REACTING to the demand from Chapter One Foundation that President Hakainde Hichilema must appoint more women into Cabinet, UPND Deputy Secretary General Gertrude Imenda has explained that the Head of State does not have many options because the ruling party did not do a good job at adoption stage. Madam Imenda adds that civil society organisations that are making noise about gender parity now should have been more vocal during adoptions. Gertrude IMENDA: “The President has got very few women to choose from within the members of parliament but that is because at the adoption stage, we were not sensitive in that area so that we could have had more women members of parliament. Does it make sense that in...

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