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Dual Citizenship is a must into the New Draft Constitution of Zambia
We want or don’t want it , Dual Citizenship should be finally implemented and amendment as a clause into the New draft Constitution of Zambia, despite being opposed by President Mr. M.C. Sata, this deal must further recommended for Our National Interest and the future of Zambia.
This issue concerns families abroad and at home, families reunions is a must. Why being afraid or scared of great Zambians in the Diaspora ? The Old times of hijacking People’s Citizenship Rights is over and gone. And times of Dictators, Fascists or Communists is dead and buried for ever. No matter who are you in the Society Dual Citizenship is a must.
The coming of Multi-Party Democracy in Africa brought together alongside with human rights to Our People, including Freedom of Press, Freedom of Choice, Freedom to Exist and live, Freedom of life, and adoption of Dual Citizenship among Nations. No one can bar, or broke one’s birth rights of someone’s origination and destination in today’s times we are living in, not even the King or President or Traditional Chief of that territory or kingdom . Every human being belongs to his destination of Origination, and double Citizenship or Nationality is temporary. Your home always remains your home, and the is no better place than home.
The ideals of Free Enterprise and Democracy are complementary. The development and sustaining a strong middle class is essential to attainting stability in Zambia. Dual Citizenship has the propensity to bring this about. The future seems to provide a great promise ; Dual Citizenship will help to democratize the politics of Zambia. There are hundred upon hundred of children born to Zambian Nationals presently residing in the Diaspora. The Children with their dual Nationalities and exposures could help Zambia to navigate her destiny through the twenty-first century.
Democracy indeed, is built on informed Citizen – participation, especially those who have lived and practiced it in development Countries. The ideal of democracy is meaningful participation of an engaged and informed Citizenry.
Dual Citizenship is undoubtedly, one of the ways to foster Zambia’s future Economic development. Leopold Senghor of Senegal was correct when he said ‘’ To build a Nation, to create a new civilization which can lay claims to existence because it is humane, we shall try to employ not only enlightened reason but also dynamic imagination’’.
Mr. Brown Chibale Kapika – BCK
Adedo – Zamucano Political President
www.adedo-zamucano.org
‘’don’t ukubutuka’’
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loco-motive
June 13, 2012 at 9:51 am
You chaps are getting your knickers in a twist over this foolish clause when real stuff has gone unchecked.
1. Are the three arms separate distinct and able to provide unfettered checks and balances
2. Do we have freedoms from torture and other human rights abuses
3. Are our mp’s completely separate from their foolish political parties or are they going to be in fear of expulsion and loss of seats
4. Can I sue grz for non provision of essential goods and serivices
5. Can I impeach my mp if he/she is a chisushi
6. Can the president still appoint and dismiss civil servants like wild dogs when a commission exists.
7. Can the grz enter the countyry into debt without consultatiion or offer national gifts.
All this un dealt with and you are farting around with dual citizenship.
Yamwela
June 13, 2012 at 9:58 am
Dual citizenship is a must as we have over a million zambians working around the world who are ready to bring money in zambia for development.
Seeker
June 13, 2012 at 10:08 am
I chilinso dual citzen kwisa,pipo re roting in prisons koz of poor judicial systems,rights infrigd,health sector no medcation pipo dyng,edcation system is roten the rich go to universties,no jobs,
the sage
June 13, 2012 at 11:01 am
dual citizenship is a must like all those other needs u mentiion.apart from being a birtth right, it will encourage pipo to come back and develop te coountry since they are tied here.most pip who get other citizenships are also learned pipo who could come develop this country but instead u wanna chaase them.foolish, childish and jealous thinking indeed
mukombe
June 13, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Dual citizen is not a must kwisa, why are you scared of belonging to one country. In fact it must not find space in our constitution. Nibukabolala ubo you want to steal in ZAMBIA and find space in another country. NO NO NO why do you want to have two countries to yourself its selfish bu hule. You cant have two masters either you love one and hurt the other chapwa. Zambia for Zambian who love Zambia./
Champion
June 13, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Dual citizenship does not benefit the nation in any way. Rather it is a benefit to people with one foot here and one foot elsewhere.
