Sunday, May 11, 2025

RB leaves Ethiopia for Kenya

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Republican President Rupiah Banda left Addis Ababa , Ethiopia on Wednesday via Kenya where he is expected to hold talks with his Kenyan counterpart Mwai Kibaki before returning home on Thursday.

President Banda and his delegation will hold bilateral talks with President Kibaki on Thursday morning.

The President was invited to Kenya for bilateral talks by the Kenyan President.

Mr Banda is accompanied to Kenya by first lady Thandiwe Banda and his Special Assistant for Political Affairs Akashambatwa Mbikusita- Lewanika.

This was contained in a statement obtained by ZANIS, signed by Chief Analyst for Press and Public Relations, Dickson Jere.

President Banda was in Addis Ababa to attend the 12 session of the Assembly of heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), which closed on Wednesday.

Before departing for Nairobi, Kenya, the Zambian President visited his former school, the University of Addis Ababa, where he studied before he moved to Europe during the liberation struggle.
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39 COMMENTS

  1. He should have talk to Odinga, Kabaki is the same old sleeppy fella, they will both end up dozing off :o:o:o:o:o

  2. David livingstone christopher columbus vasco da gama rupiah Banda.anyway hope DAD u are not sight seeing but serious business.all the best dad.

  3. Uletusebanyafye nefima cadres ku Kenya? How much is your total bill for this trip? Paying Edith and your cadres? Taxpayers money? Is Zed a poor country? Do we manage our resources properly?

    I have a chain of questions to ask. The answer is simple “PUTTING WRONG PEOPLE IN OFFICE.”

  4. #11 Yes Imagine na ba Edith nakatenge ka yellow ! Where is that chima Tonga Bull who used to ‘panelbeat’ the Honourable husband snatcher ?

  5. “Republican President Rupiah Banda left Addis Ababa , Ethiopia on Wednesday via Kenya where he is expected to hold talks with his Kenyan counterpart Mwai Kibaki before returning home on Thursday.”

    All the best in your trip. make sure you learn as much on how to promote the Tourism Industry in Zambia based on the Kenyan experience. Also, ask how the UNITY GOVERNMENT is working so that you can provide good input over the Zimbabwe Zambian-wasting-money issue by attending SADC meetings.

    Also, it is great that you showed your wife probably where you stepped as a student in Ethiopia in the old days of your youth in the school tour you did.

    Keep well President RB Banda.

  6. #14 Maestro Hhehhehhe..I approve that statement.Now since,Zambians from all walks of life are invited 2 participate & accompany THE GREAT LEADER..LOL on his travels,let’s find wayz of finding our way on those delegations.Remember..BE pro-active NOT re-active.Having said that we hope something positive & tangible comes out of this journey 2 Angola/AU & now Kenya.

  7. I am happy at least RB ca visit the School where he studied. Manje Ka Chiluba, which school or teacher or clas amte can he talk about? Chenjeleni ne tu ka bolala kwati aka kene Ka cHiluba. twabufi.

  8. Iyo he wanyts to be like Vasco Da Gama or Christopher Columbus mukwenda , so balenona fye ati nga baba President things will happen and he will visit the world.
    Ba Banda ciwelele thiinking that he can run away from Zambi by visiting other coutries, can you even loose important documents atleast ku reporter back home

    i bet he is with the husbad snatcher Edith ne citenge kwati ni Yellow maize yakwa Chiluba

    2011 is around the corner enjoy whilst it last Chi nama soya (wasting tax payers money)

  9. I think SoyaNyama is getting comfused with the BOOMING 21 gun salute he is being given in his honour when he lands. he wants the booming daily thats why he is travelling like this to other countries.He should reserve the little energy he has to improve the country.Atase.

  10. What is an inclusive govnt? When the president mentioned in his inaugural speach that he will work with the opposition leaders arent you the same people who said the speach should translate into actions? By the way its not only Nawakwi on the trip even Hachipuka is there. Opposition does not mean Sata or HH, it means all organisations other than the rulling party registered by the registrar of societies as political parties. in this regard Nawakwi qualifies, if Nyama soya wanted an oppsition leader who could contribute on economic issues how could he have carried the confrotational Sata leaving a well established economist and politician.

  11. I hope RB made a donation to his former college, Pickson Perere we need your clarification. Am pretty certain this was his first visit in 52 years since leaving that College where he studied Economic History. Weddie Nakonya and Beauty Bandawe Samsung went as standby generators. General Shikashiwa says those things used to happen even in the past from 1964 to date. You remember what happened to then Copperbelt Chairperson’s inclusion on trip to China what followed next? Deformation HE then more stories ans marriage break up.Its a reward for their hard work during last year’s presidential by elections. More are yet to be included. Dollar allowance US$350 per day x 8 days x 5,170 =K14,476,000

  12. 15. PATE KADA and 19. JD greetings and thank you.

    What makes me sad is that we asa Nation Zambia have a lot of experience, but we keep on seeing our leaders using their experience poorly or wrongly. Imagine, Harare of Zimbabwe including University of Zimbabwe were built using our Zambian Copper money as a waste for we did not gain anything proper from that Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. We also helped Zimbabwe fight the British Colonialists and ultimately gain Independence by using Zambian money as a waste.

    After all that money waste, we are still wasting more of it by trying to help the same Zimbabwe to have a UNITY gov.. What is our experience doing to help us develop?

  13. Mr President Sir, HH is waiting for you. I hope President Kibaki’s government is paying for your expenses since he’s the one who invited you, otherwise you should have told him you didnt budget for that trip.

  14. The sooner this globe-trotting president leaves office the better.He does not seem to care about the poverty afflicting our people.

  15. the old man is tired pls let him eat with caution becoz there is accountability after his term he will end up in the docks like kaufupi..kolya koyeya 😕

  16. Y are people COMPLAINING about carrying party cadres(PATE KADZ)It could be that certain people are under the illusion that party cadres are those images of people kneeling & dancing at the airport or stone throwing chibuku drinkung youths.Party cadres are also professionals who choose to associate with a political party of their choice,hence the term party cadre becoz 1 belongz 2 a party.Certainly,professionals who belong 2 parties shud not b discrimminated against on account of party affilition.Used wisely,and with the right motives it is fine 2 carry PATE KADAZ

  17. ama bosses bali pa kulilapo, so balekeni bachite enjoy, but very soon, time will catch up with him and he will realise that he is a fake and that we had made a mistake by voting him into office, though questionable.
    his stooge shikapwashya wants to justify the inclusion of party cadres in the entourage, that is wrong; surely what value is nawakwi adding when all she did was sit behind the nyama soya and prod him every time he dosed off.thandiwe, be on the look out for this nawakwi woman, aka kupoka ichupo.

  18. RB seems to have won a jackport! He has become a global trotter. What the hell is wrong with Zed? What is the country gaining from all the this gallivanting even to countries you can call on the phone? Indeke shilapunkana mumulu nagufwe ukupona!

  19. I would like nawakwi and that cadre to come and enlighten the nation on what they learned or achieved in addis and what the country will benefit from their trip. There is nothing important to learn from Kenya, Has RB forgotten the violence that errupted after elections.

  20. “Mr. Hichilema wondered why government has allocated K50 billion to the National Constitution Conference (NCC) when it was supposed to be winding up its work.
    He said that his party’s position was that the NCC should not be discontinued but wind up its work by June so that Zambia can have a new constitution before the next general elections.
    He said that giving the NCC K50 billion is encouraged the members to drag the process until 2010.”

    Source: ww w.zambianwatch dog.com/ ?p=1071

    Amubaleke abalo ima MMD cadres balye imali aamfulumende.

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