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Zambians Have The Right To Question Whether Lungu Is FIT Or NOT -Mweetwa
Zambians are justified in questioning the health status of presidential candidates given the country’s history of deaths of sitting presidents, says the UPND.
UPND deputy spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa also called for constitutional office bearers to be subjected to medical scrutiny just as it is being suggested for presidents. The Zambia Medical Association recently called for medical scrutiny of presidential candidates just as other Zambians looking for employment are made to undergo medical tests.
This call raised debate, with a number of politicians, among them Chongwe member of parliament Sylvia Masebo last week saying Zambians are tired of state funerals and urging citizens not to vote for PF presidential candidate Edgar Lungu because of “his questionable health”. But Lungu challenged people questioning his health to a medical test, adding that those who think they are healthier than him will see what doctors with find them with.
And Mweetwa said it was only reasonable for Zambians to question Lungu’s health status because history of losing sitting presidents had tormented them. “Edgar Lungu’s health, they have the right to question whether he is fit or not fit to hold the office of president. Just like Zambians are free to question whether any other candidate vying for the presidency is fit or not because of what history holds for this country,” he said. Mweetwa told Lungu to put speculation about his health to rest”. “He must redeem himself and give interpretation of his looks to the people of this country, and the only reason why people are questioning it is because he has decided to vie for the presidency of Zambia,” he said.
Mweetwa also said the call for medical tests should not only be restricted to presidential candidates but all constitutional office bearers.
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kubusha
January 5, 2015 at 4:47 pm
there is no guarantee to health naimwe!!
Oldies
January 5, 2015 at 4:54 pm
mj banda
January 5, 2015 at 4:47 pm
Does it mean Lungu is winning? Why are the people concetrating on Lungu and not the satanist as well!
Accurate Source
January 5, 2015 at 6:23 pm
NAKONDE RESIDENTS BOO AND REJECT THEIR PATRIOTIC FRONT AREA MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AS EDGAR LUNG FAILS TO BRING OUT ISSUE BASED CAMPAIGNS.
Nakonde MP Eable Sichula this morning (Monday) suffered High Blood Pressure after Nakonde Residents told Edgar Lungu that they do not want him in Nakonde due to non fulfilling of the 2011 campaign promises by him and the PF as a Party.
This happened when Edgar Lungu made him to stand to greet the people.
Nakonde Residents told Edgar Lungu that should he entertain their Area MP, then all of them would vote for the opposition HH and UPND. The residents were heard shouting that ‘HH is better than Lungu for he (Lungu) was surrounded by useless MPs. Edgar Lungu tried to plead with the residents to forgive their area MP and the PF as a Party to the unfulfilled campaign promises but the residents refused and demanded that Able Sichula, Nakonde MP leave the stage and the place at once.
This annoyed Edgar Lungu who warned PF MPs who do not perform to prepare to leave PF. He said that any lazy PF Member of Parliament will not be considered for adoption in 2016, whether he wins or lose the forth coming presidential by elections. He added that MPs who are not working hard are making it difficult for PF to campaign comfortably.
After leaving the rally, the MP is said to have collapsed in his home within Nakonde following the hostile reception he received from the angry residents but his relatives could not rush him to the nearby hospital for fear of more humiliation from the residents and the medical staffs. His humiliation remained the center of discussion even after 2 hours of Lungu’s departure to Mafinga and Thendere. Majority of Nakonde residents were heard preferring HH to Edgar Lungu mainly because of the unfulfilled promises by the PF. “In the past 3 years, Nakonde was premonitory a PF stronghold, but now things seem to be favouring HH and the UPND”, said the PF source. The area MP is currently bedridden at his residence within Nakonde due to BP which has shot up and the source has described his condition to be stable.
Because of the booing and loud shouts of the residents, Edgar Lungu was forced to stop addressing the rally and allowed his DJ to play his campaign song with a view of diverting people’s attention but in vain as nobody in the audience expressed interest in the song they hear on radio.
Meanwhile, the PF campaign team in Nakonde transported close to one thousand Tanzanian Nationals from the nearby Tunduma Town of Tanzania in order to cheat Edgar Lungu’s team and the Zambian people outside Nakonde that Edgar Lungu enjoys massive support in the border town. By 07:00 hours on Monday, large groups of Tunduma Residents in Tanzania were seen closing the porous border in readiness to attend Lungu’s rally. 90% of Tanzanians do not have Zambia’s NRCs, but this morning a Nakonde Youth Chairperson promised to get them NRCs if Edgar wins to enable them to participate in the 2016 tripartite elections. The former rulling party MMD was notorious known for conniving with foreign nationals in border areas especially Nakonde, to vote for them in during elections, and it seems PF want to inherit this trend if they win.
Instead of spending the allocated 30 minutes in addressing the rally, Lungu was forced to cancel his rally telling the residents that rain was about to come, when the sky was very clear. Our correspondent who is moving with Edgar Lungu team reports that Edgar left Nakonde a very frustrated man and blamed the UPND for the hostile reception he and PF as a party received.
