BY GIDEON NYENDWAGOVERNMENT should halt all the youth empowerment programmes that are currently taking place and put up mechanisms that will ensure that ordinary citizens also benefit from the empowerment programs because all are entitled, Youth in Action for Sustainable Development (YASD) executive director Zebedy Lukwesa said.Mr. Lukwesa said it was unfair that only cadres were benefiting from empowerment programs.He said the ministry of Youth and Sport should stop all the empowerment activities to make sure that proper procedures are being followed in acquiring access to the empowerment packages.“The empowerment packages are politicized and only people who belonged to certain political parties are able to access the packages,” he said.Mr. Lukwesa said there were a lot of talented groups that were not being considered because cadres were given first hand in accessing the empowerment packages.He said there was need to decentralize the process of empowerment to district level in order to capture every youth that is out there […]
‘HALT YOUTH EMPOWERMENT‘ – ALL ZAMBIANS ENTITLED TO EMPOWERMENT
