Six tankers carrying 35,000 liters of fuel each that President Michael Sata donated to Malawi have arrived in that country under tight escort by Malawian police from Mwami border in Chipata.
Zambia’s Deputy High Commissioner to Malawi, Henry Ngilazi handed over the fuel to Energy deputy Minister, Vera Chilewani at the Memorial Tower in Lilongwe. Mr. Ngilazi said Zambia is honored to assist its neighboring country at this hour of need to ease movements during the funeral period of late president, Professor Bingu Wa Mutharika.
He said Zambia’s gesture is symbolic of the African tradition where the burden of funerals is made lighter by others through assistance and solidarity. Mr. Ngilazi said about 10 tankers will enter Malawi daily until the entire consignment is delivered.
And Mrs. Chilewani thanked Zambia for the gesture which showed true neighborliness. Malawi has announced that some of the fuel will be acquired through vouchers issued by the Office of the President and Cabinet while part of the commodity will be distributed to commercial outlets for sale.
The proceeds will be channeled into a special government account to offset other funeral costs. Prof. Wa Mutharika died on April 5 and will be buried on April 23, 2012 in his home village in Thyolo District.
This is contained in a statement made available to Qfm by First Secretary of press at the Malawian mission Chansa Kabwela.
Meanwhile, scores of Malawians are crossing over into Chipata in Eastern Province to buy fuel following a critical shortage in the neighboring country. Eastern Province Permanent Secretary, Hlobotha Nkunika confirmed the development in an interview during the week.
Mr Nkunika said his office had cleared a lot of Malawians to buy fuel from the local filling stations in Zambia.
“Although it is difficult to clearly state how many Malawians, that include companies and individuals, that have been cleared to buy fuel from filling stations in Chipata District, many more are still coming in and my office is clearing them to buy the commodity here in Chipata,” Mr Nkunika said.A check at local filling stations found convoys of vehicles bearing Malawian number plates waiting to refuel.
The Malawian nationals have been ordered to get clearance from the provincial administration before buying the fuel.
And VICE-PRESIDENT Guy Scott is tomorrow expected to lead a ministerial delegation to Malawi to attend the burial of that country’s late president Bingu wa Mutharika.
Foreign Affairs and Tourism Minister Given Lubinda confirmed that Dr Scott would lead a delegation, which would comprise himself, his Gender counterpart, Inonge Wina, and Chiefs and Traditional Affairs Minister, Belinda Kawandami.
Mr Lubinda said in Lusaka yesterday that the delegation was expected to leave for Malawi this afternoon for late Mutharika’s burial tomorrow.
Professor Mutharika died of cardiac arrest on April 5.
[QFM/Times of Zambia]
Our resources being plundered by the Pathetic Fools.
Jobs for the boys. husband and wife. a lot of compromise in a mission.
nothing wrong.don’t always think inside the box.good example,we had a british couple who were both high commissioners here in zambia.don’t just say things for the sake of say it.
Hmmm,so almost everyone at The Post Newspaper somehow got a job directly or indirectly when Sata got into power hey!! I bet Chansa had to follow her husband,maybe she’s even the 2nd Secretary -Information at the Zambian High Commission in Malawi or is she still in zed?
Not maybe, she is a press secrt. there.
Uko, Even if it is nepotism, do we have to put both husband and wife on the payroll funded by my tax payers?
Lets equally share resources and at least give another job to another family, as if these two have skills that no other Zambian can perform.
This is too much family affair for my liking mwe, even if the wife and POST helped the POST win elections
Anyway, back to the Story, am coming to set up my fish company on the banks of Lake Malawi, no politics in registering my company there, as Zambians you know how we treat you as our brothers, so lets share the fish you have in that lake
yes,nothing wrong
Patrick must be a relatitive to these two folks…it is wrong.
# 3 JIGGA
Learn to read than rush to comment and make a f00l of yourself
This is contained in a statement made available to Qfm by First Secretary of press at the Malawian mission Chansa Kabwela.
