Livingstone Hospital owner deported as Egpyt fumes
Shafik Mohammed, the owner of a famous private hospital in Livingstone has been deported to Egypt because his wife refused to join the ruling PF.
And latest information indicte that the Egyption government is upset by the deportation of Dr. Mohammed for no valid reason. Further information shows that the Egyption ambassador in Zambia tried to intervene and prevent the deportation but Zambian authourites acted fast to avoid the Egptian envoy.
Dr Mohammed owns Shafik hospital in Livingstone but has been deported from Ndola.
He was bundled on Flight SA97 to Cairo via Johannesburg. The plane left Ndola for Johannesburg at 14: 25 hours Zambian time. From Johannesburg he will fly to Kenya then Cairo.
He was arrested at his hopital on Monday and was not allowed to pick anything apart from his reading glasses. He is said to have left a lot of cash in the hospital.
After been picked, he was driven to Lusaka but when the Egyptian ambassador phoned the ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Zambian officials decided to drive Dr Mohamed to Ndola and deport him very fast.
Shafik is one of the biggest hospitals in Livingstone. It is near Chanda Mali market.
His wife grace Shafik was mayor of Livingstone under MMD. After the 2011 polls, Grace lost and resigned from active politics. But Sylivia Masebo has been pressuring her to join PF and stand as its parlaimentary candidate. She refused.
The PF then told her husband to persuade her or be deported.
The Watchdog is reliably informed that the minister of Foreign in Egpyt phoned the officials at the Zambian ministry to complain of this harassment.
The Egpytion minister is said to have asked why Zambia is harassing Egyptions when Zambian soldiers are currently being trained for free in that country.
A letter of protest from Egypt is currently being processed according to well informed sources.
Dr Mohammed has been in Zambia for 22 years and first came under a government project where he was working for the government for seven years.
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Lawrence Evans, PF LIVINGSTONE candidate, stop sending your campaign sms to my fucking phone! It’s very annoying & I wonder where did you get my number from. I never signed up to get your newsletter or campaign updates!!!! It’s invasion of my privacy!! I hope you won’t win! Unless you promise to bring Dr. Shafik back to Livingstone within 3 months after you take office, then I will make sure EVERY SINGLE of my FRIENDS will NOT vote for you!!!!
Liz Mwanza - February 21, 2013
01:03
He was my doctor and his hospital is more reliable than the government one(L/stone G. Hospital).Masebo and Maliteta you are busy bringing confusion in Livingstone,whilst your constituencies are in dilapited state.Go back to chongwe and kafue to sort out problems.Livingstone is more developed than your constituences.Whom are you cheating here?We dont want to continue recieving your messeges for compaigning your candidate,airtel watchout!
Joseph - February 20, 2013
22:52
Same thing happened to the young Ethiopian entrepreneur Eyob Asemie in Lesotho.
Shame on Africa.
Watchdog Lesotho - February 20, 2013
22:47
What??? Dr. Shafik gone, now who is gonna handle my childbirth? Oh God, those people that deported him do not understand what we women undergo in those so called govt hsptls. Jesus, please intervene.
Nandi - February 20, 2013
13:17
This is the more reason we need a young and vibrant President. One who is educated. Not ba Sata, villager and primitive for life.
Woman President - February 20, 2013
12:25
Chanda Chimba warned you
Mwana - February 20, 2013
10:32
Deportation is a drastic and draconian measure and devastating for those affected. It is a big transgression of several human rights and therefore must be used cautiously and only when necessary. By using it indiscriminately, one merely draws the line deeper between “foreigners” and Zamnbians, leading to lack of integration and polarisation, mistrust on both sides, and “foreigners” retreating in the laager. Is that constructive or do we want an integrated society where worthy foreigners are free to contribute and integrate and become a meaningful member of Zambian society? It is prescribed in Zambian law AFTER a person has served a sentence for a crime of which they have been convicted – which means the law has taken its course through a court of law, the person has (ideally) been accorded the right to a fair trial etc so there is just cause to remove them from Zambia. So if a business person has not abided by the law, then let the law take its course – either enforce the labour laws or try the person for an offence or enforce the environmental laws or whatever. If the government is unwilling or incapable of enforcing its law, how is it going to deal with rogue Zambian employers or business persons because it cannot deport them? Far better the government focus on enforcement of ALL laws across the board, without fear or favour, because there are equally “bad” Zambian business people/employers/whatever out there.
sam chungu - February 20, 2013
08:42
That’s what happens when you have an idiot for President!!
