Former MMD Western Province Women’s Secretary in the dissolved provincial executive committee, Namatama Mupo says former MMD provincial chairman Simasiku Namakando has been unwell even before his reconciliatory meeting with President Rupiah Banda at State House.
Mrs. Mupo told ZANIS in a telephone interview today, that it is not true that Mr. Namakando only got sick after a reconciliatory meeting with President Banda at State House last Sunday.
She was reacting to media reports and suggestions by some people that the former Western Province MMD Chairman Simasiku Namakando could have been poisoned at State House during a meeting with President Banda.
Mrs. Mupo, who was also part of the delegation from Western Province to State House, said assertions that Mr. Namakando only got sick after a meeting at State House were false and malicious.
She disclosed that two weeks ago, she had traveled with Mr. Namakando to Lukulu district for the funeral of his late aunt but could not get to the funeral house because he was unwell.
Mrs. Mupo said Mr. Namakando instead decided to get back to Mongu where he got some medical treatment.
“Two weeks ago I traveled with him to Lukulu for the funeral of his mother’s young sister but he didn’t reach the funeral house because he got sick. He complained of Malaria all the way.
“We decided to come back to Mongu where he got some treatment but I think this was not adequate,” said Mrs. Mupo.
She said even when a decision to travel to Lusaka was made, Mr. Namakando was still not well complaining of fatigue and fever.
Mrs. Mupo said even on the day of the meeting at State House, Mr. Namakando came late because he was still not feeling well.
“On Sunday, I went to State House earlier than him. When I saw that time was running out I called him and he asked me to meet him at the gate at State House. He actually came late and told us that he was not well,” she said.
“So I do not see any reason as to why someone should say he was poisoned or whatever. The fact is that he was sick prior to our meeting at State House. Let me also put it on record that we all ate the same food, from the same buffet including those from Lusaka,” she added.
Mrs. Mupo said if the food was poisoned as suggested by some people, everyone who ate it would have been sick but that this was not the case.
She said the distance between Lusaka and Mongu could have contributed to Mr. Namakando’s condition.
Mrs. Mupo, however, said she had been to see Mr. Namakando this morning and that he is now able to talk and walk without the help of anyone.
“As a matter of fact, I went to see him this morning and I can confirm that he is now able to talk and walk without the aid of anyone. I have briefed him about what has been said following his illness and he has actually assured that he would issue a comprehensive statement on the matter,” said Mrs. Mupo.
“All he needs now is just enough rest. He told me he has been put on quinine. I challenge those that are saying he is in a critical condition to get a camera and show the whole nation what the man’s real condition is,” she added.
On Mr. Kenneth Musangu, Mrs. Mupo said all she knew was that he was soaked when he went to visit his relations in Chilanga.
“On Mr. Musangu, who was also part of us at State House, what I know is that he was soaked by the rains when he went to Chilanga to visit some of his relatives. You know he has relatives there and that day was rainy,” she said.
On Sunday, former Western Province MMD chairman, Simasiku Namakando, in the company of other members of the dissolved provincial executive committee met President Rupiah Banda in a bid to reconcile and resolve some issues raised by the dissolved committee.
ZANIS
Mrs Mupo, let people speak for themselves
We wish him a quick recovery.
Zambia, Zambia witch hunting, when are we going to stop. P.H.D will really put Zambia back to to the stone age times.
BOZA IWE KA MUPO, WATEVER YOUR NAME IS JUST KEEP QUIET LET NAMAKANDO, SPEAK FOR HIMSELF NOT YOU. YOU HAVE ALL THE ENERGY TO VOMIT LIES BECAUSE OF THE EVELOPES YOU GOT FROM NYAMASOYA. DON’T MISLEAD PEOPLE OF THINGS YOU DO NOT KNOW……..NONSANCE!!
Stinking politics. It is now like a James Bond Film.
#4 I guess people like you will never believe even if you had to dig your fingers into Jesus’s wounds and no need convincing you. Our great, honorable and courageous Namakando will recover and you will hear from him and we shall see who the Joke will be on. Us or You and Your Post Newspaper. Surely Zambia deserves better journalism than this gutter reporting people have come to believe as truth. Just watch the space
This is heavy metal poisoning? It will take you slowly and pa Zed , one will even know what has killed you.
heh! and the other one was followed by the rains? tekalumba fye kambuluma ako balefwaya ukumutumina uyo? ekotwafilubila!
You see pipo this is the beauty of internet cuz this “MMD Chief Bootlicker” might be RB himself u never know ! Ba kamba ba Bootlicker mukamfwaileko icinto naine!
#6, your name translate your actions and who you are FULLSTOP.
Mrs Mupo take it easy, you seem to ‘know’ too much or is it the brown envelope talking?