Why should i read everything if the story doesn’t interest me,i just read the subject and summary and move on,it’s just an observation i made. At other Zambian missions abroad,the person in charge of the information office is classed as a 2nd Secretary i believe that’s why i assumed Chansa was 2nd Secretary in charge of the information office/Press,nothing major there is there? The point is that former Post newspaper bosses landed themselves government jobs for the coverage they gave Sata and the PF and that is morally wrong.
# 3 JIGGA
Stop nonsense .. You fool
@#3JIGGA , You must one of those frustrated Tonga fools, oh sorry tonga bulls. PF has 4 more decades in power.
Makandi yobe,to hell with your tribalism,all the same,am a Lunda man from Luapula you piece of sh1t.
zambia yandi is trbalist lol. mbuzi!!!!!!!!!
Ok i just have to work heard and smart this world kano ubowishibe
wow I thought PF vowed not to put cadres in diplomatic service.The whole Post staff got jobs in the Pf government.So whats the difference with MMD? as someone on this blog once said…..different sh..t…same toilet
All jobs to jonalists who covered hm nanga if?is a bemba name an added advantage!one Grz buildg ws donated to the rich catholic church wich campaigned n nw zed is dishg out all doz tankers instead of developg mongu wich is suferig more?wen dd zed become another donor country?
Please write in english.
#2 there’s nothing wrong having both husband and wife working for same company or government if they are both qualified and contributed to the democracy of our country.Not long ago we had 2 British high commisioners to Zambia a husband and his wife. PLs thank God for others insteady of having envios hatred.
What is the qualification for joining the foreign service? I have not seen a single ad in the paper.
Hand picked by the president.. Once you fall out > You are recalled :(
Where did Sata get the 7 million dollars to make this donation? Is this a donation from Sata or Zambia? For someone who only declared 7 guns and old Toyota vehicle, this so called Sata donation stinks of corruption. The energy minister Yaluma also owes the nation an explanation on how he selected the transporters of this oil contraband as there was no public tender. Allergic to corruption….my foot! You are just another bunch of corrupt criminals. You are using mbingus death to steal. We buried our levy and it did not cost us 7million dollars in fuel costs. We are watching and do not think for one moment that you are clever.
Rod < good question :)
Nothing wrong if they are Both Educated saves the Government money of rent. Before any conclusions, maybe they met in Diplomatic missions. Young Zambians time to get Jobs, so don’t just condemn, act now?? Submit your CVs.
Sheikh ..they met at the Post newspaper offices.All those who had senior Post positions now hold top positions in government.Its fine but Pf shouldn’t claim to be fighting corruption and doing the same thing an MMD leader would do.
Henry Ngilazi is a Tonga guy married to a Bemba lady Chansa Kabwela. How nice…kekekekeke. This is what Miles Sampa meant. AND THEY ARE YOUNG! If you can’t beat them, join them. Hey guys since when did you see an advert for diplomats uh? Those are just appointed out of nowhere. See what I mean?
“The proceeds will be channeled into a special government account to offset other funeral costs.”
How odd. A thousand questions going through my head. Malawi don’t have money to bury their president? Think about it!
Let us be Proud of Henry and Chansa for the good work they are doing in Malawi. They are both hard workers and they deserve it. Henry and Chansa continue to do us proud and all the Best in your mission in Malawi. by the way #9 mama africa Henry is not Bemba
@ Trigo that’s right.
These are two deserving Zambians and I have zero qualms with their appointment, whether they are Bemba or not. I have issues with the appointments of the Kambwilis, GBMs and Frank Mutubile wa Ngoiz of this world because for all I kbnow, they were appointed just becaise they are Bemba.
Ngilazi is benefiting because his wife Kabwela is Bemba. They should thank that woman who delivered outside the hospital who made her popular.
The factor to consider here is that an opportunity to stay together was accorded to prevent HIV. If Henry or wife do not perform they will go. Ask how many people have been there before.
Prevent HIV? Just shut up moron.
