COPPERBELT provincial medical officer Chandwa Ng’ambi has said doctors treated incarcerated Roan Member of Parliament(MP) Chishimba Kambwili professionally in line with the complaints he presented to them.
Dr Ng’ambi, who dispelled reports in some sections of the media suggesting that Mr Kambwili was unfairly discharged from Thompson Hospital on Saturday, said to the contrary, Mr Chishimba was only discharged after his complaints were attended to professionally by medical doctors.
“As doctors, we have sworn to save life and at no time can we as professionals sacrifice a patient’s life,” he said
Dr Ng’ambi said the doctors dealing with patients would only handle issues of professional nature as regards the administration of treatment and nobody would instruct a doctor to discharge a patient.
He explained that Luanshya District medical officer Peter Mulenga, who also attended to Mr Kambwili was not an outsider at Thompson Hospital because he also attends to patients at the hospital, which falls under his office.
“Honourable Kambwili is a high-profile patient and it’s normal for the district medical officer who also attends to patients at the hospital to take interest in such a patient,” Dr Ng’ambi said.
He denied that he instructed the doctors treating Mr Kambwili, who is reported to have high blood pressure and sugar levels complications, to discharge him prematurely as part of a Government-orchestrated campaign to humiliate the incarcerated MP.
He explained that it was not true that the hospital authorities turned down Mr Kambwili’s request to be transferred from Thomson to Roan Hospital.
“It is the prison warder who said it was not possible to transfer Mr Kambwili to Roan Hospital because there were no sufficient personnel to undertake the exercise,” Dr Ng’ambi said.
The Zambia Prisons Service would issue a statement on the staffing levels at Luanshya State Prison today.
[pullquote]“Does it mean that the whole leadership of PF is suffering from BP? When Jean Kapata and Mumbi Phiri were locked up, they also said they had BP and now it’s Kambwili. This is not the first time in PF,” he said. [/pullquote]
Meanwhile, Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha has said he is surprised that all the three PF MPs who have been detained lately for various offences have complained of suffering from high blood pressure after being detained.
Lieutenant-General Shikapwasha said the illness which Mr Kambwili had complained about could not surprise anybody because it was a way to seek to be freed.
“Does it mean that the whole leadership of PF is suffering from BP? When Jean Kapata and Mumbi Phiri were locked up, they also said they had BP and now it’s Kambwili. This is not the first time in PF,” he said.
[Times of Zambia]
Chap should just save his 15 day sentence chapwa.
Shikapwasha don’t be surprised with people getting high Bp its the thought of living in prison that triggers it. You shall see after 2011 how a fall from affluence triggers it.
There is always something very sinister with some people from the Copperbelt, feigning sickness when time to pay for their sins comes. You bet this Kambwili hails from the same Katangese village with Chabala Titus Mpundu Frederick Natolelefye Kafupi Chiluba.
When I was a child one as we were coming from the fields my grandmother as a way to make us walk faster, said that those lagging behind will be eaten by the hyena to which I said suppose the hyena is coming from the front. This annoyed granny so much that she promised not to take me to the fields in future. This applies to Shikapwasha, today he can laugh at the opposition with bp and he can harrass the private media.Tommorow he will need these two and will evensuffer more mentally because now he is so used to comfort he cant imagine staying one hour with a bite at some food.
Shikapwasha napashilingilile kanofye asonfwapo umulomo….ichimona ububi…..come 2011 you gona have BP as well .we gonna kick your ass.
Its only Fr. Bwalya who can survive in our prisons.
I think Shikapwasha is a veryfoolish general, and also very self contradictory. One would have thought he would realise Chiluba is using the same trick on the MMD, feigning sickness every time he is supposed to appear in court and the government is falling for it, even flying the thieving Katangese stinker to South Africa for medication attention of a sickness that is just not there. Strange though now that its PF MPs, he seems to see the gimmick. Well, I wonder what will happen when its his time to Mbokaila, is it not a heart attack we are talking here? The slumbering general, watch out. By the wway, leave Masheke alone. If anything happens to him its you we are coming for.
Abena Kambwili nabo fi tribalism fyacilamo. Now that he has been sentenced, he must lose his parliamentary seat and a by election ought to be called bwangu bwanga.
