The Ministry of Youths, Sports, and Arts has called on Youths in North Western Province to think beyond Kasenseli Gold Mining but to look for other avenues of economic empowerment.
This follows the request by Youths in the Province who have been demanding to be given a portion of Kasenseli, Lumwana, and Kalumbila Mining as empowerment like the case of the Black mountain on the Copperbelt Province.
Launching the youth empowerment scheme in Solwezi today where 2,500 Youths will benefit from the scheme, Minister in charge, Elvis Nkandu said the government has laid down various forms of Empowerment programs that will address the challenges young people are facing.
Mr. Nkandu said the Ministry has engaged various Stakeholders to procure Tipper Trucks which will be given to the Youths in the Province which will be used for garbage collection to generate resources for themselves rather than focusing on the Mining sector.
The government has set aside K23 Million for National Youth Empowerment Scheme targeting vulnerable youths in which each Province is expected to receive K2 million.
And North Western Province Minister Robert Lihefu who expressed gratitude over the launched program has appealed to the Ministry of Youths, Sports and Arts to quickly upgrade the Resource Centers which are in a bad state to contribute to skills development.
Baice you are just being played. The situation at that mine will remain as it was in PF. All the talk was just part of the usual election euphoria.
Elvis must understand that the youths know that those mineral resources can transform their lives faster and better than cultivation of beans and sweet potatoes. So they’re not wrong when they demand to have a share of those resources. Just find ways to facilitate their request. Why do you want them to collect garbage when they know that Kasenseli gold is sweet. Just give the youth what they want, if you can’t resign so that another capable Minister is appointed. The days of excuses are long gone.
Is that 23 million targeting garbage collection? Then what? Are the target of the garbage collection set to pay for those services? How about solid waste processing? Any luck there? I am just asking even if it appears obvious to some… yaba!
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
Taxation without representation.