Secretary to the Cabinet Rollard Msiska has confirmed that President Sata did appointment Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba to act as President before his departure for Israel.
Dr Msiska said President Sata signed the Instrument of Delegation of the Functions of President on Friday, 20 June 2014 and complied with the Law in all respects.
He said the appointment was published through the Gazette Notice No. 385 of 2014 dated 27th June 2014.
In a statement issued Tuesday morning, Dr Msiska hoped that the speculations over this matter will now be allayed.
Meanwhile Chief Government Spokesperson Joseph Katema has challenged people questioning the legitimacy of acting President Wynter Kabimba to read the constitution and see whether there is any illegality in his appointment.
Dr Katema told QFM News in an interview in response to growing speculation that power might not have been handed over properly, that the constitution is clear on the transfer of power for someone to act as President.
Dr Katema said only the republican President can appoint someone qualified to act as President from among members of the Cabinet while he is away.
Same old Dull PF leadership. We will not move forward with this party. Sometime you wish them all dead. They have brought Evil than Good to our Country. God is watch, PF and its Leadership will have their day. Zambians don’t get intimidated. They should be shown the door come 2016, because they lie and have no strategy.
This is sad news for the opposition.They wanted to gain political capital over this now the honeymoon is over.Poor HH and his cronies.
Msiska Thank you, but ……………………………………wait how things will unfold!!!!!
@ Mable: Not True, PF are the one under pressure.Why always being pushed to the corner before responding to such. They lack confidence and facts. They had to dig for information or I am sure, faked the whole process just to answer people’s demands. They are truly dancing to Opposition Parties demands. Shows weakness in their whole Leadership.
Ba opposition fipubafye.Why were they yapping nonsense? And the full bloggers here were busy debating this.Zambians are daft indeed.
Show us the document!
Otherwise it is just another PF BUFI!
July 15, 2008 LUSAKA(AFP) — Zambia’s main opposition Tuesday called for a medical investigation to determine whether President Levy Mwanawasa is capable of ruling the country after suffering a stroke.
Michael Sata, leader of the Patriotic Front, said there was an urgent need to establish the condition of Mwanawasa, who is in intensive care in France since suffering a stroke over two weeks ago.
“The doctors should examine him and inform the nation the correct position over his sickness,” Sata said in a radio address.
He said Vice-President Rupiah Banda should immediately convene a special meeting of cabinet and appoint a medical team to travel to France to examine Mwanawasa, following reports that he is in a critical condition.
“The nation wants to know the truth. Nobody believes the…
But why only come out when the hear that Ba Sata is now an out-patient, and is able to sign any paper?
We know Sata signed those documents yesterday after been discharged from hospital.
Ba opposition muli finangwa fye.Tamwakwata ifyakulanda.Ma fee yenu ba swainiii.
No effort(s) will make Wynter legitimate in the eyes of the people no matter the efforts. When people disapprove you, no effort can ever approve you in their eyes. He who laughs last,laughs the loudest.
@Nostradamus
i guess this settles the issue! kabimba is the legal president at the moment,,,,and since Sata cant pick up his phone on the beaches of isreal on holiday,,,,,,, Zambia will be taking instructions and direction from legal president Kabimba…. effectively this means that Sata`s cabinet is dissolved,,,, kambwili, chikwanda … etc out! no more bembia clique,,,,,, as we welcome the cartel cabinet with lozi man mmembe in charge behind the scenes,,,,am just loving kabimba, he foolishing PF useful !diots cadres,,,,, by praising Sata who might never come back from his working holiday the same person,,, viva kabimba,,,,,, lead those useful !diots to the pity of hell
come on lusaka times!! this is childish! whats wrong with you??? you are blocking my comments
@Ndobo Kekekekekekeke, how can you tell the owner (Chiefs) that they are “childish!” just because balekusecha before you post? Leave them, it was their month June, but July & Zambia we taking it back from Kabimba & LT!!
these upnd chaps indeed you are very dull.cant you see that Dr katema and Dr msiska are interlectuals of high caliber more educated than you ka hungry hyena .twaminaya 100% ba makaka
Finally the truth ! And the opposition has again proved to be seasoned jokers.Zambian opposition leaders disgusts me.Just look at the time they spent attacking Kabimba over this handing over of power.I pity people who take whatever the Zambian watchdog writes as gospel truth.