This Shikapwasha is so Mediocre. But then Rupiah Bands cabinet is full of mediocrity. A day hardly passes without one of his punk minister giving some shallow comment.
PF-PACT BP…………………………………………………………… The new name on the table!
This Kambwili is too troublesome.he is now feighning illness.He should justserve the 15 days simple imprisonment instead of appealing.ALIMBE.BOMA NI BOMA!
“It is the prison warder who said it was not possible to transfer Mr Kambwili to Roan Hospital because there were no sufficient personnel to undertake the exercise,” Dr Ng’ambi said. i like this one!! This the same warder holding the keys to the hand cuffs tyng Mr Kambiwiri to the bed?
i find Shikapwasha’s comment very unfair. wait until we imprison you in 2011. BP is an illness that can be triggered by any thing.
Patriotic Front demo fails
By ALEX NJOVU and NKOMBO KACHEMBA
KITWE residents yesterday shunned the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) demonstration that was supposed to be held at Kaunda Square in protest against alleged attacks on their president Michael Sata by Government.
And MMD Copperbelt chairman Joseph Chilambwe commended Kitwe residents for staying away from the demonstration.
A Zambia Daily Mail crew that went to the scene found a handful of PF supporters clad in their party attire loitering around Kaunda Square.
They later joined Change Life Zambia executive director Father Frank Bwalya at the Kitwe magistrates court.
LT for the last time…where are the weekend pictures??? :-w:-w:-w muleisa bwangu ku nchito mwaumfwa? Mwachilaipika beans?:-?:-?:-?
Political jailling will not help the MMD. It is really sad that our country is moving towards boiling point. Let Zambians be alert as we don know what the MMD is planning to do in 2011. They are becoming so deperate such that they want to silence every one. Shame on them.
Pipo should just learn to accepting challenges…….walira mvula waliranso matope….. If you break the law and you are found wanting hell you gat to dance to the prison tune….nothing political here just serve your 15days thats been a good role model for FATHERLESS Bwalya
Somebody is definitely lying here. I must make mention here that even I ,non partisan as I am, have been a victim of poor workmanship in hospitals. Docs and nurses own tuma businesses were they spend time and surely most patients complain. Kambwili unfortunately you’re a public figure, play your cards right, otherwise these chaps may finish you. Get some private Doc. Or maybe you’re a real leader wanting to get medical attention like a common man. Zambians still don’t know what happened to Mazoka whom mwanawasa stole the polls from. I repeat, Play Your Cards Right. Nika jab chabe ba kambwili baba na ZZZzzii munshishi. Please stay out of trouble and make calculated moves don’t move or open your mouth recklessly. I think your a hot politician, take care dude.
Lietgen Shika & ngambi suck
The will do you bad. They will finish you. I think your have fitted very well in Pwele’s boots MHSRIP. Lyanshya can not afford to lose yet another proactive MP. Make calculated moves
Yours,
Zed never learns AKA Kellychinook
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Mwangala- They were denied a permit so how could they demonstrate? I was at ZRA so Iam better placed than you
Kambwili should learn a lesson from what has happened to him now,boma ni boma. They can finish you with their machinery
Spare poor kambwili fighting for the voiceless
Kambwili must start writing his will cos thats how politicians die in zambia.
Guys, did you see Sata visiting Kalonga Gawa Undi’s spokesperson Chikuta Mbewe at the UTH? He seemed to be trying to reach out for the spokesman’s head once again. Had it not been Mama Nyangu being in the way, Sata’s hand would once again have landed on a royal skull. Ubuloshi bwakwa Sata bwacilamo. You recall how he trailed Levy’s corpse accross the country, it had to take Mrs Mwanawasa to chase Zondwe away. Since he touched that North-Western province chief on pa kalukobo and the chief was healed, maybe Sata can use his newly acquired powers to help the drying Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua by touching him pa kalukobo!
Long live kambwili
These guyz should be controlling their diet, kudya monga khumba. Chibwili yamba kulemba wilu. Ba Sata has finished half of a page and it will be ready after 2011 for family analysis.
