Educated Zambians Have Failed The People – Haabazoka
LUBINDA Haabazoka says educated Zambians have failed to help solve the country’s problems.
Haabazoka, the University of Zambia Graduate School of Business director, stated yesterday that the majority Zambians had lost confidence in educated people because they did not relate to them.
“Us educated people have failed Zambians. I would like to agree with the late president Michael Sata who once said that us, educated people are cowards! The reason most of us were trained using taxpayers’ money was for us to come and help develop this nation. My fellow engineers by now should have come up with cheap motor vehicles which us economists would have marketed across the globe. It’s true when our late president said God has stopped giving out land. This land and other profitable companies we are giving out will come back to haunt us in the future,”
Haabazoka, who is also an economist, stated on his Facebook page.
“Educated people in this country have failed to help solve Zambia’s problems. We no longer speak for the poor and we close our windows at the traffic lights when street kids start begging for money. What we do not know is that our under privileged citizens look up to us for solutions for the many problems that we face. You find that when one person speaks out, other academicians will be the first to speak out and condemn instead of operationalizing the idea. Prof Clive Chirwa came to help and instead spent most of his time in court! Fought by jealous colleagues…People even called him all sorts of names. He went back. Where is Zambia Railways now? What have we achieved? We even say let children learn in local languages! Only the underprivileged children are learning in local languages such that when they meet our children at grade 12 level, our children will outshine them because those won’t know any English. Which international research forum do they discuss in Swahili? Lozi? Bemba? Tonga? Nyanja?”
He stated that educated Zambians lived in comfort zones, received salaries, allowances and were scared to even utter a word for fear of losing the comfort zone.
“We need to lobby them to do the right thing. When we go with ideas, the price of these ideas should be zero. Advise the government, advise the opposition parties and that way, we shall have harmony in this country. We build mansions, live in secluded neighbourhoods and turn our backs on this nation. Let us wake up. We only have one Zambia. Our first assignment is to bury tribal and political divisions in the nation. The ball is in our court,” stated Haabazoka.
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