Generally, freedom of expression gives you a constitutional right to mock anyone—and it even stretches to the right to offend others in some countries but surely, this is not the case in Zambia.

A Zambian musician-Pilato (real name Chama Fumba) recently released a song about a man named Lungu who carries a suitcase filled with whiskey and has no idea how to govern—and this has gotten him arrested, because the officials say it defames the president, Edgar Lungu, by accusing him of drinking too much and being incompetent.

The musician who must have forgotten which country he lives in when he was recording the song was detained in Lusaka on Monday and charged with conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace. We do hear of this charge a lot, even in Ghana when those in power just want to pick a person up for literally breaking no law, they go for that…

“The police declined to grant us bail and we requested to them that in that case the matter should quickly proceed to court,” Marshal Muchende said.

Anyway, listen to the song below…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qrDQwKR1IY