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Former President Frederick Chiluba

Several government officials, ministers and relatives have gathered at the funeral house of Second Republican President Frederick Chiluba.

Mourners started gathering for the funeral which is being held at the Dr Chiluba’s Residence in Kabulonga early this Saturday as news of his death filtered through.

Dr. Chiluba, 68, died at his home in Lusaka’s Kabulonga area at five minutes after midnight on Saturday.

And Government has constituted a committee of ministers to oversee funeral arrangements for Second republican President Dr. Frederick Chiluba.

The committee is headed by Defence Minister, Kalombo Mwansa.

Dr Mwansa told ZNBC News in an interview that Zambians should remain calm as the details for the funeral arrangements will be released in due course.

He is also saddened that the country has lost Dr Chiluba who championed multi-party democracy.

And Zambians have paid glowing tribute to Dr. Chiluba for his for his role in the re-introduction of democracy in the country.

A number of people who have called and sent text messages to ZNBC have described Dr. Chiluba as a democrat.

The Press Association of Zambia -PAZA- says the late Dr Chiluba will be remembered for liberalizing the media.

PAZA Vice president Amos Chanda says because of the media reforms implemented under his reign the country has witnessed a proliferation of media houses.

And Dr Chiluba’s former press aide Richard Sakala says Dr Chiluba is an icon who enhanced the country’s political and economic vision.

Mr. Sakala says Zambians will remember Dr Chiluba for the good he did for the country.

And Former Vice President in the Chiluba administration, Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda says he will remember the late former president as a man who declared Zambia as a Christian nation.

General Miyanda says Dr Chiluba a made a landmark decision to declare Zambia a Christian nation.

General Miyanda also served as education Minister during Dc Chiluba’s rule.

General Miyanda is now Heritage Party President, and says Dr Chiluba will also be remembered for spear-heading multi-party democracy in Zambia.

And The Council of Churches in Zambia -CCZ- has called on Zambians to unite and mourn Former President Dr. Frederick Chiluba with dignity.

CCZ Chairperson Reverend Sussane Matale says Dr Chiluba will be remembered for being at the helm of championing multi-party democracy.

Reverend Matale says that Dr Chiluba played his part and contributed to national development as President.

Reverend Matale was speaking in an interview with ZNBC News in Lusaka on Saturday.

She also appealed to Zambians to set aside perceived differences and unite to mourn the president.

And president Rupiah Banda has hailed the role played by the late Second Republican President Dr Frederick Chiluba in democratizing the country in 1991.

Commenting on the death of Dr Chiluba in Chipata Saturday afternoon, President Banda said Dr Chiluba played an important role in ensuring that peace prevailed in 1991.

He says had it not been for the role Dr Chiluba played; Zambia would have been like other troubled countries on the continent.

President Banda was expected to issue a comprehensive statement on the death of Dr Chiluba later in the afternoon.

Mr Banda is still in Chipata where he is attending burial of his maternal uncle Mwase Banda, 88.

[ZNBC]

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162 COMMENTS

  1. CHILUBA SHOULD BE GIVEN A SIMJPLE FUNERAL BY THE GOVT AS HE DID NOT DIE IN OFFICE LIKE OUR LATE PRESIDENT MWANAWASA. TIMES ARE HARD FOR ORDINARY ZAMBIA SO THE FUNERAK SHOULD JUST BE A PRIVATE ONE AND NOT A STATE FUNERAL BECAUSE STATE FUNERAL ARE TOO COSTLY. MY CONDOLANCES TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THE LATE.

  2. Mushota, why are you taking long yo expose your sillyness????? By now you’d have passed a useless comment.

  3. How come all the accoaldes when this guy presided over a corrupt govt that has seen manay innocent people, retirees etc ded without their terminal benefits. Hypocrits as usual. St.upi.d zambians. This guy should bring back the dollar before he get a burial permit. Search his pockets as a minimum.

  4. #1 there are rules that govern which funerals are to be given a full state funeral. As you know, our beloved past president falls within that category.

  5. Can the grz plz use the zamtrop money he claimed to have put in it for his funeral. State funeral can be very costly. I could have been better for him to have died having said sorry to the Zambian people for all his misdeeds and reconciled with them. As it stands, he will be remembered as the man who stole and took the money with him to his grave. MHSRIP.

  6. Can the grz plz use the zamtrop money he claimed to have put in it for his funeral. State funerals can be very costly. It could have been better for him to have died having said sorry to the Zambian people for all his misdeeds and reconciled with them. As it stands, he will be remembered as the man who stole and took the money with him to his grave. MHSRIP.

  7. ZAMBIANS HAS LOST EVERYTHING WITH THE DEATH OF LATE FORMER PRESIDENT CHILUBA. THE THE MILLIONS OF US DOLLARS WILL NEVER COME BACK TO THE GOVERMENT COFFERS WHICH IS VERY SAD INDEED . WE SHOULD BE ASKING REGINA TO RETURN THE MONEY TO THE STATE AS THE LATE IS NO MORE. MY CONDOLANCES TO THE WIDOW REGINA CHILUBA AND FAMILY AND ALL RELATIVES AND FRIEND.MHSRIP. .

