President Sata of Zambia died 3 years and a month after
after taking office as Zambia’s president. Photo: Filed
President of Zambia, Michael Chiluyfa Sata w as declared
dead on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at the age of 77 after
receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness in the United
Kingdom.
President Sata, nicknamed ‘ King Cobra ’ while he was an
opposition figure, died in London’s King Edward VII
hospital on Tuesday night, October 28, 2014.
Although the cause of death has not been revealed, he died
after 3 years and a month after after taking office as
Zambia’s president having been sworn into office in
September 2011.
Sata, a veteran politician in the southern African nation, had
served in other levels including city council, as a member of
Parliament and Cabinet minister for local government his
election into office as president.
‘It’s shocking, it’s devastating, because I knew he was
sick.
But I did not know it was going to end this way,’
George Zulu, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in Zambia said, adding: ‘(We) lost a man who
devoted his whole life to his country.’
Born on July 6, 1937, Sata was a Zambian politician who
eventually ruled as the fifth President of Zambia.
Noted as a
social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front (PF), a major
political party in Zambia, eventually to victory in 2011.
Under President Frederick Chiluba, Sata was a minister
during the 1990s as a leading member of the Movement for
Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government before he went
into the opposition in 2001, forming the PF.
He contested against President Levy Mwanawasa in the
2006 presidential election but lost, with the same outcome
playing out in 2008 when he lost to President Rupiah
Banda, whom he eventually defeated as incumbent, to win
the September 2011 presidential election.
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