leaders from various political parties should not criticize the Government anyhow unnecessary because their role is to provide checks and balances to the Government of the day which is the PF.

Traditional Chiefs are important to the economical and social development of Zambia and it is unacceptable for some selfish politicians who wants to gain the cheap political mileage by discrediting chiefs who are vital to the PF Government.
The opposition must help the Government to govern the citizens of the land by leaving the traditional leaders alone because they are not politicians and they are non partisan just like us the civil servants who serve in the interest of the public.

Let me advise the political players from the opposition arena that they should not bring the traditional Chiefs in their political battles because Chiefs represent the people from various sectors of the economy with or without any political inclination.

Some opposition political parties who are trying to mud sling the traditional chiefs dotted in different parts of the country should refrain from being lawlessness because the chiefs are essential to the development of the nation as the PF Government has recognised the importance of the Chiefs unlike in the previous regime.

The bitterness of the opposition political players should not be extended to the PF Government which has embraced all the traditional chiefs by empowering them with monthly salaries and other allowances which they never used to have access to before the PF came into power.

For the past 50 years since Zambia gained independence from the Britons in 1964 the chiefs were living in deplorable houses but the PF Government has come on board by constructing modern and acceptable palaces that makes chiefs to feel the sense of belonging in the country without any remorse.

Some opposition political parties are fighting the Government instead of providing solutions to the Government for the benefit of the citizens because the issue of dragging traditional Chiefs in the political atmosphere is not healthy…

As the District Commissioner of Kitwe am appealing to some opposition political parties who are frustrating Government’s efforts in improving the living standards of the traditional chiefs to resist from issuing careless statements in the media anyhow.

Chiefs should be respected by the opposition political stakeholders because the PF Government led by his Excellency Edgar Chagwa Lungu is committed to enhance the interests of the traditional chiefs because a nation without culture and traditional norms is a dead one…

Best regards Colleagues, Work well and GOD be with You Always.

Issued by Chanda Kabwe

Kitwe District Commissioner