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People surrounding President Sata are like ticks, they have no life outside the him-FDD

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Forum for Democracy and Development spokesperson Antonio Mwanza stresses a point during the meeting to demand for the release of the draft Zambian constitution
Forum for Democracy and Development spokesperson Antonio Mwanza stresses a point during the meeting to demand for the release of the draft Zambian constitution

The opposition Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) says people close to republican President Michael Sata are feeding from him like ticks and do not have the best interest for either the president or the country at heart.

And the opposition party says the President is not in a physical position to continue presiding over the affairs of the nation as both the pictures and voice can bare witness to his illness.

Speaking in an interview FDD spokesperson Antonio Mwanza described people close to the president whom he said were in the best position to advise him to either take a leave or retire such wife Christen Kaseba and uncle Alexander Chikwanda as ticks sucking the president’s life away as they have no life beyond president Sata.

Mr. Mwanza said people close the president are “feeding on him like ticks and will never advise him accordingly” because they are scared of losing their positions.

“The people that are close to Mr. Sata are feeding on him like ticks and they will never advise president Sata to take leave because once he takes leave they also live. They are surrounding him and they are feeding from him and they will never tell him the truth.

“The best people that can advise president Sata are his children and my advise is let the Lusaka mayor Mulenga Sata sit down with the father; it is his children, its his wife who apparently was nervously giggling as her husband struggled with the speech in parliament who can advise properly. Those surrounding president Sata are their because of him and they will never tell him the truth,” Mr. Mwanza.

He added: “they have no life after president Sata, you have seen what happened to Wynter Kabimba- he had no life beyond Sata and those are the same characters surrounding president Sata and they will continue feeding from, look at his main men, Honorable Chikwanda nominated Minister he has no job beyond Sata, actually the people that surround Mr. Sata don’t care about him but about there pockets and they will be flocking to him and will never advise him to take a break so mayor Mulenga Sata has to have a serious talk with the father he needs to take a break.”

And Mr Mwanza said it has become very clear that the president is not in a physical state to continue presiding over the affairs of the nation.

He notes that from what people where treated to on Friday when the president opened parliament it is clear that the nation is on auto pilot which the country can not afford with the many challenges her people are facing.

[pullquote]Bishop Mambo said that government leadership is so drunk with power , so rich and so corrupt adding that Zambia has become a country with leaders who are not honest to both the President and the people of Zambia.[/pullquote]

“It is clear that president Sata is not in a position to continue running the affairs of this nation, he has difficulties even talking, you have to pay extra-ordinary attention if you have to hear what he is saying. The failure by the president to have a clear voice projection tells everybody that all is not well with him.

“If the president loves himself, its not even about the country anymore, if he loves himself then the president has to take leave and if he doesn’t want to take leave we have provisions in our constitution which we can use to make him do that.”

Mr. Mwanza further added: ” MPs have to take a serious assessment of president Sata’s status and judge as to whether president Sata can continue or not. The problem that we have here is not about president Sata but the 13million plus people that we have in this country that are suffering and need their lives to be up lifted.”

Meanwhile, Former Church of God Overseer Bishop John Mambo has doubted genuineness in the people surrounding President Michael Sata.

[pullquote]He further stated that the church should now not pretend but begin to organize national prayers for the President’s well being.[/pullquote]

Bishop Mambo says President Sata should not have been subjected to opening the fourth session of the eleventh national assembly in the health state he appears to be in.

Bishop Mambo noted that much as the President has a heart to work, he should not panic if he can not manage to work but needs to rest until he is much better.

He added that exposing the President on Friday during the opening Parliament brings big question on what type of leadership the country has citing that it gives an impression that all those surrounding him have hidden agendas.

Bishop Mambo said that government leadership is so drunk with power , so rich and so corrupt adding that Zambia has become a country with leaders who are not honest to both the President and the people of Zambia.

He further stated that the church should now not pretend but begin to organize national prayers for the President’s well being.

68 COMMENTS

  1. What does the law say about mocking the president?

    This is disgraceful by this party and it should in a whole honest be banned.

    You don’t mock the president. It is an abomination the highest order.
    I know president MS allows democracy but this is like mocking God

    Horrible

    Thanks

    • @mushota,you are going too far with your comparison,sata is human .so what are u going to say if sata will be no more by December?I for one will not attack pf die hard but will comfort u and encourage u to look beyond party ideologies.

