Dear Editor,THE traditional leaders are the governance stakeholders who are intertwined with their subjects especially in the rural parts of Zambia. In some instances, the traditional leaders have been performing the functions of elected representatives such as Members of Parliament.Last month, one of the chiefs in Southern Province, Chief Chikanta while at a meeting with adopted candidates, urged the electorate to elect a representative who would offer quality representation as he was tired of performing functions of a Members of Parliament.It is on this score that we find the unwarranted attacks on Paramount Chief Chitimukulu of the Bemba people by UPND’s Patrick Mucheleka. It is not new for the person closer to five-time losing Presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema to demean the Bemba royal establishment without any reprimand or disassociating himself to such hallucinations.Mr Mucheleka’s comments are therefore a drawback to the harmony subsisting between the traditional leadership and central government.The government is also mobilising financial […]
TRADITIONAL LEADERS ARE PART OF THE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM
