We were investors in Zambia and, after hearing the then Minister of Immigration and the District Administrator of Livingstone say (on separate occasions) in public meetings that they could "kick out investors any time", we decided to cut our ties and leave the country. There were other reasons too e.g. the incessant changing of Government rules and fees and the incompetent, and often discrimatory, implementation of them. In a nutshell, investing in Zambia just wasn't worth it.
No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we go or send against him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land
Feat of Clay 2004 "The names of honest ministers and senior officials would fit on the back of a postage stamp...But they can hardly expect us not to care when their gluttony causes them to vomit all over our shoes". Edward Clay British High Commissioner Nairobi, Kenya. July, 2004
