DEFENCE Minister Edgar Lungu has implored Zambians in Nigeria to learn the positive attributes of the Nigerians and transmit them to Zambia for the benefit of the country.
Mr Lungu said it was important for Zambians to ensure that they learnt the best practices of the people of Nigeria and use them to assist develop Zambia.
He was speaking when he addressed staff at the Zambian Embassy in Abuja yesterday.
Mr Lungu said Zambians resident in Nigeria were the interface of the country and, therefore, should adopt the good attributes of Nigeria.
“Speak for us and be the link between Zambia and Nigeria,” Mr Lungu said.
Earlier, Zambian High Commission Charge d’Affaires Loveness Mulimbika said the lack of an immigration office had affected the operations of the office as the same staff had to deal with immigration issues.
Ms Mulimbika said the need for an immigration office was key as the embassy was also in charge of addressing issues of Zambians in Mali and Senegal.
Mr Lungu assured the High Commission staff that he would raise the issue and urged the embassy staff to work hard.
He took the embassy staff to task over the absence of the Zambian flag and other national emblems like the court of arms at the embassy in Nigeria.
“I haven’t seen the Zambian flag, l have just seen the portrait of the President. You need to re-organise yourselves and make us feel that we
have come to Zambia in Nigeria. We need an emblem or logo of the Zambian nation,” he said.
Mr Lungu was in Nigeria to attend celebrations of that country’s 100 years of amalgamation which coincided with the defence and security conference.
Hon. Lungu, the last thing Zambians need is to adopt the “good attributes” of Nigeria
awe ba Lungu all Zambians need to do is change their attitudes towards their country and not about emulating Nigerian way of doing things.
we have a pathetic attitude to virtually and literally anything in our country.
Herve Renard does it again, Sochaux 2: 0 Bordeaux . Scores from the young talented Ghanian Jodarn Ayew and the France born boy Cedric Bakambu, both aged 22.
No Zambian flag at embassy, fire the entire staff, close that embassy instantly!!
Even Herve Renard is better, he wears Zambian badge when Souchax is playing in France.
Lungu is right In some way – most of our embassies degrade rather than promote the image of our country. The civil servants deployed to these offices continue with the habit of keeping offices DIRTY and DISORGANISED. BRoken pieces of furniture litter the corridors and offices just as do the old files and carton boxes. Flags are never displayed at the premises, and if you find one it wouldn’t come close the good quality that Chipolopolo supporters carry to international matches!!!! So, if soccer fans can do better in this regard, what about a WHOLE embassy? Most embassies have no defined flow of activities for those seeking immigration or consular services. There should be SYSTEMS to enable services t be rendered whether or nor MRS or MR so and so is OUT FOR LUNCH !!!!!!!!!
Emulate Nigerians on what?? 419 & internet Fraud they are known for?? Lungu is not serious, must have been given Palm Wine (the local Nigerian Kachasu). Zambians are much better and moral individuals than Nigerian bros & sisters. Please don’t embarrass Zambians.
He is right as well, their men are tall handsome and look like they have money all the time
I hope Zambians emulate them
Thanks
Mushota you are daft! Handsome Nigerian men? Where? In Scotland? You must be a fan of nigerian movies.
He must have been drunk as usual…who in this world can emulate Nigerian attitude
This must the the starting joke of the week
Or Mr Lungu have you also joined the PF – Clown Club
Chief Clown – Ukwa
Deputy Chief Clown – Mwansa Kapeya
Just Approved member – Edgar Lungu
Clown Wardrope Manager – Willie Nsanda
Even organiser Guy Scott
Clown in advance development – Kabwili
Applications pending
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My brother. To the contrary. There are certain very positive attributes that Nigerians have that we Zambians do not possess at all. Go in the diaspora and you will see how Nigerians support each other in times of need. Unlike Zambian who always want to be seen as the ones who are doing better than others. Regardless of their shortcomings, Nigerians my dear are a well organised and hard working group of people outside Nigeria. They do not boast about their possession to others who do not have but they always look forward to support the needy. Zambians we want to be hero worshiped sometimes.
Nigerian attitude excuse us Mr. Former Acting President
Who doesn’t know the criminality of most Nigerians? They have swindled women in UK, Australian, Argentina,Canada and world over, billions of dollars with fake marriages. They are dangerous criminals and if that is what Mr Lungu wants, I pity Zambia with the already nitolelefye existing.
Why should Zambian people emulate Nigerian frimina behavior bwana Lungu mdala naiwe? The same Nigerians your govt refuses’ them to obtain visas to come into Zambia and now you want Zambians to copy and paste this dangerous behavior, I wonder why this Lungu yaps’ all time.
