INSATIABLE JEALOUSY (PHD) AMONG CITIZEN & WITCH HUNT BY THOSE IN POLITICAL POWER IN ZAMBIA.
Author: Dr. Edgar Ng’oma Philosopher/ Political Analyst
TWO CRITICAL CHALLENGES NEW DAWN GOVERNMENT& PRESIDENT HH NEED TO WORK ON IN ORDER TO RULE ZAMBIA PRUDENTLY….
He needs to know this as a problem he needs to pay extra attention to it.
One ingredient of failure by an individual is always to cast a blame on others for his short sightedness in identifying challenges which lay ahead of that need to be dealt with in order to expedite their discourse.
What am I trying to say here ? Before you undertake any program you need to understand what you want to achieve it, how you will execute it, who you are going to do it with, where it will be done and when to start it.
It is also very important to apply the SWOT formula to assess yourself potential (Strength, weakness, opportunity and threats) to what you have planned to do.
Today I am have gannered a lot of courage to call a spade a spade on the biggest challenges I have analysed that might have contributed to the underdevelopment of my country ZAMBIA. Ofcourse let me not be misunderstood that I am playing a blame game…instead I am pointing out weaknesses and threats of our people in ZAMBIA which have contributed to the non development of the country… without fear or favor allow me to devulge (ni wulule) allow me to reveal the enemy in us maybe that way we may realise our shortcomings and could work towards adjusting against our weird inner self.
DEEP ANALYSIS OF OUR WEIRDNESS AS A NATION.
The biggest danger in this country ZAMBIA I have come to know and understand are the mindset of the citizenry, the Citizen is a very big danger to its own development. Why am I saying this?
Well,in 2005 when I embarked on identifying potential emerging POLITICAL leaders in ZAMBIA under a none governmental organization to which I was it’s President, Action National Group for Emerging leaders (ANGEL) I had a column dubbed ANIMAL IN MAN THEORY where teaching leadership was made simple. In this column I taught Leadership using the theory of Leadership in the social structure of Leadership in animals, where I tried by all means through comparative analysis of wild animal behavior matching it with human character and personality I would make Leadership lessons simple.
In this research which was necessitated by a resource wild game Scientist a Mr. Chansa at ZAMBIA wildlife authority ZAWA headquarters at Chilanga 15 km south of ZAMBIA’s capital LUSAKA where I would go during the week to consult him on specific individual wild game behavior and character, although most of the information I already had through other text books I had bought on wild game behavior, I still had some questions to be clarified at short notice and Mr. Chansa was always available to help me.
Story short, after writing a series of publications about 50 which were published in a Weekly tabloid Newspaper, I decided to embark on a research on a very weird behavior of most Zambians wherever they are on why they rarely support each other or one another…. and most of all they would spend most times undermining one another or each other to see how they can frustrate the other who seem to be doing something unique with a potential to change his life to high heights… instead of encouraging him a citizen of Zambia will try by all means to frustrate it .
I wanted to get to the bottom of this weird behavior which needed extreme attention to enable it to be addressed.
I embarked on an ambitious research and investigation on what happened to our ancestors who first settled in this country we now know as ZAMBIA about a millennial ago. What I discovered was astounding and incredibly phenomenal..and I will share with you in a brief summary of my findings!!
I then wrote a summary of my findings in that research and published it in a Weekly tabloid called Angel Newspaper and the following day I received scholars from University of ZAMBIA (UNZA) and among the notable were a historian Professor Mapopa Mtonga and another Associate Professor Mhoni who was from originally from MALAWI but working at UNZA (University of ZAMBIA) under some exchange program or something like that, coming to my office at Kwazulu palace in Chilenje to congratulate me on the breakthrough by solving the puzzle and mistry of weird behavior of ZAMBIAN Citizen all over the world wherever they are they are the enemy of their fellow citizenry.
Story short, in one sentence ZAMBIA is a confluence of cowards, a country founded by a natural selection of cowards running away from battle fields and battle ground where courageous men fought fierce battles and those faint hearted with acute fear who could not stand war run away for safety filtered through and found themselves in this country we now know as ZAMBIA the promised land.
The first tribe to settle here were the pygmies short people who had previously run away from bantu tribes in the north of Africa.
Then the next tribes to displace the Pygmies were bantu botatwe (3 tribes ~Tonga ,ila and Lenje) and upon seeing BANTU tall people with spears, the acute filled cowards Pygmies race bolted for the inturi forest in the present day CONGO DRC .
The Tonga,ila Lenje (bantu botatwe) are believed to have broken away from East African Masai/Kikuyu dialect combination thereabout also freeing warrioring tribes as first cowards to filter into a region we now know as ZAMBIA extending all the way from central ZAMBIA to southern province of ZAMBIA where they still live today.
ALL other remaining 70 tribes were all running away from battle fields with acute fear and found themselves among a peaceful tribesmen who detested war .
The last tribe to enter ZAMBIA in the mid 1800 around about 1835 were the Nguni ethnicity running away from the Mf’ecane wars instigated by King Shaka Zulu in Kwazulu Natal (KZN) South Africa. Unfortunately this author here belong to this clique of a cowardly ethnicity today known as, mispronounced as Ngoni instead of Nguni ethnic group.
