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Defence Minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba
Defence Minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba

INVESTIGATIONS into the planned assassination of President Michael Sata have revealed that two retired army generals have been paid K100 million each by a named opposition political party to implement the plot.

Defence Minister Geoffrey Mwamba disclosed to the Times of Zambia in an interview yesterday that he had information from security investigative wings that two retired generals received K100 million from an opposition political party.

“I have just received an update from our investigative wings and I am talking from facts with an informed point of view that two retired army generals have received K100 million from an opposition party to carry out the assassination plot.

“This is a serious development and I have also directed these investigative wings to go deeper and give more information so that we bring to book these people and the opposition party behind this,’’ Mr Mwamba said

Mr Mwamba said the matter would be probed further to verify the reports and bring culprits to book as this was a grave offence.

Mr Mwamba recently disclosed that an opposition political party was working with some retired army generals to assassinate President Sata.

An unverified alteration on the Wikipedia early this year alleged that President Sata had been assassinated on a Sunday morning in January.

To this effect, Mr Mwamba directed the investigative wings to institute thorough investigations involving the army generals and the political party.

The Minister explained that the two retired army generals had received the monies as part of payments to carry out the intended assassination on the President’s life.

He has warned that Government would not rest but ensure that the culprits working to eliminate the Head of State were apprehended and faced the law.

Mr Mwamba said it was not a threat that Government would deal with the perpetrators squarely because assassinating a Head of State was a serious offence under the laws of Zambia.

[Times of Zambia]

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149 COMMENTS

    • Ubufi ubwafita na fititi…

      What a shame. Why cant he just keep quiet about this and let the public forget about his lies? 

    • Mr Mwamba said it was not a threat that Government would deal with the perpetrators squarely because assassinating a Head of State was a serious offence under the laws of Zambia.

  6. Looks like all politicians in Zambia are claiming assasinations.HH and now GBM.Anyway let`s wait and see what comes.One can never know we have already lost Ronald Penza and Paul Tembo before and we can`t afford another one going through the same fate.

  7. THIS MAN IS THE WORST KIND FOR THIS JOB. PLEASE BA SATA REMOVE THIS MAN FROM THE POSITION OF DEFENCE MINISTER. THIS MAN WILL BRING TROUBLES TO OUR ALREADY FRAGILE ECONOMY. THIS STATEMENT IS NOT WORTH PUPLCISING. HE IS A CONFUSED CHARACTER WHO DOES NOT DESERVE THE POSITION OF DEFENCE MINISTER. HIS CAPACITY IS NOT THE ONE REQUIRED TO ISSUE SUCH STATEMENTS FOR HE HEADS A VERY SENSTIVE DEPT. PLEASE BATATA BA SATA FOR THE LOVE OF ZAMBIA REMOVE THIS PERSON FROM THE GOVT INCLUDING THE PARTY. THIS IS THE SAME PERSON WHO RESIGNED AND NOW IS TRYING TO SHOW THAT HE IS A NOBLE MAN AND GOOD TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA. PLEASE YOU EXCELLENCY DISMISS GBM. I BELIEVE THIS MAN WANTS TO TAKE OVER FROM SATA AND HIS EXCELLENCY MC SATA SHOULD BE CAREFUL WITH GBM.

  8. Iwe Chikamba chobe chisaka lyabunga, what rotten things are you talking about? if you have not finished your probe, why run to the media, iwe. Ulelandaifyabola fyekafyeka, mambala, no one would want to kill your old folk, those issues would happen :-\”

  9. I am amazed at the level of reasoning in this Minister, and surely how can one be talking about the president’s life casually? yet no one has been arrested, shame ba GBM and PF

  10. The problem with fools is that they foolishly think people cant see through their foolishness… Thinking they are smart kansi they are just showing their idiocy…. just shut up.. GBM

  11. GBM u have never bin trained as a soldier and dont play with SOLDIERS and for that matter generals, let me remind you perhaps you have forgoten,97 failed coop by capt “Solo”.By the Sata is not a factor. If they killed the Son of God, who is sata the son of satan. GMB your thinking is beyond a dull person, shame on yor family.

