President Michael Sata this morning gave marching orders to one of his intelligence security officers, accusing him of having a bald head when in fact the man had grey hair.
The president, as usual, walked to the auditorium and immediately picked on people with bald heads.
He spotted one of his intelligence officers who was standing on his far right and took him to task for being at his event without hair on his head.
This shocked the diplomats who murmured among themselves from the entrance of the auditorium where they were standing, forcing State House protocol to ask them to be quiet.
“Who is that man there? You, where is your hair, what are you doing here. Ba Chalabesa (his senior principal private secretary). Can you get this man out of here. I don’t want to see him at State House again,” President Sata said.
He said no State House employee or senior civil servant is allowed have a bald head.
“When I was a young man, when you don’t have hair it meant that either your wife is dead or you have run out of prison. How can you have a senior civil servant who has no hair on his head? Get him out and send him to Cabinet let him work from there, he is not fit to work at State House,” he said.
Later the un identified intelligence officer walked away without responding to the President and could not speak to the media about his ordeal.
President Sata later received credentials from 14 diplomats among them the new South African High Commissioner to Zambia Kgoshi Piet Mathebe whom he embarrassed in the same way for having a bald head.
He asked Mathebe were his hair was and later told him that women like Kenya’s new High Commissioner to Zambia Professor Ruthie Rono did not like men without hair like him.
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