The Lusaka High Court has granted MMD vice-president for administration Brian Chituwo and his political affairs counterpart Michael Kaingu leave to commence contempt proceedings against party president Nevers Mumba and 37 national executive committee (NEC) members for defying a court order.
High Court judge Eddie Sikazwe allowed Dr Chituwo and Dr Kaingu to start contempt proceedings against Dr Mumba and others after reading Dr Kaingu’s affidavit filed in the Lusaka High Court yesterday.
This is in a case in which Dr Kaingu and Dr Chituwo were granted an order restraining Dr Mumba and other party members from holding a NEC meeting but the MMD president allegedly refused to accept the order and proceeded with the meeting.
Dr Chituwo sued MMD deputy national secretary Chembe Nyangu in his capacity as acting party national secretary.
“Upon hearing counsel for the plaintiffs [Dr Kaingu and Dr Chituwo] and upon reading the affidavit of Dr Kaingu, it is ordered that leave to commence contempt proceedings against Dr Mumba and 37 NEC members be and is hereby granted and that costs be in the cause,” Mr Justice Sikazwe said.
This is according to an ex parte order for leave to commence contempt proceedings against Dr Mumba obtained by the Daily Mail yesterday.
In his affidavit, Dr Kaingu said Dr Mumba and the 37 NEC members defied the court order preventing them from convening the NEC meeting to elect the party national secretary.He said in disregard of the court order, the 38 party members went ahead to have the meeting which elected Dr Mumba’s spokesperson Muhabi Lungu as national secretary.
Dr Kaingu said the court ordered that the MMD should not proceed with the meeting until determination of the matter but Dr Mumba and others went on to convene despite having been communicated to about the order.
“The action to go ahead and convene was a deliberate act of disobedience of this honourable court order and calculated to prejudice the administration of justice and lowered this court’s dignity and authority, which amounts to contempt of court,” he said.
And wrangles in the MMD have taken a new twist with Mr Lungu slapping gross indiscipline charges on Dr Kaingu and Dr Chituwo.In a letter dated April 28, 2014 addressed to Dr Kaingu and Dr Chituwo obtained the Daily Mail yesterday, Mr Lungu has issued a 10-day ultimatum in which the two, along with spokesperson Dora Siliya, former Solwezi member of Parliament Lucky Mulusa and national youth secretary Tobias Kafumukache should exculpate themselves.
The letter was also copied to Dr Mumba, national chairman Kabinga Pande and chairperson for legal affairs Bradford Machila.
“In view of the seriousness of the charges levelled against you, you are, therefore, required to submit an exculpatory statement in defence within 10 days from the date of this letter in conformity with regulation 9 (2) of the disciplinary regulations – 1993.
“Failure to comply will result in stern disciplinary action to be taken against you,” the letter reads in part.
Mr Lungu later said in an interview yesterday that the MMD will not tolerate indiscipline and that members are expected to adhere to the party constitution.He also said he will issue a circular instructing members to seek approval from relevant authorities before holding press conferences at the party secretariat.But Dr Kaingu said the letter is frivolous and a product of an illegal meeting.Dr Kaingu said he has handed over the letter to his lawyer Milner Katolo.
The question is how the hell did these cohorts manage to get an injuction on Sunday?
Judges are on call 24/7 . Surprising the ex-vice president doesn’t know this. Ignoramus or just a stubborn crook.
Judicial system is heavily compromised,you have the DDP with a catalogue of offences against the state prosecuting others on its behalf, oops! on PF’s behalf when he shouldn’t be there.You have a high court judge instructed to sign a silly restraining order on a Sunday against an independent political party with its own constitution holding a peaceful private meeting behind closed doors. I hope a different judge presides over this and have it thrown out. Autonomous organisations determine on internal issues according to their own rules.MMD can dispose off these problems internally too without recourse to public time or resources.I’m not surprised why Zambian courts are inundated with unnecessary cases, this is one such. Contempt of court, what contempt. ridiculous stuff.
Suppose the constitutionally elected leadership of the Mumba shadow cabinet handed over power to this conclave of political reprobates, who do they think will take them seriously or what kind of voter will waste a ballot on them given the low life shamelessly paraded in public for so long? Money truly corrupts, luckily everybody knows and sees Sata’s abuse of state institutions using the weakest and most desperate of turncoats in Zambian politics. It won’t work, they’ve just driven the final nail in their coffins.