This is bulshit!! We need detailed explanation over this
Henry Ngilazi Ngoma is a Chikunda from Luangwa Feira.I just wonder why he decided to use Ngilazi as his surname. The guy was a total failure at ZNBC and TV 2. He could shy the cameras and failed to articulate issues as a journalist. Having husband and wife working at a mission is a total abuse accourding to diplomatic guidelines. This is a clear case of corruption and abuse of tax payers money. Chansa was given that position for the simple reason that she once covered that story of a woman giving birth. Both Ngilazi and Chansa have very humble qualifications.check the records with the Post and ZNBC. *****s
One day the story will be told. We shall know where the money came from, who transported the fuel and above all to whose benefit was this entire exercise. It certainly is not for the Zambian people. All this business of jobs for the boys, relatives and cadres will be investigated. Mark my word a mother of a commission will come from this Ukwa business.
And by the way, all of Malawi’s neighbouring presidents are goiong to attend Bingu’s funeral, with an exception of only one. Well, I do not know for how long Sata’s goons are going to hide his failing health from Zambians. Sooner than later, he will collapse on stage and I wonder what they will say.
It looks like Mr. and Mrs. Ngilazi are drunk – she’s hanging off him like a ten pin whore and he’s busy with his zipper!
Such is the life of PF diplomats I guess.
“Jealousy wont take you nowhere but to hell”
Not jealous my dear – you have no idea how I live so don’t worry. It’s just inappropriate behaviour for a diplomat, that’s all. Next time, better you worry about yourself before casing someone to hell – LOL!
WHAT IS HENRY NGILAZI SCRATCHING WITH HIS LEFT HAND?
Who really made the donation? Sata or zambia? We know that the recepient is Malawi as a country but the giver seems to be Sata and the source Zambia. It sounds thats a personal gift from Ukwa to Malawi but he just got did like from ZAMTROP.
wow so since Bingu died Malawi didnt have fuel to transport his body? that country is so poor and they had nation mourning all these time up to day? History has been made without zambia, malawi cant burry its president. And why is that malawan’s in diaspora are so fontini proud and pompers and they gat nothing to be proud off in Malawi, kamushi behaviour
Modern hypocrites
Jealous … your chance will also come IF AND ONLY IF you don’t pull others down!
Her: – Dear, is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy I am leaning against you.
Glad it is a donation. A loan would be smart but in a dark, scrupulous way :) God bless both countries. I wonder if their last prez tucked away a few dollars. Malawi will remember this. Only visited once in childhood but recall the beauty of the lake and the adventure of watching fishermen go out under moonlight. It is much like helping a neighbour even when you don’t have enough for yourself so painfully sweet. Let’s not confuse this with our aspirations to prosper through our own development.
Money laundering! in Europe, they use big teams and big clubs to launder but in Zambia, oil is the new get rich quick vehicle if you owe someone or want to pay them back. Hope this was approved by parliament and not just the president waking up one morning to dish out public money.
Well done PF!!!! Sata and his govrenment have applied the biblical principle [s] very well; mourn with people that are bereaved and do good to others especially those that wrong you. Who knows, this could be the beginning/ birth of the United States of Southern Africa [USSA], where countries within the same region shall help each other socially, economically and politically.
C’mon guys, give this couple a break. The MMD government almost destroyed the couple’s careers. Henry was fired from ZNBC after years of disciplined service because the wife had circulated (to policy makers) pictures of a woman giving birth indecently and unattended at UTH grounds. The wife was persecuted in courts for it. The MMD called the pictures porn. This Kabwela woman was seen as a hero by many ordinary women for her guts.
Let’s be objective and examine things on case by case basis. Henry Ngalazi and Kabwela IS NOT equal to Fred Mmembe and the Post, and it’s not the couple giving fuel to Malawi but the ‘party and its government’.
Wow! Was that her? Didn’t know that but recall the story. Thanks for putting it out there. I wondered what happened to her.
On ZNBC news it was 3million litres and here on LT it is 35 thousand litres, which one is correct?