RB has started poisoning people like KK…shame
#9 Dob, I have come to like you so much, now u are talking MMD chief bootliker, could really be RB if not Mulongoti. But who ever he is MMD is no longer a party to recon with….!!
This is where I am finding a problem with LT. You have really become an MMD mouth piece. You did not report on the first news of Namakando’s illness but are fast in publishing a rebuttal or defence for the MMD. For balance reporting, you need to publish both news about the alleged poisoning and then the rebuttal. We need to read both articles for us make meaningful contributions to the discussion.
#4 you characters have degenerated to the lowest ebb of pettiness.you have been brainwashed to an extent where every crap that is carried in some ka tabloid goes down your throat like a glass of wine.what you ought to know is that you people are being used in economic wars.what is at stake is economic survival for some people.that’s why they have prefered candidates and that’s why all this dung is been thrown around.you should wonder why people who were called villains yesterday are heroes today.are they born again.let’s agitate for change but let’s identify leaders who will bring meaninful change.these guys will achieve what they want when the people they want ascend to power.what about the rest of us who will experience mediocrity.we start going in the same circles again.tushibuke
Mupo how come you travelled together from Mongu and how possible is that you can leave a sick person by himself and meet him at the gate of state house? This does not make sense to me there is something fishy, I think you have been oiled. Women can sometimes be very dangerous when it comes to money.
Keep dreaming that MMD is not a party to reckon with and you will die of flustration one day when the mighty MMD continues to rule!!!!
This is pure ghetto tabloid journalism of the untrained losers embattled in their cause.They vested so much in imaginary hatred only to be perplexed with the sagacity of a seasoned Zambian top Diplomat His Excellency RB’s conflict manaement skills.Tabloids use blantant lies,insults and street kid type of subversive journalism,but a well learned veteran diplomat uses the power of dispute resolutions and conflict management skills that shaped his diplomacy.
This tabloid reasoning defies logic.How can one be poisoned from a buffett where everyone is eating from? Isn’t this failed subversive reasoning of embattled Mmembe? How does one poison a person he has just reconcilled? No wonder the same Mmembe started insulting RB when he vowed that as a God fearing President, he will never commute any Zambian convict to death.RB testifies christ while Mmembe is an ethiest who hates and has been fighting the church of christ with its power of foriveness.
This is pure ghetto tabloid journalism of the untrained losers embattled in their cause. They vested so much in imaginary hatred only to be perplexed with the sagacity of a seasoned Zambian top Diplomat His Excellency RB’s conflict management skills. Tabloids use blatant lies, insults and street kid type of subversive journalism, but a well learned veteran diplomat uses the power of dispute resolutions and conflict management skills that shaped his diplomacy. How can one be poisoned from a buffet where everyone is eating from? Isn’t this failed subversive reasoning of embattled Mmembe?
Mmembe’s reasoning defies logic. How does one poison a person he has just reconciled? No wonder the same Mmembe started insulting RB when he vowed that as a God fearing President, he will never commute any Zambian convict to death. RB testifies Christ while Mmembe is an atheist who hates and has been fighting the church of Christ with its power of forgiveness.
Ba LT, I am still waiting to read the first report on Namakondo being sick. What does it say. Only after reasing that story and comparing with this one can I make comments. I any blogger with the article on Namakando’s illness or are you discussing half a story? Ba LT we need BALANCED REPORTING
# 19 – Veteran watch Crime and Investigation and se how people get poisoned…some people are paid to kill, thats their job…that the job of a Shushu…
#15 Akapondo, you are really a KAPONDO for MMD. I have no kind words with you but i wish to state that thy shall remain in slumber for ever and ever…….!
Iwe Mupo, don’t you know that even if it’s a buffet, someone can just lace poison on your plate alone and makes sure you are handed the poisoned plate while you portion your own food and you’ll be thinking how was he poisoned when he was serving himself.
My Cousin Namakando WAKALYA MANINGI PAKA KUZEMBELWA WABOLA WACHISWA MWIDA. Easy cousin Buffet if you dont control your cosuption Cousin ngu poison.
ON A SERIOUSE NOTE PEOPLE DO YOU REMEMBER LATE MAZOKAS CASE. ONE OF THOSE CLOSE TO HIM WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE POISONED HIM. JESUS CASE IN THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE ONE CLOSE TO HIM IS THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY SOLD HIM. IN THIS CASE AGAIN I SMELL A RAT. ONE CLOSE TO MY BUYA NAMAKANDO COULD HAVE POISONED HIM. MY FIRST SUSPECT IS THE SAME MRS MUPO. THATS WHY MAY BE SHE LEFT HIM BEHIND KU HOTEL. Aba ba Mbuya batalika kuyanda kujayana nkambo ka ma Nhulupu.
