THE OOPS OF 2017 REVISITED

Sat, 06 Jan 2018 11:35:48 +0000

Dear Editor,

Allow me some space in your widely read Newspaper to share some of the Oops 2017 had.

Here goes… Some were in January of 2017, the Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja directed and reinforced a ban on our police officers not to marry foreign nationals.

The ban read in part that officers who were already married to foreigners should declare and inform the top police command within a week of notice.

But in a dramatic turn of events concerning foreign nationals, the IG in December of 2017 publicly commissioned 8 Chinese nationals to be part of our Zambia Police service as police reserves.

 The commissioning of the 8 Chinese nationals did not go down well with the Zambian community world over for it had now thrown a cat among pigeons and tongues were already wagging calling for the made decision to be reversed.

 Before some Chinese nationals within and abroad could even finish say the sentence “congratulation…we are proud of you”, the 8 were decommissioned and the decision reversed.

The drama was of course in the appointments

of the 8, but more dramatic was the U-turn made by the top police leadership to decommission the 8 and that has made them scoop the top 2017 Oops!

And in the fight to do what is right, the Bible in Ecclesiastes 12:1 encourages us to remember our Creator in the early years of our youthful life.

However, the fight is not only against Satan and his world but it is also a fight against our own desires to do what is bad, for the Bible pictures this in crystal clear :”the inclination of the heart of man is bad from his youth up”

Well, 2017 had a lot of oops among the youths and one notable one to scoop the award was the nude body painting of Iris Kaingu.

The Bible in Proverbs 22:15 clearly states…”Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child”.

As youths we need to know that what we may see to be fun and exciting cannot always be that but an insult to our elders and to what Iris did.

To her it can be “its my life, my choice” but in all it’s an insult to her parents, other elders and the Zambian community we call and know of as Christian nation.

We as youths need to put much of our effort reading and studying the word of God to know and understand life and ways.

Other notable oops of 2017 are: The failure of our Under-20 Zambia national team to secure the COSAFA Cup at home.

The $42million purchase of fire engines with one costing a whopping $1million. And the much talked about but yet doomed proposed political dialogue.

We are now in 2018 and still nothing has come out of it. We might even hit 2021 with nothing tangible coming out.

Our leaders should know that no leader is bigger than Zambia and that there is life after elections.

Well, despite the many oops in 2017, I wish the Zambian people a productive and prosperous 2018. Stay blessed…I rest my thoughts.

Troy Mukupa

Matero