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Dual citizenship clause is meant to benefit Zambians and not foreigners coming into Zambia-Silungwe

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Chairperson Justice Annel Silungwe
Chairperson Justice Annel Silungwe

THE Chairperson of the Technical Committee on the Drafting of the Zambian Constitution Justice Annel Silungwe has said the dual citizenship clause in the draft constitution is meant to benefit Zambians and not foreigners coming into Zambia because citizenship is a fundamental right.

Answering questions on Wednesday in Lusaka when he opened a three-day media orientation workshop at Mika Hotel, Justice Silungwe said that many countries around the world have dual citizenship and reaped economic benefits through skills transfer and remittances from their nationals in the diaspora.

Justice Silungwe also dismissed assertions that foreigners are influencing the contents of the draft constitution, saying only one eminent South African constitutional lawyer has been consulted.

He said the other Zambians based outside the country such as Professor Michelo Hansungule of the University of Pretoria, Dr Choolwe Beyani, Mervin Mbao and Professor Muna Ndulo of Carnell University in the United States have been consulted.

Mr Justice Silungwe said the Technical Committee has made it a point to consult extensively so that the process is inclusive and people-driven. They want the constitution to derive its legitimacy from the people.

“We have consulted with the blind, the youth, children, church organisations, trade unions, professional bodies, the judiciary, Electoral Commission of Zambia, civil servants, Public Service Commission and Members of Parliament,” he said.

Justice Silungwe also said that the comments that have been received during the first phase of the consultation process, indicate that members of the public have an interest in the constitution making process.

He said interesting issues have emerged from members of the public in the media with some comments showing that the people understood the proposed clauses in the draft constitution; while in some cases more explanations are needed on certain clauses.

“From the public perspective, the technical committee is aware that issues like the running mate and proportional representation pose a challenge to some stakeholders and other members of the public in understanding them,” he said.

And closing the workshop, spokesperson of the Technical Committee on the Drafting of the Zambian Constitution Simon Kabanda, said the consultation process has now reached a formal stage that will involve district and provincial assemblies that will eventually lead to a national convention.

Mr Kabanda said it is imperative for the media to highlight the importance of the assemblies so that people prepare themselves to participate in the gatherings.

‘’What we are doing now is to prepare the people to participate in the process… for people to participate they need to know the contents to appreciate the process,’’ he said.

Mr Kabanda also urged the media to report positively about the process, saying in doing so the outcome of the process would be positive.

Meanwhile, the Technical Committee has said that it has made a proposal to Government to appoint a National Referendum Commission to chart the way for a national referendum to be held next year.

Chairperson Justice Annel Silungwe said the referendum on the new constitution is likely to be held next year because the consultative and submission processes are likely to end this year during the rainy season.

Justice Silungwe pointed out that the referendum cannot take place this year. He said Article 79 of the current constitution prescribes that no alterations can be made to the Bill of Rights without a referendum.

“The indication is that the National Referendum Commission will need about eight months to prepare, and our current process will reach the rain season when some areas of country become impassable,” he said.

[Zambia Daily Mail]

86 COMMENTS

  1. do they really think we in the diaspora are foolish or stupid to come back to riding mini-buses and stepping on shake shake boxes and sugar cane refuse in the streets. no walmart no high speed internet and no garbage collection. we will never come back to settle, but we want to have rights in our mother country and country of residence. thats it! Zambia has nothing.

    • Well..the truth is that with your shaky immigration status in that country,it will be difficult for you to even go on holiday to zambia.You know that they won’t allow you back when you return from Zambia.So just keep quiet….

    • OMG! thank God you never put your real name. I couldnt’t imagine knowing who you really are portraying such foolishness and being sooooooo SHALLOW!

    • Dude, you are absolutely mistaken; guys are living well and living big; the houses, cars and wealth is massive. We are all dashing back to Zed now. Things are happening.

