About 51 percent of the country’s population reflects a strong result of women that would want to vote in the coming general elections.
United Nations Resident Coordinator Kanni Wignaraja says this is critical because no country moves forward without the voice and active participation of women.
Ms. Wignaraja described the role women play as that of the transformational factor adding that their empowerment is the most powerful indication for any country’s development.
ZANIS reports that Ms. Wignaraja was speaking in Lusaka today during the Lusaka Women Peace Building Forum hosted by Northmead Assembly of God Church.
The forum was the second to be hosted by Northmead Assembly of God Church in partnership with Patriots Worldwide.
Meanwhile, Ms Wignaraja has urged Zambian citizens to focus their concentration on achieving the Millennium Development Goals and maintaining peace and tolerance as opposed to issues that have no impact on national development.
And Assembly of God Senior Pastor and Overseer Bishop Joshua Banda urged the Zambian women not to engage in indecent political acts of any nature but to exercise their statistical strengths to determine who gets into power as President, National Assembly and Local Councils.
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quote ‘Ms Wignaraja has urged Zambian citizens to focus their concentration on achieving the Millennium Development Goals and maintaining peace and tolerance as opposed to issues that have no impact on national development’ unquote.
as the government in waiting for 2016, our central committe is disappointed that our cadres have failed to comment on this matter. as quoted this woman has said things that are contrary to our pf manifesto, in fact she is decampaigning pf. it is the duty of our pf cadres to trash this statement on LT and everywhere else in the usual manner, remember your duty as spoilers? as a central committee we shall do our part in the post.