.KABIMBA

By BRIAN HATYOKA –
JUSTICE Minister Wynter Kabimba has urged youths in Zambia to desist from engaging in immoral activities which can destroy their lives.
Mr Kabimba, who is Patriotic Front (PF) Secretary General, said it was important for young people to understand that they are living in a world with many incurable diseases such as the HIV-AIDS.
He said it was wrong for youths to engage in sex before marriage but encouraged them to make abstinence as the best lifestyle.
Mr Kabimba was speaking in Livingstone at Hillcrest Technical School yesterday when he opened the Second Seventh-day Adventist Church Southern Indian Ocean Division (SID) International Pathfinder Camporee.
The gathering has attracted more than 4, 600 youths from more than 10 countries in Southern Africa including Zambia.
Mr Kabimba implored the pathfinders to make a difference by resisting the vices which could harm them.
‘‘Don’t get involved in bad and dangerous activities and lifestyles such as alcohol and drug abuse which diminish your character and integrity.
“We have too many children and youths in Zambia who are enslaved by addiction to alcohol, drugs and smoking,’’ Mr Kabimba.
SDA Zambia Union Conference president Harrington Akombwa said at the same function that his church believed a lot in young people as they comprised the majority members.
Dr Akombwa condemned some politicians who were promoting the legalising of marijuana.
SID youth director Busi Khumalo, officials from the SDA General Conference from United States of America, Agriculture and Livestock Deputy Minister Greyford Monde, Southern Province Minister Daniel Munkombwe, Livingstone Mayor Milford Maambo and Livingstone District Commissioner Omar Munsanje were among the notable people who attended the official opening.