Frank Bwalya the leader of the Alliance for a Better Zambia (ABZ), an opposition party in Zambia, has been released on bail after charges that he reportedly compared President Michael Sata to a potato.
Speaking on the radio on Monday, Frank Bwalya allegedly described President Sata as a “chumbu mushololwa”. The Bemba phrase connotes a sweet potato that breaks upon being bent, and a person who does not take advice.
Zambian opposition stresses that “chumbu mushololwa” was not an insult, but said that it “describes a person who lacks flexibility and who, like a potato, will only break when you try to change their fixed ideas,” he said.
ABZ secretary-general Eric Chanda told AFP: “President Sata is the same old man who was on all radio stations defaming former Presidents Banda and Mwanawasa and nobody arrested him.”
In 2005, a Zambian man, Edward Longe, was sentenced to nine months in prison for insulting then-President Mwanawasa in a bar.
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