And Edgar Lungu during the Nakonde rally failed to articulate issues when he spent three quarters of his address time inattacking UPND and its leader Hakainde Hichilema. “ HH alenda ati akawamwya TAZARA”,he said. “Mukwayi alemipepa fye, ifwe nga twaisa tukawamya bwinobwino TAZARA “. Boonse abafonfi ba TAZARA bakalafola impiya shabo cilamwenshi, he concluded. Edgar Lungu was more speaking like an opposition leader and not like a candidate who is standing on the ruling party ticket. A lot of Nakonde Residents were herd wondering whether Edgar Lungu was standing under PF the ruling party or maybe he has formed his own political party.
siame
January 6, 2015 at 9:42 am
ala muli baufi people welcomed him if you are UPND just stay with the same party not cheating people i come from Nakonde
slim fit
January 5, 2015 at 4:52 pm
Ifibantu ifya ina fyaisula amafi mumubili.. that’s not healthy!! Mr Lungu looks more healthy than most “fat alberts” i see in Zambia namafumo kwati mwaba bampundu kanshi maafi yeka yeka. nangu chapita apa awe mwandi kapaata!
Hu Hu
January 5, 2015 at 6:16 pm
What about questioning HH? How much he got from privatisation, liquidation and receiverships? How much he got from those companies on whose board he sat for the simple reason that he facilitated their transfer to the buyers? How is his health? His wife, how is she? Will be a burden on him or will be he going to urinate in his pants while attending a swearing in ceremony?
ST. DESPERATIOUS
January 5, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Just because you are Tonga does not mean that you have to be dull as well mudala! We’ll see you on 20 January 2014!
Judge Joe Bidden
January 5, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Lungu is the one who challenged others, so let him lead the way. Simple, no medical tests no votes.
monde
January 5, 2015 at 5:03 pm
mwetwa what did you do when zambians questioned if HH is a satanist or not? How do you react when Zambians want to know what happened to their money when HH sold our companies? Mwitwa do not destroy yoourself becoz you are a promising leader and you will need lungu’s suporters
kakolwe
January 5, 2015 at 5:06 pm
The last sentence in the last but 1 paragraph must read: “The reason why UPND is asking about Edgar Lungu’s health is because he has vied for the presidency and is winning.”
Much to the chagrin of the Hakaindeans.
Shaka Zulu
January 5, 2015 at 5:40 pm
You are very right. I agree with you 100%.
Nasilele
January 5, 2015 at 5:09 pm
Mwitwa do you need to tell us who to vote for NATWISHIBA FWEBENE NILUNGU TULEFWAYA! yes lungu might be sick but he is our next president. HH will in 2 weeks time join Dhlakama, morgan, koni, and my friend fom kenya Odinga
kanabesa
January 5, 2015 at 5:21 pm
Hon Mwitwa,which Zambians and why speaking for them? Have we ever failed to burry our beloved presidents bofore? lungu is a living thing that shud born, grow, reproduce and die! if lungu will die its fine becoz its part of characteristics of a living thing.Remember Americans have vote a sick president and he did what healthy presidents failed to do
shuvan kafuwe
January 5, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Mweetwa is one of the few disgruntled adn frustrated politicians mu Zambia.The man is simply hopeless.Let him tell us about HH and his Freemason activities.
Ken
January 5, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Why is this Country, and the UPND in particular want discriminate the people they think are terminally ill.
This should be a loud massage to all the people who have some health complications that according to UPND, they cannot hold office or participate in the running of this Country if elected into office.
I therefore ask all my colleagues with Sugar, BP, HIV, epilepsy, sickle cell, Alzheimer, Handicaped and with any condition at all, to ensure that they do not vote for UPND because their information is loud and clear.
At PF we do not segregate anyone at all. We are building hospitals so that we treat everyone with communicable diseases and we are developing state of the art technology to treat, otherwise terminal complecations so that this Country can benefit from the skills of those people and improve the life of the afflicted.
UPND says the sick are not required at leadership level. What an insult!
deluxe
January 5, 2015 at 8:57 pm
Natolamo amano mudala.
martha
January 5, 2015 at 5:56 pm
Why is everyone talking about big engine? Viva EL. The chosen one, favoured one & loved one.
Judge Joe Bidden
January 5, 2015 at 6:02 pm
…big engine but misfiring.
Kwati like so
January 5, 2015 at 6:00 pm
No comment
Ndanjekakhs
January 5, 2015 at 6:14 pm
Upnd fanning violence by tacit. Even at Shiwangandu Nalumango had made bad remarks about Lungu. She was over heard and hell broke loose
george bush
January 5, 2015 at 6:56 pm
am shocked why this party for satanists and freemasons enjoy seeing others sick or dead. They even celebrate death. Mweetwa which zambians told you that. Just tell us, your freemasonism demands that you wish your opponents sick or dead. Mweetwa having a bald head at that tender age shows you are cursed no wonder you joined a party for satanists. Its only satanists upnd that forever talks about sickness death. Tell us now how much your satanist president stole from privatisation. Viva EL
Ndanjekakhs
January 5, 2015 at 7:05 pm
Am sure these guys attended Satas funeral just to confirm he really dead
Kokolilo Musonda j
January 5, 2015 at 9:05 pm
Upnd talked about sickness of the late president and they where sure of by election b4 2016 the Masonite satanist where they behind it and now they want to start praying for Edgar lungu to be sick and die we are watching them they will not rule this country this a Christian country no evil should rule
mj banda
January 5, 2015 at 7:16 pm
@accurate source, you must be one of the guys working for Zambian Watch Tonga or reading this biased site. Mind you, people still Edgar C Lungu to win. That Zambian Watch Tonga is there to bring alarm to the nation. Are they the ones who said EL was admitted in hosipital in RSA and now they say he got money from Boko haram. Be very careful with this site or you land in dinial.