  12. I do agree with Mwanya bane speacker No 7. GBM is behind this plot in the name of opposition. MCS please Please open your Eyes. Something is Fishy here. Every time GBM has the latest on Sata’s assasination. He will strike very soon if not taken care. We know he played a very good role to see the victory of PF. He is a SNAKE in the grass. I really fill bad of his statements. Please our President do a serious investigation on this Man. Time will tell.

  13. We’re not stupid GBM. You can’t distract the people from your poor poor governance as PF with wild stories! Create jobs, govern competently and stop being so tribal!

  14. The President needs to act and act now – remove GBM from this senstive portfolio. This menu of alarming statements he is feeding Zambians on is putting the country on self destruct mode. As I said before any leader worthy his salt must have his PR/security teams going through sites like LT. So for now please Mr. Sata, GBM must be dropped am sure he must have already recouped his contribution to PF victory in the last election. Any other Zambian would have been arrested for alarming the nation. Zambia has never been so polarized. Where is the country heading?

  16. Pwahahaha!!!! Honestly i cant help laughing at the i.diocy embedded in this Great Bag of Maize. Zambia twasebana, OMG. The fat frog contends he is speaking from a factual standpoint and yet orders in-depth investigations. Investigate what when you already are in possession of facts? And yet he is in the forefront of naming others SEDICIOUS MATERIAL. The intelligence elsewhere would have handled this guy to save the nation. Defense Minister??? My foot!!!! 

  18. Why dont you Arrest the generals then? this is another attempt to dessuade the will of the people from assemblying peacefully.

    we have grown tired of this imbecilic government. stop this childish propaganda and get on with why you were voted in the first place

  19. This man is a real fool, are these issues that you discuss with the paper before you conclude investigations. An intelligent politician would keep this information until he has all facts intact, his quest for state house is making him mad and the President does not want to stop him. If the opposition wanted to kill the President which is his dream they do not need retired generals whom he is trying to lock up with lies, what a shame. People become so desparate for state house and this is why now they are failing to deliver on their promises, he is bent on finding a reason to silence the opposition so that he has a smooth run in 2016 God forbid, he is worse than our President who looks bad because of such people as GBM as his advisers.

  20. PF government is attempting repeatedly to derail peoples’ focus from the economy to other trivial matters.
    There is no evidence that jobs have been created since PF took office.
    There is no evidence that the economy is performing better now.
    There are no indicators that jobs will be created.
    There is no sign of a change in the tax code to reduce taxes overall.
    There is no indication of incentives for small business (which should account for many new jobs).
    There is no evidence of the elite youth receiving any empowerment funds for investment.

  21. GBM, just say you want to flex your huge muscles by locking up some opposition politicians. We were not born yesterday, Bwana GBM. The less said, the better.

  22. He is the biggest IDI(amin)OT,  a big liar. If its true Y announce, Y not arrest them. We are not kindergartens and this is now irritating us togethr wth the Kanyama issue. Am gatvol and i REALLY waisted my vote but i will recover it in 2016.

  23. I don’t honestly understand why sata cannot remove this id.i.ot from his cabinet. Zambains deserves better than this clown of a minister who belives in fabricating silly stories.I am missing MMD honestly. Zambia made a big mistake to give power to these fo.ols with no direction.

    • Mwana, could not agree with you more, these guys cheated us, things are now ten times worse off. The characters cannot even manage to efficiently purchase maize from farmers, my mother spent 14 days on the cold trying to sell her maize, something which never happened under MMD. as if that is not enough, all commodities have been hiked as the result of the caress minimum wage hallucinations, even if one if paid K2m as minimum wage, the monthly basic needs far exceed that, so how Pathetic Fools these maniacs I wasted my vote on. 2016 kwalepa sana.

