FORMER Republican Vice President Guy Scott on Saturday failed to address a UPND rally in Livingstone amidst public fears that his health is deteriorating.
Dr Scot who was the main speaker struggled to talk as he tried to address the crowd that had waited for his arrival for over three hours at Villa Grounds.
Dr Scott was in Livingstone accompanied by former Mazabuka Member of Parliament Gary Nkombo,former Agriculture and Livestock deputy minister Lackson Kazabu and other senior party officials to drum up support for UPND President Hakainde Hichilema ,parliamentary candidate Mathews Jere and Mayoral candidate Eugene Mapuwo ahead of the 11 August General elections.
A minute into his speech, Dr Scott, who looked very fragile and tired, started coughing uncontrollably until some party officials gave him a bottle of water and signaled that he be made to sit down for fear that he might collapse.
The former Vice President then leaned on Gary Nkombo’s shoulder and told him that he could not continue and asked the master of ceremony to play an interlude of music because he needed to rest a bit.
The Former Mazabuka lawmaker then grabbed the microphone from Dr Scot and told the crowd that the main speaker could not continue with the main address because he was diagnosed with malaria.
“Sorry the guest of honour cannot continue addressing you because he has malaria. We literally dragged him the comfort of his house and wife even when we knew he had malaria because we wanted him to meet you people of Livingstone because his heart is here in this town,” Mr Nkombo said.
After regaining some strength Dr Scot stood up, thanked the people for coming and promised to come back to Livingstone later this month.
A senior UPND provincial official disclosed that Dr Scot’s condition had worsened a few minutes after his arrival at Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International Airport and some officials had recommended that he seeks medical attention instead of addressing the rally.
Speaking earlier at the same rally, UPND parliamentary candidate Mathews Jere promised to complete all projects initiated by the Patriotic Front in Livingstone once elected into office.
Mayoral candidate Eugene Mapuwo promised to revive the Textile, Timber and Tourism industries if given the mandate to run the affairs of the Livingstone City Council as Mayor.
Who can doubt Dr Scott commitment to the Zambian people? He is one of a kind!
Do they get sick in UPND? HH through his watch dog has consistently preached that only PF’s Sata whom theu called ukwa and Lungu are the only ones who get sick. Manje naba swine flu fever thief balwele.
@Observer, perhaps this will teach some people to understand that illness can strike anyone, it’s not by choice. Just look at what happened to Dr. Canisius Banda’s wife(MHSRIP) after the husband had preached to Zambians how sick ECL was.
We wish Scott a speedy recovery so he can enjoy super health during and after inauguration of one Edgar Chagwa Lungu. I pray he discards blood thirsty demons of anger, hatred, envy, bitterness, mayhem, unpatriotic, complicity, and all dark society vices picked up against God’s will. It may be 11:45 AM before his hour making it his perfect time to accept Jesus Christ the redeemer and quit fighting him. When God raises his man servant, you cannot succeed to pull him down. God tests and appoints then confirm and strengthens while Satan tests to corrupt and weaken. Remember, the same God loves us too much to promote us before we are ready. Its ECL’s time. He is a mortal and not perfect like all of us, yet he has found favor in the eyes of his creator. Hatred is cancerous to our health.
Guy Scott will die for Zambians. He reminds me Sata addressing a goodbye speech to parliament. These are people we call HEROES
Senior Citizen,,,,
Some of the things you say are symptomatic of a pretender. How do you know when a person is placed in authority by god? Huh? What happened to cleric Jean-Bertrand Aristide? He was a man of the cloth.
These Christian dogma you guys are imbibing on mindlessly are only retarding the development of the country. Why is it that your god only participated in elections and foodball? Why does he not act on ignorance hunger and poverty? Most importantly now, why is he mute about the violence that is going on in Zambia?
When a people refuse to think, they perish!
Bye Scott
@1.5 1+1, you and your “god” can keep your ethicism anchored on some mythologies you have zero capacity to defend if took you on intellectually. The multitudes of us are ndindi with our Jehovah “God” of all creations in the heavens and here on earth. No apologetics to make. If you have substance in your head, give us an intelligent epistemology of your belief of ethicism or mansory. Jesus I know and can share why I proclaim him.
@1,1 THAT WAS ALSO MY FIRST QUESTION THAT CAME TO MY MIND, HOW COME THEY STARTED GETTING ILL IN UPND? HAVING SAID THAT UN POLITICALLY, I LOVE DR GUY SCOTT AND MAY HE QUICKLY RECOVER FROM HIS ILLNESS. POLITICALLY HE IS A WASTE OF SPACE.