  9. No 7 if we ask Regina to bring back the money then even Maureen should bring back because Levy was the greatest thief than FTJ

  11. GUYZ DONT JUST DREAM ABOUT THE MONEY YU NEVER PROVED THE LATE STOLE.JUST HAVE PIT THAT WE HAVE LOST OUR DEAR FATHER,BROTHER, GRAND PA.IF YU WANT JUSTICE CHECK KK’S RECORDS AND YU’LL PROVE DAT NO ONE IS PURELY INNOCENT UNLESS OTHERS. SOME OF WRITERS ARE THEIVES ALSO ONLY THAT THYE ARE NOT YET CAUGHT. CONDOLENCES THE CHILUBAS

  12. This site should be a sad one but one can’t help to laugh at some of the comments in here.

    Ba #10 mwandepula imbafu… ka kapoli kaya nelo kele insele shilekonkafye.. ala mwandi… Pafita ba Regina nomba….. twalamona oko bala tumba-tumba na ma fashion statement nomba…

  13. What a great leader we’ve temporarily lost! Used of God to declare Zambia a Christian Nation and usher in a democratic season, we will always remember him and love him until we meet again on the other side ….

  14. I bet this will be the only successful committee of ministers. Zambian govt. officials are very good at organizing funerals. In my opinion cremate the man, such corrupt spirits should not be left to roam the earth. cremate chiluba with all the left shoes he owned.

    • are you family to be making judgments whether he should be cremated or not most of all ARE YOU GOD. uli chidonshi

    • i conquere with one of the bloggers, if anything he should be buried at sea, since we dont one, zambezi river can do…

  15. so they set him free..from the courts while we waited for the loot he plundered and now we have to mourn this man..? thats a joke.. ..this is the man who lead a bunch of criminals loot national worth , sent a lot of people on retrenchment and retirement without pay.. some have died without getting a penny! .. its just as well he has kicked the black bucket..good riddance..

  16. Alah, does it mean also that our plundered grudahs are also dead of a heart attack? We want our grudahs pronto. This was one of the most useless and destructive lives of all times and this diminutive criminal can only be trusted in death because while he was alive, ifyali mwi gurumuthu tapali nangu chimo kano bulazo. I also doubt he died peacefully, you bet he was copulating with Regina and screamed “Nawakwi” while coming and Regina struggled the love rat. He should be given a post mortem because he was not sick and we are not fooled by his constant feigning of a heart ailment. Also, the MPs who were visiting him should be interviewed, if they are Luapulans they could have poisoned him. Well, good for them and us.

  17. Morn the chap with dignity at least he used to go to church praise the Lord!!! but this man stole he died out of shock after being told that his sponsored MPs and party are failing…….

  18. “Chiluba complained that he was feeling like he had some gas. The doctor attended to him and left. Then two hours later Dr Kangwa was called and he came and attended to him. Dr Chiluba was even joking that “doctor ndemishupafye (doctor, I am just troubling you) I am well” but Dr Kangwa noticed that he was unwell. “Just a few minutes before midnight, Dr Chiluba was in the bedroom with Mrs (Regina) Chiluba and (his doctor) Dr Kangwa and they noticed that he had rather quickly changed. They panicked, they tried to call an ambulance but the doctor was in place, he checked him and realised he had kicked the bucket,” Amen.

  19. It was KK who ensured that peace prevailed in 1991 and not Chiluba as RB is dreaming. KK had power and could destabilise the country if he wanted. Chiluba just hijacked the MMD presidency, there more credible people who deserved to lead MMD. Long live KK, long live Zambia. I hope this funeral will not be an election campaign material.

  20. They’re good at organizing funerals and can’t develop a country…back in the day when Zed Police shot dead a Car Jacker they would go at the funeral house and stump out any fires there…..this little thug doesn’t deserve ****o …and has had it easy very easy indeed…just wrap his little body in a 90Kg empty sack of beans and toss it to the crocs in Kafue River…let’s get over with it!!!
    I’m going to have to toast to that….Cheers!!!

  21. MHSRIP. Despite all the humanly pitfalls, Chiluba must be accorded his due respect. He did what few would have done. He liberated Zambia from the york of One Party State, presided on the liberalization the economy, which eliminated those queues for essentials and empowered thousands including me, with home ownership. Please God, we pray that if possible, please forgive him for his humanly failures. You are a God who forgives. You are a God full of mercy. Receive your son with your warm hands. He is your son.

    • Hell’s hottest fires are reserved for hypocrites like this little dwarf….He is your son when he was stealing right in your face and laughing!!!

    • This is not a joke. Forgiveness and forgiving is noble. It is not for me and you to judge. God has His own formula. If we need to be forgiven, we need to learn to forgive.

  22. We are in a mess as a country because of FTJ. He stole from us and messed up our country big time. Some of the money he stole from us will never come back to Zambia nor to his own family since it was hidden in foreign accounts which only him knew about. This is a problem with African leaders and stolen money, they continue leaving our continent poorer.

  23. Evacuate him to a morgue in RSA, for he will be turning in his fridge if you put him in one in lusaka!! He actually might want to be buried in London, can someone ask him please!!