    • @Mushota, please be realistic. Suppose Sata was your only real and biological, would you like die before his time? You are the tick that sucks from the blood even when the animal is dead you still piece your sting deep into the skin of the dead. In our language there is a saying which says ” kulamwina mukwenu hamashi, hamashina natoki” it means that to guard your friend’s life is when the blood is oozing and when stinks puss he is dead.

    • Look what I am saying is, it is a sin to mock the President

      This is BLASPHEMY

      to compare this to ticks around him is subtly mocking him as well

      This is blasphemy and should be condemned

      Since when does a human being get judged by the sound of their voice?
      You just be kidding me

      Thanks

    • PF cadres are blind, deaf and brain dead. Looking and listening to Sata will tell you all you need to know. When I was listening to the speech, my friend, even without knowing what I was listening to asked “who is that gasping for breath? It made me tear up!
      The man was a walking chimney, multiple sexual partners, bad eating habits, drunkard. And yet you are here trying to make people believe the man is well! You really need to get a life. Hopefully Sata will go for a medical check up whilst he is in the USA. Because the pics depict a frail, fatigued, undernourished, anemic old man!

    • Where is Saulosi, how can that Antonio Mwanza go about getting into Sata’s bedroom and Saulosi is watching?
      HH and Ba Miyanda are not part of this CALL. You all saw and heard yourselves at Parliament.

    • The president is human and to comment on his health or lurking thereof is well within the rights of every citizen. He is not immortal I would argue that reference to blasphemy in a discussion involving another mare mortal is what is sin. The word is clear”thy shall have no other gods before me”. We all wish him well and I am sure even those in the opposition would not be that opportunistic and actually wish for the ill health or death of another as the means to which they ascend to power. It is for mother Zed that we pray. We wish all our leaders sound health and wisdom as they slave to lead the nation to greater heights.

    • @ Wantanshi,
      No, they are not symbionts. At least symbionts, like Rhizobium leguminosarum do contribute reduced nitrogen to legumes such as Arachis hygogaea and Pisum sativum for the biosynthesis of nitrogenous biomolecules for legume use even as they (symbionts) take some nutrients from the host. But ticks such as Amblyoma variagatum and Ripicephalus apendiculatus just contribute disease-causing parasites to the host and aggravate and exacerbate the health condition of the host. There is a big difference and that’s the bottom line.

  2. now this is an insult comparing big and educated people to be ticks, Sata formed PF and laboured for ten good years selling it then people were convinced and voted him, unless if you tell me that he consulted you when forming the party or you contributed a ngwee but zero so just wait for 2016 and keep on selling your manifesros mwefipuba iwme.

  3. Well said Antonio, the chaps surrounding the Cobra are really cruel as they cannot survive without him holding the reins of power. His son Mulenga is also a non entity who cannot survive without the Dad and so is the wife Kaseba Sata, once he leaves office all her fake accolades that she is now receiving will stop. The bottom line though is that Sata must step down as he does not own this country and is clearly unable to perform the functions of that high office, even reading a kama speech.

  4. A tick will never know its embedded to a carcas until it dies. Let MPs raise a motion in parliament and test the waters of how other MPs in PF are going to react. What is the point of having provisions in the constitution that can never be enforced. Already we have an issue of the Chief Justice whose ratification was rejected by parliament and the acting continues against constitutional provisions.

  5. Yes m one of the ticks.Remember HH called sata chimbwi no plan now chimbwi has revamped ZR, NCZ and zamtel not forgeting roads,schools and hospital.what of new district and storage facilities. can i leave this man just becouse of sickness? ukufuma ifisuma kuti kwafuma nefibi eg TB JOSHUA

    • It is not about chimpwi no plan but its about life and death dear. Sata called late Mwanawasa many names and he named RB as Nyamasoya, called HH under five but all these are nothing connected to the topic of the discussion. You are the same people who shall say babalowelefye when in the actual fact there is illness we can all well concerned citizens can not accept.
      He is not PF president only but for the whole nation thus he needs much care and protection. Be compassionate my friend and it is inhuman to punish someone like this. Prevention is better than cure. Apakomaila nondo ninshi pali ubulema bane.

  6. Reading between the lines one can tell that they are vultures in both camps.

    One type of vultures is currently eating from the current circumstances thereby advising the Cobra to hung on even at the expense of his health.

    They other category of vultures is starving with a ravenous appetite to take over thereby advising the Cobra to step down on health grounds.

    • @ Inconspicous YOUR COMPARISON IS IMPECABLE. TO THE POINT AND SPOT ON. I JUST LIKE IT. I THINK THE STARVING VULTURES ARE THE WORST. THE KINGDOM HAS NOT ALLOWED THEM TO HUNT SO THEY ARE VERY BITTER AND CALLING UPON THE EATING VULTURES TO LEVE THE STAGE.

