Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs Nkandu Luo has said more ordinary people in the country stand to benefit from the removal of subsidies on fuel and maize.
Professor Luo said government could not continue sustaining a policy that benefitted only the selected few Zambians and sideline the majority of Zambians.
In an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka, Prof. Luo said removing subsidies was a corrective measure that will ensure that more Zambians have a share of the country’s national resources.
She has since called on those opposing the removal of subsidies to be truthful in their dealings and come up with tangible alternatives through which the government will save more money to secure the much needed development for the people.
The Minister stressed that people in rural areas have already welcomed the removal of subsidies and were expecting the long term benefits.
She affirmed that her ministry has engaged chiefs, headmen and stakeholders to raise awareness in rural areas on the benefits of removing fuel and maize subsidies.
Prof. Luo has since called on citizens to rally behind the Patriotic Front (PF) government because the issue of subsidies was one that would benefit them in the long run.
She added that government would never establish policies that could hurt its own people.
ZANIS
Well said madam ! Way to go.
Luo shut up! You are getting a cool KR 10 000 per month in fuel subsidies from the taxpayer. You live rent free in a government house. You have 5 servants paid for by the government. The government pays for your landline and mobile phone bills. You also have two official cars. To top it all you’re salary is around KR 70 000 per month! So Nkandu why do you chose this moment to mock us? You’re nothing but a leech!
‘Luo said removing subsidies was a corrective measure that will ensure that more Zambians have a share of the country’s national resources’. Luo please try and explain this to the villagers who are struggling with your selfish actions. Are they going to eat natural resources?
Tansinta woman. What do you know about Mabvuto with that kind of money in your pocket. Just shut up.
That was just testing the blog,
Nkandu, the honorable thing to do for an intellectual like yourself, would have been to remain quite cool or zip up. There is nothing that you can tell us. You went to free education, you in fact used those Tasintha women, former sex workers at YWCA to get to the top of where you are as a professor. Imagine those ladies were opening their legs to survive, now you turn around to say people should sacrifice when you are ripping? No sense, That is why I respect your former husband, when he open his Lips what comes out is wisdom not you.
Your vitriol is full of half truths, she was already a professor when she formed Tasintha, and it had nothing to do with YWCA
I like her last comment, ” Govt would never do anything to hurt its people!” I guess not even a day old baby would believe her!!!
Back professor sounds like a broken record just repeating what others have tried to explain. Goto Ruth and research on what you qualified to do madam chief
Enough of this by now you should start showing us where the saved money from subsidies is being used.
Madam Luo, just admit you have a broken ego, Sata fired you from ministry of local gvt and yet you were working using your expertise to clean up Zambia and vert unnecessary deaths. You were relocated to ministry of chiefs created initially as an appeasement to the lozi woman national chairperson for PF. Now because you don’t don’t have a political muscle of your own you have to buck in support of removal of subsidies with your tale forded between your legs. I will feel for you….for anyone to survive in PF, they have to stop using their brains. It’s a vey sad state f affair.