By Angela Moonga
President Hakainde Hichilema says the dialogue with the OASIS Forum over the constitutional amendment process will continue tomorrow, with another scheduled meeting with those who are pro-amendments set for next Monday.
The President made the announcement when making his final remarks following a meeting he described as having been held in the spirit of positivity with OASIS Forum.
“The spirit within which we had the meeting is positive, it’s respectful, fair to each other, heard each other, the chair said. And at the end of the meeting we felt that we must have a catch-up again tomorrow or so. It’s also important to say that where I stand there are other stakeholders that need to be met as well, those who have a different opinion from this team of ours,” said President Hichilema. “Another team that is pro-constitutional amendment will be met here on Monday. But we the two groups here will continue tomorrow as the chair said … All this is meant to find some amicable way of moving forward, keeping our country united, unity in diversity.”
And OASIS Forum chairperson Beauty Katebe said: “The submission is we had quite a prolonged dialogue, very fair in terms of the playing field. We have submitted our views from both sides and the conclusion as at now is that we reduce the number from both sides of those that are going to attend the next meeting which is coming by tomorrow.”