  24. With/out London judgement; God’s vedict has been passed. Heads down with shame; but not sorrow. My condolences to Bwezani & Chiluba’s family. Regina up for grabs

  25. Is Zambia truly a Christian Nation as prescribed in the Constitution? Do we really understand the law of LOVE upon which the whole of Christianity is founded? Christ our exemplar never cursed those who impaled him but istead prayed for and blessed them. It is true that Chiluba had made SERIOUS mistakes which could have angered many a country men, but surely is it FAIR to CURSE him even in his death? This is the reason why our country will not prosper. Let us FORGIVE and FORGET just like God freely forgives us. May Jehovah bless his family during this trying time and may he give them the strength they need to endure. In the name of Jesus our Saviour. AMEN!

  26. Am sure ba shikulu ba RB is dead confused…..centre forward wabo afwa while ama defections are looming.George Kunda is switching to NAREP.In life,learn to stand by yourself ba mudala……nomba pillar mwashintilileko yapona.Naimwe shikulu ni ground……wina azazinyela.RIP master dribbler

  27. I didn’t know your day would come too soon. You killed my uncle whom I won’t mention on this platform but Zambia is a better place without you….I hope you meet your judgement with all the flags you hang at your press briefings…

  28. Kalos stop telling lies, chiluba never liberated this country, it is us that did it, we entrusted him to lead us, as he had done to an extent in the labour movement, BUT what did he do to us all that had put him in such a high position of trust & priveledge?? Didn’t he just piss in our faces???
    Just becoz he has passed, doesn’t mean we will forget, HE NEVER APOLOGISED – so he can piss off too!!

  30. # 18 your are so right. it was KK who ensured that peace prevailed in our beloved zambia after he lost the presidency to this would-be plunderer. RB’s rhetorics are as plain as the nose on his face. That ka chiluba created hell for so many zambians. Thats why if I shed a tear it wont be for him but for the millions of dollars he stole that we shall never recover. I am not gonna hypocritical and call this late imp a great man because to me he was a great man and he did not die a great man. I am not gonna wish his soul peace; for he destroyed many lives when he presided over our country. I know I nust forgive, but I also know that there is a thin line between forgiving and naivity and i would rather not forgive than be naive.

  33. Braggadacio II, well, in reference with the fight with great political giant KK, and the fear that KK instilled on the people, I could be right. On the power that we invested in FTJ to fight or leader us in the liberation, you could right. But all roads lead to one destination, liberation. Few in our generations will know what KK was and what grip he had on Zambia. We also became a Scientific Socialist nation. Thank God people like FTJ, Arthur Wina, Mulemba, Sata, and small ones like myself on Provincial levels stood up to help FTJ fight the giant KK.

    • Come on Kalos, you can do better than this. Why are you trying to make the fight for multipartyism personal? Surely, the multipartyism movement in 1991 was not about FTJ and KK!!

  34. I THINK CHILUBA SHOULD BE BURIED IN DRC AS HE WAS BORN IN ZAIRE WE SHOULD JUST LET MR KABILA WORRY ABOUT HIS FUNERAL.

  35. Why die at such time when I needed U most……fwiku…….fwiku…..fwiku….Bwezani sobs as he remembers the Mulungushi Conference Centre where Titus promised to revive his dribling skills in this year’s do or die polls. Oh no na chilabako…………….ama suits ne nsapato gentlement; after ichililo kuisula ka Boutique ku Soweto ka.

  36. Please burry that chap tonight kuti kabuka again.He has received the a justifiable imprisonment.May his corrupt ways follow him into gehena.next is VJ.BE REMINDED THAT WHAT SOEVER IS BOUND ON EARTH IT IS ALSO BOUND IN HEAVEN.Bishops,pastors,deacons,priests and reverands please shorten your prayers as we are anxious to see his final disappearance from beloved land of Zambia.
    INFACT NAKOKOLA NOKUFWA KAPALA WAMUPAMBA UYO KALEYA.

  37. Ka Kwendo is busy attending an uncle’s nephew’s uncle’s brother’s uncle’s funeral Kumawa.The man will find his residence State House taken by serious occupants.Chipata Chipata Chipata When are you ever going to set your foot in Kalabo,Shangombo,Kasempa,Mwense,Mpulungu and other marginalised areas where you find Zambians eating nshima with roasted corn (Ichiwaya)?

  38. I will deliver a funeral oration in praise of Chiluba
    The most important man for Zambia

    EMBEZZLEMENT PLUNDER BRIBES CORRUPTION ZAMBIAN ASSETS SOLD FOR A SONG

    His passing away is a great loss for Zambia !! LOL LOL LOL

  39. Fellow Zambians,

    Why all the hateful comments on a day like this? Like the Rev. said, this is a time when the nation should be united and bury it’s former leader with dignity. A real Zambian nationalist and patriot will not rejoice when the country is mourning one of it’s former presidents.

    Death is not a nice thing and we don’t seem to realise it’s impact until it comes close to our homes. The fact of the matter is that we all do good and bad but when people die, it is simply unethical and insensitive to start attacking them because of the wrong they did.

    We need to stop judging the dead because we shall all be judged by God one day.

    Plus I don’t care even if you give me a thumbs down… remember that death will one day give you and me the final thumbs down!