DAVID CHIBAULA -POST-UN SECRATARY FOR PRESS-NEWYORK
PATOSN CHILEMBA-POST-SECRETARY FOR PRESS-SOUTH AFRICA
JOE KAUNDA-POST-DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA
SAM MUJUDA-POST-DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO NAMIBIA
YVONE SHIBEMBA-POST-DEPUTY AMBASSADOR TO KENYA
GEORGE CHELLA-POST-PRESIDENT’S MEDIA GUY
EDDIE MWANALEZA-POST-PHOTOGRAPHER-STATE HOUSE
CHANSA KABWELA-POST-PRESS SECRETARY-MALAWI
AMOS MALUPENGA-POST-PS INFORMATION
ha ha ha, Fred has been bitten by d COBRA
Bobobo.. ninshi mulebosa ba koswe imwe kanshi???
whatever goes up must come down ,truth will never be hidden and you people of zambia dont be quick to judge anyone.
Everywhere even in developed countries LOYAL people are appointed into certain positions as long as they are qualified. Remember how some of these guys were even beaten just for reporting the truth, for some, the president then, even ordered that they should be prosecuted for their investigative reporting, awe bane let them REAP NOW WHAT THEY SOW! GOD BLESS ZAMBIA.
Pf are just a bunch of criminals. They should be made to account for this money. You can’t give away millions of dollars just for a funeral. We have had enough of this nonsense. Since when did a country pay for another country’s funeral expenses? Criminals masquerading saints that who these bozos are!
Please put positve comments not hurt. Thanks Mr Presi as Zambians we can not throw away the culture of love your neba. I know that some of you can only give those rich countries which can pay back and not the poor.Even here in the Diaspora Zambians are given respect beacause of this culture.
What about Ruphia Banda is not attending over-due funeral of Bingu? Where they wait for fuel from Zambia to bury him?
Cronyism on display, there is no shame anymore.
Zambia ni nchi maskini sana inaweza aje kupeana misaada kwa nchi zingine kabla ya kuweka maswala ya watu wake mbele? Hii serikali ya Bemba ina wakora,wezi na wapenda rushwa wengi sana.Afadhali tuweke viongozi wa Tonga na Lozi kwa urais wa zambia kama tunataka nchi iendelee mbele.Kabila langu ni Tumbuka kwa hivyo usiseme mimi nina ukabila sababu ya kutaka Tonga na walozi waongoze.
Educated fools! Professor Wa mutharika running the country down – how pathetic!! Lula a grade 7 led Brazil into prosperity!!!
Malawi has the money to fly Mbingu’s corpse to SA but don’t have money to bury him. Hmmmm, last time I checked, it did not cost a cent to dig a hole and throw something in it.
I just have to say this: This culture is costing us as a country.
First of all we don’t produce petroleum to be a gas distributing nation. Secondly, we just lost two weeks’ worth of government work due to the funerals of Kunda and Nakatindi, in addition we are losing money from power load shading. And we may currently be the only country that has not imposed wind fall taxes on mining. Can someone please help me with this cry?
Anybody gifted enough to tell us what #46 wa zamani is trying to communicate? It must be one of those minority zambian languages.
It’s Swahili
In all the years of Zimbabwean meltdown never did we ever send such an aid package to help.Now comes a country with rich soils,stable and peaceful,has lately had bumper harvests and even outdone zambia at times in economic growth and we send a multitude of fuel laden tanks? Is zambia trying to tell them that they should go back to their bad old days of aid dependency instead of their newfound sense of self reliance and hardwork?
Where do they say Mbingu got his PhD from? Find the school and see if it offers a PhD in economics.
Now i can see how shallow minded some of the bloggas are.Is not recently when we lost our third republican president and are u telling me that non of the african country donated anything towards the funerals?Please lets learn to think b4 we open our mouth.
Chansa (Bemba) Kabwela (Lozi), she is mixed and Henry Nglazi is from Eastearn province. Jelous people, stop it. Even if they have humble education, there is nothing wrong with that. Being in foreign service does not mean you should have PhDs, no.
