presidential clause


By Chali Mulenga 

KAZUNGULA district consultative forum has resolved to submit to the technical committee on the drafting of the Zambian constitution that a presidential candidate should have a degree.

 After heated debate delegates to the consultative forum voted on the way forward and in to close to call situation, 33 delegates voted for the clause and 32 against the article 97 of the draft constitution that states that the presidential candidate should have a degree.

Speaking during the forum in Livingstone at Woodlands lodge yesterday, Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) representative in the district Kennedy Chimpa said a grade 12 qualification for presidential candidate was too low and that there is need for a candidate that is able to understand issues.
  
He explained that a person that who undertakes a degree course, the person is given a lot of subjects that helps them to understand the issues in different sectors of the country.

“A person that wants to be a presidential candidate must have a good understanding of issues in the country,” he said.

 And District director of health Francis Handuka said also that a person that wants to be president should have a degree and noted that it should specific what kind of a degree that a person should have to be a candidate for the presidency.

“What degree do we want because other people have degrees in dancing so the constitution must be very specific,” he said 

However, Kazungula district council chairperson Elias Siamibila, submitted that how there is no need for a degree holder for the position of president as they are so many people that have Government positions in the country and yet the only thing they had done was to misapply Government policies.

 He said that from this trend it was clear that the degree had no effect on the put of development in the country.

“I hereby submit that the constitution should not bar any person on the pretext that a person should have a degree.

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