@ Saulosi; This statement is questionable why take this long if they had facts. With PF would if they did not just fake the whole procedures. Dates and publishing: plus start of acting does not add up. Another Lie as usual.
@The Prince
They took long because they thought it was not important.Why should this take precedence over other important national issues ? Its another lie as usual because it is all in your brain.As long as your brain is conditioned to think in those lines you will never believe a thing from them.
@ saulosi
Disgust should come from the pack of lies and not from questioning those lies.
But then, it is evident than to be PF member, you must qualify firstly as a seasoned liar.
The opposition in Zambia have no issues to discuss.
We all know that you guys in the opposition are apologists, self-indulgent, stereo-typical, presumptuous beings thats why you think PF are liars.Nothing from PF will ever be good in your eyes ,trust me.That element of biasness has hit you hard and there is no point of return.Enjoy your ride in that promised moral high ground territory.I`m out !!!
@ Saulosi As 142 mentioned. You as PF have answers for any situation?? Acting of the top most Job in the country not a national matter?? what an excuse and lie for delay. In these modern times you will not get away with such lies. People have the right to know. so let your leaders get their acts right.
Ba opposition kuwayawayafye.We have a dull population that feeds on hearsay and rumours.We are a pathetic nation.Just look at the bloggers on this thread.Very dull to the bone.
But why only come out when the hear that Ba Sata is now an out-patient, and is able to sign any paper?
We know Sata signed those documents yesterday after been discharged from hospital.
Seems after much talk from the opposition Dr.Msiska has been forced to come up with a statement. However these are the same people who said Sata is on WORKING HOLIDAY IN ISRAEL…we shall not believe your statements.Let gullible cadres believe.
PF says president has gone to Israel to woo investors. ZWD says Sata has gone for treatment. PF denies this. Israeli paper confirms Sata was in hospital. PF dunderheads here are telling off us bloggers who challenged the lies from PF. On what basis are you telling us off when it has been proven that we were right all along with regards Sata’s hospital visit? Is that not being dull and, dare I say, horribly delusional and pretty stup!d? PF cadres never ever cease to baffle me. A normal person would acknowledge that, yes the government lied and misled the public but at least now we know the truth. Look at your responses and your failure to appreciate that you are liars. If you were normal you would be ashamed right now.
if indeed MCS, aka Charles Mwango Katongo was coherent enough to oversee the transfer of instruments of power, why sneak him out of state house through the back door under cover of thick darkness without even MoD’s knowledge? All this to visit an absent Israeli head of state at the cost of hosting important international dignitaries and going to an AU summit?
Msiska has the paper now, so what? These are characters the nation fear may have usurped power from an unconscious MCS. Why can we easily put it beyond them to doctor the said papers? And why publish it a full week later when speculation has already climaxed?
If MCS left the country on 20th having conducted the necessary formalities, for whose deception was the presidential guard stationed at Nkwazi house two (2) whole days later
Fair enough Saulosi, you have been consistent in the support of this man. I quote you “1
Saulosi says:
September 13, 2013 at 12:06 pm | Permalink
Too bad.My party has gone to the d.o.gs it looks like. Anyway I will still pick Wynter over GBM any time of the day.I hope King Cobra steps in to stop this nonsense.PF all the way !!!!”
My comment:
I find Kabimba intriguing like many on this community do. He has this love hate thing about him but seems to be Sata’s rock. This guy has ascended to power with so much ease whilst the fire has been burning in his own house. I don’t wanna hate him just for the masses but really wanna know what he is all about. Come’on you have got to take your hats off to SUPER K. -Kabimba, took out Lubinda, silenced GBM and now cooking his way to the…
Saulosi & Mable: Guys you are out of reality. You lack proper Analysis of situations/environment. PF is capable of doing anything wrong. just yesterday we were told President is on working holiday and you believed-shallow minds
Then why didn’t you say so in the first place? You guys must be lunatics! Something as easy as that and you needed a gun pointed to your head to do it!
