DISTORTED LEGACY
Under mounting pressure, including food riots and an attempted coup, President Jerome Jumbe (JJ) of Zambica revokes the repressive and dreaded one-party state system and re-introduces multiparty elections, which usher in the charismatic and diminutive Joseph Francis Chaluma (JFC). JFC embarks on liberalisation of the country’s shuttered economy. Like JJ before him, JFCS implements subjective constitutional reforms. However, JFC commits three cardinal sins; arresting the founding father of the nation, attempting a divisive third-term bid and picking an unlikely successor, Luka Mwambwa who, against all odds sells him down the river. Isolated and vulnerable, JFC’s eyes dilated and he certainly saw more light, “All the first three Republican Presidents missed key points…….” he quipped, mourned and regretted it all.