Zambia Daily Mail has deleted the editorial from their online version after receing a letter from former Defence Minister Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba’s lawyers threatening to sue the paper for publishing libelous, defamatory, and prejudicial editorial comment that insinuated the former Defence Minister was corrupt and was habouring ill-gotten wealth.
In a letter addressed to Anthony Mukwita, the managing director of the Zambia Daily Mail, Mwamba stated that the editorial was malicious intended to prejudice the presumption of innocence by the Zambian Constitution in relation to the on-going investigations.
He stated that the editorial also suggested that he (Mwamba) was an inconsiderate, selfish and lacked integrity and morality adding the innuendos could be seen for what they really were and certainly did not fall short of being defamatory.
“You thus have 48 hours to retract your article in total and render an apology failing which we will commence legal proceedings and claim damages in the amount you purport is the value of the motor vehicle you have incredulously referred to,” Mwamba’s lawyers Makebi Advocates stated in the claim letter.
Mwamba has said his wealth over which some media houses were demonizing him had been accumulated over years of hard work.
[pullquote]Someone called me about an editorial in some newspaper that has slandered me and my action to buy my wife Chama, a state-of-the-art Range Rover SUV and the editor has insinuated that I could have purchased the car from the Zesco contract. Let them know that the contract was not given to my company.[/pullquote]
Mwamba said contrary to insinuations that he could have purchased his wife state-of-the-art Range Rover SUV worth $200,000 (K1.2 million) from the botched Zesco contract, the Kasama Central Member of Parliament (MP) he had been in business since the days of UNIP and could afford to spend on his wife of 30 years.
Mwamba said those doubting his business acumen should find time to watch the Mnet channel which is currently airing his business profile adding that he had no regrets having spent such an amount on his dear wife.
The former Defence Minister has described as petty jealousy the slander campaign some media houses have launched against him as a means scandalize profile and his wealth.Mwamba said he had had money long before the Patriotic Front (PF) whose leadership has turned him into a pariah and that his businesses were well established even during the time Kenneth Kaunda and UNIP were in government.
He said those who had embarked on a crusade to finish his business and political career would never succeed because his success was anchored on his strong belief in God and hard work.
“Someone called me about an editorial in some newspaper that has slandered me and my action to buy my wife Chama, a state-of-the-art Range Rover SUV and the editor has insinuated that I could have purchased the car from the Zesco contract. Let them know that the contract was not given to my company. I have been in business from the days of Kenneth Kaunda and my wealth has been accumulated over the years of thorough hard work and my faith in God. It is petty jealousy to slander and demonise me over a gift for my wife,” Mwamba said.
The PF has expelled Mwamba barely a month after he resigned from government and the State through the police and the Anti-Corruption Commission have since reopened the Zesco contract which was previously investigated and closed together with Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba.
Ya ambo kuzanda ka!!!
For GBM to be posing with a Range Rover and publish it on Sata’s Facebook was simply too much, just to annoy Kabimba who could only buy chicken from Katuba for his wife on valentine.
@Nostradamus
hahahahahah! boi, i never seen this before!! Sata cancels GBM`s bussines contracts,,, but somehow GBM is still getting bussines `contracts` from Sata and his agents, ,, Sata`s number 1 agent mmembe now owes GBM,, also this mukwita guys and Zambia daily mail owes GBM,, yaba!! now i believe that GBM can sell sand in the sahara
Ba Mwamba, why can’t you just let go? There is no need to contest the expulsion. Those guys DO NOT want you anymore and forcing yourself to work with people who have rejected you is a futile exercise. Unless there’s something you are scared of, the only sensible thing to do is to leave them, and stand on another ticket or as an independent for Kasama central. It is dangerous for you to force people to accept you when they have thrown you out. Safety ku isunga wemwine.
Get them tiger! these PF bootlickers should know that they can not have a field day at will. That editorial comment was childish and pathetic, not worthy of the paper it was written on. Jealousy people will never win
Despite the fact that chaalitumpa chi GBM when he was in the panga family, the way he plays his cards now will either make or break him. I have no doubt that under UPND GBM can flourish into a disciplined leader, the way William Kapuba Banda has been transformed. GBM has some good conscious and sense in him and if nurtured under UPND AND HH. Chumbu Kelenka has already campaigned for him. Go to UPND and negotiate a position there, the future is still bright. Forming a party will finish GBM into another Mulongoti, he has too many skeletons to start and lead a party.
ati ‘william kapuba banda, chumbu kelenka, you are funny.Kuti wasakaminwa
DAILY MAIL OR DAILY TISSUE MUST BE CLOSED IMMEDIATELY,WHY WOULD A GOVERNMENT SPONSORED NEWSPAPER START BEHAVING LIKE THIS.SCANDALIZING INNOCENT CITIZENS.WHAT WRONG DID GBM COMMIT JUST BUYING A LATEST SUV FOR HIS WIFE OF 30 YEARS HONESTLY.THIS KIND OF JEALOUS FROM THESE PEOPLE PRETENDING TO BE JOURNALISTS IS VERY BAD.AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE DAILY MAIL IS A PAPER THAT STRUGGLES TO SELL ITS COPIES EVEN WHEN HUGE TAX PAYERS MONEY IS SPENT ON IT OPERATIONS.
