Zambian MP Suspended for Talking About Pubic Hair in Parliament

Zambian MP, Hon. Munir Zulu has been suspended from parliament for a month after saying MPs were adults “who shaved their pubic hair”.

Cutting pubic hair for adults is a custom in Zambia, as people with uncut public hair are considered unclean. However, talking about pubic hair in public is considered inappropriate.

Hon. Munir Zulu was on Wednesday incensed after Jamba Machila from the governing United Party for National Development party referred to him as a “young man” during a parliamentary debate about the abolition of district commissioners.

“Everyone of us here shaves their pubic hair… we are elders,” said suspended Zulu as he tried to make a point.