29/05/2014
President Michael Sata says he is working,
he’s fit, he’s fine and has not been evacuated.
In a phone call to The Post yesterday
morning, President Sata said reports that he
was unwell and had been evacuated for
treatment outside Zambia were false.
“They are saying I have been evacuated,
evacuated to where?” he asked.
“The opposition even wants to move a
motion that they want a medical report
before Parliament. We are ready for them.”
President Sata told The Post that he was
working normally.
“I’m fit, very fit. I’m very well,” he said.
“You know the nature of the office I’m in. I
don’t know the motive of the opposition.”
Opposition MMD president Nevers Mumba
on Monday said there were signs that the
President was not well.
“Listen, if these signs are signs that the
President is not feeling well, all of us stand
with him and sympathise with him, but they
should not make him do things that are
going to make him worse. Zambian people
do understand in terms of sickness that they
would go ahead and allow the President to
take leave until he recovers. They must not
push him to do things that are going to
aggravate his situation,” Mumba said.
“I think that PF now has to face reality; is
the President capable of carrying on or not?
This is not a situation where you have
something against the President, I am just
asking a very noble question. Are these
people (PF) trying to force the President to
do things that he cannot physically afford to
do? He is a person with a family and these
questions should be answered and the
responsibility lies in the hands of the
Patriotic Front and the family, to be able to
give guidance so that Zambians can have a
President speaking for them on these
important days and be able to represent them
in other parts of the world.
