 Good afternoon. Did you know that between 1966 and 1972, Zambia had more jobs than the available Manpower? 472,000 jobs were created in five years against the target of 200,000 jobs here in our country. To bridge this gap, did you know that the Nip government came up with a robust manpower development program which saw the placement of young people who were dropping out of school, including others, putting up the chance to go to school but you were trainable, they could do odd jobs and other skills based on the jobs where they had taught practical skills. And all these were placed under government manpower development programs across industry. The manpower development program, for the sake of our young people, women would understand what this means. It meant that school dropouts, as long as they were trainable and employed labor, as long as that labor was trainable, were placed on what was called job on training. They were getting the paycheck while being trained on the job because of this. Income levels increased as well as the witnessing in our country of the emergency of the middle class. That's how it grew and was this middle class which began to provide for families in the villages because the dependence ratio in our country is very high. We in the UPP are proposed the scrapping off of the Citizens Employment Economic Commission CEC which has failed to accelerate industrial development in our country or to great jobs for young people. What we have seen through the creation of centralized sector corporations is the breeding of corruption and the same people who are policemakers, they are the same ones who get access to those fans who get that financing and they give to those who are in a circle. And because of this, taxpayers, the people of Zambia, young people continuously get shunted out of the mainstream economy of their own country. In the scrap of the CEC, we in the UPP propose to create county departments of commerce that is departments of commerce at district level. And from the beginning, each department of commerce must undertake what is called a skills inventory survey. To identify the many young people not in employment and also categorize them according to the skills that are acquired. The majority have degrees, they have certificate diplomas and yet they have no jobs, they are roaming our streets. For the first time in the history of Zambia, there is this new phenomenon where doctors who have graduated have no jobs, nurses, you know teachers, across sectors. So with this skills inventory program in place at district level to where resources are going to be ascended Right where these young people are across Zambia, it will be possible and easier to let these young people be placed in their own small and medium enterprises which are going to be essential and critical in job creation. Young people in other words are going to be job creators for themselves. In terms of backing up this, this will be backed by, shall I say, this will be backed by a policy of giving contracts to local Zambian companies. It is unthinkable that we give huge contracts in the construction sector to foreign corporations and we see our leaders proudly saying that 20% will be given to local companies. This is laughable. This will change. We scrap up that policy. We in the UPB will instead prioritize youth-led enterprises to be the first to get this contract. The people of Zambia cannot afford to build schools, they can't afford to build hospitals, they can't afford to do roads, they have engineers. And after all, when these foreign companies are given projects in the construction sector, they get Zambian consultants. This will change. Zambians must be contractors. If they need consultants, then we can go to foreigners to come and do consulting in our country. This is the only way that we are going to create jobs in our country, jobs, jobs, nothing else but jobs for young people. Thank you. God bless you.