About Chipo Mwanawasa
MBS16.10.2024
So in early 2016 I allowed myself to be trusted out of the PF by known elements. Not, by then, President Lungu though. I formed the Democratic Front (DF) but which in no time was deregistered for no reason by those in power at the time. I then became an alliance partner to the Opposition Leader HH & GBM of the UPND towards the 2016 general elections.
Our presidential campaign activities countrywide were coordinated by a calm soft voice on a daily morning call, informing me where I was needed to travel to within Lusaka for campaigns and it would be with HH, GBM, Dr Cannicius Banda, Dr Maureen Mwanawasa (MHSRIEP) in the chopper to this and that place for rallies.
If I was unable to make it, I would also call the lady on the phone and alert her that I would not make it so that she informs the other leaders. I never met the Adminstrative lady on the call and never bothered to ask her name.
Dipak Patel would call on our out of town movements. Elections passed and only years later I came to learn that the admin lady name was Chipo Mwanawasa.
When I became the Mayor of Lusaka in 2017, I formed BOBA TV which was a personal social media (first of its kind in Zambia) to reach out to the vulnerable in communities but also got to advertise products of youth Entrepreneurs. I remember advertising young Mwizunkanji’s tshirts at the Boba door and also Chipo Mwanawasa’s mobile butchery of prepacked meat packs ready for the pot. This was a gesture to many others be it artists, designers, traders etc
Fast forward in 2024 the President is HH and she is his advisor at Statehouse. So easy to tell how she got the job as she must have earned it while in opposition as highlited above. I have only been to statehouse twice under President HH. First was as Team Leader for the Zambia contingent to the Pan African Parliament and second time was as Chairperson for APNAC (Africa Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption) Zambia Chapter.
On the second and last visit, I led the APNAC Africa President from Benin to pay a courtesy call. He is also the Speaker of the Benin Parliament. We were seated in the boardroom and it was announced the President would arrive in a moment. Then there was realization that the guest from Benin only spoke French and an Interpetor was needed. Before I could blame myself for having not carried one along, Chipo calmly said she would do it. The President and the Benin Speaker effectively communicated thanks to Chipo as interpretor to and from French or English. Very fluent actually. I was impressed with her confidence, abilities, professionalism and diplomacy at this high level meeting.
So when kachepa hit social media that Chipo Mwanawasa was expecting and more so from a VVIP, I took interest not only as an opposition leader but also as I have know her from the past event I pointed out above. The rumor is so ripe that my old women MCCs in Matero bana Levy & Bana Salah called me to alert me of something ‘big’ in the nation. I laughed at them when they told me this same gossip.
Chipo is actually like a niece or young sister to me as her uncle Blessed Nkunika was an associate back in the day when she was a little girl and her Father was President of Zambia. Ideally non of anyone’s business if she is expecting ,except she works at the public arena plot 1 called Statehouse as advisor to President HH and his name was finding itself in inuendos.
In my capacity as Oppostion leader, I made contact with the President on the rumour to check its authenticity. He laughed it off and said that him and his wife are used to absurd kachepa around them since the time he was in opposition. ” I am the most abused politician in the history of Zambia but I have learned to just ignore such things. I ignore and just keep working for the people of Zambia”.
I told him my wife and I always use their marriage as a reference point for a good marriage when we have challenges. She tells me that I should be like HH who takes his wife everywhere he goes for work. I have failed to convince her that government pays for the First Lady on the trip as she is entitled while MPs’ spouses are not. I tell her how I ‘forgot to steal’ when was in government otherwise I would have stash of cash to carry her along abroad every time on duty. Then I tell to be like the First Lady and escort me to farming activities at our Kantemba farm and get her hands dirty.
So our marriage role models would have disappointed us if it was true that there was infidelity in the mix.
I also got intouch with Chipo yesterday and posed 2 questions to her. I can confirm that she is not pregnant and she is also in a serious relationship, but not with any workmate but a single gentleman away from statehouse.
May the young lady be left to do her job. May we have empathy on her and more so that she became an orphan a few months ago. We must all give her support for the good of our late former President and late First Lady.
We shall give the President checks and balances but this will not include personal unsubstantiated kachepa. We shall actually reach out to tell the truth as we have done now.
Miles Bwalya Sampa, MP
President: Patriotic Front (PF)
October 16th, 2024
Even if she is pregnant it’s a normal phenomenal coz she is a lady a lady must Bear children some things we dwell in one wud think we are 7 years old
MBS 16.10.2024, you have made a very good account of what should have spiralled into a very bad rumour, which it was anyway and it was just awaiting to start being believable, like most rumours, anyway. But the country would also like to know how and who aided you including details of how you were allowed and accorded govt machinery to hijack PF. It’s also believed that you did not follow the PF constitution, you were aided govt system like security. That points to a hand of UPND in what you did almost a year ago. How true is that? Two wrongs don’t make a right. ECL dribbled you but you dribbling him back isn’t right either. Tell your story about this as we run up to your anniversary of trickery.
MBS 16.10.2024, You have told someone else’s story well. But why don’t you now tell yours as we run up to the first year anniversary of your fantastic hijacking of PF. Tell us who aided you. Clearly, from your story above you are in contact with HH and you look up to him, so you say. Was he the one who helped you. I believe he, as head of state, he would have been briefed on the security that was accorded to you during you scheme. Would be nice to hear your account on the process. ECL, dribbled you before, alright but two wrongs don’t make a right. In this story you seem to be saying that you and HH are very very nice people and of course, the dear lady who was at the centre of the rumours. I really don’t think so!