Ever drunk, what positivism can PF cadres tribal clink foster? Nigerians worldwide are known for money laundering and stealing from innocent people.
Wake up Lungu and give people the Constitution period.
Yes Mr Lungu .. Like a Nigerian come to Zambia and start selling fake passports t his people….. Nonsense
Nigerians are extremely well organised and entrepreneurial people unlike most Zambians who only aim for a job in some company as a source of income. Nigerians are never afraid to traverse land and sea in search of money nor are they cursed with a president who discourage them from living in the diaspora. In the diaspora they are so tightly nit together in their local associations and provide help to one another regards capital and funeral arrangements etc, unlike Zambian associations in the diaspora whose chief preoccupation is gossiping and dressing others down. Yes we can learn a lot from Nigerians, they practice ubuntunse while most Zambians are afflicted with chronic PHD which militates against the good attributes inherent in us.
@wantanshi your comment made interesting reading,it i full of objectivity.Entreprenuership is key to success,lets emulate but choose what to emulate ,The minister is spot on.
100% mwana. I agree. I am sure you have had experience as well. Most Zambians in diaspora are full of nonsense and unnecessary competition in every aspect of life. Always fighting to be better than the other. Others even grab their friends wives when the husbands ask for help from them. Yes we can learn a lot of positive attributes from Nigerians.
All the above comments luck objectivity and leaves us wondering which criteria bloggers are using to think.Nigerians majority are very hard working and successful people.Yes a few that you find at katondo street may engage in evil activities but we have alot to learn & emulate from these educated lot in nigeria,scan the bigger picture.If you through a stone in Nigeria you are likely to hit a professor while here you will hit an arrogant kaponya speaking a certain very common bad language.Change by first attending school it will up your thinking,then may be you will blog positively.For sure you are Mbuzi.
I doubt the stone will hit a professor…. most likely someone about to scam you any moment.
The facts are there don’t try to pretend. While they maybe entrepreneurial the majority of them are most likely to be involved in something illegal.
The “Africa Year Book and Who’s Who” (1977) edition has President Michael Sata’s date of birth as January 6, 1936. Aislinn Laing, the Telegraph reporter who interviewed Sata at State House in 2011, also has the same year (1936) in her article “Michael Sata: the Victoria station sweeper turned Zambian presidential hopeful” and so have many other archived sources. Sata’s observed date of birth is July 6, 1937. He was born Michael Chilufya Sata at Chitulika village in Mpika in the Muchinga Province of Zambia to Langford Mubanga Sata and Harienta Bukali Kabuswe both of the Bisa tribe.
Back in 2002, Sata sued Patrick Katyoka for alleging that his father, born in 1904, was a Tanzanian who migrated to Northern Rhodesia as a young man before World War I. In 2011, Government Spokesman Lt…
Just like in any other country, you will find people with baf traits. Nigerians are some characterised with dishonesty, fraudulent activities and all that but GENERALLY nigerians are hard working, creative, entrepreneural minded. Look at for instance at how they have developed their movie industry…..and you have even retirees who still lots of money through acting. So dont criticise the minister because he has a point. The fact that our embassy lacks a flag and other emblems speaks volumes about our disorganisation and laziness.
In 2011, Government Spokesman Lt. General Shikapwasha claimed that Sata migrated to Zambia at the age 9, and based his assertion on what Willie Nsanda had previously said. Since no one has showed up with irrefutable evidence the claim still lingers in mere speculation. Conservers of oral history in Bembaland are Paramount Chief Chitimukulu and the Bemba Royal Establishment. They know Sata’s family tree and are therefore in a position to put the matter to rest.
Here is what is on record. In 1941, at the age of 4, Sata attended Mpika Education Authority School. It must be mentioned that before independence full primary course lasted 8 years. This was followed by two years to Junior Certificate (Form 2), and three years to Form 5’s school certificate (“O” levels). Some schools provided a…
The office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kasama would be in a position to confirm or deny the rumors. One thing certain is that he did not become a priest. It is also evident that he obtained a Junior Certificate (Form 2). The acquisition of a Junior Certificate is confirmed by his friend Phinias Makhurane who is quoted later in this article.
In 1957, Sata left Mpika for the copperbelt. Now, when he became president in 2011, the Western media, in its usual negative portrayal of Africa as the “dark continent” relished in depicting him as instinctual with their “porter,” “sweeper,” and “cleaner” headings. The Telegraph, The Times (London), Daily Mail (London), The London Evening Standard, even the BBC unleashed their dark self. And yet none of them backed up their story with the…
Learn from Nigerians are you kidding me? Nigerians are hated by the whole world because they are crooks and this imbecile is saying we learn from them? This is what happens when Zambia has uneducated policy makers in high positions because of ba bululu. An old way of thinking which has no benefits for Zambia and her economy. Fire this useless Chibuku chap!!.
