Speculation is high as to the whereabouts of Zambia’s 5th Republican president -Michael Sata. President Michael Sata was last seen in public on 25th May during the African Freedom day celebrations.His frail appearance that day coupled with his failure to to show up for the official opening of the National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka later that day fueled rumours about the president poor health status.
On the 22nd June the government announced that the President Sata was in Tel Aviv Israel on a working holiday,the 2nd working holiday he has had this year,the first being in London in February 2nd 2014.
According to the government, the president was in Israel at the invitation of invitation of out-going Israeli President His Excellency Mr. Shimon Peres.However, at the time President Shimon Peres was reportedly on his way to the United States of America.Israel media reported that President Sata was admitted at Sheba medical centre.Government however insisted that the President was on working holiday in Israel.
Meanwhile the Zambia Voice has disputed media reports that President Michael Sata arrived back home from his working holiday in Israel on Friday aboard the presidential challenger and has stated that it was doubtful that the Head of State could have landed at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport.
“I was at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport much earlier than the time some sections of the media have reported the presidential challenger landed. Some of the colleagues from the media found me there and there was no plane that landed at the airport at 22:05 hours. The presidential challenger could not have landed at the Kenneth Kaunda International without anyone seeing it. It is highly likely that someone is not saying the truth,” Mr Tayali said.
Zambian Voice executive director has since challenged government to show proof of President Michael Sata’s arrival in the country since the Head of State has not appeared to the public including some of his own ministers.
There are unconfirmed reports that the President flew back into the country on Saturday afternoon around 15 hours aboard the presidential challenger that landed at ZAF Mumbwa airforce base.The presidential chopper is then said to have picked him from Mumbwa ZAF airforce base and taken him to State House.
Mr Tayali charged that speculation could have been avoided if there was transparency in the handling of the office of the President.
He said even the presence of the sentries at State House could no longer be relied upon as a sign of his presence because in the past, they have remained there even in his absence.
There is more information about MH370 than President Sata.
Dont worry about Sata- let the dead bury the dead. Concentrate on improving your own life dear. We all know Sata is a sickly man and there is nothing to prove. If he dies today, I care less, if he survives, its non of my bussiness.
Rumour has it that he will be jogging in the streets of Joburg on his way to his grave soon! At the moment he is jogging around his bed at his nkwazi house in prep for the joburg run.
Nonsensical question
He is at state house working 24/7 like any sitting president
Anyone doubting needs their mental head thoroughly examined
grow up people
Thanks
@Ola
Let us vent our anger because its us with our grand children who are going to foot Sata ‘s huge medical bill out of our hard earned money while his family will be enjoying spoils he has accumulated by corruptly awarding contracts to his Chinese counterparts through RDA in one of his bedrooms.
So far over £70,000,000 has been spent on his medical treatment and health tourism. This includes flights, medical bills, hotel bills in five star hotels costing £11,000 a night plus bills for Chella and his entourage. On top that hefty foreign travel allowances .
What angers me the most is the fact they have continuously lied about his health and his medical trips. As such I have very little sympathy for people who use trickery to get their way in life.
Thank God this is nearly over
Mushota,
Suspension of disbelief within the PF, they have also done a Donchi Kubeba on yous.
Sata is fighting for dear life. He’s holding onto a string my dear. Very soon kala putuka.
Madam Mushota, lets be relevant.
How this Mushota person thinks. Completely parrallel.
Sata is the most useless president to have come out of Zambia. So useless that even the catholic church who voted for him have not said lets pray for him because they do not want the devil to live.
The sooner he kicks the bucket the better for the country. I hope they do not give him a state funeral because he has not worked for it. It will will be a waste of the countries hard earned money
twatendwa ilyashi lyabasata, let him go and rest so that we can move on. day in day out sata this sata that. its too much of such a film. lets have another movie story of success not spending money on unredeemable health condition that brings no value to our country
Sata Tormented Mwanawasa to his death. Zambians let us not forget this easily, This man behaved like a witch when he was chasing and teasing mwanawasa’s funeral that it was a campaign trial the time they took his body around the country. He had no kind words to his friend even calling him cabbage. Let the same happen to him. He should repent before dying in his evil sins. If he dies better for our country as we can see dictatorship nonsense in 2016 with his unruly cadres. So nothing to hide let then just tell us his where about?? Else he should be removed on medical grounds.
iwe bantu! leave this person called Sata who is hiding in a hole,,, dead or alive,,,who cares its no longer news the man is dying its an open secret…..
things are happening outside to those who still have energy to breath in and out,,,,,,,
Brazil hammered by Germany 7-1….. am waiting for Holland vs Messi!!,,,,
The President is in Chinsali
MUSHOTA: is very right and using satirical writing. that is how learned people write
@2.1 MWAUTILA MWAUTILA – She’s not using satire as she’s one of the vocal supporters of Sata. She’s one of those in denial and clutching at strings hoping all this is just a bad dream.