I am in the diaspora and I was eligible to take up citizenship of my resident country years ago, but did not.
Going back to Zambia to be part of the development process really has nothing to do with the colour of your passport…..
tama
June 13, 2012 at 12:54 pm
why is it a must we should b proud zambians and women should be careful.
DNICE
June 13, 2012 at 1:37 pm
It will be kind of better to have this thing called dual nationality. I am british and to be honest, whatever happens, am happy and settled in England. I do come for holidays to zambia and i love having been born in zambia and no one can take that away from me. Whenever i come to zed, i enjoy myself just like any zambian living there. I can still do business in zed anyway though at a cost, being a foreighner but who cares. If i can, i will because my roots are right there. So whether dual citizenship or not, life goes on, its nothing to bother me.
DNICE
June 13, 2012 at 1:54 pm
@ Champion, a very well said comment. i am with you hundred and one percent here
Nice One
June 13, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Bring it on!!! Many of us have been waiting for decades for this to happen, i regreted adopting another citizenship right after i got the “red book” i realised that indeed… “there is no place like home” even if Zambia is under-developed I’d still love my country and would love to come back and live home for good than die lonely in a cold country of white racist people…
moreover, we africans are always “told” that we should go back home to africa by skinheads and nazi racist muzungu’s; otherwise every black man, woman and child will be eliminated from their white countries like Hitler did to the Jews.
If every Jew on this planet has the right to live in Israel despite what citizenship they hold, why should Zambian natives get deprived of their motherland, especially after pumping FOREX into Zambia for over 15 – 25 yrs?
tombolilo
June 13, 2012 at 3:40 pm
There should b a limit on the maximum age of the president even if they are limited by two terms. The maximum must be 75 years. Meaning if you are 70 Years you can only have one term. If you are above 70 years you do not qualify as you as you will be over 75 years by the time you are completing the first term.
George Bush
June 13, 2012 at 4:03 pm
There is no need for dual citizenship in this beautiful country.Let the economic refugees stay in their adopted countries and we shall remain were we are and one day we shall make it. The coutry will become more insecure when these mambalas with dual citizenships start flooding our very peacefull country.Why do you want to come to zed when you ran away.Napawama pa zed boyi!!
Mkhonto Wesizwe
June 13, 2012 at 4:05 pm
SO, YOU WHO ARE SUPPORTING THE RIGHTS OF THE SO-CALLED ZAMBIANS OVER THE DULA CITIZENSHIP… WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF THE MILLIONS ZAMBIANS HOME WHO SAY NO SINCE THEY ALSO HAVE THEIR OWN REASONS? SHALL WE YES TO THE SO-CALLED RIGHTS OF THE FEW OVER THE MAJORITY AT HOME???
Mkhonto Wesizwe
June 13, 2012 at 4:10 pm
YOU WHO SUPPORT SUCH A CLA– USE ARE SO BLIND AND SO SELFISH. CONSIDER THE REMARKS MADE BY ANGELA MERKEL, THE GERMANY CHANCELLOR THAT MULTI-CULTURALISM HAS FAILED BECA– USE LOCAL INDEGENOUS FEEL UNCOMFORMTABLE AND UNWILLING TO ACCEPT THE SO-CALLED DUAL CITIZENS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. DO YOU SEE COMMENTS MADE BY PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEIR COUNTRIES…? THEY ARE SO SERCURITY-MINDED IN THIS EVER-INCREASINGLY INSECURE WORLD. WE HAVE ONL ZAMBIA TO RUN TO IN THIS WORLD AND WE ARE NOT READY TO LEAVE IT UNATTENDED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR RIGHTS TO COMMIT CRIME IN ONE COUNTRY AND THEN RUN TO ANOTHER IN THE NAME OF DUAL CITIZENSHIP. DIVIDED ALEEGIANCE HAS NO PLACE IN ZAMBIA. PERIOD!!!!!
onward
June 13, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Well I do not dispute dual citizenship. But the problem is how we do it and what qualifies one to have dual citizenship.
