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President Sata Is Well And Govt Is Functioning Properly-Kalaba
Minister of Foreign Affairs Harry Kalaba has said it is wishful thinking for opposition political leaders to suggest that President Sata is not enjoying good health.
Mr Kalaba said President Sata is well and Government is functioning properly contrary to assertions by some sections of society that not all is well.
“Instead of praying for the Head of State to continuously enjoy good health, some people are wishing him bad health and saying he has been evacuated outside the country for medical treatment,” he said.
Mr Kalaba, who is Bahati Member of Parliament (MP), said he was with Mr Sata at State House, where the President chaired a Cabinet meeting on Monday, and wondered why some people are saying he is not well.
The minister was speaking in Mansa yesterday on a Radio Yangeni special programme. He is on a tour of Bahati constituency.
He urged those peddling lies to stop the unnecessary talk but concentrate on developmental programmes which will be helpful to them.
Mr Kalaba said some people in Zambia enjoy peddling lies at the expense of developmental programmes.
“I should say here that if talking was an industry, Zambia was going to be the most industrialised nation because some people like talking instead of working,” he said.
Mr Kalaba said politicians should emulate the President’s style of leadership because his track record in politics is there for all to see.
He said that unlike some politicians who have dribbled their way to the top of political parties, President Sata’s track record is clear as he has never been fired from a political party but merely resigns when he is not happy.
“President Sata has been in UNIP and left when he felt that it was not necessary to belong to the party.
“He also left MMD and formed the Patriotic Front and all this time was not fired unlike other party leaders who have dribbled their way through,” Mr Kalaba said.
He said Zambians should consider giving the PF more time to complete its programmes.
And Mr Kalaba has assured Zambians that the country’s international borrowing is within sustainable limits hence there is no need for people to panic.
Mr Kalaba also said President Sata has cut his travel in order to save some funds.
“President Sata delegates his vice president and me as Foreign Affairs [minister]because he wants to be prudent in as far as spending government coffers is concerned,” the minister said.
Kalaba said there are tremendous developmental programmes which the PF government has embarked in his constituency.
He said infrastructure such as schools, roads and clinics has been built in Luapula and, in particular, Bahati constituency.
“When people want to lie to you that there is no development, I am sure that you have all seen what the PF is doing. It’s there for everyone to see,” he said.
Asked why Government fired some nurses, Mr Kalaba explained that every organisation has rules which need to be observed.
He said it was wrong for the nurses to take the law into their own hands when there were steps that they were supposed to follow.
Mr Kalaba said, however, that some nurses have since been reinstated.
He also explained that the ZESCO tariff increase is meant to make the power utility facility more efficient so that it can help to boost industries in a province like Luapula.
He said that for Luapula to start investing more in industries like manganese mining, there is need for adequate electricity.
Posted by Kunda
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lemmm
June 11, 2014 at 12:13 pm
Y do u have to explain the president is not sick, he’s well…..etc, y start explaining a healthy persons health?? I smell a rat, if he’s fine he’s fine. In explaining ine i have started wondering if he’s fine. Wat r u hiding??? Plz explain.
rev.masipa
June 12, 2014 at 11:45 am
I agree with you. kaloba does not have to waste tax payers money to go and explain to people in bahati that sata is alright. let sata himself say so. he thinks zambians are 1diots like him. people can read between lines and make their own observations
Observer
June 11, 2014 at 12:59 pm
Ulichipuba?
joe
June 11, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Kalaba fimofimo you must be dull. Have you everseen a healthy person. Sata is old and he is catching up with age. And that is normal. We voted for our grandpa. He can be sick. Am also sick. Is sata an angel
aria
June 11, 2014 at 2:18 pm
Ba uze mbuya…..
Speculator
June 11, 2014 at 3:07 pm
We saw him when we voted him into office; we see him again today and we are able to compare, baba
kwa george
June 11, 2014 at 3:16 pm
1. MR KALABA JUST TELL US WHY YOU ARE TALKING ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE WHO ALSO HAVE THEIR OWN MOUTH.
2. WHEN YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL, DO YOU GO FOR THE PATIENT OR THE ONE ON THE BED SIDE?
Chisha Kambole
June 11, 2014 at 4:20 pm
Chaona munzako chapita mailo chili pali iwe. Kalaba do u remember how sata mocked kunda, mwanawasa? Sata was wishing himself ill health.
