FFTUZ ticks off Rupiah’s one year in office

FFTUZ ticks off Rupiah’s one year in office
By Margaret Habbuno
Tue 03 Nov. 2009, 15:58 CAT

President Rupiah Banda’s twelve months in office is nothing to talk home about because no economic development has taken place, FREDRATION of Free Trade Unions in Zambia (FFTUZ) president Joyce Nonde-Simukoko has said.

In an interview on Monday to mark President Banda’s one year in office, Simukoko said President Banda had done nothing to address the economic challenges that the country was facing.

“It is difficult to pin point what the President has done in his one year rule because he has failed to deliver for the people of Zambia,” she said. “If you look at the campaign massage that he put across, he had promised to follow the Mwanawasa legacy of which he has failed.”

She said the country doesn’t even know the kind of governance programme he had which made it impossible for the public to figure out what he had done for the country. Simukoko said it was sad that President Banda could not stop the privatisation of Zamtel.

“There is really nothing to say about his rule.The other one that he is likely to cripple is the media fraternity which he intends to give statutory regulation an idea several stakeholders are against,” said Simukoko.