“In the next five years, my government will through the IDC target to create a total of one million jobs in the growth areas of manufacturing, agriculture, infrastructure, tourism and information and communications technology (ict) in line with the pf’s manifesto pledge on industrialization ,” Lungu said.
Lungu said this when he officially opened the 1st session of the 12th National Assembly.
“Furthermore within the next 5 – 10 years, state owned enterprises are to be listed on the Lusaka stock exchange so as to ensure broader citizen economic empowerment,”
“As part of our industrialisation and job creation agenda, mining will continue to play a key role in our economic growth and diversification to maximise benefits from this sector,” he said.
And Lungu has reaffirmed government earlier decision that permanent Secretaries will introduce performance based contracts.
The President has also announced that his government will concentrate on youths developmental skills and will continue infrastructure development.
“I am glad to inform this August house that Permanent Secretaries are now on Performance based contracts with clearly defined targets,” Lungu said amid ululations from PF MPs.
Lungu says this move would result into high performance among Permanent Secretaries and other senior government officials as there jobs are dependent on their performance.
Lungu also announced that this programme would be rolled out to the rest of the public service.
Meanwhile Lungu said development can never take place without the recognition of the huge section the society whom are the youths.
“The youths have been predominantly overlooked. For a long time we have assumed that children should only be seen and not heard…we need to rethink our assumptions.
“We do not inherit our country from our forefathers or ancestors we borrow it from our children.Our youths needs to be empowered and engaged at all levels of Zambia’s development aagend,” Lungu said.
He said the youth needed to be included in participation of the national economy as entrepreneurs.
And Lungu has promised that during his tenure the youths would be involved meaningfully in the development of the country.
“They will be active participants with a valuable voice and opinion in the decision making process. Including participation in policy direction,” he said.
Lungu says his administration wants to hand over the country to youths who would be well equipped to further take the country to forward.
Earlier, the President arrived at Parliament buildings at exactly 10:25hrs and was received by service chiefs and other senior Parliament staff.
Lungu proceeded to inspect a guard of honor and thereafter witnessed the fly past by the Zambia Air Force.
The president proceeded to Parliament where he addressed the August house and only concluded his address at 12:00 hours.
@katuya,you and your leader you need to be taken to CHAINAMA from there to CHURCH from church to mukobeko for more rehabilitation.
@katuya,just with the way you insult everyone is able to know that you come from a cursed clan,a doomed clan.right now i pray and bind the demon behind your influence,i cust it out in the name of JESUS Christ of Nazareth. Amen
@katuya,yes that’s what you are good at in you party,not leadership.leave leadership to people that are wise with progressive ideas.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha!
This is what drinking too much Jamesoni does to the human brain!
He should just try staring to “create” the 500,000 he promised LAST YEAR, because when he promises to “create” jobs the actual result is that Zambia LOOSES JOBS!
This means plus the 500,000 jobs last year we shall have 1.5million jobs. Mwilatunfya abantu
Ba Lungu babwa saana ai,,bafumafye uko na young over ati,no.I will just tell them that I will creat 1,000 000 jobs.kaili ama zambian they only good on talking not ukubomba…nafyena fyatota.kailu fipuba,,and to tell u de truth for zambians to be open up on thire minds it will take centuries.
These jobs are there in Zambia, and Lungu knows that.If he can only inspect all these companies run by so called investors, where he will find fake expatriates and deport them then employ Zambians. The major let down is Human resources in these companies like Kansanzhi, Lumwana to maintion but a few.They bribe immigration officers to issue expertise permits. Like an Excavator operator would be called “Hydraulics expert”,Find this expert on site he operates an excavator or dozer or any such equipment, and this is true, You can check by starting at the ministry.THEN FOLLOW UP WITH THESE COMPANIES.Jobs that are supposed to be done by Zambian are taken by these fake experts.I HAVE A LOT OF INFORM ON THIS ISSUE, JUST POST THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS SO THAT I CAN SEND HIM THE DETAILS.Then it shall be that he will be vindicated.Then pow wow! 1,000,000 Jobs without extra investment.