bismark
January 5, 2015 at 8:14 pm
Very disapointing to ear always upnd talking of others hearth day in & out so ashemed that y u never ascend to the high Office viva le
monk
January 5, 2015 at 8:28 pm
lungu dats wat sata went thru. lungu is not making ba upnd safa from insomnia
Judge Joe Bidden
January 5, 2015 at 11:30 pm
…yes he went thru the same health issues and he died.
GIFT
January 6, 2015 at 10:04 am
hehehhehehehehe…..
monk
January 5, 2015 at 8:29 pm
i mean lungu is making . . .
blackbull
January 5, 2015 at 10:01 pm
i totally agree with what sylvia masebo said about lungu s health and also what c mweetwa is stating . zambia is not supposed to be a house of tombs as such its better to know the health of the candidate you are voting for . besides if lungu says he is agreeable to go for medical test that is fine and if negative may he recieve more votes for himself but we know ground work hh is ahead by far let him try next time. flight hh 2015
Madrid sata
January 5, 2015 at 10:20 pm
walasa flight HH 2015 kwasila. ..Pf supporter you have too much ignorance/arrogance. in politics we use intelligence and cadreism each at its own level but PF it’s full of bamukolwe everyone is crowing anyhow every where with no order it’s a shame but come 20th only God will lead us through. If you are not on flight HH you are lost.
jayjay
January 5, 2015 at 10:49 pm
Mweetwa is fighting hard to be in a winning government so that he’ll be sent for medical treatment to ‘check’ hus receding hair line!indeed, anyone with an illness should shun these evil wishers- let’s vote for a party that’s constructing 650 health posts country wide- Viva ECL nd Pabwatoo!
gina h
January 5, 2015 at 11:01 pm
i wonder at maureen. Her late hubby was a victim of this health issue, 2day she is with a party that is promoting something which affected her. Was she there wen sylvia made those remarks? How shameful. Chronic illnesses are manageable and pipo r productive with them. Upnd have no campaign message hence their tribal remarks & talk about health
monk
January 6, 2015 at 12:01 am
bonse mwebali against lungu mwalilwala notuswende, boyi kuti wapyamo na lungu ashala. wetha dead or alive lungu wil bcome yo presido, u cant change de reality bakamba
lungu ni edgar
January 6, 2015 at 12:49 am
Arongance and misfortune with ilitracy wil haunt chagwa s supoters. Av u gone to school or u jst tok from without? Even a grade one chap can tel u that chagwa is sick. Only kaponyas wil go for chagwa coz they are not even voters but jst malinger in streets chanting useles slogans. Ask a grade 2 wat he wnts to becom in future he wil tel u he wants to b a doctor or pilot. But for chagwa bush lawyer he can’t even gues.or lie to the pipo about his vision then at I want to be presdnt, mafiiiii. Flight hh is about to take off. Fasten yo seat belts. Washala mwana
vampiro
January 6, 2015 at 6:13 am
Issues surrounding presidency shud not be personal. If zambians want their president to undergo medical scrutiny, then it has to be enshrined in the constitution and it shud state which diseases will disqualify one from participating in the race. For now forget about it. Mweetwa just concentrate on reorganizing yo party for 2016 and make sure yu drop hh.
The one
January 6, 2015 at 6:34 am
Sorry UPND u have insufficient votes to take u to plot one
toony man
January 6, 2015 at 7:49 am
ba pf supporters 2gether with party president muli ma shilu sana!
FTJ
January 6, 2015 at 7:54 am
Okay then Zambians should also have the right not only to question whether HH is satanist but also to reject him on the same account.
peddle
January 6, 2015 at 8:03 am
You can’t be President by wishing your opponent to die but you should pray for them so that thy may see yo success once you are elected as a President.
This is why i can’t vote for them, long live pf.
Sena
January 6, 2015 at 8:38 am
Zambia is a Christian nation, as such NO SATANIST WILL RULE. GOD is alive and looking hence making these people not know what they are doing. In the end they will start attacking each other. HH is a Satanist. He is not kind, very stingy paying his workers peanuts. Imagine HH does not even smile what a person, he looks very bitter every time and who can vote for such an inhuman person? Only FOOLS.
FuManchu
January 6, 2015 at 8:47 am
If everyone else seeking employment is subject to medicals why not politicians? They too are seeking to be employed by the people of Zambia!
Ship Bwembya Chikalamo Chamasense
January 6, 2015 at 9:05 am
We are also interested in the confirmation about Satanism of one of the candidates. We are anxiously waiting for that before we choose our leader.