Zambian journalist Edem Djokotoe has taken aim at China's casino investments littered across the country arguing it is one of the worst social ills to happen.
Djokotoe, posting on his Facebook page, wonders how China was allowed to channel heavy investment into gambling when it had outlawed the trade among its people.
The biggest Chinese investment in Zambia today is The Casino.
"Every small town and district I have travelled to in all the provinces have gambling centres run by Chinese.
"Bonanza machines luring children and adults alike in a country plagued by debilitating poverty.
"With my own eyes, I have seen old people and other beneficiaries of the social cash transfer programme fritter away their money on bonanza and the slots.
"Gambling wont drive the Zambian economy. It is a vice that has the capacity to ruin families and lead whole communities down the road to perdition.
"In Mpika, we found under age children gambling with stolen money and housewives playing Bonanza with ration money," Djokotoe writes.