(LUSAKATIMES) Ndola freedom fighter backs RB

Ndola freedom fighter backs RB
January 4, 2009

A former freedom fighter, Isaac Kanyanta, has defended President Rupiah Banda’s government over the partial increases in mealie-meal and fuel prices in Zambian. Mr Kanyanta said price increases could have happened regardless of who was the president of the country because of their global mature.

Mr. Kanyanta told ZANIS in Ndola in an interview that economies of the World equally experiencing a financial melt down which manifests in various of local economies whose solution does not lie in one formula but several targeting various sectors.

The freedom fighter’s emphasised that tourism must be supported because it creates jobs and could help absolve those being laid off in the mining sector.

He said food production in the agricultural sector was another solution because even when there was an economic problem globally, when citizens were fed, they might not feel the effects of the global melt down at family levels.

He said enhanced production of food locally could lessen the unreasonableness that characterize the justification for public demonstrations because public demonstrations do not add value to finding solutions to economic problems.

Mr. Kanyanta added that even people involved in public demonstrations need food to have energy to demonstrate though such actions do not produce food in themselves.

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