ZAMBIA: AMECEA Chairman Challenges Catholic University Graduates to Become Builders of Better World
Rt. Rev. Charles Kasonde, AMECEA Chairman
Mwenya Mukuka
In the wake of climate change, corruption, deficient energy and power supplies, limited economic growth, pollution, wars, the Covid-19 pandemic and many other challenges affecting many countries in the region, AMECEA Chairman Rt. Rev. Charles Kasonde has challenged university graduates to be architects and builders of a better world.
Bishop Kasonde has expressed his sincere hope that Zambia Catholic University will always aim at producing a product that is of strong moral principles, trusted and cherished by all.
Bishop Kasonde also added that Zambia Catholic University product should be innocent, virtuous and sincere.
Bishop Kasonde who is the chancellor of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) said this when he graced the Zambia Catholic University 9 graduation ceremony held virtually on 13th August,2020.
Referring to the theme of the graduation Provision of Quality Education is key to Sustainable Development, Rt. Rev. Kasonde stated that it was appropriate as it sums up what the university intend to achieve as its ultimate goal.
“It is a theme that challenges all members of the Zambia Catholic University to focus on the core business of the university. [It] invites the Council members to focus on formulating policies which create a university that is sound in all its operations and objectives. In such a university, uprightness and honesty make up the foundation stone upon which everything else is built. The Council’s role cannot be over-emphasised,” said Rt. Rev. Kasonde.
He also said the quality of the product of Zambia’s Catholic University will largely be determined by the management and the lecturers who are working at the institution.
“Not only do you influence the learners directly through your academic input, but you also influence them indirectly by your conduct and work ethics,” he noted.
To the university support staff, Bishop Kasonde appealed for hard work, honestly and always doing their very best.
“You need to be a worker that the university can rely on, a worker that ensures that the institution achieves what it intends to achieve, and at the time it intends to do so. Be a worker that the whole university can put full trust in,’’ he said.
Congratulating the graduating students, he called on them to be architects and builders of a new Zambia.
“Be architects and builders of a new Zambia. The world faces many challenges including climate change, corruption, limited economic growth, pollution and the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the whole world so much that for the first time in the history of this University we have graduation conducted virtually,” he said.