  25. GBM is issuing more security threatening statements than what HH is being followed up for. This guy may be the one planning after all he has the capacity to pay the K100 million he is mentioning and is planning to take over from the president and has mentioned it less than one year into the term. If the president lasts two terms, it may be too long a period for this ***** to wait and now he is trying to divert the public away from his plan. If I was the president I would fire this guy. He thinks just because he finance the party he has the right to give this rubbish

  26. Mr. Minister, that’s very sensitive information. Arrest the culprits and proceed with prosecution. What are you going to use for evidence if you get any rumor u go to the press.

  30. So you have proof that ther received money.Maybe they could have received the money,but do you have proof that th emoney was intended for killing soem liar?This fat boy we hon. should learn to shut up or better still wait to speak at the approprate time.Why don`t you go back to the things you know how to do better eh wife battering lol

  31. No retired Zambian general has capability of killing or even coming close to causing harm to anyone like Sata. Those Generals past and present are all pussies. Now if such a move was true it would have required who ever wants that to happen maybe go hire mercenaries from outside Zambia to carry such a plot. GBM is a shame, he runs to the media and anounces hear say, in the US each day there are such plots aimed at the POTUS every day but you dont hear defence secrtary making such anouncements in public, if it was true, GBM and his security wing would just provide their king with all protection they have at hand

  32. The PF has lamentably failed;
    I support my statements by referring to-
    a) National Service reintroduction- This is a sign that PF cannot create jobs for the youth. If you do not provide a job seekers allowance, you have no mandate to impose National Service.
    b) The PF has resorted to skewing elections in their favor by building roads, just as RB did. Why build roads instead of revamping the railway network as a means to curb traffic.
    c) The PF has evidently brought about a police state by the constant RTSA patrol as well as liquor laws defying laws of liberty. This is not an Arab nation.
    d) Sata clearly lacks leadership drive because he has not comprehensively sucked any ministers in his cabinet.

  34. GBM is a clown mwe! Please we are not DULL in Zambia, twanaka
    Iwe Chatile GBM, that’s not intercity bus stop you are in, that’s a sensitive
    Office you in. Ala ichi chipuba!

  35. All the above comments are useless.
    Please zambians be advised that in Zambia what ever a minister says is true.If the same person is sacked then what ever he had said was false.So for as long as a minister says this or that then it is the gospal truth.When are you zambians going to learn…

  39. But why alarm the Nation and not just act…. serious sign of anxiety, is it so that u look busy and that u look like u know what your doing or you seriously dont know what to do coz your displaying your ignorance GBM PLEASE…!?? shame…!!

  41. As the Americans say- “PUT UP OR SHUT UP!!!
    The critical voting priority in any third world country is the economy.
    PF has failed and grossly so. Nothing seems to be working, no economic drivers, no policy.
    The government appears surprised when events occur, government must not be surprised, only citizens must be surprised.
    It has become evident that without the foundation MMD laid, PF would have dug us in a slippery hole.

  44. The President should fire his nephew GBM or this guy may succeed in getting him killed.I dont trust this Fat Albert boy.Im so sure he enjoys watching Idi Amin Dada movie and Mobutu Seseko Nkuku Ngwendu Wazabanga documentaries, and secretly admires how they took over power.HE SHOULD BE FIRED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.

  45. Yaba…………….. On to ‘real’ issues that matter in people’s lives like price of mealie meal, blocked drainages with on coming rains, peasant farmers still not paid for their maize with new planting season around the corner………………………

  47. Yaba, circus shall never endoooooooo! Should he be the one to be telling us all this? Where’s/are the spokesperson(s) for the so-called security investigative team(s)? More pop corns please!

  49. Why rush to announce this when you are still requesting more information from your so called “investigative wings”? Aren’t you prejudicing these investigations?

    Why couldn’t you wait until you had solid intel and nabbed the chaps before going public?…..bloody amateurs with your transparent lies!!

  50. Hallucinations! Iciloto(nightmare) caba gbm cashupa. He needs deliverance. I ve every reason to think Sata is not well and this hallucination cud b used in case we loose him!

