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Former Vice President Dr. Guy Lindsay Scott, has died aged 82 years after an illness, the government has announced.
Secretary to the Cabinet Patrick Kangwa, said Scott, 82, died at his Trotover Farm in Leopards Hill, Lusaka, after an illness.
In a statement issued in Lusaka on Wednesday, Kangwa said in recognition of his service, President Hakainde Hichilema had accorded the late former Vice President a State funeral.
He said said the honour was in recognition of Scott’s distinguished professional and political contribution to the nation.
“The President of the Republic of Zambia, Mr. Hakainde Hichilema, has since accorded the Late Former Vice President a State Funeral in recognition of distinguished professional and political contribution to the Nation,” Kangwa stated.
He said the State Funeral burial programme will be released in due course.
Here are key facts about Dr. Guy Lindsay Scot
1. He was born on 1 June 1944 in the border city of Livingstone, the pre-1935 capital of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia).
2. Dr. Scott completed his primary and secondary education at Springvale School and Peterhouse Boys’ School, respectively, both located in what was then Southern Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe).
3. He continued his education in England, where he received his undergraduate degree in economics in 1965 from Trinity Hall, a constituent college of Cambridge University. Scott then returned home to join the government of newly independent Zambia, in which he was a planner within the Ministry of Finance.
4. In 1990, Dr. Scott joined the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and was elected to be Chairperson of its Agriculture Committee during the first party convention.
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5. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Mpika Central on the MMD ticket in the National Assembly during the 1991 general election and was subsequently appointed as Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries.
6. In 1996, Scott resigned from the MMD to form the Lima Party together with Ben Kapita, the president of the Zambia National Farmers Union.
7. He piloted the merger between the Lima Party and other parties including Dean Mungomba’s Zambia Democratic Congress to form the Zambia Alliance for Progress.
8. In 2001, he returned to politics and joined the Patriotic Front, returning to the National Assembly after being elected MP for Lusaka Central in the 2006 general election
9. Dr. Scott served the country in several senior government positions spanning different administrations.
10. He was Republican Vice-President from 2011 to 2014 under the late President Michael Chilufya Sata, and later assumed the highest office in an acting capacity.
11. Following the death of President Sata on 28th October, 2014, Dr. Scott served as Acting President of the Republic of Zambia from October 2014 to January 2015.
12. He also served as Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries in the Cabinet of the late President Frederick Chiluba.
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