Great response! It is as easy as that.
@Wantanshi He was still manufacturing a lie out of the Bufi Party
i dont think so why take so long to respond to a simple matter as if they had to confirm with somebody.
The SC has been threatened why has he now changed his position from the earlier statements which suggested otherwise? All these issues of government number zero were not in his vocabulary then. What has changed? They have now worked backward to cover the foot prints or what does this statement mean?
Is he really a man of procedure because yesterday he was saying we are breaking the same rules we put in place. What was the meaning of such talk? This country will not develop for as long as people do not stand for what is right for the country than than for their stomach or family. I miss that Mr. Kapitolo who lost his job for saying Dora was wrong during the tribunal.
Yes, it looks like somebody has been bullied to give a statement.
Something is wrong why take such a long time.The faster we get rid of PF the better for Zambia.These chaps are very economical with the truth.
After or before the act
After coming out of hospital on Monday morning, even Sata himself didn’t know that Kaimbwa was acting president.
Hey! why didn’t the president say it publicly? and why say it now after the nation has cried for the truth?
A Msiska aona chizimba cha kaja ka muntu ka milomo ofuwila and has ran scared. Why did it take so long to come out and say what he has just said. Come on, it has been almost a week. In the meantime since our dear Ukwa is hale and hearty when is coming back to take the said instruments of power from the poisoned dwarf?
July 15, 2008 LUSAKA(AFP) — Zambia’s main opposition Tuesday called for a medical investigation to determine whether President Levy Mwanawasa is capable of ruling the country after suffering a stroke.
Michael Sata, leader of the Patriotic Front, said there was an urgent need to establish the condition of Mwanawasa, who is in intensive care in France since suffering a stroke over two weeks ago.
“The doctors should examine him and inform the nation the correct position over his sickness,” Sata said in a radio address.
He said Vice-President Rupiah Banda should immediately convene a special meeting of cabinet and appoint a medical team to travel to France to examine Mwanawasa, following reports that he is in a critical condition.
“The nation wants to know the truth. Nobody believes the…
Problem you like talking than work go and work stop talking
The opposition next time try to talk about ifyamano.Not ubupuba ubu tulemona mwefyungwa imwe.
Ooh …..opposition are these the issues to bring up, just keep quiet if Don’t have substance to bring out .If this is the kind of opposition parties we have in Zambia, forget we have no alternative government.
Start talking about another issue, since that’s all you can do
@saulosi you r useless, u mean you can’t read between the lines that is just some sugar coating because they now realise kabimba is acting on treasonable grounds.
If at all the president handed over power as stated why wait for people to talk before you provide proof. And why wait for 7 days after the handover before you can release a gazette. How long does it take. This is just another lie to try and savage some dignity.
Which line iwe Ko-lwe ? Politics napashilingile.Saulosi is right.
And keep Kabimba out of JAIL!
These LIES will come back to haunt them. They can run but they cannot hide.
@ the dull prinbe
as u av always wished for other pipos party and property so that u can take over as oposed to work hard this time u wont succed
We dont have opposition in Zambia, the Man of action is now the President.With or without Sata P.F still can win win big margin viva Winter Kabimba.
try him in a ward by election in his village then you can gauge his popularity.
Whether power was handed over or not. This has not affected my Income. I have come to realize that the change of government does not affect my income. Whether PF, UPND, ZADECO or MMD, I work hard with God’s help and am succeeding
Wait until your kids have to REPAY the EUROBONDs! You will be singing a different tune then!
