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SATA:Zambians Have The Right To Talk About My Health
In an interview at State House yesterday, President Sata said people had the right to talk about his health and that was why he was informing them that he was fine and working.
President Sata said he was answerable to Zambians, hence his decision to talk about his health.
“They have every right to talk about my health. I was a reporter when you were still at school that is why I have to tell them I’m fine,” he said.
“Without people talking about somebody I’m a newsmaker. And me being a newsmaker, it is for me to prove that I’m not sick. It’s for me to prove that as I’m sitting here I’m still fine,” he said.
President Sata said Zambians fought hard for their democracy, including the right for them to talk about their leader’s health.
“At least you have seen I don’t look sick. And these people are saying they want a medical report. These people in the opposition are saying they want a medical report. First of all, they can’t say they want a medical report; they must bring a medical report proving that I’m sick before they can say ‘We are going to ask the medical board’,” he said.
“What is the medical board going to do because there is no report about me being sick? So the medical board they are talking about, they are wasting their time.”
President Sata said people could talk about his health but using it for political gain was wrong.
He said people were free to speculate.
“This is the democracy we were fighting for. Now they can speculate about my health. People have their own democracy. They have been speculating,” he said.
President Sata said smaller parties like UPND wanted to fight him using his health so that they could ascend into government.
“Normally, people who are speculating on many things and especially my illness, it’s HH Hakainde Hichilema. They speculated in 2006, they speculated in 2008, 2011 and now they are still speculating so that they can get into power,” he said.
President Sata said during the 2011 elections, there was a vicious campaign against him based on his health and he was not surprised that the same people were talking about his health again.
On Thursday, Hichilema said the UPND had received, with huge relief, the news that President Sata was well.
Hichilema said Zambia needed a fit and healthy President Sata to deliver a people-driven constitution.
“As UPND and as a country, we cannot afford another challenge that can further destabilise the country at any level of government, even worse at the level of the Presidency,” he said.
Hichilema said it was not right for anyone to speak ill of President Sata whenever he was believed to be unwell.
On Wednesday, President Sata said he was working because he was fit and fine.
In a phone call to The Post, President Sata said reports that he was unwell and had been evacuated for treatment outside Zambia were false.
“They are saying I have been evacuated, evacuated to where?” he asked.
“The opposition even wants to move a motion that they want a medical report before Parliament. We are ready for them.”
President Sata told The Post that he was working normally.
“I’m fit, very fit. I’m very well,” he said.
“You know the nature of the office I’m in. I don’t know the motive of the opposition.”
Opposition MMD president Nevers Mumba on Monday said there were signs that the President was not well.
“Listen, if these signs are signs that the President is not feeling well, all of us stand with him and sympathise with him, but they should not make him do things that are going to make him worse. Zambian people do understand in terms of sickness that they would go ahead and allow the President to take leave until he recovers. They must not push him to do things that are going to aggravate his situation,” Mumba said.
“I think that PF now has to face reality; is the President capable of carrying on or not? This is not a situation where you have something against the President. I am just asking a very noble question. Are these people (PF) trying to force the President to do things that he cannot physically afford to do? He is a person with a family and these questions should be answered and the responsibility lies in the hands of the Patriotic Front and the family, to be able to give guidance so that Zambians can have a President speaking for them on these important days and be able to represent them in other parts of the world.”
And President Sata says he expects newly appointed Ambassador to South Korea Mumba Kapumpa to be sober as he takes up his position.
Speaking after swearing in Kapumpa and Salome Mwananshiku as High Commissioner to Malawi, President Sata told Kapumpa that the South Koreans were extra intelligent and as such, he expected him to be sober.
“You will be dealing with extra intelligent people, so I expect you to be sober,” President Sata said.
He then asked Kapumpa when he would be leaving for South Korea, and he responded that he would be leaving next month.
But President Sata advised him to leave the same day (yesterday) and that if Kapumpa was not interested, he should inform him so that he could appoint another person.
And speaking to journalists later, Kapumpa said he would leave as advised by the President as long as all the logistics were put in place for him.
“I am not going to an already established mission but going there to establish one. So I am going today as long as you the taxpayers prepare all the logistics for me,” Kapumpa said.
And Kapumpa said he would see how Zambia could work together with South Korea in areas of investment in technology.
