CHOMBA MUSIKA
Lusaka
PRESIDENTIAL Advisor for Finance and Investment Jito Kayumba has challenged youths aspiring for leadership to be disciplined and embrace integrity and entrepreneurship.
Mr Kayumba urged young people to endeavour to remain “spiritually grounded and economically empowered” to increase their ability to contribute to the country’s development agenda.
“To be spiritually grounded in business means to have integrity. If you promise a service, you deliver it with integrity. When you commit your plans to the Lord, He establishes them,” he said at the weekend during the Woodlands Seventh-day Adventist Church youth conference.
He said there is need for young people to embrace values such as integrity, discipline and faith, which he said are indispensable in shaping responsible and visionary leaders.
“This is the Joseph mandate theme – spiritually grounded, mentally resilient and economically empowered,” Mr Kayumba said.
“There’s an intersection between faith and finance. We serve a God of abundance. To be spiritually grounded in business means to have integrity. If you promise a service, you deliver it with integrity. When you commit your plans to the Lord, He establishes,” he said.
“Grounding ensures that your bank account grows, but your ego must remain small and your head must remain open.”
Mr Kayumba said economic empowerment allows young people to become self-reliant, innovative and productive members of society who can contribute to economic growth.
He also urged the youth to embrace entrepreneurship, skills development and investment opportunities availed by Government.
Mr Kayumba urged entrepreneurs to embrace “mental” resilience to overcome challenges, which test a person’s leadership prowess.
He said one of the greatest tests of leadership is how one behaves during challenges, even as an entrepreneur.
“Entrepreneurship is 10 percent idea; 90 percent is resilience. 1 Timothy 1:7 says that God gave us a sound mind.
“A sound mind is a strategic mind.
Resilience is the ability to see a power outage not just as a source of frustration but as opportunity to provide a solution,” Mr Kayumba said.
He said the New Dawn administration will continue creating an enabling environment for young people to actively participate in economic growth…https://enews.daily-mail.co.zm/welcome/home