    • Humanity normally does show sorrow when one of its kind passes on, irrespective of nationality. Humanity also does rejoice when one of its criminals dies, again irrespective of nationality. I do not think describing what sort of person Chiluba was, is an attack nor does it amount to a judgement.

    • iwe, we are not judging him in death.Even when he was alive, who did not knw that he was a thief? Wake up from slumber.!!!!!!!! we are not hypocrites like u. we call a spade, a spade. The ***** was busy campaining even when he knew he had a heart problem. Infact RB should partly be blamed for his death for allowing him to be politics with a fragile heart..

    • Nine chale, you used to talk sense some time back. Now ulesabaila fye. Stop kidding yourself. Chiluba was a maggot.

  41. Am sure chi Rupiah is smiling in the dark as he thinks of how much chalalyamo pa chililo chakwa Lazo.

  42. 25# Mandaliza
    What uncle of yours?. Are we now seeking attention? If you have evidence brings it out. Why did you not bring the evidence all this time? Its very foolish of you to start dishing out rumours with no evidence. Chiluba was not perfect …. But do not jump on the wagon aimlessly.

  43. FTJ declared Zambia a christian nation during his reign.During that reign Zambia also witnessed the most brutal political assasinations in the history of the nation.People remember what happened to Richard Ngenda,Paul Tembo,Ronald Penza,Wezi Kaunda e.t.c.All at the hands of born again president FTJ’s “Red brick”operatives.Roger Chongwe can best explain this era in Zambian politics
    At least Shamwana,Musakanya,Gen Tembo,Gen Miyanda,Lt Mwamba Luchembe lived to see KK out of power.Shamwana even defended KK during that fake mis-prison of prison trial.So what compassion doe’s FTJ deserve.

  44. Zamnet claims the man was”acquited!!” My foot!! Yes on paper, BUT the guy remains a thief & aren’t we relieved to have one less!!!!!

  45. I already hear St Pierre at the gates of paradise

    “Lazo! Lazo! Lazo! Kabolala! Kabolola! Kabiye! Lazo! Chikabolala”

    and our worst crook will go to Hell ! :-)

  48. Oh God mweba giva, no geta nimwe mugeta. mwalitugivela chiluba briefly, nomba mwamu getelela. chabipafye mwamugeta elyo talatugiva ulupiya lwesu ka vobwele

  49. I hear St Pierre at the gates of paradise

    “Lazo! Lazo! Lazo! Kabolala! Kabolola! Kabiye! Lazo! Chikabolala”

    and our worst crook has to go to Hell ! :-)

  50. I hear St Pierre at the gates of paradise

    “La.zo! La-zo! Kabolala! Kabolola! Kabiye! La.zo! Chikabolala”

    and our worst crook has to go to Hell ! :-)

  51. I hear St Pierre at the gates of paradise

    “Lazo! Lazo! Kabolala! Kabolola! Kabiye! Lazo! Chikabolala”

    and our worst cro.ok has to go to Hell ! :-)

  52. I hear St Pierre at the gates of paradise

    “La-zo!La-zo!La-zo! Kabolala! Kabolola! Kabiye!La-zo! Chikabolala”

    and our worst cro-ok has to go to Hell ! :-)

  53. A great leader has passed on. Im so prevailaged to have lived in his time and I will tell my child of what a great leader FTJ was. History will always say ‘Zambia’s 2nd Republican President’. Rest in peace man of God.

  54. Emmanuel Mwamba this is the end of your spokesmanship for plunderers.
    (# 37 Nine Chale: The gravity of the wrong also matters. All chiluba Fans just know that the chap is luck to die now,andf i am sure he has died of BP as he thought of what SATA would have done to him before December,2011.Regina reap what you sow.You stole Chiluba because he stole a plasma TV for you from state house the more you watch it the more the spirit of plunder and corruption will haunt you. PLEASE BURRY CHILUBA @ CHINGWERE AND NOT EMBASSY PARK.or give his body for Incineration.

  56. Not guilty? OK but Kamudala kale Jaiva nabena Mobutu, Idi, Osama na Hitler. Huff and puff the man is in hell na kunkudu yakako lol

  57. Sad indeed,let the soul of our late president rest in eternal peace.Plis pipo let us unite and mourn our dear president, never shud u say negative things abt his death,if u cnt say sumthing abt sumbody jst shut up.

    • we are not saying bad thinks about his dead but his deads. u have never been fathered by a retrenshed parent who died out of depression coz the money was diverted to ZAMTROOP

  59. Just bury this thief……!!!!! Heart attack is very bad disease,,,, this is why we are advising SATA not to put himself to much pressure abut these campaigns….we will have a by-elections in zambia for the second time in less than five years since levy died…!!!!PF supporters,,, Let reason together with your Mudala SATA to take a back seat… Atleast chiluba was a bit strong than SATA….!!!Now, you are free to chose other leaders apart from this moving funeral SATA…!! I do not think he will be around in the next 4 years belief me…!!! I saw this man when he came to London,, it was not a private judgement,, what will happen in the next few years,,, or even to the worst days…!!!!

