Ubuntu, Hon Ntando Mlilo, ubuntu

The reports and suggestions that Luveve MP Ntando Mlilo is planning to mobilize school children in his constituency to demonstrate against their parents for failing to pay fees cannot go unchallenged.

It is astonishing and disappointing for us the young people under Joshua Nkomo Youth Movement (JNYM) to get such reports of elected public officials acting in a manner that is synonymous with vagrancy and indecency. Our parents, brothers and sisters, and us as young parents are having a torrid time trying to educate our children and also inculcating the principles of ubuntu in them. It is a hard undertaking especially in this digital era where information and technological advances are also eating into our children's lives.

For the Member of Parliament to come up with his unruly antics and inciting our children to rebel and revolt against their parents is not only unruly and uncalled for, but must be condemned in the strongest of terms by all well meaning citizens of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo and Luveve/Gwabalanda in particular.

Instead of the Member of Parliament to interrogate and find out why parents are failing to pay fees, he resorts to unorthodox and unprofessional gimmicks which are unheard of in our culture as a people.

When never heard Hon Ntando Mlilo mobilize our unpaid parents to demonstrate against employers (including government) for failing to pay their salaries. The JNYM will at this juncture advise the Hon MP to learn more about the values of Ubuntu, uphold them and use them to engage the troubled parents to find out the long known challenges that lead to them falling to pay school fees.

JNYM believes that Hon Ntando should know by now that deindustrialization of the economy, 83+% unemployment rates, corruption, nepotism, tribalism, racism, incompetence, theft and looting are the root causes of the problems affecting our society which includes his constituency although his actions seem to suggest he is misrepresenting the electorate in Parliament. He is being warned that he shouldn't go ahead with his plans of inciting our children to revolt, he should rather be focusing on developing and implementing progressive ideas that would address the economic challenges faced by the people of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, particularly Luveve/Gwabalanda constituency not his plans that are devoid of the immortal principle of UBUNTU.

It is against the Principle of UBUNTU (a strong principle which our icon Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo - Father Zimbabwe upheld and taught unless you missed all his teachings Hon Ntando Mlilo) for children to rebel and revolt against their parents. It is appalling for a seemingly old public official to instigate and propagate such tendencies by our children. We urge the Hon MP ukubana ezinuke amakhwapha and remember that he represents the people's wishes, not the other way round. Representation is always from bottom up; it has and must never be up to bottom. Ntando Mlilo must cease his habit of swallow forcing his dubious tendencies and will on the people. In Bulawayo, Luveve/Gwabalanda in particular, UBUNTU reigns supreme in everything we do. We therefore urge the Hon MP to forget whatever teachings he got as he grew and embrace with us the spirit and principle of UBUNTU as we together raise an upright generation of Zimbabweans, one child at a time, one family at a time, one Constituency at a time and one nation at a time.

JNYM will never tolerate the antics by the MP and will advise Hon Ntando Mlilo to rethink his position and intended actions.

What we need now are nation building ideas Hon Ntando Mlilo

JNYM Information Desk