    • You are an *****. Most of us in diaspora and I am also in the USA wants dual citizenship so that we can contribute to the development of our countries as others have done. If you are not legally here, all the more reason you would not want to venture outside the USA. I went home to mother Zambia for 6 months and I loved it because there’s a lot of progress in terms of development though much still needs to be done. If you have elected to be unzambian, lucky you for there’s no place like home. Probably you are one of those *****s that came through the back door or were sponsored by corrupt relatives hence your assertion. Go jump into the atlantic you scumbag.

    • Your argument lacks logic and substance…Zambia will lose nothing if u and ALL your off-springs never step in this country ever again…U are a disgrace to your race…the human race!

    • If my support was not based on my belief that it is good for Zambia, I would say let people choose since pipo like you have know regard for the country u claim is you mother land. Its because of people as shallow as u that we are in this mess

  2. Chengelo Alumni you are such a foolish Zambian I have ever come across in my whole entire life. Enjoy yourself whereever you are. We shall build Zambia and you will see my dear.

    This is our beloved Country and you can’t insult the innocent Zambia’s who wakeup everyday trying to fix the country with dedication. I am in the diaspora too but I will not think so low and reduce my Country to such noisense you are trying to show us. In case you have not been to Zambia most recent, there is seem to be sense of hope and prosperity than the country was 30years ago. It takes ages to build a nation and develop a country. Americans even the British you are now enjoying will tell you it took them 100 years to be where they are. By the way there is more poverty in the states.Stupid *****.

    • Foolish Thinkers
      You should have been more precise and said “There was hope and prosperity” until Sata came to Power last year. It’s now all doom and gloom and I think even the Chinese will be thinking twice about investing in Zambia after the killing at Cullum mine.

  3. What stops the “skills transfer and remittance” in the absence of dual nationality? I would remit or transfer my skills to Zambia without having dual nationality and it’s only one who has no interest in developing Zambia who would withhold that. I have failed to reason or see the basis of this unsubstantiated claim of economic benefit for Zambia by going dual. This claim by the minister just sounds even more silly by suggesting it will only be for Zambians. How? Will he legislate against other nations from applying? This explains the PF thinking in sending PF (only) cardres to Sudan

    • ”What stops the “skills transfer and remittance” in the absence of dual nationality?”

      Why would i want to totally give up my citizen ship i have gained through hard academic and industrial work in the west ? I would like to go back home to work and train Zambian engineers but would like to visit the country were i have spent a lot of my time without visa complications
      I would like to invest in property in zambia like i have invested in europe but the laws are complicated on foreigners owning land in Zambia.

      ”Will he legislate against other nations from applying? ”

      Only zambians born in Zambia to at least one zambian parent are considered

  4. @ Foolish Thinkers…. no one is building zambia. if the truth is interpreted as insults, I apologize, but the fact is, its not the people in cars littering the streets, its the same people that have to walk to work who litter the streets, so tell me how they are building zambia… with litter and refuse. I may be the most foolish zambian you ever came accross, but i dont sh*t where i walk, and if you think there is more poverty in the states, why are all trying to come to the states. dont cheat yourself! wake up!

    • All trying to come to the states? Please! Being in the states, you will always be a second class citizen. You cannot even own a piece of land. Anyway, maybe land means nothing to some people, but to some of us it is everything.

    • @Chengelo: did you even ever imagine you would ever leave out of zambia? i guess your parents/brothers/sisters are contributing to all that littering you are complai
      ning. and here is economic history 101: there is no country nor civilisation that has been developed by foreigners. you are happy to be in the US but you are a free rider; americans developed that country. unless you learn this truth early, you shall be like some of the zambian coming home to be buried, after 20-30 years of feeding on cornflakes /KFC Kellogs and such junk.

    • Am sure the prestigious Chengelo will be so disapointed that you are one of their graduates!

      YOU ARE A TRUE CLONE OF “Mushota in Scotland!” You don’t have to be proud of Zed, you might as Michael Jackson, try to bleach yourself, get a nose job, & whilst you are it, a BRAIN JOB!!!

