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Former Zambian president Fredrick Chiluba has died
18 Jun 2011 at 12:28hrs | Views
Second President of Zambia Fredrick Titus Jacob Chiluba has died.
Chiluba died of a heart attack in the early hours of today, Saturday, shortly after mid night.
His spokesperson Emmanuel Mwamba confirmed that Chiluba died at his home in Kabulonga, in the capital Lusaka.
He explained that Chiluba was with his lawyers most of the time on Friday but only fell ill in the evening.
Doctors checked on him but said it was nothing serious. But at midnight he got serious and died.
Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba born April 30, 1943 was the second President of Zambia from 1991 to 2002.
Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as the candidate of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), defeating long-time President Kenneth Kaunda. He was re-elected in 1996.
His former Vice President Levy Mwanawasa , also late, succeeded him.
After leaving office, Chiluba was the subject of a long investigation and trial regarding alleged corruption; he was eventually acquitted in 2009.
Chiluba died of a heart attack in the early hours of today, Saturday, shortly after mid night.
His spokesperson Emmanuel Mwamba confirmed that Chiluba died at his home in Kabulonga, in the capital Lusaka.
He explained that Chiluba was with his lawyers most of the time on Friday but only fell ill in the evening.
Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba born April 30, 1943 was the second President of Zambia from 1991 to 2002.
Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presidential election in 1991 as the candidate of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), defeating long-time President Kenneth Kaunda. He was re-elected in 1996.
His former Vice President Levy Mwanawasa , also late, succeeded him.
After leaving office, Chiluba was the subject of a long investigation and trial regarding alleged corruption; he was eventually acquitted in 2009.
Source - Byo24News