  51. President Sata is hardly one year in office and surely enjoying the honey moon with the landslide victory he just received.What wrong has he done for him to be shot dead?GBM must wake up from his nightmares and become real.Since independence,no Zambian President has died at the hands of an assassin.Michael will govern his full term without harm from anybody.Please GBM SPARE the Zambians from this stupid talk.

  53. POOR FINISHINING PARTY(PF) YOU HAVE FAILED US, PF HAVE REMOVED THE RENTETION AND RECRUTMENT ALLOWANCE FOR GRADUATES WORKING FOR GOVT, RENTETION SCHEME FOR HEALTH WORKERS HAVE DISAPEARED INTO THIN AIR, TRANSPORT INCREAMENTS, MEALI MEAL, ZAMBIANS WE ARE YET TO SEE THE WORST. TWACHULA PAFULA.

  54. #22 Lison, your sense of humour is superb lol. Indeed General Kanene and General Ozzy, ha ha ha ha ha kikikikikiki. The fat monkey is hallucinating.

  56. K100M is clear proof that this Fat Boom Boom is telling lies. Which General in his right senses can accept such a paltry amount for a dangerous assignment such as the one being suggested by this so called minister.This is a government of “frightened little men”.

  57. It is extremely disappointing that a minister can be talking about such a serious issue in this way! We are talking about the life of the President, for goodness’ sake! If it’s true, why not do a thorough investigation before making announcements?

  59. FAT ALBART IS AN ALARMIST. SOLOMON JERE KINDLY ARREST GBM. HE IS THE WORST LIAR ZAMBIA HAS EVER MANUFACTURED FROM A WOMB.
    U HAVE “SCANTY FALSE” EVIDENCE AND U RUSH TO THE PRESS TO ANNOUNCE YOUR BREAKTHROUGH WHEN U SHOULD HAVE ARRESTED THE PIPO IF IT IS TRUE. LIAR ICHILUFUMO STUPITI LYOBE.

  60. I NA FEEL PITY FOR DIS CONTRY,TRUST ME OGA,DIS GUD CONTRY NA GO ON FIRE VERY SOON BECOZ OF HAVING SUCH STUUPID UNCOUTH UNEDUCATED IMBECILES AS MINISTERS.

  61. For God’s sake GBM you are in Government such information you should Know how to go about to trail all the facts that you claim to have.

  62. #22 Lison,
    you deserve an award for making us laugh in the midst of all this depressing drama in Zed…well done, you have a great sense of humor….ati General Kanene and General Ozzy Lol!!!

  63. Can someone gag this man before he turn Zambia into a war-tone country .he is the single most threat to the nations peace 

  64. The PF has failed in such a dramatic fashion.
    The PF seems not to have a tangible roadmap for development. The PF increasingly appears to be failing to come out of MMD’s shadow. The MMD recorded achievements of its own economically whereas PF is trying to look to sentimental issues such as treating chiefs respectably.
    The President appears to have no control over his ministers, a minister of defense cannot go around making statements that are befitting of a home affairs minister.
    The only jobs created by PF are street vending jobs- informal jobs.
    The PF appears to have backtracked on its partial socialist motive of nationalization which had some benefits.
    There is no policy at all to tackle unemployment, when convenience shops close at 11PM, how do you create extra night jobs!

  65. No smoke without fire.Why are you disputing what has been said.The issue is to call for an investigation.Us Zambians are so blind that we can’t see what is happening The rally was cancelled for security reasons.We have lawyers like Hon Sakwiba how come they are quite on this issue they know the truth if not let them sue GBM ,the truth will come out,. God forbids that you call the Head of state evil names you are doomed you will not form Govt For you are a minority party.Its the power of numbers

    • I agree with you #58. I also heard about the generals two of them Gen Kanene and Ozzy. Arest them now otherwise they will release another song.

  67. And this PF cabinet was praised to high heavens by PF hooligans as the “best” the country has ever had. My Dear GBM if you want to kill your uncle, please do us a favour, just go ahead and do it! We don’t give a damn!

  68. Chimutu!
    Why don’t you arrest them and adduce your ‘FACTS’ before a court of law.
    Stupid.
    I am not given to this kind of language but I cannot help it when I see such stupidity from the 3rd man in government behave so shamelessly!

