PRESIDENT Banda’s lawyer Christopher Mundia has asked the Lusaka High Court to dismiss The Post newspaper editor-in-chief Fred M’membe’s application to cross-examine him based on the affidavit relating to the contempt proceedings.
Mr Mundia said when the matter came up for commencement of trial in Lusaka yesterday before High Court judge Charles Kajimanga that Mr M’membe’s application is frivolous and lacks merit.
This is in a case in which Mr Banda has applied to the court to commit Mr M’membe to prison for allegedly disobeying a court injunction which stopped The Post from publishing anything libelous against the President.
“The defendant (Mr M’membe) has been making applications in instalments and if he really wants to cross-examine me, he should have made that application together with the other applications which this court and the Supreme Court have dismissed,” he said.
Mr Mundia said if Mr M’membe had been serious about cross-examining him, he would have made yesterday’s application together with his earlier application in which he wanted to question Mr Banda.
“Mr M’membe should have applied to cross-examine me at the same time he wanted to question my client (Mr Banda). But making such an application in court at the 11th hour is an abuse of the court process,” he said.
Mr Mundia said since 2008, Mr M’membe has been making frivolous applications meant to delay the commencement of trial.
Earlier, one of Mr M’membe’s lawyers, Nchima Nchito, made an application that his client wanted to cross-examine Mr Mundia based on the affidavit for leave to commence contempt proceedings.
Mr Nchito also said he was surprised by Mr Mundia’s assertions that he made the application and relied on President Banda’s affidavit when he (Mr Mundia) swore it was for leave to commence contempt proceedings.
He said Mr Mundia said he is competent to depose the factual matters and he should, therefore, be capable to be cross-examined on the matters contained in the affidavit.
Mr Nchito said it is not true that Mr M’membe’s application is meant to delay the matter because he has given his lawyers instructions to take the matter seriously.
He said Mr M’membe is keen to commence proceedings. Mr Justice Kajimanga has adjourned the matter to July 25 for ruling.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
ka Fred, you’re a fake marxist who ironically enjoys the trappings of capitalism! I used to respect you long ago until I realized that you’re petty and follow a narrow self serving agenda. God will surely punish you for your wicked ways; don’t fool yourself into thinking you can take Sata to state house or else you’ll be in for the rudest shock of your life.
Marxist! Fred? No ways he is a tinpot capitalist!
big pipe, just shut up because u are not intouch with reality. you do not know the oppression that zambians are going thru
@1 Well said “self serving” best defines this character!
why should that aethist trouble us so much that it thinks that the POST can make us be its puppets the way the chief serpent is?No ways.Freddie Namakando is the devil and we serious minded zambians must shame it by not voting for the Patriotic Fools(PF)One positive thing about his behaviour and the post is that they have shown us how unreasonable and sinking sand him and the PF are.
The crooks gang up..this year Fleddie will serve where he belongs..Prison…
Big pipe
its true you are a sewer pipe because you can not appreciate the sacrifice and the suffering Fred has endured for the people of Zambia. Fred you are the voice of the voiceless and keep up with the goodworks.We are with you and God bless!
Chilomo, you’re a twi.t, Fred is no saint! He pretends to speak for the ‘voiceless’ but in reality he’s just a manipulative self serving conman.
#3, No. Fred has stolen from the peole of Zambia, he is not paying his ZRA taxes at the moment. He corruptly got ‘loans’ from public institutions, DBZ and ZSIC etc with no intention to pay back…………
This is the guy who is dividing the country into regions. You are fit to go to jail ka M’membe.
#4, thank you very much. Mmembe and the Nchito’s were busy pursuing late FJT yet they were not that clean themselves. The Zambian Airways/ DBZ debacle is white collar crime at it’s worst. Anyhow, God has a way of exposing the evil deeds of such shady characters!
fred mmembe is a very bad person
because he tells people the truth?
just shut the fcuk you fools if you got nothing to comment on….who can match Fred is this poverty stricken country?? the guy has done his part in exposing these thieving leaders & their close minions…& you want to reward him with insults and supporting his imprisonment….Shame on you scam bags …..sha!! for once, leave King Fred alone ala!!
I have great respect for Fred Mmembe and always will. The one thing I know is that Evil cannot win over good and we will reclaim what’s ours. May the good Lord give you many more years Fred, that you grow to see the Zambia you’ve always dreamed off. We’re claiming whats ours starting this year, and all thieves regradless of there standing in society will go to Jail.
Mmembe is obviously a firm believer in nihilism – a belief that is opposed to Zambia’s declaration as a Christian nation. Since the country was declared a Christian nation in 1992, Evangelical Christianity in the Zambia has grown exponentially and now represents the single largest voting bloc. Mmembe’s militant atheism is becoming characteristic of his newspaper where he is disputing that Zambia’s Christianity has nothing to do with its peace and prosperity. I beg to differ. The remarkable growth of the US, from pioneering backwoodsmen to the most powerful and innovative nation on Earth, was fuelled largely by religious fervour.
Fatso trying to substitute Mundia for RB? Well desk lawyer testimony by deposition is not new and any third year would know that
Mmembe u have lost some of diginit
The Big Isabi among others late Chiluba plundered the country and did not go to jail but were saved by our clovn Rupiah alais Kamuzu Banda, why should any Zambian go to jail. Save for murderers and rapists there is no Zambia who should ever go to jail until all those that have been acquitted on films grounds do so, the dead included. I rest my case