This country has leadership crisis. How can one donate to the tune of USD7m when we are till moving on bad roads in Chilenje a few meters from State House? What is wrong kashi for us to be in such a position with leadership? Has the tribe issue advanced so much that we can only vote for our tribesmen even when it is clear from their educational, economical and family life background that they have nothing to show for. What experience is working for the younths. USD 7m could have been useful to renovate our three universities or back banks to give interest free loan to younths something positive. May be Sata should have sold his house to give the proceeds to Malawi.
Kabwela is not a name from any of the Lozi speaking ethnicities.
@zed poor people. This deal is not even a donation. Sata has simply got 7 million dollars from public coffers. He has used it to buy oil which he is going to sell in Malawi. The proceeds will accrue to him and people like gbm who has been contracted to transport the oil.
The University of The Western Pacific where Mbingu claimed to have obtained a Phd In Econimics does not exist in the real world. It is boutique university. U send them your cv they mail you a degree patchment. Very sad indded.
@ Jonathan thats why you have peolple like Chibamba Kanyama calling themselves economists and George Mubanga a professor. We need to verify where these fools are getting their degrees from. And peolple with certificates in MBA are claiming to have MBAs
Chibamba has credible education. He majored in Mass Communication at UNZA, with a minor in economics and then he obtained his Master’s in international finance from a credible university in the UK. If he has practiced as an economist he is one. Check the educational background of the US Treasury Secretary who is also called an economist.
Iam also available for appointment into the foreign service should i apply to whom should i adress my apllication
#37, BUSHE ULOMFWA ICISUNGU. I THINK THEY SAID 35000LITRES PER TUNKER. OR IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME?
Kasuma ka Chansa…
#50 Enka Rasha dont worry about # 46 Mzambia wa zamani, he is using swahili, you dont need to know what he is saying if he wants to say something let him use a Zambian language, his Swahili is not so good either but one thing for certain he claims to be tumbuka..Let him use tumbuka at least. I would have translated the Swahili but i dont want to be his/her translator by doing it deliberately. but on the other hand i will mention something he is first of all disssing Zambia to be poor when he/she is wrong Zambia is a middle income country and he/she wants a tonga or Lozi President. He claims not to be tribalist because he is tumbuka. I dont want to translate the rest. Its irrelevant anyway.Let the person doing it themselves
#54 SEGREGATION-POINT OF CLARIFICATION you are close to the answer but not quite Henry is NOT from Eastern Province but from Fiera which is actually part of Lusaka Province which is the part known as Luangwa district, the point you have is Luangwa district neighbours Eastern province-so naturally many Zambians get mixed up.
# 24 Chidakwa. Let Zambians gather all facts around this FUELGATE scandal and Ngilazis will come and appear before mother of all COIs set up soon after PF govt is voted out. GBM tankers (without clearance from RTSA) used to deliver fuel to Malawi will come to appear before commission set up to un mask deception of Sata siphoning money through bogus donations.
Good geture ba MCS and your govt. Malawians should also learn to treat Zambians as real brothers and sisters because these people just like Zimbabweans, can be very cruel towards some Zambians. Now the poor Zambian govnt is providing the most needed commodity to ease transport problems especially during this grieving period as Malawi govt prepares to bury Prof. Mutharika. MHSRIP.
Thanks Trigo for that.Going for a person just because they are a certain tribe is silly & is in itself tribalism so that zamani guy needs to ditch his tribalism first.A president should be chosen based on merit as blacksheeps and unfit for office plunderers come from all tribes and races.Thanks much.
@JIGGA, I know I don’t own the rights to our common pseudo name but could you find a different alias to differentiate between us? I can see you are based in the UK, but bloggers may not see who is who between us.
Not sure when you started but mine dates back to the days of ‘Zambia Sossa’ somewhere around 2001 during MSN and yahoo ;)
we are tired of ukwa and his GS summer kambimbya’s comedy
You are very welcome Enka Rasha