These are stage managed jailings, Kambwili did no wrong? If indeed it is deemed wrong in our current constitution then we are living in a stone age era. To challenge peacefully people opposing you does not constitute a crime. A crime of a useless charge of “breach of peace”. In my understanding who breached peace in this case. the accuser or accused? Kabwili was the accused by the demostrators. Now the Prison warden said no man power to take a sick Kambwili to another well stocked hospital. So which manpower when he was the Manpower??? Pa Zed Yaba.
Is this the same Kambwili who threatened a fellow politician with a gun at Muvi studios? Is this the same guy who is now working with the Chinese that are supposedly exploiting our people? Is this the same over-fed guy we have seen in the news? If he wants his BP to come down he should watch his diet and exercise his whole body and not only his mouth.
Hin Kambwili belongs to prison. All the remarks he makes whether i Parliament or Socially or otherwise are leadways to jail. Extend the sentence by the number of days he spent in hospital. He is a SCAMBAG
Correction.
Hon Kambwili belongs to prison. All the remarks he makes whether in Parliament or Socially or otherwise are leadways to jail. Extend the sentence by the number of days he spent in hospital. BP as a result of inprisonment is a sign of ‘KAWADAISI’ Anyway, this is common for the Bembas and their PF SHIIIIIT.He is a SCAMBAG.
This Shikapwasha is a very awkward man. I have yet to read something sensible coming out of his mouth befitting a national leader.
#28 & 29. Tone down please. I appreciate the fact that Hon Kambwili uses his mouth to think, but this shouldnot be a reason to condemn the entire clan/tribe. Kambwili’s comments are never collective, thats why even some well thinking PF members have lashed out at such outbursts
Anyway, the same laws he makes have caught up with him. Is the Lusaka case involving MUVI TV over? I can foresee another conviction this time in a very congested prison Chimbokaila near UTH.
Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha has said he is surprised that all the three PF MPs who have been detained …. have complained of suffering from high blood pressure. Lieutenant-General Shikapwasha said the illness which Mr Kambwili had complained about could … was a way to seek to be freed. Does it mean that the whole leadership of PF is suffering from BP? Jean Kapata and Mumbi Phiri …also said they had BP and now it’s Kambwili. This is not the first time in PF,” he said [Nor will it be the last time!]. Please ba Government Spokesman, is this all you can come up with? It makes you sound very cheap and shallow!
Chief Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha has said he is surprised that all the three PF MPs who have been detained …. have complained of suffering from high blood pressure. [He] said the illness which Mr Kambwili had complained about … was a way to seek to be freed. Does it mean that the whole leadership of PF is suffering from BP? Jean Kapata and Mumbi Phiri …also said they had BP and now it’s Kambwili. This is not the first time in PF, he said [Nor will it be the last time!]. Please ba Government Spokesman, is this all you can come up with? It makes you sound very cheap and shallow!
As the saying goes ‘if you cant do the time, then dont do the crime’.
Pipo, I thought we must all feel sorry when someone falls ill. It is very unfortunate that Shiks has a the energy to laugh at BP patients. I take it that is the way he laughs privately at suffering Zambians. Illness is illness regardless of circumstances and believe you me he will develop high blood pressure when he is dropped. He who laughs last laughs loudest. I will laugh at him but not when he falls sick. At this point I expect MMD fellow to condemn what the general did as it amounts to unZambian type of behavior from a full cabinet minister under oath to serve this country. Bloggers anyone can have BP and sure most of us do not just know because we have not been tested. The condition is not a joke anymore. God save us.
#32 the MUVI TV- kambwili saga was over shadowed by the MMD thugs threatening to gang rape Nawakwi. It was a one-one affair. They could not incarcerate Kambwili without people raising eyeblows about the remarks made by the movement of bad persons a.k.a MMD live on TV. You see when we talk about the law being applied selectively, this is exactly it.
A country where somebody nuts threatens a woman of high standing with rape, the whole country getting mute about it, no law, no social or legal action, no redress, no repentance, no level reproach, no condemnation whatsoever. if it were someone else somebody Banda was going to cry PORNO.
Thats why……
Oh yes! shield all the wrong doers you eat and drink with, jail the others
Shikapwasha, Ba noko naba wiso nindoshi. How can you say such things about people who are suffering from BP just because they belong to PF?
