And Dr Chiluba has questioned why former Ministry of Health permanent secretary Simon Miti chartered a faulty plane when he (Dr Chiluba) was evacuated to South Africa for treatment.
Dr Chiluba said he is saddened about the conviction of Dr Kalumba and others because they were his right-hand officials during his tenure of office.
He said it is immoral for some people, who include Kafulafuta member of Parliament George Mpombo and Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata, to mock him over the matter by asking him to celebrate the conviction of Dr Kalumba.
Dr Chiluba said this in an interview with journalists after attending a church service at the Bible Gospel Church in Africa (BIGOCA) in Matero yesterday.
He said contrary to the insinuations, he is not happy or celebrating over the conviction of Dr Kalumba and others because they are his comrades.
“Whether Mr Mpombo or other people commented or not over this matter, I cannot be happy, neither can I smile or dance over the conviction because those were my friends.
“They were not my key advisors but were my comrades and right-hand men and we worked together,” he said.
Dr Chiluba, however, said as a democrat, he is not in the habit of interfering with the work of the courts of law.
He said he cannot argue the case because of security reasons.
“Dr Kalumba and others are my friends and we worked together but now that they have been found in this situation, I do not want to argue the case for security reasons,” he said.
Last week, Mr Sata challenged Dr Chiluba to celebrate the conviction of Dr Kalumba just as he celebrated his acquittal.
Dr Kalumba, who is former Minister of Finance, and three others were last week jailed five years with hard labour for corrupt practices.
Those jailed are former Ministry of Finance permanent secretary Stella Chibanda and former defunct Access Financial Services Limited directors Faustin Kabwe and Aaron Chungu.
Dr Kalumba and the three others have, however, been released from prison after the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court granted them K500 million bail each in their own recognisance.
Meanwhile, Dr Chiluba has questioned why Dr Miti chartered a faulty plane when he was evacuated to South Africa for treatment.
Dr Chiluba asked the question during a church service when he gave a testimony of his life and heart problem.
He said the plane, which Dr Miti claimed was a medical airbus, had no toilet or bed.
Dr Chiluba said he does not understand the logic by Dr Miti to have hired an old plane for an emergency, adding that the flight took four hours as opposed to the usual two hours from Lusaka to South Africa.
“Thank God that my wife and I are still alive…it does not make sense to hire an old plane for a person whose heart is running at 12 percent instead of the normal 70-100 percent.
“The little old plane hired by Dr Miti was faulty because barely 30 minutes after departure, one engine blew off and everyone on the plane, including the pilots, started panicking but I was calm because I prayed to God,” Dr Chiluba said.
He said after the plane developed a fault, the nurse on board panicked and confessed that the plane was not a medical airbus.
“I wondered why the plane, which looked like a wheelbarrow was chartered for me but I think this was another attempt by the devil to weaken me. I thank God we arrived safely,” he said.
Dr Chiluba said he is not accusing anyone of attempting to take his life but was questioning the logic of hiring a ‘finished plane’ to evacuate him to South Africa.
He said he has experienced God’s love and goodness as He has seen him through his heart problem.
“It is now five years when the doctors told me I had a heart problem which is incurable and that I was going to die.
“My heart condition was deteriorating everyday and I spent sleepless nights because I had to be in a sitting position because if I had to sleep on the bed, I would have died. But my wife and I prayed even without faith sometimes because we wanted God to hear and he did. That’s why I am still alive,” he said.
Dr Chiluba thanked the church and other members of the public who prayed for his healing.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
“Thank God that my wife and I are still alive…it does not make sense to hire an old plane for a person whose heart is running at 12 percent instead of the normal 70-100 percent.
“The little old plane hired by Dr Miti was faulty because barely 30 minutes after departure, one engine blew off and everyone on the plane, including the pilots, started panicking but I was calm because I prayed to God,” Dr Chiluba said.
COMMENTS
#1: Try riding on a wheelbarrow you little piece of poop!
#2: You talked to god on your way to the hospital with a heart running at 12%, you should have prayed not to be in that condition in the first place. “Oh, god please let this plane take me safely to the hospital…?” You low expectation munthu!
#3: After the demise of LPM, the heart got better?
Luke 16:18 “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” Shameful Kafupi, even proudly using the name of God in vain. It’s also logical for Chiluba to be worried cause they were stealing together with Kalumba(his brother in theft) as he rightly puts it, that he was his ‘right hand man and comrade’. He has delivered judgement on him that if Kalumba is guilty then he is just as guilty. “I was calm because I prayed to God,” Dr Chiluba said. Useless man…wasted Dr title!!!
Get over it Kafupi and be grateful that you are still alive!!!
BA SHORT UBUFI BULENUNKA NO KUNUNKA IF A PLANE’S ENGINE BLEW OFF WOULD HAVE ARRIVED IN SOUTH AFRICA STOP LYING KA MUDALA A GUILTY PERSON IS ALWAYS AFRAID YOU WILL ANSWER YOUR CHARGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 :-@:-t:-t:-t:-t:-t:-t:-t
It’s a question of time. u’ll be regreting ever knowing each other. comrades in stealing what was rightfully Zambian.Kafupi makes me sick
Yah no comment …..Kuti wa dabwa
i like the reasoning of # 1.good points))
With $8 Million he could build that school or a new hospital.
Let’s see where it goes.
Zambians will be FORCED BY LAW to build a house for a criminal..
Chiluba please build that school.
Even thou its a charade school where you will claim your percentage of profits.
Zambia needs education quickly.