      ANOTHER POINT. THE ENGLISH IN THE ARTICLE IS VERY POOR, BAD AND WITH A LOT OF SPELLING MISTAKES. LT PLEASE TRY TO EDIT THESE ARTICLES OTHERWISE THE CALIBRE OF YOUR EDUCATION WILL ALSO BE DOUBTED.

    • That is it in a nut shell! They want to cause alarm. One wonders whatever happens to secret intelligence……they must be very underemployed these days. I think we need to make changes to the right to form political parties. We need fewer to be allowed. Any party with less or no seats in parliament, must not be feted by the press.
      these uncooperative parties spreading lies about gov’t are worse than street vendors. There is too many voices.

    • @Ciesenga, @inconspic.’s English command is as it should be for a second language. Your Capital letters are poor construction of reading text. Why point at the splinter in your brothers eye, when you have a log in yours?

  7. Ba Bishop Mambo, not too long ago you yourself were looking very ill what hypocrisy this is coming from a man of the cloth, I’m beginning to lose respect in you ba Bishop how can you say such things when you too were being called a walking dead man..as for Mwanza, you dont know what you are talking about young man just shut up you useless chap…fellow Zambians and only those Zambians that really care about this nation you should be thankful that the false predictions of the satanic hordes of UPND never came true, let us pray for a full recovery for our President rather than debate his health, God and only God knows the future and non of you naysayers are God.

    • @2020 Vision,
      Look up and down. I see and trust you have got no better understanding than evil. The Bishop you are talking about was sick like you and me do but took time for medication and here he is physically fit.
      Don’t bring in cheap reasoning my dear. Remember what you guys do usually even when you have a simple headache you go and get a sick not from the health center of clinic and take it to your boss and say I am not well and I have been given a three days bed rest. Y should you mistreat our Leader like this? Only a rascal can do that. Better suckers die from malnutrition than the Him.

  8. Cant be expressed any better than this. Parasites who cant stop sipping the life off our president and for sure it includes a medical doctor, the wife. Its clear people can go to scholl but not necessarily be educated. Its evil to drain the president in this manner. He deserves better support if he is to rejuvanate himself

    • @chillis and enka today he is your President when yesterday you and the other parasites where busy insulting him…you are the same ones with evil intentions please leave our President alone. PF is Sata and Sata is PF.

  9. Antonio Mwanza is absolutely spot on…the old man is no position to be in any office anywhere not even if he rested, Sata is deadwood, I was so disturbed by that audio on Friday 19/09/2014 I couldn’t put myself to listen to 2 minutes of that torture.
    .

  10. I stand to be corrected, but what I know is that when you are an advisor to the president and you render your advise, it is up to the president to act on the advise or not. In medicnine when a patient decides to act against medical advice you don’t force them. Am pretty sure the big man has been given the necessary advice but has chosen to act against it. These opposition are just trying to use the occasion to gain political mileage. Nomba tabaipule…

    • I personally like what am seeing.No one forced Sata to choose the likes of Kambwili to surround him.These are the consequences of choosing to surround oneself with *****s.Even when poaching from the opposition he chose the likes of Masumba

    • Why should L.T block or bar Jay Jay??
      There’s a woman on this page who always expresses nothing, but tripe – worse then Dog Manure, always first to blog, insults included, & I’ve Never seen L.T block or bar her postings.
      L.T is Slowly but surely becoming as Useless as what the Post currently is.
      Compromised, Useless, & lacking integrity!!!

  11. @ 2020 Vision, please my friend, continue tearing apart the satanists. I ‘m enjoying your comments. I have posted several eye catching comments against the satanists and for reasons best known by Lusaka times, they have been blocked.

  12. What about you Antonio? FDD is Edith and Edith is FDD. God doesn’t run out of leaders. After Sata has ruled for 10 years another leader will emerge and certainly it won’t be you or Edith or HH. For God’s sake stop insulting people who are much more educated than you. That is why ba Kapikola basuswile ameno pa UNZA. No
    Matter how much you insult them they have performed far much better in 3 years than what MMD did in 20 years. Kikikikikiki

  13. Bishop Mambo, you are off the mark. Why national prayers? God does not only respond to national prayers. If anything each individual has a personal relationship with God and prayers can be channeled to God on the personal basis. President Sata has been praying personally to God for health, vision direction and guidance. Dont claim to be closer to God than others. Your friend in Nigeria claims to be a prophet who foresees all calamities, but failed to foresee calamity befalling foreign nationals whom he housed in a poorly built structure, while milking them out of their money in rentals and payments for so called holy water and miracles. Brethren, be alert, God is not to be mocked. You will be exposed.