Anyhow, my analysis of a social behavior and personality of a coward made very interesting reading with some readers a lot of them scholars, because it was here where I disected the PhD syndrome (Pull him Down) how it all began.
In summary I explained the properties of a cowardly ethnicity which includes acute fear coupled with restlessness in these fleeing escapees, personal security from imminent danger or harm was very critical in them, and in order for this coward to assure himself of security, he would fluently rely on information from anyone near them on what new information they heard?? On a daily basis suspicion and gossip, rumour mongering was the order of the day.
Sometimes they would always be on the run if the a rumour they received through gossip would suggest an ambush by bravely tribesmen seizing livestock and food at the time. This for decades played out in these 73 tribes the earliest who had now lived in Zambia for almost 400 years by independence time in 1964.
Because of a summary above ZAMBIA who is surrounded by 10 neighborhood received her inhabitants from the regions of the neighbors and further south,east west and Central AFRICA.
This country is a natural peace haven because the inhabitants here are acute cowards who found themselves in this part of africa through a natural selection running away from warring tribesmen.
Around ZAMBIA there were serious civil wars and bloody liberation struggle for independence, but in ZAMBIA even independence struggle was not that bloody and ever since there has never been serious civil disobedience or civil strife in this country.
ACUTE JEALOUSY IN ZAMBIA.
One US diplomat left Zambia and another to replace him in USA asked his colleague replacing him on the DOs and DONTs in ZAMBIA important social things to observe.
The outgoing Ambassador gave his colleague 3 important things to observe inorder to live happily in ZAMBIA.
1.Zambians are generally very friendly people to foreigners and they respect more foreigners and trust them better than their own fellow Citizens. Better still, they treat a white skin or light skinned people best .
- But here is where you need to pay a lot of attention. Zambians respect the dead so much that each time a member of staff has a bereavement you have to make sure that you assist in whatever way you can with material support towards the funeral and moral support by attending the burial or visit the funeral house, if you don’t do any of the above, you will be labelled a very cruel Boss and the mission staff will lose respect for you and you will be the subject of gossip and ridicule.
- This third reason is the most important of all you need to observe and apply in your day today work at the mission.
Do not entertain any staff at the mission to tell you a report on another embassy staffer, don’t entertain anyone to tell you anything about a fellow staff , the reason is very simple and I don’t know why these people are like this….
It is known that 85% of what they would whisper in your ears is a lie, 10 % rumour mongering/gossip false and 5% truth.
In order to avoid entertainment of rumour mongers and gossippers try to find out on your own and ask the one reporting the other to repeat what he told you in the presence of the one he had reported , then you will appreciate that Judas Escariot was at least truthful because he at least pointed out the true messiah to his persecutors.
Zambians will never support each other regardless of what position they hold in society, they will never support one another.
However, ZAMBIA is a very beautiful country for visitors but for the local people among themselves this is the bare truth about them, and in order for you to live happily in the country kindly observe the three rules above I have shared with you.
Finally, always rely on verified reports from First Secretary Political (intelligence~ secret service)who will give you accurate verified report on any person.
In conclusion, I as a researcher/investigator/Philosopher/Political Analyst/Social Scientist my advice to the New Dawn Government headed by President Hakainde Hichilema as an economist by Profession , your Excellency you need to have a Political team within your ranks who should advise you how to handle such a delicate peaceful nation whose real violence in how they destroy one another in order for them to win your favor at the expense of others by reporting falsehood on those you trust.
A ZAMBIAN will rarely recommend a fellow Zambian for favor, yes there are a few Zambians me since I started working in the corridors of power I only discovered only one brother who behind my back spoke well about me, the rest who smiled at me, ate my food, money and I even recommended for jobs and they got employed and favor from the powers that be on my recommendation went behind my back and reported falsehood.
ADVICE….
By now you know what I am talking about , apply the simple social technique which 3rd and 5th Presidents of ZAMBIA used very well to curb rumour mongering, gossip and character assassin’s of fellow Citizens who they know very well will have no chance to meet you to counter falsehood version of a story you have been told.
Remember King Solomon how he exposed a lieing tongue of a murderer mother who twisted the truth after she killed her own child and swapped the dead child with a live one of her neighbor sleeping next to her.
You might not have such wisdom but once you have wise men around you, you could come out to be among the best leader this country has ever produced.
Remain steadfast, focused, resilient, courageous to make certain painful decisions for the good of the nation, like you have done barring the presence of cadres in markets and bus station for the safety of the many both who voted for you and those that did not.
So far so good Mr President, the majority good is behind you and don’t be detracted by those doing their thing in offering checks and balance, they too are very useful because they are encouraging your Government to step up where you are lugging behind so that you may pay attention to them and see whether or not you may apply certain proposition they are advising your New Dawn Government.
You who are in the opposition don’t just criticize for the sake of it, do it constructively and always offer alternative solution so that the government of the day might adjust accordingly when your advice is better than what they want to do.
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Dr. Edgar Ng’oma Political Analyst/ Philosopher.