President Michael Sata made a rare excursion to several locations in Lusaka yesterday afternoon, a State House source informs Zambia Reports, but it wasn’t to report to his office for work.
The Zambian Head of State, whose ill health has had him confined in Nkwazi House for months apart from an incomplete speech to open Parliament and an infamous trip to New York, took a small security detail of just six OP officers in two vehicles on a discreet excursion into Lusaka.
According to the source, the president left State House yesterday through the gate on Brentwood Drive in a gold BMW driven by his aide de camp (ADC) accompanied by a BMW X5 led by his bodyguard Judge Ngoma, without following normal protocol to notify a proper security detail.
The president appeared to be getting some “fresh air” as the two-car convoy headed toward Woodlands Mall, passing through Woodlands, and then onward to Chilenji using Chilumbulu Road, and passing through Kabwata, Kamwala, and into town. The vehicles then made way to Cairo Road, crossing the flyover bridge, and later stopping by a certain house in Rhodes Park where a visit was made, the source says.
The State House source says that President Sata visited the private residence of a woman named Edith Mutale off Protea Road, next to King’s Highway School. Ms. Mutale is not married by has four children, Mulenga, Mubanga, Mwenya and Nkole. All of these children use their mother’s surname, but it is widely believed that they are the president’s illegitimate children.
After spending about 35 minutes visiting Ms. Mutale’s house, President Sata jumped back into the car and left, passing through his old house where First Lady Dr. Christine Kaseba’s first daughter now lives along with her husband Chimwemwe Sichinga, the son of Commerce Minister Bob Sichinga, before making his way back to State House.
President Sata’s excursion in Lusaka represents an exceedingly rare event, as his condition has recently resulted in him informally handing over most presidential powers to his wife, Dr. Kaseba, while other succession struggles within the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party continue to heat up.
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