Why is Mrs . Mupo being defensive. The alleged poisoning of late Andy is still mistry. It died a naturally death. Yes you can eat from same buffet but do you trust those who serve. Mobuto often used the trick to eliminate his real and perceived enemies. There are guys who are specialize in those things to them its job well done. Mrs. Mupo Zambia is full of rumors dont be defensive if its mere allegations then pipo will make their own judgement.
Veteran sounds like an old broken record – remember the LPs!
Serious allegations without evidence. The Post has got its own agenda and it seems to be getting the country into the gutter at all cost in the name of press freedom. Abuse of power is not only perpetuated by the sate. Surely, it would be absolutely stupid in the extreme for the govt to murder someone by poisoning him after a visit to state house? Would it not have been easier to kill the guy in Western province or on the roads when travelling to Lusaka? Western province according to some reports is awash with small arms from the Angolan war. It would not be difficult for the govt if it was that way inclined ,to arrange for the guy to be shot and make it look like a robbery gone wrong.Fellow Zambians sometimes we have to be analytical before getting hysterical.
RB knows something about this fishy illness. He owes the pipo of Zamabia an explanation on what he gave Namakando as food.
if i was a president of this country i was going to ban the post from circulating.This is tantamount to espionage thinking that RB has poisoned Namakando.Let us have private media which can report the truth.RB ban the paper until 2011 election.Even if the donars talk ignore them this paper is shit..
#29. Jelita and Mulenga. Mrs Mofu knows too much about Namakando’s illness. It started two weeks ago with ‘Malaria’. Do you see where I am getting at? In Bemba they say, ichikupempula echikulya. Rings a bell?
With the enactment of the responsibility media bill within the next few months if not weeks, I will not be amazed to see some of these subversive tabloids entering into self extermination. Their unethical agenda malpracticing tabloid will deliver itself innumerable litigation tickets and grave infringements hard to circumvent consequences. Unless their sponsors budget an annual allocation for this ghetto tabloid journalism; I don’t see a day in heaven for them.
No disrespect, but did he by any chance eat nkanga (guinea fowls) like our late Mazoka…
You know s*h*i*t has hit the fan when people are suspicious of everything you do. Funny how State House is now in perpetual defense mode. The presidential advisors are always on the defensive, I mean, other people are setting the talking points agenda and the Banda regime is on the defensive. They need to ask themselves why they are on the receiving end of such suspicion.
SATA AND HH FIGHT OVER GIRLFRIEND – – – – -THE POST NEWS[PAPER
WHILE OTHERS IMITATE, WE ORIGINATE – The Post.
Why is it that Zambians like speculations and romour mongering? Some Zambian Musician actually composed a song to that effect!
Ba Veteran naimwe u write too much biggy! U will develop arthritis at your metacarpal joints ka! Mulacita over boss, try to give it in divided doses cuz this is over dose papa.Anyway, me I don’t even know the owners of this LT site so limbi fyonse fyenu biggy pantu necisungu cilafuma sana. It appears u work in shifts with ba kamba ba Bootlicker cuz nabena ok balalemba kwati ngefifine naimwe mulemba ko.Me I don’t know so I’m just speculating but I also thot that perhaps I shuld advise u to tone down a bit cuz these bloggers here don’t even vote so don’t campaign too much here.So bakamba mwalyupa?Awe mulibacisungu sana bamudala imwe!
Mrs Mupo are you telling us that the shushushus started the medication before the arranged meeting? How much did they give you to start issuing statements on behalf Goverment and in particular Ministry of Health. Why can’t you wait for Mongu Hospital PR to issue a statement that he had been there before the meeting? Do you know his health better than his wife and relatives that you feel you have put things right? My advice is, Mr Namakando is only your political colleague and it ends there. Leave the rest to his family and experts to ascertain. Funga kinwa.
e buloshi uyu..
i think bamudala simply over ate at that buffet and u know how utubalozi eat, huh! slow but sure maybe naka kuckinga na shirt na tie ya red on a yellow shirt. Kafitu balwele bamudala.All he needs is Ducolax to empty is bowel or the wife can apply some soap enema ku nanozi.
If he dies, there are medical records that will show that he died ‘after an illness.’ If there is any doubt international experts can carry out a postmortem. There is nothing one can hide, so the speculation is totally un-necessary. BUT, this raises a very serious point. Our government has lost public trust. Whatever they do is suspected to be underhanded. Why have things come to this? That is the question the MMD should be addressing. The US security is more devious than this, but people still trust them. Biggie Nkumbula, Ronald Penza, Paul Tembo, Dean Mungomba, Lucy Sichone, etc all died under Chiluba’s rule, but no eyebrows were raised except a few whispers here and there. But this man is not even dead yet, and oh! what a palaver! He should speak for himself.