This is Micheal playing on the political chess board. He is busying weakening the opposition so that ultimately he can be re-elected on simple majority. He is scheming in his usual devious ways, of how to possibly spread this cancer to UPND – it could have started with Dr Canisius Banda’s invitation to Plot 1.
The PF has clearly now resorted to survival tactics and the sooner the opposition realizes this, the better. They know that the only way they can retain power in 2016, will be to race with a diseased leopard! They will make sure these cases are turned and twisted in the courts whilst suffering undue delays, which will automatically dampen the political drive of the victims whilst forcing them into defensive modes to save their own pale skins that lack even the thinnest moral…
Options:
1. Unleash ACC ( Canada Affair)
2. POA ( Curtail or stop meetings)
3. Divide and Rule (Namulambe, Kaingu, Dora,Chituwo)
4. ?
MMD in Turmoil in Zim MDC in turmoil There are suspensions and counter suspensions Who needs to campaign for ruling parties when opposition parties are in self destructive mode
Zambians please stop and think, just rewind to post 1991 MMD multi-party victory, probably 1998. Those with clear memories will remember the obnoxious little boy speaking on behalf of Super Ken. Yes you are right, that obnoxious boy is this same Muhabi Lungu, staunch UNIP cadre, declaring that he was willing to die for UNIP. During the same period, Zambians thought God had answered their prayers by sending them their own version of Jimmy Swaggart, ‘Zambia Shall Be Saved’ Pastor Nevers Mumba. At the time, Jimmy Swaggart, like Mumba, was a much revered Pastor. Mumba has since metamorphosed into several species and now he seems fixated with the MMD leadership. As for Muhabi, he is just a ‘hanger-on’, always there in the background like a nuisance gnat (flea). Leaders? NO!
uli chipumbu, you can’t differentiate issues as they come.
Well done Judiciary. Screw these crooks so that they learn to respect the law
MMD is finished and the members should just join other parties, not the Pathetic Fighters (PF).
In everything we rejoice. God will have the final say over all the happenings in the past few weeks, it’s a Pharoah Israelite situation but God will get the glory in the end after delivering Dr Mumba, family, MMD supporters and all supporters with a mighty hand.
Where as this God of yours been then when Mumba has been losing all the elections he stood in? Across all the attempts he has made, he has failed to secure any more than a few, i.e. less than 10K, thousand votes added up together.
Not even his Church people would vote for him. Now you are telling me that God is all of a sudden interested in this fraudster?
People like you rely on the fact that God actually does not exist, you know that very well and hence why you abuse his name because if he existed he would really punish you for your selfish abuse of his name. You are lucky God is just a myth and you should thank your lucky stars for that. Your paster friend Mumba has long known that God is just a myth and you can see through his actions – he does not act like someone who fears God.
What looks like giants eventually fall down, the harder they come the harder they fall. IF God be for us who can be against us.
You are deluded – God has never been on your side and he will never be. History proves that very well, you obviously think that your personal aspiration equates to God’s plan for humanity or even Zambia. As I said you can count your lucky stars that God does not exist – I do wish he did though and I would love to see the likes of you who continually use his name to defraud the weak, the ignorant and the vulnerable burn in hell.
As i continue praying for laughter
Iwe Laughter,which many elections has Dr Mumba participated in and lost?It was only in 2001 when he stood under NNC.The other election is uder MMD Presidency,which he won.Please even if you hate a person,don’t vomit lies.You may not like the man,but wait you shall be shocked.God has always hsas a final say in any situation given.The Bible says:They,that trust in the Lord shall not be put to shame,and the opposite is the case to those who put their trust in man.Watch the space.You don’t act on verbal Court Order before you see the actual paper and verify it’s genuineness.Mind you this Kaingu Group are criminals and desparate pipo.They can do desperate anything,even selling their own souls with few pieces of silver-like Judas Iscariot
What happened to the UPND injunction that the police disregarded.
There are some decisions that are taken in chambers away from prying eyes and because your media is fixed on sensation they will not report anything that will result in an anti-climax on your side. Get it, you are being played.
