Late Home Affairs deputy minister Misheck Bonshe’s widow, Regina has said she is deeply hurt by people who are alleging that the government neglected her husband at the time he was ill, in order to gain political mileage.
Mrs Bonshe said her family received support from the government and the MMD during her husband’s illness. She said her late husband should be left to rest in peace. She dismissed assertions that the government condemned and neglected her husband at the time he was hospitalised at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka.
“Politicians using the name of my late husband should stop because he had no problems with the government. If anything the government representatives were always there to support us. They were always there both emotionally and spiritually. So it is unfair for some politicians to use his name for their selfish gains without considering our feelings,” she said.
She said in an interview in Lusaka that she was hurt and saddened by some people who were using the name of her late husband to gain political support. Mrs Bonshe said she was still mourning her husband and expected people to respect her and the children’s feelings during the trying period. She said it was unfair to her and the children for politicians to use Mr Bonshe’s death to scandalise the government.
Mrs Bonshe said although she had tried to ignore the media comments from some politicians about the death of her husband, the persistence forced her to speak out and tell the nation the truth.
“When he was sick the MMD leadership and ministers, especially Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani and his deputy, Mr David Phiri were always at hand visiting my husband and this cannot be ignored,” she said.
She explained that from the time her husband was buried in Mufumbwe, only ministers’ spouses and MMD party women had continued to visit her at her home.
“I want to take this opportunity to inform the nation that my husband was a Christian and a peaceful man. His vision was to see a peaceful and united Zambia and I don’t think if he was alive he would like his name to be drawn in the mud,” she said. She said Mr Bonshe had so much confidence in the MMD leadership and President Rupiah Banda and did not have any problem with the government, contrary to media reports.
In the last edition of the Sunday Post, the brother of Mr Bonshe was reported to have said he only saw leaders of opposition parties at the time Mr Bonshe was hospitalised in UTH and that there was no Cabinet minister who visited the late deputy minister in hospital.
He was also quoted as having said the government had condemned Mr Bonshe to death.
Health Minister Kapembwa Simbao has also expressed shock and disappointment over the allegations, describing the reports as a political gimmick aimed at tarnishing the image of the government.
Mr Simbao said having visited Mr Bonshe five times at UTH, he was surprised that some people were claiming that Cabinet ministers never visited him.
He advised politicians not to politicise Mr Bonshe’s death.
[Times of Zambia]
The Post at it again!
Brown envelope MAMA! Atase did i even read the source,Times of Zambia~X(~X(~X(~X(
They are not only amoral but hollow dissemblers of a leaf in the wind, they will keep hallucinating in vanity. Look at how unpatriotic anti people, anti national development, and and anti-unity they are. Now they are publicly crying over RB’s spirited prodevelopment leadership on national infrastructure development. They are opposing national road network development.What kind of leaders are they that oppose national development, investment and social harmony in preference for political acrimony? They take pleasure in underdevelopment and hate an action oriented leadership that takes people’s calls for national developmental at heart.
Seems everything in zambia is politics,Death,Football,Floods…….its becoming very difficulty to know who is lying and telling the truth,who is genuine and not genuine everyone seems to concerned about other people’s wellfare even when they are not …politics
The waffle the loudest but have never thought of standing with the widow and orphans that need help now than the dead.The children are looking for an answer to the mystery of death and their future not this callous opportunism devoid of moral campus.The bible says blessed are those who take care of orphans and widows. It does not put that special blessing on callous opportunism that distances itself from those in mourning.Cursed is this fragile pact of 2 moraless opportunist.
They waffle the loudest but have never thought of standing with the widow and orphans that need help now than the dead.
Is the late Bonshe’s brother a politician to gain any political mileage?
He is the one who came out with that statement about Bonshe being neglected,unless he is pursuing a political career,he is the one who is politicizing this issue,he is the one dragging his brothers name in the political mudness.This issue is between Bonshe’s brother,the family and the government who didnt do much to evacuate the late Bonshe,its not about visiting,emotional or spiritual support.Dickson Jere’s handwritting is all-over this statement
The moment I saw the source of the story, I did not read it I just knew that MMD brown envelopes at it again. Madam, we do not want to hear you say “no I was misled by MMD.” How many deputy ministers have you seen die without being flown outside for treatment on our money??? Only your husband for your info.