Hey ! but all these people u have mentioned just died from adult malnutrition
veteran,you are a naive buffoon!! you’ve ever heard of Alexander Litivenenko?he was poisoned by the KGB while dining in London,if Namakando is sick of course we look at what he did before he got sick,and guess what the pinacle was eating at State House,so logic says the food at that event may have been tainted, nothing cannot be ruled out!!!
I suspect the fellow is suffering from LUJO!! He was not in a good state of mind during the so called reconcilliatory talks.. Any person who is sick is not in a good frame of mind to make sound decisions.. I wonder what the people of western province feels to be represented by a fellow in a bad state of mind….
People, the post only reported that Namakando got sick after his visit to state house. There is nowhere in the article where the post has said that Namakando has was poisoned. You are making your own conclusions which is good
If the post reported lies, i can assure you that M’membe would have been in jail by now! RB hates Mìmembe with a passion and he just waits for him to make a mistake like the on-going contempt case. The posts stories are true. But like every newspaper ,they have an editorial policy which determines what angle of the story to take everytime just like the Times of Zambia and Daily mail have an editorial policy. So to those who hate the Post, get over it! Zambia needs the post!
This story & some of the comments here are unbelievably insane.
People insulting the post, don’t you know that you wouldn’t have known about Chiluba’s cases without the Post? The post comprises of human beings who are bound to make mistakes, but above all they are the only paper in the country that tells you the facts, and if they told lies don’t you think RB and Mulongoti would have closed them down by now? They tell stories that they atleast know they can defend in court, just like the “Chiluba is a thief” story who led to generals being arrested. Coming to this poison allegations, there is a saying which says; ‘The best place to hide something is in the open’ so why not poison this guy at State house and let naive people like some of people on this blog defend us..?? And this woman Mrs Mupo is talking too much like she work for the…
Zambia is sick she need healing the devil is hovering over that land
Some comments on this story are shocking,you would expect some bloggers to be more informed,enlightened and educated…..If this sama Namakando was so sick as reported by this lady,why did he go for the same meeting,he should have beeen rcuperating at home,the meeting could have waited, and this same lady,how come she left a sick colleague behind only to meet him at the gate,common sense dictates that a woman is a caring person,in this case she misplaced her priorities….moreover at statehouse they do not use buffet style arrangements for security reasons,its a personalized kind of service
If Namakando dies, its Kanitundila. The man was surely poisoned. One also wonders how he could be so naive so as to meet Kanituindila in State House for 8 hours. It’s like going to hell to reconcil with Lucifer, your’re doomed. It also reminds me of how Simakuni was poisoned by UNIPISTS in the run up to the 1991 polls. Anyway, if this guy dies, Banda is in very serious trouble that will make Kasama and Solwezi woes look like chicken feed.
On Sunday, I went to State House earlier than him. When I saw that time was running out I called him and he asked me to meet him at the gate at State House. He actually came late and told us that he was not well,” she said.
Boza! Why did you go earlier thatn him as if you were the one to reconcile with the President. Ithink you wanted to get a fatter envelope than him.
Something is fishy. Did Namakando sell his soul for a few pieces of silver? Cheap tactics.
Yangu tata ichalo chesu! Lord have mercy……
The Post is one of the very few patriotic institutions Zambia has that has spoken and speaks for the voiceless. Just look at these tuma NGOs and civil societies we have that quickly withdrew honking in protest of Ka Chiluba’s aquital. Are these the sort of people that can speak for us surely? Aba ba kabwa are just hungry job takers chewing donor money. Viva the Post, dig deeper and keep us informed for without your information we are doomed as a nation.
I guess those sangomas must have taught RB a thing or two…lol
Chin’ga ti lowe tonse, chija!!!!
oh for god’s sake, poison, poison, is this the middle ages..? Mazoka died of a DISEASE. When you get food poisoning it doesn’t mean someone has poisoned you, it means the food is not fresh. So anyway why would someone want to poison Namakando? Is he Lumumba?
#59 SONY ERRICSSON- He may not have been poised, but there is a reason he could be poisoned if he was.The entire Barotseland vote was in the hands of this gentleman, that is enough reason to either have him on your side or ELIMINATE HIM ALL TOGETHER. Iam not saying anything here, please do not quote me.
#60 Deja of course there was reason for Mazoka to be poisoned but what of Namakando?
#61 Sony Ericsson Phiri- I thought you had been reading on what a tough time and sleepless this Namakando has been giving ba Ngwele ba MMD of late? He appeared like he was going to deliver the Western Province to another party, thus depriving the MMD of the much needed vote from there.
Don’t we have doctors in Zambia who can tell us what was wrong and how it came to be with Namakando?