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Former Finance Minister Condemed for Shunning the Just Ended Economic Summit

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(L-R), Zambia International Property Expo Chairman, Christopher Jannou, Nkwashi’s Executive Chairman Dr. Musokotwane and Nkwashi’s Head of Portfolio Management Mumamba Mwansa

Economics Association of Zambia (EAZ) Youth Wing has expressed its utmost disappointment at the sentiment uttered by Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane regarding his absence at the Economic Summit held in Livingstone.

Dr Musokotwane issued a statement stating that his conscience could not allow him to attend the national Economic summit despite being invited

“I was invited to the conference. However, my conscience did not allow me to participate so I stayed away”

But EAZ youth wing President David Chifwalo said that such a deprived conduct from a respected and accomplished senior citizen was baffling and made sad reading.

Mr Chifwalo stated that the summit was a necessary platform for any progressive and well-meaning economic thinker and thought leader as both state and non-state actors deliberated the current challenges while highlighting current proven solutions.

Below is the statement in full.

For immediate release – 06 August 2019

REBUTTAL TO MEDIA STATEMENT ISSUED BY DR SITUMBEKO MUSOKOTWANE

We as the Economics Association of Zambia Youth Wing strongly detest and hasten to convey our utmost disappointment at the conduct of our learned Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane.

We take up this call, as our able board is preoccupied with other issues of national importance.
Economics Association of Zambia under the current Executive board has tried to regain its place and relevance in the country’s economic discourse .Therefore, as our national motto “One Zambia, One Nation, “we as the Economics Association Zambia have embraced a multi-faceted approach, engaging all stakeholders including political party leaders, regardless of affiliation as our belief has been one of inclusive dialogue and economic development for a better Zambia, sharing ideas and aspirations beyond politics.

To see such deprived conduct from a respected and accomplished senior citizen by admission in his own terms that “I was invited to the conference. However, my conscience did not allow me to participate so I stayed away” makes sad reading. He was invited to our national economic event like other political party leaders who came but shunned our non-political conference, baffles us as a youth being tomorrow’s leader’s, who should be looking up to our accomplished seniors.

The platform for the National conference was extremely conducive for economic discourse and any other divergent views on economic matters such as Dr. Musokotwane’s. This interaction was necessary for any progressive and well-meaning economic thinker and thought leader as both state and non-state actors deliberated our current challenges while highlighting current proven solutions.

Issued By

David Chifwalo
PRESIDENT – EAZ YOUTH WING

36 COMMENTS

    • He didn’t want to attend the summit, that’s his personal choice. So what is wrong with these Youth Wing “cadres”?

    • He is a lawmaker who storms out of parliament at every opportunity. You think that he gives a damn about the so called summit.
      Ask the lazy bone where he and his cohorts go when the they shun Parliamentary duties.
      These characters are busy on their on businesses and have absolutely no time to serve.
      Why are you developing headache over nonstarters and underperformers.
      I blame electorates. But anyways its their democratic right.

    • Thats the problem with Russian education. You become brainwashed into thinking and operating in a Communist-Socialist fashion. This is no longer an Economic Association but a Marxist Economists Association

    • EAZ under the current leadership is a PF wing and the EAZ youth wing is the wing of the PF wing. So which economic thinker would like to attend the summit of the economic saboteurs with a clear conscience? Search your hearts and minds and liberate yourselves from the slavery of hero worshipping for 30 pieces of silver.

  1. Interesting indeed , I thought Youth wings and caderism where confined to Political Parties and Jerabos. Now even our respected institutions like EAZ have youth wing and cadres in their ranks, next it will be LAZ youth Wing, Next it will be EIZ youth Wing and before we know it will be ERB Youth wing, ACC youth wing , ZESCO Youth Wing, EIZ Youth Wing and politics of caderism will be in our porridge , in our nshima and in our everything.

    I think this is despicable for the EAZ to unleash political cadres on their fellow professional. They need to distance themselves from this, if you ask me.

    • There will be no youth wings for any other institutions in Zambia. EAZ remains a special case due to the baboonery, PF sympathetic leadership at the helm. EAZ may even have a women’s wing led by the Kremlin-linked spouse of the top EAZ leadership.

