The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) says the PF government must realize that citizens are not interested in the power struggle living the ruling party leadership.According to a pastoral letter issued by CCZ, its general secretary Suzanne Matale says Zambians are only interested in seeing long lasting development in the nation as promised before the elections in September last year.
“We continue to see concentration on the well-being of the leaders rather than the led. The leadership wrangles, in full view of the nation, perpetuated by very senior members of government are an indicator of lack of vision, insight and discipline in the government ranks,” Rev Matale said.
She appealed to President Michael Sata to bring the perceived wrangles among government officials to an immediate stop so that energies of government officials are expended on developing the country.
“Government has set itself to repeat all the things that the Zambians said they did not appreciate in the previous governments. This trend is a threat to the aspiration of the Zambian people who had hoped to see new dispensations, new ideologies, new work ethics, new values and new focus on the improvement of the lives of the people,” she said.
“Many people in Zambia contribute to the national resource basket in terms of paying all kinds of taxes and therefore whether they vote for one party or another, they are all entitled to development because they are all Zambians. Governance issues are not the same as party issues,” she stated.