Post:Namakando Back in Mongu from State House meeting unable to walk, talk
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 8:03
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The Post Newspaper has reported in today’s edition that Mongu has been engulfed in suspicion after chairman for the dissolved Western province MMD committee Namasiku Namakando arrived in Mongu unable to walk and talk, from his ‘reconcili
President Banda at State House
atory’ meeting with President Rupiah Banda at State House.
According to the Post, another member of the dissolved committee Kenneth Musangu has been confined at home after he suffered a stomach upset and persistent headache upon arrival in Mongu from Lusaka.
Musangu, who was the provincial youth chairman in the dissolved committee said (to the Post) Namakando stopped talking and became seriously ill en route to Mongu on a state house vehicle last Sunday and was rushed to Lewanika general hospital upon arrival.
Another source told the Post that Namakando is not walking and not talking and that he is on a drip.
“We have decided to work together. We have agreed to work together as a team,” he said.
“When there is development in the country, people will always follow our party,” he said.
Mr Njamba said as youths, they are ready to start re-organising the party from the grassroots.
“We are looking forward to the 2011 elections. We are going to deliver votes,” he said.
He urged fellow youths to rally behind President Banda and his leadership.
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another KAPWEPWE case, i hope this guys will recover.remember what that busted did to MAZOKA.
To all the western province think tanks, i have something to tell you that the MMD has been using you as a horse and while they dangle a carrot in front of your faces, and them riding on your back, you will never eat that carrot until you realize its a bait that is there to entice you to vote for them while they keep promising you. The mongu kalabo road was and will be used as a bait for you to think MMD is working, they deliberately did a shoddy job on the road so that it becomes a carrot tied on a string for you to smell but unable to eat as long as they are on your backs. To Namakando, eat thier money and tell the people to vote wisely as the north westerners and northerners have shown us. UNIP and MMD are synonymous in that they think they are the messiahs for zambia but we need to give them a boot so they realize that it takes a small piece of paper to change power. we are tired of the same stories. Today you insult the Kuta, tomorrow you say we are in good books. we say no to this and fellow westerners, lets unite and tell the devil in his face that enough is enough. or else we will just remain with words in our mouths that we once were able to grow cashew nuts.
It’s sad if the man is ill as reported.but I have a feeling the post is trying to make the sickness sensational.it cud be just a coincidence that he got sick on the way back from the reconilliatory talks not that something may have been done to the two.Sata chose Inonge as chairperson in a bid to win western province en I think RB was very wise to call namakando for talks as a counter attack to sata.this is politics en u need to be smart.
Back to the days of mysterious deaths, illnesses and disappearances. Mother Zambia where are we headed to, May the lord extend his his healing hand.
Why are the two stories in the two newspapers so contrary. Must we suppose the Post is exagerating or the Daily Mail is hiding content?
Check his clothes. He could have been urinated upon by apes and has MONKEY FEVER. Besides, it is raining and just got flu, you know folks! But don’t phone FTJ because his cell phone is off, he has gone to see a Prophet who lives in a country where no one knows his origin, a very scary species, but drawing thousands of unsuspecting hearts for healing, deliverance and prosperity, even when they have stolen. The bible says “The love of money is the root of all evil” and some times we are so eager to make money at all costs, including washing dead people’s clothes worn when they go out for dinner. Ask your self who invited them for that dinner? and since they are dead, did they resurrect like Christ? Don’t sell your souls, this is just politics. Some of these people will be paraded either here in courts of law (and may even be acquitted)and the courts of heaven for the atrocities they are comitting. Get well soon. Please be ware, they seek your soul!
lets hear what he shal say?lets keep inform,g each anyone with informat,n w
ther will be total chaos in zambia total chaos!!!!!!Blood wil be shed again i say blood will be shed….ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
if this man dies..you will see!!how the hell on earth cud u still poison someone becoz he’s opposed to you!let the man live and I hope God will grant His mercies so he gets beta..we shall see who is who..
Namakando back in Mongu from State House meeting unable to walk, talk
By Mwala Kalaluka
Tue 24 Nov. 2009, 04:00 CAT [75 Reads, 0 Comment(s)] Text size Print
MONGU has been engulfed in suspicion after chairman for the dissolved Western Province MMD committee Simasiku Namakando arrived in Mongu, unable to walk and talk, from his ‘reconciliatory’ meeting with President Rupiah Banda at State House.