  14. I advise the FDD spokes person to mind his language, if he is to build a credible leader in himself. Much as he is concerned with the health of the president, it would be disrespectful of him to liken the Finance Minister, the First lady and the Mayor of Lusaka to ticks for not advising the president to take leave.
    Antonio would agree with me that he cannot match Mulenga Sata even in his private life, neither his father (Antonio’s) could match honorable Chikwanda nor his mother match the first lady in their private life to despise them in the manner he did.
    If he really knows the provisions of the constitution when the president is incapacitated, why attack the innocent and faithful servants of this nation?
    As a young leader Antonio should term his tongue and be an inspiration to…

  15. learn to form your own parties ifwa kupyana fyalyafya so you only think you can only be presidnt if sata dies the way mazoka died mubepela nabuka

    • Sata benefited from Mazoka,Mwanawasa and chiluba’s deaths or else Sata would never had been a president of Zambia.God Jehova is a great equalizer he has allowed Sata to die a slow but painfull death.The pain can be seen in his eyes.I cried when listening to the opening of parliament speech.Even if Bembas like the Tongas buried their heads in sand believing Mazoka would not die.The bible says do not put all trust in a man who eats grains for one day will surely die,and all trust will be in vain.What iam saying God has already anointed someone take over at the right time.That person knows himself because God has already spoken to him.Most Zambians know the person but chose never to believe because he belongs to minority tribe.But God looks at the heart of someone.

  16. It is adjustment time! The bell curve of hype about the President is now on the decline the other side. I sense a lot of panic as the opposition scramble for a new subject to base their hapless campaigns on. The Easterners say “cifundo mweo….”

  17. What we have to remember is that the presidency is an institution and is bigger than one man.if these allegations are true it is very irresponsible for those whose constitutional function is to ensure that the affairs of the country are diligently and adequately performed to look the other way and essentially let MS slowly commit suicide in the name of service. The man has served Zambia for years and agree with him or not his dedication to country can not be doubted. We are all mortal beings the only wish we can all have is that we life to achieve our full potential and leave behind a legacy of having contributed positively to life on earth. As a nation we would like to remember MS for the true warrior he is and if indeed the time has come to withdraw him for public life let’s do that.

  18. What I saw in parliament shocked me to the very core of my being! It clearly shows the blind loyalty generated by a tribally bigoted administration. Sata struggled to speak and the little he uttered was largely disjointed vile and stale jokes. The man is not only diseased in body but seems clearly afflicted by dementia, he is sick in the head as Zambians will say. And to even imagine such a “dead man walking” is a sitting head of state says a lot about the lunacy and self denial traits that characterize the Zambian mind!

    • “When I come to this house 74yrs ago under a pillow from UTH”. Lo lo lo ha ha ,ati hard working fit like a fiddle.What a joke of the century.It will be godern jubilee Zoana.

  19. As for Lungu’s acting presidency, I put it to constitutional lawyers that the man was illegally sworn in! I mean, Sata is clearly neither of sound mind nor health, so how in his current state could he transfer the instruments of power to anyone? Besides, as we all know, Lungu is an ardent alcoholic, how is he able to execute the posts of acting president, minister of defense, minister of justice, PG SG and also PF disciplinary committee chairman? Only a lunatical president can appoint one person to all these positions!

  20. We can’t ignore the fact that within PF HEMCS is a political trophy. Many snipers within PF are aiming at him. Consequently, the arrow HEMCS ought to be most weary of, is not from an opposition sniper; but rather from one of the many archers within his own party ranks. Their propaganda instead, has been to direct attention away from themselves to the Opposition. But who so far has been caught with blood on their hands, if not eminent members of PF’s elite political bureau?

    • Truth is painful. Were it to be told, most would agree that much of the in-fighting we have witnessed in PF over the last two and half years has been engendered by a power struggle to succeed Mr. Sata at the helm.

