The usually calm Vice President Guy Scott crumbled under pressure in an interview with the BBC to say he is not married to President Michael Sata to know he has cancer or not.
Scott told BBC Focus on Africa’s Akwesi that he does not know when President Sata will be back in the country.
Below is an excerpt from the interview:
Akwesi: …Where is the President of Zambia
Scott: He is in Tel Aviv on a working holiday that is all I know that concerns anybody.
Kwesi: his presence in Tel Aviv is nothing to do with medical attention for cancer as is being speculated or suggested in Zambia?
Scott: No, I have heard and it would be very unreasonable and suddenly I know nothing about it, the people who are ridiculously speculating are more informed than me I think that it is extremely unlikely.
Akwesi: Would you know if the President has got cancer?
Scott: I would know if he had but I doubt if he has as far as I am concerned.
Akwesi: Is he unwell outside of cancer?
Scott: You are asking me that question I am not a Doctor, I am not married to him, I don’t live with him, I have no system to know he lives how long or forever.
Akwesi: Do you understand however the concern of the Zambian public? Do you appreciate where these concerns have been coming from?
Scott: I think the generation of the rumours is malicious. I know the people are always concerned and I am hardly responsible for the people who spread rumours on the basis of nothing, on the basis of what they wish were the case.
Akwesi: So it is an issue of public concern?
Scott: Of course it is a matter of public concern if there was a concern there of course everything is an issue of public concern, the rainfall surely we can’t predict the rain whether it’s normal or never.
Akwesi: Why do people say or begin to believe that the president is dying of cancer?
Scott: They are campaigning for the opposition, for a tribal minority in the South of the country and want to take over and won’t actually they were in a coalition with us and thought they were bigger and now they are in opposition and certainly they are campaigning so that they can win the next election.
Akwesi: when are you expecting the president back in Zambia?
Scott: He will be back in two weeks, or a couple of days, for as long as it takes.
Akwesi: so for as long as it takes meaning, two weeks, a month, six months, a year?
Scott: No please don’t be so patronizing for as long as it takes for him to have a break until he has had his break and carry on his work.
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