FORMER republican President Rupiah Banda is this Friday expected to travel to South Africa following a court order to allow him travel out of the country for medical check ups.
Lusaka High Court judge Anesi Banda-Bobo yesterday ordered and directed that Banda‘s passport be released to enable him travel.
Banda who has been on a travel ban had his diplomatic passport cancelled by the government in June this year has since been issued with a new diplomatic one.
This was after President Michael Sata allowed Banda to travel following his request to the Head of State.
In a consent order for variation of bond Ms Justice Banda-Bobo ordered that Banda who was facing corruption related charges, have his passport released to enable him travel.
She ordered that Banda leaves the country on October 4, 2013 and be back by October 20, 2013 after which he would be required to hand over his passport to the State.
Her order follows consent of both the State and Banda’s lawyers.
According to court documents, Home Affairs minister Edgar Lungu had in his letter dated September 24, 2013 written to George Kunda and Company enclosing a duly issued passport numbered D0011359 in the name of Banda for his use as per approval of Mr Sata.
University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Managing Director Luckson Kasonka also wrote to that according to records, Banda had been undergoing treatment in South Africa from 2007 and have had regular reviews since then.
Mr Banda’s physician Shailen Desai of Victoria Hospital stated in his letter that Banda has not had yearly full medical examinations for two years now and as such, he needed to undergo check ups.
49 years of independence people travelling to South Africa for just medical checkups baffles me. Don’t we have qualified medical practitioners to conduct such medicals or is it a question of lack of medical equipment?
If this thief does not come back, the blame will squarely for on the president. If he comes back, I will be pleasantly surprised. RB has a case to answer, its better he clears his name, otherwise he will die with the Thief Tag on his coffin
We don’t trust them. With Xavier Chungu on the loose, they might just poison us!!
u r even asking as if u don’t know. kututunfyaaaa nangu niinshi?
I like the strategy by Morning Side Clinic which just clears our politicians and sends them back in caskets
No we dont bwana observer…
we do have qualified medical practitioners, but unfortunately they are extremely incompetent!!!!!!!!!!! Most of the times they treat patients like they are doing them are favor by attending to their needs!!!!! its sad really. The attitude in most government hospitals is rather pathetic, a shift in the mind set of most health workers (government in particular) is imperative, otherwise, the country will continue moving in reverse mode.
Ati president Sata allowed him to travel? Woe unto zambia if we’re nurturing rule of a grade7 man rather than rule of law.
@2 enka
You and your fake degree ll never rule zambia. Little brat, life is how you make it not wallowing in dreams that wont take you anywhere with useless degree in your a.s.s.. Grade 7 or not he is more brainy than you and your petty useless father put together. Hes had a life you ll never have. You wont even reach his age.
@george bush,
tone down ma bro…
our lucky friends. Treatment in saube. Us it’s mokobeko township clinic….
I told you from the beginning that uyu umulandu washauti
This just proves that all the time the immigration was blocking him from travelling, after release of passport by the court, the orders were coming from Plot 1. Kateka is more powerful than the courts it seems!!???
Let him go for medical check to UTH or Monica Chumya hospital. This mambala never did anything to improve the welfare of UTH and yet he bought mobile clinic trucks that he knew very well he will never use. Use the services that every local Zambian uses. This trend of going abroad for medical services should be stopped by these poloticians (politicians).
The court has odered.Which court?The same toothless court that has been ordering and the govt keeps ignoring the rullings.Such crap happening pa Zed due to lack of rule of law.
RB go! and don`t come back untill another govt takes over from these comerdians.
RB Sata Chats in Church
you even post online. simple english yavuta, what more calculus?
Blogger ‘Maxwell’ where are you, you seem to have gone into hibernation since the PF in-fighting scandal surfaced. I hope the talk about RB will tempt you to say something like ‘this vile and thieving RB must be locked up’.
Was also expecting that.
President Sata has realised that the mafia surrounding him and GBM group do not mean well to him. They were cunningly taking his boat down the Zambezi river to Vic falls.
He needs friends in similar boats and ward off threats from GBM, Kabimba and the likes
If none of our hospitals can conduct a medical check up, it is then scandalous for GRZ to expect 14 million Zambians to trust them. Of course they are more than able to conduct medical check ups on ANY human being. The reason these people do not use our facilities is because our money (tax payers’ money) is at their disposal for abuse. KK, throughout his rule and after, used local hospitals and he has outlived most of those who do not trust our medical facilities. Are they telling me that even the ultra modern hospital in Fairview area cannot conduct a medical check up on these people or deal with their lifestyle health problems? Our money is being abused. Full stop. They are the same people who can improve our health system.
Fake and incompetent DPP has failed lamentably to prove RB stole from our treasury. This Mr. Nolle is costing us billions of kwacha pursuing cases he knows too well are trampled up and in two years failed to deliver even on one of his created cases. Meanwhile, UTH and other GRZ hospital have absolutely no drugs.
If Sata seeks weekly medical attention in India and UK, and even has a foreign doctor in addition to his wife to monitor him, why should RB a man who grew our Strategic Reverse Account by 160% in just three years be barred from seeking medical attention from a hospital of his choice? Sata is currently using money left by RB’s regime — persecuting citizens and maintaining incompetent PF SG and Injustice Minister and DPP.
Cool.