My Father Died Of Heart Attack NOT Poison -Mulenga SATA

Mulenga Sata says Zambians fully witnessed his father’s deteriorating health and that stories suggesting that he was poisoned should not be taken seriously.
Speaking on UNZA Radio’s Lusaka Star programme yesterday morning, Mulenga said speculation that president Michael Sata was poisoned by a cartel of some named persons was malicious and should not be taken serious. He said his father died of a heart attack and not poisoning as some people were speculating. “I was in London the time we took the president for checkups and I am fully aware of all the tests that were done on him, the scanning and different checkups,” Mulenga, who is also Lusaka mayor, said.
“The indications were that he may have suffered another heart attack and in his weakened state, he was not in a position to fight it.” He added that his father’s deteriorating health which Zambians had fully witnessed, was a clear indication that his health had failed him. “Don’t forget that he suffered a heart attack in 2008 and he was not a young man.
We get young people dropping dead all the time but do we say they were all poisoned? People have died before,” Mulenga added. He wondered why people did not raise death poisoning issues when Levy Mwanawasa died as a sitting head of state. “Mwanawasa was much younger than my father when he died. So why were we not speculating about his death?” Mulenga wondered. “President Sata was not poisoned, the president was not very well, he suffered a minor crisis when he was still unwell but…it ended up taking his life.
This cartel term is the term I am not comfortable with and for me, it’s neither here nor there. Wynter Kabimba is an elder brother, he is somebody I have known because he is among people that have always been around my father. So the president was unwell and I think we saw that in his deteriorating health when in his weakness he addressed Parliament.” And Mulenga said his family was meeting to discuss whether family members that have applied for adoption as presidential candidates for the PF in the forth coming presidential election would go ahead with their plan.
“We will be having a family meeting soon where we will decide whether everyone of us who want to contest can go ahead or whether we should just chose one person to represent us,” said Mulenga, who, however, refused to comment on Dr Christine Kaseba’s decision to join the presidential race.