LETTERS - Professionals, Constitutional Debates
Appreciating professionalsBy Clergyman
Monday July 02, 2007 [04:00]
The Vice-President's assertion that Zambia lacks qualified professionals (The Post 29/06/07) cannot pass without a comment. I do appreciate the Vice-President’s point of view as well as the concerns he raised. But that is just one side of the coin.
The other side of the coin is that Zambia has in the past and even now produced qualified engineers, lawyers, doctors, economists among other professions. The only problem is that we do not value our own sons and daughters in terms of monatery compensation. Zambia has produced a lot of brilliant professionals who are given peanuts at the end of the day in terms of incentives.
Because of the poor remuneration, our professionals have migrated to other countries.
How does one explain a situation where an expertriate with similar qualifications as a Zambian getting two times if not three times the pay with other incentives.
Mathematically, there is something definitely wrong.
Until we learn to pay better salaries and value our own human resources - 'made in Zambia' we will continue mourning about the lack of qualified professionals.
We are about six months or so to the next budget, I hope the Vice-President as leader of the House will influence the honourables to do good for our professionals. They need to feel valued before we cast a stone on them as unpatriotic.
Time for a better incentives plan for our professionals is now. Otherwise, the saying, "failure to plan is planning to fail" will forever hold true for us. I rest my case!
http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=28545
Political debates are not beneficial
By Jonas Chanda
Monday July 02, 2007 [04:00]
From a distance I’ve watched useless and endless political debates over such a basic requirement as a constitution, with our government leaders hallucinating between total rejection of the constituent assembly with the resultant red-ribbon movement opposing their view; to toying with such expensive ideas as a referendum for determining the mode of adopting the constitution, and to eventually inter-changing words like "Constitution Conference" and "Constituency Assembly."
All this is done to manipulate and hoodwink the poverty-stricken people of Zambia whose basic needs of life - food, jobs, clean water, quality and affordable health and educational services, good roads, etc - go unmet and are all but forgotten.
The political tensions which are being exacerbated in Zambia to boiling point will not be beneficial to anyone.
In Zambia we seem to take our relative stability for granted and hence the unrestricted tribal sentiments championed by some politicians.
We have the Western Province MMD cadres demanding that a Lozi should succeed Mwanawasa, as if Zambia were a kingdom based on succession and succession disputes.
I am sure the same will follow from Northern, Luapula, Eastern, Central, Copperbelt, Southern, Lusaka, and North Western provinces.
Then the traditional chiefs are drawn into personalised political debates and chief Mwata Kazembe moves in to protect his subject as, according to him, he sees political and tribal connotations to the former president's conviction. Then the Bemba-speaking PF MPs state their point basically echoing the perceptions of Bembas who think Chiluba is being persecuted unjustly.
Labels: CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
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