SPEND NOW Chiluba.
You can’t take your money to heaven!
I wonder which DONOR to Chiluba’s charity school will ask WHEN it will be built.
It is amazing no known donor has raised why his money is not being spent where he promised.
Aya ni ma rabishi yeka yeka. Alibe vokamba uyu munthu. After LPM is gone that is when you complain about the plane! Mwe banthu… sometimes it better to humble yourself becasue next time Zambians will tell you to evacuate yourself since you have our money already!
tabatasha ba tata aba.
Lesa nima lyotola
we need the Gabon air crash report and we demand to know who sanctioned the use of the faulty buffalo plane that crashed and killed all the KK eleven
this man is stuborn, he does not think and he is a suddiest. #13 thats true let him explain too. he is married to a convict and yet he he thinks he is innocent.
This kafupi is really ungreatifull stolen money stolen wife and he is still not happy and all Zambians must dance when they see him. LORD OF MERCY HELP US
Ungrateful thief indeed. Why not charter your own since you got billions. And who were your referring as “The Devil” in that case? I thought you’re a devil yourself.
Mr. Chiluba, you are asking today about why a “finished plane ” was charted for you now in 2006 ? Can you think about the soccer players’ families asking the questions since 1993? You have not provided them any answer since then and you want someone to answer today because it is your life involved.
You are just a disappointment to the nation. I feel more disappointed because i really trusted you when you came up in 1990 using the Bible.I didn’t know that you were just making your way to the top.
Zambians i really hope we will learn from the mistake we made in voting for people we didn’t know simply because they were saing ” Change !” Let us be careful this time around. I am sad because i am way from my beloved country and i can only influence my immediately family about voting…
Mr little man dont take us for granted.who dont know that your sympathisers are now paying back what they got from your presidential fund i-d-i-o-t.what type of God do you worship who has allowed you to get your freinds wife ? Dont lie that you have a heart problem you are just just hiv positive. w-a-n-y-a ukafwa ulepolomya tawakamone nowa kukupipa.
I always ask myself questions about my bululu-WHAT IS THIS NO SENSE NOW FROM MR FORMER PRESIDENT???DOES THIS MAN THINK HONESTLY SPEAKING??HOW COME THIS MAN MANAGED TO BE PRESIDENT??
It is only a fool like this man that can compare a wheelbarrow to a plane when my brothers and sisters strangle to even find a wheelbarrow to get them to the nearest clinic in kalingalinga–Ba wesu ba Chiluba be grateful-you are been shameless sir with your sympathisers.
Why did’nt you talk like this during His honour the late LPM’s time?COME you guys we are not children ala
ZAMBIANS WAKE UP-CHILUBA ON THE LOOSE FOR DISTRUCTION
REMEMBER I DO NOT HATE HIM(HE IS MY KINSMAN) BUT I AM ONLY A ZAMBIAN CRYING FOR MY BELOVED COUNTRY-I AM NOT EVEN PARTISAN OR POLITICAL
Bring back 8 billion so that we contract Modern Hospital. Why crying to be flown S.A? Zambia are we not Independent State? Imagine former head Head of state. MMD we are ready so suuport good ideals from you. Only Senior Citizen and other fake cadres can support everything you vommit
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my wifeyyyyyyyyyyyyy?????????
You Zambians, who’s thsi DOCTOR Chiluba? Is it that semi-literate kafupi, the one who’s supposed to be in jail after abusing his servants like Katele and the rest?
The devil, the thief, the womanizer/wife thief, the billionaire, the liar…this short thing should be chained.
Atleast the plane was better than a wheelburrow
I’ve had enough of your rubbish, masipa, you little, thankless ***** and your RB. How dare you complain about being sponsored to South Africa when my people – me, a Zambian whose family fought for independence (where were you, in Zaire, or conducting passengers on a CARS bus?) – when my people are dying from lack of basic medication? MAY YOU PERISH IN HELL!! And you call katele and compnay “comrades’ when you sold them out! Kanjanana ka ka sina likute!!! Some day, we’ll deport you and William Banda.
Irrelevant…….sshhaa….makandi yobbe
Kaba itol lay. Maker ndee yaker call.
I dont understand why The President is giving Chiluba the red carpet treatment. I guess Chiluba is Mason who has the keys to the holygrail when it comes to politics.
Chiluba is god to Mr president. Not having Chiluba and VJ in your political strategy is like holding a winning rotary ticket and failing to cash it. They are the masterpiece of politics. Keep on complaing coz you will never understand the rule of politics. Chiluba is the Pope.
Chiluba will never be in jail unless you convice a pope to be a sabbath follower.
…ha ha ha ! cheeky..ungrateful little f****… too bad ur still alive then… maybe ur running mad FTJ bcoz ur not making any sense with these childish tantrums bro…u will pack it next time b4 reaching SA bcoz even the wheelbarrow plane will not be there since u stole all the money…hello ! remember…..little big man…with little big brains…
U stupid Kafupi, you are complaining about a faulty plane when you (President at the time) caused the death of 30 Zambians off the coast of Gabon in an old buffalo plane. You should be very ashamed of your actions….ubupuba bwalifula sana…..iwe ka Chiluba….remember not to be f**king other peoples women. What goes around…comes around right! You will certainly reap what you have sown thus far. Do not be afraid but expect the worst to come…..you stole from little kids needing education including the unborn children….omg….you filthy little pig you stink Chiluba you stink. Just shut up and continue ukulatomba ba Regina seems that’s what you know. Selfish f**k.