:((:)):-@[-x Shikapwasha, teka mutima. Your time will also come mu Chimbokaila. :((:((:-j~X(~X(
Respect human life, even if they oppose you every person is an individual, even if you dont like them they have space to occupy,, mind you Kambwili also has a family to look after dont kill him..
Who is Kambwili he is just paitent and prisoner like any one else.There are so many patients with BP so what is so special about him.
bp is a hwite collar disease ronnie..even u may have next year after elections..
Given that he has a criminal record, does that mean Kambwili will have to relinquish his parliamentary seat?
This high blood pressure thing only affects PF MPs when they are about to go in custody,. It happened to Jean Kapata and Mumbi Phiri. These fellas should either stay away from trouble or stop feigning illness.
A dog always has its own time. KK was so powerful with his vigilantes. Women were being raped by these dirty vigilantes just to access a bag of mealie meal. When he left office, chiluba locked him up and put him under house arrest for six months. When Chiluba was in power, he equally led a brutal govt that armed call boys. The police was taken over by call boys to spearheard his ill fated third term debate. He created the Kadobis, scorpions and all those Kulima tower boys at the behest of Dr Machungwa who was Home Affairs minister. Machungwa supplied these illiterates with pistols to harrass all those who were against Chiluba’s third term overtures. Now RB is in power and he’s increasingly becoming a dictator by the day. Tomoro he wont be in office. These are Zambian politics bane.
#46 Of course Sata had nothing to do with the Chiluba’s third-term bid? Are you seriously going to try and re-write history? Talking of dictators, when is Sata going to hold a convention within PF?
24, At the rate he is going Kambwili will not have much life left in him.
Though i dont support MMD am not blaming Shikapwasha and he was actually right. The dishasge of Mr Kambwili was done by the medical personnel but Kambwili was faining illness.
These PF MPs are cowards ehh.. Everytime they face the law, they develop BP. Remember Jean Kapata and Mumbi Phiri when they were arrested for honking. cowards, cowards..
Kambwili is a big fool. He thought cadres would rally behind him even in his stupidity. Shame on him, where is Sata, Lubinda and the cadres to console him now that he has been convicted. Law is law until it visits you and thats the time you remember that your stomach is full of nothing but nyama soya. Where was his health when he misbehaved. Kambwili is a pupet, he has caused so much trouble to the people of Luanshya especially those in offices whom he has victimized and abused with his stupid MP authority. Shame on him. Let him go to prison and no bail. Let him prove his BP in prison just like other prisoners.
# 47 i do agree with you entirely, Sata thought he was being clever by embracing Chiluba’s third term. He kicked out his friends from the party so that he remains without any possible competition to tak a go at the party presidency. However, the political engineer dribbled him three folds. Sata is part of this mess we are in becoz he should have refused to Chiluba’s machinations. Sata is now dancing to his own music. The only politician I admire in the country is Dr Roger Chongwe. He doesnt lie at all. I wish all politicians were like him. Politics is about principles not opportunism. When mistreat people your time will come soon. RB is a nice person socially but not fit to run our complex economy. Between the two RB and Sata I can vote for RB but he is not my favourite though.
Political hooliganism has no place in mordern day politics. Mr. Kambwili publicly insulted the Lubales and then went ahead to tease them when they were about to demonstrate about his utterances. What kind of a leader is he? PF was not ready to lead this great nation in 2006 despite winning seats that were considered to be predominantly MMD. Imagine having Mr. Kambwili, Mrs. Phiri or even ba Kabimba (maybe at Home Affairs) as cabinet ministers! I shudder to imagine what would have become of this great nation. Luanshya prison is near Thompson Hospital, for logistical purposes it was more ideal to prison authorities than Roan which is about 5-7 km away. The constutuency is represented by a social misfit, they definitely deserve better. MMD please dont make a hero out of a nobody.
Imiti ikula empanga,the Kabwilis are the future leaders of Zed feel sorry for ba Shikapwasha as a man of God should have wisdom.Rubble rouser Kabwili must change game plan or will die in carceration.Would do with managing what he eats and drinks,exercise or he will kill himself.Pot belly and being swollen is a sign of poverty same high carbohydrate stuff.Ubwali,Mosi etc.Look at Obamas,Cameron,Tony Blair?super fit what’s our problem guys