A clergyman in Kawambwa District has bemoaned the continued use of youths by political players as vessels of violence every time the country experiences polls.
Bishop Chanda Musa of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God Church laments that it is unfair that politicians who should be preparing the future of young people are responsible for ruining it.
ZANIS reports that Bishop Musa was speaking during a Church service which was attended by Luapula Province Minister Nickson Chilangwa, Kawambwa Town Council Chairperson Kalumba Chifumbe, Kawambwa District Commissioner James Kalumba and his Nchelenge counterpart Ivo Mpasa.
Bishop Musa has since appealed to political party leaders to resist the temptation of recruiting youths to engage in violence in order to advance their political causes.
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Zambian president reiterates commitment to peaceful elections
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2020-12-31 20:05:13 GMT2021-01-01 04:05:13(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LUSAKA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Thursday reiterated his government s commitment to free, fair and peaceful elections next year.
The Zambian leader has therefore urged stakeholders to ensure continued peace and stability in the country ahead of the general elections. Our record of peace and stability continues to be a shining example to the world at large. We continue to be a beacon of peace in Africa. Yes, we have had our differences but we continue to cherish and nurture this peace in the spirit of One Zambia, One Nation. I implore each one of us not to take this peace and stability for granted, he said in his New Year address.
President Edgar Lungu has reiterated his call on the Church to continue praying for politicians in the country. President Lungu says the Church has the obligation to pray for and counsel not just the President and government but all the politicians including those in opposition.
He notes that politicians in the opposition are also part of the Zambian political landscape hence the need to pray for them and to bring them closer to God.
The Head of State said this at State House in Lusaka this morning when a team from Bishops Council of Zambia paid a courtesy call on him.