Lately, I’ve noticed that the language of our government officials when addressing development partners isn’t diplomatic.
The descriptions push on them are demeaning and have the tendency to strain our relationship with them.
AMBASSADOR DAVID REIMER
It’s important to understand that, whether we agree or disagree with them, we should be professional and diplomatic.
Mark you, these are the strong pillars of our democracy and economy. As it stands we can’t even handle our budget deficit. If our development partners decide to go today, we’ll struggle a lot.
We can’t even finance our elections. Now that UNDP has refused to honour their commitments to the process, we are unable to pay the ad-hoc staff.
This tells you how vulnerable we are.
I know sometimes, they cross their borders but we should find a professional way of communicating our disagreements with them, otherwise, we risk losing lots of things.
As some of you keep throwing negative insinuations against them, your children are in their country pursuing better education and life.
It’s right to disagree with them largely but that can be done when we can independently handle our affairs. But as it stands, we just have to be meticulous and diplomatic
Finally, I know some of you know the roles they played to ending the rebel war. They mightily came and supported us. They were heavy on the rehabilitation and reconciliation process.
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