    • **== its true what chengelo says, we must not combine sympathy and reality. 
      who can go leave in a country with mountains of trash and dirty in town centers which you can not find in the diaspora. Zambians need first to change their conducts before they start talking of development.
      48 years of independence one still talks about it takes 100 years to develop a country.

      the truth is it takes WILL in the leaders in GOVT to develop a country.

      instead of the will to develop Ba Cobra increases salaries of Politicians with over 200% and you call that development..

      dualcitizen will help us in the diaspora to invest back in ZED as a way of developing the country not really going back 

  5. Thanks to the Tech Committee.

    Hopefully, they will now get a swift government support for the request to constitute the said commission.

  6. No place like home! Tabaponta….in English….don’t bite the finger that feeds u. Just thank God 4 giving u an opportunity 2 live in the diaspora. Aka pendo kala pili buka. I also live outside Zambia but Im grateful 4 the individual progress I c wen ever I visit. Many out in the States can’t visit Zed coz they are now illegal or using the social security of a deceased person then u ve the audacity to talk. 4 yo information Chengelo, wall mart is game stores and game is there in Zambia. U don’t visit zed hence expressing yo ignorance loudly. Appreciate what Zambia gave u b4 u left and u will realise u can’t b were u are without Zambia. U r a kind who don’t appreciate parents coz u can drive and there not driving. Ciao

  7. No place like home! Tabaponta….in English….don’t bite the finger that feeds u. Just thank God 4 giving u an opportunity 2 live in the diaspora. Aka pendo kala pili buka. I also live outside Zambia but Im grateful 4 the individual progress I c wen ever I visit. Many out in the States can’t visit Zed coz they are now illegal or using the social security of a deceased person then u ve the audacity to talk. 4 yo information Chengelo, walmart is game stores and game is there in Zambia. U don’t visit zed hence expressing yo ignorance loudly. Appreciate what Zambia gave u b4 u left and u will realise u can’t b were u are without Zambia. U r a kind who don’t appreciate parents coz u can drive and there not driving. Ciao

  8. Foolish Thinker is building Zambia in his dreams. And he says  “In case you have not been to Zambia most recent, there is seem to be sense of hope and prosperity than the country was 30years ago”. …yes street vendors (selling tomatoes) in Cairo road is prosperity for the Foolish Thinker. 
    The problem we Zambians have is not to accept the truth. At the moment Zambia is not developing but degrading, you can call me unpapriotic, but its just the plain truth. Listen to people currently living in Zambia, and not the diasporans, of how hard it is to make means meat. People are suffering and its getting worse in this PF.

    • A friend of mine once said there are very few people that are not happy with PF; except these few are wealth, they can afford to blog, or pay for a newspaper or the websites to discredit the government. The shout the loudest and can be heard. Surely, a government gives a maid a 550pin or 100$ minimum wage; its a mistake; they except people from paying tax at about $400 per month; its a mistake. Well, what about those that ruled for 20 years and never bothered to do anything like it? Things will get even better when new districts will be built, more jobs, albeit casual, for people who have never worked before. Truth is, PF is pro poor; and the are seeing the difference.

    • I think with all due respect mum, you need to go there as some of us have done so that you can make your own informed decision. Reading newspaper and the kachepa here on this forum, will not tell you the truth you seek. We should be thankful as zambians who have been blessed with the priviledge of living abroad, hence all the more reason we should step in and help our country. Apportioning blame on the PF only comes from people that have not been to the country before the PF came to power. There was total chaos where MMD thugs in the name of Jerabos were running illegal businesses and stealing copper with impunity whilst police officers became their informers. Don’t be fooled. Go find out for yourself.

    • madam, you exactly spot on with your observations. Most dull people still believe in the rhetoric of PaFwaka, even after the collapse of the 90 day theory :) Things like, one day the street vendors will, on their own, fly away from our streets!!  