These jobs are there in Zambia, and Lungu knows that.If he can only inspect all these companies run by so called investors, where he will find fake expertrates and deport them then employ Zambians. The major let down is Human resources in these companies like Kansanzhi, Lumwana to maintion but a few.They bribe immigration officers to issue expertise permits. Like an Excavator operator would be called “Hydraulics expert”,Find this expert on site he operates an excavator or dozer or any such equipment, and this is true, You can check by starting at the ministry.THEN FOLLOW UP WITH THESE COMPANIES.Jobs that are supposed to be done by Zambian are taken by these fake experts.I HAVE A LOT OF INFORM ON THIS ISSUE, JUST POST THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS SO THAT I CAN SEND HIM THE DETAILS.Then it shall be that he will be vindicated.Then pow wow! 1,000,000 Jobs without extra investment.
He will create 1 million ministries to benefit his fellow rats from the east and monkeys from the north.
@panda or panyo, whatever the idiot calls it self , you are very stupid. You should not have bypassed your mother’s vigina to see the sun.Foolish is your mother who allowed you to come through the anus leading to your brains getting contaminated with your mother’s defecates.
Good move Mr President
correct link for a economic transformation ideas;
https://prosperzambia.weebly.com/timeforzambiatoprosper/a-better-economic-direction-for-zambia
As Zambians, we were expecting 500,000 jobs for youths some time last year. That is after the much hyped Youth Employment Policy as promoted by Vincent Mwale. I am sure not even 5,000 jobs were created from that effort. Promise of a million jobs this time around will not excite Zambians as no seriousness was demonstrated with the previous promise. It is possible and very achievable to create 1 million jobs in 5 years but the question is; do we have the right strategies and team to deliver on that? My honest view is we currently dont have the right ingredients and as long as this remains the case, we are gong to hear all sorts of promises that will come to nothing but a lot of hot air.
What the world is coming to grips with recently is that politicians are actually amongst the most uncreative lot. Proof lies in the fact that they are usually faced with clear cut and solvable challenges of poverty, lack of housing and quality service delivery, have massive resources and leverage at their disposal but have consistently failed to deliver for the masses with the exception of a few countries.
So far i have not heard anything that will transform our economy, as in- for real. I am hearing some of the most casual things coming out of our leaders without a solid base for practical delivery. Click the following link to check out some ideas that i belief will transform this country’s economy.
https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/9fq8neyips5fgdjh/images/1-b64fc932d2.jpg
washing your face with unpasteurised flesh steak stinking milk,full of bacteria.i can’t even admire. urban is for hard working,civilised and intelligent citizens.
Takwaba ukupela fye umunthu bu president pa mbale ati ani today you can lead Zambia,where?he has to prove beyond reasonable doubt by winning in an election.How do you go to court without a cut,without a medical report and claim that you were assaulted?only a foolish court will listen to your rubbish.
ba kolwe twala mupwisha mu lusaka one by one.you should go back to hills in mbala and lakes were you come from.you will start braiing finkubala lol.
Ati bena urban! Starving people! Bena urban are the ones who commercialised kabwali. In the Tonga land, that was not a subject.It is in abandance In the Tonga land we wash our faces with milk. How about bakalya fye. Ati bena urban! Starving i.d.i.o.t.s
A lungu anabwela continuing with best comedy.True lies,only ifikunkubiti will cherish the jameson
The problem with PF is that when they declare a small rural town as a district and then employ messengers, they feel they have created jobs. Appointing people like Mutati an accountant as Finance Minister is another blow. Accountants are trained to account. They can not see opportunities where jobs can be created. ECL does not know what he is talking about and doing.
If you don’t like the REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT then cross to ZIMBABWE,NAMIBIA or ANGOLA and become refugees there.our beautiful province will be occupied by the soliz,toka leyaz,the gobaz and those you chased in NAMWALA.
very interesting,how can 1million jobs created?,remember you have invited imf,how are you going to empower youth,if private sector involved at what % interest?.how can you revamp agric when subsidies are removed?
AWE KWENA PANDA ULABAKWANISHA ABA BA MUMBWE,PANTU BALITEMWA UKUTUKANA SANA.WILEKA,UKONKANYEPO UKUBASAPA.they will change one- by- one
umwina urban forever.you come from dundumwezi,you are welcomed by urban citizens,then you copy urban lifestyle, at the end you want to control the urban with your insults? sorry maningi,you are mistaken you cow dung eaters.
Bring more of your insults you COW-DUNG-EATERS. C .D .ES
@Ha-katongo,eating too much sour hence souring your mindset with insults.everything from southern is sour. @Ha-katongo don’t think like a DUNG-BITTLE.
