LUSAKA Province minister Bowman Lusambo says he joined politics as a cadre and will continue to be a cadre.
Addressing Lusaka Province ministry heads of departments during a handover from his predecessor Japhen Mwakalombe yesterday, Lusambo said his main objective was to deliver on the PF manifesto.
The former Copperbelt minister said he had not come to Lusaka to make friends but to work and change the face of the province.
“We are here to change the face of Lusaka,” Lusambo said, adding
“Lusaka Province needs to change, we have a lot of challenges in Lusaka and I want to assure you that I will work closely with you to transform this country together. Yesterday we had a lot of floods all over, it is not by accident, it’s the mindset of the people who are living here. They don’t want to do the right thing. They want to do the wrong thing so my coming here, we have come to correct things together.”
He thanked President Edgar Lungu for giving him the opportunity and authority to work.
“All of you, you know me, I am not new to all of you, we started politics as cadres and we are still cadres and we will continue to be cadres. We are pushing the manifesto of the Patriotic Front all of us,” Lusambo said.
He warned that he did not want to see provincial staff engaging in politics in their offices.
“We have only one president and that is his excellency Edgar Chagwa Lungu, that’s all. The people of Zambia gave him the mandate to administer the affairs of this nation up to 2021 and all of us must push the PF manifesto, that is the manifesto we are using, that’s why we call our government a pro-poor government,” Lusambo said.
“So for me, I am here to work, I am not here to make friends, I have a lot of friends, I have a lot of friends out there, a lot of them so I am not here to make friends. I am here to work and I am very good person.”
He said Lusaka had a lot of challenges that needed a lot of hard decisions and warned that in the process of working and making the province better, a lot of casualties would result.
“A good decision is when you have casualties, if you don’t have casualties, just know that it’s the worst decision. A good decision is supposed to have casualties. So we are going to make some decisions that are going to affect people and that will be a good decision,”
said Lusambo.
“I can assure you that as Lusaka, we are sitting on a time bomb and if we are going to put our heads together, the people of Zambia will laugh at us. So my coming in is, we have come to change the face of Lusaka.”
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