  2. Dr. Musokotwane should have attend the summit and offered solutions there. At least it could have been on record that solutions were offered but not implemented, not a situation of completely shunning the event. That’s why as humans our appearances are different and so is our thinking

    • It was a waste of time and money attending a useless Summit convened by ECA Cadres. ECA is an Economics Association but has been turned into a Political Outfit manned by Cadres who are not Economists. Dr Musokotwane was right in staying away from such a Political Summit. In any case that Summit was just a Talking Shop which achieved nothing. Which foolish Foreign Iinvestor would invest in Zambia when existing Foreign Investors are being nationalised?

    • Economic Analyst
      Are you just getting off the bus?How many times have well meaning people given advice to this government and it has been trashed?They have politicised everything ,even the appearance of a Youth Wing in EAZ is proof of this.If you should know nothing can change now,no amount of advice can help because the people running the economy have allowed this.Given the trajectory PF has taken doing things right will sink them,they have to continue on this path and change can only come with change of government.

    • N.e.e.z stop exposing your so called wife to the public, I don’t think you are the only one who has married to a white woman! i have been following your comments, people are tired of you talking about your so called wife and they have been advising you, you thin those who advise you are fools?

  3. Everything has become democratic right. It is a pity that even intellectual platforms are perceived as political ones. This custom of shunning important events is depriving the nation of great ideas. People like Musokotwane, should not be political all the time. He should create a boundary between intellectual and political discourse. We do not want intellectual brains to go to the grave with their ideas. It was naivety of the worst kind for Musokotwane to shun such an important meeting because he perceived it as a political meeting. It should not be a habit of shunning meetings because political leaders are there.

  4. How can Dr. Lubinda and Dr. Musokotwane flock togetherv They are not birds of the same feathers! EAZ lost its credibility and integrity the moment it aligned itself to politics and spoke like a political party and not like a professional body. It’s no wonder it has youth, women, etc wings within itself!

  5. Let that Kremlin youth wing respond to the specific issues Dr Musokotwane had raise ! Not just saying platform platform

  6. THIS HABAZOKA SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR MISLEADING THE NATION. THE CHAP BEHAVES AS IF HE JUST COMES FROM THE STREET. TALKING ANYHOW WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THAT EAZ SHOULD GIVE SOUND ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE. HE IS NOT ANYTHING DIFFERENT FROM KALU. THEY MARRY WHITE WIVES THEN FAIL TO MANAGE THEM, THEN THEY GO FULL THROTTLE PRAISING RUBBISH TO EARN A LIVING.

    • Dr. Musotwane may be old but not as empty as some young, vibrant and ambitiously retrogressive “professionals” like some misleading the EAZ and the entire country! let’s face facts!

    • I miss KEBBY! He didn’t have what runs in this Dr. Musokotwane, HH and HaJayJay’s blood. Kebby Musokotwane was mature, wise, true Zambian and if he were alive I could have voted for him. The small boy is UNELECTABLE.

  7. So disgusting how friends from Zambia embassies abroad take to Lusaka Times to defend foolishness just to keep their jobs ????

  8. The current EAZ is politically inclined to the PF. This is in public domain. He is looking for an opportunity to be appointed to a public office by the President. It’s clearly written in black and white.

  9. How many summits has Musokotwane attended in his life? Many many. Why can’t he decide to miss this one? It is his personal decision. These youths should instead be the ones now spearheading new ideas NOT this useless non intellectual discourse of no value what-so-ever. Useless lot!

  10. Situmbeko is another of Akainde’s useful idio.t. The brainwashing he undergone under the Akainde’s titulage is unimaginable.
    God redeem these people from bondage.

  11. He has just fulfilled the policy of the Freemason Party. His boss is busy calling for early elections without thinking about the cost, the outdated voter’s roll, etc. He’s full of himself. Does Hichilema think properly? Even Freedom Sikazwe looks clever and wiser than Hichilema!

  12. Ayatollah!!!!!!! your Freedom Sikazwe who keeps smiling and sleeping which ever suits him, a case of liabilities to PF like many of his type, shape and outlook, bowing and kneeling before ECL for kasaka ka ndalama only.

  13. I never knew EAZ had a Youth Wing like that of ANC which groomed Julius Malema.Could it be the reason we are getting nationalisation of mines without compensation rhetoric?

  14. What are the qualifications of the current EAZ executive and also let them show what they have done to help this economy and not just talk to canavas for a job…

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