Where ever Sata is, he is half way into his grave to join those he laughed at.
Zimbabwe media is reporting he has joined them! For sure, they will make his (life) death HELL!
https://www.zimeye.org/zambia-president-sata-now-dead/
I saw him personally he came nobwato not airport thing
Surely who is at pains that he cant see the president , well is he not human to take a leave when he wants, are there no other important issues for Zambians to spend time talking about , why spend your time thinking so aggressively about the where abouts of the president, yes when you have everything and have enough food children in school and you are happy , you always find something to joke about passing time
Ngalanda uko ele, nga tapali no twakulanda. So let him say that he is on leave. SATA EEE, SOSA SOSA. ICHALO CHILE KUMFWA.
All citizens should be at pain. A president is a very important person in a sovereign nation. The presidency is not a trivial office that is why he is the commander in chief of the armed forces. The entire security and intelligence of of country rests on his shoulders. He is the CEO or the pilot. Passengers always need to be assured that the pilot is there and fit to control when the aircraft whenever it is airborne. An incapacitated pilot leads to an automatic panic among the passengers.
A president is so important that the nation spends huge sums of money and time to elect one. On election day, we put everything aside, I mean everything, to make sure that we elect some one who will carry our aspirations forward. Our vanguard and national dream carrier.
Nshilimubemba, I am sick, and UTH says they do not have medicine to treat my illness. Do you think it is fair that Sata has used 70 million pounds of taxpayers money for his medical treatment and UTH has no money for mine?
I have to work everyday, even though I am sick, just for enough money to live. What has Sata done for Zambia to justify spending so much money on him?
Inde Bwana Mkubwa akabwe kamukuba!! We couldn’t put more clearer than that. Anyone who wants to know why we want to know the whereabouts of Sata please refer to Bwana Mkubwa’s answer here!
Ali ku Muchinga inspecting his Kapasa Makasa University and the solar powered robots in Chinsali.Jealous down ,aleisa, na drip
Iyeeee…ndeloleshayfe
Stop pretending. Asking about the whereabouts of the president is not a joking matter. He is like a father of a family. Which child would not ask if the father is missing from home? I wonder why some people get worried when someone asks about the president. We want to know, we need to know.
Its only in Africa you can hide the were abouts of a President.
Why hide the healthy and one wooing investors?
PF’s corrupt and hypocrisy has caught up with them.
Dedication to PF, ” Church Elder” by PK Chishala.
If the illness is terminal, as we are led to believe, why cant that man resign? Selfishness?
he cant walk away from easy money
How is President Sata? That should be the question now given that Mulenga Sata has told us he is in State House
First time I am seeing leadership by hiding!
I think immediately Sata says I am sorry to Bashilubemba he will recover.
@Point,
Not only to Bashilubemba but to the entire nation.
Some misguided people who think the demands to know the whereabouts of the president are trivial must remember that wherever he is hiding and idling he is wasting huge sums of the nation’s financial resources. This is painful.
Now even the house boy George Chellah who was so proud of issuing ‘state house statements’ regularly has suddenly gone quiet. Surely something big and weird is going on and soon it will explode publicly.
Shame PF. Too soon to go- corruption, tribalism, nepotism, misgovernance, arrogance, dictatorship, brutality, wastefulness, etc.
Its very unfortunate that the government is still mute on the whereabouts of the president. The best the spokesperson at statehouse or government is to inform us about the health status of the president, speculation among the citizenry will continue as long as government keeps on lying about the state of the president. Why is there so much secrecy concerning his health ? Is he the first president to be sick ?
@mulego
YOU ARE ALSO KEEPING A LOT OF SECRETS. FIRST OF ALL WE DO NOT EVEN KNOW YOU. YOU ARE CALLING YOURSELF “mulego” WHICH DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING TO ME. ARE YOU MALE OR FEMALE? ZAMBIAN OR NOT? WE DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. BUT AS FOR SATA WE KNOW HIS NAME, WHERE HE STAYS AND WE WERE TOLD THAT HE ENJOYED HIS 77TH BIRTHDAY WITH HIS FAMILY AT STATE HOUSE. BUT YOU! WHO ARE YOU?
@Chisenga
That is a typical Bemba reply. Just saying anything to sound important or be noticed.
