Before the 2011 elections Zambians were told and warned by a lot of people that they would be beaten down by the Patriotic Front (PF) once they took power. They were warned that the PF would break their hearts and steal their crown.
So when on September 20, 2011 Zambia started out down a dirty road we really started out for God knows where and we are only going to know when we get there. That is why today the PF government thinks we need not know about President Michael Sata’s health, we may not be told about the president’s travel and may only be informed when he arrives in ISRAEL or wherever.
It is terrible how the PF government has taken the Zambian people for granted leaving them to speculate over the health of their president and his whereabouts. We all get ill at one point or the other and we are all going to die someday. The president is no ordinary person and therefore as the people he governs, we have a right to know when he is not feeling alright so that proper goodwill messages are sent to him to wish him quick recovery and so on. Zambians have a right to know where he is going before undertaking the trip so that again people wish him well on his trip.
Surely what we have today regarding the president’s health is unacceptable when it is clear from watching him on ZNBC television news and seeing his pictures in the various newspapers and online publications that he is not the same man who took oath at the Supreme Court on Friday September 23, 2011. His voice too is just something else and it is clear our president is unwell no doubt about that.
The television and newspaper pictures of him at the Lusaka High Court when he went to give evidence in the case he sued the Daily Nation Newspaper, Richard Sakala, Cholwe Beyani and Robert Amsterdam, are nothing but a sorry sight. Just on Africa Freedom Day he was missing his steps at the Freedom Statue wreath laying ceremony, typical of someone unwell and on medication. His body too has shrunk if the last appearance with the Chinese Vice President is anything to go by, yet he claims he is enjoying good health. No, no, no president Sata everyone has seen that you are not well that is why on social media a lot of people are wishing you well. Just own up.
But it should not surprise anyone that the only reason President Sata does not want to ever come out clean and tell the Zambian people about his failing health is because he made so much fun of Anderson Mazoka, Levy Mwanawasa and George Kunda when they were ill. No need to repeat what he said of their predicaments but what he said of these three deceased people when they were here with us was in bad taste. This is clearly a good case of what goes around surely coming back around. If President Sata is a real Christian as he professes to be, he should kneel down before God almighty and ask for forgiveness while he still has time.
What is in fact true is that President Sata has a history of having suffered a heart attack or stroke and for his age and someone who once upon a time was a heavy smoker and perhaps even a drinker, there could also be some other underlying factors to his somewhat failing health. In effect, he got into office knowing too well that health wise he was not in tip top condition. That is why a few months into his presidency he had to sneak out to India to seek medical attention on the pretext of wooing investors.
Now on Friday June 20, 2014 one senior government official, Chanda Kasolo permanent secretary for Luapula province and believed to be president Sata’s relative, was on Radio Phoenix Let the People Talk were he called all those who have been wanting to know the president’s health status id***s, st***d. From the look of things Radio Phoenix was game with the use of such language and the Independent Broadcasting Authority is mute because it was a PF government official uttering the words. Had it been a listener calling in and referring to all those that are saying the president is enjoying good health in the same manner, it is quite certain he would have been cut off the air.
Some double standards indeed and that probably explains why, on September 23, 2011 Zambia really started out down a dirty road to God knows where.
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