President Hakainde Hichilema – HH has reiterated that investing in Human development through Education, Health and Nutrition is of paramount importance to the African region.
Speaking when he delivered his maiden address to the 42nd ordinary summit of the Southern Africa Development Community – SADC Head of state which was held DR Congo monitored by the Zambian Business Times-ZBT, President HH said Zambia is striving to optimise on the available trade and investment opportunities in the region and beyond to uplift the lives of its people.
He said Zambia has moved in its first budget to implementing free education to allow school going children from primary to tertiary education to attend school without having challenges.
President Hichilema underscored the importance of investing in human development and revealed how Zambia has taken the bold step in education and health sectors by implementing free education policy from primary to secondary school and hiring of over 40k teachers and health workers in 2022.
HH said Investing in education, health and nutrition is not only valuable to the African region but to other parts of the world as well. He also urged other African leaders to look after their people before looking anywhere else to ensure that their people welfare are secured.
“We have a unique opportunity to reposition our mission to be part of the production, processing value addition to be a major contributor to the global economic development.” He stated.
The Zambian President also mentioned that the transitioning towards renewable energy and particularly electric vehicles in the revolution is vital and important as the value is huge and called for the countries to work together in achieving this goal.