BTW you can turn off the Caps Lock key on your keyboard now!
He is at Nkwazi house Bobby Easting!
Thank God all we have are man made crises.Can you imagine if this incompetent lot was faced with a natural crisis like flooding,earthquake,famine how many would perish?Even the naming of a stadium ended up being a crisis.Right now there is a crisis looming whose ending may make us curse 20 th September 2011.
WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE? DOES THE AUTHOR SURELY WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE PRESIDENT IS OR HE JUST WANTS TO PROVIDE ANOTHER PLATFORM FOR INSULTING PRESIDENT SATA? IF YOU ARE GENUINE WHY CANT YOU CHANELL YOUR QUESTION TO THE RIGHTFUL PERSONS. NOT TO THE ONLINE READERS.
How dim are you? Haven’t you ever seen women crying when a loved one is nowhere to be seen? Are you the only one that can’t see that someone is missing? Are you the only one who is not aware that the “right Channel-aka His Excellency’s Facebook page” has not been updated for a month now? I pray you are not one that thrives on nepotism because if you are…some strange coffee is brewing and you can’t smell it!
@ Chisenga, I think the question HAS been channeled to the rightful persons.
In reply, the Nation has only got NOTHING, or a whole lot of LIES and CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS.
We are still waiting for THE TRUTH. But maybe that is too much to ask from a PF Government that was elected on LIES and lived on LIES ever since!
What a shame to see the once mighty “Man of ACTION”, King Cobra being reduced by his own mouth to KING CABBAGE!
Ati. Where is sata. Thats a stupit question. Sit down.
Typical backward useless politicians taking the electorate and all Zambians for fools. This nonsense needs to stop. The government needs to make a statement to stop the rampant speculations. Elo where are the real investigative journalists????…everyone is quiet its unbelievable…too docile pa zed its embarrassing. We need to wake up has a nation the taxpayer pays the salary of the president and hence we are allowed to know about his capacity to run the affairs of the nation. The opposition should not be sleeping as well they should institute court proceedings about the health of the president if information is withheld by GRZ. Time to wake up and stop this docile crap.
@ Lusaka Boy “where are the real investigative journalists????”
FIRED…….if they work for Mail or Times and tell the Truth
JAILED and ASSAULTED …… if they work for ZWD or Nation
Why do you ask?
@Bemba-bimbo…I ask because they need to be doing their jobs asking very difficult questions to those in authority…are you saying because of the reasons you mentioned above they are no journalists in the entire country not even 1 willing to risk it all to find out the truth? not even those in the private media? We are just too docile utulo too much coming up with excuses for everything all the time. Some one needs to stand up to this political stupidity. Zambians should not be allowed to be taken for granted like this. We should demand and seek the truth wherever it takes us.
”For here on earth, we have got no permanent city but we long for the one to come not made by human hands but the hands of our Eternal God”. Therefore, don’ t take pride in anything earthly which is coming to pass but instead, our pride MUST be fixed in God who gives what is everlasting and shall be brought to ruin.
For here on earth, we have got no permanent city but we long for the one to come not made by human hands but the hands of our Eternal God”. Therefore, don’ t take pride in anything earthly which is coming to pass but instead, our pride MUST be fixed in God who gives what is everlasting and shall never be brought to ruin.
As Zambians we take the trophy for docility! Here we are even with those we elected to address our concerns on how we are being governed sitting idle and content without an inkling of what has happened to our leader! What happens in the army at battle when their general misses? Kwena kuli ukupwalala pamyesu! WE ARE THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE AREN’T WE!
We know he is at state house and that he is not feeling well. why ask an obvious question kanshi?
This is not peculiar to Zambia, managing the presidency is a complicated affair. President Ronald Reagan in 1981. He survived the bullet but was badly injured. HIs aids refused to invoke the incapacity plan. He later underwent a cancer surgery – on his sick bed he signed a arms deal with Iran and he could not remember it at all because he was incapacitated. But even as sophisticated as the US system is, they never invoked the constitutional provision to have the Vice President take over the presidency.
So even with Ba Sata – there are many considerations to be made before you declare the president incapacitated. This is because the Capacity of a president is so wide and difficult to…
So why do you think we should copy what the Americans did? This is Zambia not America. Its unzambian to lie about some one sickness.
The only SOLUTION TO THIS DILEMA we did put ourselves is:
1 Let the Acting President Wynter Act and Set the Day of Elecions. If Zambian r not Happy with Wynter let;
2. Guy Scott shud STAND UP and ACT as a PRESIDENT and in 90 days elections.
During this OCCASION let him REPRESENT SATA and on his behalf let him ask for forgiveness from Chitimukulu & others Sata has wronged.