Mabote Sililo
June 11, 2014 at 5:04 pm
If he is well, why can’t he come out, address the nation on all contentious issues so that we can ask him questions and he can answer them? If what we saw in court recently is anything to go by, then maybe we have a different understanding of doing well with Kalaba. On my card, what I saw is a clearly mental case, Sata is sick, very sick in the head. Period. Kalaba and his goons should know that they will one day have to answer for allowing ichinangwa to rule the country, and will be hanged for such treachery.
Ubuntu
June 11, 2014 at 5:06 pm
Why all the explanation and the defending?
Mr Sata left UNIP, muselela kwakaba, left MMD because Mr Chiluba nominated mr Mwanawasa to his successor. Mr Sata was hoping he was the one who was going be mr chilubas successor. Development in what areas mr Kalaba?
Mabote Sililo
June 11, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Kaili yake Ukwa Charlie Katongo sinotimba, ili ndwiiii!!!! Awe sure, it is agony in the maputula a mung’a munzi. The only thing the snake resident in abena Charlie Katongo’s trousers is doing is puking puss, blood and urine. Especially urine, it is flowing like the Luangwa river, no wonder Kaseba has leg it hard away from State House grounds. They grounds are flooded and the given that the girl cannot swim, she had to leg it away before the urinary floods drown her like the liteku piciiii.
Kambostik
June 11, 2014 at 8:09 pm
Even to Mwanawasa people were sayiny the same thing that he is okay.Kalaba i hope will not swallow ur own words or fasten sata’s death.advice him to step down in order to save his own balls
icinshikululwa
June 11, 2014 at 8:54 pm
Somebody help! HH need some wichcraft! UPND will kill to get the prezidence; watch it!
icinshikululwa
June 11, 2014 at 9:54 pm
ULU ULWAKUFWAYA UKUTEKA, UMBI AKABA INDOSHI. Ba UPND; tekanyeni fye bane, inshita yenu inga eko yanba, tukamweba fwe bena Zambia; but as at now, it is FAAAREEE! Coz Micheal will be there again.
icinshikululwa
June 11, 2014 at 9:56 pm
ULU ULWAKUFWAYA UKUTEKA, UMBI AKABA INDOSHI. Ba UPND; tekanyeni fye bane, inshita yenu inga eko yanba, tukamweba fwe bena Zambia; but as at now, it is FAAAREEE! Coz Micheal will be there again!!
Chisha Kambole
June 11, 2014 at 10:55 pm
@Ichishikulwa, u r displaying a rare form of mental illness like Charles mwango. chainama nchito yapezeka.
Kamushi
June 12, 2014 at 7:06 am
lets grow up zambians evry1 wil die but wetha u eat with sata or not he is president & the pipo dzev 2kno,he shud rest if he is sick…
ZAD
June 12, 2014 at 8:37 am
Imwe bafikala, sata is the president of all zambians including an idiot so called hakainde & his bastards followers.
katwishi mukwai
June 12, 2014 at 8:40 am
Why tamonekela mu public kanshi? How is he going to campaign mu 2016? PF kuya bebele.Aleseka Mwanawasa ,mwamona nomba.
Trixy
June 12, 2014 at 8:47 am
Please people, Sata is sick, very sick. Let us call a spade a spade. Why get upset when people say things the way they are? Sata is the president of this country and as such his life is out for all to watch and comment on. @Icishikulula…my bro I would advice you just to keep praying for the president. My hope and prayer is that he makes it to 2016 (By the grace of God). But as at now…nga nikuvikonka, he has to step down on health grounds…SERIOUSLY.
ZAD
June 12, 2014 at 9:00 am
Iwe idiot, he is on duty. so u thnk he is like your foolish father to be seen in the streets or in bars any how.
Trixy
June 12, 2014 at 9:23 am
@ZAD, one of the duties of the president is to address the nation on issues of concern and let the nation ask burning questions that need honest answers. Right now the people of Zambia think that the president is sick because they know what they saw on Africa Freedom day and also the court. You do not expect us to believe what Kalaba is saying.
JALU
June 12, 2014 at 9:34 am
Iwe chikala,the president is on duty. he is not like your foolish father to be seen in the streets begging
Trixy
June 12, 2014 at 10:04 am
You twits the president is not only required to be seen by its citizens, but he is also required to address them when sensitive issues like these come up. People are anxious to know the real health status of their president; the man they voted into power in order to make their lives easier….