  60. You are busy saying bad things abt a dead body be careful because that’s a seed you are planting the things you say or do today will come and haunt you tomorrow.Am repeating again IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT SOMEBODY JUST SHUT UP.Tamwishibe ifyo alelanda na Lesa wakwe mulebembukafya and will receive God’s grace in vein.

  63. #53 u shut up…u can mourn if u want and bury ur own dead. to me his demise leaves zambia a better place because already he charms had already poisoned weak minds like RB…so we are less one notorious criminal..in fact his body should be thrown at sea the soon the better…it seems the chap is still a hero for some blind poor souls..even in death.

  64. SURELY I NEVER KNEW THAT WE HAVE SO MANY RIGHTEOUS JUDGES IN ZAMBIA WHO CONDENM OTHER PIPOS SERVANTS.THANK GOD THAT HE IS A MERCIFULL GOD.SURELY WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT OUR BELOVED FORMER PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE SAID OR CONFESSED TO HIM BEFORE HIS DEATH.

  65. Despite his failures, Chiluba’s contributions cannot be contested. They are all there for all to see. IT IS BEING HEARTLESS TO SAY BAD THINGS TO SOMEONE WHO HAS DIED EVEN IF THAT MAN IS YOUR ENEMY. IF WE WERE GIVEN A CHANCE TO SEE THRU YOUR LIVES WE LL FIND MAY UGLY LOOPHOLES. SO, DON’T JUDGE, YOU ARE ALSO HUMAN WHO CAN MAKE MISTAKES. REST IN PEACE FJT. “Blessed are the dead in Christ, for they rest from all their labours” Rev. 14:13.

  66. Anyone interested in buying over 300 pairs of size six bespoke shoes and over 150 suits unique hand made overseas? All items are as new. lol

  67. The saddest thing in this whole thing is that the people 2 people in Zed on this thread have a kind attitude towards Chiluba. The rest are in the diaspora and almost all hate the poor chap.

  68. the death of Chiluba is a big blow to Sata and the post, since his campaign message was to take Chiluba back to court if he wins, what else is he going to tell the zambians. he will get back to his earlir rhetoric of puting money in our pockets!

  69. Somebody with 5 senses can`t write what l have been reading here,what a shame!!!!!!! All you remember are bad things and not the good things he did. How do you feel if your Dad, Uncle or anyone in your family died and somebody start calling him names? That is witchcraft at its best !! we are all sinners and have done wrong in one way or another and Christ Jesus shade his blood to forgive our sins. Don`t point at a speck in somebody`s eye, when you are having a log in yours. its because of him that we are enjoying the freedom of going out of the country

  70. CHILUBA THE GREAT ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT: This man stood up to Kaunda when all politicians were scared to challenge Kaunda. This man deserve all highest presidential funeral ceremony..remember vigilantes from UNIP, FTJ stopped that..remember how Kaunda enslaved Zambians..coupon meali meal, UBZ buses, zcbc shops!! FJT is going down into history as a great president in Zambia,,,REST IN PEACE FTJ.

  71. To Zambia’s fallen hero’s.You will always be remembered.May their souls rest in peace
    Dean Mungomba,
    Edward Shamwana,
    Wezi Kaunda,
    Hanson Kamima,
    Richard Ngenda,
    Pumulo,
    Paul Tembo,
    Ronald Siame Penza,
    Curtbert Nguni

  73. The good LORD said that do not judge others lest you also be judged. Chiluba did a number of good things during his time which include the following: o Rejuvenated the transport system so that we did not have to use anything that moved or resembled a bus to get from point A to B. o Gave a lot of us the opportunity to own property back home. o We no longer have to queue for the very basic of items such as sugar, milk, bread , butter, washing powder, soap etc etc. o Removed the President’s head from the local currency notes so that up to now we are still using the same design of the notes. o Brought in outside investors so that they could open new Mines; something which ZCCM failed to do. The man had his own weaknesses just like all of us and did his bit for Zambia. M.H.S.R.I.P.

  74. I WOULDLIKE TO BUY ALL HIS 100 PAIRS OF SIZE 6 SHOES AND THE 150 BESPOKE TAILERED SUITS FROM SWITZERLAND AND GIVE IT AWAY TO THE STREET CHILDREN AND OTHER POOR BEGGERS ALONG DOWN TOWN ON THE KAFUE ROAD.

  75. #40 TechGeek, If you have never lost someone so close to you simply because of holding a different political view to those in power you will never understand what we wen through under Chiluba. If you loved the man well & good but I am also entitled to express my views whether you like them or not. I am one Zambia who is happy that this country will be a better place without Chiluba. This is indeed good riddance. My relatives who read these postings will understand. Vengeance is not mine but the Lord’s.

  76. We have lost a great man, DR. Chiluba, we will miss you sir. Thank you for all you did for mother Zambia. And we thank God for giving you to Zambia when we needed you. R.I.P tata

  77. Naleya uko chikala chakwe kabwalala, alot of retirees died without getting their benefits because of his shameful stealing and corruption he brought in the country, my grandpa is one of those people who died without getting his retirement benefits after working in government for 40 years because of his shameless selffish and inmoral behavour of wife grabbing. Manje Regina elo alabafy iule, kabili de all country knows that she is a finished product.

