Government has evidence indicating that former Information Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha directed the production of the infamous Stand Up for Zambia TV program by Chanda Chimba the third.
Chief government spokesperson Fackson Shamenda says there are also people who are ready to testify that Lt. Gen. Shikapwasha and his former Permanent Secretary Sam Phiri gave instructions for the production of the infamous TV program.
Mr. Shamenda who is also information and labour minister says the Secretary to the Treasury will seek permission from the Attorney General to proceed and surcharge Gen Shikapwasha and Dr Phiri along with several others.
Mr Shamenda was speaking when he opened a workshop for trainee journalists at the Post Newspapers in Lusaka on Monday morning.
Yesterday, Former Information Minister, Ronnie Shikapwasha has distanced himself from the infamous Stand Up for Zambia which was produced by freelance journalist Chanda Chimba the Third.
Lieutenant General, Shikapwasha said at a Press briefing on Sunday that he had nothing to do with the program adding that he had never met Mr Chimba at his office when he was minister.
Government has surcharged General Shikapwasha and his Permanent Secretary, Sam Phiri for legal fees amounting to over 900 million kwacha as a result litigations against Stand Up for Zambia.
The TV program was aired on ZNBC TV prior to the general elections last year.
The program was highly critical of the PF government and President Micheal Sata.
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Why do things so publicly? Please, use the law and law enforcers behind the scenes.
Elo lwanya
Stop wasting our time, take him to court… You tell us you have evidence so what? you want us to do what…@%$**
Pf Government must be practical implement those policy or law so that Shikapwasha can defend himself in court not in through the newspaper.Please go ahead and charge the former Minister as a deter-ant to would be erring ministers.
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where is chanda chimba and why is he not being persued to pay the bills
The man also abused his position to air MMD campaign material at tax payers expense. Just arrest the imbecile and tell us after you have thrown away the keys and have sold his property to recover our money.
Friends i need to be educated on this one: who is the Govt spokes person, is it Mr Winter Kabimba or Mr Fackson Shamenda ?
Even with Liato’s case you have “evidence” so what has happened.We are saying you have failed to run the country
cage the fake reverand
#1 Yes the PF has opened to the public a lot of discovered “irregular actionz and doingz” by some citizenz. One would imagine that all theze matterz be investigated quietly and only announced at the concluzion point.
Chanda Chimba the Third. Must honoured!
Ba Shamenda mulibakalamba san imwe, Shikapwasha spoke very clearly that he should not be tried in papers but in the courts of law and you are still telling us you have evidence, Is us who needs it to prove what? Go to court that is where they need evidence.
We are tired of you arresters of the year but poor in governing the nation. I regret my votes for this kaponya govt.
Bunda bwa mfwi ne myemfu bit amano iyo? useless.
In the developed world, if you do something that is outside the confines of company policy, you have to take responsibility. For instance, if you go on a company trip and spend money on alcoholic beverages, most organisations would pass that bill to you, as an individual. The principle will work very well if Shikapwasha can be convicted of the case because we would have precedence of passing the cost to the person who made poor decisions.
But i totally agree with the views herein; why deal with this issue in the press ba Shamenda? You are government, just deal with the guy silently. Actually, aim for a day without news from “government this” “government that”. Being in the news papers is not tantamount to working hard muletusenya.
Where can i find chanda chimba videos. Good archives.
Fackson Shamenda, I will send you a carton box full of Gillette shaving foam & razors! You look like a chap from the homeless shelter where I volunteer. You PF jokers need to understand basics; Ronnie big nose and his friend Phiri cannot be personally liable for ZNBCs legal problems! Where is Mumba Malila to advise these illiterate neanderthals?
You dried piece of sh/t are you sane? Malila is the one who advised to surchage them. Why muambila ma comment over what you do not know?
what the fck i this chap talking about. what has gov to do with attacks on PF and the person MCS. you just start creating jobs instead of wasting our money.
that is all you hear from this gov. fire that, reshuffles here, alignment there appointment here, changing names of structures. no talk about people, no talk about the economy, no talk about what they talked about while in opposition.Â
INFACT WE NEED SPONSORS FOR CHANDA CHIMBA DOCUMENTARIES TO REMIND ZAMBIAS THAT CHANDA WAS TELLING THE TRUTH AND HE WARNED ZAMBIANS BUT THEY DIDNT WANT TO LISTERN! BA LT NABA WATCHDOG DO US A FAVOUR START REPRODUCING WAT CC III WAS TELLING US THE WAY YOU REPRODUCED SATAS PROMISE TO RESPORE BAROTSE AGREEMENT. BA PF MULIMBWA SANA
Bawiso ubwingi….noko umo chipe!