And yet none of them backed up their story with the exact period, and I doubt anyone bothered to check with Sata’s employers in England.
For instance, Jane Flanagan of the London Daily Mail in her article “Former Victoria cleaner is elected president of Zambia” dated September 23, 2011, wrote that Sata worked as a cleaner and porter for the British Rail in the 1950s: “He studied part-time and took casual jobs at car assembly plants before returning home and joining the police force.” But according to Laing of the Telegraph, Sata moved to Britain in the early 1960s: “He worked in a laundry in Bromley, before moving to the Vauxhall car plant in Luton. He then moved to British Rail where he worked at Victoria then London Bridge first as a porter, then a shunter, then conductor and…
and eventually driver.” Sata himself must have provided the information during the interview.
This research did not find any evidence or indication that Sata left the country between 1957 and 1960. What is clear is that in 1957, he joined the Northern Rhodesia Police Force. He got to the copperbelt at a time when Police Commissioner Colonel John Patrick Fforde was in need of native police officers to beef up his force. During this period natives (as Zambians were called), incited by Kaunda and Nkumbula were clashing with white settlers. With only a handful of white police officers Fforde recruited 1,720 natives among them our very own Michael Sata. Since most of the recruits were Standard 4 and less, Sata, with a Junior Certificate, was among the highly learned.
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Mr Lungu, your Muchinga appointed staff have no clue of their role. They are on an all-expense-paid holiday.
They don’t know the symbolism of the flag, coat of arms, national anthem, the facilitatory purpose they have. That’s why they complain when asked to process visas.
Instead of poaching Nigerian professors for our Zambia universities, facilitating trade and purchase of Naija oil and gas and sale of Zambian agro produce to those huge eaters, they spend their time farting and f*cking.
You see what happens when you send unqualified man power.
While at Kitwe, I built a friendship with one very active man who also worked for Roberts Construction. He had completed his Junior Certificate and was regarded as one of the most educated black people in the company. His name was Michael Sata. Besides being a worker, he was also the secretary of the local Trade Union organization. The Trade Union worked closely with the United National Independence Party (UNIP) of Northern Rhodesia, led by Kenneth Kaunda. During weekends, Michael would take me to meetings of his union as well as to political rallies organized by UNIP.
Sata’s involvement in the trade union is well documented by Dr. Henry Meebelo in his book African Proletarians and Colonial Capitalism: The origins, growth, and struggles of the labour movement to 1964. There is one…
There is one undisputable fact about Sata that stands out of the book: his tenacious and “militancy and rancorous” intransigent behavior dates back to his youthful days.
In 1961, at the age of 24, and while at Roberts Construction, Sata became General Secretary of the National Union of Engineering, Construction and General Workers (NUECGW), which in some way rivaled the African Mineworkers Union.” His designation would bring him in closer contact with UNIP freedom fighters. In 1962, he became Director of Publicity and Research for the United Trades Union Congress (UTUC), a “functionary of the United National Independence Party with Matthew Mwendapole as the General Secretary.” The following year [1963], he was elected UNIP Chimwemwe branch treasurer and set off on his journey through…
the slippery slopes of Zambian politics.
Sata maintained his UTUC position until February 1964 when he became a member of the ten man “cabinet” and the Field Secretary-General of the Young Trade Unionists (YTU) formed by the youth wing of UNIP. The reader must be reminded that in the early 1960s the Cold War was at its height. Kaunda and his UNIP were disenchanted with the United States (US) support of the apartheid regime. The Soviet Union (USSR) took this opportunity to commit thousands of dollars of aid to UNIP and its affiliate trade unions. Fully-funded crash programs were availed to natives in various parts of the Soviet Union (Russia). During the period 1963/1964, Sata, together with Michael Bungoni, Rennie Chikonkolo and Bryan Chirwa, received their trade union training in…
During the period 1963/1964, Sata, together with Michael Bungoni, Rennie Chikonkolo and Bryan Chirwa, received their trade union training in Russia. When they returned they behaved like “communists” labeling some members of other trade union groups as “capitalist stooges.”
The belligerent YTU lasted until July 1964. It dissolved itself and pledged to support UTUC. Meebelo writes: “One of the loudest voices crying out for early UTUC elections…was Michael Sata. UTUC General Secretary [Albert Kalyati] dismissed Sata’s demand and called him “a confused man” who must refrain from “stirring up troubles.” According to Meebelo, at independence (1964), Sata was part of the group that had “brought more destructive than constructive policy into the industrial relations sphere of the industry…
I agree with you Hon. Lunga, we have the power to create jobs but Zambians are too lazy and waiting for free lunch from the government. We all have the ability to create wealth and jobs if only we can change our mind set of dependency.
