Hands off Zambia, Lumumba told

IT is unacceptable for Kenyan Professor Patrick Lumumba to meddle in Zambia’s internal affairs, a political science lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA) Dr Alex Ng’oma has said. week, Prof Lumumba said he believed Mr Hichilema was somebody Zambia should try in 2021.

But the UNZA don took a swipe at Prof Lumumba whose remarks he described as sour grapes.

Dr Ng’oma said it was not only absurd but unacceptable for the Kenyan professor to interfere with the internal affairs of Zambia, more especially that he was ignorant of what he was taking about.

“How can he claim to know more of what Zambians needs than ourselves? So, we should refuse that foreigners will begin to think and dictate for us.

As a professor, he knows very well that Zambia is a sovereign state and that foreigners have no role to play in our governance system,” Dr Ng’oma said.

He charged that Prof Lumumba was bitter because he was in 2018 banned by the Zambian government from entering the county.

“First of all we must remind ourselves that what Professor Lumumba is doing is just sour grapes. Because if you remember, he was denied an opportunity to come and speak at a graduation in Zambia. So, he is only showing bitterness arising from that incident,” he said.

He said as a learned individual, Prof Lumumba was expected to exhibit maximum restraint on internal political matters.

Dr Ng’oma said Prof Lumumba’s careless comments should be condemned in strongest terms, as they were likely to also destroy the good relations existed between Zambia and Kenya.

“I urge all Zambians to condemn him in the strongest possible terms because what is happening in our country is none of his business. We are a sovereignty nation, responsible for our own destiny, so we are saying, hands off.” he said.