DEFENCE Minister Geoffrey Mwamba has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Stella Libongani, to thoroughly investige allegations by United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema that Government is planning to send youths to Sudan for military training.
He said Ms Libongani should urgently find out from Mr Hichilema where he obtained the information.
Mr Mwamba said this was meant to ensure that correct and accurate information was given to the public.
Mr Mwamba said at a media briefing in Lusaka yesterday that Zambia was not at war adding that Mr Hichilema’s utterances were acts of desperation.
The minister said that the allegations were serious and if not handled properly could sour good relations that Zambia was currently enjoying with the Sudanese government.
“The last time we sent troops to Sudan was on July 21 last year, so far only 17 are remaining, I don’t think Hakainde is right to utter such sensitive statements, that is why I want the IG to investigate and give us a full report. The public needs to know the truth,” he said.
The Defence minister has since advised Mr Hichilema to conduct proper research before issuing any statements to members of the public.
Mr Hichilema made the allegations during a media briefing at the party secretariat in Lusaka yesterday.
Meanwhile, GBM has sued Daily Nation editor-in-chief Richard Sakala for alleged defamation and he is claiming K500 million as damages.
Mr Mwamba, who is also Patriotic Front Kasama Central member of Parliament (MP), has taken Mr Sakala to court over an article titled ‘Malawi to sell oil donated by Zambia’ published in the Daily Nation last month.
The article alleged that controversy was still brewing over the transportation of the donated fuel following reports that unregistered vehicles belonging to Mr Mwamba were used to ferry the fuel to Malawi.
But Mr Mwamba said the words meant or were understood to mean that he abused his office as Minister of Defence by using his personal vehicles to transport the fuel.
This is contained in a writ of summons filed in the Lusaka High Court on Friday last week by the law firm, Ellis and Company, on behalf of Mr Mwamba.
“The plaintiff will at trial show that the words complained of and the meanings which they portray are false and malicious as he does not own any fuel tankers, whether registered or not, capable of transporting fuel to Malawi or not,” reads part of the summons.
Mr Mwamba said the words mean he is a corrupt and mischievous person who is involved in controversy.
He said the words are further understood to mean that he is not fit to be MP and or Minister of Defence.
Mr Mwamba said as a result of the defamatory words, he has been lowered in the estimates of the right-thinking members of society.
The minister said his reputation has been brought to ridicule, opium and scandal and he has suffered loss and damage.
He is, therefore, claiming an injunction to restrain Mr Sakala from defaming him, interest at the commercial bank lending rate on the monies found due from the date of writ to the date of payment.
Mr Mwamba is also claiming costs of and incidental to the proceedings.
[Times of Zambia]
If you squeeze a Cobra in the corner it will definitely attack in self defense to protect its interests
HH… Please grow up! what kind of hatred is this? am not suprised though. Tonga’s can be stupid because of thier useless pride. Mwanyaa…….. u will never rule this nation. Elias Chipimo Jr is next! then the easterners again!
You think worse than my dog! What has tribe got to do with it? Can’t you just discuss issues without tribe? Go to Chainama and have your monkey brain checked!
iwe Chi Tripple R stop talking like a nyaaaaa! go to chainama first before Wise Man 2012 bcoz he is 100% right. USELESS!!!!!
@wise man and chalo bantu sober up gentlemen,don’t you feel guilty surely to seat in front of a computer and start insulting.
I think we need to eliminate the Tonga tribe once & for all. We shall do the suddam Hussein way….. Zambia can be a better place without these batusan.
POINT!!!! WISE MAN KEKEKEKEKEKE!