  9. Ok Zedians, we are all grown ups born and raised back home with a good knowledge of the Zedian mind set. So we all know the politicians how they play. Under the current govt and party in power, this little thing will never go through and the same applies to who ever comes in power. Reasons, their kids, family can not benefit as compared to the money the steal from the govt and two, they don’t want to make happy some few Zedians who did some stuff, making them never wanting  to go back. So, just go about with your life instead of offending each other the net.  

  10. Justice Silungwe – Keep up the good work. We want a constitution to benefit Zambians as a whole irregardless where they reside.

  11. If dual citizenship is seen to be beneficial by emerging economic giants like India, Brazil, why are we so arrongant not to learn from them a follow suit. When our friends are developing, we will be degrading. I even wonder our economic stand in the SADC region. Are we not on the last or second last on the list?

    • @Zambian Woman…….iam a huge supporter of Dual citizenship for ZED. Just FYI…India does not have Dual Cititzenship, just so uno.

    • In less than four years since the government gave Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) a second chance to reconnect with the country of their forefathers, more than half a million foreign nationals have acquired the coveted Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI).Popularly known as ‘dual citizenship’, OCI was first mooted in December 2005 to woo the rich and influential Indian diaspora from across the world. 

    • The primary benefit of having an OCI status is that the holder gets a lifelong visa to visit India and stay as long as he wants. Second, unlike other foreign visitors, he does not need to register with local police on arrival.But, it’s also a misnomer to assume that OCI grants any real “citizenship”. It does not give the PIO a right to vote or contest elections in India. He also cannot hold constitutional posts or buy agricultural land in the country.

  12. #8 Zambian woman – I agree with you when you say Zambians are suffering but when you say its getting worse under PF, I think your motives are a bit misguiding. Within 6 months of PF being in Govt, Zambians earning less than 2M kwacha are exempted from paying taxes- I call that alleviating poverty to a certain extent. Recently the PF govt have also introduced the minimum wage which the opposition is opposed to. K550,000 for a domestic worker is not enough where petrol costs more than £1 per litre.

    • The opposition are not opposed to the minimum wage. It is the way in which it has been implementated that is the issue and evidently resulting in the death of a Chinese national. Kind of confirms the point by the opposition that these matters need to have an implementation time frame. However, the PF blame MMD for the death

  13. Just finished fact checking, so Zedians wants to part of the few countries  to allow dual citizenship. Comment reserved.:o

  14. Firstly, it is wise to include the dual citizenship. I still find it strange that some government officials are opposed to this. Concerning poverty in Zambia… the reality is that poverty starts and resides in the mind. Until the people’s attitude and mindset is changed to remove the ‘poverty mentality’, no level of help will ever lift Zambia out of the doldrums of poverty. 

  15. Ok Zedians, we are all grown ups born and raised back home with a good knowledge of the Zedian mind set. So we all know the politicians how they play. Under the current govt and party in power, this little thing will never go through and the same applies to who ever comes in power. Reasons, their kids, family can not benefit as compared to the money the steal from the govt and two, they don’t want to make happy some few Zedians who did some stuff, making them never wanting  to go back. So, just go about with your life instead of offending each other the net.  

  16. Insulting and tearing each other will not help us.The truth be told,We don’t have visionary leaders who will help this country to develop.The news from home is all about traffic accidents,politicians insulting each other,protests about salaries.When was the last time the government sat downto engage investors ?What development plans are there for the country for the next 10 to 15 years?

  17. Iwe @Chengelo Alumni, you are an ***** and an a**hole. Most of us in diaspora and I am also in the USA wants dual citizenship so that we can contribute to the development of our countries as others have done. If you are not legally here, all the more reason you would not want to venture outside the USA. I went home to mother Zambia for 6 months and I loved it because there’s a lot of progress in terms of development though much still needs to be done. If you have elected to be unzambian, lucky you for there’s no place like home. Probably you are one of those *****s that came through the back door or were sponsored by corrupt relatives hence your assertion. Go jump into the atlantic you scumbag for you an embarasement to every zambian.