“This is a tremendous opportunity given to me to go and open this mission. In my career, I have always been sent to establish new institutions such as the stock market in 1992, so this is a big challenge but with God’s help, I will succeed,” said Kapumpa.
Meanwhile, Mwananshiku said she would study the situation in Malawi.
She said Zambia and Malawi were one.
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ayoba
May 31, 2014 at 2:55 pm
It is nice to hear your claims that you are fine shikulu but next time shed more light on when and where you served as a reporter,which media house was so unfortunate to have you as reporter and who were your classmates in that journalism class? For all we know, you were a constable and a railway sweeper.
henry
May 31, 2014 at 4:44 pm
@ AYOBA. And you, who are you? What level of education do you have? Looking at the age of HE MCS, I can say he is fit. You you are on ARVs, who is talking about you? You father at home is bedridden with diabetis, cadiac disease and impotency, who is talking about it? Shut up!
wisdom
May 31, 2014 at 2:56 pm
mr president you are right but the manner in which they talk about your health matters. Further, how many zambians are sick and still working? No doubt,God who gave you presidency will heal you!
Yaaba
May 31, 2014 at 3:08 pm
When I saw the headline, thought finally he is going to tell us what he is suffering from. Bwafya mwe.
zodiac
May 31, 2014 at 3:41 pm
@ ayoba you are a child of a dog musatanyoko chikala mukwapa if you have nothing to say you better stay quiet not pwi-pwi-pwi nio-nio-nio bo-bo-bo bwa-bwa-bwa musatanioko swine.
long live we mufyashi; tabakakukwanishe, walifisama muli ba Yaweh!
May 31, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Nafuuuuuuti!
oh sorry; i 4goten my name;ICINSHIKULULWA
May 31, 2014 at 3:52 pm
Nafuuuuuuti!
Icon
May 31, 2014 at 4:08 pm
This catigory was posted by Kunda & nt de prsdent.Its a peson med story fu of exegerations on bhaf of de prsdent.Deya is no much truth in dis story friends.The truth is dat de prsdent is not wel,pipo learn to rid & c btween lines.They got od audio sounds & edited dem and said the prsdent swon in dis and dat.
the mwa
May 31, 2014 at 4:35 pm
am very happy to see my president stand and talk to us when fools were saying thing stupid. my the good Lord grant you more years to rule us. you are the only president God knows at the moment.
ZAD
May 31, 2014 at 5:02 pm
Republican president of zambia mr m.c.sata very fit than his enemies. Woe to u Enemies of de president!
KAGAWA
May 31, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Ooh what a good news! Republican president of zambia is very fit. sham to evil people
cecil
May 31, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Dats my president,may u live long.
ayoba
May 31, 2014 at 5:31 pm
@ Zodiac and Henry, I won’t stoop to your uneducated and uncivilized levels. Next topic.
JANA
May 31, 2014 at 5:35 pm
yes man of action, H.E MR M.C. SATA. PRESIDENT of all zambians.
Julius malema
May 31, 2014 at 5:36 pm
Thats my daddy ! We love u micheal, dnt wory or stres about what these dogs so kod tongaz thnk..they ar just a smal bakward tribe’,they wil never rule ths nation..
Julius malema
May 31, 2014 at 5:37 pm
@ayoba, noko icinyo kwati nipamusula wakwa cikala hakainde
Julius malema
May 31, 2014 at 5:39 pm
So these dogs(tongaz).ar banking on sata’s death! Shame!
ayoba
May 31, 2014 at 6:01 pm
Yaaaaaawn!
comfused chicken
May 31, 2014 at 6:10 pm
Musula wobe iwe chi ayoba,musula iwe swine,keep cursing your sorry backside!
comfused chicken
May 31, 2014 at 6:17 pm
umusula ukununka waumfwa!
maggie bones
May 31, 2014 at 6:08 pm
It is well with you my prezo,all the good health to you in the name of jesus.Imwe mwila lwala shikulu wesu,michael cobra sata.God bless you
Innocent
May 31, 2014 at 6:09 pm
@Jana,mind your language!
inch
May 31, 2014 at 6:57 pm
Julius Malema u are saying tongas are dogs,then you are our roten anus.Wakwatafye amano yatatu na half.Echo ulyila amafina yapacipute tawaba nomal ulebepesha Sata ati niwiso,luk 4 yo own real fatha.Pafipuba fyaba mu Zambia iwe niwe last with big head fu of sewage water.
steve
May 31, 2014 at 7:03 pm
@julius malema you sound new on the line, if you take things personal you will be confused my brother and society may reject your extremist approach to issues, cool down. social media may not reflect views of general society out there. and mostly it does not.
inch
May 31, 2014 at 7:19 pm
This magot (umutiti) cod Julius Malema is fu of insults wich he siz eveyday frm his mother wen naked.So pipo just igno him & unfotunatly he thinks sata is his fatha,cawama watila inkumba ewiso than ba president.
