THE United Party for National Development (UPND) has dragged Patriotic Front Secretary General, Wynter Kabimba to court demanding for damages for defamation over allegations that the opposition political party was responsible for the death of Central province minister Obvious Mwaliteta’s garden boy and PF cadre, Harison Chanda of Monze.
UPND deputy Secretary General Kuchunga Edwin Simuusamba who has sued the Post and the Times of Zambia, on behalf of the party, wants the Lusaka High Court to order Mr Kabimba award his party punitive, general and exemplary damages.
Mr Simuusamba wants the court to order that UPND be awarded damages for anguish and emotional turmoil suffered as a result of the said libelous publications, interest on the said damages and that the two newspapers offers public apologies in their papers.
He wants an injunction restraining Mr Kabimba and the newspapers from further publishing or causing to be published the said similar defamatory words.
Mr Kabimba has been sued along with the Post and Times of Newspapers as second and third respondents.
Mr Simuusamba has stated that on February 4, 2013, Mr Kabimba falsely, maliciously and wantonly caused to be printed defamatory information where he accused UPND of causing the death of Mr Mwaliteta’s garden boy Joana Liakoka which story was published in the Post newspaper under the headline “UPND behind death of houseboy-Kabimba.”
He said on February 27, 2013, Mr Kabimba caused to be published in the Times of Zambia another article headlined “UPND must take responsibility for the death of the PF cadre.”
Mr Simuusamba said the words were in their ordinary and natural meaning understood to mean that UPND members were responsible for the death of Mr Liakoka, Mr Chanda and were also responsible for the death of UPND member Menyani Zulu during the Chongwe by-elections.
He said the words were also understood to mean that UPND was a violent party and its members cultivated fear and intimidation in elections by instigating violence as its members were murderers and violent.
He claimed that the words were meant to mean that UPND secured blood stained votes in Livingstone and had a formula for terror, crime and murder.
He said because of the same articles, the party has been labeled violent on several occasions by the public while its members had been accused and arrested on trumped up charges of assault and murder.
Mr Simuusamba who said UPND has, as a result been greatly injured in its credit and reputation and that the articles were meant to gain increased sales and political mileage.
Kabimba is unfit to be a Minister, suits him more being a cadre. With Sata back, I eargely await nears that he’s being relieved please.
Sata is back, nurses and pharmacists national wide are on strike. No one knows what our president is doing on this. Sata thinks Wynter and GBM fight will die out but it wont die out we all know that, this is round 2. Sue mwaliteta for assaulting Garry Nkombo aswell.
Mulenga Sata (irrelevant as he is) should tell his father to free himself from what ZWD describes as being “the cartel holding ailing dictator hostage”.
Wynter wont take anyone anywhere. He’s too playful to be your, my or anyone’s leader.
I pray the H.E. MCS will get rid of the “cartel”. IT MAKES ME SICK.
Oh, Thanks.
Ba LT that headline is as dreadful and chaotic as the co-accused parties of PF and Kabimba.
I pray for Kabimba…. Why the all Zambia is so much on him?
@ Nostradamus,
Pray hard the curse is manifesting and must be very strong, he must have stepped on an Angels face!
UPND had to wait till he was at his weakest to attack,why didn’t they sue him at the time he said what he allegedly said? Alafwa na BP umuntu imwe sure,problem after problem,i wonder how much info his pillow gets at nite.
Timing ba zamcab, everything is about timing in life. Even pa bed if you have PE, your wife or girlfriend won’t be happy. Timing my brother. The dust settles, Wynter is at his weakest now, you pounce now!
Kalibontwe,bushe iyi “ba” mwanjita,yamuchinshi olo yamazeto?
UPND had to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they had a case against Kabimba, the Post and the Times of Zambia, that is why they took long to act. After all, mulandu siuola.
It makes me sick everyday reading Kabimba Kabimba Kabimba is there nothing else interesting to report from Zambia??????????????
Nope!
Stopping period. Just because its not good for WK now you don’t like it. No one is forcing you to read. By the way, its gonna get worse from now , so I think you better quit now
Reading about Kabimba is neither an examination exercise nor compulsory. If you are tired reading about him, then avoid the stories pertaining to Kabimba. Simple. But the fact is, he is a news maker, good or bad.