    • Coachez, you must be an *****. Instead of helping your friends understand the all issue, you are asking them to jump in the ocean. You must be a Zedian fag in USA.

  18. Amayama!Point of correction.Povert alleviation does not start by increasing salaries or coming up wth minimum wage.How many people are in full time employment?It starts by empowering every Zambian economically.True PF is not to blame but what are they doing to emppower the majority of the Zambians who are wallowing in dire poverty ?We as Zambians have failed to hold our leaders to account for the wrong decisions which have resulted in Zambians being impoverished.We need to speak out without fear or favour.Zambia is for all Zambians irrespective of their political or tribal affiliations.

  19. To be truthful, You guys saying bad things about your country are lost. In Lusaka alone you have Manda hill, Arcades, Crossroads, Levy Business park, Down town, Makeni mall, Sandy’s creations. Southern sun hotel, courtyard hotel, stay easy hotel, protea hotel, pamodzi hotel, intercontinental hotel, Mika lodge, Chaminuka lodge and many other smaller ones. Guys there are people in Zambia making more money than you in the diaspora.

    • NOTHING IN YOUR LIST REPRESENTS PRODUCTION, but CONSUMERISM!! So peoples view of development & progress is not exactly the development the country aspires to! Most of these investments have had MORE THAN GENEROUS INCENTIVES, such as Tax free periods; further, most have had to bribe someone in position of influence to obtain the same – so as many are insinuating, IT IS VERY WOOLY DEVELOPMENT THAT IS PERTAINING IN ZED!!!

    • How many of your fellow ordinary man can actually afford to spend a day/night in all these places you mention? that should be your marker of success. What good is it having all these places when the ordinary Zambian cant afford to enjoy them?

  20. We must check the costs involved. We can’t go on enriching very few people in the constitution making committee. They will sink so much into their few stomachs at the expense of several other Zambians,. The cost on this process keeps going up, spent by the same few. This process must come to the end soon. Free up the money for other deserving activities. 

  21. Life is what you make it. There are several lodges coming up all over the place. In Livingstone people are building. My point is, you are proving to childish, immature economic refugees. You are people who never knew how nsima is cooked but are quick to condemn your sister cook for the balls in the nsima. You are spoiled children who have never lived on a farm and think that breakfast comes from a supermarket. Stay in your foolishness!

  22. Poeple have been citizens of foreign countries such as SA and yet come back to zambia be MPs. Even Lucky Mulusa was a SA citizen and now MP under MMD. what change will dual citizenship bring if such pipo like lucky are left can alway go back home like that?

  23. There are people building nice houses pa Zambia. Rome was not built in a day. Those of you that are saying bad things about your country will be realising too late when you are old and foolishly want to settle somewhere. Lay your eggs well. Talking about the constitution. The roadmap is now too long.

  24. “Annel Silungwe has said the dual citizenship clause in the draft constitution is meant to benefit Zambians and not foreigners coming into Zambia because citizenship is a fundamental right.”

    Finally, we now know we have someone covering our backs. As a :fundamental right”, one does not have to loose it by acquiring another … thanks a trillion Justice Silungwe.

    All the smart people of the Zambian Enterprise, need to be sensitized likewise and push all the way to the finish line.

  25. Zambia has all the characteristics of a failed State.
    In a failed State, the police and the judiciary serve the interests of the President and the Party in power, and not the interest of the nation. In a failed State all key institutions are run by the President`s cronies and not professionals. That is the situation in Zambia right now. Very unfortunate!

  26. Dual citizenship ifinshi? Kwikalafye. Nga waliya waliya. Nga walishala walishala.

    Don’t people have anything better to do?