Mkhonto Wesizwe
June 13, 2012 at 4:15 pm
JUST CHOOSE WHERE YOU WANT TO SPEND YOUR LIFE AND GO THEIR FOREVER… IF IN FUTURE, YOUR CHILDREN THINK OF COMING BACK HOME, THEN LET THEM RENOUNCE THAT OTHER CITIZENSHIP AND COME BACK TO ZAMBIA. BUT TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO BELONG TO TWO OR MORE COUNTRIES AT ONE TIME, ZAMBIANS LETS SAY NO!!!! THIS BRINGS LACK OF PATRIOTISM AND CONFLICT IN ALLEGIANCE ESPECIALLY WHEN THE VERY COUNTRIES ONE HOLDS CITIZENSHIP ARE AT CONFLICT OF INTERESTS AND OPINION. REMEMBER, WE ARE LIVING IN AN INCREASINGLY INSECURE WORLD, WE NEED NOT TO CREATE OUR OWN AL-QAEDA!!! AMERICA HAS PAID AND CONTINUE TO PAY FOR IT.
Mkhonto Wesizwe
June 13, 2012 at 4:21 pm
THINK OF THE UNPATRIOTIC ZAMBIANS WHO COMMITTED CRIME HOME AND THE GOVERNMENT IS LOOKING FOR THEM. BUT THEY RAN AWAY INTO SOME WESTERN COUNTRIES AND GOT CITIZENSHIP. IF SUCH IDIOTS HAD DUAL CITIZENSHIP, THEY WOULD CA– USE LOTS OF INSTABILITY BACK HOME BECA– USE OF THEIR GREED AND SELFISHNESS. THEY CLAIM LOTS OF RIGHTS THAT AS ACOUNTRY AND GOVERNMENT, WILL FIND IT VERY HARD TO CONTROL AND WORSE, IF WHILE AS A COUNTRY WE WANT TO PROSECUTE THEM, AND THEN IT CONFLICTS WITH THE OTHER COUNTRY’S LAWS AS THEIR CITIZEN, ZAMBIA WILL BECOME UNGOVERNABLE AND AS ALWAYS, THE MAJORITY OF OUR PEOPLE WILL BE DISADVANTAGED – THE POOR.
Mkhonto Wesizwe
June 13, 2012 at 4:25 pm
IF YOU LOVE THIS COUNTRY, SAY NO TO DUAL CITIZENSHIP. ITS A RECIPE FOR ANARCHY AND EVIL. GREAT RECIPE FOR CONFUSION. DEMOCRACY IS ONLY GOOD WHEN YOU — USE IT BASED ON YOUR CULTURE AS A SOCIETY BUT WHEN YOU START TO FOLLOW OTHER PEOPLE’S SOCIETY BELIEFS, DEMOCRACY BECOMES A RECIPE FOR EVIL, IMMORALITY, ANARCHY AND LOTS OF SELF-INDULGANCE CRIMES THAT YOU HAVE NOT EVEN HEARD AS AT NOW. SAY NO TO DUAL CITIZENSHIP.
Mkhonto Wesizwe
June 13, 2012 at 4:43 pm
WHY BLOCK MY COMMENTS…? ARE YOU BEING SPONSORED TO REJECT COMMENTS LIKE MINE???? ALA IMWE….
Hallo
June 13, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Its a must.
Pulamasaka
June 13, 2012 at 5:19 pm
whoi cares about duo citizenship..those without patriotism..?
juice manure
June 13, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Pls Zambia let’s take this issue seriously. Our nation is young & headed for great things. Dual citizenship is not the best for our young nation because right now we are trying to sort out issues of ethnicity especially among Tongas & Bembas. All in all, the president is right in sofar as the national identity & culture are concerned.
