By ALICE NACHILEMBE
The Continental Leadership Research Institute (CLRI) has urged politicians and other interest groups to stay away from politics of name calling and political insults during the fourth coming campaigns for 2021 elections.
Institute Executive Director Paul Hakoola said the competition to serve people cannot be reduced to insults and street talk.
Mr Hakoola said the country cannot achieve meaningful development if politicians do not articulate their vision for the country on matters of national interest such as policies on the fight against corruption.
He said as the country heads to the 2021 polls politicians should be able to tell the nation their policies and how they intend to fight corruption as one of the bench marks.
Mr Hahoola said good revenue collecting systems from different sources such as ZRA and other bodies that remit revenue to the national coffers, without policies and political will the intended results for development cannot be achieved.
“We do not need the usual political rhetoric of name calling and insults like in previous elections. The competition to save our people has to be measured with serious benchmarks of developmental indicators and not street talk. We challenge all political parties to focus on issue based advocacy in the 2021 elections and focus on policy interrogations and clearly state on how they will fight against corruption which is a sign seriousness and capability to run a corrupt free country. Finally to the PF the party in power, the Institute expects President Edgar Lungu to show high levels of political will the fight against corruption,” he said.