    If you feel you’ve a better life in the diaspora, live in the diaspora, and stop passing falsehoods about Zambia to justify yourself for adopting a foreign country as home. If you feel your life is better at home live at home, and don’t pass falsehoods about diaspora life. We cannot all live the same life … and there are countries doing well that have adopted dual citizenship, and so are there countries that have rejected it but equally doing well.

  27. # 3 Chengelo Alumni
    Its people like you that have let our country down. Zambian does not need people like you.

  28. Had no idea this issue is as polarizing as it is. What are the reasons those oppossed to the idea of dual citizenship give? Is it not true that ones birthright can not be taken away? I suggest that the clause should at least cover those that are zambians by birth or born of zambian parents. Whather or not one denounces there zambian citizenship to become a citizen of another nation, if they were born in zambia or of zambian parents they have every right to reclaim that privilege. I can see how one would feel oppossed if the clause offered blanket coverage extending even to those that are not natural zambians. The assumption here should be that natural zambians will always be loyal to zambia. The interest of our nation should be the driving focus as we move forward.

  29. @Kamwendo, I am using a mobile, but I am sure your message is a reply to my Post. I agree with you. But if those facilities can exist, they show that there is business and investors are making money. You can come and start another wave of producers and manufacturers. We Africans are largely not adventurous and our culture is to live off “the foundation of the west”. We want to enjoy the bliss of mordernity…

  30. …and so you want to condemn and Ponta about the Zambian back home who is struggling to leave something for generations to come. If you are out there, thank God, but advise wisely and don’t think them Zambians back home to be stupid. Well, we need to fix the Power problem and we must go full throttle to promote production/manufacturing, even by individual investors like you. So, if you want ecstasy, you find it in Zambia man. Good luck.

  31. You know what, Africa has so much scope, room for expansion in terms of economies, infrastructure, knowledge etc. But it has no explorers, researchers, industrialists, financiers and the whole range of development foundation layers. All these brainwashed chancers like Chengelo alumni are feeble minded parasites that think life is all to enjoy! Now, to remind him the likes of him can still have it in Zed, I gave that list.

  32. Silungwe and your useless technical committee you consulted extensively but did you consult the Barotse National Council?

  33. a quick google check gave these figures [512,000 formal employment, 3.5 million workforce & 122,500 new entrants/yr]. Believe me at the rate we are going not all 3.5 million can find employment, add to that the over 100 thousand that are joining the job market every year. We need practical policies that enable people to take advantage of opportunities wherever such opportunities exist. There are schemes under suggestions in WTO & WB where companies & countries employing foreign trained labour should make a contribution to the source countries to help training staff & to encourage those that go out to return & contribute to development. Such scheme will work best with dual citizenship arrangements but as Zambians I am sure we are waiting for some white consultant to tell us what to do

  34. The Presidential candidate must have a running mate. Minimum qualification of degree must be considered. Age limit must also be set. The country must develop…even in lusaka the capital city people are still being bitten by poisonous snakes….

  35. There are more advantages with dual citizenship than disadvantages.
    Hope this is a new leaf from the Technical Committee / government of inclusion in the constitution of this debate that I have never understood.

    I am sure that those opposing dual citizenship will be shocked at the progress Zambia will make in development as soon as dual citizenship is brought on board through its researchers, engineers, medical doctors, architects, teachers and many others abroad. Exchange programmes will even be easily made with sister institutions in the Diaspora.

    I know of colleagues with dual citizenship where arrangements have been made with their governments to conduct cataract operations every year in one month blocks. To date 350 operations conducted in 3 years! Sight back because of dual.

  36. Yambezhi says: My comment for you is that…You are a lost sheep. . !. some wise comments from those in Diaspora guys like Chindakwanda-Galileo Galilei true to the point. I left Zed in 2011 amazingly got back in back in March 2012 Arcades, Crossroads, Levy Business park, Down town, Makeni mall, Sandy’s creations in a space of 8 month were erected and my project partner from USA was lodging at Levi business park. For those despizing where they came from, its like you say your parents were fools to chose to be Zedians and bore you there, but alas you just bring curse to yourself.