    • @Add Value pls add value to Zambia. As a 3rd person in the hierarchy of Gvt, he ought to have detailed the Ministry of Home Affairs to constitute a task force or some kind of investigation to get to the bottom of things. Instead yakusabailafye…by the way what do you want Sakwiba to do, as you suggest in 65 above? Has he become the FBI or something like that? He is a lawyer who acts on facts not mere nightmares like your GBM. Plz if possible call GBM and tell him to take his medication as his schizophrenia is getting worse-twapapatata ba Add Value otherwise tukamililila ukuleya inshiku.

  69. GBM, please give us break this is a serious issue if you had tangible evidence you were just supposed to pick up the two retired generals and the so called opposition leader. This lies will NOT take you any way just deliver on the promises you were making during your PF campaigns.

  71. Focus on what has been said.Let us ask Govt to investigate this serious claim.In Bemba we say  Ubikula infwa yakwanoko muntanshi?

  72. What kind of stupidity is this? We have some loose canon going on altering nonsense and the dedicated govt spokesman ali zee!!  Or does this Bag of Maize talk on behalf of the scared chief???!

  73. I think the allegations are treasonous and the defence minister has no business discussing and updating the press on treason. I am wondering whether I am being overly critical of this government or they are outdoing themselves to become the most incoherent, repressive and abusive government in living memory. Have they not exceeded the ecentricity and total madness exhibited by idi amin ayani?

  81. What is the defence minister smoking? Where in the world do you find TREASON being report and investigated in the media.If you know the generals and opposition party arrest them .But you are probably hallucinating and really have it for HH because he is the only one who can afford that.I agree GBM is probably the one plotting this treason,he has access to the Defence machinery and the only other person in politics who can afford to bribe someone.

  83. This clown creates confusion in the nation.
    So he thinks the generals are not guilty?
    He continues to let them operate and possibly make the deal complete?

    He cant arrest them knowing he is talking about Facts.
    This overweight ignorant lying minister is causing a war between the people and soon Zambia will be like Rwanda.

    This guy has to be fired for causing a national issue that can lead to civil war.
    Captain Solo was captured within hours of such news but the minister here wants to scare people to believe the generals are real.
    Imagination is all this guy has and its bad.

    FIRE HIM!
    Sata’s life is on the line and this guy says no arrests.

  85. If H.H really had a plan i’m sure he would have paid one billion to the generals.
    Come on GBM you know the truth about who has more money in their pockets.

    This story is all lies like “Tonga’s under Oath”
    Same Author!

  87. Why are the Generals busy planning to assassinate a President who is already sick and going. They should instead focus on planning to assassinate GBM who seems to have his brains in the a-hole …… that would be a greater favour to the Zambian people. We are tired of this pile of s.h.i.t.

  89. Please dont waste time bring them to book those generals so they face the law. So when they announced that Sata had been assassinated the generals plot failed to materialize. GBM arrest those generals as soon as possible before HE MCS is assassinated.  

  90. GBM and fools like you are bringing my tribe into disrepute. What a shame to have you as a minister. Maybe you want to assassinate Sata so that you can take over – GOD FORBID. Sata is a better devil than you. 

  91. Of what benefit is an assassination? It just means someone with undemocratic principles rules the roost and the whole country descends in to chaos and loses the little credibility it has. Scare mongering from powers that be is a losing game. If these plans do exist, be it an act of intended violence towards President, opposition, politicians, non politicians, general public etc. then your job is to get CIA on their a$$es and run covert operation, nail the perps and we’ll see them in court. Anything else comes across like political comedy action slash thriller. That’s my job. Don’t steal my thunder :)

  98. Army General K100m to assassinate a president not the mailoni brothers sure ?
    Those guys have money .  Which general can accept that ??
    GBM is not living in the real world.

  99. i know what FAT ALbert is insinuating<< which opposition party has got the money to pay these so called generals? its all coming to one thing trying to cage innocent HH with heaps of lies..  