  78. Gentlemen, Maliro ni Maliro. Lets mourn our former President regardless of some of his shortcomings. It’s not us to judge him harshly. He was human and hence bound to error. No one is perfect and its only God the almighty who will give his final judgement on our deeds. I wondering how some people even the courage to insult the man who has already died. MHSRIP.

  79. Sh.itty DeadNBC, you don’t bloody know Gen Miyanda served as Vice President? How dull can reporters in a newsroom get?

  81. Hello God, I called tonight
    To talk a little while
    I need a friend who’ll listen
    To my anxiety and trial.

    You see, I can’t quite make it through a day just on my own…
    I need your love to guide me, so I’ll never feel alone. I want to ask you please to keep,
    My family safe and sound. Come and fill their lives with confidence
    For whatever fate they’re bound. Give me faith dear God to face each hour throughout the day, And not to worry over things
    I can’t change in any way coz am guilty.
    I thank you God, for being home and listening to my call When I stumbled and fall.
    Your number, God, is the only one that answers every time.
    I never get a busy signal,
    Never had to pay a dime. So thank you God, and see you when i meet you tonight.
    bye, yours Fredirick Chiluba

  82. 8->8->8->8->8-> Rest in eternal peace Dr Chiluba. I know you messed up,but who am I to judge you. “For all have sinned and fall short of the of the glory of God”.

  84. I hear that not long before he kicked the bucket, kaChiluba complained that he was feeling like he had some gas. Atase, how sad that the i.d.i.o.t only realized he was always saturated and farting gas all his life! A decade after he was forced out of power, our corridors of power are still stinking from the stench of his “gas”. I’m glad he felt and smelled it before he died to know the horrible time his stinking “gas” put us into. As for Miyanda, I cannot think of a more malingering soldier, no wonder Gen. Chitomfwa brought this silly monkey in the boot of a Peugeot 504 from Katanga. Only Miyanda does not know that Chiluba used the christian nation declaration as a cover to plunder Zambia and to date still thinks this was a good thing? What a foolish General of amafi a musululo!

    • Gen. Miyanda should not think he is any better than FTJ. He is part of the misery caused by his boss ftj. Though Sata falls under the same umbrella, at least him has come out openly to condemn the thiefying master.

  85. Sentments aside, I can draw distinct difference from the blogs between the way people have received the death of FTJ and that of late president Mwanawasa. I will say no more but it is clear that citizens have been aggrieved with the manner FTJ ran the country. MHSRP though.

  86. Thank God for this man that he was used by God to declare our country a Godly nation ,christian.He also brought democracy… yes he had his own faults but ,God is a God of mercy.May your soul rest in eternal peace.

    • my friend, a typical mind of a misinformed church goer. let to differentiate between a Godly nation and a Christian Nation.

  87. #78 Ba Chairman
    What was the point in FTJ declaring Zambia a christian nation on one hand and then brutally eliminate your political opponents with bullets in their heads on the other.
    How can you reconcile the two?
    Unless you are saying Penza,Tembo,Ngenda,Nguni,Wezi e.t.c are lesser people(human beings) than FTJ.They did not deserve to die in that manner in a Christian nation.

  88. Whatever the case the man deserves respect in his death. He might have errored but I think he was only human. These are trying moments and I think as a nation we just need to be united and we burry the man in diginity.

  89. No comments but just to say…nintemwa!!!!!!!! pliz dont 4 get to put his money mumbokoshi he can use on his way to hel

  90. Vera saw it coming unfortunately ba Regina never saw it coming, she thot he was a husband for umuyayaya. Atleast he has recieved a fair sentence from God.

  91. Tomorrow’s headline in the post should read as follows, CHILUBA LAZO DEAD AS 286 COMMENTS ON LUSAKATIMES AND ZAMBIAN WATCHDOG HAIL A GOOD RIDANCE AT LAST. AND THEN THEY SHOUDL RUN THE COMMENTS TO SHOW THE ZAMBIAN PEOPLE AT LARGE HOW THIS LAZO’S DEATH HAS BROUGHT SO MUCH HAPPINESS IN THE HEARTS OF MANY SUFFERING ZAMBIANS AT HIS MERCY

  93. HE CAME, HE STOLE, HE DIED, HE IS CURRENTLY FRYING IN HELL.

  94. I just lost a good friend Maureen recently so i cant find humour in death right now, but i will say this; Chiluba is responsible 4 the freedoms we enjoy now! Even this website where pips cant rant crap…. R.I.P Momo.

  95. zambians!!!!!!!. you are not normal.Our dear late President led for two terms. you voted him in and thru.including his successor. today grow up Zambians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  96. News from the other side indicates that FTJ wanted to dribble his way through the gate to eternal life but failed. He is currently being shown the video of his sins while on earth before judgement is made. His facial expressions are worrying. Its time to maker. RIP your Excellence!

  98. MMD has put too much pressure on Chiluba to deliver proper results from Luapula. He was with MMD MP and rebel MPs to discuss what will he do as per promise.