Zambitious
May 31, 2014 at 7:20 pm
this is what they call freedom of expression…i wonder what type of leader will be when all are gone and God blessed us in those positions.
God Heal Our Land
God Bless Our Nation Zambia.
~Truly Zambian~
TUMFWEKO UBUFI NA LELO
May 31, 2014 at 7:56 pm
At INCH you are right I,v also observed his unconstructive comments this MAGOTT makes on every item with concern. Shame on him.
smoke
May 31, 2014 at 7:56 pm
its good to hear that you are fine mr president. wishing you long life.
Banoko
May 31, 2014 at 8:27 pm
@Julius Malema banoko lihule nio! U tribalist dog bawiso bwamba pampumi.waba matole ya manshi.
watson
May 31, 2014 at 8:47 pm
julius malema holds ideas beyond the norms, or far from what the majority consider normal or reasonable, yet convinced that everyone thinks like him.
jamakudi
May 31, 2014 at 8:58 pm
It is a lie. There was no such interview. Whoelse heard him?
JANA
May 31, 2014 at 10:24 pm
ayoba,watson,inch &chiken. u ar all idiots bastards.your mothrs were jst raped by HH 2 hav u. ataaa!
NXM
June 1, 2014 at 1:04 am
Y ar u wasting ur time on ths julius malema guy?cnt u read tht he is uneducated?
Julius malema
June 1, 2014 at 2:07 am
@Nxm ok am nt educated quite alryt bt i hav got principles and upryt morals, i cnt hav sex with animals like u and yo felow tribesmen do in monze
FK
June 1, 2014 at 2:53 am
Bamambala mwaba nensele u can’t even sleep.jst work hard and live comfortably like them otherwise u wil be stressed for nothing abene are enjoying imwe busy insulting your innocent parents
julius malema
June 1, 2014 at 3:24 am
I’m a bemba monkey who feasts on insults its normal where I come from
Julius malema
June 1, 2014 at 6:49 am
Stop impersonating me iwe cikala wemutonga..
Robbie Chisenga
June 1, 2014 at 7:01 am
Very Well Mr President spoke about ur Health very fit as always pray for u to continue Govern the Nation,May God bless and protect u 4 sure.
chomba
June 1, 2014 at 7:10 am
julius malema you are a disgrace. please stand on your own. your uncivil language has the potential to bring the party name into disrepute. contrary to you your views, we stand for unity.
Mabonzo
June 2, 2014 at 1:13 am
Iwe chi Malema ubwafya wakwata, waletununwisha ifimenso pakufyalwa. Walifilolekeshe echo fyashalila mu chitwe chobe nomba fifumina ku musula obe. Bushe tawaishiba ati mu PF na batonga emo baba? We chilishilu!
Village Chicken
June 2, 2014 at 5:36 am
Good news to hear that Sata you are fit and well. But we have heard lies before, how do we know this isn’t one of them?
Bemba woman
June 2, 2014 at 11:17 am
Not only the right to talk about his health but also the right to know.
sishekano wina
June 2, 2014 at 11:55 am
its nice to know that my president mr. m. c. sata he is fine. pipo talk alot jt 4get them & leave ev’rly thing 2 almight.
rubbish
June 2, 2014 at 11:57 am
can someone tell me of this swearing in of mr kampumba this man was being sworn in last month if am not forgotten, how come he was sworn in on Friday again
Julius Malema
June 2, 2014 at 11:58 pm
Ati Daddy,,daddy my foot< like father like son
njanji
June 16, 2014 at 5:31 am
Late Bingu Wa muntharika also defended the state of his. health. even asserting that he was as tough as the steel on the train tracks. In a couple of months he was a goner! Yes, the presidency does not keep one immune frm infa!