FUTURE BEGINS NOW
…Trust Harry Kalaba, CF and Orange Alliance – Imboela
By Mast Reporter
CITIZENS First (CF) Party president Harry Kalaba and the Orange Alliance are ready to prepare Zambia for a better future, National Democratic Congress (NDC) president Saboi Imboela has declared.
In an interview with The Mast, Imboela, whose political party is part of the Orange Alliance, assured Zambians of a shared future of dignity, opportunity and self-determination for all if they elected Kalaba as president in the August elections.
“President Dr Harry Kalaba’s leadership is rooted in years of responsible service as former minister of foreign affairs and member of Parliament for Bahati Constituency,” she said.
“During his tenure, he represented Zambia with honour on the global stage. Today, he seeks to build a Zambia where citizens are not spectators but owners of their destiny and their country.”
Imboela appealed to fellow citizens at home and abroad to note that Kalaba had chosen to be an ocean of stability in one of the most difficult periods Zambia has ever faced.
“He is calm, steady and committed to national unity and healing at a time when confusion surrounds us. Citizens First and its Orange Alliance partners strongly believes that the economy you build is the economy you deserve. We reject a system that reduces Zambians to beggars in their own land,” she said.
Imboela said a government led by Kalaba would create sustainable opportunities for the youth and ensure that Zambians were the real owners of the economy so that wealth circulated within communities, not outside them.
“President Harry Kalaba will champion progressive education that equips our young people with skills for industry, agriculture for food and profit, technology and entrepreneurship,” she said.
“Our future will not be imposed upon us. It will be created and owned by Zambians because we will choose it collectively, as one people.”
As Zambia moved towards the August general elections, the Citizens First Orange Alliance rejected any system that made women, youth and small-scale entrepreneurs feel invisible or powerless.
“We will empower women as leaders in business, governance and community life. We will uplift small-scale businesses as the backbone of our economy through access to credit, open markets and fair policy,” Imboela said.
Kalaba was ready to make Zambia a friend to all and an enemy to none. Zambia’s ‘good neighbourliness’ foreign policy that had been abandoned by the United PZambiarty for National Development (UPND) would be reinstated from the first day of coming into power.
His vision was to open Zambia for business and foster responsible international engagement, building partnerships based on mutual respect without media embarrassments or loss of sovereignty.
“The Citizens First Orange Alliance, a shelter of hope with a shared future. And let us remember that ‘The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable and to be compassionate towards each other as citizens’,” Imboela said.
She said the Citizens First Orange Alliance represented the hope for Zambians and the umbrella of comfort and hope for every Zambian who felt forgotten and excluded in their own land of heritage.
As a member of the Citizens First Orange Alliance, the NDC under her leadership was ready to work with Kalaba to bring national healing, unity, reconciliation and industrial prosperity to the nation.
“The choice is ours. As Martin Luther King Jr said “we must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”.
Zambia could not afford further division.
“We must choose unity over division, love over hate and pride over despair. We must build, not destroy. Let us rise together. Let us own our economy together. Let us build Zambia together. Let us choose our future together by voting for President Harry Kalaba and the Citizens First Orange Alliance,” Imboela said.
