Civil rights activist Brebner Changala has said it is particularly worrying that President Michael Sata has continued being absent in the public and that government itself also being dodgy about telling the nation about the wellbeing of the President.
President Sata has not been seen in public for over two months now. Vice President Guy Scott had to represent President Sata in Washington D. C.at the first ever US-Africa Summit which was attended by over 53 heads of state fromthe 4th to 6th August.
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Mr. Changala said that the alleged failure of the Patriotic Front (PF) government to issue governance policy guideline is a sign that Cabinet has been disbanded.
He told Qfm news in an interview that he thinks that it is important the President Sata shows the nation that he is leading the nation by his mandate.
The Civil rights activist noted that President Sata’s absence from the public eye is also affecting the Zambian economy and has brought about unnecessary rumor mongering which he says is a further threat to national security.
He said it as if the country is on auto pilot and no one seems to care as Cabinet itself has failed and must be condemned.
Mr. Changala has particularly singled out the President’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations George Chellah as one of the people that have failed in their mandates as he has allegedly stopped informing the nation about President Sata’s work.
In reaction to this Mr. Chellah said in a separate interview that State House has never taken Mr. Changala’s views seriously.
Mr. Chellah said that therefore engaging Mr. Changala in any matter is a waste of time.
He said State House will thus not engage in any shadow boxing with the civil rights activist as he only appears to be a busy body.
The President’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations said State House remains focused on delivering on the mandate that the Zambian people gave to President Sata.
Has State house under Sata and Chellah and the entire PF ever taken anything seriously including the governance of Zambia? Chellah will be sorry for his careless utterances, he is so pompous and uncouth.
Zambia deserves better.The government is being very irresponsible by keeping quiet about Sata’s ill health.The constitution is clear that if the president is sick he needs to be reviewed by a medical board.How can a president abscond for 51 days and still get a salary?
Lie, deceit …. has caught up with Ukwa
He his going to dye a slow painful dearth
God has a way go getting rid of evil…. in the next coming presidential by-election i see a new reborn Zambia
He his going to die a slow painful dearth
Sorry bwana engineer, but even your attempt at correcting yourself has failed. Engineer?
Death iwe ala sha!
IS THIS NOT THE CHANGE U CHAMPIONED IN 2011 bane?
We told them, we were insulted
A lot of damage is systematically going on in the absence of the president. The ministers must be having a field day doing whatever they like, who can blame them?
The adage goes, ‘when the cat is away, mice will play’.
You cannot expect things to go well when the head is rotten.
Sata must now be put on unpaid sick leave; after which he must be discharged on health grounds. He is a time waster and a financial liability.
Half pay. After 90 days unpaid leave. Then consideration should be made for …………..?
Satas 90 days are long over!
As for “enjoying his term”, that is complete rubbish!!!!!!
He was elected to DO A JOB, not to relax and go on holiday. If an employee fails to do the job he is being paid for he SHOULD BE FIRED with IMMEDIATE EFFECT!
The haters are choking with grudge. Please Sata don’t appear in public so that these prophets of doom get hurt even more. Just take it easy and laugh while you enjoy your term. Do not respond to their useless rants. Shame on them.
OMG! Your comment is so id!otic it has practically rendered me speechless. You should be proud, not many people can do that.
I’m a Zambian Bapongozi and I love Zambia very much! What I find shocking and surprising is your government’s inability to categorically provide a running status of President Sata’s health. I ask a simple yet incisive question: Is it criminal, shameful, humiliating for a human being to fall sick or be sick? All human beings fall sick in their lives whether one is a pauper, prince, or president. So what is this disgraceful attempt to hide the health of a human being? This has robbed the president of much needed prayers and well wishes. May I suggest to George Chellah and his company, that should, God forbid, President Sata die, they will need to bury him in “silence” and without informing the nation. Or did President Sata die already, and George Chellah and PF are in limbo?
It is not criminal, shameful or humiliating to fall sick…. But for the person in question it is shameful and humiliating for him and his cronies because he taunted others who were sick.
This applies to all of us….. laughing at people who we suspect to be infected with e.g. hiv, tb, etc but then we find out later that we ourselves are sick and the persons we suspected weren’t even sick at all.
Sad thing is that Zambians have never been told whether the President is sick or not. but were told that he went to Israel for “some holiday including medical tourism”. surely we deserve better responses than this trash
President Sata is mortal and therefore, prone to sickness. What seems to be the problem with Zambians kanshi? The President has simply been asked by his Doctors to take a long rest because he is not feeling too good.
Come on you guys, carry with your work. Time will come when ba Sata will come back for public scrutiny but for now, the poor soul is sick and needs rest; lots of it, simple…
@ Mwape Mbokeme…… and who said the president was sick? ..The last I heard is that he was well…. You see that is where the problems lies…. People “within his circles” are wishing the worst for him and when we who are “outside” ask where he is we are attacked.
For the record he is not sick……that is what we know and we what to find out why he is not attending to his public functions…i.e. swearing in, receiving credientials from diplomats etc.
@ Mwaka Mbokeme
You are a liar and retrogressive, wonder weather you read and listen to UK politics or western democracy. Zambians have been told Sata is fine and working. Foreign news media tell Zambians Sata is gravely sick. Surely Zambians have the right to know truth over this matter. Here you are in self delusion saying all is well Zambians just need to continue working. That is the worst comment to get from one living in Britain today confirming and affirming what is going on with Sata as head of state to be normal. Wait for 2016 elections, Sata will not face Zambians, thanks to natural wastage will be saved.
@Mwape… 2nd paragraph should read ” we want to find out……etc”
George chella is incopetent.. He should pray that the president doesnt die or HE WILL BE ANSWERABLE.
if sata is not in good health then why not just resign.
… ndilanga buyo!
Let’s pray for our president people of zambia please
This Satanic lie of theirs, that sata is healthy and very fit and working hard for us (what a dark joke) will come full circle. And it seems Zambians have accepted this unbelievable situation going by their deathly silence.
WE ARE WAITING TO VIEW AND PAY OUR LAST RESPECT TO THE MAN OF ACTIONS WHO PROMISED THE PEOPLE A NEW CONSTITUTION IN 90 DAYS.
May be Sata is secretly quarantined with ebola symptoms thats why he is out of public eye.Let him stay there.
Like the King Cobra he is known to be, he is probably shedding-off the old skin and then grow a new one in its place, in readiness for 2016!
The process is both time consuming and risky. The public needs to understand and exercise a little bit of patience.