Dual
June 13, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Bushe bu opposition party president to be heard kulanda ifingi fingi and insulting unnecesarily?? Zambians you need to learn to address important issues with a sober mind so that even intelligent people would be attracted to share in your topics. Yes indeed ba Mr. Brown Chibale Kapika – dual citizenship would be great for Zambia considering how many people we have in the diaporas all over the world. Some of these people have gained valuable experience in areas that can bring serious growth back home. By virtue of them being citizens in those foreign countries they are entitled to a lot of benefits as citizens and that helps them build their financial capacity, as well as knowledge capacity in different sectors. Home being home, there is no better place they would like to re-invest what they have made than their country of origin ( Zambia). Our government and indeed all of us Zambians are always complaining about foreign investors externalising their earnings, those Zambian in diaspora would love nothing than to do the same for Zambia. When you are not a citizen in a foreign country, there’s only so much that can be availed to you through government citizen empowerment programs. With that background, this is the best time to address the dual citizenship through the constitution.
jj
June 13, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Bring it in
Jet Setter since 1980 still going strong
June 13, 2012 at 7:14 pm
@ ‘George Bush’ uli chilifonti-nifye iwe chikamba! Zed does not need that kind of thinking, especially at this time and age, the 21st century!!! UBUTUTU no wonder you people still shít in pit latrines and call that development just because your dirty towns have now junkfood resturants and more foreigners flocking in you think “napawama”… i have seen that country go from good to bad to ‘kaputt’ before… when the last foreigner has filled his pockets and decides to go back to his homeland, things can go the Zimbabwe way pretty fast, “Ex”-Zambians in the diaspora have always remembered to help you poor beggers, have some respect.
If people wont get the dual citizenship the legal way there is always a way to get back in, with $$&££ you can buy anything in poor africa. Atase..
kakolwe
June 13, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Duo citizenship is the worst rubbish one has to support. Even the writer struggles to state his points & heaps frivolous words hoping they make sense. Either you are in or out. Ati ‘I am Greek-Zambian’ Ata nakeder! Ukokwine!
Kwandana Kwabana
June 13, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Due Citizenship must be approved just like the Jews in Israel. Zambians in the Diaspora will bring investments in Zambia and some boys and girls will have employment.
Semeki
June 13, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Ha! i hv just realised dat most of u chaps who frequently comment on these posts are actualy not zambians or live in foreign countries. ala! so u spend time insulting zambians & intensing us into tribal hatred but meanwhile u are not wth us hear? mwaakosama kyakiine bampompwe imwe. ati dual citizen.kwamene uko ku mangilandi kwaanu!
Mr Chisa
June 14, 2012 at 7:37 am
“Dual citizenship is a must” this can make a great bumper sticker
mwape
June 14, 2012 at 8:16 am
you are talking about dual citizenship because you think you have money to travel and stay in another country. that is no use to us villagers what is it going to benefit me ZERO. currently when i go to visit another village i will be called a visiter, same will apply when i go to uk so why fear about being called so. you are either a christian or a moslem you can not be both. Period. let us spend effort on real issues issues which will benefit all and not the today lucky few.
Zambia
June 14, 2012 at 11:38 am
Every opposition to Dual citizenship in Zambia is spiritual, this can only be won in prayers because it will be for the betterment of Zambia, it shall surely come to pass by faith.
bo
June 14, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Chapwa lekeni ukusosa
Wanu Ngwee
June 14, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Please include in the Draft Constitution the need for ALL civil service poisitions (except PS) to be publicly advertised & interview panels to consist of public & private sector members from organizations that stand for transparency, integrity & good governance. I would also like the salaries of public sector & parastatal jobs to be disclosed when advertised because its taxpyers’ money and we all deserve to know what we’re paying our employees!