  21. Look, this is tiresome nonsense! We read Chanda Kasolo commenting on the fact that the family wanted President Sata to take it easy. We read, Guy Scott saying Sata can rest if he chooses. Dr Kaseba is a doctor who can care for her husband as according to his Physicians instructions. I doubt she is treating him because of medical ethics. It leaves the decision of his Physician at question. SURELY HE IS THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO STAND UP FOR ALL THIS. The blame is only on his doctors since family, wife are NOT legally held responsible for negligence. If his Physician has advised he can work who are you to say the opposite? THIS NONSENSE should be stopped by intelligence who must get in there and clean up this ‘opposition’ nonsense. We must respect the president regardless.

    • That was:- NOT legally held responsible for MEDICAL negligence.

      If parties want to take part in Zambian democracy, they need to ensure good conduct and work within democratic procedures.

      If the President wants to die in the line of duty, so be it. Like a great captain, he will be at the helm in full uniform! Sata is national hero. God knows we need the example of brave men and women. He has until 2016, before testing his support from the masses. The others will take on board his ability and so will PF. ITS ALL GOOD. Let’s work together and let’s have a happy environment in our country. Be good unto one another.

    • Do you honestly think you can go against Christine Kaseba, who is not only the wife to the patient BUT a doctor and the unofficial minister of health if you were a State House Chief Physician.

    • @Jay Jay

      You and your mates should be charged with Seditious libel, and incitement. Against lawfully elected gov’t.

  22. It is because of foolish people like mushota who have destroyed the country . mushota is it just commenting or to is to give proper advice to the people in Govt . You will be Mau less . very soon . let the Almighty answer on behalf of people the of Zambia .

  23. Look both PF and opposition have hiden agenda!PF do not wish to lose power hence Sata continuing despite being unwell,while the opposition are advising PF for Sata to retire with a fake dream of their HH taking over-NEVER!so let Sata continue developing our country till God takes him away from us!I wonder why u people think that only the sick die!even fit ones like Nawakwi,Mumba,HH,etc may die before Sata if God allows it!so let’s leave Sata or anybody in God’s hands!

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  25. Zambia is becoming a sick nation because fat politicians and obese pastors are selling the image that someone is only health if he is overweight! Visual diagnosis is the main reason why HIV is rampart in Zambia, people look at fat people as if they are HIV free and they have unprotected sex and only to find that they have contracted the virus from the fat momma or daddy and they are HIV positive. Sata is suffering from a disease called AGEING, which every normal human being has to endure, unless you die young. People still expect Sata of 1990, which is ridiculous because people get old, even Mandela changed due to age, it is something we cannot ran away from. Mambo is MMD, he was in forefront endorsing RB, he benefited from the corruption of RB regime!

    • @MIG, How true!! Look at all these MP pictures, they are all obese! The same peopl crying poverty and asking for pay rises. How blind can these Pastors be?

    • Pathetic.So this disease called aging has only attacked Sata not RB, VJ and his other contemporaries who don’t even have the privilege of state of the art medical facilties? Can u imagine if he was not president? The man looks dilapidated even the best possible medical treatment is available for him.

  26. Zambians are indeed a very classic misfit of nature. This whole thing has nothing to do with people surrounding Sata. That they are cowards is besides the point! The problem is Zambians in general. In other countries, Sata’s dramatic appearance in court this last May would have sparked riots that would have forced the diseased lunatic out of power. But look at what happened in parliament last week and what awaits you on New York. Only lunacy describes a people so keen on none stop bouts of embarrassment. No wonder Loziz want to secede from this lousy outfit called Zambia.

  27. Tukafwa nabashikulu ba Sata! Mandela even in frail state commanded his nation. We shall rule na Mr MCS till death set us apart, then we shall feature Mulenga Sata, life or death, ubufumu bwesu

  28. what about those surrounding Nawakwi, what are they called? Nawakwi’s party is nowhere on the political scene. An association of failures. Nawakwi is only good at grabbing people’s husbands.

  29. Do we have great leaders in Zambia’s opposition parties? The answer is as good as yours, morally so to speak. Mandela, as a great son, used to censor his comments. His speech was focused at building South Africa regardless of one’s political affiliation. If leaders in opposition are calling all sorts of names the leaders in PF, should they expect PF to respect them if they got into government? This Mwanza seems to be a bitter man. Is it because he is not in governemnt?

    I think no one can force Sata to resign or retire, not even his family. I don’t think Mwanza can honestly do the same if he were in Sata’s shoes. Let Sata complete his development agenda. The floor will be open for all come November 2016. If this Mwanza really cares, he must not confuse Sata’s health with his…

  30. This should explain the positioning of selves, just in case anything could happen, would’nt want to be seen as if i had poor jugment, rather thinking of the future and not to leave vaccum in my party PF. God bless our country Zambia and its pipo.

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