  99. Chiluba was not good guy at all he thot he was invisible. Zambia is better without him just like the world is better without Osama. To Osama’s wives Osama was a good guy. So all those people saying Chiluba was good you have your right, How would you feel if a president takes your wife away from you. Even the bible which Chiluba claims to have mastered such a thing was condemned by God himself. As a person Chiluba was not perfect but he never repented, so his demise is good ridance, to Zambia. Death does not make a man good. All you guys who saying good things about Chiluba, you are lost souls because even God struck down Bad leaders…. he still does it today.

  100. THE CHILUBA NAME HAS BEEN TAINTED BY GREED AND LACK OF INTEGRITY ON THE PART OF FTJ. YOUR DAD WOULDNT HAVE WANTED TO SEE THIS EVEN IN DEATH.A LESSON TO LEARN FOR ALL OF US

  101. Imwe Ba @ 67 Mandaliza….

    You have already shown vengeance on @25. you hopped the day would come sooner. who says chiluba will display his flags on his Judgment Days. Your statements have so much bitterness and vengeance. stop bringing in your dead relatives and take you anger in the ocean. you are a f00l and I agree with Ba @ 40 TechGeek. lets not play into God very carelessly. chiluba did some things bad and most Zambians know very well. The man is gone.

  102. Please give the money to poor people instead of flying his body all around the country. When he was president he cared only about enriching himself. 

  103. #78 Ba Chairman, that’s why Zambia is in a mess. The devil’s advocate declared Zambia as a christian nation. God does not send messages through crooks.

  107. Iye yangu tata!! Mr. Nkunika has just announced that Dr. Chiluba’s corpes will be buried next Mr. Mwanawasa at the heroes park, i question Mr. Rupia Banda’s reasoning, i mean how can he  allow this to happen? This fallen crook will infect our sleeping late president Mr. Mwanawasa with insomnia.

  110. We must have respect for the dead because they are unable to defend themselves.And never mock the dead, this is unafrican. No wonder today Zambia is not progressing because everyone has become a champion of law, knows everything and self judges.I

  111. We must have respect for the dead because they are unable to defend themselves. And never mock the dead, this is unAfrican. No wonder today zambia is not progress because everyone has become a champion of law,knows everything and self judges. Some of you are beneficiaries of the late President’s leadership.You are bought houses on the directive of him at extremely very low prices. Adecision which was made by the one you are calling THIIEF upto now.Whoever get or buys stolen property is also a thief full stop. Unless Zambia will surrender those houses or pay the market price for those houses, am going to respect but if not, then all those who but those cheap houses are also thieves since the initiator is a thife. Otherwise, SHUT UP! unless if you are not a beneficiary in any way.

  112. My plea is to all well cultured Zambians to mourn the late president with diginit and honor.In our African culture this is the time we bury our differences and reconcile with one another. Let not the western culture of not respecting elderly even in their death be transmitted into Africa.And God is going to bless us. Vegeance belongs to God.If he stole, he stole from God because everything is His,God. Ba kolwe ba sekana ifi pata!

  113. In addition to no 63’s list, may the following also rest in peace:
    Baldwin Nkumbula,Lumizu Shimaponda and Kebby Musokotwane

  115. Those who are happy that FTJ is dead are living testimony that the Devil is alive in them. Only he who is free of sin should rejoice the death of a sinner. Most pundits here are natural born kabwalala’s. They started by stealing from their daddy’s pockets.

    Sata will lose this years elections because of this very behavior. God will not let Sata rule because he was pardonned by FTJ after committing grand corruption in 1993. Levy even resigned because FTJ pardonned Sata. Today, like Judas, Sata betrays he who spared him.

    Funny how Americans would not behave in this way if George Bush was to die. We Africans are surely primitive!

  116. ZAMBIANS PLIZ FTJ IS GONE LETS LOOK FOWARD .WE HAVE A GENERAL ELECTION AHEAD OF US.LETS ANALYSE THE LEADERS WE WILL BE VOTING FOR.LETS IDENTIFY WHICH ONE WILL FIGHT CORRUPTION AND STEER AGGRESIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR MOTHER ZAMBIA.

    I BELIEVE WE CAN AND YES YES YES WE CAN AS ZAMBIANS.
    GOD BLESS ZAMBIA

  117. zambians we are all to blame for the corruption.REMEMBER WHEN THOSE HOUSES WHICH WERE SOLD, EVERYONE WAS VERY EXCITED DESPITE BEING SOLD AT A GIVE AWAY PRICE JUST TO ENTICE ZAMBIANS TO VOTE MMD.wasnt that corruption which all of us engaged in by buying those undervalued houses???STOP THE BLAME GAME ZAMBIANS AND LETS REFLECT ON OUR PAST MISTAKES. LETS RE-WRITE THE CONSTITUTION BY ADOPTING THE MUNGOMBA DRAFT,PUT ALL SYSTEMS IN PLACE THAT DETER THE WOULD BE LEADERS TO ENGAGE IN CORRUPT PRACTICES.LETS ENSHRINE CITIZENS RIGHTS ,QUALITY EDUCATION,HEALTH,HOUSING,WATER,etc otherwise VOTE WISELY AND BEWARE OF LAST MINUTE DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS.THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ATTRACT CORRUPTION AND PERPETUAL POVERTY LEVELS. VOTE WISELY AND GOD BLESS ZAMBIA.