Abena Zed - February 20, 2013
08:31
Grace is so much Zambian and what beats me is that you are sending people away on non developmental issues that is very useless of you pf CNP we expect you to support such people, and can anyone educate me on this one if Zambian marries a foreigner what happens dont they earn their citizenship by virtue of that, ala zambia twalachula kuli aba bamukukulu ba pf
WERUZANI - February 20, 2013
08:20
the perfect fools, masebo is like a hungry world dog, whatever she touches is destroyed. Shame on the pf.
silver - February 20, 2013
07:57
Sad story indeed. What I know is that USA was developed by foreigners.
Zambiam - February 20, 2013
07:48
shafick was my docter, is that how we are going to repay him for what he has done for zambia
Poor citizen - February 20, 2013
07:26
Is this what it means to be man of action?Deportations were rarely heard off in previous govts.Is this what rule of law means?What a timing, during a bye-election.Bo Grace we are with you in spirit.Amutiye my sr.distance is not a barrier, I will find means to get in touch with you.Be strong, for you are a seasoned catholic/muslim.All will be well,do not despair.
Nasilele - February 20, 2013
04:56
Why deport someone for no good reason, you cant deport someone for refusing to join yo party, remember there is freedom of asociation you choose where you want to belong. again human rights are being abused, these paya farmers are destroying our good image on the international community. Come 2016 we want young people to run this country old and recycled politicians who jump from this party to the other have lamentably failed.
wilson mozah - February 20, 2013
04:27
Doing what they know BEST! Like us,huaxiachunlei,search on goole,you know.
Chunlei - February 20, 2013
02:46
This development is really embarassing for zambia.we can turn a blind eye to deportations of business men but deporting a doctor is a whole diiferent thing.this man did a service for the country saving lives we are already short on doctors as it is.secondly his wife has a right to support any political party so I don’t know why some dunb and narrow minded people are happy with this develpoment.and honestly I’m tired of some zambian people blaming everything wrong in this country on expatriates.where would zambia as a nation be without foreignersGET REAL people.I’m tired of everyone putting the blame on them.- dnt think they treat us like this in their countries
patriot M - February 19, 2013
23:06
you are rit,its embarasing,but why cant people think BIG,anyway God can not forsake the doc n hes wife,let watch n see while we are praying for things to be fine,because ive got a bad feeling about this,it can cause war between zambia n egyptians.
v.s - February 20, 2013
08:35
Imwe ba Pompwe shame to you, we cannot all manage to go and get special treatment from India like that recycled bin, we want that Egpytian doctor back, Your so called goverment hospitals do not have medicines except for PF Cadres and the family tree.the money is used just for By Elections and buying off oppostion Mps SHAME SHAME BA KABWA!
PLS ITS NOT TOO LATE GO BACK TO SCHOOL SHIT!
moore - February 19, 2013
22:03
I can smell the work of Christine Kaseba here, she generally hates most foreigners and especially doctors. This lady was going out of her way making life difficults for them and now just gives instructions to those pathetic immigration chaps. Very backward and primitive, thats whom you have as first lady.
Intelligence officer - February 19, 2013
21:55
Its only grade ones and grade sevens who can join patrotic fools, but people who are eligtened can not be party of this smelling Pf. people like HH got his wealth using his brains and knowledge he acquired at the highest learning institution not by broad day light stealing like the PF Fools.
its not too late we can enrol you for grade one mwe ba KAPIKA
Shau up and rearange your skelotons. Viva HH
moore - February 19, 2013
21:54
Very sad indeed.everyone has the to belong or not to a political party of their choice.why forcing them to join a one
term pig.
eustace mj kiyeya - February 19, 2013
21:31
You people I have mercy on others, dont make the country to become like Zimbabwe remember how that country started chasing out people who where helping the country look at the country became. Poor because of being idiots
Matildah muchindu - February 19, 2013
21:23
I can see in our country too much idiots, remember how Zimbabwe country started; just like this sending away achieved people. Omg if this continue zambia is in shit trust me so please stop sending deporting people who are there to help our country. That’s being unfair.
