Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:35:10 +0000 NO Zambian should ever feel discriminated against in his or her country. If anything, any decision that Government makes should not leave one feel disillusioned and abandoned. Yet, that is what appears to be happening to one Zambian who answered the government’s appeal to those in the diaspora to return and invest in their home country. What Green Lake Zambia Limited proprietor Kumbukilani Phiri is going through makes sad reading. In his own words, Mr Phiri says “I regret ever listening to Government’s call for people in the diaspora to come back and invest because I have now lost everything I had due to policy inconsistencies and poor decision-making which has characterised the timber sector.” For Mr Phiri, the bone of contention is why he has been made to forfeit timber that he legally obtained, with all the documents in place without compensation. Granted that Government banned all licences […]
