CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer John Sangwa says if Zambians agree that they would like him to serve as leader of this country, then they must all come together and fund his campaign. Our first instinct towards this message was to consider is as figure of speech. We struggled to imagine that the learned State Counsel is truly suggesting that Zambians should personally fund his presidential campaign through small contributions of K100 each. But we would like to base our opinion today on his argument that foreign funding compromises national sovereignty, as any leader who accepts external money risks becoming a “captured president.” His position, though principled on the surface, oversimplifies a complex problem and misdiagnoses the true cause of political capture in...