Declaring Psalm 91, the blood of Jesus on Dr Mumba, family, MMD supporters and all supporters.
Where has this God of yours been then when Mumba has been losing all the elections he stood in? Across all the attempts he has made, he has failed to secure any more than a few, i.e. less than 10K, thousand votes added up together.
Not even his Church people would vote for him. Now you are telling me that God is all of a sudden interested in this fraudster?
People like you rely on the fact that God actually does not exist, you know that very well and hence why you abuse his name because if he existed he would really punish you for your selfish abuse of his name. You are lucky God is just a myth and you should thank your lucky stars for that. Your paster friend Mumba has long known that God is just a myth and you can see through his actions – he does not act like someone who fears God.
Christian nation! For sure our prayers have to be well placed in choosing leaders
Pastor Nevers Mumba is a victor and all the evil forces in front of him have already been faught hence the devil is the loser because Jesus said it is finished.
Where has this God of yours been then when Mumba has been losing all the elections he stood in? Across all the attempts he has made, he has failed to secure any more than a few, i.e. less than 10K, thousand votes added up together.
Not even his Church people would vote for him. Now you are telling me that God is all of a sudden interested in this fraudster?
People like you rely on the fact that God actually does not exist, you know that very well and hence why you abuse his name because if he existed he would really punish you for your selfish abuse of his name. You are lucky God is just a myth and you should thank your lucky stars for that. Your paster friend Mumba has long known that God is just a myth and you can see through his actions – he does not act like someone who fears God.
Laughter please even if you hate Dr Mumba or you’re a cadre of a One-Term Party(PF) or any other dislusioned Party,don’t resort to telling lies.Dr Mumba has only stood in 2 Election-One in 2001 under NNC as Presidential Candidate and the other in MMD which he won as MMD President
Looks like an Esther Haman situation here. May the Lord raise up Esther’s to fast and intercede here.
Notice how this statement is always ever so in the future “Zambia shall be saved!”. When? well I can’t tell you, It shall be saved. I know that but when is it going to be saved? How am I supposed to know that? God does things in his own time. In his own time? How on earth could you possibly then know for sure that he will do it – this his own time could never come or it could come after 2million years – there is no way of knowing. Oh why are you talking like that – you are posessed by the Devil – I will pray for you for deliverance.
You people make me laugh – you really are a joke of the world!
@laughter truly funny. I had a good laugh.
The NEC meeting was not a clean affair. Fortunately, the play field is getting leveled. The group that has done its homework well will win the tussle.
Whatever door God has opened for Dr Mumba, MMD supporters and general supporters an can shut and whatever door God shuts of evil no man can open.
Meant no man can shut.
May the Lord convict the judges like he convicted Pilate and his wife to have nothing to do with innocent people. Dr Mumba, MMD supporters and general supporters be strongd curageous God will fight this battle and many more being planned nothing catches God by surprise, he knew about these battles even before the foundations of this earth, his strong hand will prevail and he will Get all the glory from this and whatever lies in the future.
Meant be strong and courageous.
Zambia needs a new constitution let us all arise and demand what is ours if we are to see the rule of law.MMD nec meeting was represented by 9 provinces this tells us that there is demo in mmd and out of 62,40 nec members were in attendance and agreed to go ahead with the meeting.lf chituwo,kaingu and the group meant well they would have also attended and resolved all differences they have as one family unlike rushing to court,you dont need to be mmd,pf,upnd,unip or abz to see that our judicial system is compromised this is why we are asking God intervetion in this matter no human knowlodge can solve this problem only God because we do acknlodge that God exist.
Zambia needs a new constitution let us all arise and demand what is ours if we are to see the rule of law.MMD nec meeting was represented by 9 provinces this tells us that there is demo in mmd and out of 62,40 nec members were in attendance and agreed to go ahead with the meeting.lf chituwo,kaingu and the group meant well they would have also attended and resolved all differences they have as one family unlike rushing to court,you dont need to be mmd,pf,upnd,unip or abz to see that our judicial system is compromised this is why we are asking God intervetion in this matter no human knowledge can solve this problem only God because we do acknowledge that God exist.
Laugther, you are an atheist… Demon ai? Just likeDr Mumbwe.