Matildah muchindu - February 19, 2013
21:20
I can see in our country too much idiots, remember how Zimbabwe country started; just like this sending away achieved people. Omg if this continue zambia is in shit trust me so please stop sending deporting people who are there to help our country.
Mwemba - February 19, 2013
21:15
Job well done BA PF, they are egyptians, so why the wife involved herself in our internal politics as MAYOR? so it means even if she is not in active politics she has been supporting some parties secretly.
malinso - February 19, 2013
20:32
Stop smoking what you are smoking. She is Zambian, she is a free person, already that gives her to support whom she wants a tree,cow,goat,her husband is up to her as long as national security isn’t disturbed get educated please do us a favour thanks in advance.
Zambian with knowledge&I can reason sapere aude! - February 19, 2013
20:42
Iwe Malinson, let it come to your attention that this Doctor’s wife is pure Zambian. Open your mouth when you have facts
Kangwa - February 19, 2013
21:25
Wake up baba! The wife is a Zambian. Why shouldn’t she be involved in Zambian politics?
Mubanga - February 19, 2013
21:28
Man am afraid you have no data to base ur arguments on and i suppose u dig a bit Deeper b4 making a baseless comment, Mrs shafik is indigenous
Man M - February 19, 2013
22:17
AM SURE THE DEVIL IS SO PLEASED IN YOU. THE WIFE IS A ZAMBIAN CITIZEN and its better not to indiscriminately share your ignorance and hate for those that don’t know how to steal or how to demean others. Please SHUT UP!!!!
Dr. Savimbi - February 19, 2013
22:55
wake up n grow up.
v.s - February 20, 2013
08:46
Malinso, you’re an idiot, a dumb fuck moron, uneducated dimwit. The wife was the MAYOR of Livingstone, that means she’s a Zambian, under the LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA, regardless of her country of origin, which in this case, she is from Zambia. If she’s not active in politics for her party or other parties, doesn’t mean that she can not support other party(s) other than the ruling party, secretly or openly. It’s about DEMOCRACY!
Liz Mwanza - February 21, 2013
00:54
One day Zambians understand that we shall be people of shame because of poor failures (PF)of this government. Why doing what they are doing? Imagine even going to an extent of saling someone to the public and the whole world to know that HH is a rich man. There is something wrong in this governance. Please all the MPs in opposition work hard to put the Old man to task as what Mulusa has already talked about. We are in shambles as at now.
Seleni - February 19, 2013
20:29
Wena mufana Waga? stop logging in if you are not interested with the real stories of this site. You are simply a pf cadre. Viva watchdog.
Narep - February 19, 2013
20:25
Sad story, pliz God intervein we love our noble country but selfishness has of our leaders has gone into extremes to an extent of imagine deport an inoccent people.
Hachoose - February 19, 2013
20:07
This site is full of lies. I rarely read staff from this site. Its tonga site
Waga - February 19, 2013
20:05
You are hopeless, give us the true picture yourself. This site is a reliable source of info. U wll see a complaint letter from Egypt on this same site. Viva ZWD.
shico - February 19, 2013
20:15
But what are you doing here you idiot?
Besa - February 19, 2013
21:00
So you must be one of the tongas otherwise why would you be on a site restricted to them
Kays - February 19, 2013
21:06
Hahahahaha..Very dull fellow! What is your point really? If you rarely read staff on this site why do you feel it is full of lies? You always visit this site but you feel intimidated. We are well informed my dear and will not back down! Your party has totally failed!