  102. Akanwa katali kaletelele imfungo, education is also very important, ba GBM lifontini sana he has also started behaving like the late Ben Tetamashimba, before you speak anything ba mwamba collect your facts and have them verified and then you can have them published. Some issues are too sensitive to the publish and can cause harvoc and can be a danger to the peace of the country.

  103. Yaba!
    When shall we talk development, poverty alleviation and job creations?
    This market gossip should not be headline news!
    Our poor Zambia will remain with stunted growth as we bicker, back-bite, blame and wonder whether we are going forward or backwards!
    Ine naluta sono!
    Ma politiks pa Zed ya tinka!
    Kalani makola bose!

  104. A retired general as a sniper! Well well, I have never hard of such an adventure. Not even the US Seals use generals for such missions.

  105. GBM is issuing more security threatening statements than what HH is being followed up for. This guy may be the one planning after all he has the capacity to pay the K100 million he is mentioning and is planning to take over from the president and has mentioned it less than one year into the term. If the president lasts two terms, it may be too long a period for this ***** to wait and now he is trying to divert the public away from his plan. If I was the president I would fire this guy. He thinks just because he finance the party he has the right to give this rubbish. this guy is mad and should taken to chainama

  106. I think we need a conspiracy theorist to unwield all these happenings in our country. Seems as if we are forever in the fray, day in day out. What a country!

  107. Who would want to kill Sata and have his blood on his head when he is already in evening of his life? GBM stop hallucinating pleeeaaassseee!

  108. why do you like jumping to conclusions; do you expect GBM, no matter how shallow minded he might be, to diclose identities of the people being investigated even before investigations are over? Are you vaive or just too simple minded?

    • He is as simple minded as you are. Why going to the press with half baked information. That is not information you bring to the public domain unless its just political rhetoric. What this is meant to achieved is to condition the public so that when they arrest HH on trump up change people will not react that much. I am a low paid person at entry level and my humble gratuity gets to some around K100 million and you want to tell some sleepy general accepted K100 million to kill the president. If I was president I fire this man because even the figures he is cooking just make the president look cheap -K100 million for a president????. My worry is that the president cannot even discipline this guy because he was the one giving campaign finance for PF

  109. blowing hot air as usual.The position of Defence minister needs a very mature and sober person.Not one who has his brains in the are c…..!!!

  111. The I.Q of this rot is below 70. I can’t blame him. nichi kopo. This is the goodness of democracy even fools can rule. Does he know what it means to assisinate a sitting Head of State.

  114. LEADERS MUST ACCOUNT FOR WHAT THEY SAY, ALL RETIRED GENERALS SHOULD REACT TO THIS DAMAGING AND ALARMING STATEMENT. SUDDENLY THIS MAN WANTS THESE POOR RETIRED SERVICEMEN TO BE ENEMIES OF THE STATE. THIS COULD BE A WAY OF FIXING THOSE THAT NEVER GAVE HIM BUSINESS!

  116. What is the value of K100million today in Zambia? Come on GBM, I thought that I heard you claim that a sum like that was pocket money for you. So there are former generals who can lose their humanity for that paltry sum?

  117. GBM we already know you want to kill Sata, but you can not just be a man about it.So you keep coming up with all kinds of lies and hope you can point at someone once you have done the job. Please just go ahead and kill him yourself and the rest of us will look the other way like we did not know what want wrong. Since your uncle Ukwa thinks this is ok and wont fire you or just talk same sense in you. 

  119. Why should they kill Sat and GBM? Apapa peene baingilamo mu state house ati kill them? Awe bane naimwe there is no reason any oppostion could do that, for what? Awe ba GBM you should grow up ba mudala. Money ya bena Mwenso family yami fulunganya……..

  121. We are not interested in piece-meal information Mr GBM. Such sensitive information must only be revealed after conclusive investigations and not at each stage. In my opinion, i believe that at this stage, that information must be for you and the investigative wings ONLY. Do you realise the possible implication of such careless statements if at all they are true???

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