Bonse babili mwalipena. Honestly you cant discuss matters nicely without bringing in the issue of tribes. Just shows how Dull you are Bakaponya imwe. *****S
In what capacity would you do such a thing? are you god incarnate? You are such a FOOL, NITWIT, AN ASS, MORON, A DIMWIT, ILLITERATE, yes! thats what you are… people who hold opinions like yours are pathetic losers , and the world would sure be a better place without foolish, ignorant people like you…
You should do it quickly. You are even wasting a lot time the sooner the better
True this tribe is a disgrace.
edwin sakala, you must spend your efforts on the previous govt as they are the ones who sent you to the jele. why cant you tell the truth about the housing saga? ba za rich, you are still bitter yet the MMD who worked with you then turned against you. why cant you tell the nation what chiluba did than entangling other people? you want round 2 of chimbokaila? ooh ulenya
#3, so sad that people like you with barbaric minds are still crawling mother earth. you need HH and he needs you. together we will make zed. no tonga no zambia no bemba no zambia no subiya no zambia no ngachili mwane no zambezi no lamba no copper and poor you become
We need UPND, not HH. We need someone like Mazoka.
HH where.Ata iwe !
am easterner but i love all those who dwell within the confines of zambia as brothers and sisters. no single tribe how ever large it may be is dominant over others. this is 2012 june and not 34 BC so think like a fine chap if i may borrow captain solos words, fine chaps! you dont know us but you know us, eish, that day i was in kitwe just when kafupi closed unza and i was woken up by my bro that ichalo bapoka but anyway, zambia still remains a unitary state and no coup in its various forms will ever work as the people are united nga matako.
Wise fool and Bill are true fools without issues why do u like trible toking. Am living omong Tongas nd they are nice people just like Bembas. You 2 are *****s
#3 – If you dare do that just know that we their traditional cousins will not sleep on our laurels while you commit genocide against my blood cousins. It will be war baba!
Whats wrong with send youths to Sudan for military training??
Hot air as usual,still waiting for the report on the opposition leaders you claimed want to assasinate govt leaders 3 months ago ba GBM.
Madumbo maliketi kapompa salad! Are you on a fund raising venture? My dear you are a wife battering low life scum and for that you have no character that can be defamed!
May be the legal avenue to mitigate falsehoods, half truths, and rumours for the sake of it will bring sanity. You can’t go on demonising other people for the sake of it. If this the way political manouvers to win favours from electorates would be, no morals will remain to talk about. There must be dignity in doing politics. Politics provide national leadership all over the world, but its wouldn’t be the right one if it was used to trade insults, half truths, falsified information just for the sake of it. Why can’t we do normal politics where we discuss issues, sell manifestos and explain agendas and politics with no recourse to falsehoods, insults, and what-have you? We have so many developmental issues in Zambia that we can address, just too many!
we need a vote of no confidence clause in the constitution. we are more than 3 million from which we can select 2000 parliaments assuming the house sits 160 pipo so we cant just wait for 5 years to cast the vote. we need reports on a quarterly basis so we know which mp is doing well or needs a boot
Tribal comments by #2&3 above show how retarded black people are. If you want to condemn HH do it without referring to his tribe. All leaders must strive to be truthful whether in government or opposition and HH needs to do just that.
now you sound exactly like the two you are trying to reprimand! you are just as bad too!
@3, may be you should have been aborted instead of growing up with this kind of mentality..
tonga bull, tizakadya T.BORN kamutu kango’mbe chabe.
#12 By calling all “Black people retarded.” Do you realise you have succumbed to the same prejudice as the bloggers (# 2&3) you are reprimanding?
PF = allergic to critisim…kekeke mwanya muzalema kuchita defend. HH keep hammering them. MOnkeys in the maizefield. Sueing citizens all the time!!!! poor zambia>>>>>>>>>
#2 and #3, those are very dangerous thoughts. You will end up in the Hague if you are not careful. Genocide will not be allowed in Zambia. You will be surprised to see how many ethnic groups will fight on the side of Tongas if Bembas and Easterners were to gang up against them.
#15 black people are have no capacity to emancipate themselves from poverty that why i refer to them as retarded.
So Fatty has powers too to push around the IG.who does the IG report to kanshi?Is ZP under MOD?Last time it was that lsk minister giving IG deadlines on which to remove prostitutes from the streets.I pity these guys working closely with these bufoons.
#18 YOU DON’T HAVE A HEAD, THAT’S WHY U THINK LIKE THAT ABOUT US, BECAUSE U R THINKING USING YO BOTTOM.
