Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:24:32 +0000 It is payback time even in the pitch darkness of a graveyard Dear Editor, The story of Senior Chief Mukuni daring Government to arrest him saying, “I don’t fear prison, I have slept at a graveyard in pitch darkness before; where Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo can’t survive even for two minutes”, the pitch darkness bit of the graveyard story sent shivers down my spine. Awareness about this stunt prompted other opposition leaders in the country to condemn the Senior Chief that he was wrong to scare government officials with stories of sleeping at a graveyard which could be best described as intimidating (“It’s shameful”, Daily Nation, July 15, 2017). However, his excesses are well documented – and his taste in luxury cars, beautiful women and ‘Bantu Botatwe’ ethnicity are the stuff of legend. Perhaps Zambia has gotten used to the eccentrics of the Toka-Leya’s reigning monarch. An ominous […]
