By ANDREW MUKOMAIT is wrong and unfortunate for any person to demonise and label artists that benefited from the Presidential Arts Development and Empowerment Scheme (PADES) as thieves or something equally bad, Zambia for Unity, Peace and Development (ZUPED) has said.ZUPED president Ronnie Jere has come to the defense of artists that benefitted from the scheme saying, if there is anything that has gone wrong, the people to blame are technocrats and not beneficiaries.Mr Jere has said people were not being fair to the beneficiaries of the empowerment funds because there is nothing wrong they did other than following procedures in qualifying for the funds.“I think people are not being fair with the beneficiaries of the Presidential Arts Development Empowerment Scheme, Presidential Empowerment Fund and all these funds that were given by the previous government. In the first place, I don’t think the permanent secretary (Sports and Youth) meant it the way people are putting […]
DON’T DEMONISE ARTISTS – Who benefitted from Presidential Empowerment Funds – ZUPED
