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Youth Aid Chairman Chungu Kachenga has described the Constitutional Clause which prescribes 35 years of age as qualification threshold for aspirants to public office as discriminatory and deserving immediate revision.
In an interview with Q-news Mr. Chunga has wondered why elderly politicians had conspired to set the presidential qualification age at 35 years, when age has never been a criteria to determine ones suitability for leadership.
Mr. Chungu is urging Justice Minister Given Lubinda and Members of Parliament (MP) to reduce the age threshold to 30 years as the current threshold is precluding young people from contributing at the highest level of the Zambian governance system.
Meanwhile, Mr. Chungu is petitioning Commerce Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe to intervene following the noted influx of counterfeit good and products on the Zambian market.
And Mr. Chungu has appealed to Ms. Mwanakatwe and Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) Commissioner General Kingsley Chanda to ensure that the Zambian market is not flooded by counterfeit and sub-standard goods.
He has expressed regret that Zambia has been turned into a dumping market for counterfeited and sub-standard products, which negatively compromised the health of consumers, manufacturers and services industry.