Good afternoon fellow Zambians,
It is with a troubled heart that I write to express my pain and anguish over the continued health deterioration of my brother, Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba, also known as GBM.
GBM is in prison and sadly, the Zambian authorities have refused to help him in any tangible and humane way. I am more saddened to learn that our courts have consistently denied our ailing GBM constitutional bail pending appeal.
It will be ethically, morally and humanely wrong for the UPND government to move in to organize or support GBM’s funeral when they have the power to save his life today!
Generally speaking, we all know that GBM is a responsible Zambian businessman and a good brother with close friends in PF, UPND, MMD and everywhere. Why Should the UPND government fail to decisively save the life of their own brother like GBM when in 2016, he was their party Vice-President and President Hakainde Hichilema’s running mate?
In 2008, President Levy Mwanawasa ordered a midnight evacuation of his main political rival, Mr. Michael Sata of PF to South Africa for specialized treatment after he suffered a severe heart attack.
I appeal to President Hichilema to show similar brotherly love, Christian touch and humane grace to our sick brother, GBM. It is such gestures that build our nation and heal our political divisions and regional differences as a people.
Let’s continue to pray for GBM and all our sick brothers and sisters across the country!
Edgar Chagwa Lungu
Zambia’s Sixth President
Patriotic Front President
And Tonse Alliance Chairman
You politicians should build hospitals which you can also use. Always evacuation? It shows you have no brains. KK was never evacuated any time he was sick.
You are right but the other issue is about the collective unique compassion of the Zambian character
What I thought was those closer to GBM who are Prison Warden officers could have announced than you ECL a runaway chang.
What? Lol. Zambezi moron can’t type a simple comment.
Trying to squeeze sympathy for the convict. Maina Soko and UTH are more than well equipped to handle the ailments that plague GBM.
If GBM is just feed up of being in jail, we all know that the only cure for that is to humbly serve your sentence. And not repeat the same crimes after serving.
We were not there when GBM committed these crimes. Let him just take responsibility, man up.
GBM is a convict. How does any government anywhere in the world use government resources to evacuate a convict. I knew ediga was dull but I didn’t know to this extent.
If the courts allow him to leave the country then yourself Edgar lungu you will sponsor him with your stolen money to be in exile just like you did to many criminals like jj banda, kaiza zulu etc,gbm should receive treatment from maina soko because he is a convict ,not until the courts clear him to receive treatment from abroad
I will one day preside over the affairs of this country by Gods will. All this drama will be a thing if the past. There is a lot of playing around.
The same Edgar lungu who refused to evacuated our respect former vice president and acting president Guy Scot when cancer ravaged him????Edgar you are idiot.GBM is a convict who should receive the same treatment as any other convict.
I forgot about that!
Liars and hypocrites these PFools. Fast track to hell for these ones.
When WhyMe calls Hakainde an idiot, he gets arrested.
But you birthright people are allowed to insult ECL with impunity.
Have some respect. Your messiah will also keep getting insulted if you keep insulting ECL. That is why WhyMe has a lot of support amongst non birthright citizens.
What is good for the goose, is good for the gander.
Vote wisely in 2026.
All criminals are equal under the Zambian laws. GBM is not the first and last criminal in Zambia. Are you not ashamed after 60 years of independence you are still trekking to SA, India to receive treatment. And yet you build hospital for us, which you cannot go to. Are you saying Zambian hospitals aren’t good for politicians, but ordinary people? Atase whom are you fooling? The life of anybody does not live in overseas hospitals. If its your time better, die at home than abroad. What is there anyway? Mighty KK build UTH for all Zambians irrespective of status in society. Kanshi Mumbi Phiri ninshimbi who spent more than a year in prison. Not imwe 3 months you have told the world of all your illnesses. Yaaba? Nowonder Trump has disowned Africans. Too much of dependence syndrome. Wake up imwee??
Mr. Lungu do have any idea what morals are? Was it moral for you to do some of the things you allowed to happen during your rule?
Here you are trying vilify a criminal convict. Did you use the same standard on other humans? Or just those that stole?
You allowed so much abuse and today you want to teach us morals? It was moral to accure all that debt and all its misuse? Just keep quiet. Save those stories for your children and see if they will listen to them.
