It may come as a personal feeling, but i can’t help but think Africa is cursed with a leadership problem.
The
news has it that 24 persons plus the wife of the president First Lady
Esther Lungu, totalling 25 in number went to Los Angeles to receive the
donation of 4 fire trucks. The entourage were also meant to spend 2
weeks in the US. They were mostly cooks, waitresses, bedroom assistant,
cleaner, staff officers, photographers, reporters and of course body
guards or trained military personnel.
Information about the truck
indicated that they were not brand new trucks. These were trucks that
have served the US for decades. Their commissioning years were in 1985,
1995, and 1996.
So i ask, would it not have been better using the
expenses of have 25 persons in US for a period of 2 weeks to buy brand
new fire trucks?
Who has bewitched Africa?
Of course there
was the up roar, but just give it a matter of days, or maybe hours the
whole issue would be forgotten. There will be no massive protests or
rejection of this move by the government of the day. This is the same
with Nigeria.
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