What has happened to the pf supporters these days. I seem to see critics more than supporters on various threads. Is it a sign of the times that things are not as rosy as earlier thought. Jobs, low taxes, windfall fimofimo, Barotse, Lexus, Immunity (now), fake kwacha, COIs, mpundu trust, the Chinese, airports, bread price, 90 days, etc etc infinitum are all pf achievements. Oh shiiii, Banki Muni azamvela ati we don’t want……… What a circus. We are waiting for the new harvest. Now we are in March ka.
It was money well spent o remind us about the danger of voting kolwestans in into gvt. Look at the man in state house how he tells lies every day, his ministers waffling like bubble fish in Lake Mweru. No we have Willie Nsanda a Chimwwemwe call boy and Winter a lawyer turned Kaponya running a parastatal, Is this what not Chanda Chimba warnd us against voting for Muchinga Sata. Even Dora was right.
Is this what people voted for pf for? So who cares about the Chanda Chimba programme? What the govt should be doing now is trying to prove Chanda Chimba wrong as opposed to proving him right as they do day in and day out.
Was Chanda Chimba III lying? Infact he deserves an Oscar!!
Old dude, go to work. You and your grey buddy in state house need to start working. You have been loafing for the last six months. By the way, you need to give everything you have been paid since going into government because you’re doing nothing. All of you are supposed to be in retirement in your respective villages.
Who doesnt know that it waw shikapwasha who promoted chanda chimba, stop pretending you were minister of information, nafimisanga fye bwana.
Take Chanda
Take Chanda C
Let ZNBC take Chanda Chimba back to court, prove who was telling the truth between Chanda Chimba and the affected politicians. The whole thing centres on Mmembe, let him prove that the articles on which Chimba based his programmes were false, why are you trying to cover up?
Shi Don Corlene (whatever your bloody name0 YOU ARE ONE BITTER FOOL. FIRST MALILA’S ADVISE IS USELESS; ASK YOURSELF DID HE AT THAT TIME, IF HE ALLOWED THE CHANDA PROG, ACT ULTRA VIRES HIS POWERS? WHAT WERE HIS POWERS AND WAS IT A VERBAL DIRECTIVE OR WRITTEN. IF VERBAL WOULD BE ADMISSABLE? TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE RULES AGAINST HEARSAY? WOULD THE WITNESSES BE CREDIBLE?
AND IF YOU SURCHARGE SHIKS WERE YOU WOULD YOU GET THE CASH FROM SINCE THE GOVT IS NOT PAYING HIM. SO HOW FEASIBLE IS THAT LEGAL ADVICE?
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT PF IS PLAYING ON SHIKS MIND BY THREATENIING HIM. SO THE BEST WOUL BE TO TAKE SHIKS & PHIRI TO COURT.
WHILST YOU PONDER THSES POINTS PLZ STOP INSULTING FELLOW BLOGGERS!
Was there anything wrong the videos – why are we bothering with them — will it bring development, or more money?
A chasing after the wind.
LT post me the full copy of Dr.Rodger Chongwe report so that I get informed.Why is it that Postnewspaper is releasing bits and pieces of the same and claiming its confidential.I feel mis-informed by this state of affairs.Please find and post that report.I can not trust the para-phrased Postnewspaper versions
a witness.
Iam 100% PF but these are Fruits of poor Governance in these Zambian institutions. ZNBC are to blame as they never stood to their ethics. They would have stopped Shikapwasha and refused to air the program. Let them take the knock. Close the TV station these guys are Jokers. LETS BE PROFESSIONALS SHAMENDA,
If you are charged administratively it is you who goes to court to challenge the charge.So  the Reverend should challenge the charge in court. I personally dont think Chimba could have air ed such rubbish without promise of protection. However it is time to wrestle ZBC from goverment control as I REMEMBER the infamous ECONOMIST sponsored by UNIP who bored us for hours on TV
so Shiks is getting a salary from the government? How else will they get money they are not entitled to administratively?
Sad that Chanda Chimba the coward cnt come out to cleanse himself even the unemployed Kaponya’s would be lining up for him at court.In my view this coward meant well and he can win these cases then what becomes of the result since Sata is now president with full immunity.