Opposition advised to provide credible checks and balances

Provide constructive criticism in an effort to help government actualise plans to improve people’s welfare, opposition political parties have been advised.

Opposition political parties as the government in waiting must seize the opportunity by providing credible checks and balances to government, according to the Zambian DNA leader Spuki Mulemwa.

In an interview in Zambia’s capital Lusaka, Mulemwa said the opposition should not criticise everything government said out of malice but should provide constructive criticism or alternative solutions in an effort to help government actualise plans to improve people’s welfare.

He said President Hakainde Hichilema’s intentions to focus on unlocking hurdles to economic growth in an effort to improve people’s welfare in the year 2023 should be supported.

“Zambians expect the opposition who happen to be a government in waiting to seize the opportunity by providing credible checks and balances to government, further, the opposition should provide constructive criticism or alternative solutions plans to improve people’s welfare,” he said.

Mulemwa urged the opposition to assist government accelerate economic growth by providing credible alternative solutions to the economic woes the country is grappling with.

He said in the same vein, the government should not reject or ignore everything the opposition proposes especially if the advice was credible and offered in good faith and in the spirit of national unity.

“”This was so because both the opposition and the ruling party share a common agenda and desire to improve people’s welfare, therefore they should work as partners,” Mulemwa said.