Dear Editor,WE in the United Progressive People (UPP), are shocked, but not surprised by the abolition of the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs by the MMD-run UPND Government.The UPND, as a party, have always been on the fence on matters of spirituality and this is public knowledge.Zambia has 95.5 percent Christians, 2.7 percent Muslims and less than two percent Jews, Hindus, Baha’is, Sikhs and Buddhists. Thus, it is incontrovertible that our country’s population is religious.To be clear, the UPP’s original conceptual framework and proposition to create the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs during the 2016 general election was based on the urgent necessity to entrench the declaration of Zambia as a Christian while recognising the freedom of other minority religious communities.When the PF won the elections and copied our idea, they did not reach out to us for the blueprint on the mandate of the ministry.With the help of Heaven, when […]
Abolition of the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs by the MMD-run UPND government