We chipuba we!! But your expenditure is affected by who is in power right? Effective today 1st July, are u not paying 25% more for your electricity!! Isn’t the price of mealie meal 100% more expensive than Sept, 2011?? Styopeti…!!
lets pray for a quick recovery of our republican president if all he is sick than politisise his illness if all he is sick.we can not afford to loose another president but we can only wait to vote him out in 2016 if he dont peform to our expectations. God’s hand is not short to touch our president HE Mr.Sata
But have you been officially told that he is sick? Let us be serious country men and women prayer is a serious matter. The president has not said that he is sick. The government has not said that the president is sick. So why pray for his recovery? If we are concerned, we should pray for the government to be telling the truth.
But you people supporting this claim by msiska you have chicken brains. This whole rumour mongering was sparked because cabinet was not informed of the delegation of powers and that the president had left. If it wasn’t for the mighty watchdog upto now we would not have been told or known where the president had Gone.
This Hullaballoo about Winter by UPND and other nashala neka opposition parties and NGO’s indicates only one thing. They are are dead scared of the serious youngman (WK) as a future presidential candidate! They were comfortable with the likes of old man Chikwanda or sociable Edgar Lungu or fat man/money drunk GBM. Just prepare yourselves gentlemen and prepare to meet (WK) in a future election (2016 or 2021) God willing!
If we wanted we could send the boys who like demonstrate against Kabimba with coffins. That ka koswe just like ukuifyononwena pa bantu. He isbehaving worse than Mulongoti in MMD. Not even a single Cabinet minister respects Kabimba.
Such was the contempt and scorn poured on LPM (mhsrip) when political engineer FTJ “picked him from his sleep” to become MMD presidential candidate. The rest is now history. Zambians have a nasty penchant of NOT learning from history! Kaaya
Thanks for clarifying.
All the other times when other people acted like GBM, Edgar Lungu and Chikwanda, no one including Mulongoti questioned.
But why today. Is it because they don’t like Kabimba. I think there are other better issues we should be concerned with than this crap. This noise or gosip could even becoming from PF itself, from those who don’t like Kabimba.
It’s not about liking or not liking….it’s not facebook please. Simple logic…those instances where announced – where the president was going and so forth. This time around he was as we’ve heard “sneaked” out of the country. No announcement was made etc. It’s no rocket science
Kavuyi, People never questioned the handover process during the times of GBM, Edgar Lungu and Chikwanda because the President was being seen to be in steady healthy than he is rumoured to have been evacuated in the still of Friday night.
How does UPND come into this picture? I thought it was Mike Mulongoti and Father Bwalya’s party who raised the issue?
The plans that the opposition had have been neutralized, the next thing is to come up with something else to challenge the origin of Winter Kabimba!! Politics!!!!!!!
Seems after much talk from the opposition Dr.Msiska has been forced to come up with a statement. However these are the same people who said Sata is on WORKING HOLIDAY IN ISRAEL…we shall not believe your statements.Let gullible cadres believe.
Why should the opposition make noise when its Kabimba’s turn. He is just “ACTING” for Christ sake. Why is the opposition scared of him?
@ AVINOCHAYA
Most of the anti-Kabimba noise is being orchestrated from within PF, I wouldn’t entirely blame Opposition on this issue. There is a group within PF that isn’t happy with Kabimba acting as President.
So yesterday, y was msiska, whatever his name is….y was he failing to answer, y answer 24hrs after the question, that’s an after thot. We know, yesterday he said he won’t say, if or not kabimba was given power, wat has made him tell us. Yyyyy. After rehearsals
Those are questions dull PF cadres here should be asking but they are far much more comfortable being dull. It’s like their hobby includes being lied to like little children. Thinking is suspended as long as you choose to believe what PF says. The comments here from PF chaps proves that beyond reasonable doubt. A whole government lies to you and you fail to question this? Where in the world???
Kambwili is suspiciously quiet these days
Why is Mr. Msiska commenting on this issue now? He told us that he was not going to confirm anything. What has changed Mr. Msiska? Kindly sir, start from where left off when you were first asked this question.
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Ok it’s congratulations to Kambia and soon it will be his swearing-in ceremony.
