By GIDEON NYENDWAGOVERNMENT should create opportunities that will empower political cadres if it is to permanently keep them off markets and bus stations, New Heritage Party (NHP) president Chishala Kateka has said. Ms Kateka said the current removal of cadres would be shortlived if their livelihoods were not looked it. “The solution is creating employment for them,” she said.Most councils have taken over the running of markets and bus stations from the cadres to maximise their revenue base. Ms Kateka however said this would be an exercise in futility if the cadres were not empowered as most of them would resort to criminality.She said the cadres were like any other youths who were unemployed countrywide and it was unemployment that made them resort to collecting money from the markets and bus stations. “That was their source of livelihood so they shouldn’t be removed and left just like that,” she said. Ms Kateka said the New Heritage Party […]
CREATE OPPORTUNITIES TO EMPOWER CADRES, GOVT ADVISED
