GOVERNMENT has said 75 buses meant for the youth empowerment programme would be in the country this year once everything had been done.
Youth, Sport and Child Development Minister Moses Mawere said when he paid a courtesy call on Eastern Province Minister Makebi Zulu in his office in Chipata yesterday that the Government was committed to youth empowerment.
He said this was because the youth possess a wide variety of talents that the Government was nurturing and developing for their benefit.
Mr Mawere said this would help the youth to identify, cultivate and positively utilize their talents once empowered.
“We are expecting 75 buses for the empowerment of the youth not only in the provinces across the country but even in some districts. As a Government we want to exploit these talents to ensure that they benefit the youth economically,” he said.
Mr Mawere who is accompanied by Chief Sport Development Officer Raphael Mulenga said Government would continue setting aside funds for the benefits of the youth empowerment programme.
He explained that his ministry had come up with another empowerment programme of tricycle motoralised which would assist the young people to travel from one place to another without facing any challenge.
Mr Mawere also appealed to the provincial minister to help find land for the youth resettlement scheme.
He said once the land was found, Government would empower the young people so as to enable them engage in decent and honest income generating ventures.
And Mr Zulu said he was happy that Government programmes in the province were going on well.
He said he was also happy that district agricultural coordinators and extension officers were monitoring any effects of army worms in the province adding that the pesticides have already been distributed.
Mr Zulu said there was need to extend the youth empowerment fund to all districts in the province stating that youth had the potential to foster tangible developments once empowered.
The Youth Minister was currently in the province to meet various groupings among them traditional leadership, party officials and beneficiaries of the buses.
Party cadres..Who will be monitoring how these buses are being used and if at all they are generating income to be used in the next cycle of cadre empowerment?
Visionless PF, ain’t the districts in the provinces?
Total mediocrity by PF bandits. How much is fuel & mealie meal on top of load shedding?
No priorities by the incompetent PF. Even visionless Lungu’s directive came too late, already months after PF sheepishly failed to deliver farming inputs on time. To date, FISP have not been achieved by this failed PF project of blind Dagama.
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buying buses in preparation for 2020 election compains ba kawalala aba…
As a person who once had a bus business, I can assure you that this will not work, Running a bus business is not as easy as you think. These guys will just the buses and will not pay back not even a penny. Empower this guys with skills not buses. What i discovered was that when it came to maintenance of the bus the takings would not cover the repairs/maintenance of the bus, So when ever there was work to be done on the bus I had to deep deep into my pockets to pay for repairs the bus was not making enough to pay for itself and by the time you break even the bus is a rake and it can not run any more. Can you imagine i had a normal job and i could not manage how about these PF thugs who have very little business knowledge and know how, This is a waste of tax payers money but knowing that…
Youths don’t need STYOPET buses for empowerment. This is surely an 1diotic PF leader’s idea to procure useless buses instead of buying…
– Sewing machines
– Knitting machines
– welding machines
– tractors
– woodworking tools & equipment
– sheet metal tools & equipment
– Landscaping tools
– Vocational Training & skills development
– Laptops
– Electronics repair tools & training
– Auto-mechanics tools & training
– Bricklaying & construction training & tools
– Plumbing training & tools
– Electrician training & tools
– Artisan mining training & tools
– Simple smelting training & tools
– Gemstone polishing training & tools
ETC.
The problem I’ve seen among Zambians is that they all want white-collar jobs & shun to develop vocationa skills with their HANDS.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your HANDS.
Proverbs 10:4-5 Lazy HANDS make for poverty, but diligent HANDS bring wealth.
Working with our HANDS is the only thing that will lift us from poverty. If you remember ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR, when the train arrived, the Jews who had knew how to work with their HANDS were separated from those who had no skills.
@ Maloza ‘walasa’,tell them and teach them to think!
@Heptor forfivin, thanks man.
Build industries not these buses mwebantu
It is laughable!
MAIN BENEFICIARIES ARE:
RATSA(transport lords) as they will have 75 tenants who will be paying vehicle registration fees, road tax, drivers licence, etc annually. Good numbers move for Ratsa!
INSURANCE COMPANIES via insurance policies! more premiums for them as they register these buses for insurance! More tenants(75) for insurance firms!
FUEL DEALERS via sales of fuel provided they(transpoters) open accounts with these dealers
ETC.
Numbers don’t lie!
MOre wastage and ill thought ideas what youth…more like party cadres who is going to payback for this…reminds me of those cheques BUFFOON Kambwili was handling out a few years ago to so call youth. I wonder how many paid back.
This is the selfsame loan they got in our childrens name from African Development Bank last year…its clearly primary school mindset getting a loan without any plan and the first thing that comes to mind is getting a taxi or a bus.
Our roads are awash with irresponsible Bus owners and these empty tins are going to add 75 more cadres, ministers relatives to that list. There is simply no value addition importing that many buses instead of investing in agriculture or education.
Indeed as an engineer myself, l would rather we utilise such funds when available in building infrastructure developments that could teach our young the skills MALOZA has highlighted above.
Where did the money come from that was used to buy these busses? Why didn’t they use that money to sponsor students at UNZA? Education is more empowering than anything else. I hope those busses will be handed over to the co-operatives and not individuals.
It is not a good idea as we already have a lot of buses on our roads. Do we want to just raise youths that are just buses conductors and drivers? We’ve an abundance of such. Maybe Gov’t can buy them some items from the list somebody gave earlier on: see list below:
– Sewing machines
– Knitting machines
– welding machines
– tractors
– woodworking tools & equipment
– sheet metal tools & equipment
– Auto-mechanics tools & training
– Bricklaying & construction training & tools
– Plumbing training & tools
– Artisan mining training & tools
– Simple smelting training & tools
– Gemstone polishing training & tools
ETC.