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Take a leading role in organizing and facilitating for healing in the country-Nawakwi

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FDD President Edith Nawakwi at Heroes Stadium
FDD President Edith Nawakwi at Heroes Stadium

Opposition FDD President Edith Nawakwi has called on the Church to a leading role in organizing and facilitating for healing as the country is hurting.

Speaking when she officiated at the United Church of Zambia jubilee musical festivals in Lusaka Ms. Nawakwi said the Church has always played a critical role in the maintenance of peace in the country and that it is important that it takes the front role in organizing and facilitating for peaceful elections on Tuesday.

The opposition leader who is the a member of the UCZ said the country needs prayers because it is at cross roads as it searches for the next leader.

Ms. Nawakwi noted that without the critical role the Church has played in the past elections the country would have disintegrated into anarchy.

“The country is hurting and it is important that the church takes a front role in organizing and facilitating healing in the country. It is important that the Church reaches out to not only to those within the church but everyone across churches and outside churches as the country needs all of us to be heading in the same direction.”

And Ms. Nawakwi reiterated her massage for the need for Zambians to embrace unity and peace in the country.

“As you travel back you take one massage that is the massage of peace and unity. Were you see us politicians fighting I plead with you the Church to come in because I think that everybody never doubt when their spiritual directors tells them to calm down.”

“At each time when there has been conflict in the country it has always been the church that brings the waring parties together.”

And the opposition leader has commended the United Church of Zambia for the role it has continued to play in the maintenance of peace in the country noting that “UCZ has in the forefront of being a peace maker, being a church that embraces every race, nationality and tribe.”

Meanwhile, the opposition leader was one of the thousands that attended the UCZ jubilee celebrations at hero’s stadium in Lusaka.

Others dignitaries in attendance were Zambia’s first President Dr. Kenneth Kaunda and Acting President Dr. Guy Scott among others.

In the photos president Nawakwi addressing choir members from different provinces who attended the festivals at government complex on Saturday.

8 COMMENTS

  1. Madam President Nawakwi

    You have made positive progress on the Zambian political scene. Your message of peace and unity is appropriate.

    Though you are unlikely to make it to Plot 1 this time round, you have broken barriers to make a spirited challenge in 2016. The same applies for the young man Chipimo.

    As it were this time I see the two slugging it out to the finish line: PF and UPND. Both are in contention.

    • For the common Good lets keep mama Nawakwi closer in public policy for a consensus leadership President Lungu brings to the country. She espouses a high degree of maturity, wisdom, composure, patriotism, experience and intellect earned over the years.

      President Lungu unlike Mr. know it all, is a consensus leader who will lead the country based on an inclusive approach.

      She has earned our respect.

    • @Senior Citizen.

      This vote will be epoch making and its likely to be a vote where as Pretty says, the populace on voting should cast their vote for:

      that child in who has no food let alone a uniform nor school fees
      a parent bowed in shame for not having the means to feed, educate his children
      the unpaid farmers and the late paid farmers
      the sick in homes who have been discharged from hospitals because there are no drugs
      Violence free Zambia
      a reduction in prices of essential commodities
      jobs for youths who now fill streets
      entrenching democracy
      People driven constitution
      true national unity and elimination of state sponsored tribalism and nepotism.

      The PF have brought shame, humiliation, suffering which the Zambians should now free themselves.

  2. I should confess that in this election, Mama Nawakwi has earned our respect in her none smearing campaign of issues with mutual respect. I would recommend her name to President Lungu for incorporation in national policy decision making role along the way. She has come out intelligent, mature and patriotic. She is a national asset.

    • @Senior Citizen,

      Have you not heard her smear campaign against PF?

      I can read that you have just listened to her debate. This lady has mercilessly thumped, hammered and pounded PF. HH was preaching policies and peace whilst she was castigating PF. I really like the part where she helped dismantle PF campaigns.

      Viva Nawakwi – thank you for the help.

      Viva #FlightHH2015.

    • # 2.1, In campaign etiquette, you cannot abhor constructive criticism such as what mama Nawakwi has driven her campaign on. Failed campaign such what HH has sponsored of being highly xenophobic against the catholic church and its membership in this race calling them Muslims is a doomed campaign with zero dividends. Vindicate me after the ballot verdict is announced. Mature leaders know that both the Catholics and the Muslim community in Zambia are also Zambians and command a big and serious voting constituency in Zambia. Do not think your violation of their rights will bring you dividends. Unless you don’t know that you desperately need their votes considering that you are faced with a national resistance against your “Its Time for a Tonga to rule” doctrine unfortunately.

  3. Edith Nawakwi Haambulo is a woman that Zambian voters cannot afford to ignore any longer. Her voice is becoming louder and louder and more relevant. She’s a modern day John the Baptist with a lone voice in the wilderness and whoever wins this election, ignores her at his on peril.
    Compare her to Mumbi Phiri, Jean Kapata or Elizabeth Chitika, then you will clearly see what I mean. Zambian women have become vehicles of bad mouthing and foul language, conduits of tribal hate and ‘unmotherly’ behavior, used or is it ‘abused’ by men.
    Edith is above that. Her raw and pure Bantu African beauty tells it all.
    Go for it my sister in law, Go!

  4. Edith Nawakwi the 7th Zambian President come 2016. She is the best of all candidates and sh is the peaceful and honest leader. Antonio Mwanza is also the most matured youth leader compare to UPND and PF

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