President Edgar Lungu says he is aware that some people who were not appointed as District Commissioners are disappointed but he has urged them to cooperate with the newly appointed District Commissioners to enable them deliver services to the people.
President Lungu said it was his prerogative to appoint and disappoint but warned that working against the newly appointed District Commissions to make them fail was tantamount to making him as the Head of State fail.
“I have the power to appoint and disappoint. Those I appoint work hard, those I did not appoint cooperate with the DC’s because, if you don’t and they fail then the President fails,” he said.
The President said this today on arrival at Livingstone’s Harry Mwaanga International Airport ahead of the opening of the High Level Ministerial Meeting on Landlocked Developing Countries, at Chrisma hotel.
He was welcomed by Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Minister, Yamfwa Mukanga, Commerce Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe, Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba, Southern Province Permanent Secretary Sibanze Simuchoba and Senior government and Patriotic Front party officials.
And President Lungu acknowledged the importance of PF members saying they formed the foundation of the ruling party.
“You are important as you form the foundation of our party and I am here because of you. Therefore, we should continue working together in peace,” he said.
Mr. Lungu said it would not be in anyone’s interest to frustrate the ruling party and government as such efforts would not prevail.
The Zambian government together with United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developing Countries, Landlocked Countries and Small Island Developing states (UN-OHRLLS), and development partners are holding a three-day high level ministerial meeting on the special development challenges faced by the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries.
United Nations Under Secretary General and High Representative for Least Developed countries is in attendance and the meeting is expected among other things, to review and identify opportunities and bottlenecks in landlocked developing countries in relation to implementing the 2014 Vienna Program of Action (VPoA).
This visionless bum will never cease to amaze me…surely what is the need for DCs when the cabinet and civil service is already bloated and govt is broke??
Don’t you know that the position of the D.C. is Gazette by parley. You need to petition parley to consider scraping it off don’t just shoot in the air.