Mulenga was one of the many family and government officials that profusely denied speculation of the President’s illness.
Mulenga said his father died of a heart attack and not poisoning as some people were speculating.
“I was in London the time we took the president for checkups and I am
fully aware of all the tests that were done on him, the scanning and
different checkups,” Mulenga, who is also Lusaka mayor, said.
“The indications were that he may have suffered another heart attack
and in his weakened state, he was not in a position to fight it.”
He added that his father’s deteriorating health which Zambians had
fully witnessed, was a clear indication that his health had failed him.
“Don’t forget that he suffered a heart attack in 2008 and he was not a
young man. We get young people dropping dead all the time but do we say
they were all poisoned? People have died before,” Mulenga added.
He wondered why people did not raise death poisoning issues when Levy Mwanawasa died as a sitting head of state.
“Mwanawasa was much younger than my father when he died. So why were we not speculating about his death?” Mulenga wondered.
“President Sata was not poisoned, the president was not very well, he
suffered a minor crisis when he was still unwell but…it ended up taking
his life. This cartel term is the term I am not comfortable with and
for me, it’s neither here nor there. Wynter Kabimba is an elder brother,
he is somebody I have known because he is among people that have always
been around my father. So the president was unwell and I think we saw
that in his deteriorating health when in his weakness he addressed
Parliament.”
Mulenga becomes the first official to talk directly about whgat could
have claimed the life of Micheal Chilufya Sata – the late fifth
Republican president. (CREDIT: ZAMBIA REPORTS)
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