ZAMBIA
June 14, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Does it mean utuma chinese will have dual Citizenship
stallone
June 14, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Lets not lie, its easy, people that are against dual citizenship are obviously in zambia and equipped with jealousy for those abroad..balishiba ati taba kayi myangeko UK! so whats left is to hate
mukombe
June 14, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Dual citizenship is like prostitution why should someone want to have two countries at the same time. It well known most of those in the diaspora are economic refusees, there is no other reason you want to have a rich father and a poor one at the same time teti fibombe. Just come back home or stay where you are we are not missing you by the way.
Brotherman
June 14, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Dual citizenship is for crooks who want to commit crime here and run there. Let those born in diaspora apply for citizenship and denounce where they do not want to be citizens.
Brotherman
June 14, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Dual citizenship is for people who are unpatriotic.
Mampi's X
June 14, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Pipo like Mampi,Janet c….Bakunyengakofye wasundilamo wacisha not to marry uzayitaya boyi!
V.O.R
June 14, 2012 at 8:52 pm
While people argue about basic matters the developed nations have long embraced dual citizenship because they are well aware of the benefits, economic and otherwise. Let’s put away backwardness and face up to the facts.
Umuntunse
June 14, 2012 at 11:32 pm
Fear of the unknown.
Osama bin fimofimo did not need to bear the nationality of the country in which he stayed while they looked for him.
How many pipo are hiding in Zambia without belonging to Zambia and another country?
Commission of crime in one country and hiding in another is not reason enough to deny eligible people dual nationality.
In any case, it might help the tracking of criminals because if such individuals are flagged in the developed countries where systems are well developed, they can have very few places to hide…they will be on sex offenders lists, such and such lists, which Zambia does not have. So this way, and investment going to zambia, it’s a win win situation
Chonak
June 15, 2012 at 9:26 am
No to dual citizenship.It’s those stranded chaps in the diaspora who want to come back and cause confusions.Let it remain just as it has been.No!!!!!
oxmos
June 15, 2012 at 9:53 am
i have never liked this clause and should not be part of us if you are a zambian,belong to zambia, chapwaa!
Yamwela
June 15, 2012 at 10:05 am
Jet Setter you are spot on george bush is still shiting in a bucket latrine in chibolya.The asshole is so scared to travel out of Zed he doesnt know anything about the world. Sata is busey screwing him by the back side ati napawama pa zed boyi.CHIFONTINI IWE.
Losha baby
June 15, 2012 at 12:40 pm
@mampi’s X u hv made my day! kikikikikikikikikikikiki
Losha baby
June 15, 2012 at 12:44 pm
@semeki Lmao! we re all one tho our destination differ…. im a southafrican who was once married to a zambian. i lov this site!
kabanda yeshima
June 15, 2012 at 5:43 pm
lets not encourage dual citizenship.one should denounce one for the other.choose which one suits you.
Gumu Gumu
June 16, 2012 at 7:37 am
Reading some of the blogs on this site, I made to believe that a number of people are ignorant about this issue.That is why zambia has lagged behind in development of this polarized thinking.The question people like Mkhoto wesizwe should be asking themselves is why have other African countries included the issue in their constitutions?What built the US the diversity of its people Cuban American, Korean American, Japanese American, to mention a few.I fear for my country.we are doomed
Mpandashalo.
June 16, 2012 at 9:23 am
While those advocating for dual citizenship are only looking at practical advantages such as more employment opportunities, possible influx of capital, easy travel and entitlement to the social programs of both countries, there are other issues that one needs to look at as to whether or not our systems in Zambia can easily address them: are we able to offer let’s say assistance abroad to new citizens in troubled lands?; what of the issues arising from double taxation, can we make follow-ups?; what of government service employment, e.g. I know that in the US just accepting employment with the government of one’s second country may result in the loss of a dual citizen’s U.S citizenship…what bilateral treaties do we have that would help us extradite people with criminal minds back to Zambia, we have failed to get one Zambian suspect called H. Banda… Personally I do not think that Zambia as a country can properly handle the wider implications of adopting this clause. I would be a beneficially as my two Belgian kids would become Zambians and have access to cheaper loans but I am trying to be rational.