LISTEN, WATCH US, WE R GETTING OUT OF IT, WHERE WE R NOW, IS WHERE ENGLAND WAS 80YRS AGO. DON’T BE FOOLISH, WE R ABLE TO MANAGE THINGS.
YES, WE MADE A MISTAKE PUTTING UKWA IN CHARGE, BUT, WE R CORRECTING THAT IN 2016 !!!
GBM: Genetically Built Mumbuulu
Everyone practicing tribalism has stone age mentality and does not belong to the modern days.May God bless Zambia and every Zambian that believes in unity.
# 20 I know the truth hurts but be realistic, 80 yrs ago Britain was far much better than Zambia now & to be honest Zambia managed by you black people will never be at the current level of Britain in 500 years unless you change you mentality of waiting for aid in hand outs, wait for other to innovate and invest while you just consume and provide cheap labour. I don’t hate black people but helping you realise that you can reflect on how you manage yourselves and your resources
IS UPND A COLLECTION OF NORMAL PIPO?? I WONDER COZ HH WOULD BE LONG GONE….. UPND SHOULD ANALYSE WHY THEY HAVE BEEN PERFOMING SO BADLY AFTER MAZOKA…. THE SIMPLE REASON IS COZ OF THEIR TRIBAL NATURE….THEY BLOCKED SAKWIBA FOR THE DIPPER GUY…. UPND IS NOW JUST IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE. MUKOSE BANE.
After reading # 2 & 3 comments,i now support making abortion legal.
Tough Words Zambians, #2,3,15,20 & 23. I am not Tonga but Tribalism has no space in our lovely Zambian values. Fellow Citizens, respect One another and Have love. How can we move our country forward with such attitudes?? This is why #23 said the Truth Hurts. WE SHOULD CHANGE. I TOO DO NOT BELIEVE IN AID. It makes ZAMBIANS LAZY and Dependent. COME ON WE CAN DO BETTER.
No.2 & 3 can go hang in hell.The republic of Southern Province at large has nothing to do with yr failed useless PF government. U MUST BE A BLOODY JEALOUS *****…!
what?? you wish #2&3 should have been aborted by their mothers? that too much guys, you can’t wish that even if they were born from primary school going girls, its not their fault for their misfortune birth.
Bwana Minister, arrest this chi chap ( H H) today and not tomorrrow. The chap has gone too far. he now knows he can never win an election that’s why he is resorting to BOKO HARAM and ah shabab tactics
#3 thinking like that comes from poverty stricken people like you mostly in the mind. Well do go ahead and see who the losser will be. Could it be the reason Charity promised more to come? I hope not.
Yes, please urgently probe HH. Please start in his rectum – reliable sources say he is hiding cows there
Okay, 2 and 3, your mouths stink!!! From the way you v said your comments, i can tell you must have been raised in an environment worse than hell, but anyway, i dont even believe you r zambian… The tongas do have their bad side, including any other tribe, but i admire them for their ability to work hard, not you two racists
Well, its because of pride that HH decided to leave the PACT and now he is hurt that the PF is in POWER… thats plain truth. Its such minds like HH that bring civil wars. We are tired of his Vuvuzela politics, he shud grow up. Period. For the sweedish government to resume funding to the health sector they must have seen something positive. Let SATA rule. Plz. 6 months is to short a time to asses PF. Somebody tell if cameron in the UK has changed anythin so far????????????????????
useless , what is GBM (Generally bad man) saying? now if found that he has trucks , and they sent fuel to malawi, then tizamuchita chani? ti za kuthena
# 2, Tribalism is not the way to go. Don’t ruin the chances of young Chipimo who looks at Zambia as a unitary state which should always as one unit. Chipimo jnr. may be Bemba, but by his father’s tutilage, he is a Zambian who would like to see Zambia develop and not waste time on provincialism or tribalism. If you are that narrow minded # 2, leave out Chipimo jnr. in your narrow mindedness.
Ka chipimo is useless. How is he going to be president if he is not even contesting bye elections? Or do you want him to take over from Ukwa?