Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
The Assegai Foundation for Civil Advocacy & Human Development Executive Director Senzo Mkwananzi says it’s now safe to say people have lost confidence in the Zambian education system.
Mr. Mkwananzi says the recent failure and slow to address problems at higher learning institutions by government is a sign that the government is having challenges to deal with problems in the education sector.
Mr. Mkwananzi says he is not surprised by the closure of Copperbelt University on Wednesday by government saying this was expected because from the inception of this standoff with Lecturers, the PF government has been lackadaisical.
Mr. Mkwananzi states that there is a lot of anguish in families which part away with their meager savings to send their children to CBU only for government to shut down the school without employing practical plans to address the impasse once and for all.
He says there is every reason to vote PF out saying PF under President Edgar Lungu have gone to the same evils that made people lose faith in MMD and they have lamentably failed.
Mr. Mkwananzi adds that it is inconceivable that President Lungu has brought in old failures in the name of Dora Siliya, Michael Kaingu and Rupiah Banda, charlatans leaking with failure to help him run the country.
Meanwhile, UPND Lubwa Ward Councillor Chisankama Mudenda says the people of Zambia were warned over PF government’s inability to manage the education sector.
Mr. Mudenda recalls that when the PF came into office they drastically reduced the number of students on bursaries from 6, 000 to 2, 000 which showed that they are not committed to promote the education sector.