Proposal to Honour His Excellence Mr. Michael Chilufya Sata

5 November, 2014

Hon Emerine Kabanshi MP

Minister of Community Development, Mother and Child Health,

Lusaka. 

Dear Honourable Minister,

Re: Proposal to Honour His Excellence Mr. Michael Chilufya Sata

We would like to deliver our heart-felt condolences to the government of the Republic of Zambia and more to the family of the late President. We further would like to propose to your Ministry to name the Ambassadorial Country Award on Disability being awarded by the African Disability Alliance to the government after our late President. We propose that the award be called the Michael Sata Ambassadoral Country Award on Disability. We feel this will be a big hour to our great President.

We observe the following:

i)             Mr. Sata ensured the Persons with Disabilities Act of 2012 was enacted immediately he came into power as a promise he made to persons with disabilities.

ii)            Government has quickly put in place a National Policy on Disability and its Implementation Plan.

iii)           Government has re-appointed Disability Focal Point Persons to ensure mainstreaming of disability issues across all government ministries.

iv)           For the first time, government increased the budgetary allocation to the Zambia Agency for Persons with Disabilities by 80% in the 2014 national budget.

v)            The Zambia Agency for Persons with Disabilities is in the process of training the Focal Point Persons on disability mainstreaming.

These are great milestones under the leadership of the late President. Therefore honouring him will be a good service to Zambia. We hope our proposal will be accepted.

May His Soul Rest In Peace

Bruce Chooma

Cc: The Director – Social Welfare