Yes there is something else. Please tell him to leave the political platform. He is a political nonentity. Beme baleya mukwai.
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Though this alienates embattled further from UPND a party he may be counting on to accommodate him and the cartel, UPND has initiated a very good fight. Kabimba, Masebo and the cartel league have no option, but to shove to Dr. Ludwic Sondashi’s party.
they will join Cosmos Mumba’s party……hahahaha
Still the UPND is his hope. The trend in Zambian politics is that one can insult a given political party and when they are shown the door from the one they are serving, they go back to their original Parties and all is “forgiven”, except the unlucky Richard Taima.
hahahahaha…………. this is interesting indeed. sue mwaliteta as well, he is an accomplice to the smear campaign that was unleashed on UPND. sata is dead quiet why? this man is really a ……………… can someone finish the sentence please!
Leave Kabimba for now and concentrate on building the party for 2016. It will be case to do so as this man is already in serious problems with his party. We can come back for him when his power is striped off.
Nice comment, though i think action should be taken now while the iron is still hot! Mobilize, dominate and attack like Bayern Munich FC, put them under pressure always, let them play in the own half, jokers!!
Oh no!
Really interesting comments from people, especially @Kenji and @ Ngombe compound LK
Kenji, this is part of party building. The party wants to remove the tag of violence PF slapped on them by making all the false accusations of murder. UPND want to go into the campaigns free from all such accusations!!
Now is better. If the UPND waits until 2016 when they come into power, it would look like they are avenging.
I expected UPND to petition the election of livingstone mp on same grounds.
Kekekekekekekek……………a glass of wine pliz!
The Livingstone elections saga was a sham and the worst in the history of zambian politics. The desperation which the pf regime showed even to the extent of assaults detention and wanton violence cannot be tolerated. It was truly a recipe for the downfall of the pf and nowonder that they have no other external enemies they have turned on each other. Zambia is not the same 1971 country
PF is the right party to drive this country at least two steps ahead in terms of development if the grudges precede their core vision the party had, they will painfully regret both winners and losers if/when they leave office in 2016….its sad the President is too prudent may be quiet but he quickly needs to address the nation and do some reshuffles both at cabinet level and party level… I love PF including President Sata but am let down and confused
I guess one would have to be seriously confused to think that anything good will ever come out of pf in 90 days or 90 years.
School is important:
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Wynter Kabimba sued for falsely accusing UPND of causing the death of a PF cadre
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…to court demanding damages for defamation…
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………..i can go on and on……..
Although we all know that politics is a dirty game,when we seek elected office,(or are appointed by the powers that be),we need to exercise restraint and caution when we speak to the press,or issue public statements.Sometimes what public officials say and do can cause a breakdown of law and order or victimize their opponents or members of the public.
In Zambia many politicians and senior civil servants are guilty of careless talk which harms innocent people.Let’s emulate what happens in the civilized countries in Western Europe,North America,Australia,New Zealand etc where public officials are dragged to courts of law for defamation and libel when they engage in character assassination activities.
Wynter Kabimba’s problem must be avoided by others who hold public office.
Consequences of a loose mouth are always grave. It is high time Mwaliteta was also roped in. By the way, where is Brian Hapunda?
Brian is busy planning his defence. The chap was used to get the livingstone seat and then dropped like a bad habit. Now he’s royally screwed without an ally or full back.
mergers and acquisitions.Its like a poison pill after you see the rally hoping that one frustrated will crossover.
Trying to pick an apple then you fell then say it must be rotten.Its ill timed and a minus for
Running Gov and Party is not easy.Its not like a one party state.The party secretariats must be organized and allowed to run normally and parallel to government and with little strenuous calls on those with duo responsibility
What ever goes around alway comes around,its also the same whats so ever is on top one day it will come down.
Ba upnd your distant but timing is not accurate becouse winter kabimba still carries immunity.
The office of Justice Minister not the genius occupying it. PF is full of dullards and ass kissers. You don’t have the monopoly of knowledge dumb ass.
aAndreya Lubemba Phiri, you are not from Eastern Prov. since when did a Minister have immunity or is that what is in the proposed Constitution and if so will it apply retrospectively? Help us to understand where you are coming from. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
now we attack. .i love the timing mate
For sure being a leader you should be careful how wide you open your mouth.we expect development not becoming alarmists bwana kabimba.UPND leave PF to work the nation is waiting for development don’t district them.
