There were no hospitals when President Lungu was born – Sister

President Lungu and his Sister

Bertha Lungu, a woman who claims to be a sister to President Edgar Lungu says there were no hospitals during the time he (Edgar Lungu) was born.

This is contrary to assertions in President Lungu’s biography which states that he was born in Ndola General Hospital. The biography of President Lungu was written by his ambassador to Germany Antony Mukwita and approved by President Lungu himself.

In an exclusive interview with Richard Sakala’s Daily Nation Newspaper, Bertha Lungu said she is a sister to President Lungu who he says was born in Ndola.

“I am his sister, if you want face me”, Bertha Lungu told Daily Nation’s Sunday edition.

She said the family had been patient and tolerant hoping that those making falsehoods about the President and his family would get tired, but were shocked that other people were joining the bandwagon of lies.

Ms Lungu wondered why none of the people questioning the President’s identity had not bothered to question her or any of the other relatives dotted around Lusaka, Copperbelt or in Petauke.

“The young sister to our mother is in Mtendere and anyone, even Mr Mulongoti, can go there and ask her. Our other aunt, the young sister to our father, is in Mukwama Village, Chief Kalindawalo in Petauke. And it is easy to find all these people. So why create lies instead of asking us” she wondered.

She also wondered why people wanted to see the President at funerals, “balefwaya tufwe so that bashininkishe ati epotwaba? (they want us to die so that they prove we exist?”

“We were seven and only three of us are alive. Me, Chagwa and Ackim. So they want us to die to prove that Chagwa is Zambian?”

Ms Lungu, who produced her NRC on request by the Daily Nation, explained that their family originates from Petauke where her eldest sister, Beauty, now late, was born. Of the seven children, Bertha was born in Lusaka and her younger brother, Chagwa in Ndola.

She says because of segregation and fear of hospitals in the old days, most women gave birth at home and had children registered at clinics later. She says no one should claim there was a hospital that time because that would be a lie.

Other family members listed included two other younger brothers and sisters. Four of them have since died including their parents, their father in 1992 and the mother in October 2003.