People make music to avoid going mad – Scott

Vice president Guy Scott says he has learnt from a book he has been reading recently that people make music to avoid going mad.

Dr. Scott says thesis of the book, whose title and author he has not disclosed, also says people dance to music to avoid being stupid.

He says this is how he thinks people have come to educate their children and bring their societies together through music.

Speaking this afternoon when he officiated at a Interdenominational Jubilee thanksgiving church service at the Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Lusaka Dr. Scott, who once set the church gathering into laugher with his jokes, has noted that the same book further says that if one wants to find people who are lost as human beings one can do so from among a group of people that do not dance and listen to music.

Dr. Scott, who himself at some point took part in a dance during the church service, has also wondered where else in world apart from Zambia, do one get the defense and security service that regards its function as making music as important as its other functions.

He says while it so happens that he picked the said book read, why people listen and dance to music is a question that has interested him whole his life and one which can been see in action.

The Vice president says he chose to talk about what he has learnt from the said book as way of saying something different particularly that the country is celebrating its 50 years of independence later this week.

And the main speaker of the Interdenominational Jubilee thanksgiving church service message Brian Chibuluma has observed that the greatest security that a people have is that of their land.

Father Chibuluma says the safeguard of Zambia’s Jubilee year is therefore to see land as ultimately belonging to God and also as a heritage that God gives to his children for their sustenance.

He says while the chance still exists excess to land in the country should be treated as a human right and that in the year of Jubilee the country must enable the poorest of the poor to secure ownership of a piece of land.

Father Chibuluma adds that the high tensions in the county are unnecessary high and therefore it being a Jubilee yea the call is that people reconstruct their relations to point where such relations become more civil in the way people treat divergent views and people who think differently from others.

He says the church particularly call upon members of the ruling party to lead by example by exhibiting restraint, tolerance and avoid any forms of violence adding that government also should avoid any form of heavy handedness but to continue being fatherly in its approaches particularly to the civil society and the opposition political parties.

First republican President Kenneth Kaunda, Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini, Acting Chief Justice Lombe Chibesakunda, Wife of the vice president Charlotte Scott, Some Cabinet Ministers and Lusaka Mayor Mulenga Sata were among notable people that attended the Jubilee thanksgiving church service.

Among opposition leaders that were present at included MMD president Nevers Mumba, ULP president Sakwiba Sikota, PP president Mike Mulongoti and ZED president Frederick Mutesa.