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  38. This article is largely a debate between Zambians in the diaspora who clearly understand it for benefits that it would accrue for mother Zambia and the brothers and sisters back home who in denying its inclusion may not have had the privilege of living in diaspora and understanding its beneficial aspects thus take a simplistic approach. Mind you lets not cheat ourselves for we have knowledge that a larger percentage of the population is still challenged with literacy and explain with patience.

    • Do not generalise. I am in Zambia and never lived in the diaspora but still understand and support the dual citizenship for its merits

  39. Dual citizenship will benefit Zambia. Zambia was created from people from North, Kola regiona and Congo, Mozambique and South Africa, Namibia etc… so we already have dual nationalities. All this talk is BULL SHIT.

  40. Asumming dual citizenship becomes law, where do we draw the line. What about multiple citizenship? Are citizens of more than one country allowed to vote or hold political office in morethan one nation? Can one be a member of the armed forces in any country the are a citizen in? The repercussion of this law are more extensive than this discussion may suggest. May reason prevail and may those entrusted to to guide our nation trully act in the interest of all of Zambia!

  41. Just to add! There is also the questions of taxation. If these dual or indeed multiple citizens will enjoy or the rights of all zambians, should they not then contribute to the zambian good by paying fair taxes like all zambians do. Should they declare thier diaspora income and pay incone tax? Or can they jst show up at election time and vote? 

  42. Citizenship imposes both responsibilities and obligations
    A fellow sweeping floors in the US or UK is outside of this. We are building Zambia, in charge of our destiny and conpete with the world, like US and UK

  43. Chengelo what’s the point in collecting garbage as a job in diaspora? We own businesses and farms in Zed and can be whatever we want to be. We have everything you enjoy in the US yes including fast internet and Walmart and Dstv and cars but nobody ever humiliates us on color lines. You will die a worker over there, no more! We have equal degrees like anyone but we’re at the frontline of every sector

  44. Witness, which engineers and engineering can you teach in Zambia? You must truly be dumb! Z engineers are at the frontline, you are at the end there. Who needs you? We have professors in every field here. DON’T OVERRATE yourselves. We don’t live on credit here, what money can you invest in Zambia?

  45. Its such as you learn my mind! You seem to understand a lot about this, such as you wrote the guide in it or something. I feel that you simply could do with some % to force the message house a little bit, however other than that, this is excellent blog. A great read. I’ll definitely be back.

  46. Dual citizenship works it is about growing the country’s reach and networks, it allows the development of trade and remittances, it also allows the incremental increase in the tax base .
    To work and travel in Europe, Asia and Australia my UK passport works best. I still want a Zambian passport it is where I was born, its my football team, Chewa is what goes around in my head. The future will be built on people China will slow down and Copper will rise and fall in price and we need to provide a healthy and wealthy future for Zambia and that will come with good trade networks in across Africa,the Mid East, Europe, North and South American and the dispora are the people who can help to make this happen.

  47. I know about 12 people born to Zambia and British parentage who are British citizens and are dying to invest in Zambia but simply don’t have the 250000 dollars minimum for an investment permit. These are Zambian at heart and are well educated and travelled, of these people the average investment they would bring to Zambia is between 10000 to 50000 dollars into tourism, transportation, health care, education and agriculture. Dual citizenship allows them to get the ball rolling the fact is whilst they want to invest they have family ties in the uk or states that they won’t leave meaning every employee would be Zambian unlike the major investors who will bring foreign workers.  Allowing dual citizenship must be reserved only for those with a parental link going back to grandparents only.

  48. You will destroy our country if you allow dual-citizenship in our constitution. Foreigners will come to acquire citizenship so that they gobble our resources and then go away with our money to start life somewhere else. Criminals from other regions will also be harbored in the country.
    Let us be critical of this clause.

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