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(LUSAKATIMES) Milupi’s opposition to the publication of Barotse Agreement shock Sichinga

Milupi’s opposition to the publication of Barotse Agreement shock Sichinga
TIME PUBLISHED - Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 2:11 pm

Government has accused those opposed to the publication of the Barotseland agreement of 1964 of having ulterior motives. President Michael Sata has decided to publicize the Barotseland agreement to enable citizens understand and appreciate the contents therein.

Reacting to Alliance for Democracy and Development leader Charles Milupi who is said to be against the publicizing of the Barotseland agreement, Commerce, trade and industry Minister Bob Sichinga has expressed shock that certain people can oppose the President’s goodwill.

Mr Sichinga said that Mr Milupi should have been the first to acknowledge that the gesture by the President is good.

He notes that there is currently a generation of people in the country who were not there in 1964 and do not know what the Barotseland agreement is all about.

He says releasing the agreement to the general public will therefore enable people understand its contents, such that when they engage in debate and discussion they will be talking from an informed position.

Mr Sichinga further pointed out that the interests in the Barotse agreement do not only affect the Lozi speaking alone, but that it also affects other tribes in western province.

Meanwhile Mr Sichinga says it is the MMD government which should have considered the costly reversal of the sale of Zamtel to LAP Greent Network of Libya when they made the wrong decision.

Reacting to former Finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane’s assertions that the reversal of the sale of Zamtel will be very costly to the country, Mr Sichinga wonders whether it was not costly when a wrong was made to sale Zamtel to LAP Green.

He was speaking on Radio Phoenix’s Let the People Talk monitored by QFM this morning.

QFM

Labels: BAROTSELAND AGREEMENT, CHARLES MILUPI, ROBERT SICHINGA, SITUMBEKO MUSOKOTWANE

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