 Good evening fellow citizens. We address you very very later tonight, predominantly because we had some technical issues, but here we are. Before we make a presentation on the DUNO, I would like to start with delivering a statement on the just released grade 7 and grade 9 results. In 2016, when we in the UPP proposed to do away with the examinations that eliminate our children, Zambian children at grade 7 level, we were criticized. And it was the people of Zambia, you the people of Zambia who are in the forefront to criticize us. You said education must just have a system to eliminate others. Only a few must progress to the next level. The people of Zambia said these things. And this culture I think has emerged in our country because we are used to suffering and we think that that is normal. Where suffering becomes normal. When we see something or when we are of something that can work differently, we don't believe in that because we are resigned that this is our destiny. We must suffer. We must accept substandards. We were criticized that we expect to have a pyramid. This was the argument of the people that how can you have enough classrooms to take all grade 7s when they progress to go to the 8th grade. You condemned us. Today we commend the government for the first time in the history of our country allowing grade 7s to progress all of them countrywide to the 8th grade. Fellow citizens, we want to commend the permanent secretary of the minister of education Dr. Calumba. He is one of the most prominent permanent secretaries that we have so far in Zambia. We've been following this debate. It's as if you are somehow ladies and under UPP manifesto. We have said time has come to change the education system in the country. We cannot continue with the same colonial style of education because at that time there was what was called African education and it was poor quality education where the citizens of this country, our children, were only exposed to learning about Vascodamas. You learn about European history. Why are we learning about all these things? Why can't we learn about our history? What do European history do to you? How will the history of Canada learn about about cotton production in Canada? How will that help Zambia? This is laughable. Go to geography. You find that all these subjects, some of what the subjects cover, cannot add value to this country's development. So we commend PS Calumba and we commend their appointing authority for this kind of quality, no kind of appointment. We need more of such permanent secretaries. Permanent secretaries need not just to be there, getting huge allowances and huge pay. There must be results. These are controlling officers. These are chief executive officers of ministries. So I commend PS Calumba once again. We want to say this, fellow citizens, that it's about time that our country set her priorities and education system must answer our country's needs. We need to change the education of philosophy altogether as a country. We need to do a critical assessment of where we are as a country and to find fields that are a priority. But at the same time, we also need to have an education system that produces learners who are explorers, who are going to explore, learners who are going to find solutions, learners who from the very beginning will be prepared to be active participants in the building of our nation. That's what education ought not to do. That's what all of us must begin to advocate for. Fellow citizens, we in the UPP, a feather, we look at our police, we propose that examinations must be moved from grade nine to the tenth grade. We need to go back to the system that put examinations at the tenth grade because by the time the child is grade 10, this child is around 16, 17, thereabout. It's very easy at that particular stage to have comprehensive assessments and be able to tell the strengths or the skews inclinations of a child at that stage, at that level, at the level of grade 10. So the examinations that must take place at the seventh and tenth grade under the PPP policy must be count based. The department on examinations at count level, that's district level. This is the PPP policy we are talking about because we take everything to the districts where the people are. There'll be nothing to do with implementation at national level or implementation who 100% go to where the people are. So the department on examinations at count level will examine students at the seventh grade, but those examinations are not for elimination. They are just meant to assess the students in order to begin to place them in the fields where they can excel. The next level of examinations at count level, meaning these will not be standardized because each county, the department on education will monitor the level of education in the district, the level of education in a given county. So the next level of examinations at the tenth grade level, that is from three, those examinations will not be meant to eliminate the students. All of them will progress. What those examinations will do simply to identify those students that are going to be placed in classes where they will begin to do practical skills, specializing in practical skills. You cannot force a child who cannot excel in physics to continue in that area. So it means that for those that excel in some areas, then those are the ones that will be placed in classes where they'll be prepared for college examinations. For those that clearly show that they cannot excel in other subjects, we need to look at what they can do so that the department on practical skills training, survival, practical skills training at school level, they'll be placed in those classes. And by the time that they reach the 12th grade, which is from five, they are already ready to be employable because we're also beginning to look at employability. We don't want to offload the students who are going to be on the streets without anything to do. And the department of labour at count level will connect to the industry. So by the time students are finishing, the industries that need certain skills will be known and those students will be linked. That will be the role of the department of labour at count level. For those students that are not able to find employment, but they have skills and they're employable, then they get the support from the department of commerce because when it's crap of CEC, the department of commerce will be at count level. So resources will be right where the people are. Fellow citizens, this is the only way that Zambia is going to produce students who are industries, students who are ready to save the country. And this must be the goal. We need not to have an education system that produces people who are not ready to save the country. So it must be about reparations. It must be about responding to the country's needs. And for those who have written the examinations, which will be now national, so from five level, examinations will be national. And this will be meant to let these learners find new places in colleges and universities. For those that will have more places, all the same, they will have acquired practical skills just like for those who are putting streams for acquiring practical skills. So we need to be identifying the strength of students at a very tender age. Fellow citizens, we the IPP also want to say this very clearly, that why should English be comparison? Who is crap of this notion of putting English? You have a student with a distinction in physics, distinction in chemistry, and then in English with a six or seven, you say this student can't go to the university. This is laughable. This is laughable. If this student understands the English of science, this student must progress. So this is what you propose. We'll be talking more on this sector. We want to prepare and speak to you on our usual series, the series on did you know. Thank you very much. God bless you. God bless them.