UPND has failed youths, says SP’s Lusambo
By Mast Reporter
SOCIALIST Party (SP) national youth deputy spokesperson Sconel Lusambo has accused the United Party for National Development (UPND) of failing to attend to the plight of the youth in the country.
Speaking when he featured on the Socialist Hour on Hot FM yesterday, Lusambo said UPND officials have been talking too much with nothing to show for.
He said young people should not just be used as political tools.
“The Socialist Party is a party that believes in the young people… When we form government next year, we are going to look at what we are going to do for the next 10 to 15 years,” Lusambo said.
He said youths have a huge role to play in decision- making and service delivery in the country.
He mocked the UPND over the debt restructuring issue.
Lusambo felt that restructuring the debt is not an achievement, contrary to what most UPND officials have been telling the citizens.
“When you look at our colleagues in government, they thought that debt restructuring is an achievement. They thought things are going to be better now that they have restructured the debt,” he said.
Lusambo warned that the population of the country will more than double in the next 10 to 15 years, and that the youths are the ones who would feel the impact of debt restructuring.
“The young people are the ones who are going to be on the centre stage because they know that when the population doubles in 10 to 15 years, you and I are going to be there,” he said. “As a government we need to ensure that we do not overstrain our young people…”
He said if the country continues having visionless leaders in the next 10 to 15 years, “we are going to be having even the whole year we are just in blackout.”
Lusambo said is the reason youths need to be incorporated in the governance of the country.