Another member of the dissolved ruling party executive committee, Kenneth Musangu has been confined at home after he suffered a stomach upset and a persistent headache upon arrival in Mongu from Lusaka.
Musangu, who was the provincial youth chairman in the dissolved committee, said Namakando stopped talking and became seriously ill en route to Mongu from Lusaka on a State House vehicle last Sunday and was rushed to Lewanika General Hospital upon arrival.
Musangu said the group left Lusaka for Mongu at around 10:00 hours and arrived in Mongu after 15:00 hours.
“Along the way the chairman became seriously sick and he stopped talking and was not even walking. When we arrived he was just taken to Lewanika,” Musangu said. “As for me I am experiencing stomach pains and a headache and I am actually coming from the clinic. I have not even gone to the hospital to see the chairman Namakando. I hear that he is a little better but he is not talking.”
Another Mongu resident who preferred to remain anonymous said several Mongu residents went to Lewanika General Hospital to see Namakando yesterday morning.
“People were suspecting as to what could have happened after the reconciliation,” the source said. “Mr Namakando is not walking and he is not talking. He is on a drip.”
A person who answered Namakando’s mobile phone confirmed yesterday morning that Namakando was unable to talk and was sleeping.
Musangu said it was very hard to comprehend the sudden illnesses.
“It is not easy to know what is happening. You see Honourable Michael Mabenga was trying to attack us. He said ‘your reconciliation with the President, I will not recognise it…He said he was the boss and that he can’t reconcile with us and Namakando. He phoned me yesterday Sunday at 08:16 when I was still in Lusaka at Capital Hotel,” Musangu said. “Even in the vehicle from State House, the chairman, has not spoken from Lusaka up to now.”
Commenting on Namakando’s sudden illness and reconciliation with President Banda, Lukulu East ULP member of parliament Batuke Imenda said he hoped and prayed that there was no foul play behind Namakando’s indisposition.
“We hope it is not foul play. Let us just hope and pray that it is just a minor natural illness,” Imenda said. “In the past, we have seen reconciliations coming into disasters such as the Baldwin Nkumbula reconciliation. We hope it will not end up like we have seen in the past.”
Imenda described the reconciliation between Namakando and President Banda as a desperate attempt by President Banda to avoid losing grip on Western Province’s political landscape.
“Basically, it was an MMD struggle. There was actually some infighting within the MMD,” Imenda said.
He said Namakando took a very bold and principled stand on the whole issue of the MMD convention and the stalled development projects in the province.
“If there is a change of heart from Mr Rupiah Banda arising from his differences with Mr Namakando and now that we are going to be allocated something, maybe the people will be waiting to see the development, which is being offered,” he said. “When you read the President’s speech, you realise that almost all provinces have been allocated huge amounts on tarring roads. The only province that has not been given anything is only Western Province.”
Imenda said until the people of Western Province see concrete provision of the much-needed road infrastructure in Western Province, the reconciliation would amount to nothing.
Imenda said for as long as the MMD did not give a definite way forward on the holding of its party convention, the reconciliation would be meaningless.
“If they do not go to the convention, the issue of the reconciliation does not hold water,” said Imenda.
A member of the Barotse royal family Vivian Mubukwanu asked whether Namakando and his team had consulted the people of Western Province before they reconciled with President Banda, considering the bad manner he treated them.
“What has changed with Rupiah Banda overnight that they have reconciled with him?” asked Mubukwanu.
We hope it is not foul play. Let us just hope and pray that it is just a minor natural illness,” Imenda said. “In the past, we have seen reconciliations coming into disasters such as the Baldwin Nkumbula reconciliation. We hope it will not end up like we have seen in the past.” This part is juicy, so that is what happened to Nkumbula. Sad development!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reconcilliations in Politics in Zambia have bad omens, look at SATA after reconcilling with Mwanawasa, what happened we lost our beloved president, now this namakando, how all of a sudden he cant talk walk etc masangalatoni!!!!!!!!
Panyo! Ndiwe panyo zoona? olo ndiwe munthu? You have said it all very well and in good perspective, and intellectual. No one can thing ndiwe PANYO! Wanvela Panyo ka? We need such mature contributions from bloggers. Good show Panyo.