The biggest problem with PF ministers is that they don’t understand what they say. How can a minister make such a rubbish call.
You don’t emulate even bad habits you should identify only beneficial habits.i am sure Nigerians have alot more to offer than the bad few elements.Think outside the box not AMA negative thru and thru.
LOL. Nigerians don’t have a good reputation unfortunately. Their history and current issues aren’t the best either. One just needs to look at the integrity of their religious leaders for starters. Maybe if this guy specified what he meant by this statement then it wouldn’t be such a laughable joke.
He specified the learning of positive attributes, a few of which some bloggers have already outlined. From a philanthropical standpoint, we can all learn from each other so the advice is acceptable.
Lungu,
The most useless minister of the century, Drunk with palm wine in Nigeria, Kachasu in Zambia. Only Ukwa can find material in you…
All the talk about funeral arrangement funds collection and all is ok to flag up and a humane way of using our hearts to think with rather than our heads (Brain) The best advise is to have people who live in the diaspora contribute a small subscription usually under £20.00 as funeral insurance to the many insurance companies who do this kind of thing. Don’t spend all your money on designer clothes and alcohol! Save towards the cost of your on funeral and remember to leave a will and never die intestate especially if you have an estate you want to leave behind to your loved ones. Death is not a taboo but a natural and inevitable event and making it less of a taboo will help people prepare well before their time of call. Let us teach Zambians the best ways of doing things. Niger ain’t…
….Zambia
The problem with Africans is the hate one against the other we show. We can learn something good about anybody and throw away the bad. One PhD professor of mine in molecular biology was Nigerian. Nigeria has more educated men and women than any other African country. Some of my best friends here in the U.S. are Nigerians. When the minister tells you to emulate Nigerians he is telling you to emulate the good not the bad. Nigerians are very proud Africans unlike some other Africans they are achievers and do not allow anyone to push them around. Some personal experiences that any Zambian cannot do for another Zambian, a Nigerian has done for another African. Please you must stop this emotional reaction that comes without thinking through what we say.
well, thank you for seeing something positive about Nigeria my beloved country. Am so surprise Zambians hate Nigerians with passion. we have put ourselves in the world map on but good, bad and ugly ways. Nigerians, we are proud people anywhere we found ourselves. we work really hard on everything we have achieved. from economy, politics, sport, entertainment, name it. every African countries and the world has its bad side too. Zambia do as well. go ask your minister what he meant by emulating Nigeria, he will tell you something he love about Nigerians.
Zambians can teach Nigerians sliminess, hypocrisy of the first order, drinking till the end, stealing by false pretence, begging from every and anybody, treachery of second degree and in return they can learn unity in perfecting all this from Nigerians. Both are crooked nations. There is a big difference though, there are many honest and hardworing Nigerians but there is not a single Honest Zambians anywhere in the globe, all kaponyas, thieves, womanisers, masked Christians with warped thinking of a satan.
lye that is not good advice, the best advice is be yourself, copying is not good unless you have inferiority complex, mind you there are more people in Nigeria than Zambia compare india has even more educated than Nigeria,Don’t forget there are big time educated Zambians that you haven’t met,and you don’t know the truth behind Nigerian success because they won’ t tell you, so blind following can end you in trouble,
Nigeria success is there for to all to see, we don’t do things secretly. we are open
@Chinese Zambian, the minister said “Learn” the good things and he didn’t say “Copy.” Why are you now using your own semantics to defend your position? Did you even read the article?
What positive things when you can’t even understand these nigerians?
somebody said zambians are drunks, it has really shown here.Who do you think you are? when has a butterfly become a bird? i am not disapointed though people without self confidence will always talk before they think. After all your white vp colonial master is still around. Shame of Africa where are you on the map? i mean map of Africa? look we are high achievers not in your rank. You re comparable to countries such as chad lesotho and the likes not Nigeria. Keep blabing though
No matter the bad image we have in the world map, that has not stop us from moving forward.we break barriers and established ourselves.we are proud people, we work really hard to get to where we are. the more the world hate us, the more successful we become, we r the china of Africa, soon we will take our rightful place in Africa and the world. Japan use to be there, but china took over in Asia, South Africa seems to be there at the moment. we are coming faster, just behind a little. as for Zambians you can say all you know about Nigeria, but that shouldn’t stop you from watching Nollywood, listening to our music on tv, radio, and on stage performance, our politics as well.we lead in Africa and others follow. na wetin mak una deh hate us bi dat.we don do tins wey many Africans no fit…