By Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba
KABESHA MAKES STARTLING ADMISSIONS IN GAUTENG HIGH COURT
“WE STOPPED FORMER PRESIDENT EDGAR LUNGU FROM TRAVELLING TO SOUTH KOREA AND SOUTH AFRICA”-MULILO KABESHA
..he was going to use the events for political purposes…
..although we knew he had a medical condition since 2015, we stopped his travel to South Africa in September 2023 because he did NOT disclose the nature of his medical treatment…
Pretoria-Friday, 18th July 2025
Zambia’s Attorney General, Mulilo Kabesha has submitted to the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria Division that the State prevented former President, Edgar Lungu from travelling outside Zambia as he was going to use the events for political reasons.
In his affidavit Kabesha submitted, admitting, that the State denied former President his wish to travel to South Korea and to South Africa for medical treatment;
“It is CORRECT that the late President was PREVENTED from attending the World
Peace Summit during September 2023 and a church service on 9 September
2023.”
At this stage former President Edgar Lungu had not returned to active politics.
“This was because according to information available to the Applicant, the late President Lungu planned to use these events to further a political agenda,” submitted Kabesha.
“As a former President and beneficiary in terms of the Benefits Act, the late President Lungu had no right to engage into political activities and for this reason, he was prevented from doing so.”
Kabesha also admitted that they stopped President Lungu from accessing medical treatment in September 2023 and before because he did NOT disclose the nature or type of disease he sought specialised medical treatment for.
“The Applicant refused to grant the late President Lungu permission to visit
South Africa during September 2023″.
“This was because the late President Lungu did not provide the Applicant with any particulars of the medical treatment he allegedly had to undergo.”
“Finally, I should point out that the late President Lungu entered the borders of the Republic of South Africa in January 2025 through a diplomatic passport and under circumstances where he had been ill from at least 2015,” he submitted.
Kabesha also submitted that Government had allegedly obtained an agreement with the family to afford a state funeral and he claimed therefore, that the family had no right to arrange a private funeral and burial and must therefore repatriate the body to Zambia for the purpose.
Kabesha also denied that President Hakainde Hichilema abused the rights annd privileges of the former President.
Kabesha also insisted that President Hichilema was entitlted to attend the funeral and burial of the late President as a matter of duty.
He admitted that government’s move to prevent the funeral of the program by obtaining court’s intervention had caused distress but he blamed the family for proceedings with the arrangement of the burial without alleged consent or authority from the State.
Mama Esther Lungu’s lawyers are expected to offer a reply by 25th July 2025 and a court hearing will take place on 4th August 2025.
This is very sad. ECL would still be alive today if he had received medical attention earlier. Even Edith Nawakwi would still he with us if she had been allowed to seek treatment in India. Karma is real. What goes around, must come around. The day of reckoning for King Herod is near.
In the meantime, the open grave remains, waiting for its rightful occupant.
“HE THAT DIGS HOLES FOR OTHERS, SHALL HIMSELF BE BURIED IN THEM”. -EDITH NAWAKWI.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
Our god and idol Captain Ibrahim Traore that we used to worship and praise daily and blindly has now banned the Electoral Commission of Burkina Faso indefinitely, Sir!!!!
You are you the MOST CONFUSED GUY I HAVE EVER HEARD. Have you ever seen someone surviving from fully blown CANCER IN STAGE 4?? guys you should be reading. But PF fontini TOO MUCH IN YOUR HEAD. ECL had that condition for ALMOST 40yrs which became malignant by 2020.
ANY CANCER as long as it’s in STAGE 4 there’s nothing you can do about it.
Even plan “B” WAS all about sleeping in SA HOSPITALS
Receiving treatment is not a guarantee that one wouldn’t die.Some people have died without presenting any illness.The bad thing is failure to avoid bad habits that can harm or shorten a life span of one that has terminal illness like cancer.It is usually very bad to insist on stressful issues or politics when one has an illness that is life threatening.Doctors usually advise but some people are fond of ignoring, friends and relatives do not help they may be selfish to use the patient for their selfish gains.Then they would start witch hunt and blame innocent people.They forget their bad efforts that put or increased the risk of premature death.
There it is in black and white, from the horse’s mouth…. Hakainde’s government refused the 6th President from attending a medical in 2023 even before he re – entered active politics…And bundled him out of the plane when he was invited for a peace conference in South Korea…and even stopped him from going to Church..and a lot of other things.
Let those sponsored degenerates operating under ‘mercenary organizations’ in South Africa now know the treatment Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu endured under this cruel government…
I wish the Nawakwi family could also enter some submission on how the late Edith Nawakwi was denied permission to go to India for a scheduled Medical appointment, so that the court can have a full picture on the happenings in Zambia.
Indeed Dr Edgar Lungu and Edith Nawakwi could still be with us, prematurely taken away from the world due to cruelty.
Let the world know what Mr Hakainde Hichilema means by Dignity…There it is in black and white!
Even if he was refused to travel to south Africa,why was he holding four passports? I wish he was ALIVE so that he give us answers.!!!!!!!!
really? You knew of his illness since 2015, he applied to travel in 2023 and you denied him because he didn’t disclose what medical treatment he was going for?!!