ZAMBIA President Hakainde Hichilema has acknowledged his nation and Tanzania must leverage on their historical relationship, to maximize benefits to the folk of the two neighbouring worldwide locations.
“Zambia and Tanzania cannot admire apart a day, we would work on structures (so) that we work together daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. It begins with us (Presidents) and additionally thru our ministers, permanent secretaries and long-established Zambians and Tanzanians because that is how God has positioned us… we portion land,” President Hichilema remarked, who arrived in the nation on Tuesday for a one-day declare consult with.
President Hichilema, who grew to alter into Zambia’s president on August 4, 2021, acknowledged Zambia and Tanzania are bonded together by history: “We are the generation which has the heritage of a relationship that was as soon as constructed sooner than us, so it is our accountability to nurture it.”
He explained that the two worldwide locations have faith a political relationship which the sizzling leaders have faith an responsibility to bolster and elevate, as the founding visionary leaders carved for them.
“My sister (President Samia Suluhu Hassan) and I, have faith agreed to reinvigorate these relationships and surely leverage on them, we must maximize the benefits that we derived from this basis that our leaders invested so powerful at the time,” he acknowledged after conserving reliable talks with his host, President Samia at the Magogoni Teach Dwelling.
He went further shedding mild on cultural relationship between folk of the two countries, announcing: “Ought to you accelerate to a device love Tunduma or Nakonde, now we have faith got household there that one could well perhaps be Zambian and the other is Tanzanian. So, Tanzania is our 2d dwelling and for Tanzanians, Zambia is their 2d dwelling.”
On the other hand, President Hichilema acknowledged the two countries had been taking a ogle forward to leveraging in the regional our bodies East African Neighborhood (EAC), Southern African Style Neighborhood (SADC) and the Immense Lakes Plight amongst others.
He acknowledged the two countries are making an strive to maximize the benefits that they accrue from the regional blocs.