#2 Sometimes you should think about what you are saying. Who knows better the situation that actually occurred you or the widow? Are you saying that this woman would sell the memory of her husband just for money? You are actually making aspersions on this woman character as you are saying that she would tarnish the memory of her late husband for money. What evidence do you have that the govt abandoned the late minister and what evidence do you have to show that the widow has been paid?
I have found this whle situation quite disturbing
Mama nowadays everything is political, like it or not. look at the late Levy mwanawasa, every politician wants to use his name as if Levy was an angel.
if you wer to die today, it will be political. Politician who never knew you will talk about you.
Bonshe actually died in Nigeria where he had gone for prayers. he was not hospitalisd at the time. It is sad and a clear indication of our level of politics how it has been politicised,. Wanzelu #2 and Kay # 8, even if you hate MMD, . dont drop to such a low level and simply agree with anything aginst MMD
Red Card -Smooth criminal. surely does anything that seems to agree with the government have to be dickson. Its like those MMD cadres who want to blame the opposition for the floods in Kanyama. Its the same thinking
The Brother to Mr.Bonshe is UPND and want to use this as a tool to Defeat Mr.Muzungu who is his own relative.it’s a shame.Mr.Muzungu when he was MP ,he helped everyone in So many ways.
Mr.Bonshe is one one of the few Kaondes betraying his own Brother Mulondwe Muzungu from the Bena Ng’onyi Clan which is very rare and he is selling our Land to the Chokwes,will see if Kamondo will look at him if he wins.It is impossible .Big Man wakeup don’t sell our authourity to a foreigner.
Twimi popwelapo ,your has left a big name in Mufumbwe which you should uphold all the time.
He is my relative as well but he seem to be blinded by the Chikwes.
DK muntu, you have attributed it all to politics and brought a tribal element. What if this is just differing opinions
It was the same when Kanyama PF MP Henry Mtonga died. The MMD even paraded his family at a rally where the late’s daughter was made to denounce Mr. Sata and his PF. The rest is HISTORY.
Colon Cancer can be cured if detected early. This is a good reason to fly to RSA for check up and treatment. But if the treatment fails to work, you will be sent back home to die in UTH. But when it comes to HIV infection and AIDS, how is sending someone to RSA going to cure that? Sometimes its better to just keep quiet when you dont know what people are suffering from. After all, statistics show that more than half of the bloggers here are more than likely to be HIV positive. You should be rushing to Kalingalinga Clinic to get registered and start receiving ARV’s. Flying you to SA is a waste of time and resources!
DK muntu, you ve erally brought out a tribalist side to you blog yourself – which is quite sad.
Anyway, i thin its time our politicians learnt to respect the dead and leave them out of their mudslinging which they do only for their own selfish goals.
However, it should be noted that the MMD themselves are not immune to this ’cause one RB won his election to satate house by saying he would carry on with the legacy of LPM. What are we seeing now?
Regina can not condemn government because her late husband’s benefits could delay to come out. She will try by all means to say good things about the government while in actual sense very little attention was given to her late husband. Just imagine how long was the late being in hospital without evacuated to advanced hospitals if they really wanted him to be ill free. He was in UTH for months and months till himself thought of seeing T B Joshua in Nigeria. So what can this woman tell us. Just wait they will dump you immediately after the by-elections and forget about you dear. Do not play with government machineries. This time they try to come closer thinking that they are good sympathizers with crocodile tears while deep down their hearts are evils.
Madam say the truth and set u free.
While I deeply sympathise with the widow it seems the norm nowadays that every widow of a deceased prominent politician cries foul about ‘the opposition POLITICISING MY HUSBANDS DEATH’.
Please give us a break, a senior politician is a public figure and therefore when they die everyone mourns them including the opposition and I believe no one does it to gain political advantage. I hope the late Haswell Mwale’s widow will maintain her dignity and avoid jumping on the bandwagon.
