{"id":73026,"date":"2019-01-10T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73026"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:57:25","slug":"new-arrival-date-for-jakobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/10\/new-arrival-date-for-jakobo\/","title":{"rendered":"New arrival date for Jakobo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Sam Banda Jnr: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/higger-mkandawire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-70264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/higger-mkandawire-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/higger-mkandawire-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/higger-mkandawire.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Veteran actor and comedian Eric Mabedi, popularly known as Jakobo, who was expected to return home on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/jakobo-returns-home-saturday\/\">Saturday<\/a> will arrive today following a change in flight schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Mabedi returns home after undergoing a successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/jakobo-leaves-for-india\/\">kidney transplant<\/a> at BLK Hospital in India.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThere is a change, I have managed to find space in today\u2019s flight and so I will leave today and arrive tomorrow (today) afternoon,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mabedi said he was booked on Friday because there was no space in other flights.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Eric Mabedi spokesperson, Higger Mkandawire, thanked well-wishers who supported Mabedi to successfully undergo a kidney transplant in India.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe would like to thank the government, doctors at Mwaiwathu and Queen Elizabeth for the support to Eric Mabedi, the media also helped a lot, and Malawians for their prayers and support,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Friends of Eric Mabedi sounded an SOS that Mabedi needed K20 million to undergo a kidney transplant in India before the government came in with support.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving for India, the Kwathu Drama Group Director and National Theatre Association of Malawi President had been undergoing dialysis at Mwaiwathu since August last year.<\/p>\n<p>Mabedi has since thanked God for being with him throughout the kidney transplant.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cFirst of all, I would like to thank God for taking control of everything. Second, I would like to thank the doctors here in India for a successful kidney transplant. I also would like to thank the government, Mwaiwathu, the media and Malawians for their support,\u201d<\/em> Mabedi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The actor was officially discharged on Monday after his last checkup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Banda Jnr: Veteran actor and comedian Eric Mabedi, popularly known as Jakobo, who was expected to return home on Saturday will arrive today following a change in flight schedule. Mabedi returns home after undergoing a successful kidney transplant at BLK Hospital in India. \u201cThere is a change, I have managed to find space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73030,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73026\/revisions\/73030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}