3 As WE TALK THE CONSTITUTION is ALREADY BREACHED and its in tatters. Alot of things ve been Breached by these inuits
FAILURE TO THS- There will b CONFUSION even WAR but I would NOT want ths to happen.
IF we dont do this will “JUST BE YAPPING DAY in Day OUT” about our GRANDFATHER SATA who is about to go the Land where no one RETURNS.
ITS time WE NEED ‘THINK TANKS’ to UNLOCK THIS PUZZLE. Its…
The concern is about the president. He will come out during Mangango by-elections for campaigning. He is planning what to tell the Mangango people or else it will be like during KK and his UNIP when he was fighting with a frog during pseudo elections. We will not vote for someone who has never addressed Zambians for many National Issues that are affecting us.
Not 90 days please. There is something sinister about this number of days. Make it 88 or 89 days.
There are no think tanks in Zambia. if there were, we would not be talking about this all the time. What a waste of time and money. SATA and PF have to go.
Gen. Miyanda, Edith Nawakwi, Elis Chipimo, HH, Magende and all of you opposition politicians where are you? Wake up. After all, you need to work together on this one. Time to merge some of these political parties and work for the common good of mother Zambia.
Am concerned. We are missing the president. Could someone report to the nearest police station? Or set up a committee of inquiry.
There is always an end to lies.You can only sustain them this much..One day,soon,we will know the truth about what is really going on.
we will talk about it after the world cup
If only the country could develop based on aimless speculation and retrograde necrophilia, we would surely be the richest nation on earth
Very true. I don’t know why some Zambians thrive on someone’s pain! We are supposed to respect our leader and pray for him because as a Christian Nation that is our duty! I have been shocked at the negative comments coming from people who are mortals just likely all of us. Maybe I have lived in the civilised world for too long. Despite them not bragging about their church membership they have respect and do show sympathy regardless of their affiliations. I have found the Zambian media to be cheap and substandard. All you need to do is look at some of the above bloggers’ comments and you can judge what sort of adult thinking you have in Zambia.
Of course if there is no information people begin to speculate, its natural and simple.
34.2 Blago
I entirely agree with you.Any society which would not be speculating in the light of the comedy we have witnessed and the mismanagement of the presidency would not be considered normal.Just compare the PF’s handling of this matter with the way the South Africans handled Zuma’s recent illness.Even their explantions dont make sense.Why should the presidential jet land at Mumbwa ZAF?When has it ever landed at Mumbwa ZAF.The blame is squarely on Kabimba and his bunch of clowns.
@34.1 Hola – Were you born last night mate. Where were you when your Sata was making fun of the illnesses of Mwanawasa, George Kunda and Mazoka on a daily basis? What goes around comes around! Karma is a B.I.T.C.H.
Be patient UPND cadres, your time will surely come. It may not be in the near future, it maybe after 50 years we don’t know but as they say ‘patience is a virtue’ just keep hanging in there. At the moment PF has only been in government for 3yrs so surely you don’t expect them to let go anytime soon with or without Sata.
You can continue hallucinating about your PF being in power forever, God is the master planner.
What a bunch of retards, they cant even manage information about Sata`s illness.
Investors Investors be very very careful about your Monies, Zambia has gone to the Monkeys and Dogs. You risk Investing in Zambia for now. Keep your funds safe until 2016. These confusions are real and Am giving you a friendly warning. Let the Zambian people suffer for the economy they have misused.For them to hide the were about of there president it means even you investors are not safe.For now please suspend your businesses and try Chainama Hills.
PF and your cohorts,I have a massage for you! CHECK MATE!
Why so concerned about the presidents health coz as christians and have information about him supposed to put him in prayers than critising.
Regards
34.4 Ricky Bobby- there is no need to use such language. If you were in a civilised nation as some us are, you would understand that making fun of someone else’s illness is morally wrong. I understand that it is very difficult for you to think and reason in a rational way because of how you have been brought and may be your culture. I don’t live in the past either so I may not comprehend why you feel it is your right to mock the President’s sickness. Even if he was my enemy I would never make fun of his/illness or misfortune. In this part of the world it is wrong and it is something we would frown upon.
In 2008 ZMK20 billion was released by the Ministry of Finance to cater for late president Levy Mwanawasa’s medical and funeral expenses, which is 20 million ZMW today. So far this useless oaf has cost us 70 million ZMW (70 billion ZMK) and counting. Now if we add in the new house etc. what is the true cost to the Zambian people that this man has cost the nation and what do we have to show for it??? The sooner he goes the better the country and the world will be.