  119. Our students can’t understand the hate comments on this blog. JFT is no more, so let us for now mourn with those who are mourning. Let us be like the man who commented on the death of an evil man saying that at least he had some good teeth. Remember that even the Post, Sata and HH have been corrupt. So JFT has been one of many.

  120. Is Chiengi near Mununga? Did MMD mess up in Chiengi? Dora watch what you say about Chiengi. Mwalapona nga ba makanta! Just saying.

  121. Was he perfect?NO. Are we perfect?NO.Mr Chiluba was a human with many human failings but how many of us have not wronged others…ours failings may not have been as large scale but they still were failings. We are all adults here I believe and if we have any grievances we can share them in a more mature and respectful manner. This man had family and friends that have lost a loved one and we should be offering them words of comfort,whatever he may have done or not done God will judge for who are we to judge him and condemn him to hell?Have we now appointed ourselves God? Death should make us reflect more on the lives we are leading and not those that others have led because when all is said and done you will be accountable for your own words and actions and will stand before that sit alone.

  122. Hope the funeral committee will make right decisions, not that nonsense of flying the body around the whole country. As much as we loved Mwanawasa, but that was decision was S.T.U.P.I.D.

    It is unfortunate that everything in Zambia costs billions, just wait for the funeral Bill, thieves will take advantage of this. Really sad.

    Condolences to Vera and the Children.

  124. I didnt know that we have alot of wicked minds on this blog how do u celebrate the death of a human being .let only those that have not stolen anything talk

  127. They should cremate the SOB and let his ashes be scattering in a pit latrine in Katanga province of Zaire. We do not want a single acre of land in Zambia poisoned by the corrosive remains of that devil reincarnate. 

  129. people of Zambia, we should not look at the bad side of someone which i know it is very easy but we must look at also the positive achievement of a person. Note that, only people who are wise will remember our late former President Dr. FTJ. MHSRIEP. WE SHALL ALL REMEMBER YOU

  131. #2 blessings.
    thanks for ur contribution. Mushota has been reported to LT staff for God’s sake.her comments will be seriously followed and monitored.at least we will have peace on this site and not fakes roving in the name of patrotic zambians.hopefull she will learn from there. many thnks

  132. I find it extremely neauseating that PF carders and sympathizers (same difference) can today condemn chiluba wen their small god Sata was the mastermind of all the rot and murders that took place in chiluba’s presidency. Wat hypocrites you all are bakaponya! How can Sata today be the hero and chiluba the villian wen they raped the country and killed its pipo together?? is it a case of selective amnesia?Stop the hypocricy already! sata’s hands are as dirty as chiluba’s and wen his (cobra) turn to meet his maker comes he will receive the same insults you are levelling at chiluba. Chiluba’s reign was a lost decade, Im sure God cant punish us twice by letting chiluba’s leautenant (sata) rape zed some more

  133. Some Zambians, as usual, time to express your *****ic baseless emotions over Chiluba’s demise. ‘’Beloved’’ my A$$. We are not celebrating his death because the process of recovering Zambia’s money has just derailed.

    A Surgical doctor who performed countless lifesaving operations committed murder. He is imprisoned and will always be remembered and described by that one crime. How many Zambians have died because they were deprived by Chiluba’s thieving ways?

  134. We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul’s life,Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.
    Lets now only remember good things that Chiluba did.  

  135. Your Execellency President FJT Chiluba in your transition to a better world, we mourn you and commit your soul to the redemeer that liveth. You were a transformational courageous icon of Democracy and a reformist that that initiated landmark change. You have left the country on a path of prosperity and dignity. To your family, the Republican President RB and the ruling MMD, condolences the nation in mourning has lost again but you are the winner.

    MYSRIP

  137. Senior citizen, if i may ask, what authority have you to commit somebody’s soul in the hands of God?
     If you had such authority, why are you mourning that thief instead of forgiving him his sins and resurrecting him back to life? I ask you this because i know that only our Lord in heaven who presides over the entire universe and the earth alike, has the power and authority both in heaven and on earth to forgive sins and commit souls in the hands of Jehovah.

  138. if Chiluba has apologised for his 10 yr mischief non would have been condemning him in death but the chap become pompous after his acquital knowing fully well that his a bandit

  139. the way chiluba used to talk and behave, he seemed lyk one who was excluded from dying ayi? the sad part (or is it the good part?) about death is that we r all going the same way-to the grave. rich, poor, short, tall, fat or slim. i dont believe in saying good things just because somebody is dead. we loved chiluba in 1991, but latter on he disappointed the nation by robbing us in broad day light. to this day, i have no kind words for him. howeva, to the rest of us who seem lyk we r celebrating his death, let’s remember that dispite the many terrible things he did, somebody has lost a father, a husband, an uncle etc and they r grieving.

  140. chiluba is a good example of a Soldier, Revolutionary who lost his cause. a man who abandoned his mission and recked our country.

  141. #39 & 115, Plz Zambia lets mourn our leader and stop posting useless comments. we shall all die one day and judgement will come our way. Condolences to his family and close friends. Lets prove our Christianity mwebantu please

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