GOD PREVENTED HIM FROM MAKING A SPEECH BECAUSE TO UPND IT’S A SHOW OFF THAT THEY EVEN HAVE A WHITE MAN IN THEIR PARTY. HE WAS EQUALLY PREVENTED FROM GIVING A SPEECH BECAUSE ABASALWA NI BA EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU.
He is a Good man, every person falls Sick so whats the Issue??Even Lungu has collapsed many times.
No, I am a HH supporter and still believe that HH will win 2016 with 72% votes. Only mistake he has done is to embrace thugs from PF and MMD of the likes of Guy Scott (Swine flue notoriety), GBM (ZESCO and Army maniupulative tenders and FRA overcharging), Marueen Mwanawasa (the ruthless exploiter of Mwanawasa’s first wife’s children and stealing through Maureen Mwanawasa Initiative), Charlotte Scott (Theft from ZAWA)
Poor Dotti Sikoti. Get well soon old man. Maybe it is high time you retired from politics instead of wasting your time trying to sabotage Edgar Lungu due to envy.
Yes he needs to retire!! I have had enough of him especially during MCS’ time.
Yes time he retired and start spending more time with his grandchildren. Too much of him trying to play “still relevant in politics.”
Ba Guy Scott should just retire, there is an appropriate time for everything but certainly not the time for Guy Scott to be campaigning. Guy Scott should be home with his grandchildren. I wish you a quick recovery and may the good Lord be with you. ECL 2016!
Get well soon madala.
You know the secret, don’t do too much. Let those younger than you do their bit too.
HH dont sacrifice Scott! He must remain alive to see the man he persecuted, ECL inaugrated as President of Zambia.
Sontapo is a reincarnation of Donchi Kubeba…. It’s all deception, lies, dupery, slyness, con artistry that is the lifeline and hall mark of PF.
everything sontapo is built on a big lie…..sontalling things that are fake as they are from choking kaloba
Sontapo = Donchi Kubeba 90 day lies!!!!
Envy is Bad. And so is too much hatred. Dr Guy Scott think twice. You are backing a wrong Tree. No matter what happens , PF is winning big time. Those people surrounding you are mercenaries with no feeling for you whatsoever. To them you are just Chaff which will be thrown to the wind once they have seen that you are no longer useful . Dragging you from home when you are unwell is desperation of the highest order.
I am not voting PF…..and I have a voters card and NRC.
Scott keep campaigning to remove that drunk thief from plot 1.
Lungu is a THIEF……. anyone in PF saying no? Go to ECZ and Chulu will confirm… Go to LAZ and they will confirm.
A galant fighter with a desire to liberate our country from Poor Fools.
What more can we expect from this Boer thug and his wife after betraying the late president
kudos stiopeti,you illegal immigrant,mukwerekwere iwe
kudos = 1mbecile
PF cadres like this Kudos really annoy me. They have forgotten that their Changwa collapsed at the stadium. Wish someone good health even when you don’t agree with his ideology. Shame on you. Get well Bwana Scott.The battle to free Zambia from PF continues.
Since when did you UPND SADISTIC SYCOPHANTS repent? You are the worst when it comes to EMPATHIZING with others (especially your political competitors) in times of sickness or death. You are the people who salivate and Hoover around like hungry vultures anxiously awaiting the death of a wounded Buffalo in Kafue National Park, and you have the b@lls to lecture others on this?
You had a “field day” when Sata was going through some health issues and eventually died. And every time you hear Edgar Lungu is not felling well, whether rumor or true, you start jumping up and down in joy hoping he also dies and your small god, HH, can have a chance to be President. Certainly you are the wrong chaps to be telling others not to engage in the same STUP!D!TY you yourselves love.
GET WELL SOON…
Chilefwa!!!!!
and so will you
“Death comes for us all. Even for Kings he comes.” (Robert Bolt)
#Wilz Ch1kala ca N0k0
Get well soon as ECL is elected president of Zambia big time..Viva ECL VIVA PF for life….
NAFWE TCKALA CHAKWE. MUSUNGU WOPUSA NGAKO
really, such hatred?
Why can’t he just retire from active politics? This muzungu opusa is really opusa.
#The Game bu car ra bwa N0k0
My best wishes to Guy Scott, I hope his health is restored completely.
