Staff Reporter
Information reaching Daily Revelation says that the Australian government has given asylum to a Zambian diplomat who feared political persecution from the UPND administration if she were to come back to Zambia.
Well placed sources in the UPND administration have told Daily Revelation, that former
education secretary at the Zambia High Commission in Canberra, Australia, Theresa Shindende refused to come back to Zambia after her recall by the UPND administration from the foreign missions.
“The information we have is that she feared persecution and therefore sought asylum. So the information is that she is working in Australia. The Catholics have given her a job as a teacher in Canberra?” sources said. “She refused a recall. It’s the first time Zambia has had a political refugee. She was fearing that she will be mistreated because she was sent by the Edgar Lungu administration. Her argument was that she wanted to stand on the PF ticket but they told her that she should not stand and would instead be sent into the foreign missions. Therefore she feared coming to Zambia and has been given asylum by Australia otherwise she wouldn’t be there working right now.”
Efforts to talk to Zambian officials in charge of foreign missions failed as their phones went unanswered.
Foreign Affairs minister Stanley Kakubo did not take his calls together with his permanent secretary in charge of international relations Isabelle Lemba. The lines for Kakubo, Lemba and the other permanent secretary in charge of administration Chembo Mbula always go unanswered.