THIS MUKWITA(MD) MUST STOP THIS STUPIDITY,IF IT WAS HIS MONEY HE USES TO FUND THIS PAPER WE WOULDNT HAVE ANY PROBLEM BUT BECAUSE WE, TAX PAYERS ARE THE ONES FUNDING IT WE ARE NOT HAPPY.YOU ARE NOT EVEN ASHAMED WITH SUCH SHALLOW THINKING.ANYWAY WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER TASTED MONEY THAT IS WHAT WE EXPECT FROM THEM.SHAME ON YOU.
BUYING A PRESENT TO YOUR LOVELY WIFE HAS NO PROBLEM. BUT THE PROBLEM IS HOW YOU BUY IT AND THE MOTIVE THEREOF. HONESTLY CAN YOU SPEND SUCH COLOSSAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR A PRESENT TO YOUR WIFE WHEN YOUR RELATIVES HAS ACTUALLY NO PLOTS WHERE TO BUILD JUST A SMALL SHELTER. IT APPEARS AS POMP AND SHOWING OFF.BESIDES,DO YOU BUY A PRESENT FOR YOUR WIFE AND PUBLISH IT? WHEN I BUY SOMETHING FOR MY WIFE, I DO IT FOR HER AND SOUND NO TRUMPET.CAPWA. BY THE WAY WHAT IS VALENTINE; IF NOT JUST AN FORNICATION DAY! IF IT IS MORALLY OKEY,WE WOULD SEE IT APPEAR ON OUR CALENDAS LIKE OTHER OCCASIONS LIKE CHRISTMAS ETC
@ chunda steven,
Blame your father for having failed to make it in life even when opportunities were ubundant.your father is a big flopmthats why your mother never enjoyed him
But this PF mouthpiece Dr Scot said that PF was going to privatise all the government owned newspapers in Parliament!!!
Have you dullards forgotten?
Or have you become so used to PF BUFI that you do not pay attention anymore?
Ha ha kapuba ka mwikwita.I don’t know where the guys get their education.poverty baane ibi.Why boot-liking always bamambala aba?Iwe, we have leadership crisis in Zambia.We need new people with fresh ideas ,not these journalists who can’t even find 2 power 1.
I just wonder what would happen if miraculously GBM became president……. I mean how all these little men slandring him would behave, imagine Kabimba, useless Mwikita and the rest PF senior cadres!
@Cindy
things like that can happen!!… Remember those people who hated Sata to bone,, imagine!! what they felt and did the day Sata became president
An era was introduced with enlightement and know how were the basis for leadership about 20 years ago. Because our education system puts science before history and matters which are less important than priorities, what did we do? We have rewritten history with an era of personal security as the most important. The young ones can change a government yes! But put in the right guys! We have achieved security, we need intellectualism! Why would you vote in Kaponyas? Convince me!
Anthony Mukwita is a dull chap! why publish it in the first place. Muzungu anikonda attitude won’t take you anywhere! You are young and the future is right in front of you! following old demagogues will not help you. Soon these guys will leave the way RB left! search for Dickson Jere nobody gives s&*&t where he is. You risk becoming the same. count the days. You have even started drinking from Ohagan’s and stopped ma cheap pubs. Change young man
Dickson Jere is lawyer with Mvunga and associates, so you know where he id
Dickson Jere has published a book and by the way his real friends and family care about where he is.
Ubufontini ba GBM.Ala ukukulila kumushi lisambi limo.No wonder ulupiya lwafililwa ukubachinja ubongo.Yalya ama posing yafyuma batemenwe muno nshiku pa facebook yalelangafye ubututu.
Don’t worry ba GBM. They will all eat their words and deeds. I know you personally and that your are above board. Event these small minded people will soon grovel at your feet.
chunda steven you are so shallow minded and you need to grow before its too late or you will perish.
GBM didnt publish anything but the publishers did. anyway thats his money he worked for it alone, so go and retach your balls.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YPU PEOPLE.STEVE IS RIGHT WE ALL ARE ON FACE BOOK BUT DO YOU POST YOUR HUSBANDS GIFTS ONLINE? LETS BE REAL.WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER GITFS YOU POST ONLINE. I WOULD RETURN IT.WHAT IS THE MOTIVE.HUSBANDS AND WIVIES EXCHARGE GIFTS PRIVATELY.GET EDUCATED#
The irony of it all is that Mukwita is driving a state of the art Landrover Discovery bought at taxpayer’s expense and he wants us to believe that by GBM buying an SUV using his own money he is being wastefull.Or and dont forget Mukwita just dumped a jeep and got himself a Discovery 3.