I wish Dr Scot to gets well soon! Just a little bug, I guess. He’s got Zambia at heart & he certainly excuted his duties as Vice President very well generally. He deserves to be respected. Your contribution is highly valued, Doc! God bless, Zambia.
This is why there is a retirement age …they will be dropping like flies instead of resting and playing with their grandchildren on the farm.
Try saying that to Inonge wina
You PF vuvuzelas are unbelievable!
Your VP candidate Wina is even OLDER than Scott and you are criticising his age!
Get a life!
She has never failed to address a rally.
Ba zambia muli ba iponto mafi yenu,have the respect for ba mudala ba scott,God is with u zebigi,it is well
@Kudos! If I knew where to find you, I would KILL you without a second thought. Your PF has brought misery to the Zambian people and we are back to HIPC times through PF’s unplanned up hazard infrastructure building using money borrowed at a very high cost! If PF rig the elections and retains power, you will see what we always talk about! Mukalanya amenshi with your bululus! PF must not cheat people that they will continue with their costly infrastructure building coz there is no money and IMF is coming with its policies which do not encourage stvpid wastefulness, so don’t be cheated!
If you are going to murder someone because of blogging then you are a ****.
Guy Scott should have left Lungu soon after he violently took PF leadership. Look at the unprecedented violence and killings Lungu has unleashed in Zambia.
Who was sponsoring the ritual killings in Lusaka?
One certain thing is that Lungu is a violent thief.
It can only be HH who sponsored rictual killing cos he is a bloody thirsty frimason
Even if he died today, i woudn’t waste a drop from my tears.
He doesn’t even know you bupuba bwa N0k0
Serves him right cause what goes round comes back around. It’s Sata’s spirit which is not happy with the way Scott and other chameleons have waged an unnecessary war on on the innocent man Edgar Lungu and PF!
Scott and the likes of Miles Sampa and GBM have realised that people will teach them and UPND a lesson never to forget. So the only thing is to cause violence to disturb the peace Zambia has enjoyed but God Almighty will never give His glory to the wicked ones.
The people of Livingstone gathered enmass to listen to Guy Scott.This is commendable people of Livingstone,thankyou. Get well Gogo Guy Scott,we love you.
So how is he today? Evacuated? Imwe ba UPND have compassion for others. I declare interest in this matter. This worries me, can he survive the arduous campaign? I want him to, so that he can attend the re-inauguration of ECL on 13 August.
@Jay Jay! I was not addressing you but then you decide to use vulgar language against me, why? Should I insult you back iwe noko icinyo!
People this is a blog! Either indulge in an intelligent way or leave. We already have enough violence in the nation. Why utter things such as killing someone? Let’s respect peoples opinions and not take things personally. We are here to learn from one another believe it or not. Uttering threats can be a bad thing and only takes getting one’s IP address to lay a charge. Please think before writing.
Get well soon!
Sorry Guy but ba guy you got to reckon that there is time for everything. You have already run your race and understand that you can’t go round the country as a chief goon like young spooky, HH. Since you’re driven by greed and you don’t wanna quit, adopt a new way of campaigning, probably by utilising radio station otherwise you drop dead and we give you 2 days of national morning. Kindly behave, you have low energy in the interim.
Definitely, old age is catching up!
At days national mourning will be drawback on our already heated campaign trail. Get some day off and enough bed rest to a tune of almost 6 days.
Get well soon guy Scot,we still nerd you,others have collapsed before,you were not going to be the first one,all the best you did not collapse like some have
OBSERVER I LIKE YOUR COMMENT INDEED …! BA SCOTT BALILABA UBUFI BWA SWINE FLU, LESA TALABA IYO. SCOTT WILL PAY BACK WHO KNOWS? NO WONDER HIS IN A WRONG CAMP HE HAS TO PAY BACK TO ZAMBIANS ALL HE STORE.
We wish you speed recovery, ni nshimbi a Scott. I was also down with malaria. Just recovering.
Wishing Dr.Guy Scott a quick recovery
Muzungu wopusa go home and rest..your hate for ECL will kill u…..
Yeah sickness is for everyone, but let us wish him well.
Too much whiskey and young girls have taken its toll on Guy Scott.
why die for zambia when poeple have already died for our independance? No more dying for zambia now. We need just work had and crack our heads to see how we can develop it. Don’t think backwards. Poeple have died already lets leave for them by developing zambia. Long leave scott but vote ECL