Chinyama, you must be a special kind of st.upid. Are you sure that your parents are not related? That’s usually the source of such low level of thinking. Nobody is leaving PF alone to mess stuff up like mmd and unip did, no chance. I am not giving them room to scratch their collective arse. They f.uck up, they’ll be exposed with immediate effect. No time, no forgiveness no second chances. Fu.ck up and f.uck off! That’s the motto!
To all bloggers.Go back to productive work.forget about the circus. we need to move this country forward.
Lol, we are still discussing pertinent national issues here. Continue working mukwabo, we’ll join you shortly.
Munzi wapya, go back to Mpika and suck a dick (preferably another Bemba one). Real people have real pain and are expressing themselves.
Moving the country forward means clearing all cobwebs and other impeding factors if you are to have a smooth way forward. Doing things the correct way by PF govt means the opposition will have less grounds to criticise thereby allowing the PF govt to focus on development. It is as simple as that.
In short good corporate governance is a prerequisite to development. Strife, hooliganism, kaponya language and behaviour and cheap politicking is counterproductive, including tribalism, which unfortunately has resurfaced after many years.
Hope PF govt will now concentrate on creating a conducive environment for democracy, good corporate governance (esp. rule of law – control Zambia Police and lawless party cadres) and your effort to develop the country to will succeed. Please do this.
agree in total .let sanity prevail. wish these guys could be taken to ZNS to instill discipline in them.
What PF and Zambia requires is a serious vote of no confidence followed by a lawful change in politics and politicians. These motherfu.ckers need to start being servants or the people and responsible chaps rather than this bull crap of them thinking they are God, Jesus and Michael Jordan wrapped up intom one ball.
Hey, is the president back?
We hate what Kabimba represents and what he does. 20 odd years of being harassed and conned by mmd, 27 years of terror by unip, 50 years of evil by whites. We are not taking shi.it anymore. F.uck Kabimba and anyone else that stands for tribalism, cronyism and abuse of trust. F.uck them all!
UPND is not going anywhere. MMD will emerge victorious in Eastern Province and Mansa by elections. By starting a war with newspapers UPND is alienating itself further from the news media. Winning a case and awarded K50,000 will not take it anywhere. Lawyers will make money while party will be distracted and busy going in and out of courts. Donot write off Kabimba. He will come out victorious in PF. UPND shall accept second fiddle to MMD to remain relevant in 2016 and beyond.
A normal party is not operated by one person, surely UPND has structures and they must have a Legal Department that will concentrate on this matter.
BTW Kabimba had once challenged people who had supported PF and helped into power to name their price so that he pays; where are they this is the right time to ask for their refunds…..woooolalalalalala!!!!
Zero boyz, out of sheer curiosity could you entertain me with your source and reasoning that has lead to the strange conclusion about PFs ability to deliver a development model? “One cannot give what they do not have,” someone once said.
Good timing UPND. But LT your headline is also defamatory. Pls say “Wynter Kabimba sued for defamation” full stop. Now you go say “falsely accusing UPND for causing the death of a PF cadre.”
Thank God iam not the weatherman.Eish!from boiling water to boiling oil?
what goes around comes around. The livingstone election saga was a shame of election. Let UPND petition the livingstone seat after the court riling.
UPND V KABIMBA, POST NEWSPAPER, TIMES OF ZAMBIA JUDGEMENT
DATE: 17TH JUNE 2045
(a) Due to the non availability of the complaint UPND, I hereby declare this case closed and Mr. Kabimba and others are now a free. JUDGE
(1) You seem to be so exercited about this case of UPND taking Kabimba to court. In my views there is really nothing to worry kabimba.
(2)These cases of defamatory take ages to despose 10 to 15years. We do not even know by then what UPND or Kabimba will be. So I see nothing here to break Kabimba. There are other bigger issues I think he can WORRY about than this cas.
(3) Even if he was found guilty which I doubt what effect will it have on his political career. HH has a lot of such cases defaming president, issuing alarming statemnts, but the man is going on.