UPND’s heart-stopping priorities

Dear Editor,

IT is now all easy to identify emerging macabre and challenging issues affecting Zambians.
The people therefore are looking for a type of leadership which will give them hope to face the future.
But unfortunately, our leaders in government appear to be looking at current issues like aliens from planet Mars.
Surely, how can a caring government spend US$100 million on aerial geological survey when people are going hungry every day?
This job could have been easily done by our ZAF working with the Geological Survey Department of the Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development.

There is also the issue of US$16 million which our UPND is going to spend for a space station. Indeed, these projects mean well for our country but I think the timing is wrong when Zambians are wallowing in stinging poverty.
It is also possible, in my opinion, that people approving these projects could be taking huge kickbacks like in the Kenyan US$21 million scandal in which some Zambians filled their pockets with dirty money after over-invoicing government.
Zambia is presently facing a huge pile of socio-economic problems which will require a novel approach to resolve them.
No doubt Zambia is now hardly a paradigm of a viable economic platform to help uplift living standards of the people.

MORGAN STANLEY SHABA,
Lusaka.