Focus on real issues - Hikaumba

By James Muyanwa

ZAMBIA Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Leonard Hikaumba has advised Zambians to focus on positive aspects of their political activities for the country to forge ahead in its development process.

Mr Hikaumba said it is important for all Zambians to concentrate on building peace in the nation because it was the basis for all endevours including development, democracy and social cohesion.

Mr. Hikaumba said in an interview that some of the trends in Zambia’s political and social arenas were not conducive to national development because they were diverting people’s attention from the real issues to triviality.


“Democracy , national unity and development can suffer in such an environment, the sooner people realized that what was happening has a negative bearing on all these, the better, so that they can change the approach,” he said.

He said that the labour movement was worried about the current situation in the country where people could not speak to each in a brotherly manner and appealed to Zambians to work hard to change the current culture.


He said it was strange that the culture of confrontation and acrimony had now even spilt to the non political arena to include churches, labour movements and sport.


Mr Hikaumba said holding different of opinion was allowed in a democracy and all citizens should realize that so that they could respect each other’s views no matter how divergent adding that every Zambian should strive to make peace and co-existence the foundations of national stability.
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