#17, RB is the most important part of Levy’s legacy. Cant you see? After Levy had a stroke, he picked RB to be his VP. He knew that if another stroke hits him, RB will take over and viola, RB took over. So we can only conclude that Levy wanted RB to take over from him. This might have been the only way for him to settle issues within the party that he could not settle. RB is Levy’s legacy! Similarly, Levy is FTJ’s legacy!
yangu tata…bushe ninshi kanshi pa zed. Uwatufulamina alifwa kwena:o
#18, why cant it just be that she is telling the truth? Where you there when Bonshe was in hospital? Well she was and she is giving an account of the things government had done for him. Where was HH, Sata and Bonshe’s brother when the late was in hospital? Today they want to talk when they never even took a box of biscuits for the guy when in hospital. This is called politicizing things! This is what she is complaining about. Why cant you see this? Is it because you hate MMD & RB with passion like how Lucifer hates Jesus? Well, Jesus loves everyone! It is Godly to love!
#18 you were not there so you can only speculate . Dont always have a biased opinion based on political preference. You have brought the elements of benefits just to insist that he was poorly treated, no be fair. You do not know what happened.
#19, but where was the ‘mourning opposition’ when Bonshe was ill? Where was HH’s & GBM’s big money to help Bonshe when he was alive? If they so loved him, why did they ignore his illness until today? These are people who claim K2.4 billion is just petty cash to them. But they couldn’t even take out a ka K100 million to send to RSA. Instead he had to go to Nigeria to seek help from a false prophet. By the way, government facilitated this trip for him where the opposition just ignored. It is wrong to politicize death just because you want to remove MMD. Jesus would never do this!
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A COUNTRY WHERE PEOPLE LIKE MONEY LIKE ZAMBIA WHETHER ABAKULU NANGU ABAICE. AM A ZAMBIAN THE COUNTRY IAM NOW, THIS OTHER DAY I WENT SHOPING AND A SHOP WORKER ATENDED TO ME VERY WELL SO, HAVING A ZAMBIAN MENTALITY I DECIDED TO GIVE HIM CHANGE AND TO SHAME ME HE REFUSED AND SAID NO MADAME YOU DON’T HAVE TO GIVE ME ANY THING IAM ONLY DOING MY WORK THAT IAM PAID FOR.
You chaps don’t vilify the opposition. People like Mulenga Tembo want GBM and other wealthy characters to use their own money to take Chief Sailunga to SA or India for specialist treatment. For your information chief Sailunga has been discharged from UTH but he is critical condition. Government even flew him back to North Western province. Can anyone honestly say this govt cares? When people like Sata stand up and show sympathy for the chief you scandalise his persona! be real and grow up.
About Bonshe, George Mpombo aptly put it. He was neglected by RB, full-stop. Imagine when he fell seriously ill in Swaziland. No directive to take him to hospital in SA. He remained in UTH’s intensive care unit for a long time. Government and RB was aware, have you ever heard that RB visited Bobshe…
In Zambia everything is political. RB during his first speech in parley said his govt will focus on infrastructure development, tourism, agriculture, and manufacturing thru diversifition. Now that the govt got a concessional loan (1percent) from china and have started working it is a problem. RB keep on working. Let empty tins do the talking.
modern widows , already she is even giving interviews.mama how much have they promised you, and is this money going to bring back your husband ? think woman. why did your husband die in Nigeria and was he in a hospital or did the government take him there ?this is your husband my sister.you late him rest in peace .
The passing of Bonshe iz very sad and may the good Lord Jehova God Almigty sooth and strengthen the family. It iz unfortunate to subject Mrs Bonshe to unnecessary explanationz, which she doezn’t owe anybody, when she should be mourning.
