Mr Kampyongo echoed the sentiments made by SADC Chairman President Hage Geingob during the official opening of the 38th Ordinary -SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Windhoek yesterday.
Mr Kampyongo pointed out that free movement of people in the region as espoused in the Free Trade initiative is a good idea but that the region should be conscious that bad people and activities are stopped.
In an interview with ZANIS in Windhoek today, Mr. Kampyongo pointed out that Zambia and the region should ensure that law enforcement agencies and security wings are always alert to ensure no undesirable elements are allowed to freely move across borders.
He said money laundering must be monitored as countries venture into accepting investments so that industrialization is realized in a legitimate manner.
Meanwhile, Mr Kampyongo says government is grateful for the confidence bestowed on the country and its leadership by SADC member countries.
He explained that President Lungu’s taking over the Troika Organ on Politics, Defence and Security is not a mean achievement considering that a lot of scrutiny especially on the stability of the countfry is taken into consideration before handing such a task to any country.
He said President Lungu is taking up Chairmanship of the Troika Organ at the same time that the Zambian Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja took over the Chairmanship of the Southern Africa Regional Police Chiefs’ Co-operation Organisation-SARPCCO from his Angolan counterpart.
Mr Kampyongo explained that it is perfect that Zambia is assuming such leadership roles in the region saying every Zambian should be proud.
He however said President Lungu has added responsibilities especially that he is taking up Chairmanship of the Troika organ at the time many countries in the region are going to the polls.
He said the President will work closely with the President of Namibia and other member states.
President Lungu who has since left Windhoek, Namibia for Lusaka was among several Heads of State and Government at the 38th Ordinary Southern African Development Community-SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government which closed today.
The theme of the summit which is being held at the Safari conference centre is “Promoting Infrastructure Development and Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development’’
The theme builds on the focus of the past four SADC summits that looked at how the region can attain industrial development.
Namibian President Hage Geingob assumed the leadership of the regional organisation from his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa.
Infrastructure includes prisons. Please just prove the state of our terrible prisons which are just concentration camps. Then reduce traffic fines that way most erring drivers won’t bribe your traffic officers and the State as a whole will earn more revenue as everyone will gladly pay what they can afford not the current case where you can be slapped with a charge of K3000 for a range of fixable problems.
I would like to agree with the Minister on this one. Zambia is known as a haven of peace and this will attract most people from war-torn, poverty stricken countries to Zambia and most likely Lusaka. Zambia’s infrastructure is not full developed to contain with large population of diverse backgrounds especially criminals. The same might be the case for other cities in the region, SADC need to rethink this strategy. Human tracking will be come order of the day.
Firstly, how does SADC reach the decision to have someone take up an important leadership role in their group? Do they check someone’s credentials, and evaluate the general performance of a potential candidate in their respective countries, to see if they have solid, successful track record of effective leadership in their country? Because if they did, they would’ve known that Lungu is ineffective as a leader in his own country. How do they expect him to be effective on SADC level? Is this some kind of a joke or what? It’s reminiscent of the African Union making Mugabe the chairman of the AU at one time. And all he had to do was crack jokes to entertain the AU members. Please be serious. That’s why people have little faith in these organizations.
Secondly, it’s easy to solve the…
(Continued)… issue of security in the SADC countries, so we can have a successful free movement of people. All you need to do is create a common database that can be accessed by security agents in all SADC countries. Then issue digitized IDs to all SADC countries citizens. These digitized IDs should have unique numbers that can be used by security agents to check if someone has any serious criminal history, or has a warrant for his/her arrest. That’s it. It’s just punch in the numbers at the boarder— no warrants? No serious criminal record? Good to go. The same digitized ID can be used by internal security agents, such as the police to check someone’s real identity. I’m not an expert, but I think something like that can work. Just an idea.
There will always be bad elements in any decision. Just work out plans
Free movement of people across countries does not work , ask the Europeans…….its like leaving your house doors open for any body from the street to come in and feel at home…
Think hard on this one CO’s we don’t want the likes of book haram,al shabab n Ebola on the loose in Zambia
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