Thursday, March 28, 2024

Widow dismisses Sata’s jail claims

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THE widow of Peterson Ngoma, the man Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata claims he was with in prison has said her late husband had never been jailed for any offence.

Mary Ngoma, 75 said she was aware that her husband was a freedom fighter who fought to liberate the nation from colonial bondage but was never jailed, as had been claimed by Mr Sata that he was his cellmate.

Mr Sata had denied ever being in jail with the last governor for Mambwe Boma during the UNIP era, Jackson Ngoma but claimed it was his brother Peterson who they shared a cell with. But Mrs Ngoma has denied the claims.

Jackson Ngoma, earlier in the month disclosed that he and Mr Sata shared cells at Bwana Mkubwa and Mukobeko prisons in the early 1960s.

Mr Ngoma even produced a certificate of release from jail dated 1964 after being released from prison.

Mr Ngoma was serving a six-year jail term for subversive acts against the colonial government while Mr Sata was incarcerated for a criminal offence.

“My husband, Peterson Ngoma has never been in jail. He was in politics and a freedom fighter but was never in jail for all the years that I spent with him as his wife,” Mrs Ngoma said.

Mrs Ngoma said she was aware that in the 1960s, freedom fighters were jailed for their role in the liberation struggle but her husband was not among those jailed.

In fact, Ms Ngoma said it was in 1961 that she got married to her husband and they lived together until 1979 when he died and at no time was he jailed and neither did he inform her that he had served a jail sentence prior to their marriage.

“At no time did my husband go to jail unless I was not aware but in all the years that we stayed together, he never went to jail for any offence,” Ms Ngoma said.

As far as she was concerned, Mrs Ngoma said there was a possibility that some people were mistaking her brother in law Jackson for her late husband.

Mrs Ngoma challenged whoever claimed that her husband was ever convicted to ask her brothers-in-law, Jackson who was currently in Eastern Province and Basil now settled on a farm in Chilanga.

“My husband is not here to speak for himself that he was never jailed before but if there is anybody that thinks otherwise, let him ask his brothers, Jackson and Basil. These are the only surviving brothers from my husband’s family,” Ms Ngoma said.

[Times of Zambia]

40 COMMENTS

  1. No man can tell his wife to be that he was once jailed. This woman is talking about the obvious. She does not know and thats the truth because she was not told even by the relatives of her late husband. She will never be told the truth. Basi.

  2. Yet another accusation on the dead. While the living are saying something else. Why does this man pick on the defenseless dead? The lady had every right to set the record straight. In fact she has said as far as she’s aware her husband never went to jail. That’s what she knows. She could have heard even from other people that her fiance had been jailed before. In any case she’s challenged anyone to ask the late’s brothers if he had been jailed. Leave the lady alone, she is entitled to clear her husband’s name. Just leave the dead alone, Mr Sata. It makes you look very desperate.

  3. We are either a nation of nincompoops who cannot keep records or we are just blind s.t.u.p.i.d. What is the reason why this story cannot be laid to rest once and for all by producing the records? I am fed up with it and all those who keep digging for it. Get a life and move on. Why did Kaunda appoint an ex-convict to be Governor of the biggest city? Why was an ex-convict allowed to be a member of the august house of parliament? If all this was known by the powers that be, then they also broke the law.

  4. #9 the saint – i totally agree with you. People must get a life and move on. All this rubbish sounds so childish and its hard to even try to figure out what this nonsense is supposed to lead to.

  5. So what if so and so shared a cell with so and so ? Will this cell bring bread to our tables ? Criminal sentences are not in perpertuity ! There is a period afterwhich they ‘expire’

  6. On ““My husband, Peterson Ngoma has never been in jail. He was in politics and a freedom fighter but was never in jail for all the years that I spent with him as his wife,” Mrs Ngoma said,” this is very interesting and I hope Mr PF/Sata MC will clarify on this issue too.

    Have a blessed day all.
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    Matt 6: 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you

  7. should we be taken back to a debate of things that presumably happened in the 1960s sure when a modern tym thief FTJ is free roaming the street ryt now?

  8. We dont need this widows story ba Lt naimwe ! Save your site for important stories not one from a poor widow like that and who knows why she is opening her mouth.:-?

  9. no matter what you do you can never make us not to make the change.your time is up like UNIP its now you MMD to go.Pact for life.

  10. # 18 nice thought man! Why even give such *****s coverage when we have alot things at hand.Already twelve lives have been lost in Lusaka as a result of cholera beacuase of poor drainage system/floods. We have so many problems as a country which require urgent attention and cholera is one of them.Poor roads,rundown infrastructure,inadequate water supply,poor drainage system,poor healthy delivery system,high poverty levels,prostitution,HIV-AIDS,street kids,insufficient housing units,high unemployment levels,etc but we are just wasting time and resources on useless talk.Can RB preside over the cholera situation now that the old chap is back from his usual gallivanting and wasteful trips.Useless old drunkard

  11. What a waste of resources so if mmd is not panicking why go so far as to find the poor widow to say things which are VERY VERY irrelevant, ama ilele fye. This is not news (:|

  12. Who ever sata was with in that cell,what has it to do with all the problems that we the poeple of zambia are facing?cant we for once be issue based.Sata is not in jail now and is very ready to rule the poeple of zambia.Only the cowards from MMD want to about what happened 50yrs ago.Please let us show show sanity in our talks.

  13. LT Please! please use a better picture of Sata. I know its no big deal as some of you might say but I guess there is a reason why LT has been using this photo. The question is WHY?

  14. Lets wait and see hat happens next, as events keep unfolding 8->, bt wateva the case, change we need and change we must have

  15. Lusaka times is a stooge of MMD. This site is an pinion collection centre and a propaganda arsenal for the MMD. Believe LT is part of the MMD inelligence.

  16. Lets hope LT is not trying to boot-lick ,why get such nonsense as news..get a life LT or else u will be come your own bloggers:)>-

  17. When the reports on Mr Sata are adverse then LT is a part of MMD intelligence! Anything that kaponyas cannot understand is vote rigging, shushushu, MMD bootlicker etc etc. Turning back to the picture, is that the old geyser who is aspiring for President of Zambia? No wonder even his kaponya supporters would rather hide the picture, yaba.

  18. The old lady has refuted Sata’s lies.
    And Mr Jackson Ngoma has produced proof of his incarceration and release from jail. These old men are good at keeping records, but where are your records Mr Sata? He probably destroyed them, who wants to keep such a worthless record anyway?

  19. #28 not at all. If they had put RB vs Kanitundila picture, I was still going to suggest they put a better picture of RB. Do you see what I am getting at?

  20. #34 Nice comment. Mr Sata has admitted that he was in prison – but points to a wrong man as his cell mate. Mr Ngoma has produced his release record which shows the crime he committed to end up in prison – can comrade Cobra do the same so we know the reason for incarceration? To try to say “who cares” is very lame because the man will be vetted during nomination – clear this or else it will bite you big.

  21. It was for theft that Sata was imprisoned. No amount of face-washing will ever erase this truth. He was not imprisoned for freedom fighting but theft. That’s why he finds it extremely difficult to stub himself by saying “yes, I stole or I was accused of stealing”. Pact, go with young blood.

  22. pliz leave Sata alone imprisoned or not .the pact is on the way to state house,soon you will say H.H was also in police cells at Monze police Station,Meanwhile you have Bwezani who stole in the Kaunda government.:d/:x:o:x[-(:)>-

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