By Kellys Kaunda
Let’s call a spade, a spade: The Vice President of Zambia, Mrs. Mutale Nalumango made a serious misleading statement when she defined the plot on which an embassy is located as foreign territory. In fact, this is one of the major risks in diplomacy when principals speak on matters they have no expertise or speak on matters where they have been ill-advised.
With that statement coming from such a high office, we risk being run over by foreign powers who will now feast on our leader’s uninformed positions in the process pushing an agenda inimical to our cherished values.
It is our patriotic duty as Zambians to correct this fundamental error by the UPND leadership and assert our sovereignty. Zambians must employ the power of democracy by voicing their concerns on matters where they have been misrepresented.
For you in power, just because you were elected doesn’t mean you have the monopoly of wisdom on all matters of governance. In fact, a good number of you are so new to governance, the risk of being run over by civil servants and outsiders is extremely high.
If you must know, the origins of the concept of privileges and immunities can be traced to ancient days when messengers would be imprisoned, ill-treated even killed if they presented to foreign rulers messages they didn’t like. So later, nations agreed on privileges and immunities. Modern diplomacy strengthened and codified them in the 1961 Vienna Convention.
The police, for example cannot force their way into an embassy even if you broke the law. What government can do instead is to ask you to leave the country. This is what the Zambian govt did in the case of the American Ambassador.
So just because force cannot be used to enter an embassy does not declare it foreign territory. Instead, diplomacy calls for peaceful settlement of disputes which would include summoning Ambassadors of concerned embassies to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Because what these embassies did was public, the Zambian govt must report to the Zambian people what measures it has taken. That’s what democratic governance demands.
Madam Vice President, you have seriously compromised the sovereignty of this country. The damage and injury to our statehood may take ages to repair unless President Hichilema takes immediate remedial measures.
So the 12.5% of the Zambian population which belong to the LGBTQ community don’t count? They are ALSO Zambians! I strongly support our courageous Veep, much more than our president who has betrayed his own manifesto from before the election, and which was quietly (hush hush) changed after the August 12 victory
LGBTQ should not be condoned. Let its affiliates relocate to countries where it has been legalized.
You cannot bite s finger that feeds you.
How can you expect them to criticise the gays that funded their elections over the last decades? Think about that.
Similarly those who were in power failed to condemn the flying of the gay flag last year and the years preceding. Politicians are just hypocrites who push selfish agendas in the name of the people.
Ohhhh pleas………..
Will a flag feed you ??? Will a flag impede upgrade development………..?
Zambia has more pressing needs that chasing gays around…………..
As Long as gays don’t flunt their gay tendencies of affection in public ……
Who cares ……….????
Only people seeking relevance who have nothing to offer zambia……..
We still maintain any embassy ground is counted as foreign soil. As you rightly put even police cannot enter why is that so it’s because that is foreign soil where our police have no jurisdiction. Even if a crime is committed by a diplomat he/she cannot be arrested by our police except for asking them to leave.
Someone came here to write nonsensicals and expose how ignoramus. Wasted 2 minutes of my life time.
It seems you don’t understand how embassies work. The VP was very right that the plot of land on which any embassy is located is consider foreign territory. Even the Zambian embassies in other countries are foreign territories. Which means that the embassies are free to do anything they want on their plot of land including hanging flags of any sort. That is international diplomacy law, not Zambian law.
No this guy was one of your diplomats in Germany. He knows what he is talking about
Spaka, mudala and William banda keep that dirty backside gay business whererver you are. This is is zambia and we will not accept such evil dirty. We have right to enforce our laws and cultures. Stay there abroad and continue getting bummed because you think it is being modern. Fuseke you faggots!
Why did you not act when for pst 4yrs that you were in govt those embassies flew those sane flags on those premises? Just prepare your defence and money to fix that govt vehicle you damaged and got away with
No such thing ever happened under pf and if it did, we were not aware of it
Would you f00Iish upnd diasporans be here had your parents being gay? Fark out of here
KZ is a secreat homosexual………….
He definitely harbours homosexual feelings……..
That’s why he is always around akani of homosexuality………..
Those who speak loudest are homo , especially that KZ………….
It’s called sub consciousness suppression……….
Shouting loudest about an issue that don’t concern you…………
Deep inside you are a homosexual………
KZ is a closet homosexual……….
He seems to be always thinking about homosexuality……….
Thanks for this wrte up. A thousand street kids have been fed as a result.
I thought the writer started very well but gives us an anti-climax. Its like theres still ots of stuff to be narrated but he no want to. Will there be a Part two?
Well put No Corruption Zambia.
Most of the other writers are the usual ign0rants
She likes to defend things which don’t make sense. When LPM said the UPND were like buttocks that are always behind and will never be in front, she vehemently defended him thereby earning herself an unpleasant nickname. That’s who she is
12.5% percent is underestiimated due to fear of victomisation
Some hold very important judical roles and other government postions
Why should one marry just to proctect who they really are
and even if were less 12.5% they deserve to live their lives in peace
They are not an invassive species !!!!
@ Kaizer Zulu. I support you on this one. NO gayism in Zambia. Bamambala, If you want to practice sodomy, go to South Africa or some Western country. Zambia is a Christian nation. Why don’t these liberal European embassies fly their flags in Muslim countries? Why only in Christian countries? Why are they trying to impose their decadent lifestyle on the African people? Why?
Good point The Patriot. Ask the VP to ask these embassies if they flew those flags in muslim countries ???. and if not why not and why fly them in Zambia. Because they have no respect for our laws and morals in our society. And here on this forum we have *****s supporting her just because she has a Lozi surname !!! Shameful.
This upnd government is a disgrace before the eyes of the Lord…May Jehovah God due with them, because you can’t fight God and win. It’s a government of puppets and jokers who are not sure of what to do!
If you check the Vienna convention all land that a High Commissions or Embassies are on are their countries land and their laws apply that is why people run to these places to claim pollical asylum . as for the ambassador being told to leave the country is correct because he or she does tend leave the embassy to attend meetings or whatever thus this is on Zambian soil so they are no longer welcome. if the Swedes want to fly the gay flag that by the way has no black colour in it let them but boycott their projects and donations to Zambia. We don’t need them telling us what to do.
Let us not pretend there is something good about homosexuality and support the flying of gay flags by some Scandinavian embassies in Zambia. The Vienna Convention does not provide for foreign embassies to disrespect or disregard the laws of the host nation. The Zambian constitution outlaws homosexuality and the Scandinavian countries are legally obliged to respect Zambian laws and not disrespect or disregard them, the same way Zambian embassies in these Scandinavian countries should respect laws of the host countries. There is something terribly wrong about homosexuality. Firstly, adult homosexuals are known to prefer impressionable but unsuspecting boys as young as 8 years with whom to have gay sex with. I am sure our Vice-President, madam Nalumango, would not want to seen one of her…