Mubanga - February 19, 2013
21:30
Waga the best is to keep quiet. There are times I have wondered about the spellings, grammar etc on this site. What I mostly go for is the content.In most cases, what comes out on this site has a greater degree of truth. To be honet, this site has become number one in terms of news. They may not be 100 percent correct, but they are the best as at now.
bk - February 20, 2013
06:09
one wonders why sata is so desparate for nothing.any way time will tell as they say “you can not shirt on the road and expect no flies on your return” pf must know that
zingalume - February 19, 2013
20:04
Observation; PF™has continued to do devastating things against zambia,such baseless deportations will scare away potential investors frm othr countries, fellow zambians let’s watch
njinga - February 20, 2013
05:49
It’s odd, just last night I was sharing with some friends that there is an excellent doctor in Livingstone (Dr Shafiq) whom I intended to check on during this December holidays. I have considerable respect for him and his medical assistance to my son who was chronically ill then. I hope the government can be magnanimous enough to disclose the crime that warranted such a barbaric display of power on a defenseless individual. But knowing politricks, the Hon Minister will simply quip, “the reasons are classified and therefore cannot be disclosed!”……what goes around comes back again, no? Never a dull day with our current men and women in ‘power’!
Charles Zulu - February 19, 2013
20:01
Hope grogan for zambeef will be next to be deported. The fellow is busy enslaving workers. Has anyone visited chisamba? People start work at 02 hrs and knock off as late as 16 hrs without overtime. I think grogan is a type worth deporting.
actual - February 19, 2013
19:57
Hold it, don’t you know about shift work. Are these people not paid for their work? Let us be serious and not Lazing around. Just like Sata some people believe stealing is the only way to get rich. Out in the developed countries some people work for longer hours to make ends meet.
sanders - February 19, 2013
23:30
Sanders, there is no overtime for extra hours. Pliz take time to pass thru and inyterview a few.
actual - February 20, 2013
03:26
Be reasonble u chap! it you hav failed to work for him then resign, dont u think deporting him will worsen yo situation?
njinga - February 20, 2013
05:59
Someone in this govt has rabbies we should pray that TB joshua’s prophecy comes to pass soon
cry mr beloved zed - February 19, 2013
19:51
The World is watching all the goings on…time of reckoning will come. Worry not.
Freelance Politician - February 19, 2013
19:45
I hope this is not true
Jane - February 19, 2013
19:43
If they can’t deport you they will Kill you.Governme the Kolwestans in league with nchelelnulas form here and there
Zed Genius - February 19, 2013
19:14
I am not surprised because the story is similar to how the Rwandan priest was deported…however, Sata being catholic later rescinded his decision….I just wonder whether we will have democratic elections in 2016…I am worried of the fact that our democracy is slowly sinking with the boat..!
Mule - February 19, 2013
18:41
What a shame! These people are really idiots, how do you deport a person who is saving lives? Zambia is really in shiit!
Blago - February 19, 2013
18:37
WHY PA MAFI CAN DEPORT HIM.THIS GOVERNMENT HAS GONE TO THE DOGS.
AND THEY ARE REALLY DOGS WHICH DON’T THINK HOW CAN THEY THE BIG MAN?
THAT IS MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHAFIK MUHAMAD - February 19, 2013
18:23
Let’s be honest we are all zambians but we have so much hate and anger for each other. We are well exposed but don’t develop because we are quick to talk and not act upon facts. The stories on this site are interesting to read but the majority of bloggers are pissed of opposition. I hate politics but one thing I know the energy u send out is the same energy u get. Concerned Zambian
raydog - February 19, 2013
18:16
At this pace, Zambia will become the next Zimbabwe. People need to learn to fight for their freedom and stand up against tyranny. It only gets harder the long one waits. What Zambia seems to be missing is a Political party that actually has the peoples interest at heart and an actual workable plan that will lead Zambia to become the successful nation it could be and should be.
wayne - February 19, 2013
18:10
“Egyptian Embassy Fumes”. so why don’t Zambian Embassies protect us the way some countries do for their citizens? I have seen some Zambian Embassy staff, including Ambassadors trying to sacrifice their fellow Zambians. Kalijo.
observer - February 19, 2013
17:58