#13 DKmuntu or whatever you call yourself i am very dissapointed with your tribal sentiments. And when did chokwes become foreigners? So in this era and age you still want to stick to tribal politics and not looking at the calibre of the person! Its a big shame on you bro. Then if chokwes are foreigners why did you allow them to settle there in the first place?????
i have a serious Girl Friend Im Marrying, she works for ZNBC I wont mention department. She has told me point blank that they should only cover the positive side of Govt., only or get fired. Countrymen, when did we hear any news condemning the Govt., inertia in any situation be it Floods, Cholera etc??? When. We apy K3,000 TV license but all we are shown on TV is Pro Govt., sentiments and ministers talking nonsense on TV???? This story is from Govt., controlled and “State” owned Time of Zambia. Atase, there is no Journalism at Times as it is heavily controlled.
This thing of GRZ flying so and so out for medical attention outside the countruy is what is bringing all this nonsense. PLEASE STOP IT. 😮 and put something more permant in place that will benefit every Zambian citizen[-(
TOO BAD.IT IS POLITICIANS PRACTICING PURE WITCHCRAFT. THEY WANT TO USE “THE LATE’S NAME AS UMUTI TO WIN AN ELECTION. SHAME, SHAME ON YOU BASATANIST’
NCHEKELEKO SYSTEM.I AGREE WITH 2 & 8.its brown envelopes.Nothing else .you cant cheat us .after all , you were just friends and the brother was his relative.Why are you arguing with your inlaw!TWALIMISHIBA.Bonshe must be turning in the grave at this ststement.He was NEGLECTED!Period.
Mrs Boshe should just be patient as she awaits to be paid the benefits instead of uku sabaila.
Whats the point of her rushing to the press when the complaint came from the late Boshe’s brother?
Does Mrs Boshe consider the late husband’s brother the opposition?
The other person to have talked about the negligence is George Mpombo who is an MMD member, so how does the opposition come in.
Bamayo, just grieve instead of dragging yourself in the mud otherwise you will not be spared.
Just receive what you can becouse after elections you will be forgoten.~X(~X(
Isambo lyamfwa – she is already chewing nicely.
All you characters commenting on this issue are just speculating. It is apointed for every man to die and there is nothing one can do about it. You may die today, tomorrow or the other day, but it does not change anything whivh God almighty has commisssioned.
Indeed, politics stinks now. anything that happens its the MMD!! You get drunk, it’s the MMD, yur wife commits adultery, it’s the Govt, there is too much rain, it’s the govt!! For goodness’ sake, get real
#24 and the likes muilibmwa shakalyelyele. Have you read HH or Sata names in the story? Its only the Boshes fighting. I do listen to ZNBC news very often and I never heard any of those names and now you want to sway these guys in the story F O O LIsh.
Dkmuntu #13 deserves to be condemned in the strongest terms for his tribalistic sentiments. Zambia will never be taken to a higher level if its affairs will continue to be placed on the shoulders of spent forces like Mulondwe Muzungu. Are Chokwes foreigners in Mufumbwe now that one of them is standing on a UPND ticket? Grow up man and put those primitive tribalistic sentiments behind you. Luckily, I hope, you do not represent the views of the Kaondes.
Mulenga Tembo### 24
Where was HH’s & GBM’s big money to help Bonshe when he was alive? Ulichipumbu have you ever heard King GBM talking about Ka BONSHE? Dont bring innocent pipo into your uncaring Gvt. Mind you GBM was not bosting but telling you the truth the man is RICH like me
Small heads have fallen for it. i wholeheartedly sympathize with the widow for the lose of her husband and father to her children but am sorry on this one she’s either lying or she was misquoted by useless robots at Times of Zambia/ DM. Her brother-in-law is on record to have said something completely opposite to what this woman is saying and am sure they were both at Mr bonshe’s bedside. Is she insinuating that her bother in law is a liar? As for you stiff necked bum-wipers there’s nothing for nothing in Zambian politics, she might have been promised a diplomatic job(hopefully not to come and replace any of you mugs) or may be a thick brown envelope plus writing off their car loan, send their kids to Russia etc. shes just a human being and probably no one here even knows her.
Has anyone noticed that one m*o*r*o*n on here says the same c*r*a*p regardless of what the topic is. I mean, how much can one parrot this s*h*i*t? You can tell too that his comments are drafted at the MMD secretariat.
#43,it is this son of Mbulo.