Anthony Mukwita sure….Can’t you learn something even from Times of Zambia? Foolish man.
NAIMWE BA CHUNDA STEVEN MULI BAPUBA! U THINK THAT ALL PEOPLE ARE LIKE YOU, U CANT EVEN MANAGE TO BUY YOUR WIFE AKA TENGE FOR 10 KWACHA.
Is the $200k price tag actually correct by the way? Unless it’s bullet proof, which this particular one in photo does not appear to be. And one would need special dispensation from the powers be to import such a car.
The base price is about $80k with the Evoque at circa $50k.
Just asking, because the Journalism again can be quite misleading.
Anyway, it really is sad that tax payers money is being wasted on the sort of incompetency you find at Daily Mail. And we want IDC back.
Right on !
@ Cha cha cha,
which country are you in? In Zed not even a double cab Hilux or Isuzu KB van cost less than $50,000. The latest Range rover Vogue cost over K2million (old billion). Sport over $180,000. Dont forget we add 80% on the CIF cost to get landed cost here.
sue that stinky newspaper..they are useless..
They have changed their motto from
Without Fear or Favour to In Fear of Sata and in Favour of PF ( to keep our jobs ).
Spineless IDI0TS! Where is your honesty and integrity? You are really scum not worthy of belonging to the profession of journalism.
This is a lesson to PF bootlickers like Daily Mail that it’s sometimes honourable to remain mute on certain issues rather than commenting for the sake of giving the backside of the masters another soothing lick.
GBM for UPND presidency
I support. UPND is not HH property. And let it not be pursued on historical lines. GBM for President!!! Abash negative UPND bloggers.
For how long are we going to retain these government newspapers….there is absolutely no neef for them in this day and age. We are just wasting taxpayer’s money maintaining them.
Anyone with data as to wht Sata bought for Kaseba as gift for valentines??? It wud be gud to know at list we know wht GBM is capable of doing for the wife
Not everyone celebrates everything foreign. ..what is Valentine’s anyway? Most Zambians do not even understand its origins just celebrating blindly.
Wake up people! !
The problem and danger is that the old man may be forced to buy for others too. I hope you see how expensive it can be.
Jay Jay, as long as people are talking about a culture, you may not avoid it influencing yours. Culture is dynamic, yes I wondered what Valentine day is, but it has added value to life and that’s why people are in it. If you say, we promote our own culture to integrate with other cultures, I hear you! But to think we can convince people about what Valentine is not, will be like abolishing Christmas which is also meaningless in our Zambian culture and even in the true origins of the Christian religion. My point, if it is a peaceful and value adding celebration, let the people make choices!
And we wonder why we don’t become wealthy if we get jealous over such very small petty issues….savvy smart African entrepreneurs like Mr. Dangote are creating and building wealth and employment in our very own backyard and what are doing? debating about corrupt individuals and bootlicking journalists.
Wake up Zambians! !
GBM has boasted of his wealth and popularity and am sure he is having a wonderful time of his life with all the daily mixture of publicity in the media.
I have read and heard about some of the world’s wealthiest men and women who at the same time maintain a low and dignified profile but carry on successfully doing what they know best.
POINT OF CORRECTION TO EVERYONE THE LATEST RANGE ROVER FOR 2014 COMES OUT THIS APRIL CHECK THE LONDON MOTOR SHOW FIRST WEEK OF APRIL BUT ITS ON SHOW IN THE U.K.
SO DONT TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU DONT KNOW.
Unfortunately its u who is not informed. In Zambia, Allariance motors, started selling sport 2014 in November last year. And the one which GMB gave the wife is range rover evogue 2013, 5 doors and he also bought himself autobiography 2013
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YPU PEOPLE.STEVE IS RIGHT WE ALL ARE ON FACE BOOK BUT DO YOU POST YOUR HUSBANDS GIFTS ONLINE? LETS BE REAL.WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER GITFS YOU POST ONLINE. I WOULD RETURN IT.WHAT IS THE MOTIVE.HUSBANDS AND WIVIES EXCHARGE GIFTS PRIVATELY.GET EDUCATED#
Uyu Anthony Mukwita akula mutu, dont forget my brother people come and go in zambia, i used to admire you when you still had your earthics as a journalist,now you just a pf cadre sure SHAME ON YOU REALLY, YOU WILL REMEMBER MY WORDS ONE DAY when you will be bagging for forgiveness
did i speak too soon, hadly a week and the ka chap is gone and whats with those tumatight suits kanshii, waona manje wayamba kulila