UPND you are heartless and cold blooded individuals. You are so disgusting and pathetic human beings who have nothing but hatred ,like serpents.
Jesus said , I was ill you visited me, I hungry, you fed me, I was naked you clothed me,
Jesus was talking about sinners, wrong doers and so forth.
GBM is terminally ill even any evil person could find a space in his or her heart to put yourself in GBM family and the wilder Bembas. GBM is grandson to chitimukulu, and if he wished to inherit his grandfather Sosala, he can become Chitimukulu. If he dies UPND for sure you will have hardest time to be accepted by Bembas. Every Bemba is quiet but anger is shimmering and anything may create a volcano eruption that you will fail to stop.
If he is evacuated, a precedent will be set. Remember, when he committed crimes, he was not representing the Ba Bemba tribe. He did it as an individual, so involving other innocent Bembas is preposterous.
We have kidney specialists in Zambia so what is the whole issue about evacuations? there is no need for evacuating a convict
Katele was terminally ill,given only months to live by our local doctors.Now,he has even outlived my cat which had nine lives.Please do not listen to our doctors,let GBM fly out for good
Even if GBM was crowned Chitimukulu today,I can assure you, that he will not leave that prison and go home to his palace.Respect the paramountcy
Folks can someone tell me what the law say about evacuation of a convict to another country on medical grounds. I am not privy to this provision of the law. Reply please. Mr Sata MHSRIEP was evacuated to South Africa because he was not a convict.
That is emotional blackmail.
We won’t make it easy for people to run away. Period. Tayali does not appear in court. Kaizer Zulu, gone. Kambwili ran but had to beg to come back. I am neither government nor UPND nor Pathetic Fool. I am a citizen demanding justice for my stolen largesse. None of you is speaking on my behalf. Yourslef, Edgar, your time is coming.
You will need no mercy once you are out of government. We will hunt you like a lion hunting its prey . On a good note , you have created a new intolerance, violence, tribalism, hatred and vengeance and more importantly when opposition no one will come to your aid because you are the most hated and vilest group of idiots tribalists.
Oh shut up, drama queen.
Criminals don’t travel for medical care outside the country. Get that through your fake tears.
Many people know the word morality, but do they live by it. Always we want others to be upright and not ourselves. It is wrong morally or otherwise for people who were chasing somebody in the bush of Western province with the aim of inflicting his body with a bullet or bullets.
At the sometime, is it right for a President to turn away from his official route and follow the opposition and then arrest the opposition Leader for the offense of not stopping for the president to pass.
Ha morality at cross road of crookedness.
It is said that those who live in glass houses, should not throw stones.
Some people insisted on immediate operation on President Sata. Is this morality?
Doctors as usual had to test for strength. Then it was discovered by Doctors in Israel that President Sata was too weak to with stand the operation. What caused weakness, Mr. upright man?
Crookedness also has a sting in its tail.
Oh mother earth!
What moral they have?
And yet they live and mark us all at leisure for their bloody action.
Morals, morals. even Sata has morals. Oh, What a world we live in with dimensions of morals.
Some people insisted on immediate operation on President Sata. Is this morality?
Doctors as usual had to test for strength. Then it was discovered by Doctors in Israel that President Sata was too weak to with stand the operation. What caused weakness, Mr. upright man?
Crookedness also has a sting in its tail.
Oh mother earth!
What morals they have?
Lungu is not a Doctor to call for GBM’s evacuation. Even if we ask him, there is nothing he can tell us of medical importance because he knows nothing. As others have already suggested, Maina Soko, Levy, UTH are all there for any patient, be him free or a convict. Let him be taken there and be examined by our Doctors, then the Doctors and not Lungu will advise the government. Lungu is a hypocrite, he is trying to show us mercy which he doesn’t have, is this not the man who called himself a tone of bricks breaking anyone he fell upon. This man is cruel, he can not deceive us by his pretense. He just wants to gain sympathy from people, but make no mistake of bringing him back, you will regret big, violence, killings, cadrerism, lawlessness, gassing, tear gasses will all be back and Panga factories will start celebrating again. We don’t hate GBM, he is our dear brother, we just want the procedures to be followed. Lungu is South Africa and GBM is with us here in Zambia. It’s therefore morally wrong for Lungu and PF to publicize someone’s illness in order to gain political mileage.