They were just eating forgetting they are in enemy’s territory worse of all eating food bought and cooked by someone who’s ready to do anything for 2011. I hear Katele is also in UTH, God help him.
sounds to me like the editor is trying to scandalise the parties to the ‘reconciliation.’ strokes can happen to any male above forty easily. boy have we become one petty nation!
The “meeting” was from 9.30am to 5pm which is unusually long, go figure what Nyamasoya gave them to eat and drink. Can’t rule out the carcas of the infamous monkey!!
ba shushushu have done it again, 007 style. mwana wa chi lozi ba mu loza!
In hindsight, it was probably unwise for Namakando to go in there.
Wooo thats Bad guys….if indeed it is a foul play then only God will sot out this chap who acted lik that…i just hope our politics dosent take this kind of direction otherwise we are back to nothing…..our friends started from war kind of civilizationand now developing and doing things the normal way…we started from almost the normal way as we have never really been to war like our friends around us in SADC and now it looks like we are going that direction war related kind…its very sad guys
This is pure ghetto tabloid journalism of the untrained losers embattled in their cause.They vested so much in imaginary hatred only to be perplexed with the sagacity of a seasoned Zambian top Diplomat His Excellency RB’s conflict manaement skills.Tabloids use blantant lies,insults and street kid type of subversive journalism,but a well learned veteran diplomat uses the power of dispute resolutions and conflict management skills that shaped his diplomacy.How can one be poisoned from a buffett where everyone is eating from? Isn’t this failed subversive reasoning of embattled Mmembe? How does one poison a person he has just reconcilled? No wonder the same Mmembe started insulting RB when he vowed that as a God fearing President, he will never commute any Zambian convict to death.RB testifies christ while Mmembe is an ethiest who hates and has been fighting the church of christ with its power of foriveness.
This is pure ghetto tabloid journalism of the untrained losers embattled in their cause. They vested so much in imaginary hatred only to be perplexed with the sagacity of a seasoned Zambian top Diplomat His Excellency RB’s conflict management skills. Tabloids use blatant lies, insults and street kid type of subversive journalism, but a well learned veteran diplomat uses the power of dispute resolutions and conflict management skills that shaped his diplomacy. How can one be poisoned from a buffet where everyone is eating from? Isn’t this failed subversive reasoning of embattled Mmembe?
Mmembe’s reasoning defies logic. How does one poison a person he has just reconciled? No wonder the same Mmembe started insulting RB when he vowed that as a God fearing President, he will never commute any Zambian convict to death. RB testifies Christ while Mmembe is an atheist who hates and has been fighting the church of Christ with its power of forgiveness.
Veteran, President Banda was never a trained Diplomat; he was posted to foreign missions on account of his political affiliation to UNIP. We are fed up of such exaggerated praise of an inept president. Even his Economics degree is on paper only; many of the economic theories we are currently applying in real life were just getting introduced when he obtained the degree over 45 years ago. With the passage of time, the little Economics he learnt no longer exist in his head. Trust me, knowledge evaporates from one’s head within a very short period of time. Banda today is as ignorant about economic issues as someone who never attended university.
Imfumu 1 learn to respect other peoples profession. Once someone is trained as an economist from formal schools economic knowledge can never evaporate as u put it, just like u are a mfumu, should we say ur knowledge as a chief will evaporate after u leave office, just appreciate RB has a nice CV that all zambians are proud for as our president even we face a foreigner who knows little about Zambia, i would be proud to mention his CV, 10years ago, we had Kafupi as President, What CV did we speak about him? U are free to evaluate his Performance separate from technical qualifications.
Charles Kafumbo and Edwin Sakala are a menace in the political arena and deserve no mercy as they are conmen bent on reaping where they did not sow
Edwin is the brains behind Kafumbo’s arrogance and disregard for authority
The man was fired a long time ago from NDP why insist tht he is still SG?
If he is marketable why not join MMD or PF UPND PACT?
He can not continue to disregard president Mwanza who has helped him politically and financially since the party was formed in 1991
If he is man enough let him form his own political party or take NDP to court
These two are wolves in sheep’s clothing_ZCID beware of the conmen
They are interested in reaping where they did not SOW
Nyele,
Tell Veteran / Senior Citizen; he is the one who likes pointing out Banda’s qualifications. I was simply responding to his comments, since he brought up the issue of Banda’s qualifications.