Ati “ndiyanda ichongedwe”meaning Nike
“ndiyanda ijisi colgate hakati” meaning cream doughnut.
now they are insulting. Fimafontini ifi ifyena HAHAHAHA.
@Ha-katongo,Thank you for confirming that you are a dundumwezian and a Zambian watchdog blogger where you insult like a bunch of hyenas biting the rotten cucase.
Mr Chagwa – please spare us the agony – where & how are you going to create those jobs? Where are the other jobs you promised the nation before elections that you rigged? Zambia has people employed in the formal sector of less than 600,000 – then you are talking of creating 1 million jobs? I thought when you are restructuring the economy jobs are lost? This is what we mean when we say you have no vision…just help us by bringing sanity to governance instead of talking impossibilities – anyone who can believe such needs to have his or her head examined
Panda wabalya banyoko
Watchdog is not there we shall
you from this site. Satanyoko.
More jobs will be created in de tribalism en thuggish sector – as de manifesto of plenty fools – the is a large en huge expansion in this sector as De dinosaur Bwalya frank can testify to that.
How many jobs has he created in the past 1.5 years? There have been more jobs loses compared to thoses created? How exactly will he do this with the level of broke treasury, low investor confidence due to lack of rule of law, decreased donor funding as now it proven PF is full of thieves, large obligation to the construction industry, high levels of interest that kill businesses, the highest level of corruption in Zambian history. Please sir tell the truth. I have always stated lungu isnot competent and this is why he should not be president – he has failed and what more is he going to do?
The 1million jobs its another campaign promise and thats water under the bridge.
@mike,you are still in the bush even after your relative took you out of one.As the saying goes”you can get the pig from the bush but you can’t get the bush out of the pig.you are one @mike.
Panda ndiwe ofuntha ????
@mike,go back to dundumwezi,herd cattle mixed with insults on top of your voice or go back to Zambian watchdog where your fellow dundumwezians insult as if they are in the BUSH herding cattle.
@mike,LUNGU once said” if you are bathing naked,then a mentally retarded person gets your clothes and runs away,you can’t come out of the bathroom naked and start chasing that mad person or you will both be perceived as mad people chasing each other.you are at liberty to insult all you can and i will never follow suit.i am not a DUNDUMWEZIAN.
@mike i deliberately speak like that so that you react in a DUNDUMWEZIAN way,and risk attracting well meaningful citizens to your tribal party.
How do you create jobs when you are only good at plundered the treasury? You get huge loans that you invest in non profit ventures. Hyper expensive Kalabo road going in the bush that has no economical activities. Not even picking of mushroom. Building clinics that have no staff & drugs. How are you going to pay back the loans plus interest when you are investing in consumption? If pf had just a single sense/ truth they would have got a loan to make solar panels or farm tractors for example. This would have helped zesco’s load shading & country’s food security; export surplus to earn forex. After paying the loans that’s when you can start your habit of making super expensive roads, signatures, schools, etc. Crooks in leadership.
How do you create jobs when you only good at plundered the treasury? You get huge loans that you invest in non profit ventures. Hyper expensive Kalabo road going in the bush that has no economical activities. Not even picking of mushroom. Building clinics that have no staff & drugs. How are you going to pay back the loans plus interest when you are investing in consumption? If pf had just a single sense/ truth they would have got a loan to make solar panels or farm tractors for example. This would have helped zesco’s load shading & country’s food security; export surplus the rest to earn forex. After paying the loans that’s when you can start your habit of making super expensive roads, signatures, schools, etc. Crooks in leadership.
Panda you speak a lot of nosense. Mukongo wabanyoko.
And the dundumweziAN FAMILY WILL BENEFIT FROM THAT PLAN.
Panda, or pudu or mpundu
There has been calls for a president from North Western Rhodesia after empirical evidence showed that of the five presidents to date only one from North Western Rhodesia, Patrick Levy Mwanawasa governed this country for the betterment of ALL.
Chiluba, Banda, Sata, Lungu just maribishi plunderers and KK a communist dictator.
This PF will create nothing but misery to the people and unfortunately for you Panda, its your folks in the poor part of Zed, Luapula, Northern who will suffer most.
Ulichipuba how can you laugh at a money with money on legs, ‘cattle’. In fact we encourage you never to venture into agriculture especially ranching. This is a dundumwenzi exclusive. Continue being ba tubulu, bamunyele pa…….