While Zambians are busy politicking Kenyans and other progressive countries are moving forward. Shame on you lazy but yet talkative Zambians.
Surely we have nothing to do to keep us busy developing our country Zambia. We take a lot of valueable time discussing irrelevant issues where we have absolutely no powers to change. Is it in our powers to say no to who ever is appointed to act in any position? Even if it is democracy, can we vote for who to act or not? can some one answer me please. Bloggers please find someting productive to do than wasting most of your time doing nothing.
Hopefully, Mlongoti will begin to avoid mafia publications, like the the Daily Nation and the mad-Dog to protect their reputation and integret!
@ saulosi
Kabimba can do anything to be in power remember the kenyans he brought as he told us and when he is done with all this then he will tell us that i faked everything that’s Kabimba for you i really don’t trust the man i am sorry now they are using Msiska i am sure he was visited by the cartel another innocent victim
UPND can not win Zambian elections with HH NO NO.
PF rules by trail and error. They have to be reminded then they wake up.Imagine not knowing where their own party leader was.Ati working holiday umuntu ali mu chipatala.
This Statement sounds rigged or fraudulant to me. So do they mean to tell us that between June 20th and June 27th when the president was out of the country, there was nobody acting? Could it be the reason why Dr Msiska refused to answer the same question yesterday until the whole process went through the PF fraudulant machinery. I smell something fishy here. More questions than answers have been raised. in my head
Ba Msiska hope you have not back dated the Gazette Notice for personal gain at some point as promised by Wynter. One day we will catch all of you and detain at president’s pleasure
Kabimba can suck my chicala throughly
A few days ago this man said he saw no such document:
http://www.lusakatimes.com/2014/06/30/president-satas-handover-power-questioned/
“When contacted for a comment, Dr Msiska refused to comment charging that although it was his responsibility to perform such constitutional functions, he was not going to state whether he did or not.”
Did he DHL the docs to the president — or was he having fun making fun of Zambians on this VERY important issue?
#OneZambia
Naimwe ba Saulosi besu, people are entitled to ask and seek clarification. It’s called being alert, and Zambians were taught that lesson many years ago by KK during the liberation wars. Kanshi imwe mwikalafye kwati Zombie? Nothing to do with whether you are opposition or not, even PF cadres had similar questions but not asking for obvious reasons. Now that answers have been given we move on.
Ba Kabimba can not rule Zambia. Thats why I left that dead country.
Thank you for the clarification Dr. Msiska. The issue would not have escalated to the point that it had if the PF Government had handled this matter in a more direct way, instead, they chose to add fuel to the flames by being secretive about something that is as simple as having the Secretary to the Cabinet confirm that all was in order. This is really the problem of having elected a party that had spent too much time in opposition. They spend too much time arguing about simple matters at the expense of governing the country.
DR Msiska is the culprit himself. His statement was as if procedure was not followed. why are you thanking him. Even if am not learned at grade 2, i managed to analyse that statement. After Msoni and Mulongoti spoke louder did Msiska respond. What changed from his previous statement where he stated he was a man of procedure, was he not just corrupted to back date that document
@Mable u love the man ka?!
This is pretty amazing. how some caders can support any thing! PF is finished
Dr Msiska needs to clarify matters further. Was Sata hallucinating when handing over power to the cartel? Country men and women lets be serious with our democratic institutions.
@THE PRINCE, ba kolwe mwebakwata amano more than everybody else, why are you not ruling?
IF it turns out that PRESIDENT SATA was not in the right state of mind when the document was signed, this will spell the end of the cartel and the likes of Msiska. We know the President is vulnerable right now and has been for sometime but where is the loyalty and compassion from the likes of Mmembe? Can this document be signed by a President who is mentally unstable?
Why then did it take so long to speak, I doubt the credibility of the defense because in my view, I could be wrong, it’s very possible that the gvt could have sent someone with the document to The President so that he can sign it with a backdated date. This is very possible because they hold all the instruments of power which no one in the opposition has access to.